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 Not the Best of Konami's Games |  2.5
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by  Synthesis
from St. Louis, MO, U.S.A. | Oct 25, 2007 |
THE GOOD:
You can choose from 722 cards.
Duel with numerous characters from the anime.
Duel with a friend or trade with him.
Starchips you win in duels can be exchanged for new cards at the Password option. You need to input the card's 8-digit code first.THE BAD:
The final characters are too difficult to defeat.
Most cards are worth 999,999 starchips, even if they aren't powerful.
Some cards can only be won by facing a particular duelist a few hundred to a few thousand times.SUMMARY:
Welcome to my review of Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories for the Playstation console.
» Plot
You are the prince of Metropolis, a bustling city full of commoners and duelists, that has a knack for dueling. Everything is going good until the High Mage Heishin attacks the palace wielding some sort of strange magic. It turns out that Heishin has discovered the Millennium Items, and is missing one more. Your mentor, Simon Muran, entrusts you with the Item and keeping it from falling into the wrong hands. As you flee, Heishin catches you and you must duel him for control over the Item. Unfortunately you lose the duel, so you are left with one option - to shatter the Item so Heishin will never have complete power over the world. In doing so, your soul is trapped inside it and you have nothing else to do but wait until someone decides to put it back together again.
5000 years have passed since that day. Yugi Moto, a young duelist that is actually a representation of the prince himself, was able to rebuild the Item, and now is involved in a duelist tournament hosted by Kaiba. With the power of the Millennium Item and the heart of the cards, Yugi defeats all the duelists and manages to send the prince back to his own world. Once back there, it would be up to the prince to finally defeat Heishin once and for all.
» Audio
The dueling music is pretty solid; not distracting but not that great either. Most of the music in the game will be the same repetitive noise from last time with an exception for a few duels, namely the final ones. The sound effects are also good in the duels. Each monsters' attacks sound just like you would imagine them to be, but they could have been touched up a little. For example, Meteor B. Dragon has a flamethrower-type attack, so you will hear the sound of fire when it attacks.
» Visuals
The visuals are absolutely stunning for a Playstation game. Detail for the characters, the backgrounds and the cutscenes (if you can call them that) were created with utmost care and design with all kinds of color shades. The artwork from the real-life cards were copied unto Forbidden Memories so if you want to view a certain card but do not own it in real-life, then simply bring it up on the game and see. Konami also made an attempt to bring the cards to life by creating 3-D images for them. I'll admit that most of them were crap but some of them were actually designed well enough to appear life-like.
» Controls
There are quite a few controls to remember when playing Forbidden Memories, so it would be wise to check over the controls in the instruction booklet first before playing. Once you have gotten them down then it should be a piece of cake. You don't play with the analog sticks at all, so don't bother trying to. Other than that Konami has made good use of the control scheme with the Playstation controller. Basically every button has a use except for the select button.
» Gameplay Aspects
Now it's time to get down to the good stuff.
Dueling
The main point of the game is to become the strongest duelist of all, and to do that you'll need to have the best cards for the job. 722 cards are available to collect and use in the game - 600+ are monsters, the rest are magics and traps. Out of these, you must choose 40 cards to duel with, so plan out a strategy and choose your cards wisely.
When you defeat a person in Campaign mode, then they are available to duel in Free Duel mode. Here you can duel a person without worrying about getting Game Over. You can also duel for starchips and an extra card that may prove useful against later opponents. Each duelist has their own strategies and cards so get out there and prove who has better game.
Starchips
Depending on your performance in a duel, you can receive up to 5 starchips per duel. These can be exchanged at the Password option for better cards. In order to get a password, you must have real-life Yu-Gi-Oh trading cards. They have an 8-digit password that can be inputted to get the card in the game.
The amount of starchips needed for a card depends on the power, rarity or both. However, it doesn't really natter because most of the good cards are worth 999,999 starchips and so far no one has reached that amount.
Receiving Cards from Duelists
Defeating your opponent not only gives you starchips, but a card as well. The type of card usually depends on the following factors:
Duel rank
Performance
Strength of Duelist
Luck
Luck plays a huge role for getting a certain card because even if you duel a perfect game, it won't guarantee you the card you're looking for. Some believe that the game randomly gives you a card which may be the case since none of us seem to get the cards we need. If you are trying to collect every single card in this game then you may go mad even before getting half of them.
» Final Thoughts
Overall, this game can be frustrating and difficult but addictive at the same time. If you like a good challenge, then I definitely recommend this game for you. |
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| A good game for Yu-Gi-Oh lovers! |  4.0
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by ForgottonRebel
from , , Canada | Nov 28, 2004 |
THE GOOD:
This game has a lot of good aspects. One of them is that you can enter the 8 didgit code at the bottom of your cards to play your deck in the game. You can also collect all the cards and beat the most popular duelest around. Battle mages, freinds, and enemy's to complete your yu-gi-oh collection.THE BAD:
It doesn't have great graphics and it is a little short, but you have so much to do in it. SUMMARY:
This is a great game in everyway, I like it because i can build any cutom decks i fell like, for example: An insect deck, or maybe a warrior deck. This game has over 700 cards to collect and play, own with it's own description and story line behind it. This game is The Game Of The Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So if you don't have it yet please go out and buy it!  |
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| Not the best game, but... | 2.5
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by  Madea Keji
from , , | Nov 17, 2004 |
THE GOOD:
Okay, the variaty of cards is pretty good, and the challange is definitely here. cool credits.THE BAD:
The difficulty is to high up for the audience it is aiming for. SUMMARY:
I was frustrated last time I did a review and it deserves some credit as a game, also I want to get rid of one of the reviews I posted twice. Now, the game, trust me it is not going to win game of any year, the 3D mode is fugly and overall, more time should have been spent on the game. Some of the cards are overpriced(999,999 starchips!) and the learning curve is highly unforgiving. It is a fuctional game and it is fun(albeit time-consuming and difficult) to collect the cards. Basically a collecters game, if you want a realistic sim of yugioh I would go with a gba one, because ps2 is more of a strategy game sim.(deckmasters, etc.) |
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| Forbidden Memories and how I wish I could get rid of them! |  1.0
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by Madea Keji
from , , | Nov 14, 2004 |
THE GOOD:
nothingTHE BAD:
everything SUMMARY:
your only fair opponets are your first ones before heshin (who is impossible to beat in campign mode, 700 out of 722 cards are useless. Opponets are unfair and have monsters with 3000-4500 attack, these are pulled out at will by the way. no effects. this is a complete insult to everything that YuGiOh is. If you buy this game you would be doing a FAVOR by tearing your arms out of your sockets so you can't play the game. And here's the theme song for the game. (This game sucks!, it really, really sucks, it sucks, it sucks, it sucks)
I would give superman 64, the 2nd most dreaded game in existence a higher score than this piece of garbage. ( I apologize for the insults to garbage and superman 64, which are slightly better than this game.)I gave this game a higher rating than 0 because i can't post other wise |
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| Forbidden Memories and how I wish I could get rid of them! |  3.5
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by Madea Keji
from , , | Nov 14, 2004 |
THE GOOD:
nothingTHE BAD:
everything SUMMARY:
your only fair opponets are your first ones before heshin (who is impossible to beat in campign mode, 700 out of 722 cards are useless. Opponets are unfair and have monsters with 3000-4500 attack, these are pulled out at will by the way. no effects. this is a complete insult to everything that YuGiOh is. If you buy this game you would be doing a FAVOR by tearing your arms out of your sockets so you can't play the game. And here's the theme song for the game. (This game sucks!, it really, really sucks, it sucks, it sucks, it sucks)
I would give superman 64, the 2nd most dreaded game in existence a higher score than this piece of garbage. ( I apologize for the insults to garbage and superman 64, which are slightly better than this game.) |
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| yu-gi-oh | 3.5
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by lewis125964
from Milton Keynes, , England | Aug 28, 2004 |
THE GOOD:
Pretty much everything about this game is good. Theres over 700 cards including exodia. You can watch your monsters attack in 3d. Over 30 oppenents from easy to suicidal. Also if you collect the cards in real life the number in the lower left you can use that as a password to get the particular card however the cards cost starchips which you must earn so that makes it not cheating. Everytime you start a new game you will start with a completly new deck.THE BAD:
This game is not whithout the gliches so here goes.
The 3d attack mode isnt that good even for a ps. some oppenents will be vvvvvv hard and then you fight them again and they will be pimps???????. You sometimes have to battle the same person over 100 times just to get a card that you need to beat someone.
There is no effects in the game so cards like man eating bug or hane hane are not very good with their attack factor so low SUMMARY:
Overall i reccomend that you buy this game if you love yu-gi-oh it has everything that a yu0gi0oh fan needs. However if you are not a yu-gi-oh fan its still worth buying just be sure to brush up on yu-gi-oh first. Also it very cheap only £7.99 i got it for new so pre owned will be about £3 which is a good deal |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh |  3.8
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by magnawolf149
from Norfolk, Virginia, | Aug 3, 2004 |
THE GOOD:
This game has minimal good thing about it.You can watch the monsters in 3D graphics,the field looks interesting,and if you dislike kaiba,dueling him is fun.Being able to duel Duel Master K is like dueling yourself,which is fun.I suggest this game for people under the age of 12.THE BAD:
The fusion cards are fustrating,bump this and bump that!I borrowed the game before an it was driving me up the wall,then on the floor,then back up the wall.Your monsters can't use effects which makes it even more fustrating than before,so it makes effect cards like Man Eater Bug useless.If you buy this game,buy it from a use game store! SUMMARY:
If you have a fustration level,then this game isn't for you.If you play this game first and buy the real cards after..you won't learn anything except for attacking,LP count and summoning.I would stick to the GBA versions. |
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| attention: all otakus like myself | 4.0
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by  Death talon
from acton, MA, the US | Jul 15, 2004 |
THE GOOD:
the pride of japanese turn-based games.THE BAD:
hmm.... well, i guess i can get tedious after a while. SUMMARY:
Yu-Gi-Oh games are great, but this one is very different. it's like RPG turn based stragety. it combines the two elements. i like it because it shows the monsters in a whole new way. well, if you've never played any type of Yu-Gi-Oh! game, just don't read thos review. you won't know what I'm talking about. go. now. okay, for all others: it shows the magic cards, monster cards, and trap's activtion and shows it in a very cool way. it lets you explore the world like in am RPGm like in the final fantasy games, but has cards and strategy like in the actual trading card game. it's for natural otakus, like myself. it doesn't matter if you like the Yugioh manga comic, the trading cards game, or the video games, you'l love this games. BTW, i gave it 4.0 out of 5.0 because no ones perfect. Yu-Gi-Oh: forbidden memories is rated E supposedly. i dunno. |
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| One of the best stragety game |  4.5
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by Red Devilic
| Apr 28, 2004 |
THE GOOD:
Has a lot of card 722 . The Guide is very good . You can play it many times but each time you will find new excitement. Sound is perfectTHE BAD:
The 3D is not good enough . We must duel lot lot lot to have some cards and it doesn't have some nice card like the stories. Besides ,the equip and magic card is not good . All equip card + 500 and magic card is not much. Sound in the Free Duel doesn't change and optine is too simple SUMMARY:
I like this game so much although it kills my times terribly.But it's too short and the method to play isn't good as Yugi Power of Chaos .The most fun is collecting the card .When you have all of them, you can realized that beat the game then is too simple and you don't want to play it more. The other diffrence of the game with other game is you always feel interesting
when you duel a lot with someone to get a card
I want to have some Yu-gi game that has the playing of POC , and has a lot of peple to duel like FM |
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