Discovering the Yu-Gi-Oh Iceberg (Part 2.3) - Bumbles McFumbles Reaction

Seeing Timegazer Magician and Stargazer Magician as Normal Monsters is exceptionally cursed, but not as cursed as how Tag Force looks like a messed up mix of Maple Story and Mega Man Battle Network. I also want to speak up for Legacy of the Duelist. While yes, it might be a tad slower than the other games, if you want to play Yugioh without having to sit around for 15 minutes and watching your opponent wind up a FTK punch. Can it be a bit grindy to get the cards that you want? Sure, but there's a few ways around that. After beating any deck you get three random cards from that deck you do not have three copies of already, and if you lose you get one. So if you have only a few more to go it might be faster to pick a duel and immediately surrender to get that one card, repeat until done. You can also buy card packs in game to get seven common and one rare card from a fixed set, but since it can be a slog to get those last few cards it might be better to grab those through duels. The challenge mode decks are sometimes continuations of the main decks but can be radically different: Joey gets a full-on Red Eyes deck while Chancellor Sheppard gets Kaiju. Link Evolution is a sequel to the original LotD, but it should be noted that it received an update in April 2020 to update the card pool to that era, and also implement the new Master Rule 5 set, which means that you can actually play Fusion, Synchro and XYZ again. And if you don't like those newfangled summoning systems again you can just cook up a Monarch or Worm deck and stick to the OG/GX era. Of course the game's not perfect: what I'm missing the most is that you can't duel against decks of your own making. And if you don't get the game on sale it costs 40 bucks, but at 10 on sale it's a much better deal. Yeah, the manga are radically different. In GX the antagonists are a dude who wants to bring back the bootleg Egyptian gods, a malevolent alien trying to destroy the world, Jaden's OC who would not look out of place in the service of Slaanesh who he had forgotten about through electroshocktherapy, and the god of a bootleg Shadow Realm. The manga instead introduces a monster created as a byproduct of the creation of the Millenium Items (which cost 99 human sacrifices each), and now possesses humans to seek revenge for being sealed away because he objected to the whole human sacrifice thing. But the ARC-V anime is some next level stuff: the first half of the first season was a borderline otome with a whole suite of boys for Zuzu Boyle to choose from: the childhood friend, the handsome rich kid, the aloof older brother, the fun but slightly psychotic younger brother, the angsty one, the one with the bicycle, the heir to the dojo; everything you'd expect. But then ARC-V takes an absolute SWERVE and becomes the Evangelion of children's card games. And you don't have to worry, the anime doesn't include the weird incest subplot: the protagonist's mom is a badass former biker babe and he and Yuzu don't necessarily end up together, they do stick together. Funnily enough it's the protagonist of Sevens who is the only one who canonically got to reproduce, since the kids from Go Rush are the descendants of Yuga from Sevens. Not bad for a 10 year old. Oh, and anyone talking smack about Pendulum Summoning because of its supposed complexity is suffering from a major skill issue. Two monsters in the Pendulum zones, then once a turn summon monsters whose levels are between the Pendulum scales. If a Pendulum monster dies it instead goes to face-up onto the Extra Deck. Monsters from the hand go to the regular monster zones, monsters from the Extra Deck go to either the extra monster zone or whatever zone a link arrow (both your own and your opponent's!) Now, in Master Rules 3 this meant that Pendulum could just keep summoning the same monsters over and over again until either the monsters in the scale zones got destroyed or the summon got negated (hello Bottomless Trap Hole). Master Rule 4 instead solved this by making all other Extra Deck monsters terrible by applying a tax to them in the form of Link Monsters. Master Rule 5 found a middle of the road to make the rest viable again, and Pendulum was reigned in by being both unable to keep summoning the same monsters, and having the Pendulum zones be regular spell/trap zones means that playing Pendulum comes at the cost of reducing those zones from five to three. As for the "Yugioh is gay" thing, I want to point out that the original series was about a series of conflicts between a bunch of twinks, the world's most fabulous alcoholic lurcing children to his faroff island, and a man who'd love to do nothing more than rail a dragon.

Beriorn