Dueling with opponents is easy and very faithful to the trading card game, as it presents a version of the experience that feels just like playing the real thing. Legacy of the Duelist forgoes all the gameplay fluff and concentrates solely on the dueling, which is fantastic. Still, it’s fun stuff, and the game does a great job at summarizing all the significant story events.
While fans of the series and younger players will appreciate the recaps of the five series, regular players will mostly see them as silly plots that feature young kids and adults fighting with card games. Plot-wise, the stories in Legacy of the Duelist are your typical anime plots, with a small hero learning and improving challenge after challenge, set against the backdrop of a trading card game that’s larger than life. The game follows his and his friends’ exploits as he masters the game, and later other heroes who participated in their own battles as well. It starts off with the original storyline, with Yugi Moto, who unbeknownst to him, is possessed by an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who is a master at Duel Monsters, a popular card game that is based on ancient sorcerer battles. Reviewed on the PS4.Īs mentioned before, Legacy of the Duelist covers the five main series of the game: Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL and Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V.
But is all the content so far in the series enough to get players dueling once again?ĭeveloped by Other Ocean Interactive / Published by KonamiĪvailable on the PS4 and Xbox One. With Konami’s Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist, players can play the game once again, this time with content from all five series, including story campaigns and cards from all of them.
Eventually I did move on from the card game and the TV show, leaving after the first couple of expansions and right around the time Yugi and team fought against Marik, but since then, the series has moved on, focusing on new characters, themes and enemies, going through four more series.
I also played the trading card game fervently with friends in between classes, going so far to participate in a local tournament or two to test out my deck building skills. I remember being part of the Yu-Gi-Oh! craze back in the early 00’s, watching Yugi Moto’s adventures with Joey Wheeler and crew as they participated in bad guy Pegasus’ Duel Monsters tournament in what was then part of the Kids’ WB Saturday morning cartoon block.