Yu-Gi-Oh! EARLY DAYS COLLECTION

I didn't enjoy yu-gi-oh like this for a long time

They can make Japanese exclusive available in multiple languages now but can't add a fast forward button like every basic emulator has had for the past 15+ years now? Seriously couldn't take out the effect repeating in Resheff? It makes you not even want to use cards with lasting effects. So annoying and such a waste of time when a fast forward could easily help with that. Will give a positive review when you add FF button option.

I bought it simply because of nostalgia. I don't even care if I'm putting in hours of game play into it or not. As long as it's the OG Yu-Gi-Oh of course, or Yu-Gi-Oh GX. I know they can't compete with the newer games in terms of graphics and game play, but I still like glossing over them and reminiscing over the good times I had in my child hood. Well, not exactly GOOD, because I was never good at them or understand how the cards worked on some of those, specifically. I'd have to use cheat codes or learn how to actually play them. 7 Trials to Glory, for example. Other one of my favorites included were the Sacred Cards, Re-something of Destruction, Worldwide Edition(my top favorite). I never had any in real life friends to play with, but it was still fun, nonetheless. I like how there's a "rewind" option, as well. Never know when you might need it. The ability to toggle different graphic versions of the game is cool too...like add the grain/tiles that the old handheld games had. Kind of sad to think about, but to not put this in my favorite games category would be criminal. WHAT I would LOVE to see and play is Duelist of the Roses or the Capsule Monster's one. I can still play those using a PS2 emulator, but it'd be so much better and convenient if I could play them through Steam. Maybe modernize it, so one could use a keyboard or mouse. I don't mind using a controller but mouse and keyboard is always my first option. I'm probably being greedy if I said I wanted the ability to use the rewind option, as well, for those two games. I also wouldn't mind a Forbidden Memories port, or a Dawn of Destiny because I never actually owned an Xbox in those days. Still, I'd be grateful if we even just get Duelist of the Roses. W for nostalgia. 10/10

I am thrilled that we finally got some titles that were never available in the USA prior with the addition of online multiplayer. Dungeon Dice Monsters being one of those titles has made this collection worth it to me and I've been having trouble putting it down. If you enjoy strategy games with methodical decision making you'll probably enjoy Dungeon Dice Monsters. The Eternal Duelist Soul is fun and also has a lot of replay value. If you are confused as to how you're supposed to play any of the games in the save state screen there is an option to view the instruction booklet for each game. Haven't tried the other titles just yet but I am more than satisfied with the value I have gotten from this collection so far.

10/10 AND PLEASE BRING TAG FORCE AND DS YGO GAME TO STEAM

[h1] Absolutely terrible value. Most games are incremental upgrades (arguably downgrades) over others. [/h1] 40€ would've already been an incredibly tough sell for games that are, by and large, very similar to one another. At 60€, it borders on hilariously scammy, despite the effort of translating such old games and their instruction manuals. The onboard emulators don't even have a fast-forward option, which is baffling when considering the speed of play of these older games. The filters are pretty average as well, and you have only one save state that you cannot preview. There is rewind and rebinds, in the rebind options there is a "fast forward" button, but it's set with the "Confirm" button to act as a "hold the button" for the gameplay to go faster, probably for games like 2004 & DM 1 to go faster without muting or messing up the audio. When taking the overall collection, it's nice there are side-games like Capsule Monsters or Dungeon Dice Monsters, or even Destiny Board Traveler (even if it really sucks), but the large majority of the collection is composed of the early Japanese Duel Monsters games accompanied with two side-games using different rules and that were RPGs (Sacred Cards/Reshef of Destruction). For comparison: 75% of this collection would be like compiling 8 FIFA games together, with a dash of FIFA Street on the side and two NBA games because why not. The presence of games with different rules doesn't bother me at all. The problem comes with how most of them require the player to progress: Always start with a terrible deck => Duel each character 5 times => Try as best you can to build a deck from the anemic rewards you get by defeating each duelist => Proceed to the next biome => repeat. I had already played Dark Duel Stories & Worldwide Edition on cart, and the idea of repeating those steps for all these other games which may as well be 80% the identical is making me nauseous. I'm especially terrified about starting 2004 & 2005, which I heard horror stories about. Starting with the very first Duel Monsters on Game Boy with its painfully limited mechanics was such a chore, all four duellists of the 1st biome can't do anything against your starting deck, then on the 2nd biome it's a war of attrition even with Rex Raptor and Insector Haga consistently having monsters with 700 more ATK on average. All these games enforce grinding for progression, and when all these games move so slow, with the shortest duels averaging several minutes as opposed to a regular turn based RPG's 10-20 seconds, and also have no story of their own (aside from the actual RPGs), they start to drag and blend into each other. This is all compounded by one upsetting fact: [b]Unlike the Pokémon TCG, Yu-Gi-Oh always had a terrible foundation for a card game and started with disfunctional rules[/b], and as for the battle simulators specifically, it didn't start getting actually good until Nightmare Troubadour... which is absent. The best battle simulator here is I think Worldwide Edition (2003), and it is still marred by some baffling AI decisions like using Torrential Tribute against itself when it has the advantage. Frankly, the large majority of this collection would be bonus games at best in other offerings, like the Game Gear Sonic games in Sonic collections ever since the GameCube days. Sonic Gems Collection was considered middling back in the day, yet it had an Arcade game, a Saturn game, and Mega CD game as its main features. If YGO Early Days had matched that, it would've had Forbidden Memories, Duellists of The Rose, Capsule Monsters Coliseum, and Falsebound Kingdom, coupled with Sacred Cards/Reshef of Destruction and a couple of the battle simulators, which would've made the collection far more interesting to get (even if they're not all necessarily good). With this, Konami is failing 2005 Sega standards.

A competently put together collection that just falls short of the Cowabunga Collection but not by much. You have translated versions of all the portable GB/C/A Yugioh games (Minus WCT 2006 as that was GX Themed) complete with multiple online versions of the card game in its neophite formats and also fan favourite Dungeon Dice Monsters. Really hopping for a (Precious Time,) Glory Days collection for the GX games (and maybe Nightmare Traboudor?) soon.