Yu-Gi-Oh! EARLY DAYS COLLECTION

Positives: Some of the most mindless, soul-sucking, grindy videogames ever produced. Misery from concentrate. Terrible design which only exists to waste your time. Negatives: They added features to reduce the grindy elements, which defeats the purpose in even playing these awful titles in the first place.

First of all: yes this collection of 14 games is definitly overpriced considering the age of the games (and the quality of some/a lot of them). The biggest upside this collection brings is the rewind (up to 60 seconds) and the fast forward (which you can't use at every step) feature. The Controls however just suck, the mouse is not suppored at all. Most if not all games are super grindy. The collection also comes with some cheats. But it's mostly for getting all cards, which is completly pointless as it takes away all fun or for getting around the stupid deck or character level restriction which I gladly used. I'd say only get this when you are a big YGO fan and don't mind some very simple and antique feeling games. From those 14 games you gotta cut 3 which don't play like YGO at all and just suck. (Monster Capsule, Dungeon Dice Monsters, Destiny Board Traveler) Then you have 6 games which play similar than YGO but have also big differences (no phases, most monsters don't have effects and that stupid allignement system). And of course that stupid deck or character level restriction. Honestly most of them are still kinda fine except Reshef of Destruction which is just borderline unfair and extremly grindy). However at least 4 of them are very similar to each other; if you played one you basically seen everything. That leaves us with just 5 games which mostly play by TCG/OCG rules which were the ones I enjoyed the most and by far. And again, those 5 games are then are quite similar to each other. Like Duel Monsters 6 and Worldwide Edition are like 99% the same game, the biggest difference is the first of them is only available in japanese. Like Wtf. Was it too much to ask to give us a translation? All games in the collection were originally released between 1998 and 2005. I just wish we would have gotten at least some newer ones. So yeah, overall definitly a mixed bag. I still somehow hope Konami releases a second collection with some better and newer titles.

[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.

If you hate the modern game than this is the game for you. i love the 02 - 05 time period of the game. you can also add in all your cards by inputting the code in the bottom left corner of the card.

Never really sure why all of these classic collections include awful games that nobody wants to play.

plays terribly even for such old games

This is a collection of games that almost no one played, combined with Japanese as the only language for atleast 1 of the games. Some of them you must hold the fast forward button in order to play. As a whole this has alot of work. Needed before its stable and playable.

[h1]タッグフォースコレクションもどうかお願いします！！！[/h1] 一応ゲームのレビュー セールにて購入、正直面白いかと言われると微妙なゲームも多いが、 当時を懐かしめる人や、遊戯王のゲームの歴史を体験したいという人にはセールでならおすすめできる。

これに限った事じゃないけど、この手のゲームは内部ゲーム個別に音量設定できる機能つけて欲しいわ 3の音デカすぎ