Yu-Gi-Oh: Forbidden Memories

Yu-Gi-Oh: Forbidden Memories PSX

"It's time to D-D-D-D-D-DUEL"

Or is it? You see that's the ultimate question for this game, to

duel or not to duel. This game doesn't stay true to the CCG at

all, which is surprising because it's not all that hard to do. in

case you don't know in the world of Yu-Gi-Oh cards each Monster

(creatures you use to attack/defend with) have a set number of

Stars (Levels) from 1-12 (I think 12). monsters with 1-4 stars

need nothing special to put them into play (Unless a card says

otherwise) you just select the card from your hand and play.

Monsters with star levels 5-6 require a tribute (sacrifice a

creature in play) in order to play the monster. The more stars you

go the more tributes are required, just not in this game. If I

remember correctly Dark Duel Stories for the GBC was the same way

as this game. All you do is play the monster! it doesn't matter

if your monster is a level 1 or a level 12, just play him. It

really takes the strategy out of the game and while it does make

it easier for you, it also makes it 10 times worse for you as

well! one good feature is if you want to burn through (get rid of

junk cards in your hand to replace them with more from the deck

you press up on each card you want to do this for. This is also

the same way that you would create a fusion of cards. Another

downfall with this game is that (unlike the real CCG) you can only

play one card per turn. So you can't put down a creature card and

then put down a magic/trap card on that same turn, you have to

wait. One other good thing about this game are the opponents that

you get to play against. From Kaiba, to Joey, to Rex and just

about everyone else. They really added a lot of good famous

characters, each with their own types of decks. Another thing to

point out is that the real cards have abilities, while this games

doesn't have any. It's not so much a deal breaker as it is another

nail in the coffin. Another thing to note about this game is that

if you want the best of the best cards, or even slightly decent

cards, you're gonna have to earn them. By earn them I mean grind

for ever and ever in order to earn enough star chips. For each

game you can you get a set number of Star Chips that you can use

to buy a card. I believe the lowest is 1 and the highest is 5. So

if you wanted a card that cost 500 star chips you have to either

earn it in battle (you get a random card depending on your

performance for either power or defense) you need to win 100

games. That sounds crazy right? Well hold on there cowboy a Blue-

Eyes White Dragon cost an astonishing 999999 Star Chips to buy ONE

OF THEM. At the max of 5 chips per game you need to play 199999.8

games. It's outrageous and ludicrous at at the same time. But wait

there's another downfall with this game (I'M SERIIOUSLY NOT JOKING

HERE!) Each monster card when played has 2 symbols that can be

played, these are called Guardian Stars. There are 2 sets of

Guardian Stars that are used. here are the sets of stars and what

they are strong and weak to:

Mercury beats Sun, Sun beats Moon, Moon beats Venus, Venus beats

Mercury.

Mars Beats Jupiter Beats Saturn Beats Uranus Beats Pluto Beat

Neptune Beats

Mars.

What all of this means is that if your creature is Mars and your

opponents GS is Jupiter you get a power and defense boost of (I

believe 500) it can also go the opposite way where your opponent

get's the boost.

This is a tricky aspect to try to figure out right away, which is

why you should have this information with you at all times while

playing so you can know which to play and which not to play.

The price of the cards in star chips, not being able to play more

than one card per turn and can play whatever you want whenever

you want (Remember it's a Double–Edged Sword) really put a death

grip on the gameplay. I wish they would’ve took just a bit more

time to work on the gameplay, and not spend all of that time

working on the characters and their individual stories.

The story of the game is that you are in Ancient Egypt as Prince

who (After playing a few duels and progressing the storyline you

wind up in modern times playing as Yugi in a big tournament. Does

this sound somewhat familiar? It should because it follows the

anime pretty well.

I like listening to the music, well I should say I like listening

to it some of the time. It can quickly become repetitive and

annoying. the aren't really any good sound effects either. There

is a 3D fighting with (I believe different sounds) I never sued it

since it takes much more time to watch then a regular animation

because it loads up a 3D representation of the creatures in

battle. Most of the time the attacks are the same so it because

really repetitive and boring fast!

In the end the game can be fun when it doesn't cheat (Your

opponents can get their better cards out much faster than you can

dream of) but it's still really boring when your trying to come up

with a decent deck.

I give this game a 3 out of 10

Side note that this is one of my favorite yu-gi-oh games but I

will still bash a game when it's horrible, and this game is!