this is just terrible
nothing about this is Yugioh aside from the recognizable characters
and that would be fine if the gameplay was good but it's really not, while it seems to try to appeal to a casual crowd that most likely has some nostalgia for Yugioh the anime that probably can't play proper Yugioh the gameplay ends up being over convoluted and matches feel too slow and too long also the game itself is terrible from a technical standpoint this thing no joke will turn ur phone into a cooking grill whilst draining the fuck out of ur battery
nothing about this is Yugioh aside from the recognizable characters
and that would be fine if the gameplay was good but it's really not, while it seems to try to appeal to a casual crowd that most likely has some nostalgia for Yugioh the anime that probably can't play proper Yugioh the gameplay ends up being over convoluted and matches feel too slow and too long also the game itself is terrible from a technical standpoint this thing no joke will turn ur phone into a cooking grill whilst draining the fuck out of ur battery
the game is dead lmao
3d models and character icons were cool but other than that this game was really bad
here's a drive of every icon
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1nUhb4wimTN-am9erAJcts9kmTXVP01uq
3d models and character icons were cool but other than that this game was really bad
here's a drive of every icon
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1nUhb4wimTN-am9erAJcts9kmTXVP01uq
the gameplay was a bit dull but not unfun; the problem is how terrible the gacha rates seem to be as well as the way premium currency and the grind are handled. the game also looks really... odd, feeling rather placeholdery with the weird vtuber character models tacked on.
the game is a promise of shitty, boring, and repetitive grinding to power up monsters you might not even like or need because the gachas seem to only spit out normal or rare cards. the better gachas are all also locked behind a premium currency that as far as i know is only obtained by spending money, while the secondary premium currency earned (slowly) through playing the game is used for fewer and lesser options. i don't know if i've ever played a gacha before whose introductory first-one's-free summons turned out to all be low-rarity without a single guarantee, but cross duel was somehow that. weird considering konami has already made two other yugioh gacha games before now.
like i said the gameplay itself isn't exactly bad, but it just seems really lacking in terms of depth compared to the tcg, so much so that even the other simplified versions of it (speed duel and rush duel) seem significantly more complex and interesting. cross duel is like the bare minimum of what a card game can be, and while it's fine, it's just... not really enough to feel like anything substantial.
these elements combined made my short playtime feel like all i needed to know this game wouldn't really be good or worth looking at.
the game is a promise of shitty, boring, and repetitive grinding to power up monsters you might not even like or need because the gachas seem to only spit out normal or rare cards. the better gachas are all also locked behind a premium currency that as far as i know is only obtained by spending money, while the secondary premium currency earned (slowly) through playing the game is used for fewer and lesser options. i don't know if i've ever played a gacha before whose introductory first-one's-free summons turned out to all be low-rarity without a single guarantee, but cross duel was somehow that. weird considering konami has already made two other yugioh gacha games before now.
like i said the gameplay itself isn't exactly bad, but it just seems really lacking in terms of depth compared to the tcg, so much so that even the other simplified versions of it (speed duel and rush duel) seem significantly more complex and interesting. cross duel is like the bare minimum of what a card game can be, and while it's fine, it's just... not really enough to feel like anything substantial.
these elements combined made my short playtime feel like all i needed to know this game wouldn't really be good or worth looking at.