It's been more than a week now and I've intentionally launched duelingbook and set up matches to do with friends so I think it's very safe to say that I've been hooked again.
The campaigns on offer eased me back into all the mechanics, and its tutorials are so monumentally excellent??? Like there's the regular ingame tutorials that initially teach you the mechanics but then each first 'mission' of a campaign will thoroughly walk you through every single step and then the next missions after will give you a very simple premade deck to work around. Quite literally the best teacher you could ask for with this game that isn't human, unless Konami delivers on whatever their "excellent new tut series" is for their new Master game or whatever. Like I left the YGO scene I want to say at the tail end of synchro summons, so right before Xyz was a thing. But after a few days with this game I have a thorough handle on Xyz and Link summons! (Pendulum is still kind of weird though. I blame the ridiculous descriptions... Yugioh needs more keywords)
Also this is just a game made for me. The YuGiOh game I spent the most time on was GX Spirit Caller precisely because it had a lot of options where I could throw my dummy decks at AI opponents that ranged from dumb, dumber, and oh god that endgame AI had a OTK combo fuck. And now I have much much much more than that here. Being able to sort of 'reexperience' the campaign but I'm in control of the protag's decks, then unlock 100+ AI challenges who are actually balanced (or at least mostly balanced) around current rules is just nuts. How the hell did I only have to pay $40 for that though? Like that's what feels surreal. Every time I opened up card packs ingame I was thinking how I should be paying with real money because in another timeline you would be for every single roll. But no there's no monster on the shoulder going more more more, it's all free after purchase baby. Honestly the only thing missing here is card puzzles like spirit caller, but there's edopro or whatever for that and those are pretty difficult anyways.
For those who haven't played YGO because yes I am going to bring my toxic ffxiv habits and try to pull people in, it's an absurdly complex and speedy combo card game. Build around an archtype and fight to get your series of win conditions all at once. The meta has, at least as far as I've been told by the three people I know who still play, only gotten better and is in an excellent place right now. Honestly you can coast off the premade decks from the challenge mode, they're actually quite good and arguably viable. Maybe not in like... high ranked mode of current year but enough to play with friends for certain.
So yeah welcome to the newest episode of My Crazy Addiction I hope you enjoy your stay.
The campaigns on offer eased me back into all the mechanics, and its tutorials are so monumentally excellent??? Like there's the regular ingame tutorials that initially teach you the mechanics but then each first 'mission' of a campaign will thoroughly walk you through every single step and then the next missions after will give you a very simple premade deck to work around. Quite literally the best teacher you could ask for with this game that isn't human, unless Konami delivers on whatever their "excellent new tut series" is for their new Master game or whatever. Like I left the YGO scene I want to say at the tail end of synchro summons, so right before Xyz was a thing. But after a few days with this game I have a thorough handle on Xyz and Link summons! (Pendulum is still kind of weird though. I blame the ridiculous descriptions... Yugioh needs more keywords)
Also this is just a game made for me. The YuGiOh game I spent the most time on was GX Spirit Caller precisely because it had a lot of options where I could throw my dummy decks at AI opponents that ranged from dumb, dumber, and oh god that endgame AI had a OTK combo fuck. And now I have much much much more than that here. Being able to sort of 'reexperience' the campaign but I'm in control of the protag's decks, then unlock 100+ AI challenges who are actually balanced (or at least mostly balanced) around current rules is just nuts. How the hell did I only have to pay $40 for that though? Like that's what feels surreal. Every time I opened up card packs ingame I was thinking how I should be paying with real money because in another timeline you would be for every single roll. But no there's no monster on the shoulder going more more more, it's all free after purchase baby. Honestly the only thing missing here is card puzzles like spirit caller, but there's edopro or whatever for that and those are pretty difficult anyways.
For those who haven't played YGO because yes I am going to bring my toxic ffxiv habits and try to pull people in, it's an absurdly complex and speedy combo card game. Build around an archtype and fight to get your series of win conditions all at once. The meta has, at least as far as I've been told by the three people I know who still play, only gotten better and is in an excellent place right now. Honestly you can coast off the premade decks from the challenge mode, they're actually quite good and arguably viable. Maybe not in like... high ranked mode of current year but enough to play with friends for certain.
So yeah welcome to the newest episode of My Crazy Addiction I hope you enjoy your stay.
AG147
2 years ago