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Yu-Gi-Oh! - The Eternal Duelist Soul 01-15-12 10:58 PM
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Eternal Duelist Soul
When Yu-Gi-Oh first came to American shores I was 13 or 14, right in the target audience's age group, and oh boy, did I fall into it, hard. I was disillusioned with the Pokemon Trading Card Game's newest expansion packs, and, to be honest, at that time, the Pokemon Trading Card Game wasn't very fun. But Yu-Gi-Oh came out and blew the youth Trading Card Game market out of the water! Konami really hit a home run with a highly addictive card game that was simple to learn, but had nearly infinite complexity, even in it's early stages. In an arena dominated by Wizards of the Coast and Magic: The Gathering's rules, Yu-Gi-Oh came about with a truly fresh trading card game, that seemed to have no connection to the other popular games of the time, and it came with a Saturday Morning cartoon show with an engrossing story to boot. It's no wonder the game took off almost instantly!
When Eternal Duelist Soul hit the market, the Yu-Gi-Oh trading card game was still fairly new in America, with only a handful of expansion packs, and only three or four prefab decks. But this game packed every single card available at the time into the game, and gave us a portable, electronic version of the table-top game we all loved. Konami also released several Playstation games around this time, which were not related to the Yu-Gi-Oh trading card game, instead focusing on battling monsters, but with Eternal Duelist Soul, Konami took the route that the Pokemon Company had taken with its GameBoy Color version of its own trading card game, making a faithful port of a fun game into the portable market.
However, in contrast to the Pokemon Trading Card Game's electronic version, Konami opted to not include a story-driven quest. Instead, upon starting the game for the first time, you are greeted by one of Yugi Moto's friends, Tea Gardener. She will tell you that you need a deck to play, and have you choose from one of three decks.
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