Review NaN of 6
Price Paid:
$50.00
from GameStop Summary:
During 2002, Yu-Gi-Oh! games were a valuable commodity. On the list of Top 20 sellers during the year, the anime-based franchise had three titles. I certainly contributed to the success of the games, being a huge Yugi fan myself. So when a long-awaited PS2 title released, I was all over it.
The only problem with wildly successful franchises is that quality has a nasty tendency to slip. Games rely on the name alone to sell, and not the content. Alas, Yu-Gi-Oh! caught a bad case of what I call Microsoft Syndrome, or the belief that making as many low-quality products as possible is better than making a few great ones.
I was one of many gamers who fell prey to the most severe symptom of Microsoft Syndrome: crappy software. I thought, "A PS2 Yu-Gi-Oh! game! How cool!"
Not cool.
Duelists of the Roses is like communism: it looks good on paper, but just doesn't work in reality. The premise was interesting enough, though not particularly believable (of course, a card game that seemingly everybody in the world plays is also unlikely, but that's never really bothered me before). The story is set during the War of the Roses, when the Yorks and Lancasters vied for the throne of England. As luck would have it, Henry Tudor, the leader of one of the factions, looks strikingly like a certain ancient pharoah and likes to be called "Yugi" for reasons unknown. Anyway, the player is a duelist from the present who is summoned back in time to help collect the powerful Rose Cards for one side or the other by dueling the top duelists of the opposing side.
This game is not worth $50. It's not even worth $20. Or $10. I might play it if someone paid me to, but even that would be a stretch.
The game did have one high point, though: Kaiba was wearing some really cool Blue-Eyes White Dragon armor. Report this review >>
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