Customer Reviews

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dawn of Destiny

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

Good game overall. Many characters from the show to duel against. Many different cards to win along the way. You can customize up to 3 decks and save your progress within 5 memory locations. Triple duels are fun; you play consecutively against a set of 3 characters to unlock the next set of 3 characters (with increasing difficulty of course). Eventually you'll run out of characters, which means you'll have to whip up on people you've already played against to increase your card collection.

Library mode allows for some great 3D views of the monsters. I guess most of the memory went to this end since graphics for the actual game seem fairly low-rez; it is difficult to read the text on the cards. The battle clips are short, and perhaps that's a good thing so as to keep the flow of the game going. The characters don't actually talk like in the PC games (Yugi The Destiny and Kaiba The Revenge), but the text of what they say matches their individual personalities.

My biggest gripe, some of the characters seem free to bend certain rules. For example, multiple copies of Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity, and Exodia pieces in a deck, or how about the ability to flip summon Man-Eater Bug and then shift it to defense position within the same turn without the aid of other card effects! For sure this game could be improved upon, but keep an open mind and it's tons of fun and a good way to practice your dueling skills.

Yu-gi-oh: Dawn of Destiny finally came out for x-box. For me, it was a long wait for something I could sink my teeth into, being an avid Duel Monster Card Game collector and player. I did not expect another smash hit like Halo, but I was hoping for something a little more in depth. I was disappointed at first when I received the game, but that view later changed. I tried to view the game in two ways. 1) as a gamer and 2) as a Yu-gi Fan.

1) As a gamer, this game is definitely poor. There is nothing appeasing or positive about this game coming from a typical gamer. Someone who is not remotely interested in Yu-gi-oh would most likely find this game boring. There is no definite plot you follow (or at least I haven't found yet), although you do pick up some hints and pieces of a very very very subtle plot. Graphics are low quality and most likely could have been duplicated on an N-64. The buttons are limited and at first very repetitive. I found myself getting very annoyed and just start hitting a button to get out of a window and found I had accidentally skipped over my attack phase or set a card face down and not face up. This is a game I would strongly recommend renting before buying for an avid gamer who doesn't know too much about Duel Monsters.

2) For the Yu-gi-oh fan who's looking to play some dueling, this game is it. It takes a little bit, but the rules are in accordance with the actual duel game.
The perks as a fan: 1) Official game playing, for those who know and want to play the game. 2) Opponents can be a little stupid at times, but then can present a real challenge as time goes on. 3) Actually able to use trap and magic cards. 4) Ability to link to other counsels and duel against friends. 5) Collect cards and find your favorite cards then put them in your deck. 6) Great collector cards inside.
The downsides: 1) could have done more with graphics and actual game play. (i.e.: When summoning a monster, the monster appears on the field and not just when it is attacking or being attacked.) 2) Messages your opponents say become very repetitive very quickly. 3) Could have done a lot more with putting x-box live on it and actually taking the game to the next level. 4) Winning cards isn't hard, but winning the cards you want is extremely irritating and difficult. 5) Despite going by the rules, the game itself seems to become repetitive. Opponents seem to have many of the same cards as you play as well as say the same thing over and over. 6) It's a pain in the butt that you can't discard cards on the field yet the computer can. A glitch I'm sure the company forgot, but an annoying one nonetheless.

I'm sure many players will find other perks as well as other downsides. If you are a fan and there's no one to ever duel with, this is your game. This game is not the worst game out there, but like I said, I strongly recommend renting the game or borrowing it from someone before deciding to buy it; even IF you are a fan.

This game is great because of the 3D dueling and you also get the WINGED DRAGON OF RA! That caps off anything.

I've not been a huge fan of the "Yu-Gi-Oh!" video games - up till now. "Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dawn of Destiny" is definetly a cut above "Forbidden Memories" and "The Duelists of the Roses" (I don't have a GameCube.) The biggest problem with this game is the fact that it has no real storyline other than this: You're a beginning Duelist challenging master Duelists such as Yugi, Kaiba, Joey, Marik, and Bakura to Duels. Your first opponents are three Duel Robots, as Seto Kaiba (jerk) periodically taunts you between Duels. After defeating his scrap metal, you go on to more powerful Duelists. The graphics were great, but there wasn't enough of them; Each battle between two monsters lasts two seconds or so. This game was great because we finally get to play on the console with the REAL rules instead the variations we've seen in previous "Yu-Gi-Oh!" console games. I mean, "The Falsebound Kingdom" didn't even involve cards! Anyway, I wish this game had a storyline, because with all of the interesting characters (such as Bakura, Shimon, Ishizu, and other lesser characters) I reckon Konami could have put together a good one. Hopefully, the next "Yu-Gi-Oh!" will have a rich and exciting storyline combined with the original gameplay.

This game is, as you'd expect, similar to any other Yu-Gi-Oh game. You duel opponents, get cards, and build decks. That said, this is the worst Yu-Gi-Oh game I've played, and I've played seven or eight of them.

My biggest problems are with the gameplay. The primary problem is that it's incredibly incredibly slow-paced. I'm used to drawing, placing cards, attacking, and ending my turn in seconds; in Dawn of Destiny you have to wait for the auto-draw which slowly places your card in your hand then take your turn at an annoyingly slow pace as the cursor moves slowly (you'd expect the cursor to move as soon as you press left or right, but there's a slow set pace that you can't move the cursor faster than). Also, you're forced to watch a useless battle animation which further hinders the speed of the duel. One should be able to turn off these animations, but no. Options consists of exactly this: SFX Volume, BGM volume, Adjust Vertical, Adjust Horizontal, and Vibration. Absolutely useless.

Another problem is how far zoomed out the field is when dueling. I have great vision, but the cards and field are just unnecessarily small. This game not only shows the entire field during the duel, both your side and the opponent's side, but has a big empty space all around the field. Instead, the screen should show one side of the field at a time without the big empty space like many of the other Yu-Gi-Oh games I've played. This zoom problem continues in building a deck as well, as the format of everything again makes everything too small. You can easily see everything, but it's all still unnecessarily zoomed out. I don't need to see my entire deck laid out before me, lists are just fine. The deck building also feels a bit cumbersome.

Additionally, this game has no storyline, which I find to be a big flaw. All it is is selecting opponents to duel. This is fine, but should not be the only game mode.

Overall, very disappointing game. I've beaten every other Yu-Gi-Oh game I've played, but a handful of duels in this poor game is enough for me. It's fun, as it's basically just the Yu-Gi-Oh trading card game on XBox, but the snail pace of this game especially, as well as the poor zoom and lack of a story to make it interesting make it effectively unplayable for me. If you can stand dueling at a pace that would allow you to read a book at the same time then you may enjoy this game, but to me the speed of this game is unbearable.

I like this game a lot. The thing I don't like about it is that the monsters don't use their real attacks, just some stupid thing. The promos are really good, but mine are coming in half. This is a must have for any duelist, you can combine strategies and use cards you don't have, which is the best.

this game was a huge disapointment, I got it thinking that i could enter my own cards, the gameplay would be similar to the real life metagame, the battles between monsters would have xbox worthy graphics, and the storyline would be deep, descriptive, and understandable. You just play against people that you choose from a toolbar. they dond even give you good cards to start out with, they expect you to beat people that have these semi complicated strategies, with crappy worthless cards like "Wretched ghost in the attic" The only good card i got was tri horned dragon. you dont even have any cards in your trunk at first. its likeyour character opened 5 packs of LOB, and then went off to challenge Yugi.

dont buy this game. however it can be a little fun if you want to duel and there is nobody around.

This game is kind of a disappointment. The visuals on the game are alright. Nothing spectacular. They get boring after a while. It seems like they just rushed this game out, since there was nothing out on the XBOX. They could have spent the time to make a game that utilizes the power of the console, but instead put out a game that had much more potential. They diin't make it XBOX live compatible. But that doesn't mean you can't play it online. If you have high speed internet, you can download tunnel software, such as XBox Connect or Xlink Kai. With these programs you can duel other duelists around the world. Not as good as Xbox live, but at least it is free. So over all this game could be better, but since i only payed 15 dollars for it. I guess i can't hate all that much on it.

I purchased the game without knowing about the 3 cards that came with the game. I knew it had 3, but the last thing I had expected was to see them being Widespread Ruin, Dark Sage and the Egyptian God Monster card, "The Winged Dragon of Ra

The 2 hottest cards being the God card and Dark Sage in the Japanese version are now in English.

The game play is also very good too. I loved the fact that it follows tournament rules.

This is the game to get for the XBOX and especially if you are a Yu-Gi-Oh! fanatic like I am.

This is the best yu-gi-oh game out there except for the tcg. This resembles the card game the most out of all the card games i have seen so far. Its quite fun and if you are a fan of the tcg it comes with 3 trading cards you will enjoy.