Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories

by Konami

Product Features

• RPG Store Mode - featuring a side-story to the animated series in Ancient Egypt
• Duel Monsters make the jump to a full 3D playing field
• Over 600 Monsters fully animated and rendered in 3D
• Import cards from the Official Card Game to create more powerful decks
• Duel against and trade cards with your friends to gain experience and upgrade your card collection

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005Y402
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: March 19, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (177 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,998 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Wolverine's Revenge is a challenging yet fun game with awesome graphics and cool moves. It isn't necessarily based on the new X2 movie, but the characters overlap. It's rated TEEN for blood and violence, and this rating is clearly deserved. Wolverine's revenge is a better game for older kids and teens, mostly because of the difficulty and not the blood. The bottom line? Buy it.Copyright © 2001 Children's Software Revue

Amazon.com Product Description

In Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories, you must travel to ancient Egypt and solve the mysteries of the Shadow Game and the seven magical totems. A role-playing adventure based on the animated series, Forbidden Memories invites you to control a young pharaoh who is Yugi's ancestor. You'll talk to townspeople, solve clues, and challenge players to duels to gather information about the impending doom about to reach the kingdom.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

56 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like the anime? You'll love this!, May 17, 2002

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories (Video Game)

I know a good game when I see one!
If you are a Yu-Gi-Oh! fan, then this is a must-have! it's too bad that this isn't like a "Zelda" game where you get to walk around, and the only animations are the actual duels (sort of like Pokemon Stadium, but 100 times better). Not to mention that some of the monsters' powers have been erased (example: you don't get a card back if the magician of faith is attacked). But if you overlook these little things, you'll find that this is an awesome game. But it's the actual story lines that got me glued to the game.

You start playing the game as an Egyptian prince who likes to run away and play Duel Monsters with his friends. Inside the prince's castle is hidden the Millenium Puzzle. Everything is well until the palace is attacked by this guy, "Heishin" who wants the puzzle. The prince is forced to shatter the puzzle, but "something" happens to him as a result. Play the game to find out what I mean. Then, you end up playing Yugi.

The actual card game is really hard! It's like chess. You have to think of strategies and weaknesses. I got so hooked, that I stayed up until midnight for three nights in a row playing.

Here's something that'll catch your attention:
-You get to find out who Yami Yugi really is!
-Yugi and Yami Yugi come face-to-face for the first time!
-Pegasus is entering Kaiba's competition. ^_^

I highly recomend this game. I really don't believe in stuff like "this is a boy show".(I happen to be a girl).
In conclusion, I would like to say this: "WATCH OUT, POKEMON!!!, YU-GI-OH!'s HERE!"

83 of 90 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories, March 4, 2002

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YugiohDungeon.com (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories (Video Game)

Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories is an awesome Yu-Gi-Oh! title involding a special game play different from that of Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories.

In Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories, a role-playing adventure game, you play a young Egyptian pharaoh. The setting takes place ancient Egypt, and your mission is to solve the mysteries of the Shadow Game and the seven magical totems! You can walk around the different areas of the Egyptian capital, and talk to townspeople, friends (Jounouchi/Joey, and Anzu/Tea look-alikes), snotty enemies (a priest that's a Kaiba look-alike), solve clues and challenge players to duels to gather information about the impending doom about to reach his kingdom.

Check out YugiohDungeon.com for more information on this and other games!

39 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars User unfriendly but good for Yu-Gi-Oh! fans, April 23, 2002

By 

Peter Schell (Menomonee Falls, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories (Video Game)

Forbidden Memories simulates the Yu-Gi-Oh trading card game with some modified rules. Weak cards can be fused without using fusion magic cards and equipment cards do not occupy slots in the magic row of the playfield. On the downside, some monsters' special abilities are eliminated.
Navigating all the menus to customize your deck is a pain. The video game designers expect you to buy the real-life cards to get the passwords to access more cards. You're better off getting these passwords off gamefaqs.com. That site has a lot of the fusion combos listed too which will save you a lot of time and frustration.
The campaign mode is frustrating too. If you save your game early at certain points, you lose the opportunity to face some other opponents and are instead thrust into much tougher matches.
Once you beat a campaign duelist, you can play them in free duel mode to earn more cards and starpoints used to buy other cards with the aforementioned passwords. But you only get one new card per match and just 1-5 starpoints. Weak cards cost 10-15 stars but decent monster cards cost 40-60 and most good magic cards cost 55 or 80. Really good magic cards cost 800 points and rare cards costs are simply listed as "99999".
Fighting weak opponents ad nauseum to earn more cards becomes very tedious. You're better off starting a new game on a separate memory card and trading the better cards from that starter deck onto your original memory card. You can trade and play against other human players too but then, you might as well just play the actual card game.
Forbidden Memories follows the theme of the cartoon pretty well. The cover art is a little decieving. The story doesn't just take place in ancient Egypt, it bounces back and forth between that era and the modern day characters seen on the show.
If you're not already a Yu-Gi-Oh fan, this game might seem like a confusing, boring mess but true fans should get a charge out of it as I have.