Yu Yu Hakusho Dark Tournament

by Atari

Product Features

• Choose from 25 of the best heroes and demons from the hit show, Yu-Yu Hakusho
• Pull off execute fast, high-power attacks as you face powerful, amazing enemies
• Build up your character as they fight their way to the winner's cicle
• Integrates original footage and gameplay to create an authentic experience

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000VSH2W
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: August 17, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,220 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Yu-Yu Hakusho: Dark Tournament compiles the great characters of the hit show "Yu-Yu Hakusho" for an all-out adventure! Yusuke and his band of friends have managed to stop the evil Suzaku and escape from Maze Castle, but before they have a moment's peace, Koenma sends the team on another mission. Follow along as Team Urameshi attempt to stop the villainous Toguro brothers and battle their way to the winner's circle of the Dark Tournament!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great fun for Yu Yu Hakusho Fans, October 11, 2004

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Lisa Shea "medieval swordfighting enthusiast" - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Yu Yu Hakusho Dark Tournament (Video Game)

Yu Yu Hakusho Dark Tournament is based on an anime series. Yusuke Urameshi, the main character, is a 14 year old. He was killed and brought back to life, and now is able to see ghosts.

The game puts Yusuke into an arena tournament fighting situation, with the familiar friends and foes from the show. There is a training mode to help you get started, and skirmish mode to practice your moves. Then there are arcade and dark tournament modes to get you into actual gameplay, moving through levels of difficulty.

You can't really compare the graphics in this game to other fighting games like Mortal Kombat. The point of Dark Tournament is to feel like you're immersed in the Yu Yu Hakusho world, and it does this quite nicely. The anime style and backgrounds are all very much of the Yu Yu Hakusho style. There are several different arenas to fight in, and many characters to choose from. Each character has his or her own style and look.

In addition to the basic fighting game, there is also a built in "token game". You earn tokens when you fight. You then move to the token game to use them. The token game is very much like a strategy card game, using a hexagonal based board. This addition makes the overall game much more long term. You have incentive to keep fighting, to earn tokens. Then in the token game you can build up your token stash to do better and better.

Definitely a game that any Yu Yu Hakusho fan will love, and play for a long time!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good but hard, December 18, 2004

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Debra M. Feiman (Mahopac, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Yu Yu Hakusho Dark Tournament (Video Game)

This game definately promises the YuYuHakusho action we now and love, the only thing i found frustrating about this game was that u have to defend constantly and takes some time to get used to how difficult it WILL be when u first get it, there r many scenes from the cartoon and can be fun, but if you want a really good not-so challenging fighting game, go for DBZ budokai (any #)
if u like yuyuhakusho then get this

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible, December 1, 2010

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Craig Hightshoe "TheCRH" (Charlotte, NC) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Yu Yu Hakusho Dark Tournament (Video Game)

I see all the great reviews for this game so I guess I'll be the bad guy

I got this game a few years ago off the bargain rack and took it back the next day. The game starts off with an impossible fight that you're suppose to lose. The worst part of the game is that there is no learning curve, the game has no tutorial on what the controls are, the players demensions on how the player attacks seems either small than the space the character takes up, or your reach is less than your opponents making it very hard to even attack them. I do a lot of games that are similar to this such as Street Fighter and Mortal Combat (the 2d fighting style games) and this is by far the worst one. It would have been ok if you could at least use cheats appropriately though but because of that, it throws everything out the window. (I rarely cheat on games, it just helps to improves games in which I do not like based on either the style of the game or the quality).

Pro's:
None...well it's Yu Yu Hakusho so that count's just a little

Con's:
No tutorial
Combat's starts off too hard and only gets harder
Cheats don't work properly
Poor graphics
Very limited gameplay
Poor controls
Seems like either a very low budget game or extremely rushed.