Yu-Gi-Oh GX: Duel Academy

[flawd]

Got this game recently ^^ Needless to say, i've been playing the hell out of it. Its the same as the Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments games, but more school based. (I know, master of the obvious) Reshef of Destruction (for the unfortunate ones that played it) is crappy and this does things right.

Now theres more battle animations during the actual gameplay for the events:
-Opponent Direct Atacks you
-Direct attacking opponent at the same time as finishing them off

Theres talk/smack talk on a new event:
-Opponent draws a card
-Opponent plays trap
-Opponent plays spells
-Opponent gets a loved card beaten down (Jayden: ...I'm sorry Elemental Hero Sparkman...)
-Opponent takes a direct attack when their life points are 3000 or less.

The PDA system I think is new.... its basically a cellphone, and friends call you on it or you can call friends to set up matches or talk. (havent tried it.... I just wander and beatdown)

You hafta go to school, so somedays, you cant wander.... but sometimes classroom events happen. Mainly just gossip, announcements, and more smack talk. Tests seem to come every two weeks, and this determines if you go up in dorm/rank, stabilize dorm/rank, or go down. Believe it or not the tests are quite hard. You really gotta know all cards.

Luckily they announce what type/category of cards to study ahead of time. That however is of little help at the actual test time... ; ; The test is broken into 3 parts:
1) Written test: They ask you 10 questions. Each question is multiple choice, and 3 choices. You have exactly 30 seconds to answer or you get it wrong.
2) Timed Test: You get one turn in a pre-arranged, timed duel. Finish off opponent in 1 turn of fail. You have 2+min to complete this.
3) Practical Test: Duel where you hafta use the theme of the test as much as possible PLUS you hafta win as quickly as possible.

The music is ok (not that I listen to it most of the time.... winamp) but the best track on the game is when youre losing the duel ^_^ an awesome track to inspire your counter and recovery.

You buy cards packs (no starters available anymore) from the store any time during the week using DPs like in older versions. But new packs come in every Tuesday. The store lady will declare if theres any 'special' packs available, so I suggest you stock up on em before the other duelists get there. Did I mention the store lady has cute hired help? ^^

During wandering, you choose locations from around the island, and most locations have multiple locations inside, so this allows for hidden events or choosing who to duel.

Some duelists get stronger or weaker after/during events. Bastion gets stronger the more you duel him (his deck changes overtime to take yours down). Syris gets stronger after he gets powerbond from his brother. etc etc

You can only duel those in your rank's league, even if you know you can beat them. Slifer Red can only duel fellow dorm-mates and RA yellows. RA yellows can duel anyone and get nicer dorms.

I started off easy enough, and got RA yellow same night due to my "Beatdown type Deck*" However, the test that came next was on spells. ; ; I passed the Written and Timed portion, but failed the practical. I had won the duel, but I used only 1 magic card during the duel. So I had my dorm repo'd and im back to Slifer Red.
(*mostly monsters and traps/spells geared on taking down opponent quickly through direct combat. No monsters can have lower than 1800ATK, evolution monsters must have 2300+ATK.)

oh, and heres som pics to follow my summary/review:
Alexis shows me why shes an upperclassmen


I show Alexis why its called a beatdown deck


Alexis annoys me with this card, then gets sad when I trample it ^^;; Im not too liked im guessing


Cute hired help ^^


If I just pwnd you Chazz, think that makes you "the wimp that can't win"

[Marik]

I love how Yugioh is Konami's Madden with the World Championships. I'm still in the middle of Nightmare Trobabour for the DS and I want another one on the DS cause it was totally great using the touch screen, makes gameplay faster. At lewast I know Yugioh ain't going anywhere anytime soon.

...And dammit I haven't seen a single GX yet! They're finally continuing the final chapter again on WB, wasn't airing for 2 months.

[Lil Ninja]

...this is why you watch it on cartoon network. i was just watching two episodes today.

anyway, it looks pretty good. i wanna try it out just because it looks so good

[flawd]

Forgot to mention the one thing that annoys me about the Yu-Gi-Oh games is in this one too.

The decks are not exactly like the TV versions. Opponents can and will annoy you with the most annoying cards in the game. Every deck has the following, and note they do somehow get them with good certainly first hand. Quite a few of the cards are unuseable by you due to 'regulations/laws,' but they (NPC) use them during that week just fine.

The following cards:
-Man-Eater Bug (just annoying)
-Hane-Hane (ditto)
-Penguin Soldier (more so than the above two)
-Mirror Force (Thats for taking the fun outta duels)
-Snatch Steal (as annoying as Mirror Force if not moreso)

Jayden's deck is a total wonder. No matter how strong your monsters are, he can take them out in one turn. Skyscraper+FlameWingMan can do 3200ATK dmg in one turn, and flamewingman's special ability does even more dmg. I've had him do this combo on the first turn so many times, I nearly rammed my fist through nearby furniture.

[Marik]

LOL! That's not as bad as what I did once in a Yugioh game. Total BS but the best thing ever.







Drew all 5 pieces of Exodia on my opening hand.

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tailsandgrowly said:

LOL! That's not as bad as what I did once in a Yugioh game. Total BS but the best thing ever.


Drew all 5 pieces of Exodia on my opening hand.

LOL that is the ultimate cheese. Still, I don't find that annoying since it ends the duel right then and there. In fact, i'd laugh if that happened against me. My dry sense of humor reads into it on so many levels ^^;; lol

However, chipping away at me with mirror force and mass destroy/return cards is long, frustrating, and there hasn't been a duel where they won because of it. So in the end, it was futile, I won the duel, they won the "let's see how frustrated we get FlaWD^^" bet they got going between each other.

oh! but theres been plenty of duels they used the card "Snatch Steal" to take control of one of my souped up super monsters and beat me mercilessly with it. lol the beating is so swift, you wonder if you should be taking notes on how its done.

[Lil Ninja]

hmm... does sound quite frustrating. s'okay. makes me want to try it more

[flawd]

I was in class the other day (I'm RA Yellow again! ^^) and Dr.Crowler admitted what I thought all along!

"The theme of this weeks test is traps. You can't be a true duelist unless you use traps to frustrate your opponent!"

D:

I wish I could've stood up in class, point at Crowler and shout, "AHA! I fsckin' KNEW it! You evil bastards!"

Also, I improved Alexis and my relationship/friendship. ^^ I overheard her friends talking about an attractive stalker stalking obelisk blue girls at night. and stupid me Walked around the dorm until night and guess who they caught? Me >.>



I had to take out those 3 back to back ^^;; they tried blackmailing me like in the second episode of YuGiOh GX when Sirus was caught snoopin round the girls dorm.

After beating her friends, one of them has got a crush on me, the other is not surprised that happened, and Alexis admitted she knew I wasn't a pervert and I was just looking for a challenging duel. So she requested I spend a little more time with her and duel her as well ^^;; afterwards she gave me her number, so all in all, it was worth it >.>

Nothing special, her number, but its for building friendship or calling her up to request we skip class and duel.

oh and kunoichi, this is a game that has a whole lot of repetition.... if youre ready for lots of repetition imbetween events, i'd give this a try ^^;;

[Morphed Chaos]

Meh I dunno why people like beatdown decks, I myself prefer discard decks, you are usually not affected by traps/spell and can win quickly if you know what to do. I also usually throw destony board in, But I'm not sure if thats in this game, is it?

[flawd]

Yes, there are only two ways of getting the card that I know of so far.... winning it from defeating Jinzo when he materializes in flesh form, or getting it through card password machine.

Destiny board has so many weaknesses though... for one, its long (5 turns to win, so technically 4 turns to stop you), it uses all your trap/magic space, so stopping magic traps might become a challenge.... add in the fact that all those trap and magic card pieces take up quite a chunk of your deck.

Yeah, beatdowns are rather frustrating at times. Opposition always throws stuff in face down, so you cant tell if thats a mystical elf or a man-eater bug D: not only that, it relies heavily on the the slow process of laying one monster per turn, so multi-monster slaying effects pwn them hard. (Torrental Tribute, Mirror Force, Penguin Soldier, etc)

I keep a few kinds of cards in my deck to make it more counter than offense. (In a game where everyone has mirror force and penguin soldier, just was the smart thing to do) Jinzo handles those nasty traps, and direct damage based on card destruction cards help widdle down opponents faster. The best? Far from it, but it defines "make-shift" to deal with every type of deck.

[Marik]

Destiny Board is very weak. I used Chaos, but since the ban, I use burners, Using card effects to drain LP: Lava Golem, Nightmare Wheel, Ring of Destruction, etc.

[Morphed Chaos]

true, true, but the computers are usually not smart enough to destory it right away, and its also good for you to have a "Magic Jammer" face down so in case they play somethign to get rid of it, your safe. Of cors, I really only have 2 decks, a discard deck, or a destiny board deck. Also, does this game have needle worms?

[flawd]

Yes, but with the equip-spell "Big Bang Shot," I smile everytime I destory one of those that were set instead of a Penguin Soldier. (about 1500+ dmg directly to their life points even though they were in defense)

Could you explain why needle worms are a threat?

[Marik]

Especially with cards like Monster Reincarnation out to bring back discarded monsters. I'm looking at my deck I haven't used in a while and I have a warrior deck from the old tins and the newer starter deck with my regular cards.

I'm trying to build a deck in real life again, but what's effective now-a-days? I know the new ban/limited list.

[flawd]

I am definetly not the one to ask on that subject >.>

I aim to make an effective 40 card deck and I endup making an 88 card deck. ^^;

[Lil Ninja]

^_^ sounds like something my brother always does.

...he doesn't get forty cards. ... and he doesn't get they can't all be five star and above either

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taiella said:

^_^ sounds like something my brother always does.

...he doesn't get forty cards. ... and he doesn't get they can't all be five star and above either

lol so we're evenly matched, eh?

Recently, I seen screenshots of an online game of Yu-Gi-Oh. Think its an unofficial site where you can battle others w/ pre-existing cards. I'll look into the matter; who knows, we may just get some face-offs going here.

I'm sure everyone wants to duel me cause beatdown decks scream, "hey veteran players, pwn me plz kthx."

[Marik]

You might be talking about Yugioh Virtual Desktop. Sucks. I want to see if Yugioh Online for the PC updates itself to be up to date.

[E-109 Omega]

flawd said:

I am definetly not the one to ask on that subject >.>

I aim to make an effective 40 card deck and I endup making an 88 card deck. ^^;

Welcome to my life. I've got a 70-80ish deck, I haven't won in a duel in ages. Though, I am in the process of building a smaller Gradius deck, thank you Konami for making so many cards based on Gradius.

This game looks very good, it's got more things in the game than the dueling, which is a plus. Those tests don't seem to be very fun, though.