Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

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How good is Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links?
By Axlek
My honest opinion about Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links and how good it is.
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How good is Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links?
- - -(Audience: ) - - -
☐ Your Mom probably would enjoy this
☑ Kids
☑ Everyone
☐ Everyone except kids
☑ Casual players
☑ Pro players
☑ People who plan to take one game and make it their life

- - - ( Graphics/Animation: ) - - -

☐ I want to poor bleach in my eyes
☐ MS-DOS
☐ Bad, but playable.
☐ Decent
☑ Good
☐ Beautiful
☐ You forget what reality is

---( Price: )---

☑ Free
☐ Buy now
☐Worth the price
☐ Wait for sale
☐ Maybe if you have some spare money left
☐ Do not buy it
☐ Do not throw money into a trash can

- - - ( Requirements: ) - - -

☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ 90's PC
☑ Minimum
☐ Medium
☐ High end
☐ NASA computer

- - - ( Difficulty: ) - - -

☐ You just need 2 arms
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Average (Depends on the difficulty set)
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Dark Souls
☐ Only the best of the best can complete this game

---( Grind )---
☐ Nothing
☐ Only if you care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ A bit grindy...sometimes
☐ Go back to the last village and shoot some more scarecrows
☑ Practically a full time job

- - - ( Story ) - - -

☐ Only gameplay, doesn't include a story.
☐ There is a story, but most of the game is focused on gameplay.
☐ Better than nothing I suppose...
☐ Average.
☑ Decent.
☐ Amazing!
☐ It‘ll replace your life

- - - ( Bugs ) - - -

☐ Game itself is one big BUG
☐ Ark: Survival Evolved
☐ Lot of bugs (Can get annoying)
☑ Few Bugs
☐ You can use them for speedrun
☐ Nothing (I've seen)

---( Game Time )---

☐ Long enough for a cup of tea
☐ Short
☐ Not too short
☑ Depends on you
☐ Long
☐ Very Long
☑ Endless

- - - ( Enjoyment ) - - -

☑ One long, tedious grind
☐ Better than mobile
☑ Fun at first, but gets old quick
☐ Consistently fun
☐ Can't stop playing, even though I should be finished. Send help.

Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links is one of the worst Online TCG's out there. Do not get me wrong, I love Yugioh by any means and that's why I played this game on my phone. But here are the things I really hate about Duel Links:
— Decks are not really interactive. It's a lot of 1 turn combos that you die to without being able to do anything about it. So it's just a matter of luck and who draws their combo faster. That concept is no fun to me at all.
— Meta Decks are a lot of Grinding for Jewels, which can be spent on the boxes. Some Meta decks that pop up can not be build without spending actual money, tho. They require multiple units of a Structure Deck, which you can only buy one with jewels. (Pay to win when these are the tier 1 decks)
— 90% of the game is just run in Auto Duel mode because the decks play the same every game. You basically build a meta deck, let the bot play it for 20 games, so you understand what the cards do, and then you play the deck on ladder until you reach a high rank.

The illusion of choice does not make it any better because if you do not play a meta deck, you will not reach a high rank. So why bother to have 10 different character traits if you only use 1 of them all the time. Poorly balanced game that is just being played because of nostalgia and the franchise behind it. Nobody is playing this game because of the actual quality of the Game.

17 Comments
Computeron 2 Mar @ 1:32pm 
So is there a better Yugioh game out there?
Slapsz 30 Jan @ 12:08pm 
It's cool. the main problem is the RNG and you'll probably get the same 1 or 2 cards in every starting hand.
Pew-Pew 19 Apr, 2024 @ 9:32pm 
this is a mod game if you have no mod no win simple, every pvp game i play i see the play with mods and you see it very clear the play with mods!!!
NeroTheAngel 21 Jan, 2024 @ 1:13pm 
Well I got Platinum with a F2P insect deck. these deck was just mashed together for fun. So yes you can reach high rank with no meta deck if you keep playing and understand the flow and what high rank players usual do and what they are used to and use it against them.
For short: You can get high rank when you use your brain.
Regretfulloon43 17 Aug, 2023 @ 5:14pm 
this is why only collect and play the original series. yugioh lost a lot with all the extra summoning and 1 hand draw wins . maybe there is hope with the new 25th anniversary out.
Addicted2Music 14 Aug, 2023 @ 4:44pm 
Do not forget the JDuel.Links.Bot from Github.
This Game is aweful. Alot of Chinese Hackers.
It's a sinking Ship.
You better play Singleplayer!
Lemonwick 21 Feb, 2023 @ 7:36am 
:darkheart:
RAPTOR 9:48 13 Jan, 2023 @ 2:12am 
The real problem with the TCG in general is when they added XYZ, Pendulum, and Syncro summons to the game. Fine as a novelty for maybe ONE deck type each, but then you got people building meta decks that abuse pendulums. There should be cards dedicated to legacy players that can be drawn on turn 1 that prohibit syncro, XYZ, and Pendulum summons for the entire game. Watch meta decks melt to legacy players who just want to play the game for all the strategic fun it used to be.
Argentino 2 Dec, 2022 @ 8:57am 
yep
76561198280138111 5 Mar, 2022 @ 8:04am 
The Grind is the Hardest Thing min % Hours a day vor me :´)