You’ll also make use of a variety of spell and trap cards for added effects that come in all sorts of flavours, from equip cards to direct counters to field-wide effects. This is done by playing Normal or Effect monsters on the playing field to attack your opponent’s creatures or life points. There are some special ways to win, such as your opponent running out of cards to draw, or by particular card conditions, but normally you will achieve victory by causing your opponents life points to hit zero.
Each player begins with 8,000 life points.
I jumped into Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution having not played the series in around 11 years, but I was pleased to find the core card game to be as enjoyable as ever and supported by a robust package of content sure to please even the most ardent of Duel Monster fans.įor those unfamiliar with how the game is played, here’s a quick run-down. It deftly balanced simplicity in its ruleset whilst having substantial depth and complexity, the card and creature designs were visually appealing, and it was accompanied by a string of great videogames on the Gameboy Advance and Nintendo DS during the decade. I’ve played a ton of card games over the years, but none have ever quite grabbed me as much as Yu-Gi-Oh did during its initial popularity explosion of the mid-2000s.