YGO Millennium Duels PS3/X360 by Baneful

 

I tried the demo for the new video game YGO Millennium Duels (YMD , X360/PS3) and felt very underwhelmed.  To be perfectly honest, it's a rotten mix of the faults that have plagued previous YGO games and controversial modern gaming trends.  It's not worth your time or money.

 

Seeing all of the cool stuff indie games like Braid and Super Meat Boy have been doing, the $10 entry fee alone for YMD should have been enough.  Considering that it doesn't have big-budget production values and it's a rehash of the same game mechanics of the past 30 or so YGO games.  It really does nothing new.  But the many $3 DLC packages available to boost your deck are just insulting.

 

You start out with a deck full of weak normal monsters and you grind your way to getting better cards.  Restricting the player to low-level game mechanics was okay back then when YGO was new, but not in 2014.  Before this was used as a way to pad out the length of a game you paid $30 for.  Now, this is just a way to get people to pay extra money.

 

The nostalgia was fun, the interface is cool and it's interesting to see Konami modernize the game, but it's still just cash-cow that's inferior to the free Dueling Network. 

 

- Baneful

 

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