I want to make something clear, I do not hate the game itself. It is very good and Yu gi oh has been one of my favorite card games in my life. I just despise the current B.S. in the game that took away the fun of it. This is not Yu Gi Oh as its supposed to be. Its a piece of sh*t that has sullied what Yu Gi Oh was for veterans of the original series. Allow me to list some problems with it.

1. This is no longer a game of strategy. It is a game of who can special summon the most in one turn, who can negate the most effects in one turn, and who can prevent the player from doing anything at all during the entire match.

Granted, there is nothing wrong with special summoning or negating effects, but its become oversaturated as the main source of power for most modern archetypes and there is no limit on some cards that SHOULD be banned or limited as the Limited/ban list is not consistent with the current TCG rules.

2. Link Summoning completely breaks the game. It requires no effort what so ever to use. Its the most simple out of all the methods yet the most abused in this game. People can continuously summon link monsters over and over again without any sort of restriction, thus making it broken as hell and the most exploitable method of special summoning monsters from the Extra deck. Here is an example of what i mean:

Fusion summoning requires specific monsters and a polymerization spell card OR a fusion related card.

Synchro summoning requires a tuner monster and any number amount of non-tuner to summon your Synchro monster.

XYZ summoning requires 2 monster or more with the same level to summon (however, there are times where you can use an XYZ evolution card to bypass more difficult XYZ summons).

Pendelumn summons require Pendelumn Monsters that are treated as spell cards with a scale of 0-12 and you can summon any amount of them as long as they are different levels from each other and are NOT the Pendelum monster's scale number (Its a bit weird, i know).

But Link summoning ? Two monsters of any kind, usually of a specific archetype. You know what the worst part is ? You can KEEP Link summoning as long as you keep special summoning monsters as the each Link Summon increases its link rating making it PISS easy to play really broken monsters.

I want you to understand, I do NOT have a problem of people using link monsters for SPECIFIC archetypes/decks as there needs to support for them because Konami usually neglects them in favor of other archetypes but the fact is that Link summons are extremely over used, outshining every other summoning method that took some thought and has some rather fair restriction, making it utterly atrocious.

3. The PVP is utterly boring and tedious. You will sit in a match with an average of possibly 10 minutes to nearly a HALF HOUR or maybe even more if your opponent is a f*cking assh*le and purposefully waits down the clock down and THEN plays a card. There are moments when you sit there in utter disbelief as some people will not only use Meta archetypes (Ex. Evil Twins, Dogtmatika/Albaz, Cyberse etc) and cards (Ex. Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler etc) constantly. but also purposefully abuse so many cards that are not limited or banned in the current TCG list. What's even worse is that are bots that flood the game a lot in PVP so you lose either way regardless if its CPU or an actual human player.

4. Konami is extremely greedy .That's not to say you can't craft your cards, which is pretty cool (unlike in duel links) but they require gems which you have to dismantle and believe it or not, you have to use 3 times the amount of gems to make 1 card of your choice. That means you have to dismantle 3 cards in order to get 30 gems, to craft what you want which can be a problem if you want to make certain decks or play your favorite archetypes. And don't get me started on the endless micro-transactions and card bundles of currently broken cards

In conclusion, I do not recommend this game if you have been a long time Yu Gi Oh fan like me and see the current state of Yu Gi Oh fall further into the cesspit of corporate greed, the disgusting META of the game, the really god-awful PVP, and link monsters obliterating the game's flow.

How it feels to go full Infernoble combo on a guy using the Blue-eyes starter deck knowing damn well I'm about to be the subject of a very angry Steam review

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If this is your first time playing this game, you will be confused, you won't understand what you and your opponent are doing, you will summon a little guy and set mirror force and get absolutely blown the fµck out by a 10 step combo and you will probably want to quit after that.

That's normal, getting angry at such unfairness is reasonable. However if you trudge past that, grit your teeth, ask for help and learn the game, you will discover a rich and profound game. A game where any deck can thrive, be it control, combo or otk. A game where there is pleasure in figuring out how to play around your opponent and their interraction. A game where you will obsess over how to improve your own deck.

And when you reach that state, you will still be mad at unfair sh^t because Konami likes to watch us suffer for the sin of playing a children card game, please ban maxx "c" please please please.

10/10, don't play it.