12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

Its a start but needs some work., December 8, 2010

Well folks here it is the first Yugioh dueling title for the Wii. Now to start off if your not a fan of Yugioh or of playing the card game this title will not be for you. This game has a unique board your character travels around collecting items and dueling opponents. You play a roulette game to determine how many moves you can make. Dueling against characters that appear in the game will earn you experience and the in game currency which you will need to purchase additional packs to improve the rather meager starter deck you begin the game with.

Good News:
-The story is interesting
-The game play is a bit unusual for this kind of game but not so much as to be a draw back.
When a sizeable attack lands on an opponent there is an animation.
-There are summoning animations for some of the monsters in this game that are very impressive, the summoning and attack animation of Red Dragon Archfiend is stunning

Bad News:
-Early advertisements suggested this game would be released with a Duel Scanner. This scanner is not present and it appears at this time that this game may not be compatible with the scanner
-The graphics for the whole game could be better. The board the player moves on is interesting to look at but the duels themselves are lacking in animation. Given how well monsters were animated in the Forbidden Kingdom game for Game Cube I was hoping the monsters would be stunning and would stand on the field putting the DS to shame. Unfortunately the animation for the dueling portion is lacking. It reminded me of the animation to some of the early Game Boy Advanced titles. Considering this game is going to require players to be dueling a lot it seems to me the designers should have made the duels more visually appealing than they did.
-Few really good monster summoning animations at this point.
-This game does not sync to the DS titles. Unless there is a way to unlock this I could not find anyway to sync WC 2010 to this game which I think would have been a good idea as it could have unlocked some cards.

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