Or as Caleb Compton wrote in his analysis of the game, “When putting together the rules of the game, the foremost concern was not what will make the best game, but what will be most exciting for the story.” Games as Stories To be fair though, everyone stole from Magic: the Gathering.Īnd this is where the Yu-Gi-Oh card game differed greatly from its contemporaries: it was promotional material. The initial version of the game stole a lot of its design from Magic: the Gathering, and also gleaned many rules based on the game’s depiction in the manga.
Fans of the game clamored for a real life version of Duel Monsters, and game developer/publisher Konami obliged. Weird how young gamers were able to relate, huh?Įventually the manga came to focus on Duel Monsters, the diegetic version of what we know in the real world as the Yu-Gi-Oh card game. Yugi was depicted as feeble and inept, but when he played these games he was confident and capable. The manga didn’t initially center around the card game, instead following a boy named Yugi who would engage his enemies in a variety of tabletop games. Before it was a card game, it was a manga by Kazuki Takahashi. Yu-Gi-Oh has a curious origin, and one that still greatly informs the game it is today. Its metagame is defined by power creep (a type of design wherein newer cards are more powerful than older ones), and an extensive list of restricted cards (cards which you are not allowed to use).ĭon't worry if you can't follow what's going on. The rules text on the cards is tiny, poorly written, and needlessly complicated: Most collectible card games are in one way or another, but even compared to its contemporaries, Yu-Gi-Oh is a mess.
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