Summary
Yu-Gi-Oh! anime cheats and breaks its own rules, losing its appeal for many fans. Yami Yugi is the main character of Munchkin who breaks the rules to win at all costs. Manga and anime changes to Yu-Gi-Oh! frequent card game rules, leading to confusion and dissatisfaction.
Yu-Gi-Oh! is one of my earliest anime fixtures from childhood, a wonderfully entertaining Shonen Jump series from before the days of the Big Three. I followed it religiously, collected its cards and became an experienced player. However, I lost interest in it a long time ago and looking back, I feel annoyed by the way it promoted the series while breaking its rules. While Yu-Gi-Oh! The card game is extremely fun to play, but the anime adaptation, especially the original story, ruins its appeal with serious, unnecessary cheating, specifically during Yugi's Battle City vs. Seto Kaiba.
While the plot armor and various thrilling set pieces are enough motivation to occasionally break the rules, it's especially annoying during the Battle City Arc when the series seems to signal that it's paying attention. more to these principles. Instead of the shenanigans and incoherent gameplay of the first season, viewers like me were lured into a false premise, only its main character is written out for losing repeatedly.
However, my exploration of the first series, without going into its seven spin-offs, comes from a blatant fraud involving the Million Dragon Flute in Yu-Gi-Oh!
Yami Yugi stole the match against Kaiba in Battle City
A clear case of the rules as written being ignored
Many articles discuss Yugi Mutou and his pharaoh companion, Yami Yugi (or Atem), cheating in Yu-Gi-Oh! mostly to create plot twists and keep the main characters alive. However, to keep things simple, Kaiba does a relatively textbook game of two cards from his Starter Deck: Lord D and the flute summon Dragon cards, bring him the remains of his three blue-eyed White Dragons.It was a classic game of Kaiba using his extremely powerful cards, which although not his most advanced, pushed Yugi into a corner as he would have lost, but after there was an obnoxious “Heart of the Cards” moment.
Kaiba's two important cards in this case are:
Lord of D — Sorcerer/Effect: No player can target Dragon monsters on the field by card effect.
Dragon Summoning Flute – Magic: Special Summon up to 2 Dragon monsters from your hand. “Lord of D.” Must be on the field to activate and resolve this effect.
Yugi suddenly realized, even after Kaiba had made his move and prepared to attack, that he could summon his Red-Eyes Black Dragon and use it along with a set of trap cards to absorb his attacks. Kaiba. Violating this rule does not end the game but only pushes Yugi closer to the edge and temporarily pushes Kaiba back. It's a ridiculous case of Yu-Gi-Oh! establish a clear case for Rules written in the tabletop community, overriding Implied Rules, as the Dragon Summoning Flute is for the user only; Yami Yugi is a fraud.
Battle City reminds me that Yami Yugi is the main character of Munchkin
Winning at all costs is not a good look
According to People Magazine, I love Kazuki Takahashi, creator of Yu-Gi-Oh! and revered him as a hero, especially in light of his tragic fate of drowning while saving others. His fictional brand has created a global phenomenon. However, the gaming community would call Yugi Mutou's alter ego Atem a “munchkin” who breaks the game and plays to win at all costs.. There are many parts of the series where he can win through cunning strategy or feats of skill, but more often than not he breaks the rules at the perfect moment to win, however Yami Yugi and other characters do worse.
In the manga before Duelist Kingdom and Battle City, Yami Yugi created games at various points in real life-or-death situations, including a game called “One Finger BATTLE!” where Yami Yugi dictates the game, so the player can only use one of his ten fingers. The convicted person chooses the index finger of the hand holding the gun. However, while pouring his vodka, Yami Yugi picked his thumb, lit a cigarette for him, then placed the burning zippo lighter on the back of the condemned man's hand, making it impossible for him to move. Even though the zippo lighter could last up to ten minutes before the fuel exhausted itself, the convict panicked, dropped the cigarette, and burned himself. When cornered, Yami Yugi will set all the rules to get out alive.
Yami Yugi's ruthless power play is always evident before Battle City, with absurd cases reaching their climax when he used Living Arrow while using Polymerization to fuse Mammoth Graveyard with Kaiba's Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon. This becomes even less of a strict case than a munchkin and just a kid making up the rules as they go, since no Fusion card combines an inherently fused Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon with Mammoth Graveyard. But essentially, it's a game made for victory, which as noted by Yami Yugi, is a serious but more important move in Battle City.
However, more serious details exist, including the destruction of the ground beneath the Egyptian God Cards, which is not in the rules. A case of cheating in Yu-Gi-Oh! includes Yugi attacking a field card and having his Giant Stone Soldier attack the Full Moon card in the episode “Attack from the Deep”. Finally, Yugi's Deus ex Machina moment involves changing the effects of cards on the fly, such as the card Multiply, which creates “thousands” of Kuriboh in many cases despite only being able to summon maximum set of five – Yami Yugi has created everything to win.
Rules of Yu-Gi-Oh! is part of the problem
Manga and Anime Change the rules of card games a lot
For those who joined the series when the Duelist Kingdom Arc began, the card game hit its stride in the West, soon becoming a best-selling card game. Not yet, this set of rules is outdated in manga and anime, no tribute is required even for high level monstersthere is no ability to attack enemies' Life Points and LP is set at a low 2000. Everything is set up to create thrilling duels between monsters and for matches to be short in Yu -Gi-Oh!, but cheating and trickery have long been a major problem of which many characters are guilty.
By many accounts, Battle City's ruleset is like a distilled version of the standard rules, featuring 8000 LP, though without such absurdities as Obelisk the Tormentor's anime ability to gain attack points Infinite attack after sacrificing two monsters.
The card game at the time was known in-universe as Magic & Wizards, with an homage to the crossover between Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons, and evolved. In Battle City, Life Points are increased to 4000, Effect monsters become standard, and matches allow players to attack opponents directly. By many accounts, Battle City's ruleset is like a distilled version of the standard rules, featuring 8000 LP, though without such absurdities as Obelisk the Tormentor's anime ability to gain attack points Infinite attack after sacrificing two monsters. The rules or understanding of them in Yu-Gi-Oh! is part of the problem.
Following the rules creates another problem
The card game of Yu-Gi-Oh! Watching is less fun than playing
While making powerful and legal plays in Yu-Gi-Oh! may be thrilling for the players, the audience may have a different experience, so perhaps making up the rules or cheating is a means of escapism for the players in the audience. While playing the game, I built my favorite deck using pillars from the “Dark Legacy” and “Chaos Invasion” sets. I built a formidable Chaos deck that included Yata-Garasu, Blacklight Soldier – Enjoy the Beginning, and Kaiba's Chaos Dragon – Envoy of the End. However, the Rules written for these three cards are somewhat oppressive.
While making powerful and legal plays in Yu-Gi-Oh! may be thrilling as a player, but the audience may have a different experience, so perhaps making up the rules or cheating is a means of escapism for the audience players . For example, if the Magic Cylinder's effect was the same as in the real card game, Yugi would beat Kaiba fairly without using the Red-Eyes Black Dragon.
Basically, the “Chaos” build I have will ensure that I can trade 1000 LP to discard as many cards in my opponent's hand and in my hand, dealing 300 damage to my opponent for each card and prevent them from drawing more. The Black Luster Soldier will deal with any stragglers, possibly attacking again if he successfully kills a monster in battle. It was a dirty game but it was allowed for a short time before being banned. The important thing is that it was allowed, and this style of play, along with much more advanced gameplay, remained popular decades later in Yu-Gi-Oh!
If anyone has never played Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel, has countless videos of dizzying chain combos pulled in two turns for quick wins. Follow the rules in Yu-Gi-Oh! can provide excellent gameplay for those facing each other at the table, but for entertainment purposes, perhaps Yami Yugi has a point. While the previous moon attack resembled a Piccolo move from Dragon Ball Z, disregarding the rules in Dragon Ball Z is reckless. Yu-Gi-Oh! is often more engaging than watching Yugi power play his way through the latest meta combo; however, it's not for me.
Source: People's Magazine