Yu-Gi-Oh Forbidden Memories (of childhood grindfest)

I think this is first YGO game released in English. For me personally it was early childhood game when I could barely understand 3 words in English - yep you guessed never finished it and not because I couldn’t understand because progress is quite straightforward, but all I care while building my deck was how cool each monster looked like.

Plenty of years later, I’m today years old and decided to refresh my memory and check how it’s aged. After short research in what I should expect I was so sure that game is known for one thing - It was a helluva grinder.

And everyone was right, literally grind starts from the moment of starting new game - you should keep resetting game until your starting deck is ok and I mean here you need some specific cards.

Game is kinda split into 4 phases of difficulty, where last one is the hardest and pretty much a gauntlet of few duels one after another without possibility to save between against OP decks of enemies.

Which leads us to early stage farming, mid and late (and I’m not taking about resetting game here)

I don’t wanna go into details how to farm, but in the end for farming purpose and to make my deck way I would like to be I done about 500 duels (there is about 40 story duels) and still it wasn’t perfect (I had 2 out of 3 Meteor B. Dragons) I can’t imagine doing it on PS1, with fast forward of emulator it was bearable.

A little explanation what for all of this farming, well this is card game, there are 700 cards in the game, but Windows95man sang a song about rules in Forbidden Memories which is No Rules.

I mean there are basics like 1 card per turn, att/def position etc, but like most of the games got some rules to limit you from spamming strongest cards, here as long as you have a card in your hand you can play it on n your turn. Both you and your AI enemy - so expect first turn fight with 4K attack monsters (while all you can do is 3,5k) That’s why you need to farm - there is a card Meteor B Dragon that is farmable which can beat endgame bosses, without this card well you probably won’t be able finish the game.

Anyways it was quite fine experience in 2024 but don’t expect any complex tactics.