Reviews from

in the past


I have vague, but positive, memories of this one from my youth. I remember it being no frills, no fluff ---- just pure dueling & deckbuilding. And it nails that pretty darn well. It's convenient just whip out, play a round or two on a bus ride or whatever, then save some more for later. Great structure for a handheld game.

Password system is amazing, love digging out my binder to add my cards in-game. But like most Yu-Gi-Oh games of the era, Eternal Duelist Soul is highly dependent on repetitive duels with the same handful of opponents over and over. If you're just here for the nostalgia and to get some duels in with the older card sets then it's a good candidate, but otherwise you're better off aiming for some duel monster games that are just a little bit more current.

suffers from all the same problems as the other gba games unfortunately

Este juego es una muy buena opción para jugar el Yu-Gi-Oh clásico. Si bien sirve para jugar solo, recomiendo muchísimo jugarlo en compañía

Le tengo mucho cariño a este juego porque me vicié a él junto a unos amigos de la universidad, y mientras cada uno iba mejorando su deck en el single player, después nos echábamos nuestros duelos en el multiplayer XD También gracias a este juego al fin aprendí a jugar Yu-Gi-Oh. Eso si, no te enseña, pero pude poner en práctica lo que aprendí del manual oficial del TCG

No le doy 5 estrellas porque tiene unos bugs muy notorios


It's time to d-d-d-d-d-d-d-duel!

You get a Mirror Force and you get a Mirror Force! Everybody has a freaking Mirror Force!

It aged like milk and there's better options but it's still playable.

Não cheguei a terminar mas joguei muito. Esse é fácil 2 melhor jogo de yugioh já feito perdendo somente pro gx duel academy de também gba.

One of the first (if not the first) Yu-Gi-Oh! game to have the official card rules. Pretty simple since it's early 2000s Yu-Gi-Oh! and not the ridiculously broken modern version.

Game plays fine but it's so slow at going through actions. There are 24 opponents to choose from. Most of them cheat knowing the def of your face-down cards. Also, it feels like everyone has mirror force. The bright side is the password system is great. Just input the real card number and get it with no strings attached.

Overall pretty fun if you're fine with older cards. Just requires many duels to unlock everything.

Very simple early Yugioh game and you could input your real cards using the codes on them or whatever so it was easy to make a crazy busted deck. The soundtrack and nice pixel art are what make this game worth checking out though.

Yu-Gi-Oh The Eternal Duelist Soul (2001): El mejor juego de la franquicia jamás creado. La de horas que pasé con este juego de pequeño. Una IA súper variada para la época, un montón de cartas y posibilidades, y una interfaz súper agradable. De mis juegos favoritos de peque (8,90)

actually a really good way to experience mid 2000's Yu-Gi-Oh. The computer cheats so much though

this has established itself as my game to come back to whenever i wanna play something to turn off my brain to, its nice, its simple - its just yugioh but in its earliest form basically

Eternal Duelist Soul is a good option if you want to experience what YGO was like during it's earliest inception. There being no banned cards & instead having a few very powerful cards be just limited to 1 makes this game pretty funny to look at with a modern perspective of the game.
The game is slow (but that's more due to the nature of early YGO being slow) & the in-game progression feels needlessly tedious requiring you to defeat different duelists from the anime multiple times in a row to progress to the next set of duelists where you just repeat what you did before.