Admittedly, this game is incredibly weird in how it handles pretty much everything, yet that's why I love it so much.
The junctioning system, triple triad being a source from which to gain many powerful items, getting to decide how broken you wanna be for the rest of the game from its very beginning, the characters and overall world itself.
Not everyone's cup of tea and I understand why a lot of people may consider this the black sheep of the series, but I still find it to be an amazing game, which I replay yearly.