Forum:Which DS game should I buy?

I'm thinking of buying a new YGO DS game. I own Nightmare Troubadour, as well as GBA games The Eternal Duelist Soul, Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel, and 7 Trials to Glory: World Championship Tournament 2005. I played competitively from LOB to PGD and watched the entirety of the original anime, so I am most familiar with (and prefer) the old cards, deck archetypes, and characters. I did watch the first 2 seasons of GX (I wasn't too crazy about it), but only the first episode of 5D's, and none of ZeXaL. I've kept up with some of the most noteworthy cards and the major new mechanics (Synchro, XYZ) since I left the game, but I know very little.

I wasn't blown away by Nightmare Troubadour after buying the game primarily because the graphics seemed so cool; I actually preferred the GBA games. The dueling interface those games used was phenomenal. My favorite GBA game was definitely EDS; I liked how you could duel whoever you wanted whenever you wanted, without having to deal with the day and time. Since I'm used to no banlist and many of my favorite cards are long-since banned, a way to circumvent the banlist in whatever game I choose would be nice (i.e. Nightmare Troubadour letting you use 1 banned card, Over the Nexus apparently letting you select a "blank" banlist to turn it off entirely, etc.). I'm not familiar with Turbo Duels, so a game that features them is probably not for me. I want a game with characters from the original series in it, even if they're not the main characters. While it's just a small factor, it's always nice when a YGO game comes with particularly cool (or useful) cards :).

I'm thinking World Championship 2008. I've heard it's an all-around great game, it comes with Dimensional Prison, and while it and WC 2007 appear to be the only games since NT to include old characters, WC 2008 seems to have more of them (from what I know, Yugi, Yami Yugi, Joey, Kaiba, and Yami Marik are in both, while Mai, Pegasus, Yami Bakura, and Bandit Keith are in 2008 only).

So, what game do you recommend? I'd like to get multiple opinions on this if possible.

Thanks!

NickH88 (talk • contribs) 05:13, August 9, 2012 (UTC)