Progressing in stages will allow the player to unlock Character Unlock Missions as well.īy completing Character Unlock Missions, players can unlock new Legendary Duelists to play as. By completing missions within the stage, players can advance to the next stage which will gradually unlock more difficult opponents and Legendary Duelists at the Gate.

The current stage the player is on will also be displayed. From here they can also access the Gate which allows them to duel against Legendary Duelists. The game has the player in a hub where they can choose various NPCs to duel against. Players are rewarded with experience points and various items after a duel, with more items earned from winning. The winner of a duel either reduces their opponent's life points to 0, allows their opponent to run out of cards, or win under special conditions. These effects include but are not limited to adding cards to the hand or field, increasing monster stats, increasing life points, adding cards to the deck at the start of the duel, changing the player's starting hand, and revealing the contents of face-down cards.

Players can also use Skills that affect duels in various ways.

Players have 4000 Life Points, Main Phase 2 is removed, the number of monster zones and spell/trap zone is reduced to 3 from 5, Main Deck size is reduced to 20-30 cards each from 40-60 and the Extra Deck is reduced to 7 from 15 (although this number is increased periodically), and players start with a 4 card hand instead of 5. The game uses a format known as 'Speed Duels' which uses the rules of the trading card game with various modifications.

As they continue to win duels, other characters become unlocked, including the character the player did not choose at the beginning. Players first have the option to play as either Yami Yugi or Seto Kaiba. Seto Kaiba has created a virtual reality 'Duel World' in order to gather the best duelists so they can compete.

3.4 Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensionsĭuel Links features characters from the entire Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters anime series.

Jugar yu gi oh online