History VideoGame / YuGiOhDarkDuelStories

''Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories'' or ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters III: Tri-Holy God Advent'' is a CardBattleGame released for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor on March 18, 2002. This game was Konami's third title for the Game Boy Color and the first to be released in English.

* BonusBoss: Yami Yugi, Yami Bakura, Nitemare, Shadi, and Marik aren't required to advance further into the game and can only be unlocked by entering special passwords for each of them. They are the most difficult opponents in the game.

* DifficultySpike: Once you unlock Ancient Egypt, all bets are off.

* BonusBoss: Marik, Yami Bakura, Nitemare, and Shadi aren't required to advance further into the game and can only be unlocked by entering special passwords for each of them. They are the most difficult opponents in the game.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Ritual monsters are all Divine-type, making them immune to the elemental weakness destruction, and tend to have really high Attack power, but to summon them normally requires a specific Ritual Spell card and a specific monster that must be on the field after you tribute 2 other monsters. The effort it would take to Ritual summon a monster would offer no real tactical advantage in a game that rewards swarming the field with multiple monsters, especially when some of these Ritual Spells require 2-tribute monsters for the Ritual Summon, equaling 4 sacrifices for 1 card. Gate Guardian and Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon are even worse in this regard because their Ritual Spells each require 3 2-tribute monsters on the field to summon them. If you can get, say, 3 Blue-Eyes White Dragons on the field at the same time it's probably a better idea to just stick with them for a win.

* DummiedOut:
** There's an unused purple color for monster cards. It was meant for fusion monsters but was removed due to the fusion mechanics in the game.
** There's a function meant to decrease Deck Volume coded in the game, but it was not used.
** Marik and Nitemare have unused text for being beaten 5 times like the majority of other duelists have.
** The AI can play Traps, every Equip Spell card, every Type-specific destruction card (like Eradicating Aerosol), but no CPU deck have these cards.

* ElementalRockPaperScissors:

* TheStinger: [[spoiler: The 3 Egyptian God cards are seen on a "To Be Continued" screen after the credits are over]].

* UselessUsefulSpell: Harpie's Feather Duster is good for taking out enemy trap cards, but because no CPU duelist in the game uses Trap cards against the player its value is nonexistent.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: The original name of the game was "Tri-Holy God Advent" in Japan, but because it contained "God" in the title, Konami went with a RecycledTitle instead.

There's no story due to the format of the "Campaign" mode. The actual gameplay is also vastly different from how the real life game works, too. You can only have 5 cards in your hand at a time, and are unable to draw until you have at least 1 free space in your hand, trap cards can only be set once at a time and are sent to the graveyard after one turn if they don't go off, Monsters can be destroyed in battle by using ElementalRockPaperScissors to bypass attack and defense point differences, some Effect Monsters are Normal Monsters and vice-versa, Fusion Monsters have no Fusion Deck and must be used in the main deck, and you can also fuse compatible monsters to create a new monster that would ordinarily be a Normal Monster. Also, Ritual Monsters must be Ritual Summoned using not only their specific Ritual Spell cards, but by having a required Monster on your field. Ritual Monsters can also be used as regular Tribute Summon Monsters, but this requires steep costs of its own.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Every duelist in Tier 3 and up will start running multiple copies of powerful spell cards that the player can only have 1 of in their decks. Prepare to see multiple uses of Brain Control, Swords of Reveling Light, Dark Hole, etc. in those decks.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Ritual monsters are this if you intend to Ritual summon them. They are all Divine-type, making them immune to the elemental weakness destruction. They also tend to have really high Attack power. To summon them normally requires a specific Ritual Spell card and a specific monster that must be on the field after you tribute 2 other monsters. The effort it would take to Ritual summon a monster would offer no real tactical advantage in a game that rewards swarming the field with multiple monsters, especially when some of these Ritual Spells require 2-tribute monsters for the Ritual Summon, equaling 4 sacrifices for 1 card. Gate Guardian and Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon are even worst in this regard because their Ritual Spells each require 3 2-tribute monsters on the field to summon them. If you can get, say, 3 Blue-Eyes White Dragons on the field at the same time it's probably a better idea to just stick with them for a win.

* BonusBoss: Marik, Dark Bakura, Nitemare, and Shadi aren't required to advance further into the game and can only be unlocked by entering special passwords for each of them. They are the most difficult opponents in the game.

* AIBreaker: This is one of those games were an opponent will always attack a monster you set face down, either infliction huge reflected damage to themselves or setting off your Trap cards. The only duelist that doesn't fall for this is Seeker, because he plays an Exodia Stall deck.

* ArtificialStupidity: The [=AIs=] have a bad habit of offering high-ATK monsters as tributes to summon something of the same strength or even weaker, example: Offering "Jirai Gumo"(2200ATK/100DEF) as a tribute to Tribute Summon "Shadow Ghoul" (1600 ATK/1300 DEF). The AI also likes to use monsters who have lower ATK than DEF to attack, as long as the ATK is at least half the DEF. Sometimes, Yami Yugi will use "Megamorph" (which acts like a universal Equip card, increasing a monster's ATK and DEF by 500) on Mystical Elf just so that he can attack... with 1300 ATK.

''Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories'' or ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters III: Tri-Holy God Advent'' is a CardBattleGame released for the GameBoyColor on March 18, 2002. This game was Konami's third title for the Game Boy Color and the first to be released in English.

* DiscOneNuke: Twin Headed Thunder Dragon. It's the most powerful monster you can summon with fusion from the start of the game thanks to it's easy to meet requirements. With 2800 attack points it can clean house on the majority of duelists in the game with little support, and even keep it's worth well into the late game with heavy support.

''Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories'' or ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters III: Tri-Holy God Advent'' is a CardBattleGame released for the GameBoyColor on March 18, 2002. This game was Konami's third tile for the Game Boy Color and the first to be released in English.

* ArtificialStupidity: The [=AIs=] have a bad habit of offering high-ATK monsters as tributes to summon something of the same strength or even weaker, example: Offering "Jirai Gumo"(2200ATK/100DEF) as a tribute to Tribute Summon "Catapult Turtle" (1000ATK/2000DEF). The AI also likes to use monsters who have lower ATK than DEF to attack, as long as the ATK is at least half the DEF. Sometimes, Yami Yugi will use "Megamorph" (which acts like a universal Equip card, increasing a monster's ATK and DEF by 500) on Mystical Elf just so that he can attack... with 1300 ATK.

* BonusBoss: Marik, Dark Bakura, Nightmare, and Shadi aren't required to advance further into the game and can only be unlocked by entering special passwords for each of them. They are the most difficult opponents in the game.

** There's a function meant to decrease Deck Volume coded in the game, but it was removed.
** Marik and Nightmare have unused text for being beaten 5 times like the majority of other duelists have.

** Fire > Forest > Wind > Earth > Thunder > Aqua > Fire.

* RandomDrop: Each victory against an enemy duelist gives you one random card and card creation part from Tea. If you unlock Grandpa Moto he'll do the same, doubling your rewards.

* UselessUsefulSpell: Harpie's Feather Duster is good for taking out enemy trap cards, but because no CPU duelist in the game uses trap cards against the player its value is nonexistent.

There's no story due to the format of the "Campaign" mode. The actual game-play is also vastly different from how the real life game works, too; You can only have 5 cards in your hand at a time, and are unable to draw until you have at least 1 free space in your hand, trap cards can only be set once at a time and are sent to the graveyard after one turn if they don't go off, Monsters can be destroyed in battle by using ElementalRockPaperScissors to bypass attack and defense point differences, some Effect Monsters are Normal Monsters and vice-versa, Fusion Monsters have no Fusion Deck and must be used in the main deck, and you can also fuse compatible monsters to create a new monster that would ordinarily be a Normal Monster. Also, Ritual Monsters must be Ritual Summoned using not only their specific Ritual Spell cards, but by having a required Monster on your field. Ritual Monsters can also be used as regular Tribute Summon Monsters, but this requires steep costs of it's own.

* HaveANiceDeath: Duelist that defeat the player will say a victory line of theirs. These usually range from bragging about winning to mocking your for losing.

* UselessUsefulSpell: Harpie's Feather Duster is good for taking out enemy trap cards, but because no CPU duelist in the game uses trap cards against the player its value is nonexistent.

* RecycledTitle: The English title for the game actually comes from the previous Japan-only game in the series- presumably, they figured "Tri-Holy God Advent" [[{{Bowdlerize}} wouldn't fly as a title in the West]]. (And it wasn't particularly accurate anyway since the God Cards aren't in the game.