History VideoGame / YuGiOhDarkDuelStories

* BonusBoss: Marik, Dark Bakura, Nightmare, and Shadi aren't required to advance furthur 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.

* 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.

* UselessUsefulSpell: Harpies 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.

''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 gameboy Color and the first to be released in English.

* WakeUpCallBoss: Mai is the hardest duelist of the first 5 you start with due to having powerful 4 star monsters with moderately high attack(for this part of the game), multiple Spell cards to make all of her monsters stronger, and even Harpies Feather Duster for your Trap cards.

** Card creation part combinations can fall into this if you're trying to min-manx part for powerful powers with low Deck Volume costs.

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. 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 cab 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. You can also fuse compatible monsters to create a new monster that would ordinarily be a Normal monster. Ritual monsters must be ritual summon using not only their specific Ritual Spell cards but by having a required monster on your field. Ritual monster can also be used as regular tribute summon monsters, but this requires steep costs of it's own.

* UselessUsefulSpell: Harpies Feather Duster is good for taking out enemy trap cards, but no duelist in the game uses trap cards against the player, so its value is nonexistent.

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

* Increase your character level and Deck Capacity.

** There's a function meant to decrease Deck Capacity coded in the game, but it was removed.

** Card creation part combinations can fall into this if you're trying to min-manx part for powerful powers with low Deck Capacity costs.

* BonusBoss: Marik, Dark Bakura, Dark Yugi, Nightmare, and Shadi aren't required to advance furthur 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.

* 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 2088 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.

* The ComputerIsACheatingBastard: 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.

* DiscOneNuke: Fusing monsters into more powerful cards can make beating Yugi, Tristan, Joey, Mai, and Mako much easier than they would normally be. Once you get to the second area however, be prepared to abandon heavy use of fusion due to the inflation of enemy monster card power.

* WakeUpCallBoss: Mai is the hardest duelist of the first 5 you start with due to having powerful 4 star monsters with moderately high attack(for this part of the game), multiple Spell cards to make all of her monsters stronger, and even Harpies Feather Duster for your Trap cards.

* BonusBoss: Dark Marik, Dark Bakura, Dark Yugi, Nightmare, and Shadi aren't required to advance furthur 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.

* BonusBoss: Dark Marik, Dark Bakura, Nightmare, and Shadi aren't required to advance furthur 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.

* BossGame: Like Forbidden Memories.

* TrueFinalBoss: Dark Yugi counts as this due to being unlocked only after defeating [=DarkNite=] and not requiring a special password to be faced.

* ChaningGameplayPriorities: Early game you'll rely on fusing weak 300-700 Attack point monsters to create stronger 1000-1600 Attack point monsters to win duels easier. Once you get enough Card Creation parts late in the game, it's a better idea to create powerful 3-4 Star monsters with 1700-2000 Attacks points to deal with the more powerful duelists.

** Shadow > Light > Fiend > Dreams > Shadow.

* Unlock more difficult duelists in tiers of advancing difficulty.

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