History VideoGame / YuGiOhTheDuelistsOfTheRoses

''Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses'' is a ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' video game for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2. It is a sequel to ''VideoGame/YuGiOhForbiddenMemories'' and a prequel to ''VideoGame/YuGiOhTheFalseboundKingdom''.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Weevil Underwood, one of your early opponents seemingly duels like a novice who keeps enacting failed fusions, but his real objective in doing so is to quickly discard any card he doesn't need and get quicker access to Cocoon of Evolution so he can equip it to Petit Moth. If you drag the match for too long, it will gradually transform into Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth (ATK 3500). If this occurs in your first duel against Weevil, your choice is to either surrender or face a soundly beatings, since your starting deck is too weak to deal with PUGM and you haven't got a chance to grind for better cards from tougher opponents.

* UniversalAdaptorCast: The premise of this game is essentially a truncated retelling of thr War of the Roses spiced up with ancient Egyptian card game voodoo, with the cast of ''Forbidden Memories'' standing in for real historical figures.

** As a player, you can look at your opponent's graveyard. You can use this to find out what facedown powerups used were, and even to identify facedown fusion monsters, because you can see what the materials were and check a fusion guide. But only Pegasus can identify facedown non-fusion monsters 100% accurately.

* DirtyCoward: Bonz and Bakura use very low deck costs to force you to use weaker monsters. If you lose to Bakura, he lampshades it and asks if you think him a coward.

* TheAllSeeingAI:
** While most ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' games in the pre-DS era were rife with this anyway, Pegasus--a frequent offender where this trope is concerned--was likely intentional given the powers of his [[MagicalEye Millennium Eye]]. As such, [[ArtificialBrilliance Pegasus is one of the few CPU opponents who doesn't regularly fall for the player's traps and bluffs]], carefully calculating terrain and card effects before making his move. Most others will pretend not to know, and walk right into your facedowns.
*** He is VERY good at abusing this knowledge, and has cards in the deck designed to help him do so. If your strongest monster is facedown, and near your deck leader? He knows it, and will play Brain Control to take it over and attack you if the card is in his hand. Not the strongest, but still powerful? Change of Heart instead if he has it. He can make you kill your own monster too with that card, again using facedowns.

** As noted below, Bandit Keith [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead wears]] the ''Union Jack'' instead of the American flag to match the change in settings. The Union Flag's present design didn't exist until 1801, with the earlier flag of Great Britain (also known as the ''Union Jack'') only first coming into existence in 1606--long after the War of the Roses.
* AndYouWereThere: Everyone in the game is a pre-incarnation of someone from the main ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' series, with the exception of [[spoiler:[=DarkNite=]'s brother.]]
* AnotherSideAnotherStory: Both sides of the story reveal differing details about the plot, particularly concerning Seto and the Rose Cards. Because of the PerspectiveFlip, [[spoiler:Seto [[GoodAllAlong is actually a pretty noble guy]] (though something of an AntiHero) if you side with the Yorkists, as opposed to a straight-up villain seeking the power of Manawyddan fab Llyr if you side with the Lancastrians. He even apologizes for accidentally unsealing the entity using the Great Summoning of the Roses.]]

** Any card with a gun gets censored, usually by changing its colors to green and pink. Most of them aren't even realistic guns to begin with, such as Barrel Rock's shoulder cannons or Cyber Commander's missile launcher. Also, just like [[TabletopGame/YuGiOh the real game]] and [[Anime/YuGiOh anime]], Barrel Dragon had its revolvers turned into laser cannons... but its attack animation is still what is unmistakably RussianRoulette. It's particularly strange when compared to the Immortals, which have some fairly grotesque imagery fully intact.

* DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:Seto's only interest in gathering the Rose Cards to perform the Great Summoning. If you're fighting for the Lancastrians, this additionally means unsealing Manawydan fab Llyr--intentionally.]]

* EarlyBirdCameo: A number of cards showed up here first before they made their way to the card game proper. These include all the starting Deck Leaders, all the Immortals, Kinetic Soldier, Arsenal Bug, Woodland Sprite, and Creature Swap. The artwork of After the Struggle shows up in the Japanese version, as well.

* InfinityPlusOneElement: The Immortal cards can only be found by going to certain squares on the map and searching. Though they don't get field bonuses, they're all immune to Crush terrain and create it upon death, which makes them dangerous to attack. Also, uniquely, their counterparts in the actual game usually have a claustrophobic close-up for their picture (for instance, the picture of Souleater is of a tiny fishlike creature, with the card not showing that it's contained in a fishbowl as part of a horrifying spider-mech), so if you wanted to see what they looked like, you had to play the game.

* TruerToTheText: Many of the cards that are vanillas in the card game are given abilities that approximate what they could do in Duelist Kingdom, including Great Moth's attack drain, Curse of Dragon burning down forests, Flame Swordsman killing dinosaurs, and Swordstalker eating souls. Field effects in this game are also far, far more relevant than the early Field Spells they're based on, similar to how powerful they were in Duelist Kingdom.

* WorthyOpponent: Seto sees you as one if you join the Lancastrians, even respecting your decision to join the other side despite his disappointment. In the Yorkist campaign, this is dropped (since you're allied with him), but Seto [[spoiler:rewards the player with a pendant as thanks for their efforts, telling them to show it to his descendants in their time and pledging his family's loyalty to the powerful Rose Duelist.]]
* XanatosGambit: In the Lancaster storyline, [[spoiler:when you beat the Rose Crusaders and Richard to gather the seven White Rose Cards, Seto waits for you at Stonehenge. He needs all sixteen cards there to unleash Manawyddan fab Llyr, but nothing says he has to be in physical possession of them all, so it didn't matter to him which side gathered all the cards. For that matter, it doesn't matter who wins the duel, as long as it happens.]]

* SurpriseCreepy: A lot of the Immortals have the sort of character designs that make you wonder how they ever passed muster in a game that censored cannons. Rigras Leever's VaginaDentata face, Jowls of Dark Demise's rotting dragon head that turns out to be carrying [[Film/TheThing1982 the Thing]], Timeater's [[EyeScream nails sticking from its eyes]]...

* DeusExMachina: The Destiny Draw mechanic allows a player, once per duel, to topdeck exactly the card they need to get out of what might be an otherwise {{Unwinnable}} situation. Taken UpToEleven in that the card in question need not even be one in the player's deck, and in fact several cards can only be found this way. Both human players and computer opponents can benefit from this, although the odds of it happening depend on the rank of the Deck Leader.

* AndYouWereThere: Everyone in the game is a pre-incarnation of someone from the main ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' series, with the exception of [[spoiler:[=DarkNite=]'s brother]].

* EnemyMine: Yami Bakura is on the side of the Lancastrians as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cade Jack Cade,]] the same man responsible for leading a revolt against [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfPlantagenet Henry VI]], Yugi's father.

* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:Implied with the name of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manawydan Manawyddan fab Llyr.]]]]

* WorthyOpponent: Seto sees you as one if you join the Lancastrians, even respecting your decision to join the other side despite his disappointment. In the Yorkist campaign, this is dropped (since you're allied with him), but Seto [[spoiler:rewards the player with a pendant as thanks for their efforts, telling them to show it to his descendants in their time and pledging his family's loyalty to the powerful Rose Duelist]].

** Due to limited screen time, Henry Tudor (Yugi) comes off as much more of a jerk, especially in the Lancastrian ending where [[spoiler:he takes the credit for the player character's accomplishments once they head back to their own era]]. Subverted if you're on Seto's team, as he's a GracefulLoser who nonetheless vows to win the war.