History VideoGame / YuGiOhTheDuelistsOfTheRoses

''Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist of the Roses'' is a ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' video game for the PlayStation2.

Gameplay is quite different from other ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' games. Players control a Deck Leader on a large tiled board, and can only play one card a turn on a square adjacent to their Deck Leader. Once in play their cards, be they Monster, Magic or Trap, can move around the board freely until an opponent's card moves against them, revealing the Monster or activating the Magic or Trap effect. The tiled board can be terraformed with Field Cards, with appropriate power boosts given for monsters battling on them. Players move their cards around the board, attacking opposing monsters or attacking the opposing Deck Leader directly, to deplete the opponent's Life Points. Otherwise the usual EarlyInstallmentWeirdness of the early ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' video games, particularly freely fusing cards into new ones and using power-up cards on monsters they shouldn't effect, are in play.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Pegasus.]]

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: There was a persistent rumor that Nitemare was in the Japanese version but was removed from the localized versions for being too hard. This was later proven to be false.

* BadassDecay: This game saw the debut of the Immortal cards, which serve as a set of {{Infinity Plus One Sword}}s. They had powerful effects, even aside from the natural benefits of being Immortal (immune to Crush terrain, and create it upon death, likely killing any opponent who beats them). Unfortunately, when they were released in the actual game, they mostly lost their awesome effects or were just plain not very good - only Slate Warrior and maybe Rigorous Reaver were still sorta playable. How bad was it? One of the Immortals was [[JokeCharacter Shapesnatch.]] Yes, ''[[MemeticMutation that]]'' Shapesnatch.

* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]]: Pegasus.

** Christian Rosenkreuz has pretty much nothing to do with the War of the Roses or Richard III. So why is Seto portraying him as Richard's [[TheDragon Dragon]]? Rosenkreuz founded a secret society that studied ancient esoteric knowledge that he purportedly learned while studying in the Middle East, and their symbol was a cross with a white rose in the center, a white rose indeed being the symbol of Richard III's forces. This fits perfectly with [[spoiler:Seto trying to revive an ancient Card God seemingly from Egypt]]... though if Seto is trying to portray him in a historically accurate manner, this would mean that Christian Rosenkreuz is [[OlderThanTheyLook over 100 years old but still looks like a teenager]] by the time of the War of the Roses.

* BiggerBad: [[spoiler:Manawyddan fab Llyr]].
* BraggingRightsReward: Completing both sides of the game's storyline lets you duel all opponents on one save file...but you've beaten the game so why bother?

* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Seto's ancestors made a pact with a Card Guardian for wealth and power. Seto's hope is that the Guardian sealed by the Rose Cards is the same being so he can cash in on that pact]].

** DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:His only interest in gathering the Rose Cards to unseal Manawydan fab Llyr]].

* FaceHeelTurn: Ishizu is on the side of the Yorkists.
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]]: Pegasus

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Aside from Pegasus, Seto and Slysheen, none of the Yorkists have real world names associated with them, going by their usual names.
* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler: Implied with the name of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manawydan Manawyddan fab Llyr]]]].
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Manawyddan fab Llyr]].

** Christian Rosenkreuz has pretty much nothing to do with the War of the Roses or Richard III. So why is Seto portraying him as Richard's [[TheDragon Dragon]]? Rosenkreuz founded a secret society that studied ancient esoteric knowledge that he purportedly learned while studying in the Middle East, and their symbol was a cross with a white rose in the center, a white rose indeed being the symbol of Richard III's forces. This fits perfectly with [[spoiler:Seto trying to revive an ancient Card God seemingly from Egypt]]...though if Seto is trying to portray him in a historically accurate manner, this would mean that Christian Rosenkreuz is [[OlderThanTheyLook over 100 years old but still looks like a teenager]] by the time of the War of the Roses.

* XanatosGambit: In the York 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 [=DarkNite=], 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.]]

Gameplay is quite different from other ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' games. Players control a Deck Master on a large tiled board, and can only play one card a turn on a square adjacent to their Deck Master. Once in play their cards, be they Monster, Magic or Trap, can move around the board freely until an opponent's card moves against them, revealing the Monster or activating the Magic or Trap effect.

* ShownTheirWork: The usage of real historical names, mostly in proper context (Tea taking the place of Henry Tudor's wife Elizabeth of York), show that someone on the development team had a history textbook handy. And then there's the PhysicalGod entry above.

The game centers on the player character being pulled through time to arrive at Stonehenge circa the mid 1400s, during the War of the Roses. Henry Tudor, who prefers his nickname "Yugi", has sent his priest Simon [=McMooran=] to Stonehence to summon the "Rose Duelist", who is prophecized to be TheChosenOne to turn the tide of war against the enemy Yorkists. However, Rose Crusader Seto Rosenkreuz has also arrived and offers the player to join the Yorkists and fight Yugi and the Lancastrians on their side. Both sides task the player to infiltrate the enemy's territory and duel their elite commanders to recover the "Rose Cards" from the other side. Each side has 8, and together the cards are said to unlock great power.

The game centers on the player character being pulled through time to arrive at Stonehenge circa the mid 1400s, during the War of the Roses. Henry Tudor, who prefers his nickname "Yugi", has sent his priest Simon [=McMooran=] to Stonehence to summon the "Rose Duelist", who is prophecies to be TheChosenOne to turn the tide of war against the enemy Yorkists. However, Rose Crusader Seto Rosenkreuz has also arrived and offers the player to join the Yorkists and fight Yugi and the Lancastrians on their side. Both sides task the player to infiltrate the enemy's territory and duel their elite commanders to recover the "Rose Cards" from the other side. Each side has 8, and together the cards are said to unlock great power.

* CrackPairing: [[invoked]] The developers may or may not have realized that by association with historical names, Pegasus is implied to marry Mai in the near future after the game's event.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Red Rose for Yugi and the Lancastrians, White Rose for Seto and the Yorkists.

* BigBad: Richard Slysheen III.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In the Lancastrian story, [[spoiler:your duel is Seto is what unseals Manawydan fab Llyr, as all it took was having all 16 Rose Cards present during a great duel -- nothing said Seto had to have the cards with him for it to work]].

* BigBad: King Slysheen as Richard III.

The game centers on the player character being pulled through time to arrive at Stonehenge circa the mid 1400s, during the War of the Roses. Henry Tudor, who prefers his nickname "Yugi", has sent his priest Simon McMooran to Stonehence to summon the "Rose Duelist", who is prophecies to be TheChosenOne to turn the tide of war against the enemy Yorkists. However, Rose Crusader Seto Rosenkreuz has also arrived and offers the player to join the Yorkists and fight Yugi and the Lancastrians on their side. Both sides task the player to infiltrate the enemy's territory and duel their elite commanders to recover the "Rose Cards" from the other side. Each side has 8, and together the cards are said to unlock great power.

* ShownTheirWork: The usage of real historical names, mostly in proper context (Tea taking the place of Henry Tudor's wife Elizabeth of York, show that someone on the development team had a history textbook handy. And then there's the PhysicalGod entry above.