History VideoGame / YuGiOhTheDuelistsOfTheRoses

* AdaptationalHeroism: Seto is MUCH less of an asshole in this game than he was in the Forbidden Memories, or even in the regular canon for that matter.
* AdaptationalVillainy: By contrast, Henry Tudor (Yugi) comes off as much more of a jerkass, especially in the ending where [[spoiler: he took the credit for all of what were basically the player character's accomplishments.]]

* AnotherSideAnotherStory: Both sides of the story reveal details about the over-arcing 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. He even apologizes for accidentally unsealing the entity using the Great Summoning of the Roses.]]

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

** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Rosenkreuz Christian Rosenkreuz]] has nothing to do with the Wars of the Roses or Richard III, and according to legends lived 50+ years before the Wars of the Roses. However, as [[Fridge/YuGiOhTheDuelistsOfTheRoses the Fridge page for the game]] goes into detail on, the symbolisms behind the Order of the Rose Cross Rosenkreuz founded, Seto's motives in this game, and the acknowledgment this is AlternateHistory, actually make Rosenkreuz's presence surprisingly appropriate.

* AnachronismStew: Aside from some of the European historical figures taking on Japanese names, things like machines and cartoons should not have existed during the Wars of the Roses.

* AnotherSideAnotherStory: Both sides of the story reveal details about the over-arcing plot, particularly concerning Seto and the Rose Cards.
** Particularly, 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. He even apologizes for accidentally unsealing the entity using the Great Summoning of the Roses.]]

The game centers on the player character being pulled through time to arrive at Stonehenge circa the mid 1400s, during [[UsefulNotes/WarsOfTheRoses the War of the Roses]]. [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfTudor Henry Tudor]], who prefers his nickname "Yugi", has sent his priest Simon [=McMooran=] to Stonehenge to summon the "Rose Duelist", who is prophesied 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 [[PlotCoupon "Rose Cards"]] from the other side. Each side has 8, and together the cards are said to unlock great power.

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

* FaceHeelTurn: Ishizu ([[LastNameBasis known here as Ishtar]]) is on the side of the Yorkists.

* MagikarpPower: Leveling up a monster card's rank unlocks special abilities when that card is made your Deck Leader. Low level monsters are harder to rank up, but often get additional abilities to compensate for it.

** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Rosenkreuz Christian Rosenkreuz]] has nothing to do with the Wars of the Roses or Richard III, and according to legends lived 50+ years before the Wars of the Roses. However, as the Fridge page for the game goes into detail on, the symbolisms behind the Order of the Rose Cross Rosenkreuz founded, Seto's motives in this game, and the acknowledgment this is AlternateHistory, actually make Rosenkreuz's presence surprisingly appropriate.

* AndYouWereThere: ''Everyone''. There's even hints that the game is ''canon'' to the series and the characters are past incarnations of their modern day selves.

* 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]], instead carefully calculating terrain and card effects before making his move.

* 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]], instead carefully calculating terrain and (facedown) card effects before making his move.

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Manawyddan fab Llyr.]]

** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stanley,_1st_Earl_of_Derby Christian Rosenkreuz]] has nothing to do with the Wars of the Roses or Richard III, and according to legends lived 50+ years before the Wars of the Roses. However, as the Fridge page for the game goes into detail on, the symbolisms behind the Order of the Rose Cross Rosenkreuz founded, Seto's motives in this game, and the acknowledgment this is AlternateHistory, actually make Rosenkreuz's presence surprisingly appropriate.

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, is in play.

** The end of the Lancastrian campaign has a message from ''Forbidden Memories''[='=] Priest Seto, who tells his descendants to keep seeking the Card Guardian, implying that [[spoiler:Manawyddan fab Llyr]] is the wrong one.

** The end of the Lancastrian campaign has a message from Forbidden Memories' Priest Seto, who tells his descendants to keep seeking the Card Guardian, implying that [[spoiler:Manawyddan fab Llyr]] is the wrong one.

* HaveANiceDeath: Losing to an opponent in story mode will have them comment on your defeat.

* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Keith, as always, but in the absence of America, he wears a Union Jack on his head. Which didn't exist then either, but then again, neither did slot machines or dragons with revolvers for heads.

* VillainHasAPoint: Seto's argument for why you should join the Yorkists is a pretty good one: The Lancastrians were losing the war badly enough that they needed to summon you, so they really aren't in much of a position to gather the Rose Cards and send you back to your time.

** The end of the Lancastrian campaign has a message from Forbidden Memories' Priest Seto, who tells his ancestors to keep seeking the Card Guardian.

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 Stonehenge to summon the "Rose Duelist", who is prophesied 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 [[PlotCoupon "Rose Cards"]] from the other side. Each side has 8, and together the cards are said to unlock great power.

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.

* BigBad: Richard Slysheen of York.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: A number of opponents in the storyline have cards in their decks that are either inaccessible to the player or can only be obtained during a Destiny Draw. The final boss in both storylines has such a card as its deck leader.

* CrackFic: What if the Wars of the Roses were fought using the Yu-Gi-Oh! game with characters from the anime portraying the historical figures involved? You'd have this game.
* 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 events.

* 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.

* EarlyBirdBoss: Rex Raptor is fought on the Wasteland terrain, which increases his monsters' strength by 500 points. At this point in the game, the only other opponent you'd be able to defeat would be Weevil, whose forest creatures are weakened by Wasteland terrain. If you start with Fairy King Trusedale, whose deck is almost all insects and plants, your only hope is judicious use of the Forest magic card and Acid Trap Hole. On later tries Rex isn't nearly as bad when you have more variety in monsters.
* EnemyMine: Yami Bakura is on the side of the Lancastrians as Jack Cade.

-->'''Seto:''' Well done, Duelist... I may have lost, but my heart sings with the joy of having faced you in battle. T'was a duel to be remembered. I take great pride in the fact that I fall by your hand... And if you believe ''that'', I'll sell you some swampland in the outer reaches of the realm!

* MagikarpPower: Leveling up a monster card's rank unlocks special abilities when that card is made your deck leader. Low level monsters are harder to rank up, but often get additional abilities to compensate for it.

* OldSaveBonus: With a Forbidden Memories memory card file, several duel masters are unlocked as opponents, and inputting passwords given at the end of Forbidden Memories in Duelists of the Roses gives you rare cards.

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

** Christian Rosenkreuz has nothing to do with the Wars of the Roses or Richard III, and according to legends lived 50+ years before the Wars of the Roses. However, as the Fridge page for the game goes into detail on, the symbolisms behind the Order of the Rose Cross Rosenkreuz founded, Seto's motives in this game, and the acknowledgment this is AlternateHistory, actually make Rosenkreuz's presence surprisingly appropriate.

* 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 his descendants in their time and pledging his family's loyalty to the powerful Rose Duelist.]]

* BiggerBad: [[spoiler:Manawyddan fab Llyr.]]

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 Stonehenge 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 [[PlotCoupon "Rose Cards"]] from the other side. Each side has 8, and together the cards are said to unlock great power.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: In the Japanese version, Slysheen's corpse is seen instead of just his crown, and more corpses are shown as Yugi is being crowned king. They're cropped out in other versions.

* CrackFic: What if the War of the Roses were fought using the Yu-Gi-Oh! game with characters from the anime portraying the historical figures involved? You'd have this game.

** 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. For instance, Pegasus [[spoiler:betrays Richard to aid Yugi when he attacks England, and Thomas Stanley was a secret supporter of Henry Tudor and his treachery to Richard was discovered during the Battle of Bosworth Field.]]
** Christian Rosenkreuz has nothing to do with the War of the Roses or Richard III, and according to legends lived 50+ years before the War of the Roses. However, as the Fridge page for the game goes into detail on, the symbolisms behind the Order of the Rose Cross Rosenkreuz founded, Seto's motives in this game, and the acknowledgment this is AlternateHistory, actually make Rosenkreuz's presence surprisingly appropriate.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: A number of opponents in the storyline have cards in their decks that are either inaccessible to the player or can only be obtained during a Destiny Draw. The final boss in both storylines has such a card as its deck leader.
* TheComputerIsALyingBastard: The Raise Body Heat card. The description says it powers up Dragons and Reptiles. It does not. It actually powers up ''Dinosaurs'' and Reptiles. Similarly, Malevolent Nuzzler says it powers up female Fiends. It actually powers up females OR Fiends. These may simply be translation problems. Each monster has a list of cards they get powered up by, so it's best to reference these lists just to be sure.

* AnachronismStew: Ya think?

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

** Christian Rosenkreuz has nothing to do with the War of the Roses or Richard III, in fact according to legends he was born in the late 1300s while the war of the Roses took place in the mid-to-late 1400s. So why is is Seto portraying him as Richard's [[TheDragon Dragon]]? Rosenkreuz founded a secret society called the Order of the Rose Cross, which studied ancient knowledge he purportedly learned in the Middle East. This fits perfectly with [[spoiler:Seto trying to revive an ancient Card God seemingly from Egypt]], and the symbol of the Order of the Rose Cross is a cross with a white rose in the center, so the symbolism also works because the symbol of the Yorkists Seto fights for is a white rose. Though this does imply that Christian Rosenkreuz is [[OlderThanTheyLook over 100 years old]] by the War of the Roses, it fits with the legends saying he lived to be 106. Given that magic is known to exist in the ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' universe, this may be meant to imply Rosenkreuz is immortal thanks to the knowledge he gained from Egypt.

* EarlyBirdBoss: Rex Raptor is fought on the Wasteland terrain, which increases his monsters' strength by 500 points. At this point in the game, the only other opponent you'd be able to defeat would be Weevil, whose forest creatures are weakened by Wasteland terrain. If you start with Fairy King Trusedale, whose deck is almost all insects, your only hope is judicious use of the Forest magic card and Acid Trap Hole. On later tries Rex isn't nearly as bad when you have more variety in monsters.