History VideoGame / YuGiOhTheDuelistsOfTheRoses

The game centers on the player character (never named) 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.

The game centers on the player character (never named) 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.

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.

* DummiedOut:
** In the Japanese version, Deck Leaders would get certain lines at the beginning and end of a duel, as well as in critical moments, giving the monsters a bit of personality. Of note is Happy Lover, who, upon defeat, [[http://f.hatena.ne.jp/AllyOfJustice/20140208233637 will remark]] he managed to make the enemy happy as a point to be proud of. [[https://www22.atwiki.jp/sindm2-keisyo/pages/45.html Each monster had unique lines,]] though many are unintelligible cries and noises, which were all removed when the game was translated.
** The game allows you to duel against Deck Master K, S and T in the Custom Duel screen depending on the memory card you have on your second slot. Deck Master K is a mirror of the player's deck and your second memory card slot must be empty. Deck Master T appears if you have a [=PS1=] memory card and uses an Exodia deck, while Deck Master S appears when you have a [=PS2=] memory card and uses an egg-themed deck with Goddess of Whim as the Deck Leader. Rumors of a fourth, unconfirmed Deck Master I who uses Immortals (cards that can only be obtained by entering passwords or finding them in secret spots around the map) were going around for a long time and were considered highly dubious. As it turns out, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH2mz04YNx0 Deck Master I and his Immortal Deck are indeed in the game.]] However, you need a Pocketstation in your memory card slot, which was never released outside of Japan. Players can still face him in the English version if they have a Pocketstation (or use cheats).

* CrackPairing: [[invoked]] The developers may or may not have realized that by association with historical names, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stanley,_1st_Earl_of_Derby Pegasus]] is implied to marry [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Margaret_Beaufort Mai]] in the near future after the game's events.

* CrackPairing: [[invoked]] The developers may or may not have realized that by association with historical names, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stanley,_1st_Earl_of_Derby Pegasus]] is implied to marry [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Beaufort,_Countess_of_Richmond_and_Derby Mai]] in the near future after the game's events.

** In the Japanese version, Deck Leaders would get certain lines at the beginning and end of a duel, as well as in critical moments, giving the monsters a bit of personality. Of note is Happy Lover, who, upon defeat, [[http://f.hatena.ne.jp/AllyOfJustice/20140208233637 will remark]] he managed to make the enemy happy as a point to be proud of. [[https://www22.atwiki.jp/sindm2-keisyo/pages/45.html Each monster had unique lines]], though many are unintelligible cries and noises, which were all removed when the game was translated.
** The game allows you to duel against Deck Master K, S and T in the custom duel screen depending on the memory card you have on your second slot. Deck Master K is a mirror of the player's deck and your second memory card slot must be empty. Deck Master T appears if you have a [=PS1=] memory card and uses an Exodia deck, while Deck Master S appears when you have a [=PS2=] memory card and uses an egg-themed deck with Goddess of Whim as the Deck Leader. Rumors of a fourth, unconfirmed Deck Master I who uses Immortals (cards that can only be obtained by entering passwords or finding them in secret spots around the map) were going around for a long time and were considered highly dubious. As it turns out, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH2mz04YNx0 Deck Master I and his Immortal Deck are indeed in the game.]] However, you need a Pocketstation in your memory card slot, which was never released outside of Japan. Players can still face him in the English version if they have a Pocketstation (or use cheats).

** 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 Truesdale, 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.

* FlowerMotifs: As benefitting the historical event that serves as this game's backdrop, each side has their own heraldic emblem fashioned after [[SomethingAboutARose a rose]]: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rose_of_Lancaster the Red Rose of Lancaster]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose_of_York the White Rose of York.]]

** 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.
** 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. But only Pegasus can identify facedown non-fusion monsters.

* AdaptationalVillainy: 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.

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

* 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.
** 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. But only Pegasus can identify facedown non fusion monsters.

** The game allows you to duel against Deck Master K, S and T in the custom duel screen depending on the memory card you have on your second slot. Deck Master K is a mirror of the player's deck and your second memory card slot must be empty. Deck Master T appears if you have a PS1 memory card and uses an Exodia deck, while Deck Master S appears when you have a [=PS2=] memory card and uses an egg-themed deck with Goddess of Whim as the Deck Leader. Rumors of a fourth, unconfirmed Deck Master I who uses Immortals (cards that can only be obtained by entering passwords or finding them in secret spots around the map) were going around for a long time and were considered highly dubious. Turns out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH2mz04YNx0 Deck Master I and his Immortal Deck are in the game]]. However, you need a Pocketstation in your memory card slot, which was never released outside of Japan. Players can still face him in the English version if they have a Pocketstation (or use cheats).

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

** As a player, you can look at your opponents 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 after. But only Pegasus can identify facedown non fusion monsters.

* TruerToTheText: Many of the cards that are vanillas in the card game are 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.

* ArtificialStupidity: In particular, permanent counter cards Mirror Wall and Goblin Fan will be completely ignored by CPU opponents, which frequently leads to them killing themselves, and the game's A.I. tends to ignore monsters that are far from the frontline, even if they have dangerous field-wide effects, such as Great Moth or Binding Chain. The A.I. also has a curious aversion to Insect Imitation, and will never use it.

* AdaptationalHeroism: On the Yorkist side Seto is much less of a villain in this game than he was in ''Forbidden Memories'', or even in the regular canon. Subverted if you're on Yugi's team, where he's a manipulative villain again.

* AnachronismStew: Aside from some of the European historical figures taking on Japanese names, things like machines and cartoons didn't exist during the Wars of the Roses.

* ArtificialStupidity: In particular, permanent counter cards Mirror Wall and Goblin Fan will be completely ignored by CPU opponents, which frequently leads to them killing themselves, and the game's A.I. tends to ignore monsters that are far from the frontline, even if they have dangerous field-wide effects, such as Great Moth or Binding Chain. The AI also has a curious aversion to Insect Imitation, and will never use it.

** [[spoiler:When Manawyddan fab Llyr]] is unsealed in the Yorkists' campaign, he heavily implies that he's the brother of [[VideoGame/YuGiOhForbiddenMemories DarkNite/Nitemare]]. [[ItsPersonal And he's plenty unhappy about what happened to that guy.]]

* 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.

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Manawyddan fab Llyr]] is the final boss, and Seto's goals in both campaigns revolve around unsealing him.

-->'''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!"

* MasterOfNone: The game wants you to avoid this as much as possible. Monsters with good ATK and DEF have much higher costs than monsters that have just one or the other.
** Yugi is an interesting example, he actually does put a focus on Spellcasters and Warriors, but the field surrounding him is filled with seemingly random terrain that does more harm to him than good and can result in him having no real strong point aside from his naturally strong monsters.

* RootingForTheEmpire: Invoked in gameplay. By joining Kaiba's side, you can change history and defeat Yugi's army. It helps that his argument is very convincing.

* ArtificialStupidity: Well, it's a ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' game, so par for the course, really. The simpler gameplay makes it better than some, but the A.I. seems to have a large number of blind spots. In particular, permanent counter cards Mirror Wall and Goblin Fan will be completely ignored by CPU opponents, which frequently leads to them killing themselves, and the game's A.I. tends to ignore monsters that are far from the frontline, even if they have dangerous field-wide effects, such as Great Moth or Binding Chain. It also has a curious aversion to Insect Imitation, and will never use it.

** Any card with anything vaguely resembling a gun gets censored, usually by changing its colors to green and pink. In a baffling case of this, 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.
* 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?

** When [[spoiler:Manawyddan fab Llyr is unsealed in the Yorkists' campaign, he heavily implies that he's the brother of [[VideoGame/YuGiOhForbiddenMemories DarkNite/Nitemare]]. [[ItsPersonal And he's plenty unhappy about what happened to that guy.]]]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Manawyddan fab Llyr:''' "First you humans awakened my brother from the sands of Egypt and sealed him away again!"]]

** DragonTheirFeet: Justified as he's also a...
** DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:His 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.]]
* DubInducedPlotHole: In the OCG, there's an Insect-type support card named "Hatching." In this game, its effect was changed to be based around turning "egg" monsters, such as Ryu-Ran and Wing Egg Elf, into new monsters. In the TCG, the card's name was changed to "Insect Imitation," which this game followed suit on... despite the fact that its version has nothing whatsoever to do with insects or imitation.

* BossGame: Just like it's predecessor, this is what the entire game basically is.

''Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelistw 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''.

''Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelist 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''.

* AdaptationalVillainy: 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.

* ArtificialStupidity: Well, it's a ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' game, so par for the course, really. The simpler gameplay makes it better than some, but the AI seems to have a large number of blind spots. In particular, permanent counter cards Mirror Wall and Goblin Fan will be completely ignored, which frequently leads to it killing itself, and it tends to ignore monsters that are far from the frontline, even if they have dangerous field-wide effects, such as Great Moth or Binding Chain. It also has a curious aversion to Insect Imitation, and will never use it.

* BigBad: [[UsefulNotes/RichardIII Richard Slysheen of York]].
* {{Bowdlerise}}: 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.
** Any card with anything vaguely resembling a gun gets censored, usually by changing its colors to green and pink. In a baffling case of this, 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 the real game and 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.

* ContinuityNod: When [[spoiler:Manawyddan fab Llyr is unsealed in the Yorkists' campaign, he heavily implies that he's the brother of [[VideoGame/YuGiOhForbiddenMemories DarkNite/Nitemare]]. And he's plenty unhappy about what happened to that guy.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Manawyddan fab Llyr:''' "First you humans awakened my brother from the sands of Egypt and sealed him away again!"]]

* DubInducedPlotHole: In the OCG, there's an Insect-type support card named "Hatching." In this game, its effect was changed to be based around turning "egg" monsters, such as Ryu-Ran and Wing Egg Elf, into new monsters. In the TCG, the card's name was changed to "Insect Imitation", which this game followed suit on... despite the fact that its version has nothing whatsoever to do with insects or imitation.
* 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 Truesdale, 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.

* 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.

* JokeCharacter: T. Tristan Grey. The strongest monster he can easily summon is the 2000-ATK Patrician of Darkness (his strongest is Chakra, but he will never, ever get it out), he has all of two Spells, which have random effects, and his monsters are a jumble with no unifying type or strategy and weak abilities. His AI's strategy ([[ArtificialStupidity when it remembers it]]) is to move cards into rows where they have bonuses and then patrol sideways along it, but this spreads him thin and takes way too long to set up. And to top it off, most of his monsters have "balanced" stats, meaning they cost way more than they should. This makes his Deck Cost one of the highest in the game, on par with the endgame opponents, meaning you can play all your strongest cards against him.

** 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]].

* 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 the [[Film/TheThing1982 Thing]], Timeater's [[EyeScream nails sticking from its eyes]]...

* 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, Woodland Sprite, and Creature Swap. The artwork of After The Struggle shows up in the Japanese version, as well.

* 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, Woodland Sprite, and Creature Swap.

* AdaptationalHeroism: On the Yorkist side Seto is much less of an asshole in this game than he was in ''Forbidden Memories'', or even in the regular canon for that matter. Subverted if you're on Yugi's team, where he's a manipulative villain again.
* AdaptationalVillainy: 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.]] Strangely subverted if you're on Seto's team, as he's a GracefulLoser who nonetheless vows to win the war.

* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:Rosenkreuz]] ''looks'' to be one when defeated in the Lancastrian story, but see NiceJobBreakingItHero and XanatosGambit below.

* AdaptationalVillainy: By contrast, Henry Tudor (Yugi) comes off as much more of a jerkass, especially in the Lancastrian ending where [[spoiler: he takes the credit for the player character's accomplishments.]] Strangely subverted if you're on Seto's team, as he's a GracefulLoser who nonetheless vows to win the war.