History VideoGame / YuGiOhTheFalseboundKingdom

* ShootTheMedicFirst: One of the most frustrating monsters to face on enemy teams is Fairy's Gift, which has a special ability to heal their party a ton of HP, and they'll spam it as much as they can while their two allies wail on you. Beyond that, it's always a good idea to check if the enemy team has any Medicines on them and prioritize taking out the ones that do, or else they'll keep healing whomever you're damaging and make the fight much more difficult. At the least this wears off if you dragon out missions to level grind, since Medicines have finite uses in each mission.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: Emperor Haysheen in both stories. While he's the final boss of the virtual game, upon defeat Scott Irvine takes over and becomes the main threat.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Scott was a background extra from the manga and anime before appearing in the game. It's really highlighted in Yugi's campaign, since they have no idea who he is.

* ArtificialStupidity: The AI is generally not very bright. In-battle their monsters will often attack targets at random just as much as they'll try to focus down your weakest monster, and it's often random if they'll use a monster's special abilities even if they could make a huge difference in a battle. In particular shows of stupidity, the AI will often have their monsters defend if they're at low HP, but if your monsters run out of AP (so they can't even attack anymore) the computer may still waste turns and AP ordering its monsters to defend. In the field the AI will universally ZergRush you and send every available troop they have at your outposts, perhaps trying to strike several if two or more are the same approximate distance away. However, distance is the only tactical consideration they allow and they will send units at you even if your defending characters are much stronger than them, and even more stupidly, if your base has defensive cannons around it; since KO'd enemies respawn with their monsters at half health, and cannons deal a flat 75% ''max'' Life Points in damage, the weakened enemy will blindly march to their doom, as will numerous other respawning enemies to come.

** Marthis is said to be useless in battle, and he has the worst stats of any marshal in the game.

* InterfaceSpoiler: Since you don't have Tea with you by the time you take the fight to Emperor Haysheen, it's easy to tell that defeating him will not end the game.

* LethalJokeCharacter: Kuriboh, true to the anime. It has pitiful stats and will likely be cycled out of your teams early on, unless you know what it's capable of when equipped with Multiply. Multiply not only gives it a huge boost to its Attack, but gives it a special ability that lets it attack all enemies at once. Equipping additional Multiplies on it boosts its power even higher, and if you give its teammates teammates items to power it up even more and give it additional action points, you have a surprisingly dangerous little furball.

* ArtificialStupidity: The AI is generally not very bright. In-battle their monsters will often attack targets at random just as much as they'll try to focus down your weakest monster, and it's often random if they'll use a monster's special abilities even if they could make a huge difference in a battle. In the field the AI will universally ZergRush you and send every available troop they have at your outposts, perhaps trying to strike several if two or more are the same approximate distance away. However, distance is the only tactical consideration they allow and they will send units at you even if your defending characters are much stronger than them, and even more stupidly, if your base has defensive cannons around it; since KO'd enemies respawn with their monsters at half health, and cannons deal a flat 75% ''max'' Life Points in damage, the weakened enemy will blindly march to their doom, as will numerous other respawning enemies to come.

** If a monster the AI owns has a Spell, they can use it even if their monster wasn't leveled up enough to know Magic.
** The trope's used as a plot point when Scott Irvine takes over the enemy army. Since he made the game and controls the program, he can do things like spawn a bunch of troops to outflank the heroes, or brainwash some players. But when Irvine finally puts himself into the game world to battle the heroes personally, he's then forced to play by the rules.

''Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom'' is a ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' video game for the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube. The game is a sequel to ''VideoGame/YuGiOhForbiddenMemories'' and ''VideoGame/YuGiOhTheDuelistsOfTheRoses''.

* FakeLongevity: If you're aiming for OneHundredPercentCompletion, you need to complete all three campaigns, then complete Yugi and Kaiba's a second time each, because both have monsters in them that can only be recruited if you have monsters recruited in Joey's campaign, the Gemini Elves and the Swamp/Lava Battleguards, respectively.[[note]]This is in addition to Reaper of the Cards and King of Yamimakai, who only join if you've got the first and second Dark Magicians currently in your team; if you changed either of them into the Magician of Black Chaos beforehand, you're looking at a ''third'' playthrough now.[[/note]]

* CCGImportanceDissonance: Played with. As you'd expect, the signature monsters of characters like Dark Magician, Summoned Skull, Blue-Eyes, etc, are far more powerful than weak, generic cards like Man-Eater Bug, Enchanting Mermaid, or Stuffed Animal. Additionally, all monsters retain the base stats they have in the real-life game, so high-level monsters like Gate Guardian seem much stronger than those low-level fodder. However, in practice it's a bit more even - by the time you can recruit those higher-level monsters, you've already put time into leveling up your lower-level ones, so the power discrepancy isn't as big as it could be until you start leveling the new recruits. Additionally, lower-level monsters tend to have more Action Points than higher-level ones (though of course there are unexceptions) and learn abilities like Lucky and Armor that allow them to tank attacks better in spite of their poor stats, making them WeakButSkilled. Add in equip and power-up items that can increase monster stats, and it's plausible for a team of generic nobodies to take on the signature teams of the franchise's best duelists and prevail. That said, if all the monsters you've recruited were all at the same level, the lower-level ones would still be less useful.