Awesome / Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom

• Tristan has a good eye for strategy in the game and was organizing the resistance by himself while he waited for Yugi to arrive.
• Ryou Bakura's plan to help out is to sneak into the enemy base, wait a day, and then set the place on fire to take out the cannons. He's so eager to do this that Yami Yugi can't stop him. It works too, severely weakening the enemy forces and sending them into retreat, turning what would have been a difficult siege into a Curb-Stomp Battle.
• Tristan is the only one of Yugi's close circle of friends to resist Scott's mind control.
• Mission 8, "Refugees", in Yugi's campaign, has the framing of Yugi, Joey, Tristan, and Shimon, rushing to save Tea as she's surrounded by the Rare Hunter and his forces. The mission begins just like that, Tea surrounded by five enemy marshals and forced to run for cover in a nearby fort, and it's unlikely she'll get there before one of the marshals catches her. However, in practice there's no way the boys will be able to reach her in time to help, if the player even has time between constant battles to give the command for them to move out, and the enemy marshals move faster than Tea's team leader so she can't outrun them. This means that Tea will likely end up defeating all five of them by herself. Makes you wonder why her friends were even worried about her!
• Yami Bakura enacts a plan so he wins no matter what happens. He gets Yugi to chase him while his army attempts to burn the resistance's capital city from behind. If he defeats Yugi and the resistance, that's one problem solved. If Yugi defeats him, Scott's army knows exactly where Yugi is and can thus strike.
• The player can give characters awesome moments by having their team defeat powerful enemies, leading to moments like Tea defeating Seto Kaiba or Espa Roba defeating Obelisk the Tormentor.
• Ishizu can wield the Egyptian Gods like Yugi and Kaiba can.
• Yami Yugi dismantles Scott's bluff to brainwash everyone again and calls him out on why he wouldn't make the game more unbalanced—for some reason he needs the world to be fair, and once he's in the game he can't brainwash players or spawn in armies.
• Kaiba spends 90 percent of his campaign being awesome. He trolls the game characters, defeats anyone he recruits in battle, tells off Scott Irvine, and even tells off DarkNite/Nitemare.
  Nitemare: I will devour every last one of your souls! You will spend an eternity in darkness and tormented pain!
  Kaiba: Go back to the fairy tale you come from!
• In Kaiba's campaign, Pegasus approaches him in secret and asks him to join the resistance. He only accepts when Pegasus reveals he wants Kaiba to be the leader.
• In Kaiba's campaign Pegasus tells Yugi about Mokuba being kidnapped, convincing him to fake a surrender to buy Kaiba the time he needs to rescue his brother.
• Joey's campaign reveals that Tea was working as a resistance leader, and when Marik was sent after her she told him off before fighting back as best she could.
• Joey's first fight against Odion has this conversation.
  Odion: It's not too late, Joey. Surrender now. You cannot win.
  Joey: Bite me! I'm not giving up without a fight!
  Odion: You fool. If you insist on spilling the blood of your men for nothing, then so be it. There is no escaping destiny.
  [Joey defeats him]
  Joey: Destiny's not something that happens to you! It's something you make happen! You're the fool if you think someone like you who leaves everything to fate could ever defeat me!
• In Joey's campaign, Mai saves him from Marik's combined forces and immediately makes a plan to bring him down by separating him from his army. It works perfectly.
• Joey has several rematches against an NPC version of Marik, who eventually wields the Winged Dragon of Ra as Yami Marik. Joey wins, leaving Yugi and Kaiba's campaigns free of a powerful enemy duelist.
• This game has one of the few moments in the entire franchise where Joey can fight and defeat Kaiba, and the game makes sure you know it.
  Kaiba: Hmph... For a bunch of average duelists, you've done quite well for yourselves. But that's about to end. Even in this bizarro world, you are no match for me.
  Joey: What did you say!? You're going to eat those words! And just what the heck are you doing fighting for the Empire? You jerk!
  Kaiba: Ridiculous as it may be, this seems to be the role I've been assigned. So until I find a way out of this nightmare, I'm going to play along with the idiot that came up with this story. Besides, you've always wanted to face me in a duel, little Joey, haven't you? It might prove very interesting to do it here. Don't you think? So, get back in character and face me! If you've got any pride at all, that is!
  Joey: You know what!? I've never liked you, and I'm going to enjoy stuffing that huge ego of yours down your throat!
  • Then it becomes Kaiba's moment when he reveals he was egging Joey on, wasting his time as his forces sacked the rebels' undefended base. Win or lose, it's a net victory for Kaiba either way.
• Scott Irvine gets villainous awesome moments by going from a random technician to a force to be reckoned with, outmaneuvering the heroes several times throughout the game and manipulating them to do his bidding.
• Fighting one Egyptian God with another one. The fight suddenly becomes a freaking Kaiju battle.
• Defeating an Egyptian God without one, using monsters like Mai's Harpie Ladies or Bakura's Ansatsu.
• Unleashing your very own Egyptian God on other story bosses in replays of already-done campaigns. There's nothing like seeing Kaiba pull out his Blue-Eyes Ultimate, only for you to sic Obelisk on him, having your titan shrug off the Ultimate Dragon's best attacks and swat it aside with the Bitch-Slap of Doom.

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