Showing posts with label yu-gi-oh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yu-gi-oh. Show all posts

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Addendum

Similarly, if you make a chimera in your magical lab, your atelier if you prefer, it isn't mythological, but it remains a chimera. Fortunately the category of bioweapons is universally recognized, but many would find it offputting to hear a work described as "bioweapon fantasy." For now.

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Undead Venn

I'm not talking about Vendread, though I often am. There are undead creatures, right? Conceptually anyway. And there are vampires and ghosts, are there not? Those are supposed to be undead, but often they aren't. It's a daily occurence that someone is transformed by a supernatural process in which dying is not involved. These non-undead creatures deserve their own category, which I propose calling "Undead for Cowards."

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Addendum

I would have called it "All-Out Hundred Battle," thereby proving either why I'm not in charge or why I should be.

Salesmanship in the Modern Era

The naive ask why Konami is spelling the hottest new Yu-Gi-Oh format all funny, but the savvy never considered anyone would call a new product a single word that brings up thousands of results on any search engine. The key mistake was to spell it "Genesys" rather than "Jennasyss" or, to be particularly saucy, "Djenasus."

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Unbeatable Idea for the Next Yu-Gi-Oh Archetype

Summer Skull. Think about it. More importantly, think about a mobile game that isn't a simulator, and also it's a crossover game with every trading card game, and it's a gacha. Tower defense? Maybe.

Saturday, June 21, 2025

Addendum

The conventional method is to have uninvolved characters comment on how exciting the action is, but I'm not sure that does anything but pad. By "action sequence" we here mean "card duel" of course. Have you ever gone back and watched Yu-Gi-Oh? It's amazingly fast-paced till the ratings came in, and then began the age of milking.

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Addender

And then Shadowverse Worlds Beyond doesn't have Shadowcraft, so what's with the shadows in the name? Does the name imply the acceptance of the developer to live in the shadow of bigger card games?

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Defeated by the Pros Again

Here we are trying to think of evocative titles such as Dragon Ambition or Ambition of Chaotic Inheritors, and then they just bust out GQuuuuuux like it's nothing. By "we" of course I mean people coming up with names for Yu-Gi-Oh sets.

Friday, January 31, 2025

The Reason for Anti-Empire Sentiment

If you write out "emperor" enough times, everything about it seems wrong. Couldn't we contract it to "empor?" No, but eventually you'll assuredly want to. Yu-Gi-Oh named a penguin Empen, and that might be the way to go.

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Glory to the Victors

By the way, anyone who picked the correct team in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel World Extravaganza Super Tournament is indeed a superior human. I'm not sure everyone understands that yet, viscerally.

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Saturday, February 10, 2024

Charlemagne

Even Yu-Gi-Oh! knows not to call him Charlemagne, and that's a game where you fight with warships made out of sushi. Such an ugly name. It goes with Charles the Great, and while Karl the Great or Big Karl are better, that's good enough.

Saturday, February 3, 2024

Adaptable Material

Everybody's seen Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game: The Chronicles, right? If not, here it is. That's all well and good, but I hear people saying the Albax story would be great to adapt. They're wrong. As much as it may tickle you to see a new card and realize the latest evil clown is actually this jerk from another card, that doesn't mean anything in a TV show. Think about the actual plot and you'll realize it's just a whole series of, "And these guys show up, and these guys show up, and these guys turn into these guys, and these guys show up . . ." Not only is Albaz not the best Yu-Gi-Oh! card set to adapt, it probably isn't even in the top five. Wait, probably? We can check easily enough.
1) Vendread
2) Gold Pride
3) S-Force
4) Rescue-ACE
5) Shiranui
Yup, not even in the top 5.

Thursday, September 28, 2023

About a Magic: The Gathering TV Show

They should make one, but those cowards would have it take place within the Magic fiction like losers instead of making it be about people playing Magic.

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Addendum

Would it be gauche for the card game to have dragons in it? Humans don't see it that way, but you know how dragons can be.

Tuesday, June 27, 2023