History YMMV / YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SBcj3nz2uU Dark Mokuba's theme.]]

* ContestedSequel: Given that ''[[VideoGame/YuGiOhTheSacredCards The Sacred Cards]]'' was very easy to the point of ItsEasySoItSucks, some consider ''Reshef''[='s=] [[SequelDifficultySpike intense difficulty spike]] to be an improvement, others cite it as FakeDifficulty by way of TheComputerIsACheatingBastard. The card pool is larger and the gameplay more complex than ''The Sacred Cards'', which allows for more intricate strategies while still capturing some EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, but the changes are also the source of the game's main {{Scrappy Mechanic}}s and many of the more interesting cards are at a high-enough level that you probably won't get to use them for most of the game. The story, too, tends to drive a wedge through people, with some naming it BetterThanCanon for taking advantage of the universe of the series and featuring some neat twists and turns, and others labeling it a bad fanfic that crowbars every character it can think of into the plot for no reason.

** Relatively speaking given [[NintendoHard the game's difficulty]], Bandit Keith. A full third of his deck is made up of tribute monsters, and that rises to ''half'' his deck when you include his Spell cards that only work on one of his tribute monsters, thus it's very possible for him to end up with a dead hand full of monsters he can't summon. His non-tribute monsters are mostly Fiend-attribute save for the Fire-attribute Blast Sphere, so a couple of Light monsters can quash them easily. Or you can just use Umi to change the field to Ocean, giving his Machine monsters a 30% penalty to their stats or use Stain Storm to destroy his machines. All in all he's not too much tougher than most of the Ghouls you faced before getting to him. And for the ultimate insult, if he manages to summon [[spoiler:The Winged Dragon of Ra]] against you, laugh at him as you witness its 0/0 stats since [[spoiler:he doesn't know how to release its Battle Mode]].

** When you board the Duel Express, the game's difficulty starts to rise, especially since it's the first time you're forced to feel the full brunt of your LP carrying over between games.

** By the time you duel Marik, who's already a tough fight, opponents that come after him begin to break the rules, having more starting LP than you have and use game-breaking cards.

** The FinalBoss Reshef The Dark Being is one of the hardest fights in any ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' game. His 4-Star monsters have 1900 attack points on average, and gain a 30% boost from the Yami field. Reshef also has 3 copies of Castle of Dark Illusions, with both its anime DEF value of 2500 and its anime effect of creating the Yami field ''every turn it's out'', in case you thought it'd be simple to counter his field with a different one. Worse is Reshef's tribute monsters are the same ''Egyptian God Cards'' you spent the whole game assembling to beat him with, and he has multiple copies of Pot of Greed, Swords of Revealing Light, and Change of Heart to summon them faster. Facing Slifer or Obelisk is bad enough, but the worst-case scenario is what happens if he summons Ra; Reshef will use Ra's effect to OneHitKill you if he has a great enough life point lead, and he starts the duel with '''40,000''' life points compared to your maximum 8000. And he comes after the boss fight with Sol Chevalsky as well, so if you lose to him you have to beat Sol to get back to Reshef without saving. And on top of all this madness, Reshef can see your hand.

** The FinalBoss Reshef The Dark Being is one of the hardest fights in any ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' gam. His 4-Star monsters have 1900 attack points on average, and gain a 30% boost from the Yami field. Reshef also has 3 copies of Castle of Dark Illusions, with both its anime DEF value of 2500 and its anime effect of creating the Yami field ''every turn it's out'', in case you thought it'd be simple to counter his field with a different one. Worse is Reshef's tribute monsters are the same ''Egyptian God Cards'' you spent the whole game assembling to beat him with, and he has multiple copies of Pot of Greed, Swords of Revealing Light, and Change of Heart to summon them faster. Facing Slifer or Obelisk is bad enough, but the worst-case scenario is what happens if he summons Ra; Reshef will use Ra's effect to OneHitKill you if he has a great enough life point lead, and he starts the duel with '''40,000''' life points compared to your maximum 8000. And he comes after the boss fight with Sol Chevalsky as well, so if you lose to him you have to beat Sol to get back to Reshef without saving. And on top of all this madness, Reshef can see your hand.

** The FinalBoss Reshef The Dark Being isn't just the most overpowered and unfair boss fight in ''Reshef of Destruction's'' story, but might well be in any ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' game ever. His 4-Star monsters have 1900 attack points on average, and gain a 30% boost from the Yami field. Reshef also has 3 copies of Castle of Dark Illusions, with both its anime DEF value of 2500 and its anime effect of creating the Yami field ''every turn its out'', in case you thought it'd be simple to counter his field with a different one. Worse is Reshef's tribute monsters are the same ''Egyptian God Cards'' you spent the whole game assembling to beat him with, and he has multiple copies of Pot of Greed, Swords of Revealing Light, and Change of Heart to summon them faster. Facing Slifer or Obelisk is bad enough, but the worse case scenario is what happens if he summons Ra; Reshef will use Ra's effect to OneHitKill you if he has a great enough life point lead, which he always will since Reshef starts the duel with '''40,000''' life points. And he comes after the boss fight with Sol Chevalsky as well, so if you lose to him you have to beat Sol to get back to Reshef without saving. And on top of all this madness, Reshef has the dishonor of being the only boss that always knows what's in your hand. Good Luck.
* UnexpectedCharacter: [[spoiler:Bandit Keith]] being the leader of the Neo Ghouls, as he disappeared midway through ''The Sacred Cards'' and vanished outright in the anime. The manual reveals the twist right away.

** You're forbidden from selling or anteing a card unless you have at least two copies of it in your card trunk. While this was done to try and stop UnwinnableByInsanity scenarios where the player has no cards to ante and no money to buy more, in practice it'll often mean you win high-level cards you won't be able to use for a long while and may not even want to use anyway, and you have to let them sit in your trunk for a long time instead of being allowed to sell them to buy other cards or anteing them to win stronger cards.

** The FinalBoss Reshef The Dark Being isn't just the most overpowered and unfair boss fight in ''Reshef of Destruction's'' story, but might well be in any Yu-Gi-oh! game ever. His 4-Star monsters have 1900 attack points on average, and gain a 30% boost from the Yami field. Reshef also has 3 copies of Castle of Dark Illusions, with both its anime DEF value of 2500 and its anime effect of creating the Yami field ''every turn its out'', in case you thought it'd be simple to counter his field with a different one. Worse is Reshef's tribute monsters are the same ''Egyptian God Cards'' you spent the whole game assembling to beat him with, and he has multiple copies of Pot of Greed, Swords of Revealing Light, and Change of Heart to summon them faster. Facing Slifer or Obelisk is bad enough, but the worse case scenario is what happens if he summons Ra; Reshef will use Ra's effect to OneHitKill you if he has a great enough life point lead, which he always will since Reshef starts the duel with '''40,000''' life points. And he comes after the boss fight with Sol Chevalsky as well, so if you lose to him you have to beat Sol to get back to Reshef without saving. And on top of all this madness, Reshef has the dishonor of being the only boss that always knows what's in your hand. Good Luck.