History VideoGame / YuGiOhNightmareTroubadour

* TranslationTrainWreck: The game gets hit with this a few times.

''Yu-Gi-Oh: Nightmare Troubadour'' is a ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' video game for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS. It was the first DS ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' game, and the only one on the system to solely focus on the original series' cast.

* EarlyGameHell: Early on you can't tell who duelists are, or even if they ''are'' a duelist. Once you defeat Bandit Keith, it becomes much easier to find people as Seto Kaiba upgrades your Duel Disk to judge duelists by a star rating. Non-duelists have no stars, and you can register duelists to make finding them easier.

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: After Yami Bakura defeats Joey, when you confront him about it he can't even be bothered to remember Joey's name.

** If you properly trigger the effect of Smoke Grenade of the Thief while the opponent has no cards in their hand, the game locks. Despite their lack of a hand, you are still forced to choose a card in their hand to discard, but there's nothing to choose; You have to reset the game at this point.

* GameBreakingBug: In the JP and NA versions, Pegasus disappears from the game permanently after you defeat Odion, and you cannot get his Imperial Order trade before he leaves. The EU version fixes the bug.

* DifficultySpike: After you beat the Beginner's Cup the game gets hard fast, especially in the boss rush before the Expert Cup.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Starting a new game will keep your old deck recipes as long as you saved them to begin with.

* SuspectIsHatless: When trying to find the card thief, the only useful thing witnesses say was that the suspect has blond hai, which leads Joey to deny the theft and mistakenly accuse Mai. The thief turns out to be Bandit Keith, whose hair is very short and tied back with an American flag bandanna.

* DamselInDistress: Serenity is kidnapped by Dox during the games fifth level and the player has to fight him in a Shadow Game to save her.

* ArcVillain: The first arc has Para and Dox as minor antagonists with Bandit Keith and Pegasus being the boss fights. The second arc has you facing the Big Five, Noah, and Gozaburo Kaiba, while the third and last arc deals with Marik, the Ghouls, and Yami Marik.

* ArcVillain: The first arc has Para and Dox as minor antagonists with Bandit Keith and Pegasus being the boss fights. The second arc has you facing Noah, Gozaburo Kaiba, and the Big Five, while the third and last arc deals with Marik, the Ghouls, and Yami Marik.

* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: The Marik-controlled Tea's deck is exactly the same as her regular deck, making it almost impossible to lose to her.

* CrutchCharacter: Fusion monsters will likely become this from early to mid-game. You don't get access to a lot of options early on, and a lot of the early to mid-game packs have a lot of Fusion support in them. Similarly, most monsters with high ATK will usually require two tributes, while Fusion monsters, despite going minus three in the hand, can, at least, be gotten out without giving up a greater part of your board most of the time. However, come late to end-game, you'll finally start getting access to cards for your main deck that can be gotten out quicker and are generally more powerful than Fusion monsters, in addition to characters starting to run more field nukes such as Mirror Force and Torrential Tribute, which can seriously stall your deck if you lose your Fusion monsters to them. About the only Fusion monsters that remain useful are Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon[[note]]for being easily able to search its materials and thins the deck in the process[[/note]] and Thousand-Eyes Restrict if you're running a Goat Control deck.