History VideoGame / YuGiOhNightmareTroubadour

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The plot of the game has you on a quest to become a great duelist, but soon becomes more complex as evil duelists appear, threatening your safety and eventually the safety of the world. It's up to you to stop them and save the world!

* 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 and Yami Marik.

** While the AI is good enough to be challenging, it still has its moments. For example, the AI will ''always'' go for one of its signature monsters if possible, even if it would make more sense to keep using a monster on the field. Yami Yugi will always go for one of his Magicians if possible... and will gladly tribute a 3000 ATK beater he stole from you with Snatch Steal in order to do this.

''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.

''Yu-Gi-Oh: Nightmare Troubadour'' is a Franchise/YuGiOh video game for the 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.

* LostForever: Due to a glitch 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 fixed the bug.

* SuspectIsHatless: When trying to find the card thief, the only useful thing witnesses say was that the suspect has blond hair--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.

* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Losing a Shadow Game causes your soul to be lost to the darkness, and you get a Game Over.

* FakeDifficulty: Probably the game's biggest problem is it loves spamming bosses and decks that are hard for all the wrong reasons. Multiple characters run stall[=/=]burn decks or decks based on luck, and have an [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard uncanny ability for topdecking their decks main cards early on while any and all cards you have that can counter them are usually at the bottom of your deck]]. This isn't even getting into the gimmick matches of the game, such as [[spoiler: having to force a draw on a BrainwashedAndCrazy Joey, or beating Gozaburo in twenty turns at the end of a BossRush with no chances to save, who, as true to the above, ''will'' get all his stall cards while all your spell destruction cards are usually at the bottom of your deck]]. This doesn't help that this was the era where Konami absolutely ''hated'' cards that dealt with floodgate cards like Mystical Space Typhoon and such, with cards like that being limited to one or outright banned for use in the main story, which only serves to further the annoyance of certain duelist in this game.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Tristan and Duke are never seen or mentioned at all.

* ArtificialStupidity: While the A.I. is good enough to be challenging, it still has its moments. For example, the A.I. will ''always'' go for one of its signature monsters if possible, even if it would make more sense to keep using a monster on the field. For example; Yami Yugi will always go for one of his Magicians if possible... And will gladly tribute a 3000 ATK beater he stole from you with Snatch Steal in order to do this.

** Ishizu and Gozzburo's decks are both based around monsters in their graveyards, with Ishizu's focusing on swapping the graveyard and deck and Gozaburo's revolving around Exodia Necross. The AI will often put many of their cards into the graveyard but not have the means to make the strategy ''work'', resulting in an easy win for you.

* DeaderThanDead: Losing the fight with [[spoiler:Gozaburo Kaiba]] renders you dead in every possible way. The base blows up on turn 20, obliterating your mind, the satellite blows up the city, destroying your body, and your soul is consumed by the Shadow Realm since it's a Shadow Game.

* 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.

* FakeDifficulty: Probably the game's biggest problem is it loves spamming bosses and decks that are hard for all the wrong reasons. Multiple characters run stall[=/=]burn decks or decks based on luck, and have an [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard uncanny ability for topdecking their decks main cards early on while any and all cards you have that can counter them are usually at the bottom of your deck]]. This isn't even getting into the gimmick matches of the game, such as [[spoiler: having to force a draw on a BrainWashedAndCrazy Joey, or beating Gozaburo in twenty turns at the end of a BossRush with no chances to save, who, as true to the above, ''will'' get all his stall cards while all your spell destruction cards are usually at the bottom of your deck]]. This doesn't help that this was the era where Konami absolutely ''hated'' cards that dealt with floodgate cards like Mystical Space Typhoon and such, with cards like that being limited to one or outright banned for use in the main story, which only serves to further the annoyance of certain duelist in this game.

* ArtificialStupidity: While the A.I. is good enough to be challenging, it still has it's moments. For example, the A.I. will ''always'' go for one of its signature monsters if possible, even if it would make more sense to keep using a monster on the field. For example; Yami Yugi will always go for one of his Magicians if possible... And will gladly tribute a 3000 ATK beater he stole from you with Snatch Steal in order to do this.

* ArtificialStupidity: While the A.I. is good enough to be challenging, it still has it's moments. For example, the A.I. will ''always'' go for one of its signature monsters if possible, even if it would make more sense to keep using a monster on the field. For example; Yami Yugi will always go for one of his Magician if possible... And will gladly tribute a 3000 ATK beater he stole from you with Snatch Steal in order to do this.

** Similarly, you can get Thunder Dragon and it's Fusion Twin Headed Thunder Dragon around the same time. Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon is a 2800 beatstick that has materials that easily search themselves. Thunder Dragon's ability to search two more copies of itself is good for deck thinning, and if you can't get Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon off, they're still really good for discard fodder for other cards like Graceful Charity. Overall, it's a great way to speed decks up early on, especially with how slow the format was when this game was released.

* EarlyGameHell: Once you defeat Bandit Keith, it becomes much easier to find duelists and non-duelists 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.

* DiskOneNuke: If you know what you're doing, it's possible to get a Meteor B. Dragon and its necessary fusion materials (polymerization, Red-Eyes, Meteor Dragon) as early as the fifth booster pack unlock, and before the plot really kicks into swing. Considering most duelists don't have any super complex strategies or high ATK monsters until the late game, and even then, this was back when the game primarily valued high ATK stats over effects, and Meteor B. Dragon is a 3500 ATK monster, by far the highest ATK monster at that point in the game, it proves to be a ''very'' effect Beatstick early on, and even in the late game.

* SuspectIsHatless: When trying to find the card thief, the only useful thing witnesses say was that the suspect has blond hair--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 a bandanna.

* WordSaladTitle: A troubadour is a writer and performer of songs or poetry in the Middle Ages. What this has to do with Duel Monsters is anyone's guess. The actual reason for it is an extremely obtuse example of SuperTitle64Advance, as the title can be shortened to "Ni-Tro", referring to the DS's codename of "Nitro". But you'd think they could have come up with something more relevant.