A brand new Yu-Gi-Oh! game has been announced for Nintendo Switch. Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVEN fans should be thrilled Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel. The card battle game was announced at Jump Festa 2021 online. For those who may not have kept up with the Konami game in a while, the rules have changed quite a bit. Gematsu reports that “Rush Duel allows players to summon and draw multiple monsters from their hand in one turn until you have at least five cards in your hand.” As usual with Yu-Gi-Oh! games, you can now also take on the protagonists and villains of the SEVEN anime. But a release is not forthcoming as Rush Duel is still in development. Until then, fans can play with all the previous protagonists in Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution. Use that game to kick-start some of your skills before the new title hits.
Konagi describes Link Evolution here:
Build your deck with over 9,000 cards and take on the most iconic duelists of the Yu-Gi-Oh! universe ”, is a description of the game on the Nintendo site. Relive the stories of the original animated Yu-Gi-Oh! series through Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, and challenge the latest generation of duelists from the virtual world of Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS! “
For those who don’t know, Kabuki created Takahashi Yu-Gi-Oh! in September 1996 for Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine. The original series ran until March 2004, by which time it was a huge hit overseas. Yogi Mutou is a young boy who stumbles upon an ancient puzzle. After solving the artifact, he eventually shares a body with the spirit of an Egyptian Pharaoh. Many people try to reclaim the puzzle for nefarious purposes, and it is up to Yugi and his friends to keep the puzzle from dangerous hands. As time passes, the decks of cards become fixed pieces for battles between literally good and evil, with stakes bordering on life and death. It’s wild and well worth a look.
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