As a instrumentality of the movie Battle Royale and The Hunger Games books (the movies are good too), I’m amazed the conflict royale genre hasn’t permanently sunk its teeth into me. Don’t get maine wrong; I’ve enjoyed my clip with Fortnite and Apex Legends, the 2 titles I’ve dabbled with the most. They’re well-crafted games. But each of them besides occupies the aforesaid niche being shooters. I’m itching for much originative spins connected the formula.
The precocious announced Rumbleverse, a pro wrestling flavored instrumentality connected the genre, tickles my fancy arsenic a long-time instrumentality of sports entertainment. But I’m selfish, truthful springiness maine much conflict royales based connected my circumstantial interests. If you’ve listened to maine connected podcasts oregon watched maine connected streams, you astir apt cognize I’m a large Yu-Gi-Oh instrumentality arsenic well. Since its inception, it’s been my trading paper crippled of prime and is primed for the conflict royale treatment. No, I’m not talking astir the Yu-Gi-Oh Rush Duel: Dawn of the Battle Royale, which lone features the conception successful name. I privation the existent thing. How? Simple: it’s been done already.
The archetypal and astir well-known Yu-Gi-Oh anime featured 2 conflict royale-style tournaments: Duelist Kingdom and Battle City. Both contests dropped dozens of players onto a tropical land and a sprawling metropolis, respectively. They tasked competitors with freely dueling each different nether elimination rules until lone a fistful remained (who past competed nether accepted brackets). It proved a much entertaining attack than the modular tourney and provided immoderate of the series’ astir breathtaking moments.
Yu-Gi-Oh play 1 villain Maximillian Pegasus overlooking the competitors of Duelist Kingdom
I much oregon little privation that nonstop conception arsenic a multiplayer video game, and fixed the continued popularity of conflict royales and Yu-Gi-Oh, it’s clip to onslaught portion the irons are hot. Take a ample fig of players represented by customizable avatars a la Fortnite, driblet them into a immense map, and fto them tally astir and play paper games against each different until 1 duelist remains. I don’t privation to accidental this would beryllium casual due to the fact that crippled improvement is thing but. However, with an established template already successful place, this feels similar the earthy improvement alternatively of releasing different by-the-numbers paper crippled simulator.
Let’s accidental you recreate Duelist Kingdom’s island. Winning duels, past walking astir until you find the adjacent opponent, could get dull. I’ve ever admired however Fornite’s islands feel much similar amusement parks than shooter maps. Fortnite lets its players prosecute with the satellite itself successful different amusive ways alternatively of conscionable adding corpses to it. Duelist Kingdom players could navigate the hidden maze of the Paradox Brothers oregon sneak into Pegasus’ castle and uncover lore connected the flamboyant villain. Just erstwhile you’ve finished cooking food astatine Mako Tsunami’s campsite, boom, a random subordinate arrives to situation you successful a melodramatic fashion. The excitement!
One obstacle is that adjacent with only, say, 50 players alternatively of the modular 99, waiting for dozens of radical to decorativeness dueling whitethorn instrumentality a while. I don’t deliberation an progressively shrinking ringing works for a paper crippled tourney either. One solution could beryllium adopting the velocity duel-style format utilized successful Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links. But I’m a traditionalist (give maine my Main Phase 2), truthful I accidental instrumentality to the regular format oregon disagreement them into filters truthful that time-sensitive players person quicker options. I’d besides ditch the prima chips/locater paper postulation of the anime arsenic good arsenic the bracket tourney for the last fistful of competitors. You suffer erstwhile – a azygous duel arsenic opposed to a champion two-out-of-three lucifer – and you’re out.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution
As bully arsenic this thought is (if I accidental truthful myself), wealth talks, truthful the lone mode this crippled gets disconnected the crushed is to marque it financially worthy it for Konami. They could merchantability idiosyncratic cards and booster packs for existent cash. Acquiring the champion meta cards requires a fiscal concern successful the real-world crippled anyway; this won’t beryllium thing caller for seasoned players. Purchasable cosmetics could see Yugi’s iconic hairdo, Kaiba’s slick achromatic coat, oregon Bandit Keith’s patriotic bandana. I cognize players would propulsion wealth astatine the surface to stone a Rare Hunter’s cloak. Anime conventions and The Wizarding World has proven that we nerds emotion buying fancy robes, and the Rare Hunter is fundamentally the Organization XIII look of Yu-Gi-Oh. Maybe springiness players duel monsters pets, too; who doesn’t privation a Kuriboh floating alongside them portion they hunt for the adjacent challenger? Of course, everything should besides beryllium reasonably obtainable done in-game progression and flip successful a conflict walk for bully measure. Just … don’t crook immoderate of these into NFT’s for the emotion of the Egyptian Gods.
A existent Yu-Gi-Oh conflict royale crippled would beryllium astonishing and the second-best happening that could hap down existent duel disks/holographic paper exertion (we’ll get determination 1 day). The genre and the Yu-Gi-Oh video games could usage a large shake-up. If Konami realizes a million-dollar thought has been staring them successful the look for years, I’d wager thousands of players would beryllium acceptable to driblet successful and get their crippled connected successful a heartbeat. Or it sucks, and we collectively banish it to the Shadow Realm. At slightest we tin inactive accidental Konami gave it a shot.
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