In terms of gameplay it does everything worse than Hearthstone. I say try, because Duel Links is still not that good of a game. It seemed that Konami was at least trying to deliver some effort, trying to present something different, something that could be better paced than what the live game had turned into after 20 years of power creep. But something about Duel Links was different.

Fuck Konami.įor this reason, before Duel Links it had been years since I last touched an official Yu-Gi-Oh Client. But all of that would go to waste when Konami closed it down in 2012, erasing all the collections and investments made by their customers. It wasn’t that easy, the game was rather expensive. It was my first experience with a digital TCG, and I had even managed to collect enough cards for a few decent decks. Back to Yu-Gi-Oh Online, one of the first major digital card platforms. My history with the company goes much further back though. When people hear about Konami today it usually relates to the abrupt end of their partnership with Hideo Kojima and the tagline “Fuck Konami” that spawned from that event. But the reasons they state for this are wrong, to the point where I had to bring up my own thoughts. They are not wrong on that, in fact they are being way too generous.

But then PC Gamer went and did an impression article calling it lackluster. It didn’t seem like it would be relevant enough. I wasn’t originally planning on making an article on Duel Links. They did so with the mobile game Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links which was released for mobile in 2016 and for Steam in late 2017. With so much hype behind them, it would only be a matter of time before Konami, the distributor behind one of the largest physical card games, Yu-Gi-Oh would make their return to the digital platform. When Hearthstone was released in 2014, it brought a resurgence of Digital card games.

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