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Ah, I should talk more on this... Even though school work has been busy. A lot of writing to do-- which I guess I don't mind, but it takes up a lot of time.

The... person I know on here-- they went ahead and showed me a bunch of older tournaments for Duel Monsters that they had on video, since they got brought up recently. Like, stuff from back when the game just started getting really popular.

Geeze... They really didn't know what they wanted the game to be yet, did they? It's kinda weird to watch them, when I've only really got somewhat of a grasp on the rules right now.

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Not to mention the game's design asthetic was MUCH more grizzly and horror leaning in the 90s when it started up.

When did the game's design start changing, though?

I think around the time of the Lost Millennium Booster Pack or so? It started drifting to a more child friendly asthetic.

Just better audience there, I guess?

That, and early on, if memory serves, Mr. Crawford was in an especially dark period due to the death of his wife, from what I've read on bibliographical information.

Ohhh. Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Reflecting the period of time.

Thus when the game expanded after Battle City, they likely went for a more kid friendly asthetic.

Hence Vehicroids, Elemental HEROes, and the like. Now they seem to be trying the more Magic the Gathering style of semi-realistic art every so often, to varied results.

Hnnmm... I mean, it's neat that there's a lot of variety. But I guess it makes it hard to pinpoint what the game's really trying to go for.

A bit of everything at this point. It's mostly just experimenting.

Makes it hard to really get into.

I'm interested, but there's too many aspects.

Too many aspects?

The rules are fairly concise.

How long have you been playing the game for?

Over a decade, I think?

You've been playing the game for over a decade.

I just started in the last year. Like... Nine months or so.

So bear with me if I think there's too much at once.

Then I think your teachers were potentially less than adequate at helping you get used to it.

I don't have teachers teaching me.

Whoever first explained the game to you.

Oh.

They explained the basic stuff well enough to me. But they haven't explained stuff like action duels or riding duels or whatever duels.

Riding Duels are basically just Duels on a motorcycle. Nothing else strange.

Didn't they once have some really complicated extra gimmick thing, though?

Yes. That combined with the drop in Momentum use and power creep basically killed the format for time.

I think that's kinda a part of something being "strange" though, you know. Including an energy source like that, that far as I know, basically came out of nowhere.

It didn't come out of nowhere.

It came from a Time Travelling Ron L. Hubbard.

... That's still kinda "out of nowhere".

I guess it is, to a degree.

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