Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories

 PlayStation
  • Publisher: Konami
  • Release Date: Mar 20, 2002
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8.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 268 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 216 out of 268
  2. Mixed: 36 out of 268
  3. Negative: 16 out of 268
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  1. neojotic
    Aug 27, 2020
    6
    This game for a casual fan or regular gamer is about a 6/10

    Graphics aren't bad for PS1 as it's a game released near the EOL. The game's difficulty will be hard if you do not possess a lot of knowledge about yugioh.

    The story is just ok nothing terrible but nothing spectacular. This is a good game for any PS collector looking to start deep diving after obtaining all the classics.
  2. DanedandCealM.
    Feb 16, 2004
    6
    I would really like to know how to get infinity starchips because all the great cards cost 999,999 starchips and the only way to be able to get infinity starchips is by gameshark.If ya read this please let me how to get alot of starchips without a gameshark so I can pass the mages ocean,medaow,etc........ THANKS:yours truly CEAL203.
  3. Mike
    Sep 30, 2002
    7
    Not amazing, not horrible. It's a good game. Although the lack of effects(why the hell did you give me 3 Man-Eater Bugs if he can't kill a card with his Flip-Effect?) can be bothersome, as can how they go from relatively weak Rex Raptor to Weevil tossing down a Jirai Gumo(2200/500) and attacking without a chance of halving his own LP...
  4. RyanH.
    Mar 4, 2005
    5
    Because the cards cause 999,999 starchips does anyone know how to get infiniti starchips does anyone know how to get good cards of except for dueling the medow mage.
  5. DemonS.
    Nov 17, 2002
    7
    While this game is excellent for those who follow the anime or card game, I wouldn't recommend it to the casual gamer. It's greatest flaw is the need to duel repeatedly and repetitively for star chips and new cards. However, it provides an intersting bit of backstory for the characters in the show, and allows for great versatility in deck creation.
  6. JordanW.
    Sep 28, 2002
    7
    This game is ok for people who collect the cards or watch the show. But with music that compares too banshees hollering and the fact that the cards are near impossible to get because 80 percent cost 9999 star chips when the max you can get from one battle is five. I really think that most of this takes a lot of luck more than skill. The fusion things are a pain in the butt to figure out This game is ok for people who collect the cards or watch the show. But with music that compares too banshees hollering and the fact that the cards are near impossible to get because 80 percent cost 9999 star chips when the max you can get from one battle is five. I really think that most of this takes a lot of luck more than skill. The fusion things are a pain in the butt to figure out in the beggining and the computer favores the other character it seems like. I can't say I recommend this to everyone but I will say it can become addictive.… Expand
  7. AaronK.
    Oct 24, 2005
    7
    I neeeeed a cheat any starchips cards for mothing anything plz.
  8. JoshD.
    Oct 10, 2002
    7
    Ok, It is not fair to rate this game if you haven't played the card game and don't care for japanesse anime ok game good for the card players.
  9. AndrewS.
    Mar 27, 2003
    7
    It's a good game, but it's very frustrating when you lose! I also wished they used the intro to the show at the start! Does anyone know how to get 999,999 starchips without having to go through an almost infinite amount of free duels?
  10. GloogP.
    Oct 7, 2005
    5
    This game is good once you get good cards. What is the cheat for infinate starchips? The real one! Tri, Tir, up, up, circ, sqr, up, down w/e doesn't work!
  11. DoggyBones
    Dec 9, 2002
    6
    Good game needs more cards and more stronger cards. In fact needs all cards.
  12. MickH.
    Feb 15, 2003
    5
    This game is borderline. Some of things ARE good, but Alot of the things suck. Any good card is ridiculously high-priced at 999,999 Star Chips, and that takes forever to do. The good things are being able to see physical changes between fusions and the unlimited power in your deck, unlike in Dark Duel Stories (GBC). If you liek Yu-Gi-Oh, I suggest to grab the GBC Dark Suel Stories, so you This game is borderline. Some of things ARE good, but Alot of the things suck. Any good card is ridiculously high-priced at 999,999 Star Chips, and that takes forever to do. The good things are being able to see physical changes between fusions and the unlimited power in your deck, unlike in Dark Duel Stories (GBC). If you liek Yu-Gi-Oh, I suggest to grab the GBC Dark Suel Stories, so you can get all your favourite cards without the Starchip price.… Expand
  13. DavidC.
    Mar 17, 2003
    7
    I rate it seven because that the game programer didn't program, that you can put a card face down and set a monster at the same time!
  14. C.JRoss
    Apr 19, 2003
    7
    It ROCKS. Awesome Polygon Battling.
  15. DanielB.
    Apr 22, 2004
    5
    Cause its a pain in the ass 2 get g00d cards especially against heishin 2 and set0 3.
  16. HumanDragonJ.
    Jul 31, 2004
    7
    The graphic and the music sucks...i get bored just listening to the music.....i had played the game for about 5years and cannot even get infinite or 999999(i dunno how many number of 9 there is cause i don't play dat game anymore) starchips.....but the idea of the card and the game style rocks.....everything else rulz too.....the only thing is it wasted mah five years playing that game
  17. SeanO.
    Sep 12, 2005
    7
    It is an ok game but i cant get infinite star chips can u email me the cheat and thanx.
  18. triking
    Jul 14, 2013
    6
    Ok, I just HAD to review this game. It's so crappy it becomes lovable. Story is non-existent, but who cares, the combat is actually kind of fun and interesting. You start a game with a deck of randomly thrown together crap cards. The entire point of this game is that you can combine 2 or more cards together to produce stronger cards. You can combine your entire hand if you wanted! The funOk, I just HAD to review this game. It's so crappy it becomes lovable. Story is non-existent, but who cares, the combat is actually kind of fun and interesting. You start a game with a deck of randomly thrown together crap cards. The entire point of this game is that you can combine 2 or more cards together to produce stronger cards. You can combine your entire hand if you wanted! The fun is discovering and remembering a huge number of card combination recipes. Also, the combinations appear to change from game to game, so if you got stuck with a bad deck or set of recipes, you pretty much had to start over because this game is....

    HARD. Oh my goodness is it difficult. Your opponents will never have any trouble completely wrecking you. Near the end of the game, I actually transported my disk contents to PC so I could cheat with a program that would give me every card in the game and infinite starchips (which seems to be a requirement if you want to beat it).

    Even with this obvious advantage, I had to fight the last few bosses multiple times because I'm not kidding they would completely wreck you in one turn. You had to get the PERFECT hand to win. Of course it's not hard to figure out how this happened. This is what lazy game designers do when they run out of time to put real content in a game. Hey, we're out of time, let's just crank up the difficultly! That'll make things seem like an engaging and fun experience!

    Well no, it didn't. But the game is so terrible it's charming.    … Expand
  19. AmA1990
    Jul 21, 2013
    6
    Graphics 6/10
    Sound 7/10
    Gameplay 5/10 Value 6/10 While this game is fun to play it does not deserve more than a 6 considering the disastrous flaws it has. It lacks a simple tutorial to tell you how to play the game perfectly, and how to fuse cards. Most good cards with 2000+ ATK cost 999,999 Starchips and you ONLY earn 5 starchips per duel on S rank. Do you know what this    Graphics 6/10
    Sound 7/10
    Gameplay 5/10
    Value 6/10

    While this game is fun to play it does not deserve more than a 6 considering the disastrous flaws it has.
    It lacks a simple tutorial to tell you how to play the game perfectly, and how to fuse cards. Most good cards with 2000+ ATK cost 999,999 Starchips and you ONLY earn 5 starchips per duel on S rank. Do you know what this means? Consider that you have the free time to play 100 duels per day and you got an S in all the duels. You will earn only 500 Starchips per day. Multiply this by 365 days you will only get 182,500 Starchips per year which means it requires about 6 years to get all the 999,999 starchips just to buy a single card! (that considering you don't use the memory card trick).
    Also lots of cards left unobtainable, like the Magician of Black Chaos on the cover of the box, MoBC cannot be earned legitimately in this game, you will have to cheat or use a gameshark in order to unlock it,. This card has a drop rate of 0, and it costs the ridiculous amount 999,999 starchips.
    Not to mention how this stupid game is grossly biased towards the AI. The rules that apply to you don't apply to the AI. Like for example you cannot summon Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon legitimately without using a ritual card and 3 Blue-Eyes White Dragons on the field. The computer has 3 standalone BEUD's and 90% of the time it will summon them for you in the first turn (Seto 3rd and sometimes Nitemare) .
    Same thing applies to B. Skull Dragon and Gate Guardian, it has 3 copies of these in its deck. while you cannot summon B. Skull Dragon without a fusion summon (you will need at least three cards to summon BSD), same with Gate Guradian (you will have to own the ritual card and Sanga, Kazejin & Suijin on the field in order to summon it!.)
    Just an advice, borrow this game before you buy it.    … Expand
  20. Kai82
    Jul 14, 2023
    6
    While I had a bit of fun with the game I can not recommend it for everyone. Firstly it uses different rules. I read they used prototype rules from before the trading card game was established. There are for example no tributes, no graveyard, fusions are normal cards and buff spell cards vanish after use (There is more than that). Also you can fusion monsters by playing multiple monstersWhile I had a bit of fun with the game I can not recommend it for everyone. Firstly it uses different rules. I read they used prototype rules from before the trading card game was established. There are for example no tributes, no graveyard, fusions are normal cards and buff spell cards vanish after use (There is more than that). Also you can fusion monsters by playing multiple monsters in a single turn if they are compatible. This is at the beginning the only way to get stronger monsters. As sidenote: There is guardian star system where you get a bonus against other alignments which I loved and hated. You get new cards by winning and you will play training games a lot. At the end you need monsters with +3000 attack to even have a chance. Which gets to my first negative. It is randomized what you get. You can grind for hours and still not gain enough good cards. I manged to beat the game but only after I got a “Meteor Black Dragon “ and buff card that added 1000 attack. I have a cheap trick for multiplying cards for you at the end. Now to the presentation and story. The story starts as expected in ancient Egypt and will end in modern times. It is just a bit more than a vehicle for the card game. You will face familiar characters and themes. The graphics and soundtrack are functional but nothing to write home about. Others will definitely rate this as negative. I had not a single bug, slowdown or glitch during a lot of game hours. The card battles work smothly and I have no complain in this regard. Overall it is a game that I enjoyed for the challenge. I can see it anger or annoy a lot of other people. Also it does not help that later games improve the formula. I give a 6/10. Multiplying cards: The game prevents you from trading with a copy of your save on another saving cartridge. However it does not prevent you from trading with a copy of a copy on a third cartridge. This can get you a lot of copies of good cards.… Expand
  21. br_1245
    Sep 13, 2014
    6
    Para quem é fã esse é um jogo altamente adorado, para que não é ele é de mediano para ruim. De todos os games da saga Yu Gi esse é o melhor e mais aclamado palos fãs. Por seu desafio acima da media que nos prende horas a fio em busca de cartas raras e melhorando nossa estrategias marcou seu nome no legado do primeiro console da Sony.
  22. stratagemmedley
    Oct 3, 2014
    7
    This game brings back a lot of nostalgia, so I thought I'd play through it again and after heavy grinding (there is a lot of that in this game) I managed to beat it, I just want to say off the bat that if the sound of endless grinding, rules different to that of the actual card game and absolutely nothing being explained sounds about as appealing as setting up a mosque next to a BNPThis game brings back a lot of nostalgia, so I thought I'd play through it again and after heavy grinding (there is a lot of that in this game) I managed to beat it, I just want to say off the bat that if the sound of endless grinding, rules different to that of the actual card game and absolutely nothing being explained sounds about as appealing as setting up a mosque next to a BNP member's house then this game is not for you. However those willing to tolerate this will find an addictive game with great music, fantastic re-playability and cartoony graphics that have aged very well, with the exception of some 3D battles that look a bit jagged of course.
    I must say I do love the fact that the game leaves you to your own devices, it is a very strict mistress with cards requiring an extortionate amount of starchips (the currency) to redeem, losing once causing the game to end and **** all being explained, though all of this difficulty does make what would otherwise be a very short game to have organic length and the rush of success being so overcoming that when you beat the game or get the card you want, you will literally jump for joy. To be honest I think a game like this is best for the time we live in, where walkthroughs can be found at a single click, so when the difficulty curves (which good God does it curve) you can at least find out how to overcome your predicament, that being said I do certainly understand why critics shat upon this game, as of course they only have so long to review this game and as I said before, this game is a harsh mistress and if you don't appreciate it for what it is, YFM certainly won't appreciate you either. Additionally the game is very much luck-based, as success can rely upon the good pulls you got from grinding, the random deck you were given at the beginning, whether or not your fusions work (which is trial and error) and if an enemy pulls out certain cards you're more or less ****ed from the get-go. Once again this game can be cruel but you know what in an age of shooter hand-holding an condescending tutorials, I would not have it any other way.    … Expand
  23. XxJoseManuelxX
    Aug 17, 2016
    7
    Yu-Gi-Oh Forbidden Memories! is a video game based on the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga and anime series, developed by KCEJ and published by Konami.

    + Yu Gi Oh Cards and Monster
    - Old Rules
  24. orangebike9393
    Jul 31, 2018
    7
    very hard game at times almost impossible to beat some of the characters since they draw the best cards.Top 10 game soundtracks of all time easily!
  25. Xilg
    Aug 8, 2023
    7
    Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories é um clássico do PS1 e um clássico para muitos entusiastas do anime ou do card game, porém é bem polemico.
    Sendo desenvolvido antes do Tranding Card Game (TCG) e do mangá, Forbidden Memories pode parecer confuso aos olhos de alguém que já está acostumando com Yu-Gi-Oh! pois as regras aqui são muito diferentes das atuais, o que não é uma coisa ruim, já que o    Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories é um clássico do PS1 e um clássico para muitos entusiastas do anime ou do card game, porém é bem polemico.
    Sendo desenvolvido antes do Tranding Card Game (TCG) e do mangá, Forbidden Memories pode parecer confuso aos olhos de alguém que já está acostumando com Yu-Gi-Oh! pois as regras aqui são muito diferentes das atuais, o que não é uma coisa ruim, já que o card game está cada vez mais frenético e o game de PS1 tenta adaptar as regras do arco do reino dos duelistas, onde as coisas eram mais simples. Porém se vc nunca jogou ou não sabe nada sobre Forbidden Memories, sinto lhe informar que o jogo não se importa em lhe ensinar o básico do jogo como o complexo sistema de fusões, onde farmar cada carta ou mesmo como ver as animações do monstros em campo.
    A história não é de todo ruim, parece um protótipo do que realmente seria o mangá, com varias ideias que para quem já leu o mangá ou assistiu o anime podem perceber certas semelhanças.
    Por fim, Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories é de fato um clássico muito divertido e nostálgico, porém tem seus problemas.    … Expand
  26. Gevluah
    Oct 8, 2020
    6
    -Way too difficult and punishing
    -Powerful cards take TOO LONG to get from duelists and some are even impossible to buy (well almost impossible)

    It's simple yet addictive, I wouldn't suggest you try to beat the game's campaign on your own, also I would suggest you play with 15 card drop mod
  27. grimreapersims
    Aug 31, 2021
    6
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  28. M1sfiT
    Sep 3, 2023
    7
    Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!!!!!!!!

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57

Mixed or average reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. Thunderbolt
    70
    Modern TCG fans will probably either love it for being simple and different, or hate it for being old and unlike the current game.
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  2. PSX Nation
    69
    Daunting difficulty and narrow appeal...There are teeth of mine I'd pull with a pair of pliers rather than play this card game ever again.
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  3. GameZone
    60
    I would ultimately recommend this for either someone who has played the card game before or someone who has a lot of time to go through and write down or memorize the card combos and fusion results, since everything is trial and error.
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