Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force
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English | Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force | ||||||||||
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Platform | PSP | ||||||||||
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Developer | Konami | ||||||||||
Publisher | Konami | ||||||||||
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Japanese | September 14, 2006 | ||||||||||
North American | November 14, 2006 | ||||||||||
European | March 2, 2007 | ||||||||||
Australian | October 12, 2007 | ||||||||||
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Series | Tag Force | ||||||||||
Next | GX Tag Force 2 | ||||||||||
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force, known in Japan as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Tag Force is a video game based on the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX anime series. It is the Yu-Gi-Oh! series' debut on the PlayStation Portable system and the first game in the Tag Force series. The game was ported to the PlayStation 2 under the name Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force Evolution, and it includes connectivity with the original game's sequel.
The player enrolls at Duel Academy as a transfer student. The main focus of the game is a Tag Force tournament that will take place on the island. Players must find a partner to compete in the tournament alongside. The game includes characters from the anime, as well as characters exclusive to the video games.
Contents
Story[edit]
The player enrolls at Duel Academy one month after the beginning of the school year during the month of May. As a transfer student, you are automatically placed in the Slifer Red dorm. The game is divided into three parts, each with different goals, all of which are ultimately accomplished through Dueling.
In the first part of the game, one must find a partner. During the first playthrough, the player may select Jaden Yuki, Syrus Truesdale, Chumley Huffington, Bastion Misawa, Chazz Princeton, Alexis Rhodes or Zane Truesdale as a partner. However, in order to convince them to team up with you, you must build a relationship with them. Whenever a conversation is prompted, you are given four options - to talk about "Duels", "The Academy", "Hobbies" or "Rumors". During each conversation one of the first three choices is randomly selected to harm affection, while the other two will improve it. This can be avoided by getting Pharaoh to follow you, should he be with you, all three choices will yield the best result. Affection can also be increased by giving the characters sandwiches that can be purchased at Duel Academy's card shop. Everyone has different tastes, though all seven characters love the Golden Eggwich. Affection is measured via a heart meter. Once seven hearts are obtained, the character will offer to become your partner. Filling the meter completely to eight hearts will result in the character gifting the player with cards that are either hard to acquire or impossible to obtain otherwise. It is completely possible to maximize the relationship with all Tier 1 characters before ending Part 1.
Each Sunday, Tag Duels are held at the Academy's Duel field. Of the seven characters, the one you have the best affection level with will be you partner for those Duels. Should multiple characters be equal, the one with the higher in-game number will partner with you. Due to this, should all characters be equal, the partner will be Jaden by default, as he is listed as Duelist #1. The SAL lab is unlocked as an visitable area, and may use the "Card Converter" and "Rental" machines to expand their collection of cards.
At the end of July, the Tag Force tournament is held, beginning the game's second part. At this point, players may select any character with enough affection to be a partner for the duration of the playthrough. The player and their partner start with 10 GX Medals, and must bet them in Tag Duels with other Duelists. Up to five medals may be wagered per Duel, but the opponent randomly decides the number, and all duels are Tag Duels. One must acquire ninety GX Medals to make it the final round of the tournament, which takes place in the newly-built Special Finals Arena. The tournament is won by winning 4 Tag Duels in the Finals.
Chancellor Sheppard meets with the player and their partner, and entrusts two of the Spirit Keys to them. The game's third part is a conflict against the Shadow Riders. Each of the seven of them has brainwashed another character and they will function as the Riders' partners against the player and their partner. Should one of the characters involved in these Duels already be the player's partner, the Duel against them is simply skipped. Defeating all seven Shadow Riders forces the player into a Duel against their leader, Kagemaru, who must be defeated 2 times in a row to finish the game
Once the player has finished Part 3 at least once, the player can partner with any other character in the game in Part 2 and 3 by asking them to do so in Part 1. Several new characters can be unlocked as opponents and possible partners as well. Playing through Part 2 and Part 3 after beating the game once gives the player the option to do Single Duels instead of Tag Duels, except during the Tournament Finals and against the Shadow Riders.
Cards[edit]
Overview[edit]
The game features 2451 playable cards, plus 22 Monster Tokens. This largely comprises cards released in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game (OCG) before this game. It also includes 20 cards from the anime, which did not exist in the OCG at the time of this game's release.
Video-game only cards[edit]
Tag Force features twenty cards that had not been released in the OCG or TCG at the time of the game's release. All 20 had previously featured in the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX anime. All of them have the "Game Original" genre in this game.
Of the twenty cards, four of them (bolded below) have since been released in the OCG.
Game Original
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Alternative artworks[edit]
Excluding Tokens, there are 37 cards with alternative artworks. The player can unlock them by talking to Sartyr in Part 3 of the story. Sartyr will give the "Gaia The Fierce Knight" artwork for free and make the others available in a lottery, which costs 11 Genex Medallions to play.
If the player has unlocked an alternative artwork for a card, the card will have the "Card with a different artwork" genre. The player can then toggle which artwork is used by opening the card's details and page and pressing the "L" and "R" buttons. This will change the artwork for all copies of the card at once. e.g. it will not be possible to see two copies of "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" with different artworks at the same time.
The Tokens, "Sheep", "Lamb" and "Ojama" also have alternative artworks, but do not have the "Card with a different artwork" genre and are not included in Sartry's lottery. Within the game's code each artwork is treated as a separate card. This enables them to bypass the restriction of being only able to show one artwork at a time for a given card.
Obtaining cards[edit]
Packs[edit]
The primary way of obtaining cards is by purchasing packs in the Duel Academy Shop.
Pack | Cost | Unlock condition |
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First Monster | 100 | Available from the start |
First Spell・Trap | 100 | Available from the start |
First Fusion | 100 | Available after May 7 |
First Effect Monster | 150 | Available from the start |
Step Up Spell・Trap | 150 | Available from the start |
Step Up fusion | 150 | Available after May 7 |
Anti Effect | 100 | Have at least 80% of the cards from First Effect Monster, Step Up Spell・Trap, and Step Up Fusion |
Life Breaker | 100 | Have at least 80% of the cards from First Effect Monster, Step Up Spell・Trap, and Step Up Fusion |
Go Go Direct | 100 | Have at least 80% of the cards from First Effect Monster, Step Up Spell・Trap, and Step Up Fusion |
Visitor from the Dark | 100 | First stage Monday |
Emergent Fire | 100 | First stage Tuesday |
Water of Life | 100 | First stage Wednesday |
Gift of Wind | 100 | First stage Thursday |
Platinum Light | 100 | First stage Friday |
Earth Dwellers | 100 | First stage Saturday |
Lucky Economy Pack | 300 | First stage Sunday |
Endless Thoughts | 100 | Player over level 5 |
Flip the Picture | 100 | Player over level 10 |
Equip Me | 100 | Player over level 15 |
More Eternal Memories | 100 | Player over level 20 |
Speed King | 100 | Player over level 25 |
Spice of Duel | 100 | Player over level 30 |
Fairy's Sky | 100 | Player over level 35 |
Dragon Drive | 100 | Player over level 40 |
Fiend Night | 100 | Player over level 45 |
Skillful Spellcasters | 100 | At least five characters cleared all three stages |
Cold Skin | 100 | 50% collected at the Duel Ranking |
Ritual Dance | 100 | Player play time more than 20 hours |
Symbol 50 | 300 | Player over level 50 |
Wave of the Future | 300 | Ten consecutive wins |
Good Ol' Days | 300 | Ten consecutive losses |
Hero Emerges! | 100 | Have the best relation with Jaden Yuki |
A Machine's Soul Never Sleeps | 100 | Have the best relation with Syrus Truesdale |
Beast Kingdom | 100 | Have the best relation with Chumley Huffington |
Maiden's Heartbeat | 100 | Have the best relation with Alexis Rhodes |
Never Give Up | 100 | Have the best relation with Chazz Princeton |
Warrior's Pyramid | 100 | Have the best relation with Bastion Misawa |
Technology Master | 100 | Have the best relation with Zane Truesdale |
Bit Players | 100 | Use the characters in page two to finish stages 2 and 3 |
Vanilla Gloom | 100 | Use the characters in page three to finish stages 2 and 3 |
Tag Survivor | 100 | Enter stage 2 |
Princeton Power | 50 | Clear stages 2 and 3 with all three of the Princeton Brothers |
Approach the Hotties | 100 | Clear stages 2 and 3 with Mindy |
Dorothy's Soul | 50 | Clear stages 2 and 3 with Ms. Dorothy |
Sadie's Soul | 50 | Clear stages 2 and 3 with Sadie |
Midday Constellation (Noon Star) | 5730 | Enter the Konami Code; ↑↑↓↓←→←→×○, while browsing packs in the shop |
Double Triple Destiny Draw | 100 | Acquire the Golden Egg Sandwich |
Checkered Flag | 300 | Have over 90% cards collected |
Other[edit]
- The player begins the game with an Initial Deck of 42 cards. It is a WATER-themed Deck identical to the one used by Gillian.
- Reward cards are granted in tutorials at the beginning of the game on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
- By inserting cards into the card converter in the lab, the player will be given a new card from a pool of cards based on the number of cards they inserted.
- If the player gets a Plain Sandwich at the shop, they are also given a hidden card.
- Characters will award the player with certain cards if they build a maximum level of trust, if applicable. Otherwise they award the cards if the player registers ten wins against them.
- By completing story mode, the player is awarded the Sacred Beast cards.
- Certain cards were available for download from Konami.
Scenes[edit]
Screen-sized images are featured at many points in the game. The following images are not associated to any given particular character.
Promotional cards[edit]
Three promotional cards come packed with the game: "Phantom Beast Cross-Wing", "Phantom Beast Thunder-Pegasus" and "Phantom Beast Wild-Horn".
Guidebook[edit]
Downloadable content[edit]
8 Deck Recipes were available for download, but are no longer available to obtain. The 6 Recipes not listed here are used in-game by the characters associated to UmiumaCorp and Duel Academia.
TokuToku Deck
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Japanese: 波動の標的 · Rōmaji: Hadō no Hyōteki · Translated: Wave Target
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Brightness of Angel
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Japanese: 天使の輝き · Rōmaji: Tenshi no Kagayaki · Translated: Angel's Radiance
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Glitches[edit]
Functional[edit]
- The player can activate card effects that can search for other cards even if there are no appropriate cards to search. For example "Future Fusion".
- The effect of "Manticore of Darkness" is unusable.
- If "Destiny Board" is destroyed when constructing the message, the other letters remain on the field instead of going to the Graveyard.
Spelling and grammar[edit]
Cards:
- "Dark Sage" misspells "Tribute" as "Trbute".
- "Dark Scorpion - Tragedy of Love" is missing a space in the text '"Don Zaloog"and'.
- "Elemental Hero Erikshieler" reads "this card are" instead of "this card is".
- "Fairy King Truesdale" uses the British English spelling of "Defense" ("Defence").
- "Hyozanryu" misspells "massive" as "massibe".
- "Mystical Elf" misspells "mystical" as "mistical".
- "Nimble Momonga" uses the British English spelling of "Defense" ("Defence").
- "Philosopher's Stone - Sabatier" reads "this turns End Phase", instead of "this turn's End Phase".
Other:
- In the "Options" menu, the explanation of the "Activation Confirm" setting reads "confirm it's effects", instead of "confirm its effects".
- The description for the "Dried Mackerel Sandwich" reads "an uniquely", instead of "a uniquely".
- The description for the "Destiny Sandwich" reads "there is no telling what my be inside", instead of "there is no telling what may be inside".
Unused content[edit]
There are a number of graphics in the code not featured in the game itself, including:
- Overworld sprites for Don Zaloog as Detective Zaloog.
- Icons for DIVINE and Divine-Beast
- Mugshot images and overworld sprites for Belowski, Wheeler, Mr. Huffington, Gerard and the Gravekeeper's Chief.
- Portrait sprites for Belowski, Wheeler, Mr. Huffington, Gerard and Chancellor Sheppard.
- Unused spaces for character profiles for Gerald, Mr. Huffington and Chancellor Sheppard.
- Character profiles for Belowski and Wheeler.
Formerly a talented duelist, but his opponents would lose their motivation when dueling with him, so he was confined to a special dorm as a result. He is able to communicate with the spirits, and he wants to release the spirits of other people from duels.
The main power of his Deck comes from "Mokey Mokey" cards.
He's a very cute character, so be careful not to get sucked into his trap.
本来 優秀 なデュエリストなのだが、彼 とデュエルしたものはやる気 を失 ってしまうため、特別 寮 に隔離 されている。
精霊 と意思 疎通 ができ、他人 についている精霊 をデュエルから開放 したいと考 えている。
使 うデッキは名前 の通 り「もけもけ」を主体 とする。
かわいい外見 にキミ自身 も もけもけ にならないよう注意 。
Wheeler is an experimental chimpanzee.
He was raised in a research facility on the Academy's island.
He can't play golf, but he's quite the duelist.
Other than monkey grunts, Wheeler is capable of using actual words. But a machine allows him to speak, so the words are not from his own mouth.
Quite a few monkey-related cards are in his Deck.
Super Animal Lerning 略 して「S.A.L 」アカデミアの島 にある研究所 で作 られた、実験 動物 。
ゴルフはできないが、優秀 なデュエリストである。雄叫 び以外 の言葉 も発 するが、それは装着 した機械 から発 せられているもので彼自身 の言葉 ではない。
使 うカードは猿系 のものが多 い。
Further information[edit]
The game uses two Forbidden & Limited Card Lists entitled "Default Settings" (the game's default list) and "Game Original"; these mostly follow the September 2005 Lists and April 2006 Lists respectively. The computer opponents' Decks will not change to fit different restrictions.
Staff[edit]
In the Japanese version, many of the characters are named after members of the production staff.
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Direction and game design |
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Main Programming |
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Duel Programming |
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Duel Render Programming |
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Story Programming |
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Story Render Programming |
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Deck Edit / Shop Programming |
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Effects Programming |
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Title Menu Programming |
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Tutorial Programming |
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Main Design |
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Menu Design |
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3D Character Development |
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FLAME, inc. |
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Character icon creation |
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Map Character Creation |
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Animation |
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Movie Creation |
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FLAME, inc. |
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Background Modeling |
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Promotion Video Creation |
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Sound Producer |
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Sound Director |
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Music |
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SFX & Audio |
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Audio Production |
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Sound Programmer |
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Planning |
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Script Development |
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Deck Configuration |
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Package Design |
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Manual Design |
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Translation |
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QA Testing |
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Special Thanks To |
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Executive Producer |
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Presented by... |
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Voice actors | |
Generic male students |
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Generic female students |
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Generic teachers |
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See also[edit]
- Game manual (PDF)