Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force

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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force
Box art
Names
EnglishYu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force
Development
PlatformPSP
Languages
  • Japanese
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Spanish
DeveloperKonami
PublisherKonami
Release dates
JapaneseSeptember 14, 2006
North AmericanNovember 14, 2006
EuropeanMarch 2, 2007
AustralianOctober 12, 2007
Series
SeriesTag Force
NextGX Tag Force 2
Links

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.

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.

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
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.

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".
  • 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:

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:

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.

本来ほんらい優秀ゆうしゅうなデュエリストなのだが、かれとデュエルしたものはやるうしなってしまうため、特別とくべつりょう隔離かくりされている。

精霊せいれい意思いし疎通そつうができ、他人たにんについている精霊せいれいをデュエルから開放かいほうしたいとかんがえている。

使つかうデッキは名前なまえとおり「もけもけ」を主体しゅたいとする。
かわいい外見がいけんにキミ自身じしんも もけもけ にならないよう注意ちゅうい

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スーパーAnimalアニマルLerningラーニングりゃくして「S.A.Lサル」アカデミアのしまにある研究所けんきゅうしょつくられた、実験じっけん動物どうぶつ
ゴルフはできないが、優秀ゆうしゅうなデュエリストである。
雄叫おたけ以外いがい言葉ことばはっするが、それは装着そうちゃくした機械きかいからはっせられているもので彼自身かれじしん言葉ことばではない。


使つかうカードは猿系さるけいのものがおおい。

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.

Operation Staff
Original character and monster design
Producer
  • Takeshi Kameta
Direction and game design
  • KENYoU
Main Programming
  • Toshiya Shimizu
Duel Programming
  • Hideyuki Takahashi
Duel Render Programming
  • Yohei Takada
Story Programming
  • Tsuyoshi Shimizu
Story Render Programming
  • Mahoro Tsukamoto
Deck Edit / Shop Programming
  • Kohei Kawaji
Effects Programming
  • Yoshinori Kawamata
Title Menu Programming
  • Takuya Hashimoto
Tutorial Programming
  • Yuhei Matsuda
  • Kohei Kawaji
  • Takuya Hashimoto
Main Design
  • Shinsuke Mukai
Menu Design
  • Yasunori Kobayashi
3D Character Development
  • Shinsuke Mukai
  • Takeshi Takano
  • Yuta Nishino
  • Yuji Nakamura
FLAME, inc.
  • Takuya Nakajima
  • Yuko Yamada
Character icon creation
  • Yasuhiko Tanaka
  • Yuki Kato
Map Character Creation
  • Yuji Kubo
Animation
  • Yuji Nakamura
  • Yoshitaka Noda
Movie Creation
  • Shinsuke Mukai
  • Osamu Fukushima
FLAME, inc.
  • Kei Matsumoto
  • Kazuyuki Kuno
  • Kazuki Matsuo
  • Yutaka Ito
  • Takahide Shinohara
  • Hideki Sano
Background Modeling
  • Yoshitaka Noda
  • Yuta Nishino
  • Takeshi Takano
Promotion Video Creation
  • Osamu Fukushima
  • Shinsuke Mukai
Sound Producer
  • Ayumu Kashizaki
Sound Director
  • Toshihisa Furusawa
Music
  • Maki Kirioka
  • Hiroshi Tanabe
  • Toshihisa Furusawa
  • Yasuhisa Ito
SFX & Audio
  • Rie Yamatani
  • Toshihisa Furusawa
Audio Production
  • JINNAN STUDIO, inc.
  • Kisuke Koizumi
Sound Programmer
  • Tsutomu Watanabe
Planning
  • KENYoU
  • Yasunori Kobayashi
Script Development
  • KENYoU
  • Tsuyoshi Shimizu
  • Yasuhiko Tanaka
Deck Configuration
  • Konami Digital Entertainment Monitoring center
  • Satoshi Sawada
  • Takuma Abe
  • Arata Sugiyama
  • Yasuto Suzuki
Package Design
  • Takeshi Urabe
  • Fujio Masuda
  • Koji Namikoshi
  • Yoko Sekiguchi
Manual Design
  • Akio Masuda
  • Hiroaki Takahashi
  • Yuko Ishii
  • Sakiko Tanaka
  • Yui Ozawa
Translation
  • Arthur "Sam" Murakami
QA Testing
  • Konami Digital Entertaiment Monitoring center
Special Thanks To
  • Masakuni Nakazawa
  • Satoshi Yoshimitsu
  • Natsuyo Tanaka
  • Ryo Kato
  • Tsutomu Watanabe
  • Yukihiro Hojo
  • Yoshio Nishiguchi
  • Makoto Itakura
  • Hidehito Uchida
  • Naoko Katsurada
  • Kanako Tsubaki
  • SHUEISHA Inc.
  • Kazuhiko Torishima
  • Masahiko Ibaraki
  • SASAKI Hisashi
  • Masana Takahashi
  • Naoki Kawashima
  • Hiroshi Kondoh
  • Tomoyuki Shima
  • Daisuke Terashi
  • KONAMI Corporation
  • Michihiro Ishizuka
  • Shinichi Hanamoto
  • Shoji Dewa
  • Akihiro Takatoku
  • Yoshiomi Kozako
  • Koji Kobayashi
  • Kazunori Nirasawa
  • Yoko Sekiguchi
  • Hiroki Muraoka
  • Mami Miyazaki
  • Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.
  • Kazumi Kitaue
  • Tetsuya Hiyoshi
  • Konami Marketing Inc.
  • Hiroshi Akiyama
  • Toshiyuki Yagashiro
  • Naruki Umemura
  • Atsunori Eda
  • ASATSU-DK INC.
  • Teruaki Jitsumatsu
  • FLAME Inc.
  • Takashi Kitada
Executive Producer
  • Fumiaki Tanaka
  • Toru Hagihara
Presented by...
  • Konami Digital Entertainment
Voice actors
Generic male students
  • Hiroshi Shimozaki
  • Mika Ishibashi
  • Kenji Iwama
  • Takahiro Hirano
  • Makoto Tomita
Generic female students
  • Mika Sakenobe
  • Asako Yoshida
  • Yuki Kugimiya
  • Yuki Nakao
  • Tomomi Yara
Generic teachers
  • Hidenobu Kiuchi

See also[edit]

External links[edit]