I went back to
watching Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal after placing it on-hold
for quite some time and I never get tired of laughing of how stupid the
monsters have gotten or whatever else I find half stupid in this series. For
the record, I'm currently in episode 21.
As a huge fan of the
original Yu-Gi-Oh! Series which is Yu-Gi-Oh! and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, I'm still
irritated by the fact that Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal
has gotten way funnier and annoying that what I was expecting it to be.
I wouldn't like to
complain so much of other things such as plot, story, characters, art, etc. I'd
like to focus on the new cards and monsters that were added in this series. Of
course, I couldn't go into details of all the cards since I practically can't
recall everything. First off, it's a distinct idea that every series, a new way
of summoning monsters are done. In Duel Monsters, it's the typical summon every
monster you have in your hand with no limitations until Seto Kaiba
introduced the sacrificing of lower level monsters to summon higher level ones.
Other than this typical rule, Duel Monsters
also uses the Ritual Monsters or monsters that are summoned through various
rituals. In Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX, even though I
haven't gotten into half of the series, I'm assuming that the prevailing style
of dueling here is the use of the not-so-old fusion as well as the use of duel
fields (or whatever it was called) and finally for Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, other than riding the so-called 'D-Wheels',
the new dueling style that was introduced is the use of synchro-monsters and
doing synchro-summon through the use of tuner monsters. As for Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, it introduced to us XYZ monsters. By overlaying monsters with the same level, you can summon a monster
with overlay units which can be used for their special abilities. Well, that
wasn't so bad, yes?  |
| Gagaga Magician and Gagaga Girl |
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| everyone's fave Dark Magician |
Well, that was some
long stupid rambling anyway. I don't really think that this is a problem. I
just gave an overview of what the heck happens in the new dueling systems in Zexal. As I have mentioned, my real annoyance
for this series is the monsters. Let's take for example Yuma's trump
card, Gagaga Magician. I find Gagaga
Magician as a cheap-knockoff of Yugi's trump card
in Duel Monsters, Dark Magician. Though Gagaga
Magician isn't as strong as Dark Magician,
it also comes with his very own partner, Gagaga
Girl which has the same style as Dark Magician Girl. Other than Gagaga
Girl, Gagaga Magician also has
some magic card under his sleeves. I did some quick research and Gagaga Monsters has this so-called Gagagabolt (okay, that's some stupid name
indeed) which destroys a selected card on the field. Dark Magician, on the other hand, had this Dark Magic Attack which allows the user to destroy all spell and
trap cards on the opponent's side of the field. So they have one common
similarity and a couple of differences. I wouldn't like to raise the idea of
one being stronger or weaker than the other but the main idea is that the
monster from Zexal were most likely a
copy of the monsters from Duel Monsters
or from the other series perhaps. If not
that, they're just plain monsters created out of nothing that looks really
annoying.
Looking at the
bigger picture of all the monsters I've seen so far in the series, I just have
to laugh at most of them. A couple would have to be pretty decent particularly
speaking Shark's
deck as well as Kaito's.
The so-called Numbers would be pretty decent as well, I
think. AND Yuma's Aspiring Emperor Hope (Kibou
Ou Hope) reminds me of Judai's
Neos Monsters. LOL. Well, that proves its decency. Other than Hope, the rest of
his monsters are complete bullshit. There's Gagaga
Magician, Dododo Warrior, Gogogo Golem, etc. Stupid Names. LOL. Oh and I
almost forgot Kuribolt, Kuriboh's version in Zexal.
Certainly, I have
biases as a fan of the original Yu-Gi-Oh!
and I have to admit that I'm more into Dark
Magician since I hated Yuma's deck from the very beginning because of
how poorly it was thought and how his deck doesn't have prevailing theme or
such other than his monsters having repeated syllable names. Actually, I
believe that the entire concept of Zexal
was poorly thought. AND I would like to go over this next time(:
*If
I had mentioned anything wrong with regards to the concept of dueling or
what-so-ever, please do notify me since I'm not really into dueling or
anything(:
