Throwdown a facedown with your fave GX character in this Yu-Gi-Oh throwback.
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The Yu-Gi-Oh Tag Force series returns after more than a decade with Yu-Gi-Oh Tag Force GX, a modernized remake of GX Tag Force 3. This marks the Tag Force series’ Nintendo debut and the first North American release of GX Tag Force 3.
The robust story mode follows the later chunk of the anime, including the season that didn’t air in the US. A plot synopsis and tutorial aim to bring newcomers up to speed. Gameplay is based on more classic rules from the era with one big twist: the player chooses a teammate to take turns with in duels.
As a card game, Yu-Gi-Oh is known for its fast pace as the first hit trading card game to forgo dedicated resource cards (like Energy in Pokémon or Land in Magic), instead asking players to sacrifice smaller monsters to pay for stronger ones. Each monster can act as an attacker or defender, adding versatility to every monster in your hand. With action cards like Spells and Traps, players can dream up convoluted combos with satisfying domino effects. In Tag Force duels, the player takes turns with a major character from the show but shares a field, meaning decks need to combo off each other.
Konami’s demo at New York Comic Con let us choose from a handful of major characters, each with a different story, before dropping us in a bedroom on an island. We ran around the top-down map a bit, chatting to people and finding cards. When challenging characters to a duel, we could choose between a Tag Force or One-on-one duel. The demo had no tutorial.
Between our AI partner and two AI opponents, games somewhat played themselves and were a bit hard to follow. Luckily, characters narrate their turns and react to the game state with an impressive amount of voice acting. Watching Jaden combo off whatever cards we managed to play acted as its own form of tutorial. The UI was clean, bright, and flashy, with different backgrounds for different characters and big cutscenes for iconic cards. We had a ton of decks to choose from with different levels and other stats attached to them.
Yu-Gi-Oh Tag Force GX seems to be a meaty card game RPG with a ton of polish. The fact they chose to remake the third and final GX entry promises a bombastic story with tested mechanics, and the care put into presentation helps celebrate GX’s 20th anniversary. Yu-Gi-Oh Tag Force GX is worth keeping an eye on for any card game fan when it releases February 16th, 2027.
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