Comment by Izkata
2 years ago
Dwarf Fortress, the card game?
> When watching TV shows that have cool card games, like Yu-Gi-Oh, it seems like the game doesn't have rules, but instead the kids reason about the characters by looking at the pictures.
This is basically how it worked writing-wise in the original Duel Monsters series (though the characters acted like these were mostly all known effects/interactions), after that came GX where they toned down the creativity and mostly used real effects, then in Zexal and afterwards I think they stuck almost entirely to real effects with occasional exceptions.
I'll have to check out Duel Monsters, maybe can get some more inspiration. Have you ever seen Angelic Layer?
No, and to clarify I think you have seen it: Yu-Gi-Oh! is the name of the franchise and the original series that not many know about outside of the fandom, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters is the retooling that focused on the card game and was the first one to be officially translated to English, the one where the characters acted as you describe. There's been 7 spinoffs since then, the first two of which were Yu-Gi-Oh! GX and Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal.
Oh oh, gotcha. I only ever watched a few episodes when it was on TV in the US. And then a few more episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged ;)
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