Stardust Accelerator is the first dueling game to use the new cards and dueling system form Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's and attempts to bring the character into that story in an overall fun, if not somewhat incredible aggravating at times. In terms of graphics, they aren't the worst I've seen, but not the best either. Decent for the DS. The story revolves the player waking up in thr ghetto known as Satellite, and working with characters form the anime such as Yusei and rally to make it to Neo [New] Domino City, along with dealing with enemies such as Tetsu Ushio [Trudge] and the mysterious Rex Godwin. It was an interesting idea, but I felt it just sort of ended with no real conclusion when you complete story mode. The game play again follows the basic strategy of reduce your opponent's life to 0, except adding in the new Tuner and Synchro monster systems. Along the way, you also obtain D-Wheel [Duel Runner] parts to conduct a Riding Duel, a high paced duel played using Speed World, where only Speed Spells can be activated. However, it is not all dueling. You can race people using your D-Wheel [this was okay], run around in the City and Satellite interacting with people and collecting cards, and a stealth based mission. Yeah...don't even get me started on that. What the game really suffers from is AI problems. Sometimes, the computer is piss easy to defeat, and other times it is completely brutal. Most of the time your opponent uses Messenger of Peace, and it's just you waiting aruond for someone to deck out. There are some sound errors when card effects activate and monsters are summoned [music is also quite bleh. I do like the theme when you duel people like Aki [Akiza] though. Quite nice.], but hose are easily ignored. Also, there is so much buildup to the D-Wheel, and it doesn't turn out to be what's it crakced up to be. Multiplayer options are very nice though, as you can receive Duel Puzzles, cards, new opponents to fight, and compete with anyone in the world to become the best there is. Do I recommend it? If you are a newbie to Yu-Gi-Oh, it's not the place to start since there are so many rules, you would get slaughtered. But if you're someone who has played a lot of Yu-Gi-Oh! games and is a fan of the anime, get it. It is well worth the money, despite it's flaws.
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