Yu-Gi-Oh Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution

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This mod adds the campaign from Yu-Gi-Oh: Duelist of the Roses. It does this by replacing a portion the 5D's campaign.

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This mod replaces a portion of the 5Ds campaign with a campaign that is pulled from the 2001 game Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Duelist of the Roses.

Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Duelist of the Roses is set in 15th century England and features a very different version of Yu-Gi-Oh, which is played out almost on a chess board. 
This mod attempts to convert this to the trading card game.
I have always been fascinated by the card pool for this game. 
The game features to story paths the white and red rose. 
This mod mashes those two stories together.

As mentioned, due to differences in the games campaign system the new campaign features duels with characters from both story lines.

Each character has been added from 'The Duelist of the Roses'.
This includes the three deck masters, which are only available in custom duels.

The only decks that diverge from the game is for the tutorial duel, as you cannot complete this duel in reverse.
This means you can play the game as the red rose, and as the white rose.
The tutorial duel only uses the cards from the game (plus polymerization) and features a dragon deck against a spellcaster deck. 

This mod also changes the following:
- The arrow that indicates an attack has been changed from rainbow to red, because it is cooler. 
- The 5Ds field has been redone. This will affect all duels that use the 5Ds field.
- The 5Ds rock, paper, scissors screen has been changed. It is now red, because red goes faster.
- The logo for the 5D's campaign is now featuring the red and white rose.
- The story scripts align play out the story of the campaign. 

The duels for the campaign are as follows:
Dragons - Spellcasters (tutorial duel)
Tea - Weevil
Tristan - Rex
Mai - Bonz
Joey - Panik
Shadi - Pegasus
Deck master S (Goddess of Whim) - Bandit Keith
Mako - Paradox
Bakura - Deck Master T (Exodia The Forbidden One)
Solomon Moto - Ishizu
Deck Master I (Moisture Creature) - Richard Slysheen of York
Yugi - Seto
Manawyddan Fab Llyr (Chakra) - Manawyddan Fab Llyr (Skull Knight)

Notes:
- Ensure that you play the first duel as a normal duel. As a tutorial, duel it will not work.

- Bakura's deck is trash. I spent a lot of time play testing him against other characters around a similar stage in the story and winning was impossible. Deck
Master T was the only deck he could win against. However, I have not had a chance to win in reverse. You may need to pimp a custom deck out to beat Bakura.

- In regards to the story, I am not an artist so the characters that are absent from the base game have been replaced with different character. These being Simon Mcmooran and Paradox. Simon being played by the Seeker and Paradox being played by some bloke from another series. I apologise for your immersion being shattered. Please suspend your disbelief. 

- Decks have been altered to work for Yu-Gi-Oh as a trading card game. This means that fusion cards that are in a character's deck in 'The Duelist of the Roses' have been added to the extra deck and their materials and one or two polymerizations have been added. However, I may have missed a fusion card or two. If you find one let me know and I will fix it as quickly as possible. 

Installation Instructions:
1. Backup your YGO_2020.toc and YGO_2020.dat.
2. Replace your YGO_2020.toc and YGO_2020.dat with the ones provided.
3. Play the game, please run the first duel as a normal duel and not a tutorial duel. 

Features I would like to add if there is enough interest or I find the time:
- Custom backgrounds for the campaign
- Custom portraits redrawn from 'The Duelist of the Roses' (I experimented with the original, but they are too low resolution to use)
- Custom booster packs so that you can acquire only cards from 'The Duelist of the Roses'. This will also involve changing other parts of the mod and how they work. 
- Custom characters for the campaign dialogue.
- Swap the artwork for cards to their classic art. For example, Dark Magician and Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
- Remove remaining 5Ds missions or create additional duels based of the card set from the game. 

Fun Facts about the Deck Masters, in the original game:
- Deck master S is playable by having a blank PS2 memory card in the second slot.
- Deck Master T is playable by having a blank PS1 memory card in the second slot
- Deck master I almost no one played against; you require a pocket station memory card peripheral released by Sony in 1999 only Japan to conduct this duel.

If you have any questions feel free to ask me on my discord:
https://discord.gg/r9TRKpSAD6