>>530043289
I was interested in Cross Duel until I saw the gameplay on some streams during the pre-launch they did. It looked really boring, so I ended up not downloading it. It also looked even more predatory than DL, which is honestly kind of impressive.

The Early Days collection is definitely pretty rough, but I've liked it so far. The Duel Monsters series is janky and has some baffling design choices (as do most Yugioh videogames and sims), but it does have a lot of charm and the GBC card art is surprisingly good. It's been interesting playing through the series in the collection, since most of those games stayed in Japan. And as for the ones that use the "expert" rules, the first one is basically just staple spam, but it gets more interesting later on, when there's more variety to the kinds of decks that one can build. Plus, it wasn't nostalgiaslop back then. It's nostalgiaslop when they keep bringing it back and doing endless retrains of old cards. But that's not exclusive to the DM era. GX is definitely not free from that.