DM4 has weird monster levels

[Thunderfang777]

So I started playing Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 4 earlier, and the cards are really weird. I realized that the star ratings are inflated from their IRL counterparts. That means that many monsters that were 4 stars in the real life card game require tributes in Duel Monsters 4. For example, Giant Soldier of Stone, a 3-star monster in the IRL card game, has 6 stars in Duel Monsters 4.

Apparently, the manga also has higher star ratings than the IRL card game or the anime, but many of the monsters in Duel Monsters 4 even have higher star ratings than in the manga.

Is there an explanation for this besides "Konami was being weird back in the Game Boy era of Yu-Gi-Oh"?

By the way, I already played Sacred Cards and Reshef of Destruction, so the Pokemon-esque type matchups don't surprise me at all.

[blizzcarsten]

Originally posted by Thunderfang777:

Is there an explanation for this besides "Konami was being weird back in the Game Boy era of Yu-Gi-Oh"?

If i had to take a guess i would say it is the same reason for almost any game franchise : Changing things to make the game more interesting.

Having played Dm4 first (currently playing 3 ) i would say the suceeded with it, DM4 plays extremly different compared to DM3. With every Card above 1350 Atk or Def Stats requiring a Tribute, the Fusion System becomes way more important. Sadly the new Rules turned BlueEyes into Garbage, requiring 3 Tributes and having a Attribute which is countered by one of the most used Attribute by the Enemys is "slightly" bad.

Altough the completly ruined the Difficulty in the process at least for the first Stage in DM4. Out of the 5 Opponents only one has a slight chanche (rex) and the other a good shot (weevil) at defating you. The other 3 Opponents are free Wins. The second Opponent in Dm4 can literally defeat a single Card from our Starterdeck, every other Card is at most equally strong or weaker.....

[mantidactyle]

It's a nerf from DM3 / Dark Duel Stories where duels could sometimes last 2 to 3 turns. The game in PvP could be extremely fast due to threats like Jirai Gumo reaching 2860 ATK under the Forest field, and the prevalence of Monster-stealing cards, so they went to a rather extreme solution to make everything with more than 1350 ATK one Tribute, and anything with more than 2000 ATK two Tributes.