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Mild Fantasy Violence: GamerDad made cartoon characters play a card game where pictures of monsters on the cards battle each other. Yu-Gi-Oh is a popular trading card battle game that, like Pokemon, has seen success in other marketable areas as well. With a cartoon show, video games, and of course, countless cards to collect, trade, and battle, Yu-Gi-Oh has been a kids' playground game staple for years. And now the latest video game: Yu-Gi-Oh GX: Tag Force 2, is now being dealt out on the Sony PlayStation Portable. Play a one player story mode where you compete in tournaments in a special Yu-Gi-Oh academy. Or play a quick battle with various rules and decks. Players can also battle and trade cards with up to four nearby people with their own PSP and copy of the game. Yu-Gi-Oh is a pretty complicated card battle game, especially for newcomers, but the basic gist is that two people have a deck of cards with monsters on them. These monsters have different attack points and life points, and it's up to the player to pick the right cards in his or her hand to whittle down the opponent's life points to zero. Different monsters and cards have varied rules for how and when they attack, or if they can do a side effect to disable the other player in some way. So a good card battler uses a lot of strategy. Graphics and audio are bright and cartoony, like the Yu-Gi-Oh TV show. However, the game itself is very unwelcoming to beginners. The printed instructions are just bare bones steps to getting started, and while there is a text tutorial of the rules in the game itself, it's very wordy, daunting, and like reading an encyclopedia. And battles feel long and drawn out if you don't know what you're doing (and they're long even if you do know what you're doing). Only people with a vast previous knowledge of the Yu-Gi-Oh game rules would get the most enjoyment from this game.  
Even though Yu-Gi-Oh is about battling monsters, violence in the game is only minimal since most of the game is just viewing cards on a table. But with all the reading required to wade through the menus and dialog boxes, coupled with the complicated rules of the card game, Yu-Gi-Oh GX: Tag Force 2 is best for older kids who know how to play Yu-Gi-Oh already.
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