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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Spirit Caller

It is a brand new year at the Duel Academy and the students are excited to start school. You are placed in the Slifer Red Dorm, and soon after the start of the school year, strange things begin happening. As…

68 30 November 2006

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Spirit Caller is a card & board game developed by Konami, released 30 November 2006 on Nintendo DS.

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What Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Spirit Caller is

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Spirit Caller is a card & board game game developed by Konami and released in 2006. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The player is on a ship, on their way to Duel Academy, with their friends Jaden Yuki and Syrus Truesdale. The player is placed in the Slifer Red dorm, and soon after, strange things begin to happen. As soon as these odd occurrences begin, you start hearing the voice of a duel spirit. This spirit is a good spirit and will help you duel and solve the mysteries surrounding the Duel Academy. The story loosely follows the events of the anime, only the player takes place of Jaden's duels. Such as Dimitri stealing Yugi's Deck, and the player getting it back. The game mostly covers the anime, from the beginning to the Dark Zane arc. Because the game is based on the anime, some major and minor…
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How it plays

Its themes are fantasy.

Where it sits in the Yu-Gi-Oh! series

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Spirit Caller is the 35th of 91 entries we hold in the Yu-Gi-Oh! series. The next entry was Yu-Gi-Oh! Online: Duel Evolution in 2007. Its critic score of 68 is 5 points above the series average of 63. The highest-rated entry is Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution at 85.

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How it was received

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Spirit Caller holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 37% of the 303 rated card & board game games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 3 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Spirit Caller launched on 30 November 2006, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Medieval II: Total War, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and Wii Sports. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Medieval II: Total War, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Wii Sports.

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When did Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Spirit Caller come out?
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Spirit Caller was released on 30 November 2006 for Nintendo DS.

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