Review: YYH-Dark Tournament for PS2
(Not professionally written, just a fangirl’s view )
Yep this is my experience playing the game a bit back... up for enjoyment purposes ^^

OH MY GOSH KURAMA ROCKS MY WORLD!!!

Once upon a time when I bought a the YYH PS2 Dark Tournament game becuase of the picture of a shiny Kurama even though I didn't have a console. I eventually broke in and bought one though. Now I'm not good with lenghty combos in fighting games so I was stuck on Gamma forever, then a few in between and then Risho. But while doing YYH research (I was trying to find the exact dialog between Hiei and Yukina in Eizou Hakusho when he returned the tear gem) I came across Game Cheats! Buwahaha! *coughcough*ahem*coughcough* Sorry, you’re not suppose to see my evil side. ^^ See look I’m an angel -> o : )

So I was able to put in “Take no damage” and “Infinite Spirit Energy” and I was like YES! My dream invincible self! WOOT! Okays so I get up to where Genkai fights Toguro in the woods (which I was like, o.O That scene seems pointless-they took out Kurama vs Urashima but they put this in here when you are suppose to loose, okay) Well Since Genkai still had top strength and wasn’t losing any I got her to defeat Toguro and I’m like, “ O-O I just changed YuYu History!” But then the screen was black and froze that way ToT So these guys really don’t want you to win this round. I had to reset and continued with Kurama vs Karasu *shivers* And it said that hurting Karasu hurts you too o.O okaaaaaay… I suppose that’s their way of saying if you move you’ll run into his invisible bombs. Well I turned Yoko and was Ogigi Planting him to no end and it was barely denting him but I was loosing life points…That’s right…When I reset I lost my cheat codes! Still at this disadvantage I still beat Karasu (HA TAKE THAT YOU EVIL SUPER SAYIAN VAMPIRE!). Even with the cheat codes Hiei fighting Bui was real tough, and it took a few completed dragons (when Bui didn’t interrupt me) to get him. In close combat I tried to get Hiei to pick Bui up and throw him (you know the short guy lifting this overweight ogre and not being crushed) but wasn’t able to. Even though parts of the game were not to my liking, the ending was good. First a flashback of Genkai’s dying speech and the animation clips of the others during the tournament really made it powerful, and then there was a new animation just for the game (they cut out Sakyo and the exploding stadium) and it was really good (not quality so much as the overall feeling) and I enjoyed that ^^ So before trying out the DTPlus, I decided to go through the Arcade with Kurama since only Ring-Outs would kill me ^^ (I’m so bad, I need like an 80% chance to win to even hope to have a chance) When I fought Bui, I got Kurama to pick him up quite a few times (So if Bui is easier to defeat by playing Kurama than Hiei, does that make Kurama the better fighter? I don’t think it’s because I’m more familiar with Kurama’s moves because turning Yoko, Ogigi and Jump Blast are all the special moves I can pull off with him, Hiei I can can pull out the sword, the Dragon if I’m not interrupted (another reason why Kurama would win if the two fought-Kurama could get him while he was preparing the dragon, unless he had a plan to stop the dragon), jump blast, and teleport). So yeah, it was cool to see our delicate Kurama holding big old Bui over his head then tossing him like a salad lol ^^ And then the end of that fight turned out SO SWEET!!! Bui comes down on me w/ his ax and I make the final blow (I think I just pushed Square but being the last of Bui’s HP the effects were over dramatic) to send him SOARING!!!! IT WAS SO COOOOOOOOOL!!!!! KURAMA IS SO HOT!!!!! (Except Yoko’s tail looks like it’s never been washed it’s so pointy) And the way he stands when he wins with his hip to the side (which I usually don’t like guys to do because guys don’t have hips {the way girls do}) I just want to run out into the arena and glomp him! He rocks the socks I’m not wearing! Ah as he throws Rose petals over the edge into the water where he threw Hiei lol
It’s cute after winning and Koto walks in front of Yoko ^^ And I LOVE him in black…too bad I have to beat him to see him like that ToT And when Kurama gets a new outfit (his school uniform how boring) the Player 2 color is like this yellow tan w/ blue trim o.O It’s not really his color-They should have done his yellow DT Finals outfit and then the player 2 could be the Green w/ Pink trim ^^ Then he would have looked real good! (yeah they have him wearing it in the final scene oh bah)

On the subject of tokens in the game. I had the main guys all except Kurama ToT I want my Kurama-sama why isn’t there a token of him?!?!? Going through DTPlus, I unlocked his token after having him beat the ogres on the ship. See (for those who didn’t know already lol) he is special, you get his token last of our four main guys, Best for last Plus the other three are pretty much useless, Hiei does no damage, Kuwabara does one, Yusuke does 2, but he only has 2 points to counter, Kurama has 4 ^^ But his token does berserk ToT I don’t like using those ones…but I guess it makes sense with his whip and all *sigh* And they added a new scene in the Plus as an intro to playing the token game in it, it’s weird because mouths move and there is no sound, and then my cute little kitten ears pick up our fox boy ( fox boy? ^o^ *GLOMP*) saying a line he does not say in the series! Then you see the feet of Rinku and Zeru walking and walking and walking (copy paste repeat a bunch of times on that shot!) and then it goes back to them leaving the room w/ new dialog of them just getting there to challenge them because they can’t wait for the Tourney to start. Then back up some more to a Rinku line that he did use, then see the gang surprised to see him and Kurama’s mouth is moving but no sound ToT hm, yeah they definently could have done that one better. Too bad I wasn’t there to direct lol Same thing when they added a token game w/ Urashima to get the Yoko Token ^^ lots of odd cutting to put the scene together, but oh well, at least in the Plus they added some more Kurama ^^

Other fun tid bits while doing the DTPlus, while Hiei fighting Kuwabara to “prove he can still fight even with one hand” The grab and throw technique was amusing because Hiei uses his good hand to grab Kuwabara by the hair and pulls him to fall on his back. Now, I love Kuwabara, don’t get me wrong, but I’ll admit he’s ugly and has an annoying voice-and attacking that hairdo was FUNny! And when I fought Toguro the final Final blow he disappeared through the ring as he went down lol ^^ Did I mention I like in the ending Yusuke gets up (no one is as hurt as bad as they were in the series) and the CROWD yes the anti-human demon mob crowd is all cheering and the stadium is in tip top shape after it being all beaten up from previous matches lol