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"The hay does that even mean?"
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On Writing A Duel · 9:22pm Mar 19th, 2018

Crossover stories with Yu-Gi-Oh! pop up on this site from time to time, and while the quality of said stories varies, they all share the same issue in my eyes: they do not treat duels as part of the story proper.

"The hay does that even mean?"

Easy. I believe duels should be subject to the same rules of storytelling than the rest of the story. First and foremost, indicating the players’ life points like this,

TWILIGHT: 4000 LP

SPIKE: 2500 LP

And a monster’s stats like this,

Blue-Eyes White Dragon

ATK/3000

DEF/3000

Or this,

Dark Magician (2500/2100)

May look good in a visual médium, such as anime and manga, but in a written one it comes off as jarring and breaking the flow of the narrative. It's the same as starting a chapter with LOCATION: PONYVILLE - 07:12:00 A.M., instead of a properly detailed introduction. Remember you're writing a story, not a script for a show, a comic book or a video game.

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