Anyway here's a fun fact about Yugioh Forbidden Memories

In the harder fights, the game cheats

an example of how:

in the last fight against Kaiba

it says he has five cards in his hand, but that's a lie

his hand has half his deck in it

a 20 card hand

..... does forbidden memories not do deck out

I don't know how that works

maybe he gets 15 free turns of no draws

iirc how Forbidden Memories works is that technically, Kaiba's cards in hand are determined when he plays them, not when he draws them

at a guess: being a simulated card game and not a physical one, his deck only needs to be tracked as a number, not necessarily as a list of specific cards

so "kaiba has 20 cards in hand" does not have to mean "kaiba's deck has 20 fewer cards in it"

^ yeah basically at that. "kaiba 3 has access to 20 cards" does not mean "kaiba has 20 cards out of his deck" until the point he plays them

but the option to play them is there

could be something as simple as "When Kaiba 3 is choosing a card to play, he can choose any card in his hand or the top 15 spots on his deck"

honestly that's not a bad method for increasing the difficulty for a computer opponent in a card game, since you as a player can make some really busted decks and card combos, not to mention tailoring decks for specific opponents

yeah

design concepts are different in a single player card game

you want the opponents to be unfair so that you have to make an unfair deck to beat them

I watched the GDQ 2022 speedrun as background noise, I somehow missed this specific factoid of unfairness

there's good odds that he'll have a Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon droppable on turn 1

There's equally good odds that if you don't have an immediate and decisive counter for that Ultimate, you just lose

Which is why most speedruns of FM feature SUPER heavy RNG manip

Though I can’t prove it, there’s an app version of my favorite card game (smash up) and I’m 95% certain this is what the AI does when set to hard

Or something similar

Because every single time, they will have the best minions from their factions in their starting hand