Yugioh Nostalgiafags are a lot harder to sway, trust me.
"Anything after Duelist Kingdom is shit"
"Anything after GX is shit"
"OMFG Card games on motorcycle? SHIT."
"What the fuck? Zexal? Are they out of ideas? It must be shit!"
Same thing as Pokemon.
Zexal, like Unova, is like a reboot of the series, with elements of past generations worked into it.
B2/W2 are amazing compared to Red and Blue.
Likewise, Zexal is far better than the original Yugioh.
Take the new opening as an example. It looks like a legitimate anime, rather than a cartoon about trading cards.
https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=NHg86VQ2lR0 On the other end of Yugioh...
The card game has evolved into a shitty metagame of "who can use up their entire deck first". Unlike Pokemon, where you can easily enter the metagame by doing what the champs do, you must spend a good amount of cash to be any good. But traditional dueling with a cheap deck is hella fun.