Least the new MAXIMUM never got spoiled before the episode (to my knowledge).

Just NOPE. This might be the worst final episode of Go rush. NOTHING makes sense or is properly explained. Like Phaser’s redemption makes NO SENSE. So Tremolo being afraid of aliens was the ONLY reason Phaser hated aliens to that degree which is such weak reasoning and yet they shifted gears as soon as Phaser lost even before the fossil appeared and everyone quickly accepted and started to smile with them. None of it made sense and they never even explained how did Phaser even learned about the Maximums or control the relic to card people nor what does those scrolls actually do. And Yuga fucks off YET AGAIN for no reason because god forbids he sticks around. Also Phaser’s humanoid dragon form looked goofy as hell

This final needed 2 episode to explain, answer and properly conclude all the things it had to but forced it all to a single episode and made no sense as a result. The duel was good I will give it that but the events and explanations around it was terrible

Ugh yeah. None of that build up with Tremolo and Phaser over the past episodes felt actually resolved. They sort of just shoehorned it in and now all of a sudden Phaser just accepts the aliens? After what he did in the previous episode? Since it was a finale duel, and since the big duel vs Zwijo was done rather well in both story and duel, I got my hopes up in vain.

They also don't explain how the Ryugu bros' parents died or why. Nor do they explain the scales and the cloth weaving. Like, why was that there? How did Tremolo know to cover his brother with the scale cloth? So many plot points added and barely expanded on.

Duel aside, I can't even begin to defend this one and I'm usually pretty lenient with these. One of the first times I actually felt disappointed at the end of an episode.

Figured. They seem to be doing stuff like this a lot with their Rush shows. Unless the villain has been continuously built up throughout the arc with intentions to finish the arc as intended, the villains seem to always get some speedy whitewash treatment that doesn't feel real.
The errors in this episode felt like they either needed more time and reasoning to explain how they came to this conclusion or in the case of the relic + maximum, need the next comedy episode to sprinkle the info to build up the next story arc.

Right now, only Otes(in a way)and Zwijo were able to stay villains for more than 13 episdoes.

Some people may not like this take... But I 10000% agree with you on Yuuga taking off. It's been 1 1/2 series with him having all the exposition at his fingertips and what do we get lore being used not as a plot catalyst, but as a vague worldbuilding device whos only purpose is to tell the viewer that these seasons are connected somehow.

Thats the price we pay for the change of studio-13 episode arcs.

For an overall show quality I agree but for this instant NO. I think just a SINGLE more episode is all they needed. Some more build up and justification for Phaser's redemption and a bit more compelling reason for his antagonism, some answers for the shit ton of things they left unanswered and more time for things to breathe and sink in instead of forcing it all to a single episode and it would have be decent enough. And we are still in episode 64 and not 65 since the last arc was 12 episodes so we could have EASILY got one more episode for this arc to hit that 65 episode. And yet they didn't do it which is stupid

The opening song wont change anytime soon and it shows Phaser and Tremolo as villains, whats the point of that?
also, it seems like a miracle that Zwijo stayed a villain for 52 episodes.

I am not getting your point. I am not talking about 13 episode arcs and it has nothing to do with my point. This arc could have end on a mostly satisfactory note just by having ONE more episode which was extremely possible since the last season had 12 episodes so we have one to spare and could have end this season at episode 65.

It didn't need to be +20 episode or 50 episode, just a SINGLE more episode which was easy to give would have be enough to make this final not as stupidly forced and yet they forced it all to a single episode

In this case, you might be right.
but the weird thing here is that Tell Kawai comes out of nowhere and start speaking like he knows everything.
what i said is mostly in general, but my point is why the opening show focus of an arc that ends after 12/13 episodes with Tremolo and Phaster as villains?

niceee

So...Phasers' motivation for his hatred and prejudice towards aliens...was just cause his brother was scared of em as a kid?....That's it? Yeah that's....kind of a let down. I just thought he hated aliens cause they used to hunt down his ancestors. This is just simplifying it WAY too much.

im starting to wonder if this series can have fully villain antagonists XD

Haha we did it guys. We guessed Phaser was an alien and we guessed 3 Ouga cards makes a maximum.

I did all of the maths, now there's absolutely 0 doubt, Yuuhi will 100% 1000% be the protagonist of the next arc

I like the confidence here.

Wow, one card was used to get the last Maximum piece, what a play... and then a simple hard draw again into a shuffle and drawing the new Maximum.

Beside the duel itself, Phaser's redemption just happened, now he's a good guy I guess.

Oh my god, why is the animation so bad? It's so so bad.

The maximum monsters' animation is so awful it almost looks like these old PS1 games, like what the hell? I swear, SEVENS' animation for Maximum was better than this and it was still bad.

Ugh, Yugioh is getting worse after every freaking episode, just cancel this shit already!

I'm pretty sure CGI was used for the Maximum Monsters.

Yes, we all know that, however, it was never THIS terrible. This is just a completely new level, it's like the crew no longer cares.