I skipped the 2nd game because it's not really relevant since the 3rd has all the cards from all three games. There's also a bug present in 1 that doesn't save your game which kills the fun of winning games and collecting cards.

Also worth noting that the ai SUCKS in the first game and most decks Yami plays have all pieces of exodia and he will play stall to get them all. Joey's game at least scales the ai to meet your deck, which is nice because starting out you have a pretty lackluster deck.

YugiKaiba format in Yugi The Destiny just feels like it was designed to frustrate and burn your ass on. While on the other hand the Goat era of Joey The Passion is much easier to play and the cards give you a nice little toolkit of options outside of a mad scramble to summon the strongest beaters before your opponent does.

https://archive.org/details/yu-gi-oh-power-of-chaos-trilogy_202404 (windows will freak out it's a trojan but it's just a false positive since it's a cracked game)