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Digimon World (デジモンワールド Dejimon Wārudo?) is a role-playing, adventure, and digital pet video game developed by Bandai released at January 28, 1999 in Japan, North America at May 23, 2000, and PAL at July 6, 2001 for the PlayStation. It is the first game in the Digimon World series. The storyline focuses on a human brought to File City on File Island by Jijimon to save the island. Digimon have been losing their memories and becoming feral and the city has fallen into disarray. The goal of Mameo is to save the island by helping Digimon recover their memory and return to the city.

As it came before the anime in Japan, it is very strictly based on the Virtual Pets. The game play revolves around raising a single Digimon from its Digitama form, hatching into a Fresh, up through In-Training, Rookie, Champion, and with work, Ultimate. A Digimon partner will die with age, and return to an egg eventually, so the player has to raise it again.

Fans of the anime will be familiar with the sixth stage, Mega; however this game was made only shortly after the Pendulum series of pets, which introduced Mega level.

To raise a Digimon partner, the player must train it, feed it, let it rest, and take it to the bathroom.

The other main aspect of gameplay is battle. The player's partner Digimon fight the Digimon that have become aggressive due to a crisis on File Island. Partner Digimon begin the game with a few basic skills but acquire more as they progress in levels through the game.

The PAL region's variant cover art features the seven initial Partner Digimon from Digimon Adventure. The group includes Tentomon which isn't obtainable but does however appear in Beetle Land and Gomamon, who is otherwise completely absent from this game

Gameplay

Digimon World's game play utilizes two major aspects: Raising and battling. The element of monster raising consists of feeding your Digimon, allowing it to rest, and leading it to the bathroom. As a Digimon grows and trains, it can digivolve into a stronger form; there are 5 stages of digivolution in total including the desirable Ultimate form. Raising a Digimon carefully and properly helps progress through the game, and improper treatment can lead to dire consequences. The second element of the game, battling, composes the other major aspect of the game. Digimon World's battle system heavily relies on options that a player can command, such as "Your Call" and "Retreat".[3] As a player ventures in the wild, Digimon may engage in battle when touching each others paths. Battles are usually inevitable while adventuring, and they are a reliable source of techniques that a Digimon can learn and money. Training a partner Digimon enhances its parameters, enabling it to fight with better ease and digivolve to powerful forms. Digimon World also provides various mini-games for the player, including fishing, arena tournaments, and curling. Sub-quests are also available, mainly for new recruiting Digimon and other hidden surprises.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

goated ps1 game

anyway, finished echoes of wisdom. I really liked it, nice to get such a unique 2d zelda game. I do think it ran out of steam a little near the end. The final "dungeon area" felt super rushed, barely can really call it a dungeon tbh. But I did really like the final boss fight

It also felt pretty repetitive by the time I was nearing the end. The formula for each dungeon area is basically the same with little to no real deviation from that formula. I think the echoes are really cool but its easy to get into a loop of using your faves and they don't really change up the gameplay too much compared to unlocking new items in trad zelda games.

Also being able to recover hearts by sleeping kind of trivializes the smoothie system. I barely used them the entire game and the handful of times you need them for the environmental buffs they provide (swimming/diving, warming you up in freezing areas, etc) come and go so quick you barely need to use them. On hebra, i basically walked straight through the freezing part in like 10 seconds and then never needed to use a warming potion again, I still had like over 4 minutes worth of it left that were just ticking down lol

all in all I enjoyed it but nintendo usually does such a good job exploring mechanics to their fullest, I wish we would have seen more of that in this one. I know they outsourced a large amount of the development of this one but I wish they'd be a little more hands on bc it probably would have helpled with that stuff.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I've decided to blame protestants for American menswear being fucking boring.

Working on how to get hold of some illegal jewel tones and other forbidden fashion fabrics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

https://x.com/dietkramer/status/1839812054762344783

I was really impressed at their peripheral vision at firat, but apparently there's screens to the side so it isn't even that lmao

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I'm trying to get my workshop together after years of being incapacitated by illness.

What i'm finding is every step of building an organization reveals three more things to do. Right now the problem of how to store my unreasonable number of hammers where they'll be readily accessible is vexing me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Today my friend was saying she felt bad about her weight. I was reminded that we exercise so we can lift up our comrades. Cause I picked her up and twirled her and she giggled. Then she got shoulder ride to get stuff off the top shelf in the kitchen. She felt much better after that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Starting Tokyo Drifter and the whites in the opening are insanely bright, to the point where it feels like detail is lost. Almost looks like it was shot on infrared film. Lol, I'm sure it's an inrended effect, but sometimes I'm like is there a reason behind this or could they just not afford better equipment?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My core memory of Digimon World is being excited when my digimon evolves, just for it to turn into the shit-eating slug (numemon I think?), or the giant yellow shit-monster that also eats shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Will never forget when a Craigslist petition company hired me, and flew me to ohio to get signatures for legal abortions and weed. Then they were like we got another assignment for you in Montana a month later, so I got flown to Billings. They handed me the petition and it was the biggest hock of horse shit, wanting me to get supporters for Joe Manchins No Labels party. I didnt do shit and got sent back home a week later.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

more like no voters party m i rite lmfao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The fash in my country is running ads on TikTok, promising that they'll do something about high prices in supermarkets. Their proposed solution (lower taxes) is idiotic and puts blame at the government being too big rather than private capital doing price gouging.

That is infuriating enough as it is. What is even more infuriating is how the "left" seems completely invisible on the issue. They're not demanding price controls or denouncing price gouging. The best they can do is proposing windfall taxation on the price gougers.

Yet again the fash is proposing something that feels like it will directly benefit people materially while the left is proposing bureaucratic measures that has no direct and easily understandable way of improving daily life.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The dems should be doing something to undermine third parties or try to get ranked choice voting if they were really concerned about third party votes being votes for the opposing party. They don't have the gumption to try some shit to keep power because they're professional losers. They want to lose. They suck on purpose.

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