same. i enjoy caring about these little sprites and catching them in the "wild". I guess my dumb ass just ignores all of the problem because I didnt know better
they should think about re-releasing this as an app, considering what kind of shit passes for a mobile game this would actually be pretty high standard.
The funny thing about this game is that deep down, I always found it okay at best, yet I couldn't stop playing it. There was something strangely addictive about this that no other Digimon game had, and I don't know what it is.
Oh my god, I've been thinking about this for YEARS. Oh how I've wished bandai released an improved version of this game on mobile. However, I think you dislike the game more than it deserves, probably because you tried to play it like a normal game and rush through it for a video. I played this a lot when it came out and took my time with it and had a blast, although I recognize most, if not all problems you had with it. But It always gave me the feeling that the idea could've been improved.
I tried to take my time with it, I just ran out of shit to do once I hit the max rank, and had Megas. Rushing to the championship was just to make sure I didn't miss anything. It's not a very deep or complex game by any means, but I had to be sure the championship didn't hide something worth talkin' about!
@@binarekoharijanto4586 if your digimon didn't digievolve then they will die cuz of short lifespan Digievolve will increase lifespan and at somepoint will turn to an egg and make them stronger when hatch
I got this game when my family evacuated to my uncles for hurricane ike(2008) it kept me entertained for the 2 weeks we were there and then it got left on the shelf when I finally figured out how to play pokemon and digimon world dawn effectively.
Games you play during crises always have a special place in your heart. I remember playing Breath of Fire 3 when I had to evacuate from bushfires one year, and every time I flee from fire, I've got a copy of it on me for good, nostalgic vibes during a horrible time. Though, I hope for your sake you never have to flee a hurricane or play Championship again!
I was a very young child when I played this game, so young that I don’t remember doing much other than catching and feeding them. I still played for hours and im gonna look for another copy now
I recently had the urge to play a *monster taming/fighting RPG and something other than Pokémon.* Looking them up, I saw many mention Digimon games. I had watched the anime as a wee kid and remember enjoying it and not much else. Then I remembered you did a series of videos on them so I binge watched them and reached here. Now I'm more confused then before. Not because you did a bad job or anything, quite the contrary they were very well done. I'm confused at the so wildly varying quality of of every title in the series, that I don't know which to pick up. I understood that World 3, DigiDS and Next Order are the good ones, but even then they have their own huge ups and downs. Sorry, my incompetent brain couldn't process the detailed breakdowns you gave in all of your videos.
No worries, my dude. The series is... Iffy. It's magical in its own right because it goes from great games to horrible games so rapidly. Like a seismometer. I'd recommend Digimon World 1, RE:Digitize, and Next Order for the V-pet style games. I think Next Order is the weakest of the three, but it is the most modernized. Nothing will ever beat the original game in my mind. For the 'traditional JRPG' style, World 3, DS/Dawn and Cyber Sleuth are the hot ones. 3, DS, and Dawn will test your patience though. Bring a speed-up button.
I'm years late, but I'm going to second Cyber Sleuth. It's THE epitome title for a Digimon JRPG. It was so good it's entire core and most of it's mechanics were ported to mobile for Digimon Linkz, one of the franchise's best mobile entries by far when it was still around.
I had a lot of good times with it as a kid, and I'd yell at the DS somehow thinking encouraging my digimon would make them do better, but it usually just ended up with me out of breath, disappointed and upset at my digimon's general incompetence, and further disappointment in their penchant for evolving into skull mammothmon. Coming back to it, it's always nice to remind yourself how low your standards were as a child.
Enjoyed the game as is, for the most part, though you do bring up valid points. Don't always need a story to be a good game, particularly if you're there for the virtual pet aspect on its own.
Oh, totally. Games don't need stories at all, and games that're all story generally suck, but with the fairly absent amount of features and gameplay, it would've been neat to have a little something else progressing next to the Championship ideal. Some character interaction, a little side-story, quests or something you can fulfill that aren't just for medals or money.
I played this game for many many hours as a kid because back in 2009 I only had this and pokemon diamond.I had mixed feeling for it due to its odd auto-gameplay.And I also remeber one of my friends suggesting me to use an action replay catridge to get that one digimon control method,making this hell of game less painful.
And it's still the DS Digimon game I enjoyed the most, Caspaboo. I don't see the matches so uneventful, but everything else I agree with you, even though I still love to play it. The absence of the adventure aspect is more explicit in the japanese name (without the "world" in it). I'm actually surprised that Cyber Sleuth didn't get a "World" slapped on it's title.
Technically, World and Story are two different branches of Digimon games these days (Story being the RPG and World being for the V-Pet games), so it's not really shocking they left out the 'World' title for the two Cyber Sleuth games. ...Or so I've been told. A friend only got me into Digimon last year after she watched me play Monster Rancher.
I'm glad they've finally split the World and Story series in the West. They kept releasing -Story games under the -World banner because people liked the first one back in 1998 or 9 or whenever it was. What a poor decision.
Yes, I'm pretty happy with it too. But the World series had to find itself within the V-pet thing after roguelikes, dungeon crawlers and pokemon games.
I'm not sure what you mean by that, 7PLAYS. Maybe it allowed them to be more popular, but they did start on the Digivice, which is essentially an LCD game that created most of World's functions/care mistakes. As for Pokemon, they're really nothing alike either (though, I do see a parallel between Digimon and MR, but those are closer to the same genre).
I know about all that. World 1 was Digital Monster V-Pet with adventure and RPG elements. When I say roguelike I mean World 2 (procedurally created dungeons with a "hunger" system), dungeon crawlers I mean World 4 (gameplay similar to Diablo) and pokemon I mean World 3 with a party of 3 Digimon, more streamlined evolutions and battles, etc. I love all of them, what I mean is that the World series had to return to it's first game's roots to be recognized as the "Adventure V-Pet" series.
i remember playing this a bunch as a kid and i think what kept me going was the fact that there was so many digimon to unlock, and you also needed to do specific things if you wanted your digimon to evolve into rarer forms
2:48 Well, it is really frustrating to be just one stat point off to get the desired digivolution, just so that the day ends and the next start with your virtual pet digivolving into something you did not desire.
@@xavierlilim1838 I'll definitely be talking about Survive, and I've already got a video on Cyber Sleuth! I'm actually about to release a Hacker's Memory video in about... 2 hours. :^)
Man I love this game, very nostalgic. I was just content with nice pixel art battles and nice music. I hope the battle style will be used in a future game (Digimon or not).
One of my favorite Digimon games and in my opinion how a Digimon MMO should be(close to): >Player Avatar customization >Start with a Baby (random or chosen) digimon >Train and digivolve to different forms with different training conditions >Compete against other players >Get more digimons and train >Exploring Most people really hate the "Tamagochi/V-pet" gameplay system but i like alot. If you are a good tamer your digimon become a good digivolution badass digimon who win every time, if not the digimon become a shit, literally (Sukamon lol), and only lost battles. The game have alot of digimons, from baby to mega, with alot digivolutions lines (now we have this in Cybersleuth and Next Order), what i always wanted. There are some flaws but overall is very fun (when you know how to play).
I love the tamagotchi/v-pet style in the original Digimon World, because it gives you a narrative and objectives but still keeps it loose enough with a big focus being on the Digimon care. You right though, I think this would be a pretty killer framework for a digimon mmo
Don't be so hard on yourself, your dedication to digmin is what sets you apart and lead me to subscribe. Keep up your unique work and I'll keep SMASHING that like button.
I'm not even a big fan of the games, and I've only watched the first season of the anime as a kid. I loved the first game, and people kept asking for more, so I figured I'd do the whole bloody series! I appreciate the commitment!
This is still one of my favorite DS games of all time because I'm a digimon nerd and I thought it was fun. I still won't invalidate your opinion though, it is pretty crappy if you look back on it.
You still shouldn't ever let anyone catch you watching Digimon. Also, it's amazing that this entire endeavour started as a result of me liking the first game, and people kept asking for more. WHO IS ASKING FOR MORE NOW!?!? nobody fucking nobody
I think people liked it so hard ironically, that they've begun to unironically like it. We memed a show into existance.....dear God what have we done..... This is the one time I'm ever deleting my internet history.
This is literally probably the first Digimon game I played as a kid, another being a game related to the Data Squad Series weirdly enough, but I honestly really liked Championship as a wee lad...you know....IF I COULD ACTUALLY FIGURE OUT HOW TO DIGIVOLVE INTO ACTUALLY GOOD DIGIMON, thats something I still don't understand to this day, and I don't know if this is just a thing in most digimon games but I just don't like it, like is it really ok for there to not even be a hint as to what requirements are required to digivolve into the coolest digimon? Like I had nothing, could only ever digivolve to Vadermon and maybe a handful of Megas that only required passing time to get. It took until maybe 4-5 years ago for me to come back to the game and just look up the requirements, and then I destroyed all the remaining opponents I had. For real though I really did love this game as a kid, and I did still enjoy it when I came back after you know...actually being able to get strong digimon. So ya.
Did you play on an emulator or a DS? I noticed some of the things you mentioned when trying on emulator and realized how much better of an experience I had playing on a DS so that might be why or nostalgia googles who can really say.
The evolution is a bit more complicated than that. The time based evolution have two variables, either they turn into what they are supposed to (time based evolution) or they turn into something in their past lives (I think the 'mons "memory" would cover up to 3 lifes/generations so you could get anything from those options). I believe you can control the camera with the buttons as well. It is not a bad game but it is not a game for everybody, this is essentially an updated version of the original LCD Digitalmon Monster V-pet toy, if you don't enjoy raising virtual pets then you won't enjoy this game, otherwise you will have lots of fun with this game. That and you can still battle other players even without Wi-Fi. this game has a "password system" so you can view a team's password, send it to somebody and have that person battle your team and vice versa. EDIT: You do NOT gain control over one of your digimon just for beating the championship, you do need to complete the Digipedia (ugh). What you get for completing the championship is new hunting areas, new cage upgrades and new matches that provide you with new cages (this doesn't sound like much but there's a particular cage that allows you to train "battles" without actually wasting your time in a battle).
Is the memory thing up to 3? Because I definitely went through more than 3 lifecycles just pressing "end day" and every time I'd get a WarGreymon. I know how the memory thing works, because I ended up with a few SkullMammothmon and thought they were really cool, but they're just a slightly stronger Sukamon. Thanks for letting me know about the Digipedia thing! I knew that both clearing the Championship and completing the Digipedia had stupid rewards, I just got them mixed up!
Either 2 or 3, can't remember but that is the reason why Digimon might sometimes evolve in strange ways on their own (For instance, once my Patamon evolved into a Thunderballmon, a form it can't normally evolve into. This was possible because that Patamon was a Thunderballmon in one of its past lifes). But if you keep evolving your Digimon into the same line/forms then the memory will have the same digimon over and over, thus resulting in the same digimon no matter what. Well, the championship rewards are nice (pretty much the only way to get Dracomon directly) but yeah, both rewards are kind of disappointing. PS: I forgot if it was a championship or match reward but there is a point in which you can get a special trap that guarantees your capture, in case you no longer want to use ropes to hunt Digimon.
I don't think I ever got that, but I wasn't doing any capturing after a certain point in the game anyway. Couldn't stand to let my core team go, and after I had to release a Gesomon, I only really hunted once more. I could've had it and just not seen it. Would've been nice to have when I needed it though!
Yeah, that's one thing I didn't really like about the game. Some digimon are really memory heavy or the memory capacity is not big enough (kind of a bad idea for a creature raising/collecting game to be sincere), that and I wish that special trap I'm talking about was available as a championship reward instead of having to get it post game (when you actually need it lol).
I know that like it would be suited for mobile but something about it on the ds just works better for me, I'm not really sure why it just feels better. There's a similar game someone developed that is a bit like this one but just didn't hit the same mark as it would on the ds. I literally cannot explain it, I find myself coming back to this specific digimon game all the time and I don't know why lol
I loved this game also your digimon remember thier previous lives so snow agumon can just decide he wants to be tyranomon or black greymon its kinda funny tbh i was like oh my goodness you chose that despite me raising your dragon you just went down a whole different path
I legit played this when it came out and all I ever remembered about it all these years was hating the leash system for catching new Digimon. It's no wonder I couldn't remember the story, there was nothing to remember lol
I was lucky to have friends that got into this game after I bought it off a kid who hated it. We would trade the cartridge between the three of us raising different digimon to battle while looking after each other's digimon and doing the championships.
I played this game after Digimon World Dawn and assumed it was a sequel. When there was no story, I was disappointed. When there no control in battle, I thought I was doing something wrong. I didn’t know lots of Digimon games have AI combat, or that there’s still an audience for it. Probably the least favorite game I’ve ever played.
Im so crap at time management that when i was found out xcom had a time limit to the champaign i immediately stopped playing after saving the game and never went back lol.
I always get sad by how Bandai treats some of their franchises, especially digimon. my friend described it best: an identity crisis. This game, released as an actual mobile app with the appropriate care put into it, combined with the functionality of Pokemon Bank / Home so you can take these mons into more traditional mainline games... is my absolute perfect idealization of a virtual pet franchise. and the fact that I have YET to see any company actually fully go down this route absolutely baffles me. the amount of potential revenue something like this could generate?! and it could be done in a way that wouldn't even be bad for PR. and yet, all we get for mobile games from digimon are cheap gachas that only last a couple years at best per. RIP digimon heroes, that was actually fun.
I wasn't going to do it at all, I was only going to do the English-released ones, but enough people asked for it to change my mind! I just bought Hacker's Memory, but I think I'll do Adventure first, solely because of the amount of people asking about it.
Wait you didn't review Adventure PSP? What the fuck. I watched a UA-camr with a Moomin avatar review Adventure PSP years ago and subscribed to you because I assumed you were the same guy.
I've done RE:Digitize, and appeared in a video that reviewed Adventure, but my part in it was awful, and I should've done it way better. Just me bitching about how it wasn't Digimon World 1. Awful segment in an otherwise good video.
It does seem like some kind of unholy mobile game. It is unique and I kind of like the idea of having a timer on overall play and having to schedule around it, making sure you have certain digimon by the end of the month/year etc. I think with a slightly different combat system and light exploring elements it could have been interesting.
Ahh, a Digimon review. A Casp-Classic. ;) This game does give me a Tamagotchi meets Monster Rancher vibe, based on what I saw in the video. With some tweaks, I could see it working as a mobile game. But yeah, definitely looks disappointing in the form. Great video!
Always had a fondness for Digimon and Monster Rancher 2 is one of my all time favorites. I think some part of my mind will not accept the likelihood that I wouldn't enjoy this experience. That said, I am painfully curious to see what a FFXII style gambit system could do with this game's hands off battle system.
i remember playing this as a child,this game introduced me to emulated games and english,so many memories.The only shitty thing was seeing your huge ass mammooth dying and becoming an egg a day before a mega only level tournament
THIS GAME. This is the game that, imo, led to the drought of Digimon games in the west for all those years! Now, the two games that came after it on the DS, Digimon Story Lost Evolution and Digimon Story Super Xros Wars Red/Blue, would have sold well enough had they been released in the west. Hell, having played the latter on an emulator, I can say from experience that it is actually difficult- those 500+ stats that would almost one-shot the final boss in Dawn/Dusk? Yeah, you're going to need stats like that to even stand a chance against the final boss in Super Xros Wars. However, after this game bombed, Namco-Bandai decided that Digimon games just "weren't popular enough" in the west, and thus Lost Evolution and Super Xros Wars ended up being Japan-exclusive. Yes, it was TOTALLY because Digimon games were no longer popular enough to bother localizing and not because this game was such a break from the RPG format that made Dawn/Dusk what they were. I could list the things wrong with this game, but this comment is already a wall of text as it is, and besides, that's what Casp's video is for.
I remember being super excited when Xros Wars dropped, but I couldn't read Japanese, and just waited for a localization. Glad I wasn't holding my breath!
Then you gotta do like or 2 more normal vids before starting your "remasters" in which you go back and look at your old videos and think "I could expand on this more" and splurge out that sweet digital knowledge on us once again.
yo have you seen the new Digimon Game Digimon Survive? Seems like Digimon is going to take a much darker turn. Heck if you pay attention to the part when it says "Death and Danger" in the trailer you'll see a blood splatter effect.
Sweet, I'm actually looking forward to the VN if it's written well and they go the route where the Tamer's emotions affect their Digimon. Like if the characters undergo serious trama but you don't see on their faces but instead you see it through their partners. Their digimon being a reflection of what their minds are actually going through. Probably setting my hopes to high though.
Yes, pray to me. This seems like a game that would absolutely work as a companion to a main series title. Like, DIGIMON WORLD: STINKY URETHRA comes out on the fucken...playstation 4, you can carry your digimans on your phone, train them in this and then put them back in the game. As a full priced stand-alone it looks garbo.
This game was a fairly entertaining distraction for me. The hunting was certainly trash, the fights didn't feel important, but the time limits and the many digimon to take care of at the same time made it feel like a management game that goes at a relatively fast pace. Maybe it's because I didn't play it so much, and it was not that long ago so I was already used to uneventful phone games to appreciate how this one plays, but as a distraction, I thought it was pretty okay
Yeah, I'd say the first couple of hours are really neat. It was the first time they let you just focus on the V-Pet stuff without any extras. If you're a tamagotchi fan, you would've dug it, but the middle of the game starts to tank fast, and the end game is super tedious.
I don't know if you've played Sun/Moon, but those games were 20-hour tutorials with a tiny bit of freedom at the end. I love Pokemon, but Nintendo make it really hard sometimes. Also releasing what is effectively Pokemon Go on the Switch is baffling.
_"Also releasing what is effectively Pokemon Go on the Switch is baffling."_ Not really. Go probably attracted a lot of casuals and older fans who haven't played in a while, and Let's Go serves as a halfway point between Go and the main series (for which we're getting new games next year), so Let's Go serves the purpose of being a Switch test game and a less intimidating way to get people interested in the main series.
I disagree with this guys review. The game accomplished what it wants to very effectively, you are playing a fully fleshed out digivice the actual digivice where you raise pokemon, train them and battle them without input from the user. This game offeres a lot of customizable aspects, a ton of replayability and a ton of different digimon to raise. You can keep playing outside the scope of the main game after you the title mat ches and battle against friends. There are no really good virtual pet games around and this is the single package tamagotchi for boys we come to expect from a digimon game. Theres also digimon dusk if you want a more action oriented game on the ds. This gamestyle hasn't been done before and is reminiscent of rocket slime. It offers a ton of great 2d modela as well.
My biggest problem with the game is that when your digimon resets back to the digiegg it feels like lossed progress, and digivolving into what you want requires a guide.
The game is designed towards that and once you've acquired a certain evolution, going back to it is easy. It's only really an issue for fans of the anime only who aren't used to how random evolutions feel in digimon games.
You can get a Ticaramon early in the first area eventually after you get bombs...just bomb him and rope him up....and man it makes a lot of fights easier
It's a virtual pet sim. A lot of your complaints with it are things you don't like about the genre moreso than this one specific game. TBF no one likes the genre anymore except a few weirdos like me.
I like V-Pet games, there's just so much opportunity for it to have things to achieve, and shit to do. What it attempted was extremely lazy. It's got a decent system, but every fight feels the same, and if you're solely playing it so you can give a Digimon meat every day and not do much else, there's really no point. I weep for the lost potential, my dude.
Ik this is really late but I might have to ask you to review "Digimon Titties"...clearly this is a staple of the Digimon franchise and should be treated as such
Wow, I never even heard of this game. Which, given that it doesn't really look all that great, was probably for the best, I was already far too busy tricking my 14-year-old mind into thinking Digimon World Dusk/Dawn was a good game.
Well, you're right XD Maybe I'm the weird one, I've always had a jolly old time playing Digimon World 3 because it didn't try to be a stressing virtual pet. Same goes for the Digimon Adventure PSP game - speaking of it, will you ever make a video on it? The English patch should be complete at this point (I played on the Italian one given that it was completed almost a year before the English one and since I'm Italian)
Nice! I've had a blast on Digimon Adventure PSP, as it was both a pretty decent JRPG and a nostalgia trip to the early 2000s, with the Italian patch even using the exact titles as the anime for the episodes of the game, and the original OST (which for Americans is less nostalgic due to the god-awful original soundtrack used instead of the Japanese one)
I forgot this pos even existed! I have played and beaten every digimon game since digimon world 2 except this one. I hated it so bad I traded it in the next day, and this is coming from someone who beat world 4 on very hard.
Honestly, this game was my favorite when I was a child. To me, it was always really exciting. It really has a special place in my heart.
More power to you, my dude.
same. i enjoy caring about these little sprites and catching them in the "wild". I guess my dumb ass just ignores all of the problem because I didnt know better
they should think about re-releasing this as an app, considering what kind of shit passes for a mobile game this would actually be pretty high standard.
With a few tweaks, it'd actually be a really good app. I'd download it.
The main problem is that they have Digimon Links already on. Which is just pay to win breeding simulator.
link is closing so they might need to make a new digimon game soon
its hard to draw a loop to catch digimon on emulator
I am playing on Drastic, it's really good
The funny thing about this game is that deep down, I always found it okay at best, yet I couldn't stop playing it. There was something strangely addictive about this that no other Digimon game had, and I don't know what it is.
I honestly thing it's the "number goes up" addictiveness, because I felt the same too. reminds me of running item worlds in Disgaea
Oh my god, I've been thinking about this for YEARS. Oh how I've wished bandai released an improved version of this game on mobile. However, I think you dislike the game more than it deserves, probably because you tried to play it like a normal game and rush through it for a video. I played this a lot when it came out and took my time with it and had a blast, although I recognize most, if not all problems you had with it. But It always gave me the feeling that the idea could've been improved.
I tried to take my time with it, I just ran out of shit to do once I hit the max rank, and had Megas. Rushing to the championship was just to make sure I didn't miss anything. It's not a very deep or complex game by any means, but I had to be sure the championship didn't hide something worth talkin' about!
Yeah I like this game, but they could have made it a lot better
I 100% completed this game last year, and if the End Day button was a person I would ask them to prom.
When I eventually got to the championship, I did kinda miss mashing it in a gay way.
How to download it and where can be in mobile or not
Did you manage to get a Moonmon evolve into Gazimon?
@@janrosoul5641 use an android phone and emulator
This game actually simulates marriage and family.
Tell me about it.
@@binarekoharijanto4586 if your digimon didn't digievolve then they will die cuz of short lifespan
Digievolve will increase lifespan and at somepoint will turn to an egg and make them stronger when hatch
I got this game when my family evacuated to my uncles for hurricane ike(2008) it kept me entertained for the 2 weeks we were there and then it got left on the shelf when I finally figured out how to play pokemon and digimon world dawn effectively.
Games you play during crises always have a special place in your heart. I remember playing Breath of Fire 3 when I had to evacuate from bushfires one year, and every time I flee from fire, I've got a copy of it on me for good, nostalgic vibes during a horrible time.
Though, I hope for your sake you never have to flee a hurricane or play Championship again!
Its one of my favorite Digimon games
This was actually my favourite game as a kid.
I was a very young child when I played this game, so young that I don’t remember doing much other than catching and feeding them. I still played for hours and im gonna look for another copy now
I recently had the urge to play a *monster taming/fighting RPG and something other than Pokémon.* Looking them up, I saw many mention Digimon games. I had watched the anime as a wee kid and remember enjoying it and not much else. Then I remembered you did a series of videos on them so I binge watched them and reached here.
Now I'm more confused then before.
Not because you did a bad job or anything, quite the contrary they were very well done.
I'm confused at the so wildly varying quality of of every title in the series, that I don't know which to pick up.
I understood that World 3, DigiDS and Next Order are the good ones, but even then they have their own huge ups and downs.
Sorry, my incompetent brain couldn't process the detailed breakdowns you gave in all of your videos.
No worries, my dude. The series is... Iffy. It's magical in its own right because it goes from great games to horrible games so rapidly. Like a seismometer.
I'd recommend Digimon World 1, RE:Digitize, and Next Order for the V-pet style games. I think Next Order is the weakest of the three, but it is the most modernized. Nothing will ever beat the original game in my mind.
For the 'traditional JRPG' style, World 3, DS/Dawn and Cyber Sleuth are the hot ones. 3, DS, and Dawn will test your patience though. Bring a speed-up button.
Thanks man.
I'll go with World 1
For now the Cybersleuth Complete Edition for PC/Switch are the best. Next Order for PS4 is not bad too
I'm years late, but I'm going to second Cyber Sleuth. It's THE epitome title for a Digimon JRPG. It was so good it's entire core and most of it's mechanics were ported to mobile for Digimon Linkz, one of the franchise's best mobile entries by far when it was still around.
@@KiraSlith cheers. It's a shame Bamco made Cyber Sleuth games unavailable in my region.
"Pray to whatever DreamWhale you believe in."
Nice.
That was totally unscripted too. Was proud enough to leave that in.
Oh damn. That adds another layer of genius. XD
Dorumon is my favorite Pokemon.
You're truly a wicked individual.
You've definitely found the right place to shitpost.
Leomon is my favorite dead digimon.
Porygon is my favourite Digimon.
AdachiTheThotSlayer kamen rider is my favourite robot master
beyblade is my favourite naruto :(
Damn, now i want to spend 100 hours on this game again. Thanks Caspbama
100 hours? You going for 100% or something? CRAZY!
I had a lot of good times with it as a kid, and I'd yell at the DS somehow thinking encouraging my digimon would make them do better, but it usually just ended up with me out of breath, disappointed and upset at my digimon's general incompetence, and further disappointment in their penchant for evolving into skull mammothmon. Coming back to it, it's always nice to remind yourself how low your standards were as a child.
FUCKING SKULL MAMMOTHMON! I HAD LIKE 5 OF THEM AT ONE POINT.
WHAT IS UP WITH THAT?
According to the wiki, its apparent only requirement is time passing, so you're cucked out of a proper digivolution if you're too slow.
fuck.
I thought he was rad, but then I got a second one and knew something was off.
Casp I found an awesome online guide which explains everything.
The only way to get one is by wasting time.
Enjoyed the game as is, for the most part, though you do bring up valid points. Don't always need a story to be a good game, particularly if you're there for the virtual pet aspect on its own.
Oh, totally. Games don't need stories at all, and games that're all story generally suck, but with the fairly absent amount of features and gameplay, it would've been neat to have a little something else progressing next to the Championship ideal. Some character interaction, a little side-story, quests or something you can fulfill that aren't just for medals or money.
Games that are all stories suck huh? Sounds like the last of us two! W H E E Z E
I played this game for many many hours as a kid because back in 2009 I only had this and pokemon diamond.I had mixed feeling for it due to its odd auto-gameplay.And I also remeber one of my friends suggesting me to use an action replay catridge to get that one digimon control method,making this hell of game less painful.
In this time of uncertainty
I'm glad I can play End Day Simulator
*too real*
And it's still the DS Digimon game I enjoyed the most, Caspaboo.
I don't see the matches so uneventful, but everything else I agree with you, even though I still love to play it.
The absence of the adventure aspect is more explicit in the japanese name (without the "world" in it).
I'm actually surprised that Cyber Sleuth didn't get a "World" slapped on it's title.
Technically, World and Story are two different branches of Digimon games these days (Story being the RPG and World being for the V-Pet games), so it's not really shocking they left out the 'World' title for the two Cyber Sleuth games. ...Or so I've been told. A friend only got me into Digimon last year after she watched me play Monster Rancher.
I'm glad they've finally split the World and Story series in the West. They kept releasing -Story games under the -World banner because people liked the first one back in 1998 or 9 or whenever it was. What a poor decision.
Yes, I'm pretty happy with it too.
But the World series had to find itself within the V-pet thing after roguelikes, dungeon crawlers and pokemon games.
I'm not sure what you mean by that, 7PLAYS. Maybe it allowed them to be more popular, but they did start on the Digivice, which is essentially an LCD game that created most of World's functions/care mistakes. As for Pokemon, they're really nothing alike either (though, I do see a parallel between Digimon and MR, but those are closer to the same genre).
I know about all that. World 1 was Digital Monster V-Pet with adventure and RPG elements. When I say roguelike I mean World 2 (procedurally created dungeons with a "hunger" system), dungeon crawlers I mean World 4 (gameplay similar to Diablo) and pokemon I mean World 3 with a party of 3 Digimon, more streamlined evolutions and battles, etc.
I love all of them, what I mean is that the World series had to return to it's first game's roots to be recognized as the "Adventure V-Pet" series.
i remember playing this a bunch as a kid and i think what kept me going was the fact that there was so many digimon to unlock, and you also needed to do specific things if you wanted your digimon to evolve into rarer forms
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Well, it is really frustrating to be just one stat point off to get the desired digivolution, just so that the day ends and the next start with your virtual pet digivolving into something you did not desire.
Oh absolutely, the day cycles were atrocious. I don't think it had a pause function either, which would've been fine.
This sent me on a nostalgia trip, I swear. I miss this game and this video contains good criticism so to that I say great video
I love those nostalgia trips. Nothing quite like them. I appreciate the input, my friend!
@@Caspicum just out of curiosity are you planning to make a video on Cyber Sleuth or perhaps Digimon Survive when it comes out?
@@xavierlilim1838 I'll definitely be talking about Survive, and I've already got a video on Cyber Sleuth! I'm actually about to release a Hacker's Memory video in about... 2 hours. :^)
@@Caspicum I'll be sure to look into it then
Man I love this game, very nostalgic. I was just content with nice pixel art battles and nice music. I hope the battle style will be used in a future game (Digimon or not).
"As your reward for beating the game, you can now play the game"
Wtf, who designed this?
Lmao 😂
Jagex ? Is that you ?
I played this game to hell and back years ago and I always wanted it to reach the potential it could’ve had, but didn’t.
Yeah :(
Such a great idea though.
One of my favorite Digimon games and in my opinion how a Digimon MMO should be(close to):
>Player Avatar customization
>Start with a Baby (random or chosen) digimon
>Train and digivolve to different forms with different training conditions
>Compete against other players
>Get more digimons and train
>Exploring
Most people really hate the "Tamagochi/V-pet" gameplay system but i like alot. If you are a good tamer your digimon become a good digivolution badass digimon who win every time, if not the digimon become a shit, literally (Sukamon lol), and only lost battles.
The game have alot of digimons, from baby to mega, with alot digivolutions lines (now we have this in Cybersleuth and Next Order), what i always wanted. There are some flaws but overall is very fun (when you know how to play).
I love the tamagotchi/v-pet style in the original Digimon World, because it gives you a narrative and objectives but still keeps it loose enough with a big focus being on the Digimon care.
You right though, I think this would be a pretty killer framework for a digimon mmo
wow, daddy casp uploads again, nice review as always.
Next time; real games.
Don't be so hard on yourself, your dedication to digmin is what sets you apart and lead me to subscribe. Keep up your unique work and I'll keep SMASHING that like button.
I'm not even a big fan of the games, and I've only watched the first season of the anime as a kid. I loved the first game, and people kept asking for more, so I figured I'd do the whole bloody series! I appreciate the commitment!
This is still one of my favorite DS games of all time because I'm a digimon nerd and I thought it was fun. I still won't invalidate your opinion though, it is pretty crappy if you look back on it.
You are the only reason someone would ever catch me dead watching Digimon.
You still shouldn't ever let anyone catch you watching Digimon. Also, it's amazing that this entire endeavour started as a result of me liking the first game, and people kept asking for more. WHO IS ASKING FOR MORE NOW!?!?
nobody
fucking
nobody
I think people liked it so hard ironically, that they've begun to unironically like it.
We memed a show into existance.....dear God what have we done.....
This is the one time I'm ever deleting my internet history.
still a better アニメ than ポケット モンスター IMHO :) ))
I don't know, Pokemon is a pretty good anime.
Caspmon best digimon
I've never liked him, tbh. I'm more an Agumon guy.
Bro your channel is underrated af
This is literally probably the first Digimon game I played as a kid, another being a game related to the Data Squad Series weirdly enough, but I honestly really liked Championship as a wee lad...you know....IF I COULD ACTUALLY FIGURE OUT HOW TO DIGIVOLVE INTO ACTUALLY GOOD DIGIMON, thats something I still don't understand to this day, and I don't know if this is just a thing in most digimon games but I just don't like it, like is it really ok for there to not even be a hint as to what requirements are required to digivolve into the coolest digimon? Like I had nothing, could only ever digivolve to Vadermon and maybe a handful of Megas that only required passing time to get. It took until maybe 4-5 years ago for me to come back to the game and just look up the requirements, and then I destroyed all the remaining opponents I had.
For real though I really did love this game as a kid, and I did still enjoy it when I came back after you know...actually being able to get strong digimon. So ya.
Did you play on an emulator or a DS? I noticed some of the things you mentioned when trying on emulator and realized how much better of an experience I had playing on a DS so that might be why or nostalgia googles who can really say.
A bit of both. I played it on a Wii U so I could use the touch screen accurately, and it was semi-portable which made it much easier to get through.
The evolution is a bit more complicated than that.
The time based evolution have two variables, either they turn into what they are supposed to (time based evolution) or they turn into something in their past lives (I think the 'mons "memory" would cover up to 3 lifes/generations so you could get anything from those options).
I believe you can control the camera with the buttons as well. It is not a bad game but it is not a game for everybody, this is essentially an updated version of the original LCD Digitalmon Monster V-pet toy, if you don't enjoy raising virtual pets then you won't enjoy this game, otherwise you will have lots of fun with this game. That and you can still battle other players even without Wi-Fi. this game has a "password system" so you can view a team's password, send it to somebody and have that person battle your team and vice versa.
EDIT: You do NOT gain control over one of your digimon just for beating the championship, you do need to complete the Digipedia (ugh). What you get for completing the championship is new hunting areas, new cage upgrades and new matches that provide you with new cages (this doesn't sound like much but there's a particular cage that allows you to train "battles" without actually wasting your time in a battle).
Is the memory thing up to 3? Because I definitely went through more than 3 lifecycles just pressing "end day" and every time I'd get a WarGreymon. I know how the memory thing works, because I ended up with a few SkullMammothmon and thought they were really cool, but they're just a slightly stronger Sukamon.
Thanks for letting me know about the Digipedia thing! I knew that both clearing the Championship and completing the Digipedia had stupid rewards, I just got them mixed up!
Either 2 or 3, can't remember but that is the reason why Digimon might sometimes evolve in strange ways on their own (For instance, once my Patamon evolved into a Thunderballmon, a form it can't normally evolve into. This was possible because that Patamon was a Thunderballmon in one of its past lifes). But if you keep evolving your Digimon into the same line/forms then the memory will have the same digimon over and over, thus resulting in the same digimon no matter what.
Well, the championship rewards are nice (pretty much the only way to get Dracomon directly) but yeah, both rewards are kind of disappointing.
PS: I forgot if it was a championship or match reward but there is a point in which you can get a special trap that guarantees your capture, in case you no longer want to use ropes to hunt Digimon.
I don't think I ever got that, but I wasn't doing any capturing after a certain point in the game anyway. Couldn't stand to let my core team go, and after I had to release a Gesomon, I only really hunted once more. I could've had it and just not seen it. Would've been nice to have when I needed it though!
Yeah, that's one thing I didn't really like about the game. Some digimon are really memory heavy or the memory capacity is not big enough (kind of a bad idea for a creature raising/collecting game to be sincere), that and I wish that special trap I'm talking about was available as a championship reward instead of having to get it post game (when you actually need it lol).
I know that like it would be suited for mobile but something about it on the ds just works better for me, I'm not really sure why it just feels better. There's a similar game someone developed that is a bit like this one but just didn't hit the same mark as it would on the ds. I literally cannot explain it, I find myself coming back to this specific digimon game all the time and I don't know why lol
I loved this game also your digimon remember thier previous lives so snow agumon can just decide he wants to be tyranomon or black greymon its kinda funny tbh i was like oh my goodness you chose that despite me raising your dragon you just went down a whole different path
I legit played this when it came out and all I ever remembered about it all these years was hating the leash system for catching new Digimon. It's no wonder I couldn't remember the story, there was nothing to remember lol
I remember loving it 10 years ago, but time does horrible things to the brain.
I loved this game as a kid man, and I still really enjoy it! I wish they gave this formula another attempt for a spin off.
I was lucky to have friends that got into this game after I bought it off a kid who hated it. We would trade the cartridge between the three of us raising different digimon to battle while looking after each other's digimon and doing the championships.
I played this game after Digimon World Dawn and assumed it was a sequel. When there was no story, I was disappointed. When there no control in battle, I thought I was doing something wrong. I didn’t know lots of Digimon games have AI combat, or that there’s still an audience for it. Probably the least favorite game I’ve ever played.
Funny enough I remember playing a Japanese rom of this game before it was even released outside of Japan. I actually enjoyed this game funny enough
Quite funny enough, my man
thats funny
Years later I realize my mistake.
I still love this game, have replayed it more than 7 times.
Im so crap at time management that when i was found out xcom had a time limit to the champaign i immediately stopped playing after saving the game and never went back lol.
I always get sad by how Bandai treats some of their franchises, especially digimon. my friend described it best: an identity crisis.
This game, released as an actual mobile app with the appropriate care put into it, combined with the functionality of Pokemon Bank / Home so you can take these mons into more traditional mainline games... is my absolute perfect idealization of a virtual pet franchise.
and the fact that I have YET to see any company actually fully go down this route absolutely baffles me.
the amount of potential revenue something like this could generate?! and it could be done in a way that wouldn't even be bad for PR. and yet, all we get for mobile games from digimon are cheap gachas that only last a couple years at best per. RIP digimon heroes, that was actually fun.
Legit the best mobile game I've played and it's not even on mobile... Unless you emulate.
I have just ordered this game and I'm looking forward to the virtual pet concept
I wish you'd get to adventure PSP sooner but i'm gonna wait as long as it needs
I wasn't going to do it at all, I was only going to do the English-released ones, but enough people asked for it to change my mind! I just bought Hacker's Memory, but I think I'll do Adventure first, solely because of the amount of people asking about it.
Wait you didn't review Adventure PSP?
What the fuck. I watched a UA-camr with a Moomin avatar review Adventure PSP years ago and subscribed to you because I assumed you were the same guy.
I've done RE:Digitize, and appeared in a video that reviewed Adventure, but my part in it was awful, and I should've done it way better. Just me bitching about how it wasn't Digimon World 1. Awful segment in an otherwise good video.
goddamn it, now i wanna dump hours into this game again even tho i will regret it
It does seem like some kind of unholy mobile game. It is unique and I kind of like the idea of having a timer on overall play and having to schedule around it, making sure you have certain digimon by the end of the month/year etc. I think with a slightly different combat system and light exploring elements it could have been interesting.
Honestly, a few small tweaks and it'd be a fantastic mobile game. A few more tweaks and it might've even been a great console game!
So...Monster Rancher?
Ahh, a Digimon review. A Casp-Classic. ;) This game does give me a Tamagotchi meets Monster Rancher vibe, based on what I saw in the video. With some tweaks, I could see it working as a mobile game. But yeah, definitely looks disappointing in the form. Great video!
Seems like they just blew their load with the touch-screen and forgot to make the rest of the game.
One of my favourite ds game when i was kid, i love this game more than digimon world ds
Always had a fondness for Digimon and Monster Rancher 2 is one of my all time favorites. I think some part of my mind will not accept the likelihood that I wouldn't enjoy this experience.
That said, I am painfully curious to see what a FFXII style gambit system could do with this game's hands off battle system.
T E A M D A D D Y
THE BEST DARN TEAM AROUND!
i remember playing this as a child,this game introduced me to emulated games and english,so many memories.The only shitty thing was seeing your huge ass mammooth dying and becoming an egg a day before a mega only level tournament
That shit happened to my WarGreymon one day before the Championship. I wanted to scream.
i feel you
I bought this game a long time ago, was so excited, played it once and was so disappointed. You're spot on about this being good as a mobile app.
Out of curiosity do you plan on reviewing the mobile apps/the Appmon game and the ones that were just released in Japan?
I'm not entirely sure. If there's enough demand for it, I'll definitely look in to it!
THIS GAME. This is the game that, imo, led to the drought of Digimon games in the west for all those years! Now, the two games that came after it on the DS, Digimon Story Lost Evolution and Digimon Story Super Xros Wars Red/Blue, would have sold well enough had they been released in the west. Hell, having played the latter on an emulator, I can say from experience that it is actually difficult- those 500+ stats that would almost one-shot the final boss in Dawn/Dusk? Yeah, you're going to need stats like that to even stand a chance against the final boss in Super Xros Wars. However, after this game bombed, Namco-Bandai decided that Digimon games just "weren't popular enough" in the west, and thus Lost Evolution and Super Xros Wars ended up being Japan-exclusive. Yes, it was TOTALLY because Digimon games were no longer popular enough to bother localizing and not because this game was such a break from the RPG format that made Dawn/Dusk what they were. I could list the things wrong with this game, but this comment is already a wall of text as it is, and besides, that's what Casp's video is for.
I remember being super excited when Xros Wars dropped, but I couldn't read Japanese, and just waited for a localization. Glad I wasn't holding my breath!
In 2018-2020 this would be a cash shoppy mess that would make millions a day
about fucking time we got another fix of our digimang crack innit? Can't wait for the next video. This one might even be out by christmas~
Going ham on videos now, my dude. I've been slacking. Gotta finish the bloody Digimon series by 2019. IT'S HAPPENING!
Then you gotta do like or 2 more normal vids before starting your "remasters" in which you go back and look at your old videos and think "I could expand on this more" and splurge out that sweet digital knowledge on us once again.
It'll definitely happen with the first game.
Any thoughts on Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Hacker's Memory?
None yet! Soon though!
can you do a video from fossil fighters champions?
I'll have to look in to it!
I love this game and well bud you earned my sub.
As long as I earned it! I don't want no freebies.
I'm just fuckin around, good taste my chap. I appreciate it.
OMG Youkonon is on there! She is better looking than Kyuubimon to be honest. Now i HAVE to get this game.
PALLETTE SWAPS BEGONE!
Oh, loved the game. All I have to do to be able to control the digimon, but was worth it.
yo have you seen the new Digimon Game Digimon Survive? Seems like Digimon is going to take a much darker turn. Heck if you pay attention to the part when it says "Death and Danger" in the trailer you'll see a blood splatter effect.
It looks like something else, that's for sure. Not a fan of Visual Novels, but I do love me some grid-based SRPGs. Hopefully it's fantastic.
Sweet, I'm actually looking forward to the VN if it's written well and they go the route where the Tamer's emotions affect their Digimon. Like if the characters undergo serious trama but you don't see on their faces but instead you see it through their partners. Their digimon being a reflection of what their minds are actually going through.
Probably setting my hopes to high though.
Yes, pray to me. This seems like a game that would absolutely work as a companion to a main series title. Like, DIGIMON WORLD: STINKY URETHRA comes out on the fucken...playstation 4, you can carry your digimans on your phone, train them in this and then put them back in the game. As a full priced stand-alone it looks garbo.
who tf r u
This game was a fairly entertaining distraction for me. The hunting was certainly trash, the fights didn't feel important, but the time limits and the many digimon to take care of at the same time made it feel like a management game that goes at a relatively fast pace. Maybe it's because I didn't play it so much, and it was not that long ago so I was already used to uneventful phone games to appreciate how this one plays, but as a distraction, I thought it was pretty okay
Yeah, I'd say the first couple of hours are really neat. It was the first time they let you just focus on the V-Pet stuff without any extras. If you're a tamagotchi fan, you would've dug it, but the middle of the game starts to tank fast, and the end game is super tedious.
Dude do you know about the new app game that was announce today? looks like they went towards what you want, exaclty what you want
Oh, was that ReArise/Realise or whatever it's called? I'll keep my eye on that!
i feel like playing a digimon game which one would you say is the best?
The original Digimon World is my favourite, but it's got some issues. I'd still recommend it.
Digimon Rangers, Digimon are the champions!
I feel like I’m out of the loop. What’s the problem with Pokémon?
I don't know if you've played Sun/Moon, but those games were 20-hour tutorials with a tiny bit of freedom at the end. I love Pokemon, but Nintendo make it really hard sometimes.
Also releasing what is effectively Pokemon Go on the Switch is baffling.
_"Also releasing what is effectively Pokemon Go on the Switch is baffling."_
Not really. Go probably attracted a lot of casuals and older fans who haven't played in a while, and Let's Go serves as a halfway point between Go and the main series (for which we're getting new games next year), so Let's Go serves the purpose of being a Switch test game and a less intimidating way to get people interested in the main series.
I notice Back when I was a Kid that the Korean version allows you tô control the digimons from the very start
That'd make it slightly better tbh.
@@Caspicum I know… I just dont know how I found out that
I disagree with this guys review. The game accomplished what it wants to very effectively, you are playing a fully fleshed out digivice the actual digivice where you raise pokemon, train them and battle them without input from the user. This game offeres a lot of customizable aspects, a ton of replayability and a ton of different digimon to raise. You can keep playing outside the scope of the main game after you the title mat ches and battle against friends. There are no really good virtual pet games around and this is the single package tamagotchi for boys we come to expect from a digimon game. Theres also digimon dusk if you want a more action oriented game on the ds. This gamestyle hasn't been done before and is reminiscent of rocket slime. It offers a ton of great 2d modela as well.
My biggest problem with the game is that when your digimon resets back to the digiegg it feels like lossed progress, and digivolving into what you want requires a guide.
Suite Life of Dio Brando Uhh... Like in every Digimon World? (The real Digimon World games, not the Digimon Story games with the wrong names)
The game is designed towards that and once you've acquired a certain evolution, going back to it is easy. It's only really an issue for fans of the anime only who aren't used to how random evolutions feel in digimon games.
Yeah, this one is a lot easier, since time flows way faster, but plenty of people don't like the V-Pet elements, and I completely get it.
You can get a Ticaramon early in the first area eventually after you get bombs...just bomb him and rope him up....and man it makes a lot of fights easier
It's a virtual pet sim. A lot of your complaints with it are things you don't like about the genre moreso than this one specific game. TBF no one likes the genre anymore except a few weirdos like me.
I like V-Pet games, there's just so much opportunity for it to have things to achieve, and shit to do. What it attempted was extremely lazy. It's got a decent system, but every fight feels the same, and if you're solely playing it so you can give a Digimon meat every day and not do much else, there's really no point.
I weep for the lost potential, my dude.
I got this game once. Couldn't figure out how to get the Digievolutions I wanted, and eventually gave up and got Dawn.
This looks painful to play. You're doing the Lord's work, son!
If this is what the lord had to do, I now fully understand religion.
I fucking love this so much
When you're in the app store and you realize "Digimon Titties" is an actual thing and your hope in humanity diminishes a little bit more.
Is it a real thing? I might have to grab them... Errr, it.
Damn lol I've never seen someone miss the whole point of a game so badly
what'd I miss? I think I accurately summed it up
Ik this is really late but I might have to ask you to review "Digimon Titties"...clearly this is a staple of the Digimon franchise and should be treated as such
I agree the game is so underrated. It’s so good.
Wow, I never even heard of this game. Which, given that it doesn't really look all that great, was probably for the best, I was already far too busy tricking my 14-year-old mind into thinking Digimon World Dusk/Dawn was a good game.
Hey, at least Dusk and Dawn have gameplay!
Well, you're right XD Maybe I'm the weird one, I've always had a jolly old time playing Digimon World 3 because it didn't try to be a stressing virtual pet. Same goes for the Digimon Adventure PSP game - speaking of it, will you ever make a video on it? The English patch should be complete at this point (I played on the Italian one given that it was completed almost a year before the English one and since I'm Italian)
Yep! I'm thinking that'll be the next one, and then I'll end the series on Hacker's Memory!
Nice! I've had a blast on Digimon Adventure PSP, as it was both a pretty decent JRPG and a nostalgia trip to the early 2000s, with the Italian patch even using the exact titles as the anime for the episodes of the game, and the original OST (which for Americans is less nostalgic due to the god-awful original soundtrack used instead of the Japanese one)
I forgot this pos even existed! I have played and beaten every digimon game since digimon world 2 except this one. I hated it so bad I traded it in the next day, and this is coming from someone who beat world 4 on very hard.
0:26 Digimon Titties WTF ahuihaioshpaushusjiasosa
Yeah that's my indie game. I've been working on it for years.
0:29 no ones talking about one of the apps... one of these things is not like the others, one of these just doesn't belong.
I actually played this a lot as a kid.
I played it quite a bit in my late teens, and enjoyed it then. 10 years on, not so much, unfortunately.
Digimon.....tidies ? Who would make that?!?
Some radical individual for sure.
Whats that game on 0:59 ?
Ty for the answer
Digimon World Next ORder! I have a review for it on this channel!
@@Caspicum Thanks!
Now you gotta cover Card Battle
It'll happen :)
What other VpetRPGs are there?
There's quite a few, depending on how loose your definition of V-Pet RPG is.
DIGIMON WORLD PS1!!
clearly digimon rumble arena is the best of them all
MYOTISMON DID NOTHING WRONG!!!!!!
Myotismon looks so rad. I wish I were tall and a superhero-lookin vampire
I thought the blue thing in the thumbnail was a Feraligatr.
I don't even know what it is :)
thanks for the epicness
Thanks for the comment!
Wow what a fun mobile phone game
My stupid digimon always digivolves into toy agumon 😂
I kinds liked the game, but there were a lot of tedious aspects to it that bothered the crap out of me.
Seems like that's 90% of Digimon games at this point. I love a few of them, but they love wasting your time.