@@Wayneisboss Review Digimon Battle Spirit 1.5 And 2!Better Than This Game!I Play On The Hardest Difficulties!My World Records(Extreme/Hard)1600 Impmon,1400 ExGuilmon,1300 Guilmon,1200 Gabumon,1000 Patamon,1000 Gatomon,1700 ExAgunimon,1000 ExLobomon,1000 Loweemon!
same. played TF outta it as a kid. Plus we played games for fun and did goofy stuff. We didn't play rigid as kids. I remember abusing the WarGreymon tornado going up and down for that MASSIVE DAMAGE lol. Subbed
Here I was like; "Yeah it's a shame there's no Angewomon, she's definitely iconic but being you'd be going from a Champion into an Ultimate does not seem like a worthy power spike compared to the rest of the cast going from Rookie into Mega, so I feel it makes sense." Then I saw Stingmon...
I still have Rumble Arena 2. There are TONS of improvements made over the original, and I'm able to have fun with it in its own stupid way. They did remove the humans but digivolving isn't a pace breaker. The sequel truly does fix a lot of the issues with the original.
@@lenewtype that is correct! Each stage 3 digimon (child level) gets to digivolve twice! Once to stage 4 (champion/adult), and then again to either 5 or 6, whatever their last stage in the anime is. And if you lose a life, you return to the previous stage.
@@GT-Rev On the contrary. I used to play the sequel quite a bit but never liked it as much as the original. Having to collect those eggs to evolve really ruined the pacing and fun of the battles for me. Like, my friends and I would be really involved in fighting, and then one or both of us would just stop to go around the stage collecting eggs. Losing a life and dropping an evolution stage was also supremely frustrating, especially after running all over the stage and trying to collect those darn eggs. Instead of jumping into the fighting, those of us who were near losing a life would just try to camp somewhere safe or run away. Urgh. The gameplay did not encourage fast and furious fighting like the original did.
"Simple as Smash's controls are, they do offer a certain level of variety, where pressing down while using your attack buttons or even being airborne while doing so will change the resulting attack. Not so much the case here. The basics of the combat pretty much boil down to spamming the Square button and on occasion you can spice things up with a special attack. Somebody out there right now really wants to tell me all about just how in depth this combat actually is, but if they have to explain that depth to me because the game itself didn't put it on display... I think that's saying something." Yet, that's exactly how the Square button attacks work. Press square, get a 3 hit jab combo. Hold up and press square, get a launcher. Jump forward and press square, you get a forward air. You know, like Smash? I won't disagree that the game could perhaps do with some tutorials (but I'd tangentially argue that Street Fighter 2 was wildly successful without any despite having more complex controls), and this not holding true for the special buttons is a fair criticism, but even still you're being reductive about the game's mechanics and overly dismissive about the game's depth. Sure, the game isn't *that* deep or nothing, but there is still stuff of value here (have you ever seen any other game with the controls and stages of a platform fighter and the life bars and hitstun mechanics of a 2D fighter? I'd love to know if you have, 'cause I haven't), especially when playing against other people rather than just the computers. It seems to me your problem with the game stems more from the lack luster AI opponents than the game's mechanics, finding no reason to explore them or their depth any further than the bare minimum needed to finish arcade mode (which is honestly fair, I often do the same to turn based RPG games, but blaming the game mechanics instead of the AI or your own gameplay habits isn't). It honestly feels like you reviewed this game out of a perceived obligation as a Digimon fan more than anything else.
Absolutely loved this game as a kid, but my definite favorite part is Guilmon's triangle attack/special melee move. "Rock Breaker." It sounds like he says "Butt Licker" and that alone made me spam the move religiously. Makes it all the better now with the Steve Blum/Spike Spiegel meme association
I remember this game fondly. The PS1 was my first ever console, and Digimon Rumble Arena was one of my first games I got for myself. (The PS1 was my older sister's console, but we shared it and DRA was one of the few games I owned for myself). I played it all the time with my dad as a kid.
I played this game after i was reunited with my mom and i still see this game as the peak of my childhood and it will ever have a special place in my heart.
There's just something about Digimon. There's no other franchise for me where the jank is truly part of the charm. I see what you're saying about it being incredibly unbalanced and the extra mechanics don't really feel like they fit in a smash clone. But stuff like that is what keeps me coming back to Digimon. The stakes have always been low enough that they just try stuff! Sure, they don't get it right very often, but they always spark my imagination. What would a brawler with all these extra mechanics look like if it was fully smoothed out? Could be incredible. I love that I can always count on it to throw me a curve ball 😂
My favorite strat was standing in front of a boulder as Renamon and using Kohenkyo to switch places with my little brother. I still play it occasionally, but the old disc skips on me all the time now.
Rumble Arena Hype! Was so excited when you mentioned you would be looking at it! Before finishing the video I assume it's not nearly as good as I remember, but I absolutely loved it as a kid.
I think there's a quality here that exceeds the sum of its parts. While not all the pieces quite click, there's heart and I'll be popping this back in my PlayStation down the road for that reason alone
came from your Digimon World review and I have to say you've got a sub for being able to have such an authentic way of portraying your experience of one of my fondest childhood memories. Probably too much of an ask if you can get around to it but I hope you can find the time to also play 2 & 3.. it's nice knowing that people enjoy the stuff that you've kinda been a lone enjoyer for. Edit: nvm, you're indeed getting into it.. heh
I played this game every single day after school. This unlocked some memories, for sure. This is where I learned that Gatomon could digivolve into Holydramon/Magnadramon.
I was obsessed with Digimon Rumble Arena 1 and 2 as a kid, I was unbeatable 😂 used to make my friends play it whenever they were round at my house haha. My go to was Veemon.
I was 12 years old with saved up allowance to spend and a newly gifted PS One. Saw this at my local Circuit City at the time and knew absolutely nothing about it besides it being Digimon. I must have played this game for hours when I was younger!
As much as I loved this game and it great effect on my childhood what stuck with me the most is the amazing soundtrack lol, nonetheless another professional review like always, keep it up Wayne!
I'm not huge on Digimon, just have some childhood nostalgia for it (which is why I watched this and your previous upload), but I really wanted to comment that your delivery is excellent! It's not often I come across a smaller youtuber who sounds so clean per se. It's really pleasant to listen to your videos thanks to how you enunciate different phrases so judiciously and how neatly you've edited voice line cuts. This also makes it more enticing to follow through with the whole video. Good work! I hope you get what I mean, I don't know how else to explain this.
Man i just found you channel after having a nostalgia trip over digimon and watched some of your other stuff i got to say love your content keep it up!
I have such strong memories of this game. I played all the time with my cousins during the summer. We used to get all of the extensions cords and found a TV outside on the street and rolled it to my grandparents backyard so we could all play this game. We made a house rule that everyone had to choose one digimon and no one could use your digmon to fight (unless asked or if you lost it in a fight). 6 cousins, battling day in and day out for a month or so was so much fun! I miss those guys.
Yooo I used to LOVE Rumble Arena!! Back when I was little and just got into Digimon, I visited my local gamestop and they had both Digimon World and Rumble Arena and I could only choose one... being also a Smash fan at the time I ofcourse choose the latter haha. I didn't even know it had sequels though, please cover those as well!!
Have to give Digimon credit. Wouldve been so easy to just replicate what Pokemon was doing, but they went out of their way to try and offer new experiences.
I could be wrong but some of the replacement tracks (the one that replaced the Japanese anime tracks) actually sound close enough to the replaced tracks...so you sorta got the anime tracks but not really.
7:30 I'm gonna be that "somebody out there right now" and say that in Rumble Arena you do actually get some unique attacks depending on the direction you push along with the attack button =') I remember a couple of the coolest attacks being ones where you either had to hit up, down or left/right along with square, and some triangle attacks can have their direction changed depending on what you push
This game and Rumble Arena 2 are absolute BANGERS with friends or siblings. Me and my sister have a stupid amount of Hours in those games playing against each other
Honestly I loved this game, hit me right in the nostalgia haha. Guilmon saying the games title was kinda cute. My cousin says it just like him haha. Made sure to unlock every character, the mini games were kinda fun too. Wargreymon, Blackgreymon and Omnimon were my fav. Back in the day, as a Digimon fan, this game was fun and enjoyable. Love your Digimon videos. Keep it up!
The intro of rumble arena went so hard. I didnt play a whole lot of PS1 games but that was easily the most entertaining and honestly best looking. Wouldnt have been upset if they used the actual Digimon soundtrack though lol.
Loved this as a kid. Me and my brother/friends would play everytime. The VERY simple control scheme meant we would have to learn how to fool each other, and fake attacks, fake defenses, and learn wich moves were faster or not. Playing as War Greymon or Black War Greymon would always feel cool, using tornados to the wrong size in purpose, until the one we meant to connect would do it and combo with other melee attacks, a circle and ulti. It was almost one whot combo when it would work, Felt amazing and PRO XDDD
As a kid, I loaned this game to my local gaming store and they allowed me to rent any other game for free because they earned a bunch of money from it because everyone wanted to play it. The disc ended up too scratched to run in the end, but I had a lot of fun.
I remember when this game also had a lot of myths around it like, beat it on hard 50 times on a row without taking damage and without rebooting your PS1 and you'd get Magnamon or something like that, forums were full of these
I just always found it amusing that the voices were so different in places. I want to say it was Takato who sounded like he was voiced by Ash's VA? Fun little romp of a game, if you didn't want anything especially deep in your party battler games
I'm really your retrospectives man. Its nice to see these old, niche games being put up in a more exploratory light, nostalgic, yes, but its pretty good. I'm quite excited for Digimon World 2, since its the one I had more exposure and attachment too.
Are you sure the AI didn't break in your roms? In your footage they stand there and just take it, and the final boss can easily chain a combo that can kill you from full life, which is more than "actually manages to put a small amount of challenge", or maybe we remember hard to be harder?
Digimon Rumble Arena was my introduction to Digimon, and it will always have a special place in my heart. I'd love to see a remake of this game, or at least a Digimon Rumble Arena 3 someday. After all, now that we're finally getting Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 4, maybe it's time for Digimon fighting games to make a comeback!
There was a 3rd game on ps3 and 360 I believe , it had Plesiomon for gomamon which was interesting but I don't think I would have like as much as the 1st 2 and I wish we could get a good next installment
8:50 Lots of people presume Gatomon is a rookie when she's actually a champion. You don't get Angewomon because she's an ultimate, not a mega.That's why when you get the mega evolution you get Magnadramon.
This game is the reason I like the Gatomon line because I was unable to beat the boss with any other Digimon and then I guess Cyber Sleuth and Mastemon made me like the evolution line more
@@Wayneisboss Haha I feel you definitely glad I didn’t miss out. I suggest looking up digimon rumble arena remastered, it’s a fan project that adds plenty of digimon that weren’t in the original game and it seems to have new stages and slightly better graphics.
Digimon Rumble Arena is one of my favorite fighting games (the others being SF2:Special champion edition, Soul Calibur 2, and Evil Zone). With a fantastic roster, cool stage mechanics, and killer moves, playing DRA was a blast.
Yeah it's pretty much objectively not that good nowadays, the controls are really janky and it's extremely unbalanced, the voice acting is weird, the maps are also kinda awful gameplay-wise (even though they look great for a ps1 title)... but I think It's still enjoyable for what it is. It's got that good old ps1 era charm to it that keeps me going back to it. It definetly deserves a remake even though we all know it's not going to happen, sadly.
Your review made me realize that the reason I loved this game so much as a kid is that it is incredibly simple as a fighting game. I'm awful at fighting games, I generally don't like the genre since the difficulty curve is higher than I'm willing to learn, but I loved this game and played it for hours on end 😅
The difficulty spike when fighting Reapermon at the end of any given digimon's route was a little more than noticeable until you came back with a better, stronger digimon. Otherwise, wasn't ever too bad.
Ah yes, i remember the good times when this game was just a "Pick Reapermon before your friend does" Speedrun, so you can always start the match off with that dumb combo that makes them dizzy and takes like half their health.
Of all the people I played Rumble Arena with as a kid, it was with my grandparents funnily enough. They had this huge container filled with games for PS1, NES, SNES, etc, and Rumble arena was included in their collection (No idea why. Not even they remember how they got it). But yeah, some weekend visits included all of us duking it out with random Digimon in Rumble Arena. My insistence of always picking Terriermon got me crushed often (Thanks for the PTSD flashback while destroying Megagargomon at 9:45 . My grandpa destroyed me so much that way 🤣🤣🤣). My grandparents had no idea what Digimon was or what the anime was about, they were just excited to have a good time gaming with me. Rumble arena will always have that special place in my heart because of my grandparents. Guess it does for them as well because whenever the current Digimon TCG drops a Megagargomon they'll always ask me how to get it ASAP. They just have this collection of Megagargomon cards or something from they Terriermon lineup. It's fantastic and I love it 🤣🤣
I remember renting this from blockbuster😂 Hey just wanted to thank you for being an inspiration! Ive really missed these style of uploads and your hitting just the right vibe for me. Keep it up!
8:48 Why would you expect Gatomon to evolve into Angewomon by using an ability that skips them straight to Mega level (tier 6), when Angewomon is an Ultimate level (tier 5)? What the game does here, by skipping over her to Magnadramon (Mega/tier 6), makes perfect sense. Sure, Angewomon is more recognizable since she appeared in the anime, but I think it's fine for the game to forego marketability in favor of technical accuracy here.
i'm so exited when you are gonna do Rumble Arena 2 i played that so much as a kid with the single player campaign and it was pure fun even when i was able to do the many specific commands for many digimons when i checked in the game menu of the command sequence like something that i can't fully remember anymore but like X button/X button/O button but it felt cool when i checked the command list of the digimons and that i could execute them by remembering them when younger 😅
I used to play the sequel quite a bit but never liked it as much as the original. Having to collect those eggs to evolve really ruined the pacing and fun of the battles for me.
I mainly and mostly played this game as a kid, I loved it so much because I already loved digimon. I liked playing as Renamon because her special attack and ability are insanely overpowered in her basic form, at some point I played a whole run without evolving, that's how broken she is. I accidentally found this channel, and damn I love finding other people who really love digimon too.
You can actually change up your basic attack based on the direction you push the controller. You can have low sweeping ones or high reaching ones. They will break through guards if not guarded for right. Not that it has the diversity of the Smash attacks, but it is a thing
@@Wayneisboss I never played DRA2, but I was an avid boy of DRA so my dad, bros, and I would play it nonstop. I will say though the rest of your video was on point. For clarification, you can have an up attack, a down attack and a "forward"/standard attack (same is true in the air the forward attack is the same, you just change facing directions). The forward attack is the one that's most shown with the chain mashing. There is a "smash" attack though which is a 100% guard breaker which is pressing forward at the same time as pushing the basic attack button
![Digimon Rumble Arena [PS1] - All Characters Special Moves and Ultimate Attack](/img/n.gif)
"WHAT DIGIMON ARE YOU GONNA PLAY WITH, HUH!?!?" is ingrained in my brain I played this so much as a kid.
COME ON, WHICH ONE? PICK YOUR FAVORITE DIGIMON
@@Wayneisboss The crunchy audio quality is just 🤌
Oh hell yeah
Clearly i'm gonna play Guilmon until I unlock Black Agumon.
@@Wayneisboss Review Digimon Battle Spirit 1.5 And 2!Better Than This Game!I Play On The Hardest Difficulties!My World Records(Extreme/Hard)1600 Impmon,1400 ExGuilmon,1300 Guilmon,1200 Gabumon,1000 Patamon,1000 Gatomon,1700 ExAgunimon,1000 ExLobomon,1000 Loweemon!
I used to love this game as a kid!
I can see why! I feel like I was kinda hard on the game in this video but honestly I bet I would have been hooked ok this if I grew up with it!
@Wayneisboss I grew up on rumble area 2 and I loved that one
same. played TF outta it as a kid. Plus we played games for fun and did goofy stuff. We didn't play rigid as kids. I remember abusing the WarGreymon tornado going up and down for that MASSIVE DAMAGE lol. Subbed
Here I was like;
"Yeah it's a shame there's no Angewomon, she's definitely iconic but being you'd be going from a Champion into an Ultimate does not seem like a worthy power spike compared to the rest of the cast going from Rookie into Mega, so I feel it makes sense."
Then I saw Stingmon...
Too bad Dinobeemon and GranKuwagamon aren't as iconic as their counterparts
That Terra force just NUKED him
Bro never stood a chance
I'm definitely interested in seeing the sequels to this game
I still have Rumble Arena 2. There are TONS of improvements made over the original, and I'm able to have fun with it in its own stupid way. They did remove the humans but digivolving isn't a pace breaker. The sequel truly does fix a lot of the issues with the original.
@@GT-Rev It's been like 14 years since I played it, but iirc you could also digivolve multiple times in 2?
@@lenewtype that is correct! Each stage 3 digimon (child level) gets to digivolve twice! Once to stage 4 (champion/adult), and then again to either 5 or 6, whatever their last stage in the anime is. And if you lose a life, you return to the previous stage.
@@GT-Rev On the contrary. I used to play the sequel quite a bit but never liked it as much as the original. Having to collect those eggs to evolve really ruined the pacing and fun of the battles for me. Like, my friends and I would be really involved in fighting, and then one or both of us would just stop to go around the stage collecting eggs. Losing a life and dropping an evolution stage was also supremely frustrating, especially after running all over the stage and trying to collect those darn eggs. Instead of jumping into the fighting, those of us who were near losing a life would just try to camp somewhere safe or run away. Urgh. The gameplay did not encourage fast and furious fighting like the original did.
@@lenewtypeyes
"Simple as Smash's controls are, they do offer a certain level of variety, where pressing down while using your attack buttons or even being airborne while doing so will change the resulting attack. Not so much the case here. The basics of the combat pretty much boil down to spamming the Square button and on occasion you can spice things up with a special attack. Somebody out there right now really wants to tell me all about just how in depth this combat actually is, but if they have to explain that depth to me because the game itself didn't put it on display... I think that's saying something."
Yet, that's exactly how the Square button attacks work. Press square, get a 3 hit jab combo. Hold up and press square, get a launcher. Jump forward and press square, you get a forward air. You know, like Smash? I won't disagree that the game could perhaps do with some tutorials (but I'd tangentially argue that Street Fighter 2 was wildly successful without any despite having more complex controls), and this not holding true for the special buttons is a fair criticism, but even still you're being reductive about the game's mechanics and overly dismissive about the game's depth.
Sure, the game isn't *that* deep or nothing, but there is still stuff of value here (have you ever seen any other game with the controls and stages of a platform fighter and the life bars and hitstun mechanics of a 2D fighter? I'd love to know if you have, 'cause I haven't), especially when playing against other people rather than just the computers. It seems to me your problem with the game stems more from the lack luster AI opponents than the game's mechanics, finding no reason to explore them or their depth any further than the bare minimum needed to finish arcade mode (which is honestly fair, I often do the same to turn based RPG games, but blaming the game mechanics instead of the AI or your own gameplay habits isn't). It honestly feels like you reviewed this game out of a perceived obligation as a Digimon fan more than anything else.
Hey Digimon, hey Digimon, monster friends for the boys and girls 🎶
Absolutely loved this game as a kid, but my definite favorite part is Guilmon's triangle attack/special melee move. "Rock Breaker." It sounds like he says "Butt Licker" and that alone made me spam the move religiously. Makes it all the better now with the Steve Blum/Spike Spiegel meme association
I remember this game fondly. The PS1 was my first ever console, and Digimon Rumble Arena was one of my first games I got for myself. (The PS1 was my older sister's console, but we shared it and DRA was one of the few games I owned for myself). I played it all the time with my dad as a kid.
I played this game after i was reunited with my mom and i still see this game as the peak of my childhood and it will ever have a special place in my heart.
"The soundtrack for Digimon Rumble Arena is... fine. Nothing about it is amazing, but it's certainly serviceable" is not a take I was ready to hear
Out In The Country and Rumble from Another Dimension are absolute bangers!
There's just something about Digimon. There's no other franchise for me where the jank is truly part of the charm. I see what you're saying about it being incredibly unbalanced and the extra mechanics don't really feel like they fit in a smash clone. But stuff like that is what keeps me coming back to Digimon. The stakes have always been low enough that they just try stuff! Sure, they don't get it right very often, but they always spark my imagination. What would a brawler with all these extra mechanics look like if it was fully smoothed out? Could be incredible. I love that I can always count on it to throw me a curve ball 😂
That's why Digimon world 1 is the greatest and the jankiest
My favorite strat was standing in front of a boulder as Renamon and using Kohenkyo to switch places with my little brother. I still play it occasionally, but the old disc skips on me all the time now.
Mine was using Impmon's grab to stun the opponent and then either use Summon right on top of them or casually push them into a pit.
Rumble Arena Hype! Was so excited when you mentioned you would be looking at it! Before finishing the video I assume it's not nearly as good as I remember, but I absolutely loved it as a kid.
I think there's a quality here that exceeds the sum of its parts. While not all the pieces quite click, there's heart and I'll be popping this back in my PlayStation down the road for that reason alone
the shame of it all is that critics cept bashing on this game and i loved every minute of it.
Rumble Area and World 2 were my absolute favorites as a kid. Can't wait for the next vid
That guilmon bebop voice over is worth a like and subscribe
One of the first jokes I had in mind for this review and I knew I needed to get it in there
I loved this game when I was a kid.
came from your Digimon World review and I have to say you've got a sub for being able to have such an authentic way of portraying your experience of one of my fondest childhood memories.
Probably too much of an ask if you can get around to it but I hope you can find the time to also play 2 & 3.. it's nice knowing that people enjoy the stuff that you've kinda been a lone enjoyer for.
Edit: nvm, you're indeed getting into it.. heh
Same. Subbing for the DMW3 review. That game is my childhood only beat it recently
I played this game every single day after school. This unlocked some memories, for sure. This is where I learned that Gatomon could digivolve into Holydramon/Magnadramon.
I was obsessed with Digimon Rumble Arena 1 and 2 as a kid, I was unbeatable 😂 used to make my friends play it whenever they were round at my house haha. My go to was Veemon.
In RA1 Renamon was OP AF. I'd always play her. Could go through single player on hard without digivolving.
I HAD to play as Impmon. I had to.
V Headbutt, V Headbutt
Thanks!
I was 12 years old with saved up allowance to spend and a newly gifted PS One. Saw this at my local Circuit City at the time and knew absolutely nothing about it besides it being Digimon. I must have played this game for hours when I was younger!
One of my favorite games as a kid. I wish I had more friends to play against back then.
As much as I loved this game and it great effect on my childhood what stuck with me the most is the amazing soundtrack lol, nonetheless another professional review like always, keep it up Wayne!
Loved this game as a kid. The music is really good, and holds up to this day
im always so hyped whenever I get to hear that intro! :D
Oh boy, the nostalgia is probably going to end me 😭
I'm not huge on Digimon, just have some childhood nostalgia for it (which is why I watched this and your previous upload), but I really wanted to comment that your delivery is excellent! It's not often I come across a smaller youtuber who sounds so clean per se.
It's really pleasant to listen to your videos thanks to how you enunciate different phrases so judiciously and how neatly you've edited voice line cuts. This also makes it more enticing to follow through with the whole video. Good work!
I hope you get what I mean, I don't know how else to explain this.
I loved this so much, this game is ingrained in my brain in ways no videogame should ever be.
Can't wait for the Digimon World 2 video.
Man i just found you channel after having a nostalgia trip over digimon and watched some of your other stuff i got to say love your content keep it up!
To be fair, guilmon's Japanese voice is pretty similar to the English one. So the dub was really following the Japanese style on this one
THIS HAS BEEN INGRAINED IN MY NOSTALGIA FILLED BRAIN FOR SO LONG THANK YOU
This was one of my favorite games growing up, I can still hear reapermon laughing after beating you
I have such strong memories of this game. I played all the time with my cousins during the summer. We used to get all of the extensions cords and found a TV outside on the street and rolled it to my grandparents backyard so we could all play this game. We made a house rule that everyone had to choose one digimon and no one could use your digmon to fight (unless asked or if you lost it in a fight). 6 cousins, battling day in and day out for a month or so was so much fun! I miss those guys.
I still remember renamon toxic combo...
Long range atk then until near end arena and then kick to out bound
Lmao
Don't forget when they are in a good position to switch spots too
I played the crap out of this game haha. I realize as an adult that it’s not great but kid me LOVED it
Are you going to take a look at Digimon Battle Spirit 1 & 2?
Definitely plan to!
Could you imagine if all of BlackWarGreymon's lines from 02 were redubbed by Steve Blum with his Guilmon voice? MOTHER OF GOD LMAO
Yooo I used to LOVE Rumble Arena!! Back when I was little and just got into Digimon, I visited my local gamestop and they had both Digimon World and Rumble Arena and I could only choose one... being also a Smash fan at the time I ofcourse choose the latter haha. I didn't even know it had sequels though, please cover those as well!!
Have to give Digimon credit. Wouldve been so easy to just replicate what Pokemon was doing, but they went out of their way to try and offer new experiences.
I hope you're not joking.
Honestly I completely forgot that Steve Blum voiced Guilmon.
In the sub, guilmon is voiced by Masako Nazawa
This was one of my favorite games growing up. My friends and I would play it all the time.
I have great memories jamming this game that we rented from a local video rental store with my younger brother
This game is my childhood. 10/10. Can do no wrong.
I bought this at a flea market while on vacation when I was like 12. Core memory unlocked.
"Imagine someone who's not familiar with Digimon hearing all of these names without context." That would be me XD
Guilmon's voice at the start of rumble arena is exactly what was missing from the sequel.
I could be wrong but some of the replacement tracks (the one that replaced the Japanese anime tracks) actually sound close enough to the replaced tracks...so you sorta got the anime tracks but not really.
Rumble Arena was my childhood next to Digimon World 3. So many hours spent on it :D
7:30 I'm gonna be that "somebody out there right now" and say that in Rumble Arena you do actually get some unique attacks depending on the direction you push along with the attack button =') I remember a couple of the coolest attacks being ones where you either had to hit up, down or left/right along with square, and some triangle attacks can have their direction changed depending on what you push
this game was best played with friends, a true fun time till late nights
This game and Rumble Arena 2 are absolute BANGERS with friends or siblings. Me and my sister have a stupid amount of Hours in those games playing against each other
I LOVE your channel! already got into Patreon. Happy to support you! Wish you success in your journey
Honestly I loved this game, hit me right in the nostalgia haha. Guilmon saying the games title was kinda cute. My cousin says it just like him haha. Made sure to unlock every character, the mini games were kinda fun too. Wargreymon, Blackgreymon and Omnimon were my fav. Back in the day, as a Digimon fan, this game was fun and enjoyable. Love your Digimon videos. Keep it up!
The intro of rumble arena went so hard. I didnt play a whole lot of PS1 games but that was easily the most entertaining and honestly best looking. Wouldnt have been upset if they used the actual Digimon soundtrack though lol.
I miss playing digimon rumble arena and arena 2
I played it all the time i never get bored playing it
Digimon rumble arena games was great
Loved this as a kid. Me and my brother/friends would play everytime. The VERY simple control scheme meant we would have to learn how to fool each other, and fake attacks, fake defenses, and learn wich moves were faster or not. Playing as War Greymon or Black War Greymon would always feel cool, using tornados to the wrong size in purpose, until the one we meant to connect would do it and combo with other melee attacks, a circle and ulti. It was almost one whot combo when it would work, Felt amazing and PRO XDDD
As a kid, I loaned this game to my local gaming store and they allowed me to rent any other game for free because they earned a bunch of money from it because everyone wanted to play it. The disc ended up too scratched to run in the end, but I had a lot of fun.
I remember when this game also had a lot of myths around it like, beat it on hard 50 times on a row without taking damage and without rebooting your PS1 and you'd get Magnamon or something like that, forums were full of these
Never played rumble arena 1 but I did play rumble arena 2 on ps2 and to this day still one of my fave fun games
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This was one of my favorite games growing up. This game was awesome.
I just always found it amusing that the voices were so different in places. I want to say it was Takato who sounded like he was voiced by Ash's VA? Fun little romp of a game, if you didn't want anything especially deep in your party battler games
I'm really your retrospectives man. Its nice to see these old, niche games being put up in a more exploratory light, nostalgic, yes, but its pretty good. I'm quite excited for Digimon World 2, since its the one I had more exposure and attachment too.
Are you sure the AI didn't break in your roms? In your footage they stand there and just take it, and the final boss can easily chain a combo that can kill you from full life, which is more than "actually manages to put a small amount of challenge", or maybe we remember hard to be harder?
This was a special memory from my childhood. Oh the nostalgia. :)
I was 8 when the game came out and Renamon was everyone's favorite back then too
Favorite PlayStation game of all time. Appreciate the memories!
Digimon Rumble Arena was my introduction to Digimon, and it will always have a special place in my heart. I'd love to see a remake of this game, or at least a Digimon Rumble Arena 3 someday. After all, now that we're finally getting Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 4, maybe it's time for Digimon fighting games to make a comeback!
There was a 3rd game on ps3 and 360 I believe , it had Plesiomon for gomamon which was interesting but I don't think I would have like as much as the 1st 2 and I wish we could get a good next installment
8:50 Lots of people presume Gatomon is a rookie when she's actually a champion. You don't get Angewomon because she's an ultimate, not a mega.That's why when you get the mega evolution you get Magnadramon.
They just gave each Digimon the highest stage they reached in the anime.
This game is the reason I like the Gatomon line because I was unable to beat the boss with any other Digimon and then I guess Cyber Sleuth and Mastemon made me like the evolution line more
Mastemon is literally my favourite Digimon ever, she is SO cool
Congrats on 18k subs, I have a feeling that your channel will continue growing. You average way more views per video than average 50k channel
I remember going to my cousins house and he had this game, I literally begged my parents to buy it for weeks after that lol
Man I wish I knew about this game as a kid, I think I would have loved it
@@Wayneisboss Haha I feel you definitely glad I didn’t miss out. I suggest looking up digimon rumble arena remastered, it’s a fan project that adds plenty of digimon that weren’t in the original game and it seems to have new stages and slightly better graphics.
I remember me and my brother bought this game. We waited for so long to get home just to play it. Sadly, i remember playing it, but not much lol.
The second game was my life for about a year as a kid.
Digimon Rumble Arena is one of my favorite fighting games (the others being SF2:Special champion edition, Soul Calibur 2, and Evil Zone). With a fantastic roster, cool stage mechanics, and killer moves, playing DRA was a blast.
They need to brint this back, digivolving as an ult makes so much sense
I loved the game as a kid, but looking back on it, I'm willing to bet it's not that good. I can't wait to see your review!
Yeah it's pretty much objectively not that good nowadays, the controls are really janky and it's extremely unbalanced, the voice acting is weird, the maps are also kinda awful gameplay-wise (even though they look great for a ps1 title)... but I think It's still enjoyable for what it is. It's got that good old ps1 era charm to it that keeps me going back to it.
It definetly deserves a remake even though we all know it's not going to happen, sadly.
My dude, I don't have much to say, I like your content.
That says plenty, and it means a lot :)
I found ruble area 2 to be a huge upgrade if your willing to try it.
Your review made me realize that the reason I loved this game so much as a kid is that it is incredibly simple as a fighting game. I'm awful at fighting games, I generally don't like the genre since the difficulty curve is higher than I'm willing to learn, but I loved this game and played it for hours on end 😅
The difficulty spike when fighting Reapermon at the end of any given digimon's route was a little more than noticeable until you came back with a better, stronger digimon.
Otherwise, wasn't ever too bad.
@@Magnosummit it helped that you could run forever to kite him ^^;
Dude i played this game so much as a kid.
Digimon will always have a place in my heart.
I somehow completely forgot that this game exists, despite playing it a LOT back in the day.
This was one of my favorite PS1 games as a kid. Lol glad I found this..idk why this game was so fun though
I used to watch a nine part series of three dudes just duking it out in this game as a kid. Good times.
I loved this game as a kid. Countless hours.
Ah yes, i remember the good times when this game was just a "Pick Reapermon before your friend does" Speedrun, so you can always start the match off with that dumb combo that makes them dizzy and takes like half their health.
That guy has some insane reach lol
there is a way to choose the tamer from adventure, pressing the vack buttons. And the ost is amazing!!! Even the american ones!
Of all the people I played Rumble Arena with as a kid, it was with my grandparents funnily enough. They had this huge container filled with games for PS1, NES, SNES, etc, and Rumble arena was included in their collection (No idea why. Not even they remember how they got it). But yeah, some weekend visits included all of us duking it out with random Digimon in Rumble Arena. My insistence of always picking Terriermon got me crushed often (Thanks for the PTSD flashback while destroying Megagargomon at 9:45 . My grandpa destroyed me so much that way 🤣🤣🤣). My grandparents had no idea what Digimon was or what the anime was about, they were just excited to have a good time gaming with me. Rumble arena will always have that special place in my heart because of my grandparents. Guess it does for them as well because whenever the current Digimon TCG drops a Megagargomon they'll always ask me how to get it ASAP. They just have this collection of Megagargomon cards or something from they Terriermon lineup. It's fantastic and I love it 🤣🤣
I absolutely remember the "no music for no reason" thing from playing back then. Guess it was a bug.
This game did have a very awesome remix of "The Biggest Dreamer" in the Reapermon fight in the arcade.
I remember renting this from blockbuster😂 Hey just wanted to thank you for being an inspiration! Ive really missed these style of uploads and your hitting just the right vibe for me. Keep it up!
8:48 Why would you expect Gatomon to evolve into Angewomon by using an ability that skips them straight to Mega level (tier 6), when Angewomon is an Ultimate level (tier 5)? What the game does here, by skipping over her to Magnadramon (Mega/tier 6), makes perfect sense.
Sure, Angewomon is more recognizable since she appeared in the anime, but I think it's fine for the game to forego marketability in favor of technical accuracy here.
i'm so exited when you are gonna do Rumble Arena 2 i played that so much as a kid with the single player campaign and it was pure fun even when i was able to do the many specific commands for many digimons when i checked in the game menu of the command sequence like something that i can't fully remember anymore but like X button/X button/O button but it felt cool when i checked the command list of the digimons and that i could execute them by remembering them when younger 😅
I played this a lot when I was younger
The sequel is such an upgrade! Definitely recommend it.
I used to play the sequel quite a bit but never liked it as much as the original. Having to collect those eggs to evolve really ruined the pacing and fun of the battles for me.
I mainly and mostly played this game as a kid, I loved it so much because I already loved digimon.
I liked playing as Renamon because her special attack and ability are insanely overpowered in her basic form, at some point I played a whole run without evolving, that's how broken she is.
I accidentally found this channel, and damn I love finding other people who really love digimon too.
You can actually change up your basic attack based on the direction you push the controller. You can have low sweeping ones or high reaching ones. They will break through guards if not guarded for right. Not that it has the diversity of the Smash attacks, but it is a thing
That's actually good to know, I'll try to rectify my statements when I take a look at Rumble Arena 2
@@Wayneisboss I never played DRA2, but I was an avid boy of DRA so my dad, bros, and I would play it nonstop. I will say though the rest of your video was on point.
For clarification, you can have an up attack, a down attack and a "forward"/standard attack (same is true in the air the forward attack is the same, you just change facing directions). The forward attack is the one that's most shown with the chain mashing. There is a "smash" attack though which is a 100% guard breaker which is pressing forward at the same time as pushing the basic attack button
My friends and I would listen to the sled storm soundtrack while playing this game