I remember i spent more time on the card game in digimon world 3 than the actual game itself lol. Says alot about the Game itself, they basically had 2 seperate games in one and both were fun 😯
So fun fact, I went through about 70% of the game (up to the mountain map) as a kid without a guide or knowing anything. It was a hell of a grind and took me 120+ hours, but it is possible 😂
It was definitely fun to go through areas and not knowing what would happen! If I had a Strategy Guide it would have helped, but I didn't. Still, it was fun playing. I'd do it again if I could.
@@b.y.o.p.9035 I unfortunately got lost in the desert (Noise desert?). Back then I rarely had internet at my hands and let alone did I know of any actual sites to use if I got stuck so I just gave up back then . . . ㅠㅜ so sad, haha.
i actually thought the way the game loads is amazing for its time not only does it load faster that way and easier on the ps1 at that time, they also gave the game a more digital world feeling.. i always just assumed the blocks on the screen was "loading data" in the game world and felt alot more natural then a blank loading screen.
I don't dislike how the game loads. It looks neat and fits the part real well, but the fact that it needs to load even when you just used the menu is a bit excessive on top of reloading after every random battle. Which there was a lot of. It makes navigating much more cumbersome than it needs to be.
@@InfiniteComboReviews i mean yah technically you are correct, but need to remember this is a 20yr old game intended to be played on a system that was 4 generations ago.
@@ryanhess9684 Correct. But counter point. FF7 doesn't have loading issues like this and has waaay more areas, enemies, ect, and I'm not counting the fact that its 3 disks.
@@InfiniteComboReviews yes but to counter your counter point... Final Fantasy VII was at the time the most expensive video game ever produced, with a development budget estimated between $40,000,000.. digimon games have no where near tht budget m8.
@@ryanhess9684 True, but regardless of budget, it still proves it can be done. 5 years earlier no less. Besides, other RPGs like Chrono Cross or Jade Cacoon didn't have that issue either.
@@InfiniteComboReviews yeah the first game receive KINDA of a continuation, right? The protagonist of the first game even appeared to be part of the mainstory But World 3 was one I truly grew up playing and only after grow up that I DISCOVER DNA Evolution. The game could REALLY USE a better tutorial
@@franciscoadasilvajr4514 I'm not sure. I've only played the PS1 games so far though I do hope to play and review all the Digimon games over time. Also yes, the game could use a real tutorial in general.
Yeah, I'll agree with most of your points, I just think I'm a more patient person lmao The backtracking didn't bother me a ton, I just love the environments that much. My main issues were the high encounter rate and the underground segments being uninspired and maze-like
I have a lot of patience and playing Digimon World 1 helped me get more of it. Even the random encounters with enemies in this game wasn't bad for me and I liked to explore but there's something about having patience and taking your time that most people just don't get. It's a different experience for sure.
Loved this game to DEATH. Wasted almost all my weekends during my early highschool years. And now that you've opened it up, it is indeed almost word for word a Pokèmon clone! But holy shit. The BACKTRACKING, oh god the BACKTRACKING is painful. I will never forget that fucking BLUE/8LUE CARD AND SEPIKMON'S MASK SHENANIGANS. Goddamn. Amazing take and thanks giving a look back into Digimon World 3! Nostalgia? Yes! Will I play it again? Hell no. Also, that Digimon plushie tossing animation is heckin' adorable, man! Keep this up!
Ugh. That blue/8lue card was such BS. Arg! Didn't help that Bulbmon wiped me right afterwards. Glad you enjoyed the video! Hopefully it won't take another year to get more Digimon on the channel. Also those were actually 3D models from some of the games.
This game is very visually and audibly attractive. The sprites and overworld look amazing, and they're so bright and colorful. I think that's what makes this game so nostalgic and loved. I would love to play a Digimon game with this visual style, but with Dawn's or Cyber Sleuth's battle system. The battle system in this game is rough, and earning monsters is grindy. This game could also use a lot less backtracking and better writing. I love this game, but it's one of those games I don't know if I'll ever finish.
I agree with you all around. If you're looking to finish it though, a lot of the comments have told me that a good strategy is emulating with speed up turned on to plow through the grind.
I love this game, but it has lots of issues : -Not many good quality of life things, like teleports from a city to another cities, to gain time and they could do that using savepoints. -EXP curve is so bad. Leveling up takes AGES, especially for digivolutions and there are a LOT of digimon to get. -Encounter rate can be a pain, we should be able to choose if we want more or less battles. (OR make it like digimon world and simply avoid a fight by running) -Ultimate attacks at some point deal less damage than a simple attack, they don't scale well, especially magic techniques. You can't simply make a "mage build". So you basically spam attack, except for some physical techniques that adds special effects or elements. -Equipments only gives stats, they could add some special passive abilities to vary the gameplay. I still love it, but it could be much better.
I didn't have any guide when I played this game as a kid. Figuring out what to do and where to go next were part of the fun. I remembered calling my friend on phone who have already played it for advice. Most of the games back in the days were like that. People these days are so spoiled and expect everything to get spoon-fed.
I played this game with my cousins when I was young and all those cons of the game never bothered us. We loved the adventure of coming back and forth, the grinding, being lost in the fcking desert even though it was very tedious. This game is 10/10 for me, very fun and nostalgic.
If you enjoy it then that's awesome! Though I feel like those are the kinds of things that you could only love as a kid when you have ample amounts of time to kill, but I hear what you are saying.
Several thoughts about this: - I didn't use a Strategy Guide for this game. World 1 and 2 I did, but I actually had fun just figuring things out with Digimon World 3. - The Mobius Desert had a specific section to it. Yes, it was very confusing at times and I spent a good amount of hours there but it was fun and thrilling once I found the correct pathway. - Yeah, the mask part early on was a hassle but it was still enjoyable to uncover the mystery of it. - One definitely needs patience with this game, even with a Strategy Guide. I have plenty of patience but learned more patience while playing Digimon World 1 as I don't usually play RPG style games. - The Blast Gauge was awesome! It took some time filling it back up but I would time it and switch between characters to use it mostly for harder battles. Loved that feature. - Digimon Card Battle was fun. I'm not into card games, but I actually liked it. Not bad for my first card game. - I kept hearing lines like "doing the grinding, putting in the work, making an effort" etc. Yes, as with anything that you want to enjoy its great to do all that. Again, had no Strategy Guide for this game so putting in a lot of time and effort allowed me to finish the game. So glad I did because the story was cool and crazy. - No, this game is NOT for everyone. Very true. Not everything is, but I definitely enjoyed it. Playing an updated version of this game, along with Digimon World 1 and Data Squad would be too great. Thanks for the look and memories into this awesome game. 🙂
That's impressive. I don't know if I could have spent hours in that desert and kept my sanity, let alone had the patience to figure out some of the later stuff. Kudos to you good sir! Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@InfiniteComboReviews Yes, between 2 to 3 days I probably spent about 4 to 5 hours total just being in that desert. 😄 Definitely enjoyed your video. The animations you put in there were hilarious. Keep up the work you're doing.
I swear the series is torn between pet raising, console rpgs, and random side games. Cyber Sleuth made a lot of waves when it escaped the Vita purgatory, at least.
The thing is- I played this game with no guide when it came out and it was absolutely brilliant, fell in love with it straight away. Tamers was easily my fave anime at the time (together with Medabots) so having the opening cinematic include the coolest, edgiest mon ever (Beelzemon with two shotguns and a motorbike, ya paesants) was a given. Years later, I got back to it, thanks to emulation. The game has a lot of dead times and the edgiest thing it's not Beelzemon, it's the polymers, but thanks to emulation QoL improvements I still enjoyed it and managed to get my dream team (Beelzemon, Wargreymon and MegaGargomon). Absolute masterpie.
Tamers and Metabots. Good times. Personally I only had Digimon World 1 & 2 as a kid and I could not beat them. Kudos on beating this game as a kid. I wonder if I could have?
The reason stuff loads in blocks is because the maps don't fit in the PS1's memory. A necessary evil. Nowadays when a map doesn't fit in a console's memory, the game simply doesn't come to the console (like Modern Warfare 2 on the Wii)
Yeah this game is a Pokémon clone, and I would not mind that, if it were not for the fact that 99% of the game is backtracking and talking with random people, random places..... The quest to get submarinemon is a perfect example of that.... Go to the new area, get you haunted, get kicked in your butt by a mon that is way too strong, return to the haunted place, find out what is problem is, go to the area where you had to go to get to fight the first boss mon, then go back to the first city, then talk with etamon who is cheating you, go to the forrest on the way to the second area you hust came from, talk with a random man in the forrest, then go back to etamon, then he flees, then you chase him, then you go back to the haunted guy, then go back to the first city, talk with etamon, get some random customes, infiltrate the evil guys plan, talk with random lady on your way to the second city, then go to a pagoda talk with its wall, then go back to the guy you had to talk to after you got haunted, hand him some drop only tnt bomb, then go back to the haunted man, go back to the pagoda. How much new things was here? Area 2. The rest is backtrack, and now you are ready to go to area 3.... Yay?
I like the way the game loads but when my disc started to fail it would show the blue squares for ages and then maybe they’d uncover. I remember being in kicking forest and it wouldn’t load but my player could run around. Was like trying to exit a maze.
The way it loads is neat, but I found that since I had to keep going back and forth through the same areas, I'd get slowed down not being able to see where I was going. I think better optimization could have helped reduce this a lot.
wow as some one who found this video due to having played the DS games and only Digimon world 4 for the home consoles, this deserves more views seeing how fun and well made the video is.
@@InfiniteComboReviews played Digimon World DS and Dusk/Dawn as a kid and really enjoyed them. Replayed them also last year and still had a ton of fun. They each have their own issues but I personally think it's worth a shot! Never played Lost Evolution though.
This has become a family classic for us. Me, my brother and cousins used to play this when we were kids. Played this on my laptop on my early teens and will probably play this as an adult. The card game on Etemon island is just insanely addictive
I bought this game as a child. It was unplayable. I was so excited and spent my hard earned money on it and had no idea what to do once I was in game. Steep learning curve and necessity of a guide is an understatement. I never got past maybe a few hours of gametime
The backtracking in this game is indeed horrible, but I come back every few years and playing it on the steam deck now is A major game changer, I have the back buttons for turbo, save state and load state and one button mapped to a no random encounter cheat. This makes the backtracking less horrible and only take like a min every time, I highly recommend playing this game with a turbo button and the no random encounter cheat mapped to a button, turbo to kill the load times and no random encounter when you have to walk the whole map 100 times ;). IF someone ever wants to mod this game, all you need to add is an escape rope, Repel and fast travel and it would be pretty solid.
@ginonovanta used to be the cheat engine for the psp and psx games played on the psp, I copied the code from the cw cheat database and the file is called popstation if I remember it right :s
Emulating this game fixes so many problems. Completely eliminates any loading issues, and fast forward eliminates the frustrations of backtracking and grinding. It'll still have a bland story but if you're a big Digimon fan I think you'll really enjoy it.
So I actually get that a lot about both Digimon Worlds 2 & 3. Emulation helps to iron out the flaws. The story was a little all over the place, but I enjoyed it for what it was.
I’ve been on a Digimon kick lately. As a kid, I loved it more than Pokémon (still do) but I had an N64, so I never got to play these. I have a PS4, so I’ve been playing Cyber Sleuth and plan to play the other titles for that console. I wish these were on the PS Store. Excellent video. I subscribed. It’s great to see people give Digimon the attention it deserves.
Thanks a lot! Yeah, I haven't played any of the newer Digimon games yet, though I do own them. One of the goals for this channel is to review all of the Digimon games over time. Digimon World 1,2,3 and racing are done and World 4 is next. I hope you enjoy!
I remember 2 things for DW3. I grinded my a** off to get Omnimon and Imperialdramon PM on Kumamon. After playing the game and taking maybe a 3 months break from it i did not know where i was what i have to do and soo on.
The turbo controller was my best friend when it came to grinding in this game. Sleeping and waking up to a maxed level digimon to then cycle to the next before going to school was great.
Was my favorite ps1 game. Had two copies and three ps1s (to keep peace with my brothers) and still mostly played it with ePSXe. Awesome to see it sill getting it due twenty years after release! Great job!
Man this takes me back... I remember getting this game as a Christmas present an my bro got Syphon Filter 2. We'd constantly play this game an take some breaks playing death matches SF2. That was one of my favorite Christmas breaks as a kid
I have played Digimon Card Battle, but not since I was a kid because I wanted to learn how to play the TCG. I remember hating it, but I intend to give it another go for the channel.
Well, on PS1 back on 2003 without internet, I actually finished with nearly 170+ hours. What I did not know was about the secret weapons and that every Digimon should be lv55 for unlock them. This beside that one will need actual cheats for beat the Epilogue of the Pal version, because even with status on 999, they will murder you: I know because I use cheats in the emu version and even with 999 on all, status boosters and using Beelzebumon, still they put me on half of HP with one attack. It was fun too. The other, well, the Pal version actually play the music faster too, which give a better feeling vs the normal speed that will most likely make anyone fall sleep.
170+ Hours!?! That's pretty nuts. I don't think the gameplay holds up enough to make me want to play that long outside a personal desire to win and spite though well played on your part. Yeah, most commenters on this and DW2 have mentioned playing sped up emulators for the best results.
I remember playing this game so many fucking times as a child. I can't even count how many times I've seen the opening cutscene. But I've never even gotten a third of the way through
I used to play this game a lot when I was younger! I just loved digimon and it always felt super cool to be able to use Guilmon because he was my favorite. The game does kinda of suck now that I’m older but when ur using the speed option it’s definitely tolerable! It’s a game, to me, that’s gonna be fun if you’re a real digimon fan. Otherwise it’s a huge mess 😂 there was a youtuber I watched while I was younger to figure out how to even play the game
It seems from most of the comments I've gotten on this and the DW2 game, emulating and adding in quality of life features seems to be the way to go when playing these games and as such a remake would be highly appreciated.
Your the first youtuber ive heard say don't play DMW3, but 2003 version. It was YEARS later I found out about the PAl ver..I have yet to play it and gosh I wish the ones we got in the USA had the post game content...
Well after a few hiccups with other videos, I decided to ask the Digimon community their thoughts on DW3 and the resounding response was that 2003 was the better version so I did some research on it and why its better and I just couldn't not include that info in the video.
I had this game as a kid but because I didn't have a memory card I would just replay the first 2-4 hours over and over. Its also funny how it being a Pokeclone without catching is seen as a bad thing but as a kid its why I kept coming back to it. I loved both Pokemon and Digimon and I liked that it felt like a mesh of both. I probably would have been a bigger Digimon fan than Pokemon growing up if the games had been more consistent in genre, quality and even coming to the US. Also even now the character sprites and overworld look amazing. I wish we'd get a game that looked like that all the time instead of always going 3d.
I had the same memory card issue with FF7 for a good while as a kid. Personally it doesn't bother me that this game borrowed a lot from Pokemon, I just think the fact that it was so on the nose about it was off putting. I agree. The sprite 3D world design usually looks awesome whenever its used.
One of the best games i played ever. The storyline is amazing. I wish tho that the battles were more difficult. I think the counter crest is like a cheat lol. This game needs a remake.
@@b.y.o.p.9035 it was one of best if not the best offline rpg game i ever played. I wish there were more digimons to collect like maybe 15 or 30 digimons. More unique equipments and properties. The card game fun was fun as well.
@@shinichikudo5351 Definitely a great game. Even though I made it to the end I miss I played it more just to level up Digimon that I wasn't able to. Yes, the card game was fun too. Almost forgot about that.
The game itself, in terms of trying to repeat it, was like studying Math, you had to take specific steps to trigger specific events (solutions). I remember loading back and forth and trying to level up endless hours just to beat Zambamon in the first encounter in the jungle, which was simply a waste of time. And many other similar experiences. The game and has a special place in my heart, I played in when I was 10 yo.
Comparing a game to math is an interesting take if nothing else, but I can definitely see where you're coming from. The first Digimon World holds a special place in my heart.
Nice. If you have any model PS3, those can play PS1 games too and while not optimal, you can put PS1 games in your computer and run them off the cd in emulators too, but yeah, here's hoping..
One of my favorite games of all time, and I've replayed it so many times, it's oozing with charm with the music, atmosphere, and art. However... Yeah it's full of flaws. The backtracking and unclear direction of where to go next, as well as some of the worst "fast travel" systems ever implemented (why did they make fast travel into a maze..). Unfortunately, I doubt we'll get a remake any time soon, at most we'll get a port that is barely modified. Itd be so nice to get a remake with quality of life updates though.. keeping the charm would be so hard to do though in 3d, I'm not sure if I can trust them with that. The least they can do is make a new game with a very similar setting though. Digimon does the whole SAO isekai concept in DW3 better than anything else ever has imo.
I've actually heard rumors that they want to remake Digimon World 1 so there's hope that 3 might get its day, though yeah, sometimes charm can only happen once with a big part of that due to the limitations of the time. Still, an updated version with quality of life enhancements would be amazing. Maybe a real fast travel system. Also I did enjoy the SAO concept, but I feel like it was barely touched on until the end and I didn't really want to spoil that part of the story.
@@InfiniteComboReviews I do not believe. Digimon World 1 has already had "sequels" in Re: Digitize and Next Order, the latter being, in part, a retelling/remake of the original game. I mean, there is no other tamagotchi game on the market at Digimon's level of quality and popularity. It's a more or less unique formula for the franchise. Therefore, Bandai should continue to publish games of this style. In turn, DW3 has a more generic JRPG/Pokémon approach, therefore Bandai is unlikely to want to do a Remaster or Remake.
After this game I bet the next Digimon World can only get better, right? Just improving the formular and fixing the issues like slow downs... maybe add more Digimanz. So simple.
I played this game when I was a child. A child that could barely speak English since it's not my first language. I remember learning a LOT of stuff reading the dialogue in this game and having a dictionary (yes, a printed dictionary, since the internet wasn't that big back then) and somehow, maybe by a miracle, I was able to beat it. It is DEFINITELY, and NO DOUBT ABOUT IT, a product of its time. Back then we had a lot more patience with our games because we could afford it. Nowadays our attention span is much, much lower and there's no room for the kind of frustration that the random padding (and the Mobius Desert) inflicts upon the players. Side-quests? Sure! But putting them in the way, forcing you to talk to a thousand different Guilmon to get the stupid Blue Card, taking 5 hundred years to recover Sepikmon's mask, finding your way to the second server with the pallette-swapped areas, making your way through the pallette-swapped areas for the first time just to be barred by an unwinnable fight you were never forewarned, trying to figure out where (or even who, in case you forgot his name) Kenny is after you're told to look for help in that weird server.... and getting a lot of content blocked because at some point pretty much all NPCs are uninteractable due to a curse... Dude, this game might have been a blast when it was released, but if any of this was included in a modern game, I'm sure it would be review-bombed in the blink of an eye. It just doesn't hold up. But for those who had the patience (or lack of better things to do) to dissect this game's battle and card system all the way to the end, then hell yeah it was a great experience. Also anyone who says this isn't a blatant attempt at cloning a Pokémon game is in denial. >:( It's a great game, but it couldn't get any more obvious than, well, the way you explained it lol. 2 friends, badges, becoming the world champ.... yeah no way out of that, bandai lol
You're right on the money, except that I think, even with kids today, with all the free time a child has, they'd probably still push forward through all the padding and madness. After all, they all grind for gotcha, so I think its an age thing alongside the attention span issue, though that doesn't make it any better.
Digimon World 2003 is the real "Digimon World 3". I mean.. Digimon World 3, the US version of Digimon World 2003 had content been cutted. the final boss (Digimon) in Digimon World 2003 is exactly that digimon in the intro cutscene. in cutted version, which is Digimon World 3. you'll never able to fight these digimon. I first play Digimon World 3 and I used to wonder why they made an intro where it's not in the actual game
@@InfiniteComboReviews Counter crest is nerfed in 2003 version. The pro tip is get multi crest, although counter crest can still be quite useful against certain bosses
@@feliperavasio763 So I've been told. I knew about it all going in, but I played as if I didn't for this review and planned to use it if I just happened to get it naturally.
@@InfiniteComboReviews About Puppetmon, I believe it was always a Plant Digimon, not a machine one, see DW2. After all, it is Cherrymon's "natural" Digivolution. Furthermore, although I never saw the game's strategy guide, it seems that it wasn't as helpful as it should have been, and even had misinformation (at least the west version).
@@feliperavasio763 Probably. I never really thought about it that much though it would make sense since otherwise the dark masters would have two machine type Digimon. Still would have been nice have had a way to know for sure though. Also yeah, the strategy guide is just okay, but at least it doesn't hide information the way the DW1 guide did.
I feel your pain. I was streaming this game and got stuck too, but fortunately a viewer was a hardcore fan and guided me through so I didn't lose my mind. Now I play games with him Fridays XD
I finished this without a guide around 8 years old and this was my fav digimon world I think digimon should have played with this idea this was the 1st idea of full dive I hope somebody makes this game in VR it would be great 😌
I grinded wargreymon and metalgarurumon to 40 at amaterasu catacombs, manually, for hours, then my friend said just use a turbo ps1 stick, make it keep pressing X, go fishing, leave it, and you get auto grind
I did something like that in Smash Bros Brawl to get all of the CDs. I created a converbelt custom level, filled it wish just sandbags, put my character where they would punch the bags and pick up items, and just used a rubber band on the turbo button. Worked like a charm.
I remember playing Digimon World 2003 on PSX, it was amazing, spent easily over 1k hours found every plausible secret digivolution and mastered the card game. The one moment i hated was the timed mission later on. Finished it with no guides or internet as a 12 yo and yes it was a grind, the best spot for grinding was Colemon at the beach at the start. My favourite Digimon was Cannondramon evolved from Armormon and Monmon digivolutions in general.
Even the backtracking just adds in more joyful memories once you start looking back many years later :) So that's part of the charm for me. Still my most favourite Digimon game ever
I love the first 3 Digimon World Games. They are one of my favorite PS games ❤ But I love Digimon in general, from the OG V-Pets, to the Anime, the Video Games and the Card Game ❤
Can't say that I love them, but they all are very interesting games that are fun to talk about ( I've reviewed DW1-4 and Racing), but my love Digimon in general keeps me coming back.
My god I remember playing this and somehow managing to finish it without a guide! It took countless hours and all the very painful hard way. Despite that I truly enjoyed the game and even played it again after knowing all the quirks.
@@InfiniteComboReviews I spent a majority of the time grinding my team to level them up and increase their stats to speed up the constant battles. The first boss was a pain, I then focused on 1 of my characters until he was OP and then started leveling up the others.
Oh boi, 8lue Card and the encounter sound will always be ingrained in my bones, same level as Numemon and 9999999 in the previous games. Its more RPG focused Digimom game. Its great. Youd get to choose 3 as a starter which is like in the previous games the difficulty curve at the start. Variety of Digimon is not that large but its a decent amount to keep you sated. World 3 and World 2003, which is better? Well of course for noobs its gonna be 3 with the Counter Crest broken, the more funnier challenge is with 2003 and the Post game beat the blackies and the Champion gauntlet. Especially 2003 challenge runs. I love to get fcked by Galacticmon's RNG and lots of time wasted backtracking the game. Circuit board was a pain even in post game as getting those legendaries isnt easy when you cant properly memorize which hole is that and which path is this hole or that. The remake should have a fast travel to an already explored town at least.
I personally didn't play any of the post game. I was so done, but I think a remake with fast travel and other quality of life features would do this game wonders.
I would have 100% called it the best possible Digimon World game, if it gave me more Evolution options. I don't mean on the scale of Digimon Story or Survive but come on, man. After replaying it over 20+ years now, I'm still enjoying it but I can't deny how really small the Evolution possibilities are compared to HOW MANY DIFFERENT random encounter Digimon enemies this game gives you.
I do actually have a friend lined up to play DW4 with me, though I have no intention of dropping a review that long. I do all the writing and editing myself and a 30 min to a hour long video is just too much.
For me this was the best digimon game ever, and missing out so much potential, bc after the ending simply dies out, but is deffo one of the games that u can do so much around for its time, and a proper remake with a good online system could be crazy now, could be even the same story line, but if it had better system and special post story line to focus online and other stuff deffo worth, cuz if u were allowed to build ur own stuff in this game like ur own world in it, could change alot plus new gen
I actually haven't played this game through since I was a kid, and back then I got close to the end and never finished it. When I was a kid with all the time in the world to game, I didn't mind the padding. I also found learning some of the water routes really cut down on travel time. I remember there being one in Suzaku City leading back to either Asuka or she'll beach, somewhere in that starting area. A lot quicker than backing all the way to the gondola and traversing the forest. I also loved the mirage desert. Took kid me like... Three days of several hours after school to figure it out, but the feeling when I figured it out was great. Been thinking of starting streaming by doing a run of this game. Haven't used a guide on a game other then the Trails games and persona fusing, but I'd consider it for this as hours spent in trial and error in a desert maze is probably not the most engaging stream material.
I know the water routes can move things along, but the random battle syndrome really makes it harder than it needs to be. Plus it all looks the same. Also, you are the first person I've seen to mention liking the mirage desert. I was streaming this the first time I played it and everyone in stream was begging me to look up a guide for the desert because its just boring to watch, so keep that in mind.
@@InfiniteComboReviews I'm weird and was a child with nearly unlimited time so my opinion may be different now. The game could have definitely used some sort of repel item/function.
I can definitely relate to the "I went through 20+ hours before I realised this, so the review will stick with the Vanilla NTSC version" because it took me 50 hours of playing that version, until I realised the exact same thing. I eventually did start again on 2003 and managed to claw my way through another 70+ hours.
But you don't catch any digimon though, so I can't see how it's a clone. You raise characters/monsters and fight 'em. Is Pokemon a Final Fantasy clone then? If we're here to talk how similar the protag is to Ash then we could easily say most Shonen anime protagonists are rip offs of each other.
Did you miss the part where your character using monsters in switch style battling traveled across the land to be the very best that ever was by battling gym leaders to win thier badges while defeating an evil organization?
@@InfiniteComboReviews Traveling across the land to become the very best. This is not a very unique idea to Pokemon. This Digimon game out of 30+ Digimon games out there happens to also have monsters battle one at a time and Gyms.
I am forced to restart this game because only my Agumon is now WarGreymon. The rest are just level 1. Yeaaaaap. I love terraforce that I force myself to lose the game and now I must reatart
I was one of the kids without a memory card, I always made it to the beach before I either hard to turn the game off or a power outage, might watch a playthru one of these days
Oh I know that pain. I had the same problem with FF7 when I first got my PS1. Didn't get a memory card for a few months. As for the playthrough, I have a no commentary Longplay channel where I post gameplay that I captured for these reviews, though I haven't posted the Digimon World 3 gameplay yet (Only Digimon World 1 so far) You can check it out here if you're interested. ua-cam.com/channels/JAv1JPvQgrolgyTXTLaxUQ.html
never had a memory cards for years, almost never finished a game XD. And even when i tried this game on emulator many years after i still never finished it
i adored this game even now but the grind and the backtracking is a bitch. If they did a remake with quality of life stuff akin to what digimon story has that'll ne a huge improvement
Never quite understood how dodging worked in this game, there was a rumor online that if you pressed repeatedly x you did but i'm afraid it was bullsh***
I always had a feeling I was missing some shit when I played this as a what, 6-8 year old? I got as far as the desert with the huge buried bones I think…I loved that it was like Pokemon, and it has this creepy vibe. Those random encounters freaked me out lol I would retry the game over and over hoping to understand it but the combat was brutal. Im assuming I had to grind like a mofo to even get anywhere far at all.
Spent like 6 hours on my playthrough just to realize I was playing the wrong version xD I have no idea how I managed to get anywhere in this game when I was a kid. Playing it as an adult, I feel just as lost half the time. The only difference is I have a phone to look up shit lol
I didn't have this on as a kid, but playing as an adult, I was lucky enough to be streaming the game and some very knowledgeable viewers guided me through a few stupid parts or else who knows how long I would have been stuck.
the only problem digimon has never more popular is inconsistence game style. DW1 = pet rising/free roam/open world. DW2 = RPG, dungeon + turn base. DW cards = card game DW3 = RPG + turn base + card game. RUMBLE= fighting PvP DW4 = hack&slash all DW NDS = all like previous except card game, free roam/open world and fighting. not fans both but if i have to choose. i rather choose digimon than pokemon. the gameplay more challange, variable, uniqe and its DIGITAL. no matter what weird happened i can't be mad or shocked. story based game by DATA/VIRTUAL WORLD. anything can be happened, right? human jogress with digimon. not weird. 😂
This is really hard to read, but what I think you're saying is that Digimon is more versatile than Pokemon and that you like it more? Am I following you correctly?
This one is easily the best all round digimon game of ps 1-3 although could use some adjustments and definitely needs a remake its a shame so many other gamas get a remake. Data squad and world 1 are next. World 2 and 4 are trash although 2 has a good story. The graphic design of 3 , music and Verity of digimon and map makes it easily the best. Also the story was light and also very dark at the same time which was great. Not for kids at all . The story is so compeling that adults cant grasp it actually. It links "terror -ism" as bad guys and how the hero needs to do the impossible and defeat ... Almost mother Earth. Easily the best. They could easily make world 3 a movie and it would be a masterpiece. Or even an anime
I'm almost certain that Digimon World 2003 (so called because the second game was never released in Europe) is optimised for playing on PS2. There were a couple of settings you could enable on the PS2 that would allow you to take advantage of the more powerful hardware and if you enabled these you would see minor improvements in the game, for example, less blue squares on screen as you moved about. Most other games I tried with these settings on would just crash the game.
@@InfiniteComboReviews Yes there is a couple of settings on the PS2, one allows it to use the faster CD drive and I think the other smooths textures. I'm not sure if the same exists on the PS3 though.
for me this game's biggest problem is loading, with using the disc any tiny little scratch could ruin it and those blue block will just not going a away and cover the screen so better play this game with emulator
I decided to pick this up again in emulator, and wondering how tf did I made it to the end of the game as a kid without any guide. While the current me is clueless and literally just googled how to find that Staff pass yesterday
Any good game shark codes to double the exp rates in this game? Loved it as a kid but I reckon I'd only be able to play it as an adult with like, 3 or 4 times exp 😬
@@InfiniteComboReviews thanks! I'll have a dig around online. I used to own the game so technically I have the license to emulate it... For the sake of archiving this treasure
I remember i spent more time on the card game in digimon world 3 than the actual game itself lol. Says alot about the Game itself, they basically had 2 seperate games in one and both were fun 😯
Personally I didn't like the card game so I avoided it whenever possible, but it's cool that you enjoyed it!
Triple Triad in FF8. I could play it forever
@@qwopiretyu I just couldn't get into it myself.
Oh shoot, I forgot about the card game within the game. Thanks for the reminder! 😊
deff did the same way back wen❤❤
So fun fact, I went through about 70% of the game (up to the mountain map) as a kid without a guide or knowing anything. It was a hell of a grind and took me 120+ hours, but it is possible 😂
Lol. Well I'd imagine if you went everywhere and tagged everything, you'd eventually trigger every event. If only I had the free time of a child XD
It was definitely fun to go through areas and not knowing what would happen! If I had a Strategy Guide it would have helped, but I didn't. Still, it was fun playing. I'd do it again if I could.
@@b.y.o.p.9035 I unfortunately got lost in the desert (Noise desert?). Back then I rarely had internet at my hands and let alone did I know of any actual sites to use if I got stuck so I just gave up back then . . . ㅠㅜ so sad, haha.
I spent 172 hours before getting the blue card, lmao, discovered guides on the internet and finished it in 272
@@VersusThem That's insane
i actually thought the way the game loads is amazing for its time not only does it load faster that way and easier on the ps1 at that time, they also gave the game a more digital world feeling.. i always just assumed the blocks on the screen was "loading data" in the game world and felt alot more natural then a blank loading screen.
I don't dislike how the game loads. It looks neat and fits the part real well, but the fact that it needs to load even when you just used the menu is a bit excessive on top of reloading after every random battle. Which there was a lot of. It makes navigating much more cumbersome than it needs to be.
@@InfiniteComboReviews i mean yah technically you are correct, but need to remember this is a 20yr old game intended to be played on a system that was 4 generations ago.
@@ryanhess9684 Correct. But counter point. FF7 doesn't have loading issues like this and has waaay more areas, enemies, ect, and I'm not counting the fact that its 3 disks.
@@InfiniteComboReviews yes but to counter your counter point... Final Fantasy VII was at the time the most expensive video game ever produced, with a development budget estimated between $40,000,000.. digimon games have no where near tht budget m8.
@@ryanhess9684 True, but regardless of budget, it still proves it can be done. 5 years earlier no less. Besides, other RPGs like Chrono Cross or Jade Cacoon didn't have that issue either.
Digimon World 3 is one I wish get remaked in some way
I loved all the visuals, the story (I was a child and find it soooo cool) and the system
I wish all the DW games would get remade honestly
@@InfiniteComboReviews yeah the first game receive KINDA of a continuation, right? The protagonist of the first game even appeared to be part of the mainstory
But World 3 was one I truly grew up playing and only after grow up that I DISCOVER DNA Evolution.
The game could REALLY USE a better tutorial
@@franciscoadasilvajr4514 I'm not sure. I've only played the PS1 games so far though I do hope to play and review all the Digimon games over time. Also yes, the game could use a real tutorial in general.
Yeah, I'll agree with most of your points, I just think I'm a more patient person lmao
The backtracking didn't bother me a ton, I just love the environments that much.
My main issues were the high encounter rate and the underground segments being uninspired and maze-like
Patience is a virtue.......that I don't have. Not helped by how easily I get lost plus that awful encounter rate. It just got to me pretty bad.
I have a lot of patience and playing Digimon World 1 helped me get more of it. Even the random encounters with enemies in this game wasn't bad for me and I liked to explore but there's something about having patience and taking your time that most people just don't get. It's a different experience for sure.
I hear what you are saying, but there is a limit to my patience and this game taxed it too far.
Loved this game to DEATH. Wasted almost all my weekends during my early highschool years. And now that you've opened it up, it is indeed almost word for word a Pokèmon clone!
But holy shit. The BACKTRACKING, oh god the BACKTRACKING is painful. I will never forget that fucking BLUE/8LUE CARD AND SEPIKMON'S MASK SHENANIGANS. Goddamn.
Amazing take and thanks giving a look back into Digimon World 3! Nostalgia? Yes! Will I play it again? Hell no. Also, that Digimon plushie tossing animation is heckin' adorable, man! Keep this up!
Ugh. That blue/8lue card was such BS. Arg! Didn't help that Bulbmon wiped me right afterwards.
Glad you enjoyed the video! Hopefully it won't take another year to get more Digimon on the channel. Also those were actually 3D models from some of the games.
Definitely a great game. For me, I'd love a chance to play it again.
@@b.y.o.p.9035 I hope you get too.
@@InfiniteComboReviews Thank you sir. Keep doing your thing!
I loved card battle
This game is very visually and audibly attractive. The sprites and overworld look amazing, and they're so bright and colorful. I think that's what makes this game so nostalgic and loved. I would love to play a Digimon game with this visual style, but with Dawn's or Cyber Sleuth's battle system. The battle system in this game is rough, and earning monsters is grindy. This game could also use a lot less backtracking and better writing. I love this game, but it's one of those games I don't know if I'll ever finish.
I agree with you all around. If you're looking to finish it though, a lot of the comments have told me that a good strategy is emulating with speed up turned on to plow through the grind.
We need DIGIMON WORLD 3 Remake !!!
I'd be for it
💯
Maybe a digimon world 3 official sequel would be nice so long as they follow the formula of this game
i replay this game every single year - it was truely ahead of its time and is fresh to play till this day
What was ahead of it's time about it?
@@InfiniteComboReviews digimon rpg with 3d and unique story. it felt like a digimon game
@@smmshoe That's not really what ahead of it's time means though
I love this game, but it has lots of issues :
-Not many good quality of life things, like teleports from a city to another cities, to gain time and they could do that using savepoints.
-EXP curve is so bad. Leveling up takes AGES, especially for digivolutions and there are a LOT of digimon to get.
-Encounter rate can be a pain, we should be able to choose if we want more or less battles. (OR make it like digimon world and simply avoid a fight by running)
-Ultimate attacks at some point deal less damage than a simple attack, they don't scale well, especially magic techniques. You can't simply make a "mage build". So you basically spam attack, except for some physical techniques that adds special effects or elements.
-Equipments only gives stats, they could add some special passive abilities to vary the gameplay.
I still love it, but it could be much better.
Yeah. This game needs a quality of life remake.
I didn't have any guide when I played this game as a kid. Figuring out what to do and where to go next were part of the fun. I remembered calling my friend on phone who have already played it for advice. Most of the games back in the days were like that. People these days are so spoiled and expect everything to get spoon-fed.
I played this game with my cousins when I was young and all those cons of the game never bothered us. We loved the adventure of coming back and forth, the grinding, being lost in the fcking desert even though it was very tedious. This game is 10/10 for me, very fun and nostalgic.
If you enjoy it then that's awesome! Though I feel like those are the kinds of things that you could only love as a kid when you have ample amounts of time to kill, but I hear what you are saying.
Several thoughts about this:
- I didn't use a Strategy Guide for this game. World 1 and 2 I did, but I actually had fun just figuring things out with Digimon World 3.
- The Mobius Desert had a specific section to it. Yes, it was very confusing at times and I spent a good amount of hours there but it was fun and thrilling once I found the correct pathway.
- Yeah, the mask part early on was a hassle but it was still enjoyable to uncover the mystery of it.
- One definitely needs patience with this game, even with a Strategy Guide. I have plenty of patience but learned more patience while playing Digimon World 1 as I don't usually play RPG style games.
- The Blast Gauge was awesome! It took some time filling it back up but I would time it and switch between characters to use it mostly for harder battles. Loved that feature.
- Digimon Card Battle was fun. I'm not into card games, but I actually liked it. Not bad for my first card game.
- I kept hearing lines like "doing the grinding, putting in the work, making an effort" etc. Yes, as with anything that you want to enjoy its great to do all that. Again, had no Strategy Guide for this game so putting in a lot of time and effort allowed me to finish the game. So glad I did because the story was cool and crazy.
- No, this game is NOT for everyone. Very true. Not everything is, but I definitely enjoyed it. Playing an updated version of this game, along with Digimon World 1 and Data Squad would be too great.
Thanks for the look and memories into this awesome game. 🙂
That's impressive. I don't know if I could have spent hours in that desert and kept my sanity, let alone had the patience to figure out some of the later stuff. Kudos to you good sir! Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@InfiniteComboReviews Yes, between 2 to 3 days I probably spent about 4 to 5 hours total just being in that desert. 😄
Definitely enjoyed your video. The animations you put in there were hilarious. Keep up the work you're doing.
Updated version??
Is there any another version of this game?
@@Iychoenk Technically the European version Digimon World 2003 is an update version of Digimon World 3 released in the states.
@@InfiniteComboReviews what's the difference?
I hate how Digimon can't even seem to find the perfect formula for their games. That's what keeping them from finally beating Pokemon.
That's a good way to put it.
The perfect formula is the DW1 formula
Even I use GameShark somehow the boss still pain ass to beat 😅
I swear the series is torn between pet raising, console rpgs, and random side games.
Cyber Sleuth made a lot of waves when it escaped the Vita purgatory, at least.
Cyber sleuth got the turn based formula down, and world 1 got the v pet raising formula down. They just gotta stick with it now
The thing is- I played this game with no guide when it came out and it was absolutely brilliant, fell in love with it straight away. Tamers was easily my fave anime at the time (together with Medabots) so having the opening cinematic include the coolest, edgiest mon ever (Beelzemon with two shotguns and a motorbike, ya paesants) was a given.
Years later, I got back to it, thanks to emulation. The game has a lot of dead times and the edgiest thing it's not Beelzemon, it's the polymers, but thanks to emulation QoL improvements I still enjoyed it and managed to get my dream team (Beelzemon, Wargreymon and MegaGargomon). Absolute masterpie.
Tamers and Metabots. Good times. Personally I only had Digimon World 1 & 2 as a kid and I could not beat them. Kudos on beating this game as a kid. I wonder if I could have?
@@InfiniteComboReviews used to have a friend and we'd play it together, brainstorming was easier with two people
@@EmanueleCappello Yeah, chat was helping me out while I streamed it.
The reason stuff loads in blocks is because the maps don't fit in the PS1's memory. A necessary evil. Nowadays when a map doesn't fit in a console's memory, the game simply doesn't come to the console (like Modern Warfare 2 on the Wii)
I know, but the way its handled is just so unique that I couldn't not bring it up.
Yeah this game is a Pokémon clone, and I would not mind that, if it were not for the fact that 99% of the game is backtracking and talking with random people, random places..... The quest to get submarinemon is a perfect example of that.... Go to the new area, get you haunted, get kicked in your butt by a mon that is way too strong, return to the haunted place, find out what is problem is, go to the area where you had to go to get to fight the first boss mon, then go back to the first city, then talk with etamon who is cheating you, go to the forrest on the way to the second area you hust came from, talk with a random man in the forrest, then go back to etamon, then he flees, then you chase him, then you go back to the haunted guy, then go back to the first city, talk with etamon, get some random customes, infiltrate the evil guys plan, talk with random lady on your way to the second city, then go to a pagoda talk with its wall, then go back to the guy you had to talk to after you got haunted, hand him some drop only tnt bomb, then go back to the haunted man, go back to the pagoda. How much new things was here? Area 2. The rest is backtrack, and now you are ready to go to area 3.... Yay?
Agreed. Plus having random battle syndrome does not help the cause.
I like the way the game loads but when my disc started to fail it would show the blue squares for ages and then maybe they’d uncover. I remember being in kicking forest and it wouldn’t load but my player could run around. Was like trying to exit a maze.
The way it loads is neat, but I found that since I had to keep going back and forth through the same areas, I'd get slowed down not being able to see where I was going. I think better optimization could have helped reduce this a lot.
wow as some one who found this video due to having played the DS games and only Digimon world 4 for the home consoles, this deserves more views seeing how fun and well made the video is.
Thank you! I'm actually going to start on DW4 in Nov or Dec. Are the DS games any good?
@@InfiniteComboReviews played Digimon World DS and Dusk/Dawn as a kid and really enjoyed them. Replayed them also last year and still had a ton of fun. They each have their own issues but I personally think it's worth a shot! Never played Lost Evolution though.
@@Dreamspan Awesome! I look forward to getting to them.
This has become a family classic for us. Me, my brother and cousins used to play this when we were kids. Played this on my laptop on my early teens and will probably play this as an adult. The card game on Etemon island is just insanely addictive
That's cool. I hope your next playthrough is even better than last time!
This was one of my favorite games when I was young and am now not surprised I never finished it lol
I can only imagine. Personally I never managed to finish Digimon World 1 or 2 as a kid myself.
Well it was my favorite. I still play it to this day.
Awesome! Nothing wrong with that.
@@InfiniteComboReviews But I'm European so I play the "proper" version, so-to-speak. I love that game.
@@MCPunk55 I'm jealous
Nice! Glad you still play it and having fun with it.
I bought this game as a child. It was unplayable. I was so excited and spent my hard earned money on it and had no idea what to do once I was in game. Steep learning curve and necessity of a guide is an understatement. I never got past maybe a few hours of gametime
ALL of the Digimon World games have that problem. I make fun of it more in my DW1 & DW2 videos.
This is one of my favorite games ever from my childhood ❤️😍 love this video
Thanks a lot! Glad you enjoyed it.
The backtracking in this game is indeed horrible, but I come back every few years and playing it on the steam deck now is A major game changer, I have the back buttons for turbo, save state and load state and one button mapped to a no random encounter cheat.
This makes the backtracking less horrible and only take like a min every time, I highly recommend playing this game with a turbo button and the no random encounter cheat mapped to a button, turbo to kill the load times and no random encounter when you have to walk the whole map 100 times ;).
IF someone ever wants to mod this game, all you need to add is an escape rope, Repel and fast travel and it would be pretty solid.
Yeah, that's basically how I told people to play this one though a simple MOD sounds good too.
No encounter cheat? Is there a way to pass it on to me? Thanks.
@feliperavasio763 it's in the cwcheat dB for popstation, I got it from there the code
@@sillysnek the what station?
@ginonovanta used to be the cheat engine for the psp and psx games played on the psp, I copied the code from the cw cheat database and the file is called popstation if I remember it right :s
I loaded 250 hours and counting on one profile on vanilla version, I can’t tell you how much I love this game
That's insane/impressive/insane!
So much nostalgia. FYI for people that don't know, Cyber Sleuth is basically this game but modernized and so much better
I haven't gotten to Cyber Sleuth yet but I'm looking forward to it.
Emulating this game fixes so many problems.
Completely eliminates any loading issues, and fast forward eliminates the frustrations of backtracking and grinding.
It'll still have a bland story but if you're a big Digimon fan I think you'll really enjoy it.
So I actually get that a lot about both Digimon Worlds 2 & 3. Emulation helps to iron out the flaws.
The story was a little all over the place, but I enjoyed it for what it was.
I’ve been on a Digimon kick lately. As a kid, I loved it more than Pokémon (still do) but I had an N64, so I never got to play these. I have a PS4, so I’ve been playing Cyber Sleuth and plan to play the other titles for that console. I wish these were on the PS Store. Excellent video. I subscribed. It’s great to see people give Digimon the attention it deserves.
Thanks a lot! Yeah, I haven't played any of the newer Digimon games yet, though I do own them. One of the goals for this channel is to review all of the Digimon games over time. Digimon World 1,2,3 and racing are done and World 4 is next. I hope you enjoy!
I remember 2 things for DW3.
I grinded my a** off to get Omnimon and Imperialdramon PM on Kumamon.
After playing the game and taking maybe a 3 months break from it i did not know where i was what i have to do and soo on.
That sounds about right.
The turbo controller was my best friend when it came to grinding in this game. Sleeping and waking up to a maxed level digimon to then cycle to the next before going to school was great.
Sounds like a sound strategy to me.
Thats awesome
Was my favorite ps1 game. Had two copies and three ps1s (to keep peace with my brothers) and still mostly played it with ePSXe. Awesome to see it sill getting it due twenty years after release! Great job!
Dang. 3 PS1s, but I feel you. Glad I could do this one justice!
Better than Digimon World 1? 😊
I enjoyed this game too. Wouldn't mind playing it again.
I liked Digimon World 1 best of the trilogy myself.
thats why i am always saying , digimon is not for noobs , u want easy and guided game go play piki piki pokemon , its hard damn hard in digimon
Yeah, but if you aren't told prior, would you really expect them to be such rough games?
"Digimon is not for noobs". Well said. 😊
Man this takes me back... I remember getting this game as a Christmas present an my bro got Syphon Filter 2. We'd constantly play this game an take some breaks playing death matches SF2. That was one of my favorite Christmas breaks as a kid
That sounds nice. Me and my step bro played TMNT on PS2 all Xmas night once. That was lots of fun.
For me this is the best out of the PS1 though I really liked the Digimon Card Battle as well. Have you tried that one? It’s also for the PS1.
I have played Digimon Card Battle, but not since I was a kid because I wanted to learn how to play the TCG. I remember hating it, but I intend to give it another go for the channel.
Well, on PS1 back on 2003 without internet, I actually finished with nearly 170+ hours.
What I did not know was about the secret weapons and that every Digimon should be lv55 for unlock them.
This beside that one will need actual cheats for beat the Epilogue of the Pal version, because even with status on 999, they will murder you: I know because I use cheats in the emu version and even with 999 on all, status boosters and using Beelzebumon, still they put me on half of HP with one attack.
It was fun too.
The other, well, the Pal version actually play the music faster too, which give a better feeling vs the normal speed that will most likely make anyone fall sleep.
170+ Hours!?! That's pretty nuts. I don't think the gameplay holds up enough to make me want to play that long outside a personal desire to win and spite though well played on your part.
Yeah, most commenters on this and DW2 have mentioned playing sped up emulators for the best results.
I remember playing this game so many fucking times as a child. I can't even count how many times I've seen the opening cutscene. But I've never even gotten a third of the way through
Oh, I can certainly believe that. I was the same way with Digimon World 2.
I used to play this game a lot when I was younger! I just loved digimon and it always felt super cool to be able to use Guilmon because he was my favorite. The game does kinda of suck now that I’m older but when ur using the speed option it’s definitely tolerable! It’s a game, to me, that’s gonna be fun if you’re a real digimon fan. Otherwise it’s a huge mess 😂 there was a youtuber I watched while I was younger to figure out how to even play the game
It seems from most of the comments I've gotten on this and the DW2 game, emulating and adding in quality of life features seems to be the way to go when playing these games and as such a remake would be highly appreciated.
Your the first youtuber ive heard say don't play DMW3, but 2003 version. It was YEARS later I found out about the PAl ver..I have yet to play it and gosh I wish the ones we got in the USA had the post game content...
Well after a few hiccups with other videos, I decided to ask the Digimon community their thoughts on DW3 and the resounding response was that 2003 was the better version so I did some research on it and why its better and I just couldn't not include that info in the video.
I remember i use to cry as a kid when i would die and loose all my progress due to not saving. just the main title theme and tears of anger.
I think I would have cried if I died during the final battle and had to redo that entire section.
I had this game as a kid but because I didn't have a memory card I would just replay the first 2-4 hours over and over. Its also funny how it being a Pokeclone without catching is seen as a bad thing but as a kid its why I kept coming back to it. I loved both Pokemon and Digimon and I liked that it felt like a mesh of both. I probably would have been a bigger Digimon fan than Pokemon growing up if the games had been more consistent in genre, quality and even coming to the US.
Also even now the character sprites and overworld look amazing. I wish we'd get a game that looked like that all the time instead of always going 3d.
I had the same memory card issue with FF7 for a good while as a kid. Personally it doesn't bother me that this game borrowed a lot from Pokemon, I just think the fact that it was so on the nose about it was off putting.
I agree. The sprite 3D world design usually looks awesome whenever its used.
One of the best games i played ever. The storyline is amazing. I wish tho that the battles were more difficult. I think the counter crest is like a cheat lol. This game needs a remake.
Yeah, more complex battles would have gone a long way. A remake would be sweet.
Yes, the story was fun to go through. Glad you enjoyed the game.
@@b.y.o.p.9035 it was one of best if not the best offline rpg game i ever played. I wish there were more digimons to collect like maybe 15 or 30 digimons. More unique equipments and properties. The card game fun was fun as well.
@@shinichikudo5351 Definitely a great game. Even though I made it to the end I miss I played it more just to level up Digimon that I wasn't able to. Yes, the card game was fun too. Almost forgot about that.
I wouldn’t say best games. Best games if you like Grinding a lot
Listening to the intro brought back so many memories. Im lookign for a way to play that game again.
Enjoy!
The game itself, in terms of trying to repeat it, was like studying Math, you had to take specific steps to trigger specific events (solutions). I remember loading back and forth and trying to level up endless hours just to beat Zambamon in the first encounter in the jungle, which was simply a waste of time. And many other similar experiences. The game and has a special place in my heart, I played in when I was 10 yo.
Comparing a game to math is an interesting take if nothing else, but I can definitely see where you're coming from. The first Digimon World holds a special place in my heart.
I still got my Copy at Home,since its Release. No PS1 to use it,but its still Here! And i still have hopes,that it gets a Remake
Nice. If you have any model PS3, those can play PS1 games too and while not optimal, you can put PS1 games in your computer and run them off the cd in emulators too, but yeah, here's hoping..
One of my favorite games of all time, and I've replayed it so many times, it's oozing with charm with the music, atmosphere, and art. However... Yeah it's full of flaws. The backtracking and unclear direction of where to go next, as well as some of the worst "fast travel" systems ever implemented (why did they make fast travel into a maze..). Unfortunately, I doubt we'll get a remake any time soon, at most we'll get a port that is barely modified.
Itd be so nice to get a remake with quality of life updates though.. keeping the charm would be so hard to do though in 3d, I'm not sure if I can trust them with that. The least they can do is make a new game with a very similar setting though. Digimon does the whole SAO isekai concept in DW3 better than anything else ever has imo.
I've actually heard rumors that they want to remake Digimon World 1 so there's hope that 3 might get its day, though yeah, sometimes charm can only happen once with a big part of that due to the limitations of the time. Still, an updated version with quality of life enhancements would be amazing. Maybe a real fast travel system. Also I did enjoy the SAO concept, but I feel like it was barely touched on until the end and I didn't really want to spoil that part of the story.
One of my favorites too!
@@InfiniteComboReviews I do not believe.
Digimon World 1 has already had "sequels" in Re: Digitize and Next Order, the latter being, in part, a retelling/remake of the original game.
I mean, there is no other tamagotchi game on the market at Digimon's level of quality and popularity. It's a more or less unique formula for the franchise. Therefore, Bandai should continue to publish games of this style.
In turn, DW3 has a more generic JRPG/Pokémon approach, therefore Bandai is unlikely to want to do a Remaster or Remake.
@@feliperavasio763 Fair point, but if there's money to be made in a remake then they might go for it.
After this game I bet the next Digimon World can only get better, right? Just improving the formular and fixing the issues like slow downs... maybe add more Digimanz. So simple.
Well, apparently Digimon World 4 is the most hated of the group, so I guess I'll see.
I played this game when I was a child. A child that could barely speak English since it's not my first language. I remember learning a LOT of stuff reading the dialogue in this game and having a dictionary (yes, a printed dictionary, since the internet wasn't that big back then) and somehow, maybe by a miracle, I was able to beat it.
It is DEFINITELY, and NO DOUBT ABOUT IT, a product of its time. Back then we had a lot more patience with our games because we could afford it. Nowadays our attention span is much, much lower and there's no room for the kind of frustration that the random padding (and the Mobius Desert) inflicts upon the players. Side-quests? Sure! But putting them in the way, forcing you to talk to a thousand different Guilmon to get the stupid Blue Card, taking 5 hundred years to recover Sepikmon's mask, finding your way to the second server with the pallette-swapped areas, making your way through the pallette-swapped areas for the first time just to be barred by an unwinnable fight you were never forewarned, trying to figure out where (or even who, in case you forgot his name) Kenny is after you're told to look for help in that weird server.... and getting a lot of content blocked because at some point pretty much all NPCs are uninteractable due to a curse...
Dude, this game might have been a blast when it was released, but if any of this was included in a modern game, I'm sure it would be review-bombed in the blink of an eye. It just doesn't hold up.
But for those who had the patience (or lack of better things to do) to dissect this game's battle and card system all the way to the end, then hell yeah it was a great experience.
Also anyone who says this isn't a blatant attempt at cloning a Pokémon game is in denial. >:( It's a great game, but it couldn't get any more obvious than, well, the way you explained it lol. 2 friends, badges, becoming the world champ.... yeah no way out of that, bandai lol
You're right on the money, except that I think, even with kids today, with all the free time a child has, they'd probably still push forward through all the padding and madness. After all, they all grind for gotcha, so I think its an age thing alongside the attention span issue, though that doesn't make it any better.
Yep. I loved DW3 back then and I also admit it was a typical Pokémon game clone. That's why I liked it
Nothing wrong with that.
Digimon World 2003 is the real "Digimon World 3". I mean.. Digimon World 3, the US version of Digimon World 2003 had content been cutted. the final boss (Digimon) in Digimon World 2003 is exactly that digimon in the intro cutscene. in cutted version, which is Digimon World 3. you'll never able to fight these digimon.
I first play Digimon World 3 and I used to wonder why they made an intro where it's not in the actual game
Yeah. DW 2003 is definitely the way to go for people who want to play the game.
@@InfiniteComboReviews Counter crest is nerfed in 2003 version. The pro tip is get multi crest, although counter crest can still be quite useful against certain bosses
@@feliperavasio763 So I've been told. I knew about it all going in, but I played as if I didn't for this review and planned to use it if I just happened to get it naturally.
@@InfiniteComboReviews About Puppetmon, I believe it was always a Plant Digimon, not a machine one, see DW2. After all, it is Cherrymon's "natural" Digivolution.
Furthermore, although I never saw the game's strategy guide, it seems that it wasn't as helpful as it should have been, and even had misinformation (at least the west version).
@@feliperavasio763 Probably. I never really thought about it that much though it would make sense since otherwise the dark masters would have two machine type Digimon. Still would have been nice have had a way to know for sure though. Also yeah, the strategy guide is just okay, but at least it doesn't hide information the way the DW1 guide did.
I remember having this as a kid - I ended up getting stuck on the Mobius Desert section and never playing it again 😅
I feel your pain. I was streaming this game and got stuck too, but fortunately a viewer was a hardcore fan and guided me through so I didn't lose my mind. Now I play games with him Fridays XD
A PS5 remake of this would probably make me buy a PS5.
Better tell Sony then. They could use a win.
I'm pretty impressed how varied each game is
Yeah, but that also means anyone looking for more of a specific experience from a sequel will be disappointed.
For real.
More like unfocused. You wonder why Pokemon sales infinitely better because it is easier to grasp.
Very true.
I finished this without a guide around 8 years old and this was my fav digimon world I think digimon should have played with this idea this was the 1st idea of full dive I hope somebody makes this game in VR it would be great 😌
Running through the digital world in VR would be pretty cool.
I grinded wargreymon and metalgarurumon to 40 at amaterasu catacombs, manually, for hours, then my friend said just use a turbo ps1 stick, make it keep pressing X, go fishing, leave it, and you get auto grind
I did something like that in Smash Bros Brawl to get all of the CDs. I created a converbelt custom level, filled it wish just sandbags, put my character where they would punch the bags and pick up items, and just used a rubber band on the turbo button. Worked like a charm.
I remember playing Digimon World 2003 on PSX, it was amazing, spent easily over 1k hours found every plausible secret digivolution and mastered the card game. The one moment i hated was the timed mission later on. Finished it with no guides or internet as a 12 yo and yes it was a grind, the best spot for grinding was Colemon at the beach at the start. My favourite Digimon was Cannondramon evolved from Armormon and Monmon digivolutions in general.
Wow. Just wow. That's crazy. I wasn't able to finish either DW1 or DW2 as a kid even with the guides.
@@InfiniteComboReviews Not knowing English btw 😅 thank you for this video you ignited some of the most cool memories :D
@@bartczak06 *Standing applause*
@@bartczak06 Thank you for watching!
Even the backtracking just adds in more joyful memories once you start looking back many years later :)
So that's part of the charm for me. Still my most favourite Digimon game ever
Many tears later is right XD DW1 is my favorite
I love the first 3 Digimon World Games. They are one of my favorite PS games ❤
But I love Digimon in general, from the OG V-Pets, to the Anime, the Video Games and the Card Game ❤
Can't say that I love them, but they all are very interesting games that are fun to talk about ( I've reviewed DW1-4 and Racing), but my love Digimon in general keeps me coming back.
i have been looking forward to this :)
Happy to hear it!
why do people call them pokemon clones instead creature collectors when smt and dragon quest did it before pokemon
Because Pokemon was the first to popularize the style and continues to use it where it's more of a side thing for Dragon Quest.
No game can remove this game from my heart
Not even Digimon World 4? XD
How did you survive having a BlackWarGreymon thrown at you? And how powerful are your angry viewers to throw a Mega Level Digimon that casually?
I survive through pure stubbornness! As for my viewers, everyone subbed to my channel automatically gets a power boost. You should try it.
Even though I loved this game, I admit that the backtracking was EXHAUSTING
Yeah. It's rough.
My god I remember playing this and somehow managing to finish it without a guide! It took countless hours and all the very painful hard way. Despite that I truly enjoyed the game and even played it again after knowing all the quirks.
Well done! I'd like to pretend that I could have done the same as a kid, but since I couldn't beat 2 as a kid I'm not gonna hold my breath.
@@InfiniteComboReviews I spent a majority of the time grinding my team to level them up and increase their stats to speed up the constant battles. The first boss was a pain, I then focused on 1 of my characters until he was OP and then started leveling up the others.
@@leavarioxstudios I think that was easier to do as a kid. I couldn't do it now.
Oh boi, 8lue Card and the encounter sound will always be ingrained in my bones, same level as Numemon and 9999999 in the previous games.
Its more RPG focused Digimom game. Its great. Youd get to choose 3 as a starter which is like in the previous games the difficulty curve at the start. Variety of Digimon is not that large but its a decent amount to keep you sated.
World 3 and World 2003, which is better? Well of course for noobs its gonna be 3 with the Counter Crest broken, the more funnier challenge is with 2003 and the Post game beat the blackies and the Champion gauntlet. Especially 2003 challenge runs. I love to get fcked by Galacticmon's RNG and lots of time wasted backtracking the game. Circuit board was a pain even in post game as getting those legendaries isnt easy when you cant properly memorize which hole is that and which path is this hole or that.
The remake should have a fast travel to an already explored town at least.
I personally didn't play any of the post game. I was so done, but I think a remake with fast travel and other quality of life features would do this game wonders.
I would have 100% called it the best possible Digimon World game, if it gave me more Evolution options. I don't mean on the scale of Digimon Story or Survive but come on, man.
After replaying it over 20+ years now, I'm still enjoying it but I can't deny how really small the Evolution possibilities are compared to HOW MANY DIFFERENT random encounter Digimon enemies this game gives you.
Guess I never really thought about it since I didn't unlock all that many myself.
still waiting for its remaster version..
Well the TMNT Cowagunga Collection proves that there's still hope
I remember all the rainy days I spent at home to finish this. 😅
Must be real wet where you live XD
We need a Digimon World 3 remaster that looks just like Cyber Sleuth.
100%
@@InfiniteComboReviews they keep tryna reinvent the wheel when that’s Really all we need lol.
If you're gonna do Digimon World 4, you gotta play it co-op, or do a 30-60 minute review. There's a lot with it you could go over.
I do actually have a friend lined up to play DW4 with me, though I have no intention of dropping a review that long. I do all the writing and editing myself and a 30 min to a hour long video is just too much.
@@InfiniteComboReviews Fair enough, but the game has incredibly weird systems that I hope you get into.
@@nopemcgee2831 Sounds interesting
Nooooo. Leave World 4 alone. 😁
Request denied.
OH THANK GOD you said get the pal version. Holy shit...saves me a lot of pain. Bless you holy cow.
Moo Moo.
For me this was the best digimon game ever, and missing out so much potential, bc after the ending simply dies out, but is deffo one of the games that u can do so much around for its time, and a proper remake with a good online system could be crazy now, could be even the same story line, but if it had better system and special post story line to focus online and other stuff deffo worth, cuz if u were allowed to build ur own stuff in this game like ur own world in it, could change alot plus new gen
Yeah, the general consensus is that this game needs a remake, badly. I only wonder how well it would really sell?
I actually haven't played this game through since I was a kid, and back then I got close to the end and never finished it. When I was a kid with all the time in the world to game, I didn't mind the padding. I also found learning some of the water routes really cut down on travel time. I remember there being one in Suzaku City leading back to either Asuka or she'll beach, somewhere in that starting area. A lot quicker than backing all the way to the gondola and traversing the forest.
I also loved the mirage desert. Took kid me like... Three days of several hours after school to figure it out, but the feeling when I figured it out was great. Been thinking of starting streaming by doing a run of this game. Haven't used a guide on a game other then the Trails games and persona fusing, but I'd consider it for this as hours spent in trial and error in a desert maze is probably not the most engaging stream material.
I know the water routes can move things along, but the random battle syndrome really makes it harder than it needs to be. Plus it all looks the same. Also, you are the first person I've seen to mention liking the mirage desert. I was streaming this the first time I played it and everyone in stream was begging me to look up a guide for the desert because its just boring to watch, so keep that in mind.
@@InfiniteComboReviews I'm weird and was a child with nearly unlimited time so my opinion may be different now. The game could have definitely used some sort of repel item/function.
@@shimasclan I'm in the same boat, and yeah, a repel would have been fantastic!
The grinding on this game was insane.
No joke.
I can definitely relate to the "I went through 20+ hours before I realised this, so the review will stick with the Vanilla NTSC version" because it took me 50 hours of playing that version, until I realised the exact same thing. I eventually did start again on 2003 and managed to claw my way through another 70+ hours.
Yeah. Isn’t that just the way?
@@InfiniteComboReviews Lol. Sort of like the "Initiation Ceremony" of Digimon World 2003.
@@AvariceOverlord Yeah. I doubt many people look up info like that about a game before playing it. Or maybe they do. Who knows?
@@InfiniteComboReviews And more importantly, who were the even bigger nerds to give us the information :^)
@@AvariceOverlord _>.... not me....obviously
But you don't catch any digimon though, so I can't see how it's a clone. You raise characters/monsters and fight 'em. Is Pokemon a Final Fantasy clone then? If we're here to talk how similar the protag is to Ash then we could easily say most Shonen anime protagonists are rip offs of each other.
Did you miss the part where your character using monsters in switch style battling traveled across the land to be the very best that ever was by battling gym leaders to win thier badges while defeating an evil organization?
@@InfiniteComboReviews Traveling across the land to become the very best.
This is not a very unique idea to Pokemon. This Digimon game out of 30+ Digimon games out there happens to also have monsters battle one at a time and Gyms.
Very fond memories of this game, although I remember it being quite difficult
I hear that from a lot of people.
I finish hil as a kid without guide took about 6 month and i read all dialogue and spoke to all npc
You deserve a medal good sir! Don't think I have the patience for that.
Digimon 1 is the beast ever
@@jt4009 It's my favorite of the games I've played thus far
Yeah!
I beat this game without a guide and without knowing English when I was younger...
Holy shit I had so much free time.
The power of childhood
I am forced to restart this game because only my Agumon is now WarGreymon. The rest are just level 1.
Yeaaaaap. I love terraforce that I force myself to lose the game and now I must reatart
Ha. That's hilarious. Impressive work. I did ended up beating the final boss with BlackWarGreymon.
@@InfiniteComboReviews A little too excited when I was a kid. You just build one digimon and I just completely ignore other digimons. Hehs
@@officialzacadammorrison I mean, I'm just impressed at how far you got without needing to swap.
I was one of the kids without a memory card, I always made it to the beach before I either hard to turn the game off or a power outage, might watch a playthru one of these days
Oh I know that pain. I had the same problem with FF7 when I first got my PS1. Didn't get a memory card for a few months. As for the playthrough, I have a no commentary Longplay channel where I post gameplay that I captured for these reviews, though I haven't posted the Digimon World 3 gameplay yet (Only Digimon World 1 so far) You can check it out here if you're interested. ua-cam.com/channels/JAv1JPvQgrolgyTXTLaxUQ.html
never had a memory cards for years, almost never finished a game XD. And even when i tried this game on emulator many years after i still never finished it
i adored this game even now but the grind and the backtracking is a bitch. If they did a remake with quality of life stuff akin to what digimon story has that'll ne a huge improvement
That would be awesome.
Yeah.
Never quite understood how dodging worked in this game, there was a rumor online that if you pressed repeatedly x you did but i'm afraid it was bullsh***
I would have fallen for that.
I always had a feeling I was missing some shit when I played this as a what, 6-8 year old? I got as far as the desert with the huge buried bones I think…I loved that it was like Pokemon, and it has this creepy vibe. Those random encounters freaked me out lol
I would retry the game over and over hoping to understand it but the combat was brutal. Im assuming I had to grind like a mofo to even get anywhere far at all.
Well, grinding is apparently the norm, but I refused to do it and brute forced my way through at the end.
Spent like 6 hours on my playthrough just to realize I was playing the wrong version xD
I have no idea how I managed to get anywhere in this game when I was a kid. Playing it as an adult, I feel just as lost half the time. The only difference is I have a phone to look up shit lol
I didn't have this on as a kid, but playing as an adult, I was lucky enough to be streaming the game and some very knowledgeable viewers guided me through a few stupid parts or else who knows how long I would have been stuck.
the only problem digimon has never more popular is inconsistence game style.
DW1 = pet rising/free roam/open world.
DW2 = RPG, dungeon + turn base.
DW cards = card game
DW3 = RPG + turn base + card game.
RUMBLE= fighting PvP
DW4 = hack&slash
all DW NDS = all like previous except card game, free roam/open world and fighting.
not fans both but if i have to choose. i rather choose digimon than pokemon. the gameplay more challange, variable, uniqe and its DIGITAL. no matter what weird happened i can't be mad or shocked. story based game by DATA/VIRTUAL WORLD. anything can be happened, right? human jogress with digimon. not weird. 😂
This is really hard to read, but what I think you're saying is that Digimon is more versatile than Pokemon and that you like it more? Am I following you correctly?
@@InfiniteComboReviews sorry for my english. 😅
in term of game yes.
@@zmxnzmxn7557 That's a fair take. Digimon does have a lot of variety in its main series compared to Pokemon.
This one is easily the best all round digimon game of ps 1-3 although could use some adjustments and definitely needs a remake its a shame so many other gamas get a remake. Data squad and world 1 are next. World 2 and 4 are trash although 2 has a good story. The graphic design of 3 , music and Verity of digimon and map makes it easily the best. Also the story was light and also very dark at the same time which was great. Not for kids at all . The story is so compeling that adults cant grasp it actually. It links "terror -ism" as bad guys and how the hero needs to do the impossible and defeat ... Almost mother Earth. Easily the best. They could easily make world 3 a movie and it would be a masterpiece. Or even an anime
I'd watch a DW3 anime. 100%
@@InfiniteComboReviews yes exactly. This game is a legend.
surprising fact: i thought the blue boxes were a software protection thing.
Lol. Nice
I did tackle this when I was a kid, without a guide and yes. My tiny brain, did not finished it 😅
@@ajdoubleclick No worries. My tiny adult brain couldn't handle this without a friend guiding me.
I'm almost certain that Digimon World 2003 (so called because the second game was never released in Europe) is optimised for playing on PS2. There were a couple of settings you could enable on the PS2 that would allow you to take advantage of the more powerful hardware and if you enabled these you would see minor improvements in the game, for example, less blue squares on screen as you moved about. Most other games I tried with these settings on would just crash the game.
Interesting. I had no idea, though I assume they have to be turned on since I was actually playing this on my PS3.
@@InfiniteComboReviews Yes there is a couple of settings on the PS2, one allows it to use the faster CD drive and I think the other smooths textures. I'm not sure if the same exists on the PS3 though.
@DeRepear That's cool. Thanks for the info!
Pokemon games always had flying so why can't this game lol
If only. IF ONLY!!!
for me
this game's biggest problem
is loading, with using the disc
any tiny little scratch could ruin it
and those blue block will just
not going a away and cover the screen
so better play this game with emulator
Oof. I feel that. I really really do.
Give it a pass? One of the best games for the PS1.
It hasn't aged that well. Play the 2003 version on an emulator with enhancements.
been playing since january, wish I found this fame before those 60 (sped up) hours of grinding
Oof. I feel your pain.
I decided to pick this up again in emulator, and wondering how tf did I made it to the end of the game as a kid without any guide. While the current me is clueless and literally just googled how to find that Staff pass yesterday
Yeah. The game doesn't give many clues on where to go.
I watched this，Then I deleted the ISO
Thanks for saving my time❤️
XD
Digimon World 3 is complete, you just gotta play the PAL release (Digimon World 2003)
I said that in the video
Any good game shark codes to double the exp rates in this game? Loved it as a kid but I reckon I'd only be able to play it as an adult with like, 3 or 4 times exp 😬
Afraid I don't know. Seems like everyone in the comments just suggest a rom with mods.
@@InfiniteComboReviews thanks! I'll have a dig around online. I used to own the game so technically I have the license to emulate it... For the sake of archiving this treasure
Good luck to you!@@CaptScrotes