Megas don't need to poop, truly the pinnacle of evolution

I actually liked the desynced lifespan, was able to train a rookie digimon with my Mega digimon via battles, which boosted him to mega-stats in only 1-2 days of it's life. Making it way easier to get the cooler ultimates and megas!

Finally a solid review for this game from someone you can tell knows what he's talking about both in positive and negative aspects of the game. I feel even though the game tried to go the way to be more casual and accessible for newer players it's still far away from being casual. All these reviews from people who obviously didn't play any of the other vpet games before and still can't get into the game are proof enough. I mean sure the game is far from being perfect so I don't expect perfect ratings for it but most of the reviews for this game make me shake my head because the person testing it clearly didn't know how to play it which just shows again all these tutorials in the beginning completely missed their point. So I think for these vpet games the developers should just concentrate more on the core players because the formula of it just isn't cut out for casual players to begin with. If they'd try to make it even more casual that would completely destroy the charm of it. There are still the Digimon Story games with the easily accessible turn-based battle system and relatively easy to understand training and evolution mechanics in comparison so that's still something more casual for these people. I just hope the relatively low ratings for this game doesn't convince the developers to not make or localize these vpet games anymore because they're still my most favorite Digimon games. I still hope for a localization of Decode as long as the lifecycle of the 3DS is still ongoing

I'm one of the three people who appreciate you for not spoiling the ending for a game about Digimon... so cheers. :D

Hey Casp, getting age difference is the best because you can grind with battles if you have a mega and rookie. Go battle some wargrowlmon at Ex-Machina with a decent mega and a newborn and you'll get around +30 (att,def,etc.) and +300 (hp,mp) per battle. And battles don't even effect time like training so basically you can get a max stat rookie lol...idk the game is broken.

It is actually generally more beneficial to battle other Digimon for stats over just training. At least until you hit a certain stage. To make the most of there life cycle you want to battle Digimon that are just strong enough to net you solid stats across the board per battle. And since time doesn't move in battle it's was more worth it. So if I do one battle and get 24 points in most stats and no time is gone. If I train at the gym I get 60 or so in one stat and a hour passes. So if you line up a bunch of Digimon (like say Psychemon and Seadramon) you will make much better use of your life cycle. Of course you wouldn't know this though. Because the game, despite all the tutorials you dislike, barely explains anything. For someone that never played the original Digimon World this was a massive learning experience and I had to consult a lot of guides just to figure out what I was doing wrong. I am not finished with the game yet. I am what I assume to be the final battle for Chapter 2 and I'm just waiting for my second Digimon to turn Mega again so we can take another shot at him. Last time we got him down to half health. I think I could have won with more healing items, but this time he's screwed because I've actually been training properly.

3:12 "It's also said that humans struggle to make choices not based on what they could gain, but what they could _potentially_ lose." *Loss aversion.* Thanks for mentioning that, Casp. It makes sense.

I have to say, one of best things in this game is it's soundtrack. I love all of the nostalgic DW1 remixes and i think new tracks were also really great.

Great review. Personally, I was way more into the recruiting than the main story, so by the time I did pick it back up, I always had enough prosperity to progress. I feel like the main story was intentionally simple just as a vehicle for all the little quirky side-quests and stories, as well as some reasonably identifiable characters. It certainly could have ended stronger though. It just kind of stopped and trailed off post-game. Because of the larger amount of Digimon in the game, some recruitment did feel a bit rushed, and a lot of jobs in the city had to be fragmented since there were only so many roles each could fill. It might have been nice to see more stuff like Penguinmon's curling mini-game. It also might have been nice for some more obscure Digimon to get the spot-light, instead of always seeing the same faces (especially the Royal Knights). And I kinda feel like the recolours should have been left as enemies instead of being viable tree options, though I suppose it was just to pad out the evolution paths for less work on animation. I haven't played Re-digitize, so I don't know if they addressed a similar problem in that, but I think the reason they didn't bother with training animations in this game was due to the vast size differences in the Digimon, as getting them all to work with the equipment would have been too awkward. I think the areas had to be a lot wider to accommodate this too, so there weren't a lot of tight environments like The GreyLord's Mansion, Factorial City or Misty Trees. I also wonder if using a few more fixed camera angles for certain areas would have been a good idea, since it does give the environments more mystery, as well as letting the developers compose different shots for mood (like the long shots in Gear Savana and Ancient Dino Reigion). Though that certainly would have made running away from fights more difficult. Again, haven't played Redigitize, but I think starting with more battle commands and tying them to Tamer upgrades was much better than tying them to Brains. That's not the type of thing I want reset every cycle, and it doesn't affect the evolution paths you want to follow. I still feel like the Digimon had enough agency of their own, and it made it more engaging the way you have to pay attention and pick your moments when giving commands, cheers, and support items to your Digimon. Outside of the slightly wooden performances of Jijimon, the initial Partners, and the somewhat shrill over-enthusiastic sound-bytes of the main characters, I thought the Dub was pretty good. It was awesome hearing Mari Devon back as Toamon. It's difficult to find a full cast list for some reason. I dunno if this was a slightly under the table job.

Having your digimon's life span not synced is actually a really good thing. Its how I got them to 9999 in stats and 99999 in hp/mp, by having the mega "power level" the other in its baby-champ phase. Also training in the gym is not that good for stat boosting, fighting strong enemies is better for power leveling purposes, not to mention you fill out the skill tree much faster that way too. The gym is faster for going through generations faster but battles take up no in game time and if you fight the right enemy you get +26 in stats and +260 in hp/mp each fight. Meaning that by the time you have a champ you can have 20k hp/mp and 4k in str/sta etc.

Solid review, only a couple details I think were missed: 4:10 While it can definitely be annoying to unintentionally get desynched lifespans (especially early in the game), it can also be a blessing in disguise. Intentionally desynching your partners lifespans by 2~3 days is actually the most optimal way to train them given how stat growth works in this game. While you generally do want to follow the traditional Digimon World pattern of gym grind > evolution > explore > death > rebirth > repeat early on in the game (probably for your first, and maybe for your second generation), it's actually not a great way to spend time once you have access to at least a decently strong Ultimate and a few areas opened up. At that point, you get stronger much faster by intentionally desynching your lifespans, killing off one mon and running around soloing enemies with the other. This works because stat gains after battle are determined by two things: obviously the difference in stats between you and enemies is one of them. But on top of that, there's a multiplier for difference in evolution levels between you and enemies. So a Rookie that survives a fight with a Champion or an Ultimate gets huge bonuses, even if their partner is also an Ultimate. And if that Ultimate partner can kill OHKO Champion enemies or 2~3HKO Ultimates with a couple attacks + a special move...well, you can see where this is going. Exploiting this gives stat gains for the newly-born 'mon so absurdly fast that once you start doing it - and you can start pretty early - your gym becomes completely unnecessary for the rest of the playthrough. It ends up creating some problems that the series hasn't quite had before. On one hand it can be pretty nice, since it really takes a lot of grinding out of the game and leaves you more time to explore. On the other, it also tends to make most of the game extremely easy: even on harder difficulties you can end up with Rookie digimon that are stronger than AI-controlled Ultimates, which makes most of the game's challenge disappear. I'm not entirely sure what the best way to address it would be, but it's definitely something they need to look at if they decide to make a Digimon World: Next Order 2.

Great review, i'm still doing my playthrough and enjoyin it greatly, and when it comes to your point in the video, I agree, I never thought i'd miss the small details from DW such as them using the bathroom or the game actually showing them train.

Nice to see the fan service from the developers and also all the work you put in to help spread the word and information of the older and newer games. I'm a year late, but I just wanted to pay my respects. Great stuff on the digimon world series of videos.

Nice one good sir. Well put together and as entertaining as always. I enjoyed this!

Great videos on the digimon game series! Love your content and your commentary, they're pretty entertaining to watch/listen to while I'm doing work. Thank you and I'll look forward for more of your content!

I love this game!!!! Its difficult when you first start out so those first hours may put alot of people off but once you recruit enough digimon the game just opens up immensely. And I'm an idiot so I kinda needed the extra help understanding battles to get a full grasp on them. Also the gym is a horrible way to train because you waste 1 hour of the day to get meh stats. When you can find the right wild digimon to train against you could get strong enough to be fighting ultimate level digimon with just rookies.

I've only ever played the first digimon world game for the ps1, but I did get my enjoyment out of it. I'm interested in jumping into the digimon world series again but it'll be a long time before I can give this game a try but I'm happy to hear that the positives outweigh the negatives with regards to this game.

I'm watching your Digimon games reviews,great job! This one looks good.

I know it's been over a year since the review, but it turns out the Normal mode is really a Hard mode. The Easy mode is the Vita's original Normal setting, while the PS4 remaster's Normal halves all the training gains. And only that, with no other differences, not even in AI or enemy stats or anything. Some people thought the game was too easy originally I guess, but they went around the wrong way of doing it. So if you really hate the grind, there's pretty much no reason not to go Easy modo.

So I really liked that review as it sums up my own thoughts as well, nicely done. There is only one thing I have a little issue with. The gym does not provide you with the best stats. Fights do. You can can +26 on each stat and even more on HP AND MP with one fight, while time is even stopped so you don't waste one entire hour in the gym to only get a little more and only for ONE stat. While I tested it myself with one gen only trained in the gym I could barely reach the 3k mark in each stat and with fighting only to train them the results were easily doubled.

the whole "being able to directly control your digimon is a reward for a smart tamer" thing is addressed by the game's premise, sorta. your player is already an experienced "tamer" and has mega level partners at the start of the game during the tutorial. plus, they tell the player how to give them commands "just give us commands like usual" says wargreymon.

I fell in love with digimon world 1 and love the theme never really gotten around beating it. Only due to short life span of digimon. But the fact was it was a clever way to show how raising and having a partner really mean something. The only grip i had about it was the akward camera angle and i see that its present even in here. Id would prefer if the partner lifespan wasnt there but rather use a care favor system and a run away so that... you are treated to have real fun and kept the favorite digimon...Also the one that got to me was how boring the story got or how long for things to take effect. To note here i actually thought I was gonna play an origin story and journey the world before the anime show started. but the world was a bit small in comparison to the player. like godzilla vs small areas. But a remaster of it would be nice

Dude, loved your videos and reviews. Looking forward to Digimon Digital Card Battle. Keep it up ^^ Cheers from Brazil

8:40 Actually, battling digimon in the wild is WAY more efficient than hitting the gym. You can have your rookies reach 7000+ stats in a day or two (gaining up to +26/260 for each battle), while at the gym it'll take you almost an entire lifecycle to reach such levels.

Tutorials in games get very tiring in general, but two of them? This game couldn't be that difficult to need that much info fed to you. Having two digi-eggs sounds awesome as someone who grew up on the original Digimon World games, though.

This seems like a game that I have been waiting for in a long time. Nostalgic, yet modernized

It's nice that the game gives a 15 minute tutorial, but 90% of the reviews just say that they dont understand how the battle system works. Level 5 bruh moment

So in the end, do you prefer Digimon World 1, Re:Digi, or Next Order?

Actually battles and desyncing lifespans is good, if digimon are in diferent stages, the weaker one evolves faster to reach the stronger one stage, and also it is easier to grind by battling, use your mega to evolve your rookie faster and get better stats, this is faster and grant better stats than using the gym

Good review I pretty much share all sentiments. The difficulty curve at the start of the game is bananas if someone is new to the idea of grinding, heck, even if you're veteran. Once you're over it, it gets much easier to repeat, but man that first Machindramon battle was a bitch. I was also really really irked by the last of animations the digimon had, and the sliding around they do in battle just is like, okay, but it doesn't really feel as dynamic as it should. Probably a combination of being a Vita game and a huge roster of digimon, but it just seems like the more they add, the more generic things get. Honestly, I wouldn't want like a Marvel vs Capcom style digimon game, but I would like to see the battles treated with a similar pace. Break away from the humdrum of consistent combat to something with some ebb and flow. If they want to have an ultimate revival of the mysticism and charm of the first World, then they need to take the IP more seriously just overall. All this "friendship is power" baby stuff needs to shift towards some darker themes. And I think part of that problem lies in that death is never really taken seriously, which is a struggle because reincarnation is kind of the digital part of digimon. A side note about the Life Spans: It's actually beneficial to have a slight gap, about a day or so (it sounded like you had like 3 or so, that'd be a problem lol). This is because battling is waaaay more effective than training when the stats of the opponent are a certain degree higher than your partner. You can actually do a few battle with a mega and rookie, and have the rookie stats jump 1000-2000+ in a day depending on how strong the mega is and what you're willing to fight. Of course you have to grind for like 3 or 4 generations to get to that point, but after that, training goes pretty much to the wayside. I think I'm on gen 8 and I've been walking around for 80% of their life. Also, I miss the training animations :c

Really didn't help this game being Sony only. This would have been great on Switch.

The dying of age part of the game made me turn away from it when it came out, but the way you described it made it sound like a combination of the V-pets and majoras mask (which i've both gotten a big interest for lately)

really loved this review, i like that you are really critical since you want these games to be great! been waiting for a SMT review maybe one soon because of Persona 5

love your videos on digimon keep up the dream, keep up the art, keep up the entertainment.

I WANT THIS ON STEAM RIGHT NOW, GODAMMIT!

great and informative video. Love it.

The Ice Sanctuary remix/remake is pretty nice too, was one of my favourite areas and soundtracks in the original DW1.

Yea I miss the ps1 of the gym and you are right on the food eating sounds etc I miss them

Life desync is a boon if you train your digimon through battle you can have the mega attack the powerful digimon while the rookie defends and the rookie will get a huge boost to stats that could never be achieved through bog standard training.

I thought this game was so hard till I figured out how to play properly. it really is a good game once you find your groove

I've been waiting for this.

I mostly agree with this review! I would point out, however, that battling against wild digimon is a useful alternative to training after act 1. The key is that you have to face off against and defeat digimon with higher stars than your own. If a digimon has higher health than yours, once you defeat them you'll receive the max health points bonus. Since battles take place over 1 minute of the game rather than 1 hour like training does, you could train a digimon through battling to meet their digivolve requirements ijn a much shorter time, which gives you much more time to run around with your digimon outside of grinding. That being said, training does the same job late game once you have the seraohimon and a ton of money.

"Maybe it shows that the formula ind Digimon World needed more smaller fixes than a major overhaul" Which is exactly why it pisses me off that they dropped the formula after one game just to come bock to it 13 years later. This is by far your best review so far. And believe it or not Vita Version was the "casualization" you said you want the devs to avoid. The Normal Difficulty basically required you do have a Digimon with 1000 stats in everything and coul've been beaten in 6 hours. The Hard difficulty (which was patched in with the day 1 patch) is the Easy Difficulty we have now. Normal from Vita has been completely dropped. You also only needed 40 Prosperity points instead of 100. And I didn't like that game at all. However with the return of the director who worked on Re:Digitize Decode and Cyber Sleuth this PS4 version got revamped and polished so much that it fixed almost everything I hated about the Vita version. I had a blast playing which I didn't expect after playing the Vita Version 1 year ago.

I love hearing the night time theme of this new version and the old. The old version reminds me of the long nights of grinding just to evolve my monster.

I personally loved the remix of the digimon card battle "Unleash" battle track brought back so much happy childhood memories after I realized what I was listening to which wasn't imedetly apparent but once I did I was like OMG THIS IS AWESOME

Hi Casp(Idon'tknowifyourememberme). This is a great review. It's nice to see you're still making stuff. I didn't play the original DW so it's interesting to see how the mechanics differ. I'm a scrub who switched to easy difficulty after reaching the first machinedramon fight in the desert, but I do want to try and beat it on normal difficulty after watching this. With training, I found that if you have 1 mega and a rookie, it's better to just grind seadramon or blackagumon on the MOD Cape ships. You get stats more quickly and I find that my Digimon tend to live longer. Maybe it only feels that way because using the training machine eats up an hour each time.

best review of the game. this guy knows what he's saying. awesome job

Can't wait to play it. My brother has a ps4 so I have to wait for him to get it and play it first.

thank you dady for another great teview

Man your content is pretty sweet and after binge-watching all your digimang content, I honestly can't wait for the Dawn/Dusk review, which speaking of, in case you didn't know, is like 1 story told from a different perspective with a few differences here and there (mainly the digimon you can encounter) but I will say it is still a worth while rpg. Just, when you do review it, please degenerate more, like get to your mega form, and go back to intraining, or maybe just do so back and forth during that early stage in the game in which you lack the exp needed to like evolve to champ etc. It'll save you a lot of time, trust me~

Great review. I personally enjoyed the fuck out of it, especially because I loved the first one. The soundtrack was amazing and I loved that they turned Mameo into a husbando. The only thing that bothered me at endgame was the trophy that requires you to have 200+ Digimon on the field guide. At that point, ~20 days is way too long a wait, considering that on the best-case scenario, you get to register 14 new Digimon. I ended up resorting to killing them with Devil Chips and spam evolution items as soon as they turned into Rookies. Also, the online is completely optional, automated, and you get to fight a generic team of Imperialdramon PM, Imperialdramon FM and Gallantmon CM 3 times a day. It kinda sucks that (as far as I've tested) even if you register a full 9999 stats Digimon, it still gets wrecked by Imperialdramon PM, unless you have one yourself.

Awesome review! Now... Dawn/Dusk! I just know what you will complain and what you will talk good! ^^

I remember when I found the giant Numemon for the first time, it almost game a heart attack.

I just got this game based on this review can't wait to get into it

Is that banana suit boy the first game's protagonist? He's just identical!

wow Bamco gave you a reach around, congratulations

I looooove nxt order! I might go play it again now lol

Like the virtual pet, but if there’s a screen update and more complex raising system and transfers between console and etc systems, man that would be awesome, better tamagotchi devices with memory cards for storage for digital monsters , memory sd card should be hidden in the Monster device, and a better little screen with more more detail, I would like to see my monsters on their beautiful color and shape, there should be an option for turning them 8 bit or more bit for nostalgia reasons. Lol

I would to see a steam port of this game, will you make a review on digimon survive if it ever comes out?

If I ever get a PS4 I'll get this along with Cyber Sluth

11:08 I feel like figuring things out for yourself was more tolerable at the time of the first game's release, but if it were the case now I could see the line in the video being "each Digimon is unceremoniously dumped into your town with no explanation of what they do or where they are, meaning you could have vital new training or travel methods and never know about them unless you spend a significant portion of an in game day dragging your partners all over town to find out where the new shop is or where the fast travel is, things that should be introduced to the player and not left hidden" y'know?

I think they might have introduced the second partner because of digimon like Omnimon. Can’t say for sure though.

I had so much fun with this game, but that's mostly because I'm a big digimon fan and I loved the original so much. This game is kind of what I've been waiting for, for years. That said, the grind. THE GRIND. I beat the main story after like 80+ hours, and I'm still not even close to beating Diaboromon. The fact that whenever a digimon dies you have to start all over again at the same time hope that they're stronger each time is pretty tedious.

Digimon World next order was fun. I really liked it. You gain better stats faster fighting certain digimon than in the training gym

10:50 is that the main protag of the 1st digimon game !? gee good times. I remember crying when my numemon died the 1st time. I was 10 back then lol

At 4:36 how is it possible to miss the bonus

I wasn't too thrilled with this one when I tried it before, but I might've been approaching it the wrong way. I'm willing to give it another go, though.

You better yiff it up with Dawn/Dusk next cuz those games were my childhood jams

They ever gonna release digivices for sale again? I miss them.

hello, in this one digimon age and die as well? and can u prevent it?

normally when i play digimon world next order my 2nd or 3rd generation is about 5k stats at 3 days (i play only on hard) so i cant see the problem, you only need to know how to train.

Fighting wild digimon actually gives more stats than training if you know what digimon to train against. If you do, then you could be gaining up to 26 points in EVERY stat (not just a single one), and that's only in one battle. And unlike with training, a single battle doesn't last an hour of in game time, so you can get even more battles in within that hour. Granted, you want to do the majority of your grinding like this as a rookie. Doesn't work as well when your digimon rank up.

Now we need a rebuilt DW2 game, that pumps the quality the same way next order does to DW

actually Casp big fan. However the best way to get stats is fighting. :) Got Next order on release, My only major gripes are the walls for Normal and Hard mode players. That first machinedramon is ridiculous.

I did a full playthrough of this and all i can say is while I enjoyed this, it was definitely grindy and has it's own problems. Like they padded it with the grind.

I'm stuck at the Machinedramon part in the desert, I'd love to get to mega form and progress but no matter how many reincarnations I go through, I've never been able to reach that stage. Maybe it's because this is my first Digimon game ever (which if you're saying this is the best the franchise has to offer, means this'll be my only) but watching this review let me know that I need to spam the crap out of the training hall apparently.

this game is great and a nice sequel to DW1 the only that irk me was the soft lock that you could encounter in the game. I hope in the next world game we get mini games to play with our partners not just fishing and arena.

trying to get residents for the city is getting harder and I'm only on chapter 1 with the city a lot bigger with fast travel unlocked for me but it's fun

Wow I had no clue you could get Veemon's hobo shack in the initial format the town is shown in. By the time I got the builder it was already that zoomed out city with paved streets. 150+ hrs in and still stuck on Chapter 4, and this is the same file I've had since launch day. I pick the game back up at least once every year and grind for about a month. ONE DAY I'll beat the damn game lol

KingSukamon... Man. What a nostalgia.

For the next World installment, I think it'd be prudent to focus their resources on improving the recruitment quests/scenarios. These titles are made on a particular budget, and it's pretty apparent that placing their efforts on providing a cutscene-laden and more conventionally presented storyline took time and money away from delivering a more fleshed out world. I'd rather they just go back to the adventure being the focus, and that world-building and plot build ups come from the interactions you make with all the recruits. It's just more involving for a video game.

I hit that death fusion on the final boss. I defeated it, but let's just say the song looped 4 times.

Digimon World is one of my favorite games of all time. Next Order however lacks charm, and dealing with a 2nd Digimon is a pain and you feel less attached to it because there are two now.

I bought this game and looked up a guide but I kept getting the same evolutions no matter how I followed it trying to get a rookie that I wanted (the purple Patamon) and it was so infuriating because I kept trying to get Gatomon. So I just put the game down and didn't touch it again.

I have yet to play this since it isnt on the vita(English)

The day Casp sold out.... is not this one - excellent vid!

I’m extremely late to the party but I bought this game right after watching your review lol

I picked this game up today, following your review - as a huge fan of Digimon World 1 and 2. Got to say I really don't like it, a couple issues I had you didn't cover and they were breaking for me. 1) Enemy level. I grinded in the gym to get a couple champions. Headed out to the field - following my digimail and got my team KO'd twice by a level 3 Palmon. Thats when it occured to me - the levels don't mean anything and you have no idea of how strong you need to be to take something on. 2) Digivolution. I frequently got messages saying I've discovered Digivolution values for next stages but couldn't find any information on what stats I needed, care criteria or even age. So I just randomly hit stats guessing what I needed? 3) stats? What do they do?! Obviously HP and MP are obvious. But Str, spd, Wit e.t.c have no description what they do. I'm just looking forward to Digimon Survive at this point! Hope you are too!

I love long tedious grinds I just hope I don't have to wait another 17 years for another USA released vpet digimon rpg instead of more turn based digimon rpgs.

Good review!

OMG. the grinding

I really like the idea of digimon world. The player gets to interact with digimon more closely than in the story games and there is more emphasis on strengthening companionship, which was so strongly emphasized in the anime. It’s definitely something that I am looking forward to seeing flushed out... I feel like digimon world games could be more casual-friendly by replacing the grind mechanic with a way to use "time" as a currency. I've never played a digimon world game and a lot of the reason comes from the fact that I’ve little interest in dedicating so much monotonous effort into a single video game. I had an idea that might fix this. Instead of having the player sacrifice his/her time to play a game, why not give them the ability to “buy” time? If a player is punished for using a lot of time or has enough resources to afford the passing of time, they could spend their gaming sessions exploring more of the game and using those rewards to return to the gym and fast forward through digimon training to power them up. This puts emphasis on “training leads to gaining” like as it appears in the original games but it also reduces the amount of grinding. Players wouldn’t have to stare at a repeated animation over and over again. An example of using time as a currency could be in the form of rationing food over several days. If a player has enough food to last one week, then the digimon could spend food, skip head and train during that week, and become stronger. Another example of adding value to time is a way of punishing the player. The world could keep track of events or goals that players may miss out on if they skip ahead and try to train too much. Now I know a lot of fans of the original game might be upset to hear this idea because being able to do these tedious tasks with their digimon is what drives that intimate closeness. It’s a simulation of actually growing a digimon as comparable to a real-life pet. Honestly, this mechanic doesn’t have to ruin that for the original fans, the fast-forward option should be just that - an option for those who want it. In relation to “intimate closeness,” I grow too attached to my digimon to humor the idea of them passing. I feel like there should be an option to disable that part of the game, so it’s not necessary to allocate resources to preserve any single digimon for eternity or even have to worry about losing a digimon in the first place. Now remember, these can be just an options.

i feel like these games are kind of about the grind, there's a pretty niche but large group of people out there who like that kind of grind. digimon world 1 makes it into a gameplay loop that is very satisfying if you're that type of player. the world games will really suck if they remove it (for the sake of wider appeal or 'casualisation'), but there's a fine balancing act. and i think it's great that bandai continues to produce the world series for that niche of people. especially because good grind games are becoming hard to find, most open world games just level scale now, or the grinding doesn't really feel worth a fuck, like pokemon ev grinding that you have to tally up yourself and is... eh.... basically, i'm glad to hear the changes are incremental, not an overhaul or trying to remove the grind. also this tutorial sounds like much but shit it aint what atlus did to persona fuckin 5's 1-2 hour slog of tutorial. appropriate cause the whole fuckin game is a slog, but fuckin shit. a couple overdone battle tuts here is almost just overdone comedy considering the first game explains nothing at all. _its just a meta joke broooo_ i really do hope jrpg character designers move away from ans never return to flared shorts on their fem protags tho because it wasn't cute in pokemon BW2 and it isn't cute on this girl either, please never flared shorts again. all that said, yes, they need to bring back eating animations. nothing made me sadder than playing re:digitise and those being gone. y'all did it on ps1, you can do it again, c'mon

I kinda feeI Iike the tedium has become a part of DW games, it sort of defines them... And I don't mean that in a bad way, it definetIy has its moments when aII the grind pays off. Great review Casp. you shouId give DW Championship a try, it may Iook Iike a game you'd downIoad on ur phone, but it's actuaIIy a pretty soIid entry.

Digi-man showing Digital Manners. Digiman is the champ

8:02 it do be a nice bridge though.

I had my meat and training upgraded well before the end of the game, and i wasn't grinding

Damn i wish we would have gotten this game on a portable as well :'( too bad it went from a Vita exclusive to a PS4 release only in west,if they didn't want too lose too much money they could have done the same strat as cyber sleuth with the Digital only release,oh well good thing i can import it :)

cyber sleuth sequel just announced !