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

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

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

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

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

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

Gameplay

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

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[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Glad my debts are cleared, since now I can afford to stress-eat. And probably stress drink. This clogged tub was apparently the final straw on a vaguely unpleasant week.

My cat screaming on the other end of the bathroom door while I try and rinse the the rest of the drain cleaner down.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Watching the new RLM video where they do the ghost hunting and it's brought up kinda late into it that Rich doesn't know the technical aspects of a video camera enough to set up shots himself and whatnot. He's been working with Mike since the mid 90s and has been professionally doing film work for like almost 20 years now and had at least been a camera operator for shots pretty often. You'd think he'd be good enough to be trusted with setting up shots and lighting and setting and whatnot, it'd not that complicated. They were making it sound like he wouldn't be able to get a shot in focus.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@FunkyStuff@hexbear.net

I frustrated myself trying to learn trains. Instead I made some exo-factories for plastic and aluminum casings that transport materials via drones (and have a secondary port to transport batteries to the exo-factories). I have doubled my energy production with 5 nuclear reactors (1 using plutonium) and fixed all the nagging resource bottlenecks. I've progressed to the point of using ionized rocket fuel and (sometimes) mk. 6 conveyor belts. tux-shining

It is time to start producing everything in phase 5. Now is the time of monsters.

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[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Eu4 anbennar is so fun, im still waiting for updates because a lot countries still lacking certain mechanics such as religion mechanics or mission trees to expand the lore, but its still satisfying to play as the elves in Not-America and destroy the zionist elf faction in Not-Europe.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

am i really going to watch a 2 hour video about how endgame was bad actually? i think i am meow-floppy

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Saw it, i wouodnt bother

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

This is the best tea bags sorry nerds lenin-tea

[–] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

did you know that Viggo Mortensen broke his foot in the Lord of the Rings, the Two Towers?

[–] Beetle_O_Rourke@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

those hex thems are bad for you like the food at mcdonalds

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

goated ps1 game

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

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

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

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

[–] FactuallyUnscrupulou@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Timberwolves traded KAT purely for financial reasons. I doubt they have a chance to win a championship, but they'll be a playoff team and sell tons of Anthony Edwards jerseys. I hate Minnesota sports owners with a burning passion.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

speech-side-r-1 Bōifurendo speech-side-r-2

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I can't get anything done and I'm useless. I wonder if this is a depressive episode coming on.

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Visiting Kanagawa prefecture and asking everyone for directions to the big wave.

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[–] heartheartbreak@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/pe/pe-ch03.htm

this soviet textbook chapter on feudal economics is so fascinating and something ive been looking for for such a long time. like what are the specifics of natural economy and how did peasant rent work and what's the difference between free peasants and peasant serfs, and how did feudalism arise out of slave economies, and how did capitalism develop in the cities, and how did exchange economy develop.

also would be soo so good for somebody looking into worldbuilding a feudal fantasy world hahaha

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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago

Has anyone else here played Yokai Watch? It always gets left out of the monster-collector discourse even though they're the best games on the 3DS. I wish it was more popular in the west so that the fourth game would get localized already.

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