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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  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    As much as I love Moo Deng, I worry that many people like her for all the wrong reasons.

    A lot of the memes you see of her always seem to depict Moo Deng in some sort of irritation or distress. Look up “Moo Deng mouth open” and you’ll know what I mean. One of the most famous pictures of her shows some distress over being picked up. Also, there’s been some reports of people throwing things at her, probably to get a “cute” reaction or try to be the person who makes the next meme image of her. What this boils down to is taking pleasure in a baby animal’s misery, and that’s just pure cruelty. It’s sad that some people do not recognize this.

    • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      I like the picture of Moo Deng where the keeper is petting her and she’s looking at the camera with her funny eyes. It’s very cute.

      Also, there’s been some reports of people throwing things at her, probably to get a “cute” reaction or try to be the person who makes the next meme image of her. What this boils down to is taking pleasure in a baby animal’s misery, and that’s just pure cruelty. It’s sad that some people do not recognize this.

      They know what they are doing, these people are just assholes. I heard that the zoo has now cameras for visitors and only a couple of people with a guide can go and see her for a limited period of time.

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      Fucking hell, that poor baby. I did get a laugh at the image of that baby hippo getting picked up, but actively trying to “recreate” that is fucked up. Hit those folks with sticks, jesus christ.

      • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Like if Moo Deng was simply throwing a tantrum in reaction to the care the zookeepers were trying to give her, sure that’s cute. But thinking Moo Deng being angry is cute is no different than schadenfreude.