Digimon World 3 - Good Digimon Game, Meh RPG

[@fuzzyslippersyt]

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[@kaliskonig]

The music, world, concepts, and story were all pretty good to great. The gameplay was the issue. Backtracking, slow battles, and extreme grind held this back from honestly being a would be gem of the era.

[@melonusk6120]

the travelling across maps just to trigger an event with no clues most of the times is excruciatingly annoying.

[@maveriq.gunpla]

And don't forget the loading screens.

[@fadhilbagi3560]

As someone who almost finished the game. I totally agree

[@thesidneychan]

Playing on handheld rg35xx emulator at 3x speed and save states (to backtrack from dead ends) and it was still a slog. I say that as someone who loved this game as a kid, but cannot stand it now. Even the online guides missed several details and it's understandable why - no one, not even guide writers, would have the stamina to attempt 100% every inch of this game blind, especially when not on emulator.

[@kaliskonig]

@@thesidneychan Yeah. Even the official guide I had as a kid skipped a lot of stuff and info. lol Game is just not to be touched without the QOL enhancements that come with an emulator. Honestly surprised this made it through playtesting as is.

[@bunsdarius9223]

Oh man I really hated those backtracking sections and no fast travel but I still really like this game. The card game was definitely addicting . Nice video man!

[@APPLECAKEPIE3477]

Oh boi, this game was soo much fun 20 years ago when I got my hands on it for my PS1, I played the original one, I had no idea there was the 2003 version, that being said I'm still upset I got stuck around lv 65 tamer where after beating a boss they wanted to me search something, but I had no idea where to go, I went EVERYWHERE, talked to every NPC, and nothing, gave up and tried to come back like 4 months later and I was lost, then tried to play it again on the PS1 emulator, this time just using the game shark because it came to the back of my mind all the back tracking, and then the save file got corrupted 💀, and well I'm 30 now and barely have any time to play games like this, amazing video, been binging your other videos about GTA and red dead.

[@MrFoxYodotter]

its unfair how pokemon has so much love when they try so little

[@HitoriSanzo]

when something is good you don't need to change it, cocacola for example changed once for a little bit and the pushback was so huge they lost millions of dollars. If anything pokemon is bad nowadays because they started "trying more" while also lowering the overall quality of the products. "trying more" is a risk smart companies don't tend to try, a gaming example is valkyrie profile 1, 2 changed so much nobody liked it and it sold like crap, and 3 is now a generic (bad) dmc clone no old fan of the franchise likes

[@jonsmith430]

omg, that title screen music. I was like 7 when i first played this game and i never got the chance to beat it because my disc was broken when left it on the floor but man i loved this game. I need to "find" it somewhere and finally beat it

[@iantaran2843]

To be fair. The Pokemon game quality has always left something to be desired. It was nice to pay a Digimon variant that's more JRPG than gimmick, like Pokemon.

[@franklinventura8810]

I regret not playing the third digimon world, the box art always drew me in on those weekends at blockbuster but i always ended up getting something else

[@gernst5345]

I wish more RPG's like this would've implemented the Earthbound method of auto-defeating enemies that you vastly outclass. Anyway, great review.

[@Proclaimfame]

How many hours did you spend in the inn chilling with Terriermon? Me: Yes

[@detergenb29]

this game is wild since one digimon can have all digivolutions, as long as you grind it to max digivolution level of every digivolutions you have. I ended up finishing this game by using only one digimon but grinded and trained it until maxed out.

[@fangiscool1]

I beat it a couple times. Always ended up using 1 digimon because the digimon level up at such different rates. I always just use the fastest one. Agumon is so slow

[@detergenb29]

@@fangiscool1 I finished this game with Agumon since it's my favorite rookie from all of the available rooster.

[@gethermedel3620]

@@detergenb29mine was Guilmon, Gallantmon is lit AF. also Veemon too. Imperialdramon Paladin Mode is LIT AF too

[@zeromaximus4261]

I never beat this game when I was a kid because the amount of grinding required in late game was so ridiculous, at least from what I remember. That opening cinematic is awesome though.

[@xDinomanx]

Yeah I had Digimon World 2003 as a kid (Australia so meaning we had the PAL version). And yes, everything you said about the post game is true. You also get the opportunity to card battle much stronger opponents and have to hunt down extremely rare cards to win these battles. Asides from that, you have to have upgraded the ancient weapons in order to fight the gym leaders in the post game. Once you beat the Amaterasu gym leaders you can then fight Kurt, the World Champion (whose battle theme is really cool). Yeah, this game is fun but by god, the padding is horrendous. It does have improvements over the previous two games but there are things I feel would've been great. One thing I loved about Digimon World 2 is the ability to basically train up any digimon you could enocunter. In Digimon World 3/2003 you can only train certain digimon and get certain evolutions. Ironically enough, every rookie can get all evolution lines of all the other rookies. The music definately shines, it does also include some tracks from Digimon World 2 and Digital Card Battle as well. I do really love the environments you travel through but also the backgrounds whenever a battle occurs. Also the card battle minigame is addictive af. I definately agree with what you've said here. I recommend this game but only IF you have an emulator.

[@zombbro]

This game was so exhausting. Beat it finally a bit ago on my third or fourth go at it. Basically had to emulate it eventually just for the speed up to get through the insane backtracking, lol It's fun to grind up your team and get some of the more rare digivolutions, but the padding, as mentioned in the video, really makes it hard to appreciate properly I really hope with all the re-releases of Next Order, there'll be another game like it and the original Digimon World soonish. That's a formula that works, imo. Just a charming game for Digimon fans and people who enjoy grinding a bit more to get somewhere in an RPG/Monster Collector.

[@stevenkunkle3857]

I would pay whatever they wanted to be able to pre-order a Digimon world 5

[@hyperspectralgaming]

I played this game SO much as a kid and I totally forgot about it. No wonder I’m a glutton for RPGs nowadays. Definitely going to go back and play this, thanks dude

[@garrettsmith4034]

My only complaint is no impmon, gabumon and terriermon in game. Cherish this game though. Never beat it but currently soloing with Kumamon. Just started sepikmon mask and already have Grapleomon. I made it to gym three with guilmon solo run before but that fell apart after a long wipe to byakko gym.

[@Proclaimfame]

🤔🤔🤔, the rookies don't matter much. They can learn different evolution trees. Beezlemon is an option to have, so is GranKuwagmon

[@thesaltyweeb]

Maniac pack... Man that brings back good memories! I chose it because of Guilmon and somehow my younger self was able to recruit Agumon and I beat the last boss with my Gallantmon and using Omnimon DNA Digivolve spamming!

[@ofanichan]

My favourite was always the balance pack! Patamon and Renamon are definitly my faves out of the selections and Kotemon is just cool. Who doesn’t love a masked Botamon/lizard guy with a big kendo sword?

[@newfriend87]

i hope this game get remaster or remake, and these are what i want: 1. fast travel! 2. more playable partner digimon (especially gabumon) 3. exclusive digivolution line for each partner digimon 4. completely different map in ameterasu server 5. player gender

[@Omnimon152]

Add a better game design. The techniques were almost useless for most, bad magic attacks, bad ultimate abilities (bad scaling, base attack does the same, if not better). Also the experience curve was so bad, especially for digivolutions. The formula used is very bad so it takes ages to level up evolutions.

[@freddymedina-ui7mm]

This game will always be a cherished childhood memory of mine, particularly since it taught me how to speak English (by reading the guides)

[@passingrando6457]

17:40 and with that single joke, you have earned a subscription. .hack doesn't get enough credit. A petty, nerdly part of me rages every time I describe it and people respond with "sounds like Sword Art Online".

[@yami4g63]

I would always save before the training so i would always get max. Restart until done.

[@eth0222]

Just discovered your channel been going through your videos Its nice to discover channels that review older jrpgs

[@tylerw5489]

This game was great, but the load screens and the lack of actual communication on “what to do next” in the story got to me. Like I made it back, beat the big bad the first time and then was soft locked out of the main city in the flip side world.

[@SonakaG]

17:38 I legit reacted with... "STOP... this predates that-- 🤣🤣🤣 THANK YOUUU" Sword Art Online may have popularized the whole video game-isekai genre into the stratosphere, but all it really did was take alot of inspiration from .hack and seeing it get mentioned out of the blue like this made me really happy so thank you for this genuinely funny part in the video. (EDIT: Just saw the Tron mention, Double Thank You.)

[@slowmercy69]

You got a new sub! Man, oh, man... I've put more than 100 hours into this game just to finish it! The grind in this game is crazy This game's aesthetics and the music are very pleasing and feel quite close and faithful to the anime series I still haven't seen all of the digivolutions :[

[@ofanichan]

I finally got a new computer after years of wanting to replay this game and I got so excited. Just to remember how brutal this game is if you don’t spend actual real life hours just grinding. At least in the beginning. Ive never beaten this game, but I will! It’s so fun and charming~

[@mantaray79]

I prefer the 2003 EUR release that includes Post-Game content

[@Raymond13557]

i remember overstacking my digimon to nigh-untouchable levels of stats, level and digivolution. level was the goal and i wanted to win

[@ethanwasme4307]

best music and art... rest not so much

[@overscoreSX]

Man... that battle music just sent me down a nostalgia trip!

[@ethanwasme4307]

me and my cousins got up to where you see poop monsters, idk how we did it without guides back then

[@xTGE]

Man, I remember playing this every 3 months on school holidays when I'd visit my dad, what a nostalgia laden load of crack.

[@BlueEye096]

Spot on review. This is a game that has so much of its potential ruined by the padding. But then again if you look at the game again and remove the padding you'll notice the game just isn't all that long to begin with, so it was padded out with making the player backtrack after basically every main story progression point. This is game that can only be finished nowadays with an emulator to speed things up and a guide on hand to avoid having to search every area for the NPC you need to talk to cause the game is so cryptic on how to progress. How anyone could have complete this in 2002 on their own is beyond me, as a kid I got as far as Zanbamon's roadblock somehow.

[@rageyuter]

22:00 imagine thise whole sequence, but you are 9 years old and can't actually read english as it's not your mother language. Yup, I brute forced my way through it, speaking to everyone (human and digimon) each time something different happened.

[@alexisauld7781]

This is genuinely one of my top games of all time. There's something about the jank and the backtracking and the world design that got in my head as a kid and that I just love nowadays. Yep, it's padded and grindy and all the rest, but somehow I just love it. Also 2003 (as opposed to 3) is better in that it has more of the postgame content and fixes a bunch of little things that actively make the game a bit better. The US version got a lil bit gutted and let down- rather happy to not be American :P

[@unidragoncorn7]

Some minor corrections, there is definitely equipment and weapons dropped by wild Digimon, and more than stats some special effects from weapons exist, such as HP drain. I will absolutely agree on the padding. Good god everything before west sector is painful

[@reicherwallace6774]

Pffft the SOA transition into .Hack joke had me rolling.

[@fernandodamas8533]

Fun fact: The Card Shop in the game is a nod to the real life chain of Japanese hobby shops Yellow Submarine, that's why Divermons man the card stuff.

[@aster4jaden]

I know a lot of people hated the backtracking, but as a kid I didn't mind and as I replay it now I still enjoy it and my first playthrough I only over-leveled one Digimon, i've been replaying Digimon 2003 and i've been leveling up all my Digimon and i'm loving this game even more. You're right about the Card Game, it is addictive can play it for hours and not bother with the plot.

[@whatthe6871]

You know I baited myself so hard as a kid with Digimon World 3 even though I owned 1 & 2. I thought the battle gameplay would be more like something from super mario RPG with the art style that the overworld had, but it had that ugly, slow 3d animated aesthetic. Which is why I said I baited myself because the 1st and 2nd game had 3d for the battle/gameplay systems so why would the 3rd be any different.

[@valkyrasonara1797]

Favorite Digimon game: Digimon World 1 Favorite Digimon season: Digimon Tamers ❤️

[@ExperimenturalVideos]

the title alone summed up my thoughts on this game enough I just liked, subscribed and am NOW about to watch.

[@SNDVeteran]

Digimon world dawn/dusk took a lot of elements from this game but made it for the better. loved the exotic Digimon you could digivolve for

[@westonmeyer3110]

Dawn and Dusk took from DS, which took from World 3.

[@Eclin]

But they still inherit the terribly slow gameplay and backtracking somehow.

[@Omniterra88]

I’m amused that you called it File City despite the “File Island” correction in DW1’s retrospective.

[@lexluthor573]

I actually think they did a better job then pokemon and was DEFINETLY HARDER wayyy harder then pokemon. OmG I was stuck on some boss battles

[@Miraihi]

I think the first person who've came up with "Trapped in the VR online game" story was Tad Williams and his "Otherland" book series (1996). Though "Tron" has been a thing since 1982, and the theme is pretty similar.

[@Minamoto1989]

Only real problem of this game was the lack of fast travel

[@orangesoda4535]

Ahh, the 8lue card. Now that brings back memories

[@MarshmallowEST.90]

I used to play the Digimon world trilogy on the ps1 all the time as a kid. I think 2 was always my favorite tho.

[@diegoneira9326]

Lol, the aspect you disliked the most were the ones I loved. This was the very first game I ever played consciously (as began to understand better the language, but also because I took more interest in the story and dialogs), so I really loved how they hinted you where to go next,; like when they mention one of the Guilmon you were looking for like ghosts (and you have previously visited a cabin which was supposed to be haunted), and so on. I also freaking loved the card game, I was stuck weeks solely on that mini game, lmao.

[@HatedJared]

I had this game at launch and remember thinking the loading tiles that pop in and out were a glitch in my copy of the game. Drove me nuts and I stopped playing.

[@chronowolf4734]

Ah, my absolute favorite game as a kid. I wish they did a Digimon World 3 Re:digitzed like they did with the first game. Or at least just do a remake with some better 3d graphics

[@Flower_Mom]

I love the Suzaku City theme. It's my favorite song in the game.

[@reviathan3524]

Man, I played for HOURS back when I was little. In recent years I went back to it and to be honest, I really hated the backtracking and the random encounters. It feels like Pokemon is the only game that has repel. Not to mention, no objective markers. I'm sorry, if I go back to a game that I haven't played for a long time, I want hints to refresh what I should do next. Not this game. You'll go back to it, and wonder, where should I go next? So you go anywhere, forced to fight and run from battles, trying to find out what to do next...

[@redalchemy7322]

One of the things I love most about the Digimon series is that they are kind of a wild card. Both the games and the anime felt like experiments, many of which have their own glaring flaws and moments of brilliance. Almost diametrically opposed to Pokemon's often very focused and predictable method. Not better or worse, but an entirely different philosophy. With Digimon Survive coming soon as a tactics game, it still makes me smile that they are still tinkering with the formula years later.

[@jeffreyprice9790]

This game is fire. Loved it. Are somw things just vague and not explained well at all... yes. Do you gave to backtrack time and time again... yes... Is it the best digimon game until syber slueth/hackers memory... yes.

[@4LordBaKa]

I want to replay this just for the card game 😅

[@professoroak1920]

god I remember being an idiot kid and couldn't for whatever reason find the exit in the bottom right in that first field area with the gym. ended up spending a few weeks grinding around there and the beach area nearby until around level 20 before I found a strategy guide in a bargain bin somewhere downtown that showed me the way.

[@jordanmayfield9357]

While gameplay is kinda similar to Digimon World 3, if because they're JRPGs, the Digimon World DS games (or Digimon Story games if you prefer) have a sort of different style to them for the combat. You'll probably like them if you found Digimon World 3 to be fine

[@los5517]

Love that Metal Gear joke at 18:25 !

[@Justapanduh]

I simultaneously loved and hated World 3, the 2d sprites and 3d background gives it a nice touch. Hated the in-game battles with less than steller animation for what's supposed to be an ultimate move.

[@williambenitez344]

Loving the Digimon content! Hopefully u do cyber sleuth at some point

[@baddragonite]

Digimon Frontier would actually be on fox but they never advertised it and didn't have it on saturday mornings, instead relegating it to weekday mornings at 5 or 6 AM central

[@jnoirj3124]

I wouldn't mind this game getting a good remake or at least a complete remaster, with quality of life changes and the removal of those loading blocks.

[@cyberneticthezero]

Great video series bro

[@Shawnzy1]

Sadly digimon didn’t have a good renaissance . Sadly they made the anime on season 4 on weird channel on a weird time . And it faded out

[@tjolney92]

Gex toon town level also has a song that sounds pretty similar to the confusion song that has stuck with me for a while

[@berniekatzroy]

In spite of all it's issues, DW3 is still one my favorite games from back then.

[@GusGusk3]

Digimon World Data Squad is pretty linear, focuses on a very basic/boring story with few side quests and its clearly designed for kids. BUT one of the things I really liked is how evolutions and unlocking evolutions work, you have "constellations" where the base digimon can evolve to a bunch of different digimons, and each of those have requirements that go from very basic to fighting boss battles, in a very real sense it's like an achievement system to unlock all the evolutions.

[@RomarioZ11]

Ahhh the Good old days where we got tricked by the 8lue card.

[@jefferystafford9657]

I think you did an amazing job so the work you did with the script really paid off. Reminded me alot of majularr. Thought of playing the new Digimon world game?

[@iduartecharlie7393]

Wow, interesting.. you said that this game came before the season 4 aired.. but some of the main digievolutions from Digimon Frontier are in Digimon world 3 as DNA DV.. did they tease them here?

[@stevenkunkle3857]

Nowadays, ill pay more gmfor games if i think itll help convince video game executives to make more of them. Digimon, monster rancher, dragon quest, ill keep on buying them when they come out. I used to wait until i could get them for cheap, but id rather have new games than save a buck

[@DharmaScienceRadio]

Good stuff! Veemon FTW

[@sadarisbenjamin4203]

Felt digimon had no real explaination on how to play it. They just threw you in there with no tutorial. I loved this game also love the mechanic of being able to digivolved to the next level once you fill the meter

[@arnauadell4824]

I never made it to Suzaku city, and I can't have been the only one. I got stuck at the mud jungle (I guess looking for the mask?) for weeks as a child, unable to figure it out, until I eventually gave up. Which is sad, because this really was one of my favourite games. And I could play with Kyubimon, probably my favourite digimon!

[@Kevin.E.]

That quest is one of the longest backtracking quest.. I also almost give up on it, until I brainstorm w my whole classmates to solve it.. haha

[@jaydub2546]

that stupid bit where the trees cover the path to the ruins... Wtf is that about lol

[@Masfugo]

I am proud I've finished this game in my childhood TWICE

[@ZoruaHunter]

The world of this game looks so much more beautiful than Cyber Sleuth's

[@colecook834]

My favorite was world 4. Though that may be due to not understanding world 3 as a kid and not figuring out how to heal my digimon

[@Shiftarus]

Compared to DW1 the backgrounds may be higher resolution, but they are less stylistic, detailed, and organic

[@francisjosephmagahis4383]

Training at the Gym is not random. if you hold X while your digimon is trying hard its almost a guaranteed success

[@tonyyoung1991]

in fact you can edit your card deck through pause menu

[@Yutaru]

bro was a blast to play the again like 7 times is a pain in the beginning some times because back a ford but it is okay and the battle cards gud stuff

[@darklordkuro7953]

These 3 video where really good! please do play the other games! Especially the ds ones.

[@overgrows]

This was my favorite game as a kid.

[@canceresbunny]

This game was awesome. But I could never finish it. The motherboard maze, the slow pase of Digmon, it just got me bored out of my mind. Always quited like an hour away from the end. Really great game tho. Even the card game is fun.

[@Demyliano]

You should play the DS games. Great games. And don't sleep on Digimon World Championship

[@demetriusluis2]

12:28 PTASD the grinding is insane even in a emulator

[@Robert_D_Mercer]

get this man more subs

[@Robert_D_Mercer]

Hey Fuzzy I dont mind to pull you from the grind but do you remember what determines the ai level of the card battles? I started a new game and grinded to level 40 with speedup for an hour and went straight to the card shop and the beginning duelists had mega level cards... >_>; It has to do with your digimons charisma doesn't it? lol

[@ΑναστάσιοςΠαπαζαχαρίου]

My fav game i wouldn't replay

[@The8bitFreak]

It's called DidimonWorld 2003 in the pal region

[@sweetpotato_7353]

I can feel the bias(pokemon). Nice vid though.. 😂

[@hasyidanparamananda]

The Pure Mega Should be on 30. Just that. Oh yeah the mission, Early Mission Need to go The Fartest map and back to First Map without shortcut lol

[@0oZhero0]

Somehow i feel that your game looks more detailed? can you tell me how u upscale the game?

[@megabyte5726]

extended maintenance means no one can log out. that means its a real place not a visiual thing

[@FlameBunny]

theres a weapon that adds hp drain, so some weapons have effects.

[@Heeroneko]

I wonder if the day will ever come that ppl realize Pokemon was not the first monster raising game and that it is in fact an entire genre. This one definitely takes some from Pokemon tho to be fair.

[@theflammiferofwesternesse6122]

This game really didn’t have faults imo. It is what it is. As a 13yo this was the greatest thing I could imagine a digimon game to be. And it was. Still better than Pokémon today hahahahaha

[@SoraDonaldGoofy99]

Genuinely think way more Pokémon should have branching evolutions or things from stats that influence it like Digimon does. While I love both as they are, that would be a needed improvement for Pokémon at this point.

[@Shawnzy1]

I loved it , they didn’t explain evolution trees well at all . But was so good 😊

[@FiLpLokko]

digimon from ds, if you want to compare to other digimon games, is more like digimon cyber sleuth, but not that good in my opinion.