Digimon World RE:Digitize Review - A Necessary Revival - Casp

[@paleface171]

As much as I miss the bathroom animations it would be pretty weird seeing Angewomon, emptying her recycle folder.

[@Caspicum]

+paleface171 That's sexy as hell.

[@Mike14264]

...what have I walked into?

[@vincentmarcellino7183]

Or Angemon whipping out his angel staff

[@anomalocaris2593]

​@@CaspicumCasp confirmed to be a 2 girls 1 cup fan

[@legendarymoji]

Was Angewoman in the original? Need to see that animation 😳

[@OperationDecoded]

Nice review. As one of the "DW1 Veterans" I enjoyed it. RE:Digitize was never considered complete by the standards of the developers too, so you will see that many points you mentioned were fixed in the 3DS Version Digimon World Re:Digitize Decode. Very few people realize that Decode is not just a port or an expansion of this very same game, but the story is very different and many of your proposed flaws were actually fixed and the story is way better now. For example every map became bigger, there are hidden areas now, the invisible bridge makes it return, the camera works way better, new animations, only to mention a few of the things that got fixed in terms of gameplay. As for story: The friendship aspect was strong with Akiho, but looking at more mature characters such as Mirei or Yuuya, you realize that they have a way more realistic approach. But with more backstories to each character, plus the fact that you get to play as Niko, Akiho, Mirei and Yuuya too, the game became completely different in Decode. It's a different atmosphere now and it's better! I can't stress out enough how different Decode is. But I probably will in the future :) I just don't have a 3DS Video Capture Card. Plus you can look forward to Decode, as we are working on it already as we speak. but given that its story is 3 times longer, there are 2 times more digimon, and there's approximately 3.5 times more text than in Redigitize it surely will take a while :)

[@Caspicum]

Romsstar IT'S YOU! IT'S THE BRINGER OF WATER TO THE THIRSTY MASSES! Man, you've got me incredibly hyped for the 3DS version. I know you get this a lot, but myself and a lot of others genuinely appreciate the work you guys are doing. I may have said it in the video, or the description or something, but all I ever wanted was a proper expansion to Digimon World 1, and because of a handful of extremely passionate, talented people, I was able to experience that. I was a bit disappointed when the RE:Digitize patch finally dropped, because I lost the sense of waiting for such a grand project. Now I've got the 3DS release to look forward to, and it sounds like it'll be worth the wait. If Bamco had any fucking sense, they'd pay you to do a proper Western release. I should probably stop sucking your cock, because I'm getting a dry throat, but I appreciate your comment more than you know. Thank you!

[@OperationDecoded]

Casposaurus Thanks, I'm glad to hear you appreciate our work, despite the fact that it took so long. If you followed us you will know the reasons for that from the "Legend of Operation Decoded" blog post. Now that we have such a reliable team, and since were also able to port the text from Redigtize to Decode, I can assure you the wait won't be as long as with Redigitize. (It might still take a while, the game is HUGE). Decode is absolutely worth the wait, especially if you liked DW1. So many things that went into it, even the Drill Tunnel makes its comeback with our beloved Drimogemon. But what really makes Decode so different, is that while you often felt like Digimon you recruited did nothing in Redigitize, in Decode there are many many subquests now connected to those digimon even after you recruited them. And plus even the very same digimon will behave differently now depending on your prosperity rate by the time you recruited it. I gotta say I often hype Decode in the team (most guys haven't played it yet) so whenever someone of our team members says "too bad they didn't do it like this...", I usually come around "they fixed it in Decode". Seriously I say it so often it became my catchphrase. That's how GOOD Decode really is. In short: If you liked Redigitize you will love Decode. I can find hardly any flaws with it, everything I maybe found annoying or you mentioned in your review got fixed. No game is perfect and if I really wanted to I might find flaws with Decode but well you can do that with any game. I could talk about this for hours :D It's too bad people don't realize how different those two games really are, since most people think it's just a port, while it rather deserves the title "sequel". If you have any questions, feel free to ask :)

[@Caspicum]

I'd love to do a comparison video when it comes out, but that whole 3DS capture card hurdle is a big issue. I'd also love to have you on for a casual chat about RE:Digitize, the translation process, and just a general sperging-out about Digimon at some point in the future if you're keen. I know a lot of things that people ask are covered on the wordpress, but I think it could be a really interesting chat, and you'd have a format to talk about Decode for as long as you wanted. Then I could trim it, cut out the racial slurs, and make it available to the public. I've wanted to make a short, discussion-based series for a long time, and I think this would be a great fit. If you're not interested, don't be afraid to say no, there're no hard feelings!

[@djliquidremix]

+Romsstar As a huge DW1 fan, I would like to say that the amount of effort you put into translating and porting these games is vastly under appreciated. I know I am a little late, but thank goodness you exist. I can really sense your passion for the game in every post

[@DanielMorales-wo8xv]

I read somewhere that the 3DS version sold poorly. Still I want to play the 3DS version.

[@Tentacle]

I am actually bummed to hear that the city itself does not grow and slowly show signs of being rebuilt, but the rest of the game genuinely looks like a hoot to play. Hopefully localisation is the next step for this title.

[@Caspicum]

Tentacle Touchy I would love that, because if they were to localize anything, it'd be the 3DS version, which has even more content, and isn't a dead console. We can dream, brew.

[@Caspicum]

Yeah, I just wish I could give them money for their good Digimon games, and get a product I could use in return. OH WELL BAMCO FUCKING HATE MONEY OR SOMETHING.

[@scarletrose8766]

I think the reason why the city isint being rebuilt is that they are kinda been built the problem was the digimons just scattered some are stuck In a swamp.... Burried under a snow pile..... Have no sense of direction and can't go back.... Looking for ingredients but suddenly realize if he moves any further he might start a forest fire...... Point is the city is built there's no need for them to expand on it like you said ya can't fit stuff on a umd ...... No matter how great some of the missing stuff are I'd rather have a cut than wait for my digimon to finish pooping also I dint have that mega locked under a quest issue cause my metal greymon died before reaching to mega stats required..... Then my second digimon was actually that plant digimon that becomes Rosemon eventually so my first mega was Rosemon

[@Chris-bz2rf]

My head cannon is that most of the data from file city from the original Digimon world stayed intact and the Digimon just scattered from the city, but I do wish you o could at least expand on the city

[@maximumrisk2004]

What made me nuts in re:digitize is the Evolution system. I love caring and training my Digimon, but especially in later parts of the game you basically spend 10 In-Game Days training to get your stats high enough and then have 2 days to get some progress till it dies and you have to grind up all over again. Not to mention that FULL stats were sometimes barely enough to win. Omnimon with 999 Speed, Offense and Defense and it gets creamed half way through the game, WTF?

[@Caspicum]

+maximumrisk2004 I think it put a bigger focus on attacks and abilities, over raw stats. I also liked the fact that no matter how high my stats were, the game was always a challenge. Means that I actually had to try, and got something out of it, instead of just walking over everyone else. The grind was absolutely real though. You get an Ultimate/Mega, and then quickly scurry around to do as much as you can before it dies.

[@maximumrisk2004]

Casposaurus - The Channel That Hugs Back True, it got easier as I gatherd abilities and the ability to tell my Digimon which one to use. So I probably focused on the wrong thing there, still the grinding itself stays tedious. I was told that the 3DS version fixed those issues as well as in the PSP version to extend your Digimons lifespan, yet I never managed to get those life expanding items or use them right.

[@Caspicum]

Yeah one of the people who worked on the PSP translation actually found this video, and told me that the 3DS version fixes pretty much all of my complaints. I can't wait till they're done with that!

[@Salty010]

+maximumrisk2004 actually you forgot there's an item you can prolong your digimon life.... i think its watermelon its necessary.. i use it alot when my digimon with 999 stat and i use it on final boss

[@luckyfox2997]

How did I not find this video before? A remake of the first Digimon World? Hell yeah! Also, Cyber Sleuth better come to the US. We haven't had a new Digimon game in years!

[@Caspicum]

+Lucky Fox I'm quite looking forward to Cyber Sleuth, and if all things line up, I may end up doing a review on it when it drops. Finally put that dust-box of a PS4 to some use!

[@luckyfox2997]

Good lord, what happened to the variety of moves I enjoyed in the original? Seven of each category? Really?

[@TheCanipaEffect]

I knew it! That's the Devil Survivor character designer! With his creepy ass faces

[@Caspicum]

The Canipa Effect How it is possible to only draw depressed, or psychopathic-looking characters? Guys needs to take a note from Toriyama's book and only draw happy faces.

[@sonicbhoc]

+Casp Osaurus To be fair, his art style works very well in Shin Megami Tensei games. You know, where everyone is depressed or psychopathic. Or dead.

[@Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective]

Hahaha! :) Sorry finding this comment out of nowhere is so adorably out of place. Here you've earned the like man.

[@henryconner3002]

@@Caspicum what are you talking about

[@DiGiValentine]

I never really got a chance to play any of the games from this series, but it does look quite appealing. I only watched a bit of the show back in the day when the first season aired on TV. Something about digital worlds and digital monsters from digital worlds and digimon digivolving in to digital champions. Yeah, fuck, i remember that original opening theme song now too. People kept singing that song to me all the time.

[@Caspicum]

DiGi Valentine I could never really recommend Digimon to people, because most of the games are incredibly dated, and a bit shit. If you were to start now, I'd say RE:Digitize. You can finally understand why furries draw dicks on Agumon in board rooms!

[@oswin1234]

+Casposaurus - The Channel That Hugs Back The problem with Digimon games is that the producers never seem to stick with the same formula between games, so if the game, like World 1, turn out to have problems, they aren't corrected because the next game isnt in the same genre

[@Salty010]

+Robert Muscroft kinda agree while digimon redigitize should be say a sequal gameplay of digimon world 1 ... i hope next order will fix both problematic and also give us a survey what need to fix so the dev will mind them self what need to fix or next digimon world next order if it came to west....

[@Holyniwa]

It's worth noting that this is only Re: Digitize and not Decode, as the game is still in translations by the amazing Romsstar. Decode adds a new protagonist, tons of new digimon, two new story arcs, and polishes many of the grips of this game. Decode, if ever finished translated, is amazing. Of course, it's only in Japanese-- so yeah. :\ Learn Moonrunes, or struggle through the game. To give you an idea, Re: Digitize is only roughly 40% of Decode, so enjoy. Oh yeah, and did I mention that Mirei literally has the best story in the Digimon multiverse in Decode? Yeah, it's freakin awesome.

[@Caspicum]

+ThanhGio I can't wait for Decode. That Romsstar guy is going to make me a very happy person.

[@iantaran2843]

I feel like if someone heavily modded Digimon world 1, you could make a truly fantastic game.

[@GuyDude-hk8uy]

If you tweak just the right parameters, there's an absolutely *incredible* game in there for sure. The difficulty imo is that some of the "bad" aspects, like how tedious digivolution requirements and care-mistake timings can be, are in a sense part of the charm for a lot of people. If you could find just the right balance between keeping the mystique, esotericism, and maybe even a bit of the charming jankiness (in non-critical areas) I think you'd have a game easily on par with any mon game ever made. As you said though, heavy-modding is the way. I'm a nostalgiafag for sure but I just can't see any modern redesign besting the original game's art in a million years. That and I think it's about finding the gem within the real game, not taking the "good" parts of it and making a new one.

[@Ziko577]

1:44 is so true of a lot of JRPG's really. You grind and progress, and rinse and repeat till you're done with the treadmill.

[@Caspicum]

tru tru. Depends on the game, and the varying degrees to which it impacts the experience!

[@vlorenzosoleri]

Zudomon with shades? Sorry dude, I'm totally stealing that

[@Caspicum]

+SrThompson NO! I SAID ORIGINAL CHARACTER DO *NOT* STEAL

[@vlorenzosoleri]

Casposaurus - The Channel That Hugs Back Fine, fine. The shades were too hipster anyway

[@JP-lr8rr]

I just realized that I RANDOMLY found your channel twice. Once when I was pondering the purchase of re:digitize, and once now that I was looking for Breath Of Fire 3 content. I just went through your channel and spotted some DW videos and thought "aw yea we got some rpg taste" and then after a couple minutes into the video I'm like "hey this guy makes the same points about the game as the review I watched before getting the game.... wait a minute"

[@mattwo7]

6:20 I'd say this makes it closer to the orginal vpets (with the shutter taking place of the flush animation), the digimon in the vpets did a happy animation after you flushed. IIRC a fully fed digimon in this game will do a happy animation though,

[@razbuten]

Shame about no dumping animations though.

[@Caspicum]

razbuten Discriminating against scat fetishists. That's not real diginism.

[@Holyniwa]

+razbuten I would totally pay to see Angewomon dumping-- I MEAN WHAT?! No! That's what stalls are for :\

[@scarletrose8766]

althou heres a question remember how big the outhouse was? imagine examon taking a dump his size takes a large portion of the Storage Room how would he fit in the outhouse sure about adult size digimon can fit but large digimons such as examon wont be able to fit at all

[@mattwo7]

This isn't a remake, it's a soft sequel like Next Order, both it and Next Order take place in different digimon worlds but have the same human world.

[@SoraThe1WingedAngel]

Hast thou played the holiness that is Digimon Digital Card Battle? It's the best Digimon game, for sure.

[@Caspicum]

As a wee lad, I ventured forth, looking for Digimon World 1. I couldn't find it, but I found Card Battle instead. That shit is hometown, much like ass

[@SoraThe1WingedAngel]

The phrase "that shit is hometown" is one of the most ambiguous statements I've ever read. I have no idea what I'm supposed to take from that, man, haha. Also, dig the vids!

[@Caspicum]

I sunk way too much time into Digital Card Battle, and I love it more than a human should. I'll probably cover it at some point. Cheers, lad!

[@SoraThe1WingedAngel]

Oh, man, so did I. I recently popped it back into my old ps2 to get nostalgic, and winded up buying a ps1 memory card just because I got hooked all over again (hence my finding your videos, actually). I'll keep my eye out for that video!

[@Caspicum]

AYYYYYY. There's always PC emulation, lad. PS1 emulators run on toasters.

[@trashboat5388]

Downloading a translation of the 3ds version

[@mushymcmushington7176]

Why are his ARMS SO DAMN TINY that boy is like a t-rex.

[@Caspicum]

I ask that about most people on the internet tbh.

[@proloser6878]

You'd think that in a remake of all things they would show shit cascading in high-def!

[@krx50]

Honestly, the Digivolution mechanics made me stop playing very early on, because I wanted a specific Digivolution, but couldn't get it because I just couldn't meet the requirements, and it doesn't help that after a certain number of in-game days, your Digimon Digivolves automatically, regardless of whether you're ready or not, and the game doesn't tell you what it will become

[@Caspicum]

Yeah, I love that. As someone who doesn't know too many Digimon, I have no idea what to expect, and I'm always happy with the surprise. I get that it's not for everyone, but there's something lovely about having no idea what you're getting, or when you'll get it. UNless you get a string of 50 Numemon/Sukamon. Fuck that.

[@scarletrose8766]

you have to get way too many care mistake to get sukamon thou and i dint have the numemon pop up once unless i wanted to the hard for me to accomplish was the devil digimon as i barely make care mistakes which are a part of thier conditions

[@quickklaim7543]

Not getting the particular digimon you want is what I loved about the original Vpet because it gives a sense of “this is the digimon I get from raising it the way I did”. From combat to taking care of your partner, i’d say they translated the vpet gameplay well into a video game.

[@Goolashe]

You missed the best joke doing an Original Character Do Not Steal joke with MetalEtemon and the doughnut pool toy for Doughnut Steel.

[@Caspicum]

Fuck. Fuck. That's good. That's really good. TOO GOOD. ARE YOU AN ALIEN?

[@hamzadesidragonsarwar]

That's the girl from cyber sleuth in the Digilab never knew she was in this game to this must be the game before cyber sleuth came out

[@Caspicum]

+Hamza “Desi Dragon” Sarwar Took me a while to realise that too. I just assumed it was a very similar design!

[@Holyniwa]

+Hamza “Desi Dragon” Sarwar Yeah, that's Mikagura Mirei, sadly her story is only ever told in Deocode, she wasn't completely fleshed out in Re: Digitize.

[@saphiriathebluedragonknight375]

@@Holyniwa So what is her story? I have played Cyber Sleuth, Hacker's Memory and Next Order and I still have no idea who she even is.

[@Shirokane_Rei]

@@saphiriathebluedragonknight375 Mirei is researcher which get sucked to the Digital World because Failed Experiment and she can't return to the real world because her body already gone in the real world and left only her consciouness in Digital World as Data

[@loleo123]

Tfw u hear someone give actual critic to a game that they still like. It's bliss fam.

[@Caspicum]

I love messy games. It's okay for a game to be shit in some areas, but enjoyable in others. Unless you're literally everyone on the internet where the thing they like has to be perfect.

[@aikou2886]

The funny thing is that this was actually a pilot, the actual game was released on the 3DS by the name of Digimon World RE:Digitize Decode and is much more complete in terms of story and roster, you still don't get major changes on the village as you progress into the game (you do get to unlock certain new facilities on the village as well as have the opportunity to micro manage a small apartment complex and get the digimon you have recruited to help you at certain points on the story though).

[@tubster105]

They should’ve added the accessories to next order no idea why they would remove that feature

[@jpedro1800]

I actually love the digimon aesthetic, it is almost like a high tech salvador dali painting, I know that it is probably because the PSP didn't have enough power, but I really wish they could make the areas more of this feeling, I feel the concept and concept arts are amazing at showing this, but not the level design itself, like a plain with lots of trains, a desert with things made of glass and PC parts, a forest of signs, etc.. World 1 and word 3 had the best digiworld for me because they have more of this feeling

[@tonytestosteroni2273]

Is this the same character designer as for SMT: Devil Survivor (Overclocked) for DS/3DS?

[@Caspicum]

It is!

[@dahakaguardianofthetimelin4780]

Sorry, there were some flaws in the game that just absolutely killed it for me: 1) The lifespan cycle was just really something I hated. It didn't let you get warmed up and befriend your virtual friend and made the virtual pet part of the game completely useless as it made you treat your "friend" as less than your partner when you know he/she/it won't last for longer than 5 days in their Mega form. This mechanic was the nail that hammered the coffin shut for me and I really couldn't get over it or ignore it, the lifecycle should've been 3-5 times longer as I really started just naming my "partners" Agumon-3 etc. 2) The "it's been 5 minutes since my last shit so I want a shit" mechanic. Seriously, RPGs are tough as they are, there is no need to make it even dumber by making the game impossible to play without filling your inventory with portable potties. The constant "I need to eat/shit" every couple of seconds pissed the Hell off of me and the time in-between each shit/eating session could've been lengthened 3-5 times again. 3) The nature of the gameplay story. It rendered all the early forms useless, whenever you get a Digimon you barely get to train them or grow them from their early form, you just train-rush them to their Mega and then train them for a while (because they'll die in 5 days in the Mega form anyways) and then you go and try to complete as much of your goals as possible before your "partner" dies. It's really dumb to ignore the bonding process and the early stages of the Digimon as you barely get to see them since you skip past them with just a couple of training sessions just to get to that Mega form faster before your "friend" dies and you have to do it all over again. All in all, the game tried to combine Virtual Pet and RPG genres but despite its depth and some freedom in which the game could have been completed it failed from my POV. The life-span mechanic could've been removed in general and the timing of the each "I need to shit/eat" could've also been improved to at the very least let you play the game a bit since there is a pretty decent game to play somewhere under the endless pile of meats and shits...

[@Caspicum]

+ThatRabbitGuy Wut? Yeah, the virtual pet/RPG thing still needs fine-tuning, but I'm wondering, did you play the first Digimon World on PS1? Also, I'm not sure 3-5 times longer life spans would work very well. The story is pretty short, and there aren't too many Digimon to recruit, so while I think it would remove a lot of the tedium of looking after a vpet, it would just make it bland. You'd walk through the story with little issues, and not racing against the clock. It's not perfect by any means, but small, individual lifespan tweaks might work better. Say, Agumon has a lifespan of 7 days, while Veemon has a lifespan of 8. That way, unless you're using a wiki, you'll never know the exact life expectancy, and it'll make the vpet element a bit stronger. Maybe it could be based on a stat-roll at the beginning, like Pokemon with individual values, and then various care factors can modify it, so you'd never really know. I think I should make a Digimon game.

[@anomalocaris2593]

+Casp Osaurus would it be vpet or typical jrpg

[@Caspicum]

Both. and it'd piss *everyone* off.

[@anomalocaris2593]

Casp Osaurus why?

[@scarletrose8766]

pretty sure there are items that increase the life span thou rare also if you dont wanna train too fast chips (aside from devil chips) chips and fruit and a specific fish helps stat gain also dosent reduce the lifespan except for devil chips and abuse the restaurant ....... Mega 2 and mega 3 such as omnimon and a certain giant ass digimon (which is a huge hit box) increase life span more i never had the mega thing an annoyance cause i use the first digimon as means to gather foods thats about it i rarely train my first digimon as i wanted to get a not agumon partner (by the time i do use agumon i already unlock wargreymon)

[@RPGtourguide]

Great review! This looks like a good remake. Although I completely understand and agree with your complaint about the city. Seeing it grow over time just made it feel more epic and gave you a sense that you were actually improving the city as you went through the game. Even still, I'll have to look into getting this game. Well done with the video and well done getting to 2000 subscribers! :)

[@Caspicum]

RPGtourguide Thanks! one of the lads who translated it commented, and the comment is somewhere on this video, and he effectively said the 3DS version adds a bunch of shit and fixes preeeeeeeeetty much every issue. If you do pick it up, let me know what you think!

[@RPGtourguide]

Casposaurus - The Channel That Hugs Back That's really cool! Wonder if I should just wait for the 3DS version then...

[@Caspicum]

RE:Digitize is worth at least half a playthrough on its own. De:Code seems to be worth about 3. :^)

[@pablofmc]

no one notices how your digimons die really quick? you have to train another digimon again from egg stage every few hours of in game time

[@princemannic]

do you have a video on Decode?

[@CaptainCrypticShow]

Holy crap, I had no idea they remade Digimon World, that shit was my jam as a kid. Great work Casp :)

[@Caspicum]

CaptainCrypticShow YEAH! IT'S SO AWESOME! I never thought we'd get an expansion of the original, BUT WE DID! I got links in the description for the translation itself, but if you've ever used Google, you'll be able to find an ISO.

[@AvalancheReviews]

You undercutting son of a bitch! Also, I totally didn't know this was a remake.

[@Caspicum]

Avalanche Reviews ALL OF THE VIEWS ARE MINE! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@AvalancheReviews]

Casposaurus You have started a war! One you can't possibly win!

[@dervakommtvonhinten517]

am i the only one wondering who that paw is from on jijimon´s stick?

[@seihoukeh]

You desire to watch your digimon use the. . . "outhouse" ?

[@Caspicum]

100%.

[@scarletrose8766]

thats weird so ill pass i dont want to see my digimon shit considering things

[@scarletrose8766]

i do question one thing Examon is so huge how does he fit in the outhouse anyway as he take a large portion of the storage room probably one of the reasons why they dint have shitting animations as the outhouse is small and some digimons like examon are huge

[@jjmblue7]

How exactly is "Volcano" or "Volcano that is an unspecified kind of factory" not a standard affair?

[@Caspicum]

It was more about the fact that it was an unexplained factory than a volcano with metal walkways. Volcanos and metal paths above lava are quite common, especially in JRPGs, but to my knowledge, there wasn't any significance or distinction as to why they were there, or what it was. It was an entire factory as well, not simply a series of walkways. I personally think that slight variation makes it intriguing. I get where you're coming from though.

[@troublesomezorua]

I knew Re:Digitize was a stylistic successor, but didn't realize it was actually a remake. The maps are nice, though town feels way less unique. Just normal buildings in contrast to giant ovens and stuff. So that's disappoiinting, and the lack of the evolving town. That submerged city is gorgeous though. And training being controllable is basically the best addition I can think of.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

Wait, that doesn't make any sense, it's not multiple maps it's one map even Nintendo can make a village house by house the only problem is with optimization not storage space Is this like Pokemon sun and moon having a seperate lillie?

[@Neva9999]

As (mostly) a non-digimon fan, but someone who LOVED DW1, this game is the only other digimon game ive looked at and thought it looked playable

[@DuckyGamerDeluxe]

Congrats on 2,000 subscribers, Casp!

[@Caspicum]

DuckyGamerDeluxe THANKS!

[@ZCerebrate]

Agreed. Congrats man!

[@Caspicum]

You guys are too good to me, even if a little slow :^)

[@thomasffrench3639]

Wait, but the titles of the previous videos told me not to watch those reviews. What do I do?

[@Caspicum]

do what's in your heart, champion

[@jeffreystoner5131]

I have no idea what the deal is with the Japan is China bit. But I admire your commitment to the bit.

[@Caspicum]

日本と中国が大好きし、同じと思う。

[@thoaiphan3707]

Did Casp O'taurus said "Chinese City?" with a picture of Japan?

[@Caspicum]

I would never do such a thing.

[@tartarturner]

Great vid as always keep it up.

[@Caspicum]

Turner Wood THANKS!

[@christielovat5699]

Can you tell me where you were able to download your English rip of the game? I've been having a lot of trouble finding an active link to the patch and iso. Thanks!!

[@Caspicum]

Here's the official page for the translation: digimonworldre.wordpress.com/2015/06/22/495/ The ISO isn't hard to find. Just check your local bay of pirates, or blog of nico. :^)

[@christielovat5699]

Thanks so much!!

[@Caspicum]

ENJOY!

[@mckstellar1005]

What I personally think they should do is have a care difficulty of like hard to easy, easy ofcourse being long reaction time to toilet/food alerts and hard being the opposite but giving possibly a perk like faster growth in the digimon.

[@Caspicum]

They do eventually reward you with higher training increases based on who you recruit, but a care difficulty independent of the actual gme difficulty might not be an awful idea.

[@faikhozen5963]

i think it would look cramped up on the PSP screen itself, if they make it too populated

[@Caspicum]

It is a tiny screen, but it does put other systems to shame. You ever tried to play a NDS Lite? Legit world's tiniest screen for babies.

[@RaxonXVI]

so the game has an english version or is this an english patch?

[@braydenleaderofthetirkins1143]

How did you find an english copy of this game, and how can I get the 3DS version? Because I hate Playstation, and am a Nintendo fanboy please help me out here!

[@Caspicum]

People translated the PSP copy, and they're doing the 3DS version now, but you're out of luck if your 3DS isn't modded, my dude. There's always PSP emulators!

[@SoulDestroyer20]

I didn’t know about this game damn but what about digimon world world order is like DW1 with more difficulty

[@abyssbun444]

how can I download or get this game? I don't understand Japanese and I doubt they will localize decoded anytime soon XP

[@Caspicum]

+Robert Aguilar There's a link in the description to the fan translation site, which documents how you can acquire it legally. As for illegally, well, I'm sure you know where to look :^)

[@abyssbun444]

+Casp Osaurus last time I tried emulating a PSP title it kept telling me to get an iso

[@Caspicum]

Yep! An ISO isn't an illegal thing in and of itself, it's basically just a virtual version of a physical disk. Since emulators load the virtual disks, they act like ROMs for old consoles. Most disk-based emulators can use .ISO format. If you do emulate RE:Digitize, I recommend PPSSPP, which is a great PSP emulator, and the one I recorded from.

[@TKedOut]

Wait, there was a pal version of this game?! Where can i order a copy for shipping to the US? o-o

[@Caspicum]

+TKedOut Fan-translation, friend. You can find it in the description!

[@TKedOut]

thanks. I collect the digimon games, so it's good to know I can play this finally. :) and Digimon Adventure PSP too. BONUS!~

[@Caspicum]

YEAH! I was in a video regarding Digimon Adventure, on another channel. You can find it here if you're interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5ioh5yho8djd80

[@TKedOut]

Coolio. Thanks dude :)

[@PeriOwlArchive]

I couldn't stop laughing when I saw Meramon wearing a chef hat xD

[@Caspicum]

CaptainNeonFlash You should've seen some of the accessories I had on my Digimon. It's so fun to play Digi-dress up.

[@PeriOwlArchive]

I liked what you did with MetalEtemon. xD Such swag.

[@Caspicum]

DO NOT STEAL. 100% OC

[@PeriOwlArchive]

ORIGINAL DEVIANTERT CONTENT OK GUIZ

[@ShikaSS]

Where do you place Re:Digitize between World, World 2 and World 3? Also, will you review Cyber Sleuth?

[@Caspicum]

Shika SS I place it above all 3. It's a spectacular addition to the -world series, and I honestly think it's the best of the lot. DS games included. I might review Cyber Sleuth at some point. Probably not in the short-term though.

[@ShikaSS]

I guess Decode would be the best World game, simply because it's a optimized version of Re:Digitize. But yeah, Decode aside, I'd say R:D is the best one, with the worst being World X/4, albeit being a guilty pleasure of mine... At least World 2 was inventive. Oh, nice. I honestly think it's one of the best Digimon games.

[@Caspicum]

Yeah, Decode is an expanded version of RE:Digitize, so I dare say that'd be even better. IT HAS VEEMON, YO! THAT SHIT IS AUTOMATICALLY BETTER! I played Digimon World 4 two days ago, as I'm capturing footage for a friend who is doing a video on it. I completely agree that it's the worst. Digimon World 2 shits all over 4, and as much as I hate 2, at least it's functional. 4 is messy, and an uphill struggle the entire way. It is the least fun I've had with a Digimon game. I'm so glad I'm not covering 4, but if you're interested in a Digimon World 4 video coming out soon, my mate's channel is kzbin.info I think it'll be interesting, to say the least. As for World X, is that a thing? Have I missed a game in the series? IS THERE ANOTHER HORRIBLE ENTRY TO THIS ALREADY QUESTIONABLE SERIES?

[@ShikaSS]

Well, I *will* be looking forward to that! No, World X is World 4's japanese name.

[@Caspicum]

OH GOOD. I thought there was another horrendous Digimon World game, and I was about to quit life. Good old Japan.

[@ninjafish97]

How do you feel about that new Digimon cyber sleuth game that's being localized?

[@Caspicum]

Keegan Del Rio I'm happy that we're finally getting proper Digimon games in the West again, but I'm a bit pissed off there's no news about RE:Digitize for the 3DS. I think Bamco are missing out on some wicked moneys. That said, it's still really fucking cool. I haven't even seen what the game looks like yet, but just the fact that we're getting it is great.

[@aii5748]

If shin megami tensei and digimon crossed paths 😨💦 it looks pretty good!

[@Frustratedartist2]

The character designer! From Devil Survivor! Can't believe I knew this!

[@JOSEWVJ]

I hope they localize Decode and Next 0rder but that depends on Cyber Sleuth sales.

[@Caspicum]

+JOSEWVJ I'll try to buy Cyber Sleuth near-launch, purely to support a series I want back in the West. I'd urge anyone else to as well, if possible. PS4/Vita games aren't fucking cheap.

[@sonicbhoc]

+JOSEWVJ I didn't hear about Next Order. Cyber Sleuth is awesome so far. I'm actually enjoying the grind - I haven't played a game that I've enjoyed the grind for in ages. The story is getting interesting too. I'm enjoying it. I'm really holding out for Decode though, since 3ds is my staple console.

[@geoserenity]

What about that other game that follows the story of the first anime?

[@Caspicum]

I might do it, not 100%. All I've got left are Hacker's Memory and Digimon World Championship and that's every Digimon RPG translated to English. I guess I could throw a cheeky little Adventure in there.

[@Matanumi]

Already such an old game.... but you have the best review for it

[@Caspicum]

You're far too kind. The video's pretty old, but I appreciate it.

[@MaQuGo119]

Would you recomend buying World New Order? or sticking with cyber sleuth?

[@Caspicum]

+MaQuGo119 I'm not entirely sure! I've not played either yet!

[@kevindewaynelowe]

Never played it was there ever a US release of this game?

[@Caspicum]

Unfortunately, it's Japanese only. There is a fan translation, but nothing official.

[@Khyze]

They didn't need different models of the same city with different buildings on it, they are 3D models, they could just make the city by parts :3 (In fact, is the best approach for perfomance)

[@Caspicum]

I'm not sure what you mean by "Make it by parts" but generally whenever big things change on maps, it's just an alternate version of the same map that you're sent to instead.

[@Khyze]

You answered!!! ^w^, well, let's use as an example Digimon World 1, imagine you have a plain map (The "city" at the begining of the game), it's a whole big image (Lets say 500x500), and then we have a little building of (100x100) theres no need to do a whole big image of 500x500 just to change 100x100 pixels, it could be easily drawn on top of it, in code it would look something very close to this: -Draw original image *If you unlocked the building -Draw 100x100 building on the map Very, very close, Almost like layers on drawing software (And in video editing software?), that same example could be used in 3D with another perspective, is very easy, i just see one problem. Prerendered shadows, if it has that kind of shadows, this whole thing is more complicated than in 2D, but i guess all these big games use real time shadows, so no real problem here. When do they really need a different model for the city? well, when it completely changes, for example, all the buildings are destroyed and/or are in different places (But those things are better handled by code than whole 3D maps) So... it wasn't really hard to make, maybe they just didn't like the idea (I even never tough about it, Digimon World 1 for me is just a fighting tamagotchi stuff, i didn't really cared about objetives or story, but i eventually unlocked stuff while exploring to find oponents and items on the ground) Good video, even my brother like it, he sometimes isn't really into digimon (He just likes what his friends likes?)

[@Caspicum]

I'd say the original Digimon World simply had two background layers and a foreground layer. One flat background layer for the base town, and one layer which was selectively drawn over the top based on what you'd unlocked. That said, they could've absolutely just updated the original background image every single time, I'm honestly not too sure. In a 100% 3D space, it's far from as simple as just adding another building, because it'd have to be done in what is effectively 'real time'. Or within the game itself. I'm no expert in 3D modelling by any means, but when you look at game files and how they structure map layouts, maps with big events that change the terrain or structures within those maps are pretty much always separate maps entirely. If you've played Ocarina of Time, a good example is the Kokiri Forest. The child version is populated with characters, and the adult version is populated with monsters. They wouldn't just remove the assets based on which character you are, they just teleport you to an entirely different map, already completely configured as it needs to be. The assets are reused and only require being stored on the cartridge once, but are called for both maps. At least, to my extremely basic understanding. I do remember something which was super interesting about 2D games though. If you've ever played any NES/SNES RPG, it's likely you've been inside a house or something. Turns out most most those smaller maps are just on a bigger one, and separated by black space. If you do a walk through walls cheat in FF6, you can end up in other houses/stores from one that's entirely disconnected. That's unrelated though. It's also easier to control what is rendered, and how it's rendered without adding shit on the fly. Better texture control, easier to skip rendering things that aren't on screen, etc. Granted, there might be a better way to add structures to a 3D map that I'm not aware of, but I'm fairly certain I'm roughly on the mark.

[@Khyze]

I only readed the manga of Ocarina of Time :P, but is still simple, you would need a variable to know which link you are, let's call it "size" if it's equal to "0" you are a child, if it's "1" you are an adult (Or "true" and "false" for "adult"). At the begining of the map (The "load screen") the code will check the variable and decide which "objects" will create (Friends or Foes) An old mmo called "Mu Online" has all the 3D models in different files, floor, houses, buildings, barrels, furniture, and all that, doing that could optimize the game by drawing just what is on screen (Imposible if the map is all the models merged into one) There may be a video of "Silent Hill" (PS1/PSX) which is a 3D game that handles low specs with a fog, hacking it to erase that fog shows that the walls that are far away of the character dissapear (The fog avoid you to see that), a lot of games use this technique, the best example is Minecraft.

[@dervakommtvonhinten517]

is there an english version of the game for the 3ds?

[@Caspicum]

Almost! The fan translation is nearly done!

[@dervakommtvonhinten517]

but can only be played on an emulator right?

[@Caspicum]

It can be played on a modded 3ds as well!

[@baddragonite]

The lava level looks like that lava planet in star wars episode iii

[@Caspicum]

Based on the fact that episode 3 came out in the early 2000s, it's probably of the same graphical fidelity.

[@baddragonite]

Casp ha! Probably true. Tbh kinda makes me want to go back and play the original Star Wars Battlefront 2 (which is a weird sentence now that I think on it)

[@colymotle8482]

Digimon World RE: Digitize When I move I can not see digimon anywhere. Digimon World RE: Digitize psp as a flawed version. So they have produced another version on 3ds.

[@popplio7891]

So will you do Next Order at some point.

[@Caspicum]

Yep! I'm having a few issues with the script and general pacing without leaving everything out, but it is in the works.

[@ADAMNATOR]

Casp can't melt steel mons. ....yeah... yeah, that made sense.

[@Caspicum]

ADAMNATOR I made MetalGreymon weak at the knees. Checkmate, Adamtheists.

[@muhdsalfimuhdrafi9801]

Just adding the bad side - they shud change the camera to top view like the first.. hard control and u can know where ur gg.. got lost few times..

[@Caspicum]

Definitely. Some of the maps looked too similar for their own good.

[@TheMandalore4]

I still prefer the turn based RPG style. Loving persona 4: digital monster sleuth.

[@animedude8712]

Wait I thought this game didn't have a US release? How did you get it?

[@Caspicum]

There's a fan-translation, my boy.

[@Mrcheesestk]

The goal of the game is to return division to the city, not build it up. They dig ikon were already living in the city and then left, that’s why the city is already built.

[@Caspicum]

Yeah but that's not as cool as building your town up.

[@connormeyers2759]

can you review Digimon story cyber sleuth

[@feraldrgn]

The game was such a disappointment for me. The most glaring issue was the city already being there & staying the same the entire game. Digivolution & maxing stats was a bit too easy for my liking, the environments were dull, recruiting digimon for the city lost the charm of the original game, something about the coliseum felt a little less satisfying as well. Having several other characters in the world with you also took away from it, the original felt more important, as you were alone stranded in the world with no other human characters. ps: Medals -> Titles

[@bachtranlequan1806]

The combat system is so bad. Most skills are basically have the same cast time, same range etc... The battle area once u engage is also very small and there's not much to do... The quests are boring as u said... so much flaws. There's no break thru anywhere. Not deserve the 4.4/5 score at all. The Digimon World (1st one) was such a great game...

[@xavierpanohaya2647]

The only rebate I got about that is with the cast time, they added the Type bonus to compensate and PROBABLY they made it so we would not have cheat-level techniques like the DW1 Poison Claw, Ice Statue or the FREAKING Thunder Justice

[@megabyte5726]

what if the digital world is really the far flung future?

[@davidesteban191]

I tried having angemon line in this game, but it's weird as fuck, angemon and holyangemon both have manly voices and look like humans, but they need to shit too, just imagine it a huge humanoid angel shitting on the plains lol, and seraphimon growls like wargreymon instead of the human voice so it feels like you have a monster instead of an angel

[@anthonybennett6564]

The only thing I hate is the death cycle it don't matter what u do the digimon always die and u have zero control in battle u get to champion u better hurry and digivolve quickly or they will died ( this is the worst digimon game I have ever played period)

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

so basically a "reimagining" of digimon world 1 aka digimon world 1 but with hot hos

[@jrgeezy5028]

10/10 for agumon whipping it out!

[@Caspicum]

he got a biggie

[@TheSheepMeep]

One thing I really disliked in this game was how hard I always had to try to avoid enemy Digimon. Maybe I was just too stupid for it but once they've seen me I couldn't outrun it, except if I was close to a screen change. That's why I always ran huuuuge circles around enemies, which got really annoying at some point. Otherwise I really liked the game! Wish I could play the 3DS version but I'd have to hack my 2DS for that. Oh well. :/

[@HimothyHimsworthy]

What i the digimon at 6:51?

[@Caspicum]

Gomamon?

[@HimothyHimsworthy]

Casp O'saurus just checked it thanks, recognized it but never knew it's name

[@Caspicum]

He's an adorable little fish creature.

[@Kriken_]

Honestly didn't expect you to bring up the city not expanding with buildings as the major issue. For me the biggest problem with this game (and the other 'world' games) is dying and having to spend hours training your digimon back up, which can be a tedious process. I'd like re-incarnation to be optional, or for you to be able to shelve digimon away like with the Pokémon PC system. I get though, that with the game being short as it is, that it'd be shorter with such a system because you wouldn't have to retrain digimon. But the death system...pads the game out, and not in a good way, in my opinion. You might say, "Just go play Pokémon then", but I love digimon. Growing up I preferred the digimon anime way more than the pokemon one. I loved a lot about Digimon World, but there were some clear faults with the game. It's a shame because like this one, it's in my opinion pretty close to being a pretty good game. Just a few tweaks need to be made. I know a lot of people will disagree with me, but that's my take lol

[@Caspicum]

It's just the V-pet style, and there's not a lot you could do about it without stripping the game, and making it a generic turn-based deal like some of the other Digimon games. I get that it's not for everyone, but the city is the consistent representation of progress, where even though your Digimon constantly dies, you're constantly building this city up, and it makes your Digimon growth a little easier each time. Definitely tedious, but the city thing only really works if you've got high stakes, and with RE:Digitize removing the city, those high stakes do become unnecessarily bland. I more or less agree that the v-pet style is annoying and infuriating, but I think it's far more justified and easier to get on board with if you've got a secondary measurement of progression, which is where the original game really shines. Also Next Order, but they did a lot of shit to make it easier in that. It also sucks for people like yourself, who don't really dig that V-pet investment, since the Digimon games that removed those features are generally lacking. It's not a fun time out there for Digimon fans, I tell you what.

[@NitroIndigo]

Apparently there's a 3DS port of this?

[@Caspicum]

There is! Also a translation for it!

[@theultimaterush]

How are you playing in English?

[@rooty]

Sans means without, not except

[@Caspicum]

ye

[@amakusashooter]

Is that the same dude who did the art for devil survivor

[@Caspicum]

It is!

[@amakusashooter]

Casp cool

[@juanumana5688]

It's kinda weird that you just see the Tamer when he's walking. The Digimon is left out of screen almost all the time...

[@xXthevenomousXx]

Decode on the 3DS fixed that. Your Digimon keeps up with you and is almost always on screen now.

[@DragonKnightGX]

Re:Digitize isn't a remake of World 1...

[@Caspicum]

HEY! You're right.

[@tsartomato]

drops from 30 to 20? did you run it on a toaster?

[@Caspicum]

tsartomato It's definitely the limitations of PSP. It tries to draw about 8 characters on-screen at once, and has some pretty dense particle effects. Tried a bunch of different settings on my proper rig that can max The Witcher 2, and still drops. Could also be the emulator, as I didn't try it on my actual PSP. Still, very infrequent, and very minor.

[@tsartomato]

Casposaurus oh so it's psp? emus are quite taxing on CPU if you built your machine with console intentions just to play games (max GPU; any 4 core CPU; any memory; any cooling system) then your CPU can possibly been piled up with emu and capture software. as it seems you have 16:9 instead of 4:3 and models are anti-aliased, i think there were too much enhances on emu turned on, all of which mostly been emulated on CPU rather than on powerful GPU

[@Caspicum]

Nah, the game just drops in frames. I run the PSP emulator at 4x native res, so that I don't have to have anti-aliasing, but even with 10x native res, I rarely get frame drops. I ran Birth by Sleep at 10x native res, with AA, and a bunch of post-processing shit, and had no frame dips while recording. I figure if Digimon World were doing it because of my CPU maxing out, dropping the settings would give me 30fps the entire time, but even on default everything, it still dropped to 20, with, and without recording. I could be wrong, but I'm almost entirely positive that the game just dips in two parts.

[@tsartomato]

Casposaurus still, why do you use framecaps on emus?

[@Caspicum]

I don't understand what you mean.

[@jacktaylor6155]

I hated how they did not explain a lot of things in the original games. I really hate that this game has "hidden" digivoled forms

[@RFG0826]

Answer my question plsss why my digimon automatically die 😑

[@Caspicum]

They all have a life span, and once that's up, they reincarnate!

[@Msbubu]

digimon next order for PS4 next?

[@Caspicum]

YOU KNOW IT, BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[@pokelogikx]

I watched like the first part but im confused why you are calling this a remake when it's a sequel/separate entry...

[@Caspicum]

if i could ask myself that 6 years ago, I'd have the same questions.

[@stardrago7908]

Playing the ROMs hacks after og is night and day

[@henryconner3002]

Devil Surviver before Devil Surviver was Devil Surviver

[@freshiin8925]

Next order.....?

[@Caspicum]

Yep! I don't know when I'll be able to grab it, and also find the time, but it'll be priority #1 when I grab a copy.

[@rashadbarnes4852]

Do the digimon still die though?

[@Caspicum]

Yep! If that's not your style, you'll not enjoy this. Granted, it is a lot more forgiving than the original game, but they do still die.

[@bouncyman7206]

What console is this in

[@Caspicum]

PSP!

[@Hectictude]

+Casp O'saurus You mean that guy that tries playing video games but sucks so hard he gets salty and blames it on stuff and gets publicly mocked by everyone as they post two-hour-long vids of him being stupid??? I didn't know he was a console. :\

[@bouncyman7206]

+Biel-Tan Dire Avenger Exarch Belegan ???????????????????????????????

[@Hectictude]

+Bouncy Man It was a terrible joke. I was talking about DSP.

[@elbarto6668]

I will try it to

[@Lovehandels]

Never played this one, looks ok but I won't go out of my way to find and play this one.