Summary
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Digimon Story: Time Stranger generates hype with partner returns and new digital monsters
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Digimon World DS offers a huge world, many digimon and solid mechanics for fans
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Digimon Survive stands out for his convincing story and interesting characters, making it a decent point
Digimon Story: Time Stranger Has players in the franchise absolutely hyped, with some of the most awaited partner returns, and some digital monsters that debut on a game for the first time. Yet there is plenty of Digimon games to play before Time Sranger, And some are so good that they can catch players in the digital world for hundreds of hours.
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So here's a list of Best games to play before Digimon Story: Time Stranger. From a title that dared to defy the highest rule about Pokemon Games, to a sequel to one of the best Digimon Games through the ages, it became a love letter for all fans of the franchise.
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Digimon World Ds
A niche game, but still one of the best
Digimon World Ds arrived at a time then Pokemon Games dominated the handheld console market and still managed to make a decent sale and gather the fans of a franchise in decline. After Digimon World Revolutionary Playstation Game World, and its sequel disappointed fans, this game was exactly what the fans needed: a huge world to explore, lots of digimon to meet and train and some decent mechanics.
Nowadays it has become a kind of niche game. For those who still have the Nintendo DS console it is one of the best options to jump into the franchise before playing Digimon Story Time Stranger.
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Digimon survives
Some say it's the best Digimon Story game
Digimon survives Offers some intense fights, an amazing and captivating history and some of the best development that “selected children” will experience in the digital world. Yet it has its shortcomings, as its unclearly slow stimulation and similarities to other tactical JRPGs, which can make some of the more conservative players crazy.
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Nevertheless, it is Undeniable that its narrative is compelling and attractive for all Kinds of Audiences, with Characters who are not just there for the ride, and various protagonists that have been dubbed as' the best of the franchise, “Like Takuma. – Favorite Female Character, with Labramon, One of the Core Digimon of the team. If players want to dive into the digital world for the first time, then Digimon survives is a fairly decent point of departure.
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Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth
A decent story with interesting characters
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth is unlike any other Digimon Games, because it prioritizes the story and the relationship between characters above combat mechanics. Like other titles, its combat system is tour-based (quite similar to Digimon World 2 and 3), and it has a cross combo feature that allows different Digimon from the team to act in harmony to cause more harm.
But there is one thing to mention before players try this title: the title's main attraction is the story. Partner Digimon is not the usual overpowered selected partners who become world saverses (or destroyers) and are represented as normally Digimon trying to survive. The partners are well balanced. Players can also enjoy a page story that happens at the same time as the events in the main game, called Hacker's Memories. It is recommended that players enjoy the original story first before playing spin-off, to avoid spoilers and get hold of the battle mechanics.
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Digimon Masters Online
Once it was one of the most popular Digimon games
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Platforms: Steam (available only in America or Asia)
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Developer: Move Games/Bandai Namco
Digimon Masters Online (or DMO) is one of the best Digimon games ever made, as it offers access to some of the most popular (and strongest) Digi specimens, and players may have endless Digimon partners, as long as they have grit to grind them all (under events, or from the various activities in the game) or are ready to put in the game) or are Although its Digimon acquisition system has been criticized quite as for microtransaction focused, it still offers lots of hours with fun along with some of the best Digimon in the franchise.
Do you want apocalymon as a partner? No problem. Or maybe the evil Lucemon (in all its forms)? Players can have dozens of partners, and even jogress-evolution them to get some of the most broken digimon that has gone the surface of the digital world. Each partner and trainer can plan and unlock new abilities, statistics and more partner places to have even more partners. Players can even get Fanglongmon, which is the Jogress development of four different Mega Digimon: Azulongmon, Baihumon, Ebonwumon and Zhuqiaomon.
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Digimon World: Next order
A must for fans of the franchise and newcomers
Digimon World: Next order is the best choice for the old Playstation 1 players (and newcomers as well) who want to experience the digital world in a direct sequel to the acclaimed Digimon World 1. With a standalone story, based on the same condition: to restore the digital world by gathering all allied Digimon in the village beginning.
Alongside old friends like Jijimon and new allies who will join the crew, players can have over 200 different Digimon from the I-Training Fhase for the powerful mega stage. The main difference with the original Digmon world is that players have two partners at the same time, which means they can jogress (aka DNA Digi Evolution) to powerful forms such as omegamon, Belpemon and more. Overall, it is a fantastic game, with cool battle mechanics and lots of assignments to complete.
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