Digimon World

**Digimon World** (デジモンワールド, *Dejimon Wārudo*) is a role-playing, adventure, and digital pet video game game released on the Playstation by Bandai. It was originally released in Japan on January 28, 1999, followed by a North American release on May 23, 2000, and a PAL version in Europe on July 6, 2001. The game's popularity paved the way for various sequels for the Playstation's successor consoles, as well as other platforms, and thus is the first of the Digimon World series.

***See also:** Digimon World pages*

## Plot

The story of the game focuses on a human boy who is transported into the digital world through his virtual pet device and finds himself on File Island, where he is greeted by the citizens of File City. Jijimon, the city's leader, requests for help to restore the island's former glory. As the Digimon have lost their memories and left the city in favor of a feral life, it has fallen into disarray and needs to be saved by the player and their partner Digimon. By travelling across the island and training his own Digimon, the player recruits several Digimon to repopulate File City and finds out about the history of the island along the way.

## Gameplay

The gameplay revolves around raising a single Digimon from its egg form, hatching into a Fresh, up through In-Training, Rookie, Champion, and with work, Ultimate. A Digimon partner will "fade away" with age, and return to an egg eventually, so the player has to raise it again.

To raise a Digimon partner, the player must train it, feed it, let it rest, and take it to bathrooms. Training is done to increase the Digimon's stats to make it stronger in battle. Raising a Digimon well will result in the Rookie Digimon "Digivolving" into a Champion form with better stats, while not training or raising it well will cause it to Digivolve into Numemon, a Champion Digimon with inferior stats and skills.

The other main part of gameplay is battle. The player's partner Digimon fight the Digimon that have become aggressive due to a crisis on File Island, and some will calm down and work at the city when defeated. Partner Digimon begin the game with a few basic skills, but acquire more as they progress in levels through the game. The player cannot control the actions of an unintelligent Digimon, but as it gets smarter more control over its actions is given to the player.

More Digimon working for the city will make training and various other aspects of the game much easier. Many will open shops and even sell items, some which will open playable mini-games for gaining rewards and items.

## Trivia

* The Japanese version of the game features additional booklet art of a sleeping player character with a Drimogemon, as well as an illustrated version of Greymon on the disc. Meanwhile, the US and PAL version both feature an in-game model of Greymon on their discs.

## Gallery

US cover featuring MetalGreymonPAL cover featuring the main Digimon cast of Digimon AdventureJP cover featuring the player and various DigimonJapanese disc featuring the player and Drimogemon, as well as GreymonUS disc featuring GreymonPAL disc featuring Greymon
## References

1. ↑ "Lineup". BEC. (Archived from the original on 2010-02-02. Retrieved 2020-10-31.)
2. ↑ Flying Tiger Entertainment (Internet Wayback Machine Reproduction)
3. ↑ "Digimon World", Multi Enterprise (Archived from the original on April 7, 2005. Retrieved April 7, 2005)