History VideoGame / DigimonWorld

* YearInsideHourOutside: Apparently time runs more slowly in the digital world; the ending implies your character has only been there for a few real-world hours, and he theorises that that's why he doesn't have to eat or sleep in that world. Confusing this is the fact that it has its own time system, which works on a cycle of approximately half-hour days.

* PokemonSpeak: The recruitable Bakemon in Overdell Cemetery can only say slight variations of "Bake". Since you need to answer a few yes/no questions to get him to the city, you need a Bakemon of your own who will [[TranslatorBuddy translate the former's speech]]. Or you could just [[GuideDangIt look up the right answers on the Internet]] or even ''guess'' them.

*** [[https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/913684-digimon-world/faqs/73845/ This evolution FAQ]] clears up a lot of the mystique around the game, such as how to Digivolve properly, what care mistakes are, how to raise and lower weight, etc. Tiredness, sickness, and losing battles ''not'' being care mistakes were only discovered 17 years after the game came out.

** TheLostWoods: Native Forest

** BigBoosHaunt [[spoiler:and AbandonedLaboratory]]: Grey Lord's Mansion
** UndergroundLevel and LethalLavaLand: Drill Tunnel

** BubblegloopSwamp: Geko Swamp

* ThatOneSideQuest: Getting Monochromon to join the city is an exercise in patience.
** Recruiting Penguinmon means having to play a difficult curling mini game that means having to get a higher score than him. This can either be incredibly easy as Penguinmon has a tendency to make bad decisions, but can also be frustrating as at times, he knows exactly what he's doing. Getting a perfect score is nearly impossible.

* VideoGameCaringPotential: On the long run, it pays to properly take care of your monster. Not only does it usually result in better digivolutions, but full happiness and discipline increase the Digimon's lifespan and the time it takes for it to poop once the appropriate speech bubble shows up, respectively.

** ShogunGekomon, who forgives the player for attacking the annoying Otamamon, and points him in the direction of Cherrymon, even giving him the means to get through the forest to find him.

** HailfirePeaks: The whole game technically qualifies as such, given that File Island is an IslandOfMystery located InsideAComputer. In practically all of the locations highlighted below, elements of the latter can be found all around the environment; random plug sockets, diodes and circuit boards dot the landscape.

** There are three recruitable Digimon (Mamemon,MetalMamemon, and Piximon) who appear randomly on certain maps. The chances of finding them are around '''5%''', meaning if you want to recruit them you have to enter and exit these maps several times until you get lucky. Not helping matters is that even if you do find them, unless you have a very strong Digimon and a lot of healing items, you probably won't be able to beat them, as they're very tough to defeat.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: As the game was made fairly early on into the franchise's lifespan (before the first anime even came out), much of it may come across as strange to fans of the franchise. For example, Palmon cannot digivolve into Togemon (which isn't even in the game), Whamon is a Champion and not an Ultimate, MetalGreymon is purple and a Virus type, the Mega level doesn't exist, etc.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: An Etemon lives in the tree-house overlooking Coela Point. After the city reaches a certain size he can be fought and recruited.

** Lord Geko, who forgives the player for attacking the annoying Otamamon, and points him in the direction of Cherrymon, even giving him the means to get through the forest to find him.

** ToiletHumor: Filth techs.

** While the manual for the game does mention that digivolution can be affected by how you raise your digimon, it only gives a few hints for three champion digimon, with the rest requiring you to figure it out yourself. While some of the connections can be made intuitively (eg. feeding your digimon more food than normal makes it more likely to evolve into a heavier digimon), there isn't any real hint as to how to specifically get any digimon. Even worse, one of the main factors that determine evolution is the number of care mistakes you make, where not doing enough, too much, or any at all can drastically change your results. [=HerculesKabuterimon=]'s conditions (55 weight, 0 mistakes, and 0 battles) weren't discovered for ''years''.

** [[https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/913684-digimon-world/faqs/73845/ This evolution FAQ]] clear up a lot of the mystique around the game, such as how to digivolve properly, what care mistakes are, how to raise and lower weight, etc. Tiredness, sickness, and losing battles ''not'' being care mistakes were only discovered 17 years after the game came out.

* HeelFaceTurn: It is hinted that [[spoiler: Digitamamon]] is either the son or Digitama of Machinedramon himself, hence why he is so powerful. Despite this, however, he isn't evil, and instead decides to work at the City's Restaurant.

* PintsizedPowerhouse: Piximon, Mamemon, and Metalmamemon definitely qualify. All of them are really small, but they are all Ultimates. They're also pretty tough to recruit, having to go back and forth on screens until you finally see them, and then attempting to take them on.

** [=MasterTyrannomon=], who tells Tyrannomon to cut out his crap, and makes him join File City, while allowing the player access to the Speedy Time Zone.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: [[spoiler: Analog''man'', not ''mon'']].

* TalkToEveryone: Almost subverted when Angemon is recruited as between him and Jijimon you can just about work out where the heck to go next via fairly obscure riddles.

* ToiletHumor: Filth-type moves, as well as Numemon and Sukamon and variations thereof.

*** IcePalace: Ice Sanctuary

* YearInsideHourOutside: Apparently time runs more slowly in the digital world; the ending implies your character has only been there for a few real-world hours, and he theorises that that's why he doesn't have to eat or sleep in that world. Confusing this is the fact that it has its own time system, which works on a cycle of approximately half-hour days.
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** Another example and candidate for strongest finisher is Digitamamon's finisher, Nightmare Syndrome. It creates a ghost that inflicts damage by contact. The problem is that it flies randomly, so it either runs out of power, hits the enemy, or hits ''your own Digimon''.

It was followed by [[VideoGame/DigimonWorld2 a variety]] [[VideoGame/DigimonWorld3 of different]] [[VideoGame/DigimonWorld4 sequels]], as well as a card battle spin-off. ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldReDigitize'' and ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldNextOrder'' both followed the original gameplay more closely than the the other games.

* AffablyEvil: Some of the random {{Mook}} Digimon you run into can seem like this. One [=RedVegiemon=] casually asks you "Where you from, homie?" before battling your partner.

* HundredPercentCompletion: Hoo boy. Getting all the medals in the game is the closest it has to HundredPercentCompletion, and to get every last one of them, you have to: beat the final boss, win every single one of the arena cups at least once, play for 10 in-game years, collect all of the cards, recruit all the recruitable Digimon, [[FishingMinigame catch one hundred fish]], raise ''every single obtainable Digimon'' and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking get a perfect score of 10]] [[ThatOneSideQuest in curling]].
* AffablyEvil: Some of the random {{Mook}} Digimon you run into can seem like this. One [=RedVegiemon=] casually asks you "Where you from, homie?" before battling your partner to the [[NeverSayDie dea- er, "fading away".]]
* AllInARow: Partner Digimon generally follow you.

** [[https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/913684-digimon-world/37047195 These]] [[https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/913684-digimon-world/faqs/73845/ FAQs]] clear up a lot of the mystique around the game, such as how to digivolve properly, what care mistakes are, how to raise and lower weight, and what the Back Dimension is.

* HauntedHouse: Grey Lord's Mansion, which has spooky music music and Digimon like Bakemon hanging around it, complete with a graveyard in front of it. It is owned by Myotismon. [[spoiler: It also houses Skullgreymon, Myostismon's creation.]]
** And Grey Lord's Mansion looks suspiciously like an expy of the mansion from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1''.

* UnwinnableByMistake: It's possible to get stuck if you leave Jijimon's house after talking to him when Prosperity is over 15 or 45, as a powerful Digimon attacks you with no warning until you defeat it. The event flag only triggers if you chat with him, and since doing so is the only way to gauge your progress, many players had untrained Digimon fighting major bosses by accident.

The majority of the game revolves around the player raising their Digimon, much like the Virtual Pets. The Digimon the player raises is also forced to fight most of the other wild Digimon in order to try and return them to the city. This leads to some massive GuideDangIt moments, or even Unwinnable situations.

* {{Unwinnable}}: Whether it's by mistake or design is uncertain. It ''is'' certainly possible to get stuck if you enter Jijimon's house - on more than one occasion - because as you leave his house (usually just after saving), a powerful Digimon attacks you with no warning. You can, however, just die and wait to get to Champion level again before the opponent re-appears.

* DevelopersForesight: To explore all of Great Canyon, you have to [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption walk over an unstable piece of rock]] in order to fall down to a lower level. After the fall, the protagonist asks his partner if he's okay and apologizes for not being careful, but if your Digimon is currently in a form that possesses wings, the protagonist will instead [[FunnyMoments call him a cheater for flying down unharmed.]]