History YMMV / DigimonWorldDawnDusk

* CuttingOffTheBranches: Appearances by the protagonist in future media such as ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuth'' almost exclusively use Sayo, and only in her ''Dusk'' palette.

* {{Fanon}}: In fanworks, Kou and Sayo are considered the canon protagonist of their respective games though you are capable of choosing another gender if you wish.

* FanPreferredCouple: The two protagonist, Sayo from Dusk and Kou from Dawn are shipped with each other, most evident in fanworks.

* EvenBetterSequel: Dawn/Dusk is a much more improved experience over [[VideoGame/DigimonWorldDS DS]], fixing most of the issues of the original and adding much more content.

* GeniusBonus: Most of the locations are named after computing terms (''Access'' Glacier, ''Macro'' Sea, ''Palette'' Amazon etc.)

** In Dusk, a mission that would be available way later for Dawn players will pop up in the request counter somewhere near the half of the story. In that mission, you have to defeat both Myotismon and Venom Myotismon. The first will go down with a couple of attacks and can't do much unless you're weak to Darkness. The second, however, will be way faster than your Digimon, a so high defense that your attacks rarely will do more than 5% of his HP, and has a skill that hits one of your digimon three times for high Darkness damage AND paralyze you should you survive the blow. Every turn of yours will be for healing or reviving one or two digimon and attacking with the two, or sometimes only survivor. And even if you find both of them fairly easy, there's [[spoiler: Imperialdramon Paladin Mode]]. And after him, you have to fight [[spoiler:Chronomon Holy Mode]].

** Shadow Hell also qualifies, but mostly for the missions that are done there. It is a very annoying maze with several dead-ends, and in all of its missions you're required to talk with more than one digimon. Thing is, Digimon B will only appear after you talk with Digimon A, so a unadverted player may pass throught the place Digimon B will appear, find it empty, then find Digimon A and wander during a long time fighting the random battles assuming that Digimon B area will be empty. One mission, especially, requires you to talk with THREE digimon and again with the first. Not only the aforementioned problem will make it very confusing, as Digimon A will actually change his position after you beat Digimon C. An in-game map would have made this ''much'' easier, but no, they couldn't even give us that much.

* ComplacentGamingSyndrome: Having a team of three Digimon that level up normally for the main party while having 'backup' Digimon for MinMaxing in reserves that will be digivolving/degerating is pretty much a requirement to beat this game. While 'Team A' works well enough for early to mid-game, late-game enemies and boss do so much health and damage that having min-maxed Digimon is required.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Kowloon Co. All of them are fun characters and provide some of the best battles in the game. Their HeelFaceTurn even lets them end up saving the Digital World!

* ThatOneBoss: A staple in the series. Among other things, [=GranDracmon=] gets multiple turns before each of your Digimon because he is absurdly fast, has more HP than all your Digimon combined, has an attack that will hit at least two of your Digimon for high damage, and occasionally inflicts bad status on you. Unless you're carrying the Legend set or have done massive grinding to that fight, you'll most surely struggle to take it down, IF you can take it down.
** In Dusk, a mission that would be available way later for Dawn players will pop up in the request counter somewhere near the half of the story. In that mission, you have to defeat both Myotismon and Venom Myotismon. The first will go down with a couple of attacks and can't do much unless you're weak to Darkness. The second, however, will be way faster than your Digimon, a so high defense that your attacks rarely will do more than 5% of his HP, and has a skill that hits one of your digimon three times for high Darkness damage AND paralyze you should you survive the blow. Every turn of yours will be for healing or reviving one or two digimon and attacking with the two, or sometimes only survivor.
** And even if you find both of them fairly easy, there's [[spoiler: Imperialdramon Paladin Mode]].
** And after him, you have to fight [[spoiler:Chronomon Holy Mode]].
* ThatOneLevel: Access Glacier and Macro Sea. While most stages will split up into different paths one will soon lead to a dead end. Not these two stages. Go one route take a fork, get some equipment, take another fork, get more equipment, take another fork, dead end, back track. Also, while most stages contains several types of Digimon to get their base experience these contain mostly water base, meaning you'll max it out instead of something more useful, like Holy or Dragon. Oh, and to ''fully'' explore the stages? You need to simultaneously go through both of them!

** Loop Swamp has all the problems of Macro Sea, while also including one-way teleporters that give no hint or warning about where they go.

** As a general rule, any 'main protagonist'[[note]]Tai, Davis/Daisuki, Takato, ect[[/note]] Digimon will be leaps and bounds beyond most 'random' Digimon you can find, or even other protagonists Digimon, thanks to these Digimon having far more forms and evolutions than any other Digimon.

* HilariousInHindsight: Almost nine years after these two games were made, rival series Pokémon announced their new games, Pokémon Sun and Moon, which have a very similar motif.

** Apocalymon, the BigBad from the first season. He not only has Status Barrier AND All Element, as he also has Economizer, which reduces the MP cost of all of his moves, plus Skill Master, which increase the duration of status effects, which are game breakers on their own. His SignatureMove hits all the three digimon of the opposing team regardless of their positions, deals high Dark damage and has over 90% of chances of causing Confusion, which halves the chance of successfully attacking (and this will last longer because of Skill Master). Equipped with defensive items and having one healing move, the opposing team has no chance of winning unless it is built specifically to beat Apocalymon, and if it does, it will be a ridiculously long battle.

* GuideDangit: One of the most criticized aspects of the game was just how downright ''cryptic'' some of the Digivolution methods are, usually requiring a specific amount of species EXP, having two Digimon with specific conditions, ''de''-Digivolving Digimon to increase the level cap of their next form, finding specific items... Ultimately, trying to get Digimon you want ''will'' require a guide of some sorts.

** To be honest, this could apply to Imperialdramon Paladin Mode and various other Digimon. The beauty of it is there are so many they almost cancel each other out. Gaia Origin and the Tamer challenge where you fight [[spoiler: the cast of ''Anime/DigimonSavers'']] are catalogues of Game Breakers, and even they don't cover all the candidates.

** For the series as a whole, this was the introduction of the Lunamon line, who have gone on to be well-received Digimon and gain an even solider following in [[Anime/DigimonXrosWars Xros Wars]].

* StopHavingFunGuys: Subverted. While there were attempts to create tier systems and standardised rules when the games were released in America, these quickly fell apart. A few rule lists are used, but there's no single example which all players follow.
* ThatOneAttack: Royal Slash, as described under the GameBreaker entry.

* EvenBetterSequel: Dawn/Dusk is a much more improved experience over [[VideoGame/DigimonWorldDS DS]], fixing most of the issues of the original and adding so much more.

* GeniusBonus / ThemeNaming: Most of the locations are named after computing terms (''Access'' Glacier, ''Macro'' Sea, ''Palette'' Amazon etc.)

* HilariousInHindsight: The player characters look like they could be Fry and Leela's children.

** Apocalymon, the BigBad from the first season. He not only has Status Barrier AND All Element, as he also has Economizer, wich reduces the MP cost of all of his moves, plus Skill Master, wich increase the duration of status effects, wich are game breakers on their own. His SignatureMove hits all the three digimon of the opposing team regardless of their positions, deals high Dark damage and has over 90% of chances of causing Confusion, wich halves the chance of successfully attacking (and this will last longer because of Skill Master). Equipped with defensive items and having one healing move, the opposing team has no chance of winning unless it is built specifically to beat Apocalymon, and if it does, it will be a ridiculously long battle.

** To be honest, this could apply to Imperialdramon Paladin Mode and various other Digimon. The beauty of it is there are so many they almost cancel each other out. Gaia Origin and the Tamer challenge where you fight [[spoiler: the cast of ''DigimonSavers'']] are catalogues of Game Breakers, and even they don't cover all the candidates.

** Shadow Hell also qualifies, but mostly for the missions that are done there. It is a very annoying maze with several dead-ends, and in all of its missions you're required to talk with more than one digimon. Thing is, Digimon B will only appear after you talk with Digimon A, so a unadverted player may pass throught the place Digimon B will appear, find it empty, then find Digimon A and wander during a long time fighting the random battles assuming that Digimon B area will be empty. One mission, especially, requires you to talk with THREE digimon and again with the first. Not only the aforementioned problem will make it very confusing, as Digimon A will actually change his position after you beat Digimon C. An in-game map would have made this ''much'' easier, but no, they couldn't even give us that much.

** Then there are the Mega-level 'Dot' Digimon. Like the two entries above, they have Status Barrier, Economizer S and All Elements. [=DotShineGreymon=] also has Heroic Power, which provides a negligible (with max stats) boost to his attack power. [=DotMirageGaogamon=], on the other hand, has Heroic Move. It's also easy to set him up with a move which can revive other Digimon without having to DNA Digivolve.