General Digimon Topic

Well, they'd only have to do the stuff that Decode adds right? So once they get over the emulation thing, it'd be less work than the original game.....hopefully.

Hell, I'd settle for someone just doing some captions of the original 3DS scenes and dialogue instead of the whole game really. Sounds like less trouble in the long run.

Well, I don't know if she is the more badass, but her VA is really putting effort in her performance.

edited 19th Aug '15 5:07:17 PM by MeetTheNewBoss

So been watching more Cybersleuth.

This game marks some firsts for the franchise.

• It's the first time Lord Knightmon/ Rhodonightmon / Crusadermon wasn't voiced by a male (and while Digimon still apparently have no genders, this version could be seen as actually being female.

• It's the first time Masako Nozawa hasn't voiced Dukemon / Gallantmon.

Also, the Cyber sleuth trope page was not kidding when it said the story really picked up by chapter 10. Man. Things got crazy. My biggest regret is that so much context is lost due to my inability to understand Japanese. I'm glad this game is getting translated truthfully.

If you want to get technical she didn't voice Dukemon in Xross Wars either.

True.

But Young Hunters doesn't count.

...

I miss Son Guilmon.

Thing I am confused about is with Etemons Mamemons and Leomons are they the same Digimon are totally different?

Anyone else sick of the Agumon over saturation. In Re:Digitize, Taiga's partner was a Agumon. In Cyber Sleuth it was a nice break when Agumon and Gabumon was given to a secondary character and they were important characters to the story. Also, you get to choose one from three partners that aren't the regular suspects. Now back to next 0rder, the partner to Takuto is again a Agumon and Gabumon. Guess my central complaint is that there are several expies that anyone of them could be a good partner for a main character.

Well, that unfortunately tends to happen a lot in these types of series.

They go back to the well with certain digimon very often.

I admit, it'd be nice if someone used a Guilmon, cause Dukemon is a boss.

Agumon is the Series Mascot, so of course he will suffer from over saturation. After all, he was the main Digimon partner of the first season and that makes him the most recognizable face to the casual public by default.

Not trying to justify it, we are just as annoyed as you, but that happens in a lot of monsters series as already said. Mind you, Gabumon often gets the same treatment for secondary Digimon choice because of the same logic.

edited 23rd Aug '15 12:19:45 PM by ShadowAbyss

And at least we keep getting Greymon variants; in Pokemon Raichu is neglected and all we get is multiple Pikachus.

Plus, Agumon is pretty cool, and to be more fair, we've had multiple series without him.

So while he may be the mascot, Digimon is more willing to experiment and go without him.

edited 23rd Aug '15 12:20:09 PM by HandsomeRob

Still, doesn't change that fact when we get another monster to be the main Digimon, chances are it is because there is a new mon around they want to promote at the moment and they will go back to Agumon once the craze diminishes. Not that it bothers me much.

edited 23rd Aug '15 12:27:34 PM by ShadowAbyss

I don't know what would have been worse, going the forced mascot route with the monster that's supposed to be the most popular, which Digimon has with Agumon\Greymon, or choosing the first monster to breakout from the pack and then going the forced mascot route with it, like Pokemon did with Pikachu.

If Digimon was more like Pokemon, they'd have noticed V-Dramon was the most popular monster in Japan and rode it to the ground...hell they kind of started too with stuff like V-mon, XV-mon, Red V-Dramon, Gold V-Dramon, MasterV-dramon, but then, all of the sudden, they cut it off and decided to go back to their first choice.

Honestly, I'm more sick of dragons and fire themed therapods period. I could stand to see more reptiles\dinosaurs that aren't dragons and don't use fire. Why not make an insect a focus partner or in some similar role? A crustacean? Arachnid? At least sometime a mammal gets to share that spot but then it's usually a dog. We did get to see Lalamon and Falcomon\Peckmon go all the way up to Burst mode once and BanchoLeomon was nice but some more focus variety in Digimon would be welcome.

And on the other side, TOEI really love their demons and fallen angels don't they? Next Digimon Adaptation. Monster of unknown family nearly driven into extinction after one of them reached mega and went on a world threatening rampage. He lives in a region of the digital world where the existence of his species isn't illegal and is part of a task force of similarly ostracized monsters who take jobs no other civil servants or armed forces want to bother with. His current mission is to hunt down an immoral scientist who has already decimated the population of an island and encroached on an analog world in his pursuit of knowledge.

The next arc would deal with a human worker with a Beemon type partner part of a public study on digital monsters and The Ace with angel partner who gets to mega to save protagonist from Jungle Trooper and Wind Guardian enemies. Then Alien, Invader or Unidentified(better yet, all three) comes, forcing Angel partner has to battle to death to ensure human's survival. Ace becomes helpless and depressed until bonding with new partner, a centipede, which still sets him back on the level of protagonist. New partner not as strong but doesn't matter when they both reach mega, team work and stuff. No Agumon, no dragons, no fallen angels, no demons.

Goggles return now because a girl on swim team went missing, her disappearance leading to the study on Digimon, her suffering and premature death avoided by the stopping of the mad scientist studying the analog world. Now she's lost in a strange region of the digital world with two only slightly less lost partners, a crab(nature spirits) and a mosasaur(deep savers). Initial enemies while trying to find their way metal empire and jungle troopers. Enemies when they decide to be heroic deep savers opponents that require a jogress to defeat.

Leads up to big damn movie where both the human scientists and Digimon task force find the lost trio and have to work with them to deal with an outside context problem.

Bandai loves fire reptiles, Toei loves angels, Game Freak loves electric rodents, Konami loves dragons. It's the annoying way of the world.

Especially Angewomon.

Pretty sure it has something to do with SMT.

edited 24th Aug '15 6:59:19 PM by MeetTheNewBoss

What's that?

Shin Megami Tensei, which unbuilt the Mons genre.

In fact, I've found that of all the mons series, Digimon resembles it the most, although Digimon is far less depressing even at it's darkest.

There's always some hope for things to get better no matter how bad they get in Digimon for one thing.

edited 24th Aug '15 7:49:10 PM by HandsomeRob

So I've watching more Cyber Sleuth, and Rina from Digimon World Redigitize Decode was just introduced......

Did she just rider kick Barbmon?

Holy shit! Girl must secretly be a cousin of Masaru or something.

Does anyone else think the mega forms in Tamers had the least impressive first outings?

Gallantmon - needed help from Guardromon of all people and didn't even kill the guy he was fighting (admittedly this was due to Jeri pleading for Beezlemon's life but still).

Mega Gargomon - fails to kill Zhuqiayomon.

Sakuyamon - delays the D-Reaper for mere minutes.

Justimon - His presence offers no change in tide against the D-Reaper

Gallantmon's intro is still the best fight scene in all of Digimon, IMO. Usually when a new evolution is introduced it easily kicks the ass of whoever they're fighting, but with Gallantmon they managed to retain dramatic tension across the entire episode.

Indeed. It's not often a Intro Mega fight lasts a whole episode.

Gallantmon may have needed a lot of time to whoop Beelzebumon, but it was enjoyable to watch.

If Mega Gargomon or Sakuyamon did anything more, it'd call the entire concept of scale in Tamers into question.

Mega Gargomon hold his own against what was a god for all intents and purposes by using tai chi and the damn happiest missiles you will ever see. Sakuyamon managed to No-Sell the touch of death of an eldritch abomination and survive.

Compare and contrast Imperialdramon, who was needed to send a Triceramon back home, and his Fighter Mode, an Omegamon-tier being whose first purpose was killing a Skull Satamon...

Damn, Fighter Mode would have made for an awesome Daemon fight if they waited until then.