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Digimon or Pokémon :3 there are no wrong answers I just want to know which one you guys like more and why 83
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But I'm dating someone who loves digimon, and I'm thinking about getting into it myself
I saw Digimon's anime first, but had no experience with Pokemon back then, so arguing with my friend who was a pokemon fan back then was rough.
Since then, I've played a few pokemon games, and watched my BF play some of Time stranger.
Currently looking into getting Cyber Sleuth
The Digimon feel more sapient as character and lead to better story crafting with the trainers/tamers relationship with their Digimon, who act as either a compliment to the trainers personality or an exact contradictory personality. Either way shows the strengths and weaknesses of the character and better help them grow.
also Little Dinosaur, to Big Dinosaur, to RoboDinosaur with thermonukes is fun
digimon for tv series (nothing to do: the pokemon anime has the same dynamics of a sunday morning American cartoon, digimon series have plots and character growth)
I think RIGHT NOW at least, Digimon is a bit higher on the totem pole. Probably a mix between loving Time Stranger, Beatbreak coming out, and just how *varied* the digimon forms and evolutions are.
That new game looks cool though!
Nowadays, It's just visual white noise for me. I have favorites from both, but they don't really register as "Digimon" or "Pokemon" when I see art of them in the furry-sphere, especially since everyone draws them their own way and makes their own changes to their species to make them more... "Furry Fandom Friendly" (But that can be said of a lot of characters popular with other furries)
Currently Digimon because the company responsible for it hasn't pissed me off as much as Patendo has.
If we're talking gameplay and such...
Gods, where do I fucking begin. There's so much that a mere paragraph just kinda comes across as a memey description... Apologies for the Wall of Text.
Both have a lot of what I like and want to see in a monster-tamer franchise with play-as-the-beasties games here and there. And both have titles I am eager to recommend, and titles I can't recommend, in good conscience, for someone with more... Modern tastes to play, without a QoL patch or something.
Red/Blue and Digimon World 1 being in that list, regardless of how much I love them.
You know. Because R/B is very primitive and half of it doesn't even work right and the types are poorly implemented, and you can't fucking paralyse normal types with body slam and so on.
And Digimon World 1 is a fairly unforgiving game that requires QUITE a bit of time to intuit what it wants you to do, not helped by bad translations and poor and sometimes incorrect item descriptions and the fact that it took longer than you'd think for accurate and correct evolution guides to be made so you can get what you want.
Pokémon kept it stable, to... Mixed results. I liked basically all the games going up to Y before I started to feel my enjoyment rapidly diminishing. And I like some of the monster designs a lot. Goodra. Purugly. Wigglytuff. Scyther. To name a few.
Digimon tried a lot of different things though.
World 1 was basically a tamagotchi adventure RPG. World 2 is a brutal roguelike dungeon crawler I would recommend nobody in sane mind plays even WITH savestates. World 3 tried a more conventional party-based JRPG. World 4 is the poster child of wasted potential as a play-as-monster dungeon crawler hack-and-slash, and would've benefitted from more polish and netplay, like Champions of Norrath before it.
And Digimon too has monster designs I like. Tyrannomon, Terriermon/Lopmon. Palmon, Guilmon. Cherubimon. Bearmon. Gammamon. Lunamon. Gazimon. Again. To name only a few and not start listing off entire lines.
Two things I do think I like over Pokémon is that Digimon can cross over into other evolutionary lines with different endgames. Like Agumon sometimes having Tyrannomon as one of it's options, leading to something like RustTyrannomon.
And how apeshit some of the evolutions can be. Like Gundramon.
I also like how generally, in newer games, you can find a way out of the "sexy human waifu" evolution lines as a result.
Yes. I like Renamon. I like Kyuubimon. I like Kyuubimon in anthro art.
Not fond of Sakuyamon.
I wasn't just "a weird kid" at my schools for liking Digimon, I was THE Weird Kid:tm: for it.
But I like both. For similar reasons in a lot of regards. But different in some.
Digimon generally doesn't do "version exclusivity". You buy a game, everything in that game is available, you don't need somebody with a copy of the "opposite" game. There IS Digimon World Dawn/Dusk however.
That being said, it took until Time Stranger for the plot of a Digimon game to make my cry like a bitch. Where the two Pokémon mystery dungeon games I've played have done that easily. And then there's Scarlet/Violet.