Digimon World 4 user review

Overlooked digital treasure

Review written by
Sarnoc

Story

The story starts with the player as a member of D.S.G., an organization dedicated to protect the digital world, sent on a mission to find a team that contact was lost with. After rescuing the missing team's leader (who lost his memory), you discover the reason for previously friendly digimon becoming enemies was that the mysterious X-virus turned digimon into mindless slaves or Mecha Rouges infected them. You're then sent to discover more about the virus.

Gameplay

The gameplay is very different from all previous digimon games. This game revolves very little around the digimon's powers and instead each digimon has the ability to use six different weapon types, specializing in one of the six, and has six special moves that use MP. One is started out with, two are acquired with leveling up and the other three by using the previous stated three enough.

Lifespan

This game has a main story that is long, consisting of four worlds with two smaller dungeons (three dungeons in Venom Jungle), each with a boss and the last dungeon with a world boss. This can be played in three difficulties each unlocked by beating the previous difficulty.

The side quest time enormous including ten side quest (eight of which have their own dungeon), many cards to collect, sixteen possible digivolutionary forms to unlock, and acquiring one's signature weapon.

Graphics

Though the opening may have good graphics, that is only because they are small scenes from the (at least at the moment) Japanese only movie Digimon X-Evolution. I heard that the graphics are better for the other systems' versions of the game, but from playing the GC version the graphics are only par.

The land is not too bad on the graphics in most places and is pretty good when it comes to water and the purple liquid in the Machine Core area. However, some playable characters and most of the generic enemies are on the slight blocky side.

Sound

The sound for this game is lower quality that I personally like. The starter characters all have the same squeak when enemies attack or a trap hits them. Wooden crates sound the same when they break as steel boxes and jungle plants. The music is the same three to five lines played repeatedly for the entire area or dungeon on exception of the four world boss fights, which is slightly longer.

Overall

The games graphics and sounds may be the lower end of a game's possibility, however the gameplay and lifespan make this game one of my personal favorites.