Digimon World DS [DS]

Mass-Produced Monsters

The one area in which Digimon really differs from Pokemon is its concept of farms. As a trainer, you can setup up to four independent training farms that put your Digimon through the paces even as you run around on your adventure. Each farm can be tailored to train either specific types of Digimon (for example, dragon-types) or to train Digimon in specific skills. You can setup rings of fire to build resistance to that element, or provide punching bags to increase fighting skill. This is a cool way to power-up your creatures without much actual work; in fact, since the farms work in real-time, you could leave your DS on for days -- hitting a button every so often to clear the end-of-day screen -- to end up with super powered Digimon. There's your ProTip for the day.

All told, Digimon World DS looks like another competent, potentially diverting outing for the Digimon franchise, though it probably won't garner many new converts. If you're a fan you already know the drill, and probably already have your breeding / killing lists all drawn up. You can begin to implement your ghastly agenda come November 14th, when the game hits shelves.

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