Game genre: Monster Raising RPG
Platform PC, Switch
The game is ESRB rated: E, suitable for ages 10 and up.
The old time-traveling PlayStation Vita handheld game has just surfaced for Steam in 2023, amid the curiosity that it has been missing for a long time.
for Digimon World Next Order It is believed that all digital pet fans have heard the familiar name for a long time. Since the game was first released on the PS Vita handheld in 2016, the following year it was ported to the PS4 console in a slightly redesigned version. and in the PC version that we bring to review this time It’s a ported version directly from the PS4 itself.
The game allows us to choose to take on the role of one of the two protagonists between “Takuto” (male) with “Shiki” (female) A young high school student used to love Digimon. But over time, making him both forget those things until now they have returned to the childhood Digimon player again. But instead of raising monsters through the tiny screen like before This time, the device instead attracts players into the digital world. A place where they meet allies of Digimon who are ready to go on adventures and fight together!
At the beginning, we will come empty-handed, without a companion pet. Therefore, it is necessary to open 2 free eggs to randomly find the starter monster. In which we will never know beforehand what kind of monster hidden inside each egg will be or what it will look like when it grows up. You have to endure taking care of yourself for a while before you know. The way they are raised is the same as that of real-life pets. When they were hungry, they had to find meat to feed them. Abdominal pain led me to go to the bathroom. If injured, find a plaster to paste. Sleepy, had to take him to bed. If we take good care of it, it will result in a better mood and development of them. But if raised in a neglected manner, keep scolding and scolding Their development will deteriorate in the opposite direction and may lead to death. And that this sector gives us the opportunity to raise up to two Digimon at the same time. The amount of food required for the number of items required was therefore doubled by two as well.
If it’s a general RPG game, when the tutorial session is complete, what system is completed? We will be able to travel around the world immediately. but for this gameFirst you need to go to a gym to train the newly born baby Digimon. and had to sleep and live in the training center until they evolved at least one level of shapeshifting.To be able to go out and fight with anyone. The battle system of the game will be automatic, stand and stare at the AI Digimon fighting each other. Our role is simply a coach who directs each pet to use a special attack or combine their bodies.
In fact, the field environment in this game is quite open for players to explore freely like an open world game. But many people who had touched it didn’t feel that way. That’s because the game has a dividing line between the zones, like many small levels connected together to form a large map. Time to walk across to another zone, have to wait for it to load for a while, feeling similar to ancient RPG games like Final 12. If it’s a new generation of gamers, it may feel a bit offensive. besides thatThe background graphics and character models in the game look outdated like a game that strayed from the PS2 era. Because both jagged edges and surface textures are not very sharp and detailed, that is, 7 years ago, what was the picture like? 7 years later, the picture is still like that. It has not been developed, modified, modified to correspond with modern hardware at all.
The PC that was picked up for testing is still the same specification from the way. AMD It consists of a CPU AMD RYZEN 5 5500motherboard ASUS TUF GAMING A520M-PLUSgraphics card ASUS TUF RX 6500 XT GAMING 4GB GDDR6RAM G.SKILL SNIPER-X 16GB BUS3600 and install the game on memory 500GB M.2 WD SSD Which the above specification is high enough and exceeds the game’s recommended specification several times. Seriously, the frame rate should be able to go beyond 200, but the game chooses to use a method to lock the frame rate at a fixed level. Movie cutscenes are capped at 100fps and gameplay in-play is automatically capped at 60fps on a non-voluntary basis. After all, the graphics options in the game have almost nothing to adjust except the resolution of the image that can only be adjusted up to 1920×1200. The resulting image will be of poor quality and blurred together.
It’s not just the visuals that look bad. Controlling with the mouse and keyboard itself was made casually like it didn’t want to be supported. As if the development team wanted us to just plug in the controller and play, the quality of life in the game was lacking. There are no convenience features such as Auto Save. The target mission that must be done does not specify exactly where to go. There is no fast dash system in the field scene. When being caught by a monster but not wanting to fight Press to escape, we go back to the starting point instead of the same spot where the monster was encountered. And there are many things that seem old-fashioned, frustrating, heartbreaking. It looks like their development team has no intention or care in porting it to PC at all, it’s like just copying it. It’s infuriating and frustrating at the same time.
“If talking about the popularity of ‘Digimon’, I must say that it is popular among only certain groups of players. It is not as widely known as its peers like ‘Pokémon’, probably because of its monster design look that emphasizes too much functionality. Growing up, I had to look cool and slender, tall and knee-length, as good as a magazine model. Not as cute and cuddly as when I was young Some of them, when fully grown, may even be taller than us who raise them. That’s probably the main reason why many people turn their attention to the competing series. But that’s only part of it, because the main issue is that the game isn’t very good enough. And when the development team doesn’t give their heart We should not pay any attention to it.”
| gameplay | 4 |
| graphics | 4 |
| sound | 7 |
| Performance | 7 |
| Value | 4 |
| overview | 5.2 |
strength: Gameplay to raise monsters, reminiscent of the past, low-spec consumption, general work notebooks can be played. and a music soundtrack that is addictive and unforgettable
weakness: Annoying digimon cries, poor mouse-keyboard controls, archaic game without modern convenience features, crude graphics on big screens, poor customization options. there is only a little And the price is unreasonable for an old game that hasn’t been updated in any way.
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