Best Digimon game to start with for someone who knows nothing about the series

[Boog111]

Digimon Cyber Sleuth. It was fun and had a pretty easy learning curve.

 

[Ferik]

But the DS was released way after the PS1.

Digimon World 3 is part of the Digimon World subseries everywhere. It is Digimon World 3 in both the US and Japan and Digimon World 2003 in Europe.

Digimon World DS is called Digimon Story in Japan, but was retitled to Digimon World DS when brought outside of Japan. It's officially the first game in the Digimon Story subseries. Same with Dawn and Dusk which are also Digimon Story games.

 

[Soupmancer]

It really depends on what you wanna get out of a Digimon game tbh. Any game in the story series is a turn based rpg with creature collecting as the focus. It's probably the closest Digimon has come to Pokemon in terms of what they do. People usually recommend Cyber Sleuth because it's easy to pick up and familiarize yourself with Digimon. It's also when the story series of games kinda hit their stride in being solid RPGs.

Buuuut if you're more into monster raising the Digimon World games really deliver. The first game is incredibly cryptic and punishing (borderline cruel imo) but you're essentially making a little town while raising a little guy. If you play this one definitely use some kind of guide to relieve the frustration. There's nothing quite like it and I do recommend at least trying it for that. I genuinely feel more attached to my Chronomon that needs to eat every 2 seconds than any Pokemon I have ever played with. World 2 is a dungeon crawler/mystery dungeon game. And World 3 is by far the most accessible and "normal" of the original 3 being a turn based RPG. 3 actually explains things to you, too. I haven't touched 4 in my life but it's allegedly an action rpg Diablo style.

There are also a few outlier games where they just try Whatever. Digimon Survive is a visual novel with tactical RPG sections. Digimon Adventure for the psp is a videogame rpg retelling of the anime. And there are a handful of wonderswan games I can't really say anything about because they're untranslated. Oh and there are some fighting and racing games.

If you're unable to decide, they're all fun games to turn on and look at. Downloading some roms and seeing which one you vibe with most is definitely part of the appeal of exploring Digimon.

Edit: I skipped over you saying you tried World 1 whoops. This video gave me a much much better understanding of what's going on and gave a bunch of resources to actually play the game. Maybe you'll try it again with a little help It's genuinely a delight to play even with the frustrations.

 

[NOTthatHARD]

Thanks but i have to wait for cyber sleuth go on sale.

You know you can just pirate it, right?

 

[Jvsouza11]

You know you can just pirate it, right?

yes, its true, but the price in my country is more cheaper than time stranger.

 

[What's His Face]

i wanted to play the most recent digimon game but unfortunately it costs 300 BRL, and i played a little of digimon world but after playing a little of this game and watching a video about how it works I realized that this game is not the best to start with as a new player, is there other digimon games that are the best to start with or its just time stranger?

Digimon World on PS is the best of the older titles (save for the virtual pet keychain). For more modern, Cyber Sleuth is your best bet. Digimon Survive is a hit-or-miss. It has a great story, but it has LONG story sequences with little action, and some characters you may want to pull into reality yourself so you can take a chainsaw to their groin.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

But the DS was released way after the PS1.

I don't think you know what people here are even talking about