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Digimon is so much better than pokemon. Besides, they were developed around the same time anyway, so it’s not possible for it to be a knock off. The ideas of monster hunting and taming isn’t exactly novel, wasn’t even original back then.
The Digimon anime was straight up fire. The digitations (?) were absolutely wild. Not like, it’s a bigger rat now but really insane. Loved it as a child
Unfortunately it suffered even more from the “it evolves into an anthropomorphic animal” syndrome than pokemon does…
It doesn’t have much in common with Pokemon at all, IMO… I wouldn’t even describe the concept as “monster hunting and taming,” really. Both have kids who partner up with monsters that start out cute and endearing and evolve to more powerful forms… Which is a significant part of the premise, but the similarities fall off pretty sharply after that.
Me at age 9:
Narrator: it did
It could be worse. Like, Pixie (Monster Rancher) tiers of worse:
(I liked the MR games way more than Pokemon or Digimon to be honest. Also screw Octachrome.)
Monster Rancher was a weird one. The whole idea of monsters hidden in our CDs was a cool gimmick. And I love their monster designs, even if it was reshading the same monsters.
But the overall gameplay wasnt fun for me.
The gameplay was hit or miss, I guess. Pokémon plays out like a typical turn-based RPG; Monster Rancher was management + action based. For me the fun part was fighting against time to get a perfect monster, it was surprisingly hard to do so (limited lifespan, the need to train good coaches beforehand, etc.)
A few games actually had different models for the sub-breeds, besides rehashing the old mons. Like MR4:
Wait 'til you find out about Yu-Gi-Oh
They’re not really monsters though. They’re like… Some sort of otherworld demons.
Which means it’s acceptable to procreate.
It’s all covered over in the west anyway.
Seriously, is there anything about this character that is a “monster”? This is literally just a person in tight clothing
This is Lady Devimon. Digimon designs are very on the nose.
Whoever made the meme cropped out her wings and claws.
