Digimon Battle Spirit
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Digimon Battle Spirit is a fighting video game originally published by Bandai and developed by Dimps for the Japanese-only WonderSwan Color handheld system under the name Digimon Tamers: Battle Spirit (デジモンテイマーズ バトルスピリット, Dejimon Teimāzu Batoru Supiritto). It was later ported to Nintendo's Game Boy Advance for international releases in North America and Europe two years later.
Plot
The Digital World, a computer-generated subspace that exists between all forms of digital devices, and home of the creatures known as "Digimon" is under attack by a malevolent and powerful force known as Millenniummon, who seeks to corrupt all of the data present in the world and modify said data to his own designs. In response, several Digimon and their human companions have set out to stop Millenniummon and his minions before any irreparable harm can be done. This is accomplished in a very round-about and typical way to the fighting video game genre, by finding and defeating as many opponents as possible on the way.
Good Qualities
- The concept of doing a Digimon fighting game was a good idea and this game showed, also the same concept would be revisited for the Rumble Arena duology for both the PS1 and PS2.
- Good graphics for both systems, especially on Wonderswan Color, the sprites are amazing to look at and the graphics overall are very colorful and feel exactly like the art style of the show.
- Solid controls, while they are slighly clunky, they still work well with the level design and it still play well, and is overall a fun game because of this.
- It is faithful to the series.
- Fun, unique gameplay that doesn't resolve as beating your opponents but instead got more points than your opponent by fighting him, and taking the collectibles he give you, which is a very unique concept that was never seen before, the same system would be used for this game sequel, Digimon Battle Spirit 2.
- Decent soundtrack.
- The transformations are present in this game, and they are awesome to use because it serve as a power up and when you hit your opponents, they instead throw 4 collectibles instead of 2, and you also are invincible and move faster.
- The final boss is epic and he's a challenge unlike most opponents, which change from the fact that this game is overall pretty easy.
- Great level design that take advantages from the characters abilities, and those levels also are somewhat bigger compared to most fighting games.
- The sequel, Battle Spirit 2 is even better.
Bad Qualities
- The game is a bit too easy, since you can easily win all the matchs, and some of the opponents had a hard time to hit you, the only thing that is challenging in this game is the final boss.
- It doesn't help that you can't die either due to the game unique concept, well except for the final boss that can kill you.
- The soundtrack wasn't that changed for the GBA version, which is weird because the game was on a more powerful hardware than the Wonderswan Color.
- The GBA version removed some contents.
Reception
Digimon: Battle Spirit received mixed to positive reviews by critics and players, having a score of 60/100 on Metacritic.