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Digimon World DS

Digimon World DS, known in Japan as Digimon Story (デジモンストーリー Dejimon Sutōrī?), is a role-playing video game and the first Digimon game for the Nintendo DS. It is not part of the Digimon World series, as…

60 15 June 2006

Digimon World DS is a role-playing (rpg) developed by BEC, released 15 June 2006 on Nintendo DS.

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What Digimon World DS is

Digimon World DS is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by BEC and released in 2006. It was published by Namco Bandai Games. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Digimon World DS, known in Japan as Digimon Story (デジモンストーリー Dejimon Sutōrī?), is a role-playing video game and the first Digimon game for the Nintendo DS. It is not part of the Digimon World series, as suggested by its localized title, but the game does bears a resemblance to Digimon World 3. In the game, the player assumes the role of a Digimon tamer and embarks on a journey to discover, tame, raise, train and command more than 230 unique Digimon. The player can build Digi-Farms to raise, evolve and communicate with the Digimon. Using Wi-Fi and local DS wireless connection, players can interact by exchanging Digimon, engaging in battles, and pooling resources to create rare types of…
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How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Digimon series

Digimon World DS is the 40th of 85 entries we hold in the Digimon series. It arrived a year after Digimon World 4. The next entry was Digimon World Dusk in 2007. Its critic score of 60 is 2 points below the series average of 62. The highest-rated entry is Digimon Story: Time Stranger at 84.

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How it was received

Digimon World DS holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Digimon World DS launched on 15 June 2006, within three weeks of Half-Life 2: Episode One, Hitman: Blood Money, FlatOut 2 and LocoRoco. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Half-Life 2: Episode One, Hitman: Blood Money, FlatOut 2, LocoRoco.

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When did Digimon World DS come out?
Digimon World DS was released on 15 June 2006 for Nintendo DS.

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