OMG so sad: Digimon RPG!

[kingandy]

I am having lots of fun in my PBEM Digimon game. My digimon (see icon) has called everyone else idiots and thrown himself into a one-on-one battle with the Big Bad. He's currently hovering above a burning city shooting the enemy in the eyes, while everybody else hangs on the end of a rope ready to pull him back through the portal when he's rescued the hostage. I am centre stage!

Also I have this vague impression that I may have given the GM the idea for this particular plot line, since my child character (Akemi) has a tendency to ruminate on how the world fits together based on the observable facts. If she hadn't asked whether you could get from one nightmare realm to the others, I don't know if the portal would even have appeared...

Yes, Digimon roleplaying. Stop looking at me like that! I don't have to explain myself to you.

Comments

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

I sort-liked Digimon the cartoon. The game was pants, but the cartoon was okay. Well, some series of it. I liked the first series quite a bit, and even the second series with it's "world and digiworld merge becoming utopia" ending. The third one . . . not really. Of course, you'll now turn round and tell me these were series 14, 26 and 11 respectively. But what the hell.

It had a better "story" than Pokemon, and more interesting kiddiwinks. The beasties were a bit of a let-down, as was the constant repeating of the "digivolve" sequences. And the animation wasn't particularly bad. But I do remember an episode where one of our heroes and his little mate are threatened by pink turds.

[kingandy]

No, no ... those were series 1, 2 and 3. I think they only made four...

Digimon won my affections when, in the first series, they split the cast up and had actual spotlight episodes for each character. It had an overriding plot arc and individual character development, where Pokemon was just an endless series of non-sequiturs. Sure, sometimes somebody would pick up an extra Pokemon or learn something about life or whatever, but nothing ever actually happened.

Season Three's my favourite, despite the heavy-handed promotion of the card game. It's mostly because of the music (heavy rock chords for the digivolving, creepy Matrix brass riffs for the evil organisation). And because digivolving looks a lot more painful - their skin gets torn off and replaced, instead of just spinning around. Mmmarvellous. Plus, when one of the kids gets replaced off-camera by a sinister double, it's actually quite creepy.