[NOSTALGIA] - an introspective look at Digimon World (Prologue and Chapter 1)

„A 29-year-old loser from Central Europe is trying to relieve his childhood and make his dream of creating video gaming content come true. He chooses his absolute favourite, Digimon World for the original Sony PlayStation, thinking it'll be smooth sailing despite having no previous content creation experience. Hilarity, existential dread and depression ensues.”

This is my guide/walkthrough/let’s play/retrospective/review of Digimon World 1 (PS1). ...well… more like the first part of it – at first I really thought I could make a ~8-9h video in little over a month (because I wanted to have it done by the 6th of July – anniversary of Digimon World PAL release), even though I had over 100 hours of footage to go through, raw voice recordings, no visual assets, no soundtrack prepared and my experience of using video editing software came down to a total of 10 hours. And all of that with having to work 7-3 (+ commuting). If that doesn't sound like a recipe for disaster, I don't know what is.

English isn’t my native language (gee, could you tell?) and while my reading and hearing comprehension is superb, both my writing and speaking are… well, let’s say rusty. It's inexcusable, I know. Hope the subtitles will help.

Anyway… yeah, after more than 10 years, I finally managed to stop dreaming about making a video and actually start making it. The result is… what you’re watching right now: a prologue and the first chapter of my Magnum Opus.

Digimon World is probably the most influential video game I’ve played in my life. That’s why I wanted show everything there is to show about it and maybe, JUST MAYBE influence others to play it for the first time/give it another go. Also, there’s a lot of personal power leveling and possible cringe so… be wary of that.

I cannot thank enough everyone whose work I used in this project. I am especially grateful to those who took the game apart and passed on this knowledge in an understandable way, because without them I would still be in the dark about many of aspects of the game.

[www.]fliegenfuerst.github.io/dw1/
[www.]phoenix-staffel.de/digimon/DigimonWorld/
@Geta92    / geta92  
@ginoshie    / @ginoshie  


...and let’s not forget many talented people whose music I used not only in this video but also as a recreation:
@GIROMONSJUKEBOX    / @giromonsjukebox  
@eluukkanen    / @eluukkanen  
@SadGatomon    / @sadgatomon  
@GoldRangerkicksass    / @goldrangerkicksass  

THIS TIME ON [NOSTALGIA]:
0:00 Prologue: A brief history...
1:54 Prologue: ...of Digimon
8:47 OPENING
10:37 Introduction + my story with Digimon World
23:07 Chapter 1 starts
30:24 Looking at the game's menu
37:23 Hitting the (Green) Gym
41:56 Agumon wants to (hear the) battle (infodump)
50:36 Early exploration
55:00 We get shot
58:07 Needs
1:02:15 More exploration
1:04:05 Drill Tunnel
1:08:10 The rest of Native Forest
1:10:33 Getting TECHnical
1:15:00 Introducing Digivolution
1:17:02 Finishing Drill Tunnel
1:21:17 The stage is set

It’s bit rough, especially the history segment. It’s a work in progress and I’m getting more experienced with each segment of the video, so it’s only going to be better from now on!

Hey. Thanks for watching, it means a lot to me.

NEXT TIME ON [NOSTALGIA]:
Circle of life™
Chodyna professes his love
Music aficionado corner
CAPITALISM HO!
Gravity always wins
It's all Ogre
Detailed look at Digivolution
We canonically switch between PAL and NTSC

Next chapter will be published around the end of July (because life and work is a beach). Hope to see you then!

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