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Today’s character of the day is: Ryo Akiyama from Digimon series
all these retro style games that are like "NO tutorials NO handholding" apparently forgot about the little books that used to come with your game that detailed all the mechanics, controls, special moves, lore, maps, collectables, means of unlocking additional content, character bios, etc
i remember there were a few games that would even include what was essentially a walkthrough/strategy guide for the first level or two, i dont get what these retro devs are on lmao
hadnt actually considered that. much to think about
Can I add something else, tangentially related?
I always find it funny when people rage against difficulty options and accessibility features and the like, with the argument that "older games didn't have those either!"
Because it's like... yeah, you're technically right, they didn't have those. Know what a lot of games did have though?
Cheat codes.
How many games in the 80s, 90s, and even the 00s had built-in codes for shit like level skips, unlimited ammo, invincibility (IDDQD, anyone?) and such? Not to mention all those games that used a password system to save the game. I remember back when me, my sister, and my mom were struggling with the original Rayman (a notoriously hard game, despite the cutesy artstyle), and then one day, my dad showed us a list of level passwords he had found online, including one that let you go directly to the end credits!
And how many of those codes became iconic memes in themselves? I already mentioned IDDQD, the code for Godmode in the original Doom, but what about "JUSTIN BAILEY"? What about "Rosebud" and "Motherlode"? Naming your file "ZELDA" in the original Legend of Zelda? What about the goddamn Konami Code?
But no, as soon as you stop hiding these things from players in the form of special codes and button combos, and simply slap them in the main menu to toggle on off as you please, you suddenly "go against the spirit of the game" or whatever.
Video games are part of humanity’s culture, video games whether good or bad old or new should be preserved, media from Hollywood gets preserved all the time, where instead video games are just left to rot.
If art, books, movies and shows can all be preserved then video games should get the same treatment.
there are lots of rumours and speculation going around & people get these terms confused a lot, so i want to clarify;
remake; the game completely remade in a new engine, new models, new music, etc. example; ff7 remake
remaster; the original game with hd textures & running at higher resolution. example; twilight princess hd
port; the original game on new hardware. example; pokemon crystal on the 3ds eshop
When your special interest is a six year old game that no one talks about anymore or cares about so you have to infodump to *everyone* about it and it gets tiring.
Did Tri try to retcon the Wonderswan games, or is Homeostasis ENIAC? Or is it a servant of ENIAC?
Hello! Thanks for the question!
ENIAC has been shut down by Zeed Millenniumon in those games in fact. XD
Dude this is going to be long. I’m sorry. Just allow me to clarify what ENIAC is, and why it is brought up in those games in the first place.
Most digimon fans know that ENIAC was one of the first actual computers invented in our world. It started to be built in the year of 1943, got active around 1946-1947, and stayed up and running until the year 1955.
Unsurprisingly, ENIAC has been turned into a character of the Digimon lore. It is important to some degree, but not for the reasons people unfamiliar the games might think.
In the wonderswan games ENIAC shows up after Ryou Akiyama has accidentally time-traveled from the 2000′s back to the past, after a massive explosion wrapped time and space during his final battle against Millenniumon.
It’s not the first time this kind of explosion happens in the Digimon Adventure universe. Think what happened to Taichi and MetalGreymon after their fight against Etemon, except with Ryou it happened against Millenniummon - an enemy that wraps time and space by simply existing. They had an epic battle, and Ryou survived somehow, and he ended up in the past, and there he meets ENIAC.
This is where the Wonderswan games prove to be a fantastic addition to the Digimon Adventure lore.
First, they explain the Digital World as we know it has started to exist with the help of the first computers invented in the human world. But the very first computer was actually ABC (Atanasoff–Berry computer), built in the 30′s.ABC is said to have established the foundations of the Digital World. But funny enough they never say ABC created the DW. They only say it gave digital shape to some world that already existed prior to it.
This does make you think some mystical world did already exist, only it didn’t necessarily manifest in the form of zero and ones, binary code.
Back to the wonderswan games, the huge deal about ENIAC is that it has allowed for the primordial Digital World to expand and get bigger, thus allowing the development of a many Digital Worlds.
ENIAC has opened the doors to a digital multiuniverse.
Of course ENIAC is also that one character everybody in this franchise loves to death because it makes a connection between Tamers, Adventure, Frontier, Savers, V-Tamer, and more. Because suddenly every new digimon season and manga Toei, Bandai, and Shueisha have released can be perceived by fans as additions to a much bigger lore.
But please note the following:
And again, ENIAC itself has been deactivated by Zeed Millenniumon, who also survived that explosion.
All things considered? ENIAC is in the past. He no longer is active.
But of couse, this is precisely where digimon lore gets fascinating:
With all of this in mind, I don’t think I can seriously claim Tri ignores deep lore information, or that it retcons anything in that regard. Quite the opposite! I actually think it gives an all too enthusiatic nod to things like the Xros Wars manga and the many additions the franchise has had in the recent years, that have had even fans of deep lore cautious of.
But this is just my 2 cents on the issue of course.
These are the images, when you save Mimi, Koshiro, Sora, Takeru, Hikari, Joe and Yamato in “Digimon: Anode & Cathode Tamer”. I wished to take the image when you rescue Taichi. But I hope you enjoy this.
All (Japanese) Digimon games for Wonderswan, a complete collection~
