I want to like this game...

[Pyrowolf]

but I'm wondering why I should care about my digimon. From what I can tell I can digivolve -> de-digivolve repeatedly and I could just turn my starter into any other starter. Or any digimon I catch and train into any other digimon. So I don't see the reason to catch more then 3, or have any reason to care about them individually. They have individualism if I can just swap them infinitly into anything else.

[Mr. Death]

True enough. Maybe for the next game, they should make each Digimon only have one evolution line like they do for ReArise on the phone.

For example: Terriermon -> Gargomon -> Rapidmon -> MegaGargomon

I'll miss teaching all of my Digimon every lethal move in the game though.

[Nibbie]

I mean, you *can* turn any Digimon into any other, but its not like doing that constantly would make much sense. Unless you are going for something specific, just (de)digivolving in a normal way will very likely make them branch out a fair amount. Digimon keep regular skills from their previous evolutions, so even two of the same Digimon can have completely unique skill sets, other than their special move of course.

As for wondering why you should have more than 3, that is the same as asking why you should have more than one pokemon, since only one can fight at a time. It is so if your party dies you have replacements. It gives you type coverage to maximize battle effectiveness. It allows you to share xp to more Digimon to level them faster.

[Douglas [Ragna]]

Originally posted by XIPaulDarcy:

True enough. Maybe for the next game, they should make each Digimon only have one evolution line like they do for ReArise on the phone.

For example: Terriermon -> Gargomon -> Rapidmon -> MegaGargomon

I'll miss teaching all of my Digimon every lethal move in the game though.

Pls, don't, if they ever do this, it will kill one of the coolest things on Digimon games: the possibility that we have of turning our partners into what we think it suits our tastes. This allows me to have several runs to train a wide variety of Digimon without getting bored quickly. If I wanted only one evolutionary line, I'd play Boringmon... I mean, Pokémon.

[Infinite]

I just nickname them, then i care about them, alot even, more than my Pokemon

[Volfogg]

Personally, for roleplaying purpose it's good to stick to path that fits the rookie of choice the most, of course some experimenting with various ultimate and mega to improve ABI and movesets is also nice thing to do in spare time. There should be also some room in party for support digimon and also type variety for support out-of-battle skills.

[Penguinator]

Well, I dunno, I, for example, care about my digimon because I simply want to. Nobody forces you to do things one way or another just because the option is available. If you "can", it doesn't mean that you "must". The rich amount of digivolution brunches are present for variety and gameplay convinience, but it doesn't dictate how unique your digimon as individuals are - only you yourself do.

[KarmaTheAlligator]

Reasons to have more than 3 (and train more than 3):
- Having the farms do something
- Filling up the field guide without taking an eternity
- Having backups when things go pear shaped
- Having more flexibility in battle (remember that every digimon has a limit to how many skills they can carry)
- Having PlatNumemons for easier levelling up

After that, as Penguinator said, you caring about them is entirely up to you and not required at all.

[Soulfire72]

I do hope they impose at least some restrictions for digivolution, as it did feel really weird having some of the female digimon digivolve to the devimons for the SP draining moves.

[Fran Joestar]

Originally posted by Atramento:

I just nickname them, then i care about them, alot even, more than my Pokemon

Yeah, I put a cute nickname to a wormmon I used to farm and I ended evolving it to Chaosmon VA, and I ended caring a lot about It
Also I ended loving my Jesmon because all the battles he carried XD

[Betu]

Originally posted by Ragna:

Originally posted by XIPaulDarcy:

True enough. Maybe for the next game, they should make each Digimon only have one evolution line like they do for ReArise on the phone.

For example: Terriermon -> Gargomon -> Rapidmon -> MegaGargomon

I'll miss teaching all of my Digimon every lethal move in the game though.

Pls, don't, if they ever do this, it will kill one of the coolest things on Digimon games: the possibility that we have of turning our partners into what we think it suits our tastes. This allows me to have several runs to train a wide variety of Digimon without getting bored quickly. If I wanted only one evolutionary line, I'd play Boringmon... I mean, Pokémon.

Dude it´s not a pokemon game...

[MarcusBWFC]

or only go down teh generic animu route? no one told you to go down 57 different paths with one dude. do the geneic animu ♥♥♥♥ and let everyone else be more creative

[クズハモン]

I've always adored and been a fan of digimon for years so this wasn't an issue for me when I played it
i naturally care about them and have a lot of fav mons and mons in general I like
guess you just gotta be a fan already or have prior interest to really care and have multiple fav digimons you've always wanted on your team

you don't have to care about your digimons but the game is way more exciting and fun when you do have a lot of favorite mons you want on your team so

[Spiral90]

The last Digimon game I played before this was Digimon World Dawn on the DS. It had more linear Digivolution lines that brached out (No lines blended together unless there was a DNA Digivolution but it was a pain in the ass to undo those) but also had more Digimon (400 vs this game's 341).

[MarcusBWFC]

Originally posted by Spiral90:

The last Digimon game I played before this was Digimon World Dawn on the DS. It had more linear Digivolution lines that brached out (No lines blended together unless there was a DNA Digivolution but it was a pain in the ass to undo those) but also had more Digimon (400 vs this game's 341).

yeah but nearly 200 of that 397 were the same digimon in different colours. such as ogremon, brown ogremon (fugamon), and blue ogremon (hyogamon). vegiemon, red vegiemon, brown vegiemon (weedmon) etc. the roster of HM is better quality wise because the DS games had something like 50% of the roster being minor colour changes. it has a few colour swaps itself but its more like 10% of the roster compared to how many the DS games had. also half the roster couldn't get to mega either on those games.