I’ve always made the case that Tamers was the most clever Digimon (you could also make the case for Adventure TRI, but feels more angsty than anything else) from all the seasons. It shows a kind of writing that maybe today many kids shows could get away with, but not at the time. And honestly, I was so into TCG that… Read more
One of your articles was the reason I made an account here to comment on. I find your writing very good and interesting. Kotaku has better articles than most sites and they should def bring you on. Between you and Luke I’d have great articles to read all day Read more
Strange coincidence I’ve been going through and watching digimon and just got maybe 10 episodes into Tamers. I’ve noticed Rika is a different kind of character than the others so far. She seems to have a lot of backstory and baggage to go with it, Henry had some personal struggle and Tokatomon is kinda just trying to… Read more
So from the vaults of yesteryear, the one feedback game I remember was Hard Drivin in the arcades. A bit over the top with the feedback, still it had the clutch, brake and gas pedals. A shifter, the sit down version had 3 screens (so you could look to the side?) and was impossibly hard. 2 tracks, a fast course and a… Read more
Hell yeah, Rika. She’s absolutely the best Digimon character (human or otherwise) largely for the reasons you specified. What’s great about her is that she fills a typical role in an anime hero trio - the aloof, withdrawn tough one (your Sasuke Uchiha type) but her story actually breaks down this character type and… Read more
It is nice to see someone else with kind words for Tamers. Usually when I tell people that Tamers was my favorite season, I get mocked, but Adventure never really did much for me. Tamers was a much more focused show with characters I could connect with while Adventure to me tended to feel like it was just going… Read more
Feedback is one of the areas where traditional shooters generally lag behind horror games. Resident Evil is probably the first game that made me conscious of headshots and stopping power. The slow enemies and stationary shooting took away the frantic circling and weaving of Doom and put the focus on landing the most… Read more
I actually really like how Overwatch’s health bars do give you feedback in the sense that every bar that goes down sort of “pops” as it is eliminated from your target’s overall health. That along with the unmistakable audio queues for successful hits makes Overwatch have a very satisfying sense of feedback, even if… Read more
I would suggest Patapon as a good non-shooter example. As you watch the dodonga sigh from exhaustion as the battle goes on. Read more
Tamers is far and away the best Digimon series just in terms of tone and themes. Characters are another huge strong point to Tamers characters like Rika, Takato, Jeri, and Impmon were all great characters. Personally my favorite of the series was Impmon especially when he becomes Beezlemon just his story going from…
I firmly agree that localized damage can go a long way to making a game feel a great deal more immersive; the example I will forever and always go to is Metal Gear Solid 2: SoL. From the ability to disable soldiers limbs, affect the effectiveness of tranquilizers, and shoot hand radios, to creating environmental… Read more
I never got to catch Tamers on TV much when I was a kid, I remember Renamon though and Leomon lol . But I rewatched the it just a few months ago ( In Japanese) and I LOVED it. Renamon has always been my fav digimon (next to Leo and Beelzemon) and out of all the human characters in the history of Digimon Rika will… Read more
Tamers is also my favorite version of Digiimon, and much for the same reasons you jsut outlined, back when I was a kid and Digimon was the thing with kids, Tamers suddenly raised the bar and blew my mind back then, it seemed so much more than the two previous shows had been for some reason, specially when you consider… Read more
SAINTS ROW Vs. DUKE NUKEM: PURPLE FACTION. The ultimate character parody takes on the ultimate genre parody in a darkly humorous fake-serious deconstruction with FULLY DECONSTRUCTABLE ENVIRONMENTS, THAT’S how you save Duke Nukem! Read more
