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The Digi-Beetle serves as your lifeline in the dungeons; it has its own HP, EP, and various tools and weapons you can install to make exploring easier. [[Defeat Means Friendship]] is also given an odd twist; digimon are shown wandering the map, and you can shoot gifts at them to drastically raise the chances of them joining you, then <s>kill</s> beat them last.
Another strange quirk of the game is that
Preceded by ''[[Digimon World]]'', Precedes ''[[Digimon World 3]]''.
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* [[Aerith and Bob]]: All over the place. Bertran, Damien, and Joy are all normal if uncommon names, but then we get to Zudokorn, Piyette, and Akira himself.
* [[Animal Theme Naming]]: Not only are many of the various parts you can buy for your Digi-Beetle named after different types of animals, they're sorted into different catagories, such as sea creatures for the Batteries, birds for BOXes and insects for RAM.
* [[Anti-Frustration Features]]:
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** The attack Giga Cannon will make the user strike as many times as its current MP allows (or until the user misses). Opponents have infinite MP by default, so if the player encounters a Giga Cannon-using enemy, it will strike a few times in one turn at the tech's first use, then proceed to only strike once if it uses Giga Cannon again.
* [[Artificial Brilliance]]: The enemy Digimon are surprisingly smarter when it comes to recovery techs, not helped by their [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|infinite MP]]. If there is a healing opportunity, there is a higher chance of the AI to use an HP or status recovery tech. If the player's Digimon gains a buff, an enemy with Re-Initialize may try to dispel it.
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]:
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** The battle against Crimson in Laser Domain pits the player against a SkullMammothmon with Hyper Flashing (weakens Vaccine-types). SkullMammothmon itself is a Vaccine-type, so if the player brings a party without a single Vaccine-type, SkullMammothmon may as well weaken itself due to its [[AI Roulette]].
** Certain encounter setups in general can induce this thanks to [[AI Roulette]]. An enemy may use an Assist tech when it does not need one, use Friendly Fire randomly regardless of the intended strategy, etc. Some encounters have certain Digimon occasionally Guard instead of performing any action. While the reason varies, it is mostly to make battles against them less frustrating (seriously, does anyone want to see Gekomon spam Sonic Crusher in every time the player encounters it in the wild?).
** Invoked during battles against Bertran and Joy Joy {{spoiler|in Modem Domain. Both Tamers are [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] and}} their teams reflect this. Joy Joy has a Raremon that prefers to spam Fungus Cruncher and a Ninjamon that prefers to spam Mech Ray (keep in mind the battle does not take place on a Machine Specialty floor). Monzaemon, meanwhile, has no damaging attacks at all, opting to weaken Virus-types with Virus Attack or Data-types with Heart Break Hit, both of which cripple two of her party members. Bertran has a Digitamamon that can only use Mega Heal on Deramon and ''only Deramon'' and a Tankmon that is stuck using Friendly Fire... on the same Deramon (even defeating Deramon early will still make them target it, resulting in "Attack Missed" messages). Only Deramon itself is competent, having two damaging techs, but the poor thing is stuck in a long [[Cycle of Hurting]].
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: The Attack technique Giga Cannon. One use of this will make the user attack random targets multiple times in a single turn (cannot be Interrupted and cannot trigger Counter Attacks)... but with a rather costly MP consumed per strike, so it will only end either after all opponents are defeated or the user itself has reached insufficient MP (its chain can also be broken if the user misses). While useful for short battles, it is impractical for random encounters unless the player carries a lot of MP-restoring items (that is, until the aforementioned items run out as well). Only use for boss battles if the player is sure the party can finish off the opponents in very few turns.
* [[Bait and Switch Boss]]: {{spoiler|Overlord GAIA. It looks underwhelming at first - just one opponent - and can be taken out fairly quickly... and then its arms come off. Cue the ''real'' final battle.}}
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: The English version, while having okay translation job for most of the dialogue, suffers badly with the tech descriptions. Due to the character limit, technique description is restricted to a short sentence (ex. Pepper Breath's description is the straightforward "Shoots a fireball", as it is a basic damaging Attack tech). This results in horribly botched explanations on how a tech is supposed to work. For some examples:
** Black Pearl Shot, whose description is "Attacks with no defense". It is an Attack tech, and it can be seen that it leaves the user with "no defense", taking damage as if it has
** Evil Charm's description, meanwhile, veers into [[Translation Train Wreck]]. "Fade away spell confusion". What?<ref>It is presumably meant to be "magic spell causes confusion", which fits its purpose the closest. How the translators ended up with that mistake is a riddle of the ages.</ref>
** Techs that target a random enemy have no explanation regarding this. All the player sees when using one of these is the fact that the "TARGET" markers appear on all three enemies as if it is an [[Area of Effect]] tech (these, at least, explain their range on their description), only to turn out that this is not the case.
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* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Akira is redheaded and, like most of main protagonists of the ''Digimon'' franchise, is [[Hot-Blooded]].
* [[Fighting Your Friend]]: {{spoiler|Bertran and Joy Joy are driven crazy by the Blood Knights' traps in Modem Domain, requiring the player to defeat them first to snap them out. The two, along with Mark Shultz, Debbie, and Chris Connor, are also fought in Data Domain to snap them out of Gekomon-induced confusion.}}
* [[Foreshadowing]]: In the Intro FMV, there's a split second where you see
** When Kim is repairing the miniature robot GAIA, it tends to say weird phrases
** At one point, visiting the right room of Meditation Dome has a Biyomon meditating and a Patamon waiting for his turn. Talking to this Biyomon has her talk about "voices in her mind" related to "Esteena".
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: When he meets MasterTyrannomon for the first time in the main story, Akira is surprised that the File Islander is even a Digimon. This is despite the fact that he looks like a black version of Tyrannomon (which the player has encountered a few times prior) and it is possible that the player has raised a MasterTyrannomon of their own at that point.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: In the post-game, the player can talk to Chris Conner at the Black Sword headquarters. He complains about his head being hurt from having drunken too much. Reminder that this is an E-rated game.
* [[Grail in the Garbage]]: Akira finds the {{spoiler|Ship Key}} this way: {{spoiler|a Digimon found it and was using it as a toy}}.
* [[Guide Dang It]]: Even after the player figured out some of the game mechanics, there are still instances like this.
** Digivolution and DNA Digivolution. It cannot be emphasized enough. Regular digivolving is straightforward enough, and casual players just use DNA digivolution on maxed out Digimon to generate a new Digimon with increased max level, or just to get a new Digimon with more tech options. However:
* [[Hello, Insert Name Here]]: You can name Akira, all of your partner digimon, and your Digi-Beetle.▼
*** There is the DP system (only shown on the digivolution screen, naturally). DP is obtained from DNA digivolution. Without a guide, the player will have difficulty telling which Digimon digivolves into which (or even if it can even digivolve further regardless of DP). At least the player can soon get the common pattern down (varies by form level) and eventually tell how many forms a species can digivolve into, but there is another catch: Digivolutions that change type and ones that require insane amounts of DP. Those who are familiar with the anime can at least try getting enough DP to trigger the former type of digivolution (ex. Gabumon (Data) to Garurumon (Vaccine)), though this does not apply to all species (Betamon cannot even digivolve into Seadramon here). As for the latter, did the player know that the legendary Digimon Omnimon, Baihumon, and Diaboromon can be obtained (outside {{spoiler|Tera Domain}}) by digivolving, respectively, MetalGreymon<ref>To make things more complicated for this one, only Greymon can digivolve into MetalGreymon, but having DP past 5 will result in other forms instead, forcing the player to keep getting MetalGreymon as DNA digivolution results to keep Omnimon.</ref>, Meteormon, and Okuwamon with 20 DP or higher?
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: At the end, both Esteena and Kim show that they really like Akira, the latter even demanding you ask her out on a hot date. Techna-Donna also tells you she's going to give a big kiss for all your hard work.▼
*** Then there are also DNA digivolution mechanics. Want a particular Digimon as the result, especially Veemon (never appears in the wild)? Get your guides and notes ready, because there are a lot of obtainable species, and thus, lots of possible combinations. Some can be implied (in general, most combinations of "elemental"<ref>Fire, Water, Nature, Darkness, Machine</ref> with "None" tend to result in a species with an element), but some others still require more guessing (Angemon + Apemon = ToyAgumon?), especially if both parents are [[Non-Elemental]]. Worse, there are even "mutations" thrown into the mix, which results in a Digimon that defies the usual DNA digivolution formula. For example, DNA digivolving certain Vaccine-type Ultimate Digimon with Cherrymon (Virus-type, Ultimate) will result in Vademon, a Virus-type Ultimate, when such combination will usually get the player a Vaccine-type Champion.
* [[Improbable Age]]: You're a teenager or possibly preteen. You get to have monsters and drive a tank with barely any supervision. And apparently that's common place in this universe.▼
** Tech effects can be this, not helped by the single-line descriptions and [[Blind Idiot Translation]] in the localization. Random-target techs have no descriptions that point that out until the player uses them. Some techs have confusing or misleading descriptions that the player will usually end up not caring and just use them as they are (for example, Crimson Claw, described as "Confuse, poison & stun foe", which would sound like a [[Game Breaker]] but instead is a damaging tech whose damage is boosted if the user has at least one of the aforementioned status problems). Some techs have additional effects that are not explained enough or even at all (for example, Invisibility, while straightforward enough, does not mention that the "invisible" user is still prone to attacks that hit the entire party).
▲* [[Hello, Insert Name Here]]:
▲* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: At the end, both Esteena and Kim show that they really like Akira, the latter even demanding
▲* [[Improbable Age]]:
* [[Inevitable Tournament]]: At several points, you can't continue the main storyline unless you earn a certain rank in the local tournaments.
* [[Justified Tutorial]]: Framed as a training mission, with your mentor Zudokorn teaching you the basics of dungeon driving.
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* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: The Leomon at Boot Domain is the very first boss the player faces, to continue with the "dead Leomon" [[Running Gag]] common in the franchise.
* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Skull asks in the post-game whether you like Kim or Esteena more.
* [[Something Only They Would Say]]: Used to expose
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: When Akira catches up to Kim to ask her about the Generator Parts, she insists she didn't steal them or anything.
* [[Tactical Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: Vaccine has an advantage over Virus, Data has an advantage over Vaccine, and Virus has an advantage over Data. This handicap translates in three fronts: battling, team equipment, and DNA predominance. The first one means that the Digimon with the advantage will hit for more and take hits for less damage; the second one means that, depending on which team the player chooses, they will be able to buy items that help dealing with the Digimon they already have an advantage over; the last one means that, when fusing two Digimon, the offspring will be the same attribute as the advantageous parent.
* [[A Taste of Power]]: During the training mission, you use Zudokorn's digimon. All of which are at Ultimate level.
* [[Theme Naming]]: The dungeons are all named after computer-related terms; for example, the first dungeon in the game is called the Boot Domain.
* [[Trapped in Another World]]: {{spoiler|All the humans living in the digital world (GAIA) are victims of the GAIA computer itself going out of control and have been part of GAIA's experiment for an unknown period of time. The Digital City staff are, in fact, people involved with the GAIA project.}}
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Damien does not take his repeated losses to Akira well.
* [[Vocal Dissonance]]: Played with. The voice used for each technique's specific call always remains the same no matter which Digimon uses it. Thus, it can lead to amusing situations such as Mega level Digimon using Rookie voices, or feminine Digimon (like Angewomon) using masculine voices.
* [[We Can Rule Together]]: Crimson offers Akira several chances to join the Blood Knights.
* [[Wham! Line]]: {{spoiler|After [[The Reveal]] that Esteena originated from the outside world and GAIA having created the Digital World: <[[Hello, Insert Name Here]]>, you are... like me...}}
* [[What a Piece of Junk!]]: Some time after building GAIA, Kim complained that the robot does nothing but mumbling something weird and she even call it a hunk of junk. How wrong she turned out to be!
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