Pokémon & Digimon

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Like many others here, I liked the digimon anime better than I did pokemon, but the pokemon games are better.

Digimon as a TV show was pretty exciting and it had heart, the first 2 series were good and then it sought of fell apart after that (it was all about finding new gimmicky ways to make products and use the tv shows as ads)

I think the issue games wise is that Digimon don't have a set format for their games. The main series, Digimon World, changes it's entire game with each installment, in particular with the setting and world the game plays itself out in. There's very little to no link between the games other than the digimon that fill it. So it always feels like the new digimon games are different for the sake of being different (gimmicky).

For me, I thought the first game was alright, though a bit unbalanced (I wanted to battle more rather than spend my timing caring about digimon maintanence). The second game was good, more about the battles which is to my liking and the third game went a little haywire (particularly in the art style).

With the pokemon games, it was designed from the ground up to be the game first and tv show second. With digimon, it was the tv show first and the games second. So you can really tell which ones were the after thought (pokemon = tv show, particularly these days and digimon = games).