

The player's exploration in the dungeons involves around DigiBeetle, a digital vehicle equipped with various cannons, armors, batteries, and additional engines. Unlike its previous game, Digimon World, Digimon World 2 is a traditional turn-based RPG with dungeon crawl as the exploration element.

Akira receives missions from the Team Leader, such as hunting down and battling wild Digimon, finding important people, and encountering and defeating Tamers belonging to the Blood Knights (ブラッドナイツ), an evil and malicious team that revolt against Digital City 30 years ago and used various Digimon to do their bidding. Akira has the option of choosing between the teams of the Blue Falcon (ブルーファルコン), the Silver Cross (シルバークロス, dub: Gold Hawk), or the Black Sword (ブラックソード). However, wild Digimon began attacking Akira's hometown, and Akira joins a Guard Team (ガードチーム) that is charged with protection peace and security of the region.Īkira finishes his last Training Mission from Zudokan to become a Guard Tamer and joins one of the Guard Teams. Every Digimon's progress is limited by a level cap, after which they are no longer able to gain experience, forcing the player to make use of DNA digivolution to increase the level caps of their party.Akira lives in Digital City, a town located in Directory Continent, a land where Digimon used to live peacefully. The player can also make use of DNA digivolution to fuse two Digimon and create a new one, which will have higher stats and inherit all the techniques of its parents. The game contains four levels of Digivolution, Rookie, Champion, Ultimate, and Mega. After defeating the Boss, the player may exit the Domain by means of an "Exit Portal" found near the Boss' location.Īs the player's Digimon grow in levels, they are able to "digivolve" into newer and more powerful forms.

Typically, at the end of each Domain there is a Boss, whether it be a lone Digimon, or another Tamer with a team of them. However, the Digi-Beetle has a limited inventory, requiring careful management of items. Most traps can be disposed of by items that can be purchased at stores found across the game, and enemy Digimon can be befriended with "gift" items. The domains also contain various obstacles and traps such as land mines, energy fields called "Electro-Spores", giant stones, acid floors, treasure chests. These dungeons are filled with enemy Digimon, who once encountered, trigger a battle with the player's own team of Digimon in a battle system similar to other traditional turn-based JRPG's. The player explores vast labyrinths dubbed "Domains", inside a tank called a "Digi-Beetle". He receives missions from the Team Leader, which involve entering Domains and hunting down evil Digimon.ĭigimon World 2 is a dungeon crawler RPG, a departure from its predecessor Digimon World, which focused on raising Digimon like pets. However, wild Digimon began attacking Akira's hometown, and Akira joins a guard team that is charged with protecting the peace and security of the region.Īt the start of the game, Akira finishes his last Training Mission and joins one of the Guard Teams (the player has the option of choosing between the Black Sword Team, the Gold Hawks team, or the Blue Falcon team).

The player controls Akira, a Digimon Tamer whose goal is to climb to the top of the Digimon World.Īkira lives in Digital City, a town located in fictional "Directory Continent", a land where digimon used to live peacefully. It is the sequel to the original Digimon World, and was released in Japan in July 2000 and North America the following year in May 2001. Digimon World 2 (デジモンワールド2, Dejimon Wārudo Tsu) is a dungeon crawler video game developed by BEC and published by Bandai for the PlayStation as part of their Digimon series.
