While I was watching videos on YouTube I came across of a unique Let's Play of Digimon World 1. The Let's Player used a "patch program" called Digimon Randomize that changes how the game plays with options to randomize most of the aspects of the game. From items spread around the island, to what each Digimon evolves to. The patch makes playing the game with a guide completely useless.
If you're new to the game I wrote a Review for it on STEEM few months ago: Digimon World (Review.)
This patch isn't for those new to Digimon World. The game contains some hidden mechanics you have to be familiar with to enjoy the patch, (such as Care Mistakes.) I recommend using a guide for your first Digimon World playthrough. Playing Digimon World completely blind might be very frustrating and (time wasting) because of the things the game won't tell you and expects you to learn by Trail and Error.
Digimon Randomize Main Menu
Digimon Randomize offers many options to spice up the game. From randomizing items you get at the start of the game, to enemy drops and your digivolutions. Some drasticly change the game like randomizing Techs and Digimon recruits. There are also some fun cosmetic changes and other quality of life patches like shortening the intro section, and removing some of the games limitations.
I do think that Digimon Randomize allows experienced players to have a closer experience to people completely new to the game. I remember when I first played Digimon World as a child I had no idea what I was doing and I got Numemon (the worst Digivolution) most of the time, and when I did evolve to a good Digimon, I couldn't learn how to do it again.
Each different "patch" produced by Digimon Randomize offers a completely new Rougelite experience. Depending on options you choose while creating a patch, you won't know which Starter Digimon you'll have. Which Digimon you will evolve into, or which Digimon you're going to recruit to the city. Some options can make the game unbeatable, but they are surprisingly few and you can avoid choosing them if you know what you're doing. That's why I only recommend this patch to those already familiar to the game.
The patch has a "race" option. Since choosing the same "Seed" and options when patching results in the same version of the game. Different users can patch their Digimon World ROMs and do a Speedrun Competition. I believe this feature is very useful for Speedrunners as it will ensure the playthrough completion was because of skill and not memorization ability.
I tried the patch for a short time. I choose options I thought would be interesting like skipping the intro text, and randomizing items and digivolutions. (Also, replacing the "whoa" when you get an item to something funnier "oh sh-.") I'm familiar with Digimon World so I believed I could do a good job in this random playthrough, though my Partnet got sick 5 minutes in. Haha.
Doing a small research, I found a patch program called Pokemon Randomize by the same developer which does the same but for all mainline Pokemon games up to White/Black 2. If I found a time to try it, I hope to write about it in the future.
I'm amazed by what the modding communities for older games could achieve. Seeing this amount of love and care devoted to one of my favorite childhood game made me so happy I had to write about this. It made me wish to learn modding so I can do things like this to other games I love, but I'll leave that for another time.
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