I've always loved the Digimon anime as a kid but never actually played the games. I figured why not one day when I got tired of playing Pokemon.

Digimon World DS is surprising alright. The story is... well what you'd expect of a children's game but the gameplay is solid. Building and customizing your digimon through digivolving and de-digivolving is so much more satisfying than raising pokemon.

The encounter rate can be brutal though, especially if you get lost in some of the maps.