Digimon Reviews, Episode 13: The World

This time around, we're going to be covering a significant part of Digimon's history, Digimon World! It's a game that is based around the original lore given in bits and pieces in the original backstory of the original virtual pets, and features a protagonist that fell into the mysterious world. Released in Japan in 1999, Digimon World actually came out before the anime, and didn't include any of the Pendulum-era Digimon. It's interesting to see just how many areas of File Island in the anime actually match up to Digimon World. I played the SHIT out of the original Digimon World back in the day, although it's not until relatively recently that I finally beat the game and took down Mugendramon, that bastard!

As I mentioned before, Mugendramon actually debuted in this game, but I had decided to go through all the Pendulum virtual pets one by one before approaching this titanic game and going through its large amount of newly-introduced Digimon.

And thanks to having relatively limited resources -- this is a PlayStation 1 game, after all -- the game featured a lot of reskinned and recoloured Digimon from the available sprites in order to fill up their areas. After all, it'd be absolutely boring if the huge ice-themed area only had Mojyamon and Yukidarumon wandering around, right? We also have a fair amount of original designs introduced in Digimon World, some of whom ended up graduating into far, far more material including the various anime series. Some others kind of just end up being easy fodder for subsequent game series to recolour sprites and call it another species. We'll cover the honestly pretty vast World now, yeah? We'll start off with the unique, brand-new designs that World introduced, before going through the repaints. I'll emphasize the ones who has a big role somewhere, while the rest... yeah, I'll try to not get too repetitive.

Note that for the recolours, I'm going to review them partly based on just how different they look and they are from the original designs, so a minimal-effort (or ugly) recolour of a design I really like will still end up with a pretty low score.
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Jijimon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Ultimate
• Type: Ancient
• Attribute: Vaccine

So our first entry here is the Ultimate-level Digimon Jijimon, borrowing his name from jiji, the Japanese term for a grandpa. Jijimon here acts as the Professor Oak style NPC that greets your character in Digimon World, getting you to go through the tutorial of how to raise your Digimon and get it to evolve, as well as giving you the mission statement of recruiting several specific NPC Digimon to settle down and rebuild the Village of Beginnings. Jijimon here is a fun little tiny old caveman-like dude with big feet and a face that's 99% hair (he has a mouth under there) and I do like that this non-assuming dude is classified as one of the final evolutionary stages of a Digimon. Jijimon's profile notes that he has existed since the Digital World has created, and tends to act as a guide to any chosen human protagonist, but rarely really fights and exhibits true strength... which, apparently, involves sending people straight to the underworld with that staff in an attack that's called "Hang On, Death!"

Jijimon and his wife Babamon (which we'll cover below) are also recurring characters in Tamers, although they aren't portrayed as the wise all-knowing mentor and are treated like a bickering odd old couple that ended up befriending our heroes, and later showing up with a gigantic army of Ultimate-level Digimon to help fight the D-Reaper threat. Jijimon also shows up in Xros Wars as a recurring character that plays the old, wise non-combatant mentor trope straight, being an unexpected recurring character in the Xros Heart army and leading to some genuinely fun fusions whenever he gets fused with one of the actual combatant Digimon. Jijimon's not the sort of Digimon that honestly fits my own personal taste, and definitely not the sort  of Digimon I'd ever want as a partner, but definitely a fun little world-building piece that I'm glad exists.

 5/10.
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Babamon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Ultimate
• Type: Ancient
• Attribute: Vaccine

Babamon here isn't actually introduced in Digimon World, but rather first debuts in Digimon World: Digital Card Battle, a TCG-based video game that uses the same models and resources as Digimon World. But it's not right to review Jijimon without Babamon, and Digital Card Battle came out in the same year as Digimon World anyway. Babamon takes over Jijimon's role as the mentor in this video game, so I now have the mental image of this little geriatric old lady just playing card games as SERIOUS BUSINESS while other Digimon are doing life-and-death battles. Anyway, in all subsequent material, Babamon (babaa meaning grandma) is often depicted as Jijimon's wife, and I've always thought that Babamon has the more distinctive design between the two, with a fun old-lady hairdo that covers her eyes, but leaves her stitched-up mouth open, something that can easily be kindly or creepy -- a fact that the aforementioned Tamers episode actually really capitalizes on in making it initially ambiguous if Jijimon and Babamon are a pair of sinister serial killers or just a pair of kindly old people.

Interestingly, Babamon's profile notes that she's rumoured to be an elderly Rosemon -- something that's subtly hinted at the necklace that Babamon wears, which is Rosemon's Tiferet necklace! That's neat. I also found it appropriate, slightly stereotypical but still quite hilarious that Babamon just holds a broom. And being an Ultimate-level Digimon, her "Empress Haze" attack apparently just erases enemies with a swing of her broom! Sadly we never quite saw Babamon do anything particularly awesome in any of the anime series, being a squabbling couple with Jijimon in Tamers, and the leader of the Shinobi Zone in Xros Wars as a non-combatant ruler. Overall, again, Babamon's design isn't the most creative of things, but I've always liked that there's just an Ultimate-level pair of Digimon that's just an old man and an old woman that behaves like a stereotypical catty old couple, and just has enough weirdness in their design to appropriately look like a friendly monster old lady. Like Jijimon, I am 100% neutral on this nice old lady. 

 5/10.
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Igamon

• Alternate Names: Ninjamon (EN dub)
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Mutation
• Attribute: Data

Hey, don't you know ninjas are popular in Japan? So obviously we're going to get a ninja Digimon. And Igamon here is... um... an onion with arms and weird stubby legs, dressed in ninja garb? I honestly always found Igamon to be neatly bizarre, and not just a dude-in-a-ninja-suit. Igamon borrows his name from the Iga-ryu school of ninjutsu from Japan's legend, but ends up being renamed to Ninjamon in the dub. Igamon's official profile notes that he has different doctrines with the cowboy-like Revolmon, but the two are apparently comrades in arms in some group called the "Virus Busters"? In Digimon World, Igamon is both a recruitable NPC Digimon that you can recruit to your city as it grows, and is also a possible evolution for Palmon, although subsequent video games have made a lot of other Child-level Digimon evolve into Igamon as well -- though they tended to be plant or fungi Digimon like Mushmon, Lalamon and Floramon.

Igamon was a villain-of-the-week in a 02 episode that took place in an Edo-themed part of the Digital World, and ended up battling Shurimon, the ninja-themed evolution of one of the protagonist. Igamon was also a recurring supporting character in the V-Tamers manga, and in Savers, a whole battalion of Igamon ended up running around on behalf of the good guys in the digital world, dismantling Gizumons in hit-and-run tactics. Xros Wars had a whole zone dedicated to homaging ninja tropes, and a whole army of Igamon worked for the bad guys this time around, serving a Musyamon commander. 

Anyway, Igamon is always been weird but kinda charming for me.

 5/10.
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FlareLizamon

• Alternate Names: Flarerizamon, FlareLizardmon (various EN dub spellings)
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Flame Dragon
• Attribute: Data

FlareLizamon here has always been a bit of a messy design in my book, although that's because the official Bandai art really makes that lower jaw blend in with the rest of the black shading on the fire body. Basically this Adult-level Digimon is the same concept that Meramon has, but a dinosaur. I do like the added little detail of him having metal claw-tips and helmet, though. FlareLizamon has also had the misfortune of having his name not translate very well to English, with it having been translated in multiple different ways. FlareLizamon is one of those Adult-level Digimon that's sort of not gotten a lot of attention in terms of evolutions or new forms, with video games shrugging and having him evolve into various dragons like Megadramon, MetalTyrannomon and SkullGreymon, but none of them really fit the theme of a fiery dinosaur-dragon beast, surely? 

FlareLizamon shows up in 02 as the partner of international Chosen Child Sam, although I don't remember him doing much. A bunch of FlareLizamon also show up as part of Dorbickmon's dragon army in Xros Wars. Overall, it's a simple but kind of neat design. It's a shame they never really did much with him.

 4/10.
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DarkLizamon (a.k.a. Darkrizamon)

• Alternate Names: Darkrizamon, DarkLizardmon (various EN dub spellings)
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Dark Dragon
• Attribute: Virus

DarkLizamon (alternatively translated as Darkrizamon and DarkLizardmon) is basically the same thing with FlareLizamon, but his flames are black. In Digimon World, they wander around the Overdell Cemetery, because... reasons? DarkLizamon is basically the Virus equivalent of FlareLizamon -- the Vaccine/Virus/Data thing being a bit more important in the video games -- although it apparently subverts normal fire monster conventions by having a cool head. 

DarkLizamon has surprisingly shown up more than its 'default' counterpart, appearing early on in Tamers as a villain of the week with a rather memorable fight in a parking lot (and a tragic ending for DarkLizamon), and again later on in the far more recent Ghost Game! As a 'variant', I feel it's not the most necessary, but at this point DarkLizamon has become a bit more memorable than its original counterpart. 

 4/10.

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Yanmamon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Insect
• Attribute: Data

Not to be confused with the Pokemon called Yanma! Yanmamon here is an Adult-level dragonfly Digimon based on Japan's Oniyamna, otherwise known as the jumbo dragonfly (Anatogaster sieboldii). Yanmamons are very common sights in the tropical forest and Geko swamp areas in the game, and honestly quite irritating. These dudes are Adult-class, but definitely look way less interesting than all the other Adult-level insect monsters like Kabuterimon, Kuwagamon, Flymon and Snimon. The aesthetics definitely mark Yanmamon as 'one of' those guys, with the four-pronged monster mouth and similar detailings on its upper legs. 

Poor Yanmamon never quite gets the respect that the other bug Digimon do, however, having a particularly truncated official profile that basically reads 'it's a big dragonfly'. There is a fair bit less monstrous detailing that Yanmamon has compared to those four aforementioned digivice Insect Digimon, too. Poor Yanmamon! I actually like it a bit more because of that. Yanmamon did appear in the Savers anime... as a non-speaking steed of the show's recurring Gotsumon character. 

 7/10.

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SandYanmamon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Insect
• Attribute: Data

In the Great Canyon area in Digimon World there are these gray-coloured palette swaps called SandYanmamon. There's... there's really not much to say about this dude, really, so much that I actually forgot to include him when I first made this article. Surely the colours could've been swapped, since the tan of the Yanmamon would make for better camouflage in the desert? I actually also think both the Yanmamons could've gotten some of the wilder colours that the other insect Digimon got. 

Since I made this article in 2019 and decried a lot of these Digimon having interesting concepts but will never be used because they're repaints... SandYanmamon made an appearance as villains-of-the-week in Adventure 2020, menacing our heroes in the desert! And... they're identified as SandYanmamon, but... coloured tan, like Yanmamon! Oh boy! I guess the designers agreed with me that the sandy variant should've been the tan ones!

 3/10.

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Penmon

• Alternate Names: Penguinmon (EN dub)
• Stage: Child
• Type: Bird
• Attribute: Vaccine

Penmon here is supposedly based on a penguin (hence its dub name, Penguinmon), although it does end up borrowing a lot of features from other bids as well. As you'll see in this page, there is going to be a lot of ice and polar-themed Digimon that make their debut in Digimon World. And unlike most of the newly-introduced Digimon here, Penmon is one that was immediately playable in World. One of the many NPCs you can recruit to build up the Village of Beginnings is a Penmon who will open a curling rink. No, really. Penmon doesn't really base itself off from any specific one penguin, although I do appreciate how it doesn't actually go for the obvious Emperor Penguin and instead picks one of the stouter variants. It's also got the same clawed fingers Biyomon has, and a particularly curved beak, making it relatively unique as far as penguin monsters go.

Since I first wrote this article in 2019, Penmon has shown up as cameos in a bunch of the newer shows. It has otherwise primarily shown up mostly in video games, since it fills in a nice niche as a convenient creature that fits ice, bird and aquatic themes. A couple of years later, Frontier would give us Daipenmon, an Ultimate-level penguin Digimon tied to this guy. It's nice to know that at least one Penmon made it big in life. Anyway, I've sort of always been indifferent towards Penmon, I'm sorry.

 4/10.

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Muchomon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Child
• Type: Bird
• Attribute: Data

Muchomon here is the more memorable one for me -- it's a "repaint" of the playable Penmon, and the palette-swapped Digimon exist as generic enemies that populate the world to make your own Digimon and the NPC Digimons a bit more special, but since I never played through World with a Penmon and Penmon is one of those NPCs I always forget to recruit, it's Muchomon that is a lot more memorable to me. I've also always loved his name (is that racist? I'm not sure) and just how colourful this red-and-blue fat waddling bird is. In Digimon World, they also speak random Spanish phrases before they challenge you to battle, and I remembered there being a lot of these things in the jungle areas of the game. Muchomon's whole deal is that it's a happy bird that dances to samba.

Muchomon has since appeared in Adventure 2020 as a semi-recurring character, one of the 'civilians' that are rescued by the main characters. Muchomon has also appeared as the original partner of the main character of the web-manga Digimon Liberator... an unexpected set of appearances for this otherwise obscure Digimon! 

 5/10.

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Goblimon

• Alternate Names: Goburimon (initial EN dub)
• Stage: Child
• Type: Oni
• Attribute: Virus

Hey, it's Goblimon! Apparently the makes of Digimon World really want to make the game feel like an RPG, so they introduced a goblin-style Digimon for the early-game areas. It's also ended up as the default Child-stage level for Ogremon, which honestly is a pretty neat fit by my books! This made Goblimon reoccur a lot in video game series, although its position as the popular Ogremon's 'default' Child-level probably helps, too. 

I've always found Goblimon to be somewhat charming, with that weird dog-like muzzle, that cheeky-ass grin, and those fancy RPG-style clothing. Love how his club, instead of traditional spikes, has a bunch of screws in them. Like how goblins tended to be portrayed in fantasy works, Goblimons swarm together to compensate for their weakness and are cowardly when actually confronted with someone that can harm them. 

Goblimon made his first anime appearance in Tamers as one of the Digimon that managed to breach the barrier between the human and Digimon world and I've always remembered Tamers' Goblimon as particularly savage and feral. What a change reducing that jawline and making his eyes pupil-less makes, huh? Since then, Goblimon has shown up as minor villains in Frontier, Savers, Xros Wars, Adventure 2020 and Ghost Game! Not bad for randoms that showed up in a video game. 

They're never going to be my 'favourite' Digimon, but for weaklings that were just meant to make the game feel more like an RPG and even mistranslated by the English team for the longest time into 'Goburimon', good old Goblimon feels like a nice classic nowadays.

 6/10.

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Shamamon

• Alternate Names: Sharmamon, Shamanmon (EN dub)
• Stage: Child
• Type: Oni
• Attribute: Virus

So as you progress a bit in the game, you encounter Gear Savannah, where these dudes show up. Shamamon is honestly one of the genuinely most un-exciting palette swap. They just basically swapped out Goblimon's brown clothes for blue, gave him a tan and some hair changes. Really? That's honestly quite minimal effort.

Lore and anime are much kinder to anime. Its official profile notes that he can talk straight to god (or technically Yggdrasil, the computer program that's essentially god in the digital world). He shows up as a villain-of-the-week in Frontier, rather thematically guarding a relic. Unlike the traditional fantasy shamans, Shamamon doesn't cast spells and just just bonks you with his 'Shaman Hammer'. 

 3/10.

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SnowGoblimon

• Alternate Names: SnowGoburimon (initial EN dub)
• Stage: Child
• Type: Oni
• Attribute: Virus

Our last Goblimon is SnowGoblimon, who is basically what you expect. Pale blue skin... and I'm surprised they actually gave Snowy here a new set of winter clothes and hat! Digimon World had a ice and snow themed area, but the only polar-themed Digimon they had were just Yukidarumon and Mojyamon. Garurumon, if you squint. So a bunch of repaints were needed, and goblins live everywhere, right? 

SnowGoblimon, of course, evolves into Ogremon's own ice-themed variant, Hyogamon, who we'll cover below. SnowGoblimon's 'special attack' is throwing rocks covered in snow. That's mean, but cute in a demented sort of way.

 4/10.

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Brachimon

• Alternate Names: Brakimon, Brachiomon (EN dub)
• Stage: Perfect
• Type: Plesiosaur (sic)
• Attribute: Data

There is a whole dinosaur-themed area in Digimon World, inhabited by dudes like Tyrannomon and Monochromon. They decided to introduce a bunch of brand-new dinosaurs into Digimon, though, so they ended up having this dude Brachimon show up, representing one of the more iconic dinosaurs out there the brachiosaurus. Interestingly, unlike many of the Digimon on this list, Brachimon exists just to be a flavour NPC that you can talk to!

Subsequent games would tell us that Brachimon is a Perfect-level, and has since been shuffled as an alternate evolution for various dinosaur-themed Digimon. Brachimon has since shown up in Xros Wars and Adventure 2020 to as background characters. 

Brachimon's design is a fair bit more interesting than I remember it to be. On the surface it's just 'a brachiosaurus in Greymon colours', and sure, it is that, but Brachimon replaces the real dinosaur's head-crest with a blade, and its mouth is oddly stitched up like many other Digimon. It's a bit odd, but I'm glad this guy exists. Its profile notes that it's gentle, and when it attacks it shoots bubbles? Okay!

 4/10.

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All the Digimon after this are 'repaints' of previously-existing Digimon, and while initially only IceDevimon, Gigadramon and Psychemon really mattered, so many of these Digimon World repaints have made it into the anime or other games as minor characters. I love World, whose repaints actually try and fill some niche instead of going 'oh, black repaint sell toys let's go'. These adaptations also sometimes make the Digital World feel a bit more... 'alive', I guess, as these Digimon are adapting to other areas?

As 'variants', I will be reviewing them based not just on how much I like them, but on how different they look and how much they stand alone as an individual 'subspecies' instead of just falling into the category of 'well, you could've been a slightly-different version of your original creature'. The same logic went to the SandYanmamon, Muchomon,+ DarkLizamon and the Goblimon repaints above. 

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IceDevimon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Fallen Angel
• Attribute: Virus

Devimon is one of the guys that they repainted for the ice zone, and it's a really cool repaint, too. Bleaching Devimon's black bodysuit pale-blue is neat enough and highlights the tattered wings quite well, but the purple-pink bat signs also stand out quite well. 

IceDevimon wouldn't be remembered too much beyond 'Devimon, but with ice attacks' if not for one of the most memorable episodes of Digimon Tamers. In a show where the cast have mostly just fought 'wild' Digimon that are essentially feral and rabid, IceDevimon was the first one to show up with personality and creepiness as he kidnaps Ruki and tries to force her to become his Tamer. It felt uncomfortable to watch as a kid, and definitely feels much more uncomfortable with the heavy stalker / predator vibes IceDevimon was giving off. Oh, and he's also frozen a lot of his prey in his lair, displaying them as trophies.

Frontier and Xros Wars would also use IceDevimon as villains-of-the-week, with the Frontier iteration being a mass murderer imprisoned and subsequently unleashed; while Xros Wars had IceDevimon as one of the generals of the Bagra Army and acted as an arc villain... but this IceDevimon ended up being a bit of a bumbling moron that kept failing until the higher-ups got sick and fused him with a big penguin. Oh well, IceDevimon, at least you still have your Tamers episode. 

 7/10.
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Gigadramon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Perfect
• Type: Cyborg
• Attribute: Virus

Good old Megadramon gets a counterpart in Digimon World, and one of the few "repaints" in this video game to actually make an appearance in the first anime, Digimon Adventure! Gigadramon was deployed from a hangar with Megadramon, and while they didn't do much, they certainly were menacing and left an impression on young me. Megadramon would show up a lot more than its purple cousin. Gigadramon's shown up in cameos in some mangas and Xros Wars, but otherwise has faded away into obscurity. 

Gigadramon's art is still modified from Megadramon, but they did more than just giving him the purple colouration. Where Megadramon's wings are still ratty and organic, Gigadramon's replaced them with fancy metal wings... which doesn't look really aerodynamic at all, but sure looks cool as heck. 

Gigadramon was programmed into Digimon World as a secret evolution. I actually have a soft spot for Gigadramon thanks to that Adventures episode, and I feel like it's a neat enough difference to Megadramon. It is bias, for sure, since Megadramon is one of my favourite Digimon, but eh. 

 7/10.

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ModokiBetamon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Child
• Type: Amphibian
• Attribute: Data

This is just basically Betamon an Instagram filter that makes his skin lighter. "Modoki" means mimic... but are you really a mimic when you look basically the same? I guess it's meant to be like one of those species of butterflies or beetles that resemble a much more iconic one. ModokiBetamon is one of the earliest enemies you'll face, and at that point there really wasn't a reason for them not to put regular Betamon there. 

I love Betamon so I still am happy to see an art of him, but as a variant, ModokiBetamon doesn't fit any real niches that regular Betamon wouldn't. Which explains why I'm giving him:

 0/10.

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Dokunemon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Child
• Type: Larva
• Attribute: Virus

It really is a pleasant colouration, isn't it? Dokunemon (a pun on 'doku', meaning poisonous) swaps Kunemon's electric-themed colours with green and purple, a more traditionally 'poison bug' set of colours. It was so good that they stole this colour scheme for Wormmon in 02! Which, don't get me wrong, the colours look great on Wormmon as well. It just means that poor Dokunemon ended up being quite neglected. Quite a shame, Dokunemon picked a theme and ended up being a distinct little poison bug compared to its inspiration. 

...until it starts showing up as background characters in both Adventures 2020 and Ghost Game. You know what, I have a feeling that the staff of those two shows grew up on Digimon World, like I did. 

 5/10. Rock on, Dokunemon. 

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YukiAgumon

• Alternate Names: SnowAgumon (EN dub)
• Stage: Child
• Type: Dinosaur
• Attribute: Vaccine

YukiAgumon here is a snow-themed repaint of Agumon, and is a generic enemy in the Freezeland areas. He's... he's basically like regular Agumon, but snowy. And breathes ice. It's honestly pretty underwhelming, although YukiAgumon tends to appear in a fair amount of video games thanks to being an Agumon variant. It also made a cameo as a card in Digimon Tamers that the titular tamers use to unleash ice attacks. 

I do like that for a significant portion of the franchise's history, YukiAgumon's existence does end up giving us a default ice-themed Child-stage for guys like Mojyamon and Yukidarumon. That's neat, and it's a pretty nice-looking 'repaint'. Of course, this is early in the franchise and the novelty on an Agumon variant will definitely wear out on me soon enough.

 3/10.

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Alraumon

• Alternate Names: Aruraumon (EN dub)
• Stage: Child
• Type: Plant
• Attribute: Data

Alraumon borrows her name from alraune, the German word for Mandrake, and she's basically just Palmon with a more washed-out colour scheme and a head-flower that's entirely lavender instead of pink. Just a pleasant colouration all around. I'd probably prefer more changes to the main green colours, but it's still a good look. 

The washed out colours... actually work quite well? Palmon looks great, but Alraumon also looks nice in a pastel sort of way. Despite being one of those repaints that look like it would be too similar to Palmon, Alraumon actually shows up in one of the newest shows, Beatbreak, as one of the partner Digimon! Not one of the main ones, but that's most certainly a choice that surprised me! Anyway, I actually really like Alraumon. I'm not sure why, but it's just one that I just find quite pleasant. 

 5/10.

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Tukaimon

• Alternate Names: Tsukaimon (EN dub)
• Stage: Child
• Type: Mammal
• Attribute: Virus

Evil Patamon! Tukaimon is one of the few 'repaints' here to actually change its attribute from Patamon's default Vaccine into Virus. This traditionally doesn't matter outside of the games and trading cards, but Tukaimon got quite a fair bit of love from the official profile! Tukaimon is characterized as being very different from Patamon, inhabiting the spookier part of the Digital World and acting as the 'familiar' for evil digimon like Devimon. This dude also apparently really, really likes picking fights, and attackes with 'Bad Message', which are insults packed with negative energy. 

Tukaimon has since appeared in a relatively large amount of video games, more than the other repaints we've spoken about here. It's also shown up as cameos in Adventure 2020 and Ghost Game, notably in the former where it's established as Devimon's Child-level form!

The idea of 'evil virus repaints' will be boring once we get two or three seasons down the line, but Tukaimon not only uses a different and pleasant colour palette, it also gets a pretty neat profile. 

 5/10, could be 4.

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Psychemon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Child
• Type: Reptile
• Attribute: Data

Bright neon pink and green o Gabumon is... most certainly a choice. This little fellow is called Psychemon, after its psychedelic colouration. Its personality is a reversal of the typically shy and reserved Gabumon, being wild and flashy. It will actually dance and use its colours to confuse its enemy. It still panics if its fur pelt is removed, though. 

In Digimon World, rather bizarrely, Psychemon inhabits the Trash Mountain, being one of the few Digimon there that are not related to trash, filth or machinery in some way.

Psychemon languished in obscurity as most video games use 'Gabumon (Black)' as the requisite Gabumon repaint... but was used rather unexpectedly and out of nowhere in Xros Wars: Hunters as the partner of one of the primary antagonists Mogami Ryouma. Psychemon and Ryouma embody the 'aloof, cold douchebag rival' tropes popularized by other anime characters, and would be assigned the devil-mafia-hitman Astamon as his evolved form. Considering the role that Psychemon/Astamon would later play as a double agent of the true Big Bad, it is quite interesting that they picked this obscure eye-searing Gabumon repaint. 

 4/10, bonus point for Hunters. 

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ClearAgumon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Child
• Type: Puppet
• Attribute: Vaccine

ClearAgumon shows up specifically to be different from the hostile regular ToyAgumon, essentially a friendly 'NPC' version. That would've granted him low-ish points, but I love the fact that ClearAgumon uses the transparent Lego blocks to build itself. The official profile notes that it's a particularly rare creature, appearing in 1 in a 1000 Toy Agumons! That made me giggle a bit.

 3/10.

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ShimaUnimon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Mythical Beast
• Attribute: Vaccine

ShimaUnimon here is one of the more drastic edits, and I do like it! ShimaUnimon is one of the Digimon that populates the Gear Savannah. And hey, putting zebras in the savannah is logical. Instead of just painting stripes on Unimon and tossing it into the savannah and calling it a day, they actually removed regular Unimon's wings! That's actually cool, making ShimaUnimon look a lot more distinctly different. The official profile even notes this, saying that the data of the 'unicorn' is more represented, drowning out the 'pegasus' data. Neat! Its horn has apparently become much sharper than regular Unimon's. 

He's actually gotten a brief anime appearance in Hunters as the partner of minor and honestly quite unmemorable side-character Ken, and again as a cameo in Adventure 2020. I like it. Zebras has never really been an animal I particularly like, but I appreciate this variant as a more 'mundane' Unimon. 

 5/10.

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Pidmon

• Alternate Names: Piddomon (EN dub)
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Angel
• Attribute: Vaccine

Speaking of removing wings... Pidmon here is a variant of Angemon, and while the change of the blue loincloth and scroll to pink might be what catches your attention first, the most important change in Pidmon is the removal of Angemon's extra wings, giving Pidmon a lone set. it's also got a different holy weapon, with little crescent-moon tips. 

The Cupid that Pidmon draws its name from isn't part of the traditional angelic hierarchy, but with how much the franchise likes to glaze up Angemon, Pidmon actually ends up being a nice little 'lower-ranked' Angemon! Pidmon has shown up in Frontier as a throwaway cameo, but Xros Wars and Adventure 2020 both utilize Pidmon as the most common crowd-fillers for the Heaven Zone and the armies of the angel Digimon respectively. With Adventure 2020 giving Angemon a massive, special treatment, I actually like that Pidmon ends up finding a niche, even if that niche is 'disposable large volume trooper' to fight the Vilemons and Bakemons of the enemy forces. 

It is a less-impressive Angemon, but while I like it a lot less than Angemon, it gets some extra points for finding a nice niche, even if that niche is 'disposable minion'. 

 4/10.

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Zassoumon

• Alternate Names: Weedmon (EN dub)
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Plant
• Attribute: Virus

OH THIS JACKASS! Zassoumon here is a repaint of Vegiemon that's apparently "adopted the identity of a weed", and will never ever bloom or ripen like regular Vegiemon. It's also ugly as hell in World. The Bandai official art opts for a far more pleasing green-and-yellow tint that manages to show how this thing's supposed to be unremarkable, but a lot nicer than the original gray that he was in Digimon World where clumps of this dude just swarm in mesas and plains. But most memorably, this motherfucker is one of the possible customers in a shop-keeping minigame, and chances are, if you play that game, Zassoumon's going to screw you up a lot, leading to a '-2' in my original review of this dude which was made a couple of weeks after I completed Digimon World. 

Remarkably, Zassoumon has made a couple of appearances in the newer anime, showing up as a minor character in Adventure 2020, and acted as an antagonist of the week in Ghost Game. In the latter, they spread through people's phones via chain-emails, which is a nice nod to its 'weed' status. Overall, I kind of 'get' the idea of a more pest-like Vegiemon, but Vegiemon himself is already a weed, so this variant felt a bit unnecessary. 

 2/10.

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Geremon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Mollusk
• Attribute: Virus

A Numemon with a yellow paint scheme instead of green. While likely to be based on the banana slug, particularly with the brown splotches, the end result does make Numemon look very much like its fellow 'failure' Adult-level, Sukamon. What I'm saying is that Geremon quite literally looks like shit.

Geremon is found in the sewers of the Machine Town, and has surprisingly shown up quite a fair bit in various video games. Numemon keeps appearing, and I suppose this was a very easy way to add in another 'poop mon' without programming a whole new model. Very surprisingly, however, was Geremon having quite a starring appearance in Ghost Game!

 3/10.

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Akatorimon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Giant Bird
• Attribute: Data

Akatorimon here is just Kokatorimon who's swapped out his black accents for some red and oranges, which makes his entire name a pun on Aka Tori (lit. Red Bird) while only changing a single consonant in Kokatorimon's name. It makes the design look more like a regular chicken, and it's one of the more forgettable repaints, using the same primary colours as the original design without looking significantly different.

Its bio notes that it actually consumes more energy than usual due to its large body, making it not even as functional as Kokatorimon! Rather surprisingly, one had a minor role in the Beatbreak anime! 

 1/10.

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MoriShellmon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Mollusk
• Attribute: Data

I enjoy MoriShellmon quite a bit! 'Mori' meaning jungle, MoriShellmon is basically a habitat transplant of the regular Shellmon, trading its bright aquatic tropical colours for dull grays and greens. MoriShellmon's adapted to life in a jungle, basically becoming a forest-dwelling snail! Love how the change in colours does make MoriShellmon's main body look like it's built for camouflage in the jungle; although that shell still does resemble something dredged up from the ocean. The barnacles are still even there! Those head anemone could feasibly be interpreted as a mass of plants, though, for sure. 

MoriShellmon, rather unexpectedly, shows up in a benevolent way in a Ghost Game episode, helping the human characters investigate an 'evil forest spirit' that turns out to be a Jyureimon! 

 5/10.

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PlatinumSukamon

• Alternate Names: PlatinaScumon, PlatinaSukamon
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Mutation
• Attribute: Virus

PlatinumSukamon here is still an Adult-level, like Sukamon, but it shines like platinum! Not because it's a platinum poop, though, but apparently PlatinumSukamon has absorbed the data of some minor metals, which makes it shiny... but it's still a Sukamon at heart. It just throws slightly-shinier poop. 

In World, I remember it it's actually a reasonably hard enemy for you to face off against if you're not prepared, and for some reason shows up a lot in Factory Town, the robot-themed area. It sure is shiny poop, I don't have much to say about this one after the giggle when I saw it for the first time. The Gold/Platinum versions of Numemon at least do some extra details with it.

 3/10, could be 2.

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Tsuchidarumon

• Alternate Names: MudFrigimon, Chuchidarumon (EN dub)
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Mutation
• Attribute: Data

I like this one. Traditional Yukidarumon is a snowman, but Tsuchidarumon is a mud-man! The Yuki and Tsuchi pun worked a bit better in Japanese, a bit better than 'MudFrigimon'. Its body is made entirely out of earth data, an 'earth elemental' to Yukidarumon's 'snow elemental'. We don't actually have a lot of these earth or mud creatures in Digimon! Newer art for Tsuchidarumon have even gone a bit to have it be 'malleable mud', which is a nice amount of attention for this otherwise obscure repaint Digimon:

A whole village of them show up as minor characters in Tamers, and Tsuchidarumon also gets to have a small cameo in Adventure 2020. 

 4/10.

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JungleMojyamon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Rare Beast
• Attribute: Data

A different 'brown repaint' to its snowy buddy Yukidarumon, Mojyamon's repaint in this game, JungleMojyamon, goes from yeti to bigfoot/sasquatch. That's fun! The collective pop culture hivemind have sort of associated those two cryptids together anyway. JungleMojyamon does nothing much beyond being a jungle-dwelling, angry furry beast-man, but I like the repaints that get creative with things. 

 4/10.

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Gururumon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Beast
• Attribute: Vaccine
  

Can you tell that this is a different picture than Garurumon? I can't, either. Throughout my playthrough, I had assumed Gururumon was just a typo. Its profile just establishes it as a 'more sly' Garurumon. And... nothing really distinguishes this guy apart from Garurumon beyond a single syllable change. That's really bad. No marks. 

 0/10.

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NiseDrimogemon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Beast
• Attribute: Data
  

Quick, what's the difference between NiseDrimogemon and regular Drimogemon, other than being slightly paler? Yep, the mustache. The curly mustache seemingly drawn on by a marker. Nise means 'imitation', and NiseDrimogemon's joke is that it's identical to Drimogemon in almost all aspects, other than the sinister fake mustache. 

The Bandai profile sort of pokes fun at this, noting that if NiseDrimogemon was discovered earlier, the regular Drimogemon would be the one with the title "nise". It's so silly and nonsensical, but I did find the joke funny enough. And while NiseDrimogemon has seemingly been phased out of video games, it made a cameo in Adventure 2020, curly mustache and all! 

 4/10, would be 1 without the joke.

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Soulmon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Ghost
• Attribute: Virus

Sometimes, you just need an accessory. For Soulmon, it's a giant witch's hat that covers its eyes. It's adorable! It's silly, and it's adorable! Soulmon even gets some unique lore: it was originally a Bakemon that absorbed data from "mages of fantasy stories". That's cute! Because of his hat, he can now do magic and summon the souls of the dead, yay! In Digimon World, Soulmon patrol the graveyards of Vamdemon's mansion, but there are a couple of Soulmon that will talk to you... and most of their dialogue is mocking Bakemon for being morons for only being able to say 'bakebake'. Rude! 

Soulmon has shown up quite a bit, making appearances in Frontier, Xros Wars and Adventure 2020, although some of these shows miss the point of the hat covering the eyes. Its most significant appearance was in Savers, where a Soulmon arrived in the real world in response to a little girl's tantrum causing her to 'curse' her big brother for pranking her all the time. Soulmon's response? FATAL pranks to the brother. Fortunately said brother was main character Daimon "I will punch god" Suguru, so Soulmon got more than it bargained, but with any other human it would have been horrifying. 

 7/10.

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Fugamon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Oni
• Attribute: Virus

Fugamon here is a more traditional oni-based variant of Ogremon, swapping out Ogremon's leather for a bunch of traditional tiger-skin loincloths as well as being given the traditional red skin. It's a good look, really, and oni are mythological creatures famous for having different-coloured variants already. Fugamon's profile essentially describes it as just being similar to Ogremon. 

Fugamon has also shown up a couple of times in the anime, first as in Tamers as the evolved form of the Goblimon villain-of-the-week. Fugamon was actually brutally killed, leading to an emotional ethical debate between the kids. In the completely opposite tone, Xros Wars: Hunters had Fugamon and Ogremon show up in an Iron Chef parody. Fugamon's all right.

 4/10, nice variant. 

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Hyogamon

• Alternate Names: Hyougamon
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Ice-Snow
• Attribute: Virus

They really needed to fill up that snow area! Hyogamon is the evolved form of SnowGoblimon above (which I guess makes Fugamon associated with Shamamon?). Hyogamon gets a couple of nice details, actually having a bunch of icicles stuck onto its body, and even wielding one in place of Ogremon/Fugamon's club. And most interestingly, Hyogamon's got an oni horn! It's the only one out of the three Ogremons to have the oni horn!

This one hasn't shown up much beyond Digimon World and trading cards... until Beatbreak unexpectedly features one as a villain of the week!

 4/10.

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Saberdramon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Giant Bird
• Attribute: Vaccine

Saberdramon's one of the more popular repaints from Digimon World, although it's easily understandable why. Birdramon's already a damn badass design, and Saberdramon's the same thing, but black. Black repaints will be something I frown upon as we get an influx of them, but I feel like Saberdramon being black flames makes it pretty cool, and the beak and talons break out the monotony. 

In Digimon World, Saberdramon acts as a boss fight in the dinosaur region (I guess she's standing in for a pteranodon). In other subsequent games, Saberdramon tend to be portrayed as an alternate evolution for Biyomon. Always had a soft spot for Saberdramon, and it even shows up as a villain of the week in the recent Ghost Game!

 5/10.

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Icemon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Ice-Snow
• Attribute: Data

Another ice-themed enemy is Icemon, who is... Gotsumon, but ice. Which I thought was cute. Blocks of rock, blocks of ice... and while the official artwork doesn't really do it justice, the anime and video games tend to be a bit better at depicting Icemon as being distinct from Gotsumon and Insekimon below. 

It otherwise is just an icy Gotsumon, and has shown up as the minions of IceDevimon in the aforementioned Xros Wars episode. I've grown to appreciate him as I realize the dearth of 'elemental' Digimon. Icemon can hang out with Yukidarumon and the other frosty boys! 

 5/10, could be 4/10.

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Insekimon

• Alternate Names: Meteormon (EN dub)
• Stage: Perfect
• Type: Ore
• Attribute: Data

Insekimon is a Perfect-level Digimon, and is made out of meteorite rocks this time. That's the whole point when you investigate a meteorite crash in the dinosaur area in Digimon World. It turns out to be a Perfect-level Digimon that attacks you, this strange alien rock-man from space! The official artworks really does make Icemon and Insekimon look similar, when games and anime tend to be a bit better at making 'anime ice' and 'white stone' look different. 

Two different recurring Gotsumon has shown up in two different shows, and both have warp-evolved immediately into Insekimon to fight. In Frontier, a plucky civilian Gotsumon evolves into Insekimon to futilely fight the Royal Knights. In Savers, a Gotsumon was unexpectedly a recurring and major antagonist. Everyone mocks the little rocky Child-level for daring to fight against the main cast, at which point he evolves into Insekimon and ends up making good on his threats by summoning meteor showers. 

I do find it funny -- and part of the scores here are because of that -- that Gotsumon can evolve into Adult-level Gotsumon-but-ice, and into Perfect-level Gotsumon-but-white-rock. We're just missing an Ultimate-level Gotsumon repaint! Honestly, that joke that all of Gotsumon's 'canon' evolutions are all just repaints is something I found lazy before, but I find a bit charming now. And at least they are trying with different elements, so I can't be too mad at them for that. 

 4/10.

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MasterTyranomon

• Alternate Names: MasterTyrannomon (EN dub)
• Stage: Perfect
• Type: Dinosaur
• Attribute: Vaccine

In the original Digimon World game MasterTyrannomon is just a bigger Tyrannomon with some extra scar textures. But apparently Bandai liked him so much he gets a brand-new piece of artwork that makes MasterTyrannomon look fairly different -- a lot burlier looking, and with slightly different proportions. He's shown up quite a bit in video games and trading cards, and I suppose is the 'natural' Perfect of Tyrannomon and DarkTyrannomon if they didn't go the cyborg route and become a MetalTyrannomon!  

He's always been a bit underwhelming to me, honestly, but I do like the idea of there just being this old Tyrannomon that trains other Tyrannomons. He's all right. I kind of wish he had a little bit more going on for him. 

 2/10.

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Panjyamon

• Alternate Names: Panjamon, IceLeomon (EN dub)
• Stage: Perfect
• Type: Beast Man
• Attribute: Vaccine

The Perfect-level Panjyamon is one of the 'secret' evolutions programmed into the game alongside Gigadramon. Its name is a reference to the Japanese anime Kimba the White Lion, with Panjya being the name of Kimba's father. Panjyamon isn't just an albino version of Leomon, however, but actually is an ice-themed warrior. Panjyamon is the result of a Leomon that has trained really, really hard in the polar areas of the digital world. 

For the longest time, Panjyamon was the 'bridge' between Adult-level Leomon and Ultimate-level SaberLeomon... until subsequent games introduced a gigantic influx of other Leomon variations that Panjyamon kind of became forgotten. It did show up in Frontier as a villain-of-the-week, and has shown up quite a bit in video games and manga. Not too impressed by this one, but it does look neat. 

 3/10, could be 4/10. 

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BlueMeramon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Perfect
• Type: Flame
• Attribute: Virus
  

Originally introduced as an Adult-type, most other games and official profiles have solidified BlueMeramon as a Perfect-level. Meaning that Meramon could evolve into a blue version of himself. Blue fire, I suppose, is hotter than red fire. BlueMeramon simultaneously is a bit of an oxymoron, being 'hotter than Meramon' but also shoots super-cooled air and have been associated with 'icy flame' attacks. 

BlueMeramon has shown up in a couple of anime as minor roles, as a minor villain in a Tamers movie and alongside regular Meramon and DeathMeramon in a volcano-themed area. It's unimpressive, if we're being honest, though I suppose a nice little repaint-filler in the video games. 

 3/10.

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Vermilimon

• Alternate Names: Vermillimon (EN dub)
• Stage: Perfect
• Type: Ankylosaur
• Attribute: Data

Vermilimon is the Perfect-level evolution for Monochromon, basically serving as an enemy in the dinosaur zones of Digimon World. Yeah, I'm not particularly in love with this one. It looks a bit better in this official artwork, but I remembered looking at the repaint in World and thinking they look ugly. 

It is Monochromon's "most official" Perfect-level evolution, but while Monochromon's shown up a lot, Vermilimon has more or less been ignored outside of video games. I don't remember it exists most of the time, honestly. 

 1/10.

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WaruSeadramon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Perfect
• Type: Aquatic
• Attribute: Virus

Hmm, it's just MegaSeadramon with slightly different colours. WaruSeadramon swaps the helmet for black, and it chooses a darker shade of red for its main body. WaruSeadramon is noted to have 'evolved in wickedness', and is more tenacious than MegaSeadramon. I feel like if they had giving it a different colouration than slightly-darker-red I would appreciate it more. Maybe making it green with red highlights? 

It is quite boring and forgettable, as a single 'boss fight' in the game. But someone clearly likes WaruSeadramon enough to keep bringing it back in video games, and actually teams up with its more famous twin MegaSeadramon in Adventure 2020! While the colours did make the two Perfect-level Seadramons a bit confusing, the anime distinguishes them by having MegaSeadramon attack with lightning and WaruSeadramon attack with glowing orbs of darkness. Neat. I still find him redundant with MegaSeadramon, but I appreciate that someone likes WaruSeadramon enough to give him some love!

 2/10.

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Tekkamon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Perfect
• Type: Machine
• Attribute: Virus

While ostensibly a repaint of Giromon, Tekkamon here is actually canonized as Giromon's rival. Where Giromon is a mean-looking 'Net Keeper', Tekkamon is actually a hacker that Giromon is trying to keep out. By all aspects, Tekkamon is way less interesting than Giromon, having the cool horns removed and swapping the chainsaw for a much bore bland sword. 

I appreciate the effort, similar to ShimaUnimon, in making a variant... but Tekkamon ends up being quite unmemorable. While forgotten for quite a while, they did have a cameo in Adventure 2020... appropriately, in a gang war against a group of Giromon!

 2/10.

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GreatKingSukamon

• Alternate Names: Sukamon Dai'ou; KingSukamon (Digimon World)
• Stage: Perfect
• Type: Mutation
• Attribute: Virus

This was originally a little footnote in the Sukamon article, as Great King Sukamon looked like it was just going to be a one-off joke. 

And for more than 20 years since his debut in Digimon World, as the franchise starts to look back through its history and start to slowly canonize little one-off weirdos... King Sukamon from Digimon World has finally gotten a formal bio as a Perfect-level evolution of good old Sukamon, and even a brand new English name as 'GreatKingSukamon'. This guy has also shown up in a bunch of newer Digimon games, too, I think as the design team starts to realize that the fandom likes the quirky, wackier parts of the older Digimon franchise beyond the endless angels and dragons and robots. You need weirdos like this to make those guys feel special, honestly!

It literally is just a bigger pile of shit with a metal crown, and you can see that GreatKingSukamon has a regular Sukamon hanging on his back instead of a Tyumon, but I love Digimon World and I love that they bothered to go back to him after all this time. I can't believe I'm saying that about a sentient giant pile of dung, but here we are! I love that GreatKingSukamon actually damages others with the mental anguish of being hit by such a gigantic pile of doodoo. 

 7/10.

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Blikmon

• Alternate Names: Tinmon (EN dub)
• Stage: Perfect
• Type: Machine
• Attribute: Data/Vaccine

These last couple of Digimon have kind of been forgotten by Bandai, due to them only appearing in Digimon World and nowhere else. Do they even still count as official Digimon anymore? They never even got official artwork or profiles! Probably because it's harder to make original artwork as opposed to just changing some colours on a pre-existing piece. But still! Blikmon here (Tinmon in English versions) is more of a prop than anything, though, initially seeming as generic robots in the background of Toy Town that, as an Easter Egg, you can actually talk to if your current partner is a Monzaemon (who is an Easter Egg himself to obtain). Digimon World 2 is the only other game to feature Blikmon, and he's a Perfect-level evolution of Clockmon or Tankmon. As far as designs go, Blikmon isn't unpleasant, but it's also just kind of a boring blocky robot. Worth noting that this would actually be a very appropriate Perfect-level evolution for ToyAgumon, though, being a toy-themed clockwork robot. Oh well.

 3/10.

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Golemon II

• Alternate Names: Rockmon (EN dub), Golemon (PS)
• Stage: Adult
• Type: N/A
• Attribute: Virus

Another one that never received official Bandai artwork or profile, or appeared anywhere outside of World, this is a Digimon that got the name Golemon independent of the other, far more prominent Golemon. The English translation calls this guy Rockmon, and while it's not rocky at all... we'll call him that to avoid confusion. And it's...  it's just a bunch of intentionally un-rendered digital web or whatever the proper term for this is. It's an interesting concept, and Rockmon here is only found in the final areas of the game when you're confronting the reality-warping Analogman within the already digital Tron-world appearance of Infinity Mountain anyway. It's an interesting enemy, I suppose, but I can also see why it's never revisited elsewhere, although Death-X-mon from a couple series down the road would use the 'wireframe body as a sign of an unnatural Digimon' trope. 

...until the 2020 anime, where, unexpectedly, the Golemon showed up as merged forms of scrap data that fought the heroes! They weren't named, since the regular Golemon has been around for much longer now, but as a Digimon World fan, it is a genuinely and utterly unexpected and welcome easter egg. 

 5/10.

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HOLY SHIT that's a long-ass page. Honestly I could've split this into two, but I thought that I might just as well as finish the whole thing in one sitting because a lot of these are honestly pretty underwhelming stuff. Next week (or maybe the week after if I'm a bit too burnt out) we'll cover Apocalymon, the Diaboromon line and a bunch of other ersatz miscellaneous Digimon introduced prior to 02 in 2000 which I just didn't find a place to slot in anywhere in the previous segments.