The game was announced to be developed by Japanese video game developer Tri-Crescendo, who had previously worked on the two Baten Kaitos games, and feature character art from Suzuhito Yasuda, who had previously done the character art for Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor and Devil Survivor 2. These character primarily appear in the wireless battles.ĭigimon World Re:Digitize was first announced in July 2011, in an issue of V-Jump, as the first Digimon game for the PlayStation Portable. The game also contains a number of guest characters from other games, including Lili from the Tekken series, Taichi Yagami, Sora Takenouchi, and Yamato Ishida from Digimon Adventure, and Takato Matsuda from Digimon Tamers. Rina Shinomiya is a new tamer who only appears in the Decode 3DS version of the game. His Digimon partner is BlackWarGreymon X.
Her Digimon partners are Angewomon and LadyDevimon. Mikagura Mirei is the girl who sends an email to the Digital World. Akiho Rindo is a mysterious girl that follows Taiga around. Taiga is the main protagonist of the game. The game has over 10,000 accessories to collect and equip on their digimon, which alter the character's in-game appearance, such as goggles, or an afro. Digimon can get hungry, sick, injured or die and need care to recover. Digimon evolve over time by gaining stats and other factors. Players raise the digimon through stages of growth that determine his personality, the five stages being "Baby", "Child", "Adult", "Perfect" and "Ultimate".
In the universe of Digimon, people raise creatures collectively referred to as Digimon, similar in concept to Tamagotchi. In the game, the player follows and controls "Taiga", a 16-year-old male protagonist who is transported to the digital world of Digimon, which in his universe is merely an online game similar in concept to Digimon World.