Digimon Battle Spirit 2 (Game Boy Advance) Review

Digital Monsters what comes to mind? The usual generic plot, why, naturally

Graphically, it's perhaps one of the title's stronger points for the developing body seem to have ported the style behind Japanese based art such as anim

Looking at the game from a gameplay standpoint it seems fairly standard to begin with however after a brief read wit the colourful instruction manual it becomes apparent that button bashing isn't the key option for simultaneous thought is needed to progress through fights. Instead of beating the enemy to a bloody pulp with punches and kicks players need to collect small orbs known as spirit balls that appear on screen after each enemy hit

Sound wise, the game perhaps lacks unfortunately. It seems very mono, single tones that although they do help emphasise the environment and location the characters battle within it seems lacking in emphasis and quality. Having said that, the backing sound isn't too bad but still could have been better presented. Fortunately it does help to build up the atmosphere and is fairly representative of the action on screen but in some cases seems to be thrown in for the sake of music that lets it down in that respect. Effects are fairly good, they seem to replicate the animations to a good degree and there's enough variety to establish a clean set and not something overbearingly tedious.

The game features fairly bland modes