Digimon

[quickthrowaway]

Friendly reminder that the 02 in 'Digimon Adventure 02' refers to the date it takes place in. The original Adventure (if you're gonna follow the naming scheme) should be '99 since it takes place the same year it aired. Its sequel takes place 3 years later hence it being set in the distant future of 2002.

 

[Cisna H. Scumale]

Friendly reminder that the 02 in 'Digimon Adventure 02' refers to the date it takes place in. The original Adventure (if you're gonna follow the naming scheme) should be '99 since it takes place the same year it aired. Its sequel takes place 3 years later hence it being set in the distant future of 2002.

And the reason they went with 2002 was just so they can have some additional meaning to a Digimon Adventure 2 title.

 

[starborn427614]

Didn't see any thread on this in gaming, but there's a huge sale going on right now for the Cybersleuth Complete Edition on Switch. These types of games work really well on handheld, so if you ever wanted to play them now's the best time imo.

 

[TVB]

And the reason they went with 2002 was just so they can have some additional meaning to a Digimon Adventure 2 title.

And still aged like milk.

 

[Cisna H. Scumale]

I'm gonna go out there and say the new 02 movie is gonna suck purely because it's another Digimon Adventure movie where the main cast meets another fucking tamer who becomes the centerpiece of plot and character development instead of the mains.

Shame, cause I really prefer 02 cast over the OGs.

 

[Akumaten]

e. His direction for the series after 01 was a mixed bag, and while 02 gave us some amazing moments like Ken finding his true self, it also left a lot underdeveloped, particularly with the epilogue.

Zero Two may not be my favorite season but Ken unintentionally became the best part of the season.
I'm liking Ghost Game because it's like a combination of Gegege no Kitaro (6th series) and Digimon Tamers. Episodic, but good.

 

[Puff]

Didn't see any thread on this in gaming, but there's a huge sale going on right now for the Cybersleuth Complete Edition on Switch. These types of games work really well on handheld, so if you ever wanted to play them now's the best time imo.

Steam too. This thread is more or less why I picked it up. First Digimon game I've played since DS and first full one since Digimon World 3.
Glad it's got normal fucking combat. Trying to find a turn-based game nowadays is hell. Game is solid. Overworld controls are clunky and the dialog, translation, or both are more than a little rough around the edges. Found a cheesy way to grind (the tournaments on the arcade machine) and am now massively overpowered going into the second half of the game.

There are also a few level design things that piss me off... like having in-training mons in dungeon areas mid-game. It feels kinda shitty cubstomping a Tokomon with three Ultimates in a combo attack. Overall pretty solid. I'd have liked it much more as a kid.

 

[Activelo]

Overworld controls are clunky and the dialog, translation, or both are more than a little rough around the edges. Found a cheesy way to grind (the tournaments on the arcade machine) and am now massively overpowered going into the second half of the game.

Honestly, the one thing that's stopping me from getting it is that you apparently can't skip cutscenes or dialogue.

 

[Johnny Salami]

I'm gonna go out there and say the new 02 movie is gonna suck purely because it's another Digimon Adventure movie where the main cast meets another fucking tamer who becomes the centerpiece of plot and character development instead of the mains.

Shame, cause I really prefer 02 cast over the OGs.

Yeah. They already nailed this plot in Hurricane Touchdown and managed a better story and chatacter arc in one movie than Tri did in 6. And Kizuna felt like that was the story they wanted to tell but were forced to drag it out. But instead they're retelling the same story and introducing a new character that takes away from characters that have had very limited screen time. At least in Kizuna the new girl didn't have the team gush about how wonderful she is and how sad her life is while the world was being destroyed

There are also a few level design things that piss me off... like having in-training mons in dungeon areas mid-game. It feels kinda shitty cubstomping a Tokomon with three Ultimates in a combo attack. Overall pretty solid. I'd have liked it much more as a kid.

Digimon games have always had a stage that sucked to play through. In one of the DS games there's a water/ice stage that would take me forever to navigate.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

At least in Kizuna the new girl didn't have the team gush about how wonderful she is and how sad her life is while the world was being destroyed

She also was the antagonist, albeit a tragic one. While my favorite Tumblr theory was that Meiko was the daughter of Ken and Yolei time-traveling to save her parents, I do wish Meiko was the secret villain or something all along instead of Not-Gennai cockteasing everyone. And Meiko never felt like she actually fit in the Digimon universe, kinda had Tenchi in Tokyo vibes in all honesty in how the new girl was totally sus and Mary Sueish/self-inserty in nature and design.

 

[TVB]

I'm gonna go out there and say the new 02 movie is gonna suck purely because it's another Digimon Adventure movie where the main cast meets another fucking tamer who becomes the centerpiece of plot and character development instead of the mains.

Shame, cause I really prefer 02 cast over the OGs.

I dunno, I kinda liked both VAs.

 

[Cisna H. Scumale]

Have you checked out this "Energy Drink?" Turns out it was still this in the sub as well.

Spoiler

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Have you checked out this "Energy Drink?" Turns out it was still this in the sub as well.

Spoiler

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That's what Japanese energy drinks look like, though?

 

[Cisna H. Scumale]

That's what Japanese energy drinks look like, though?
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They look like cough syrup bottles lol. But fun fact nonetheless

 

[Johnny Salami]

Didn't see any thread on this in gaming, but there's a huge sale going on right now for the Cybersleuth Complete Edition on Switch. These types of games work really well on handheld, so if you ever wanted to play them now's the best time imo.

Decided to buy it since I'm flying a lot right now and the anons were right, the game should be titled Digimon Cyber Sluts

 

[Cisna H. Scumale]

Decided to buy it since I'm flying a lot right now and the anons were right, the game should be titled Digimon Cyber Sluts
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Spoiler

Just wait for that out of nowhere lesbian kiss

 

[TerminalTryHard]

After finishing Kemonogami: Survive my feeling are mostly positive. Like other people have said the combat is not super deep, it's more about type countering and grinding than actual strategy but it' not bad you can spend a lot of time messing around in free battle without noticing. The story really is the focus and while I normally can only tolerate so much VN stuff I didn't mind this at all.

I was not expecting the Wendigomon scene but fuck was it satisfying to see daddy issues get it. That throw away line at the end about "you could call them Digimon" was so bizarre but I guess they remembered this was suppose to be a Digimon game at the end. They imply you could keep everyone alive if you get Ryo's affinity high enough which I don't know if that's just a new game+ feature or if you could always save everyone but it's just very difficult. I kind of want to see what would happen if they don't die cause a lot of the story involves the cast reacting to the deaths.

 

[LivingRoom]

They imply you could keep everyone alive if you get Ryo's affinity high enough which I don't know if that's just a new game+ feature or if you could always save everyone but it's just very difficult. I kind of want to see what would happen if they don't die cause a lot of the story involves the cast reacting to the deaths.

Deaths are fixed; nothing you do matters in your first playthrough, affinity only determines if you unlock Ultimate (30) and Mega (70) for your partners. Initially you can only go down the Moral/Harmony/Wrathful paths, which are basically "normal endings" (although one could argue that Moral is the best ending of the 3); once you do NG+, if you have Ryo's affinity at ~30 (more or less) by the moment before his death, you get locked into the Truth route, which is basically the golden ending. But yeah, the only one you can "save" is Ryo.

 

[TerminalTryHard]

Deaths are fixed; nothing you do matters in your first playthrough, affinity only determines if you unlock Ultimate (30) and Mega (70) for your partners. Initially you can only go down the Moral/Harmony/Wrathful paths, which are basically "normal endings" (although one could argue that Moral is the best ending of the 3); once you do NG+, if you have Ryo's affinity at ~30 (more or less) by the moment before his death, you get locked into the Truth route, which is basically the golden ending. But yeah, the only one you can "save" is Ryo.

I guess that makes me happy to have gotten the Moral ending on my first run through. A little disappointed that the first playthrough is so limited, knowing that there's nothing you really could've done takes out the moral sting of letting someone die for the crime of being mildly annoying.

 

[LivingRoom]

I guess that makes me happy to have gotten the Moral ending on my first run through. A little disappointed that the first playthrough is so limited, knowing that there's nothing you really could've done takes out the moral sting of letting someone die for the crime of being mildly annoying.

I went for Harmony so, I actually had a rough time with everyone dying left and right (which is ironic, because it's the path whose choices made the most sense to me). Kinda sucks, considering I also had high affinity with everyone except Saki for some reason, who didn't even get her Ultimate.

Still wondering which path to do next. Right now I don't really feel the urge to go through the first 8 parts again to reach a different route though. And I know that if I do the Truth route, I won't end up doing Wrathful and Moral because it's too much work just to see something different.