They actually addressed the "Is this just Persona but with Digimon?" and the dude's answer was basically "Eh. Weird monsters palling around with kids and teens in Tokyo's something we've been doing with the start too."
The reason the games started skewing towards this crowd was due to Bandai Namco's surveys. Their metrics showed that Digimon fans who played the games were like 25-35, so Cyber Sleuth was a project made for the demo that showed up in the survey.
They actually addressed the "Is this just Persona but with Digimon?" and the dude's answer was basically "Eh. Weird monsters palling around with kids and teens in Tokyo's something we've been doing with the start too."
The reason the games started skewing towards this crowd waa due to Bandai Namco's surveys. Their metrics showed that Digimon fans who played the games were like 25-35, so Cyber Sleuth was a project made for the demo that showed up in the survey.
It always feels weird when a kids property actually pays attention to who their customers are and go out of their way to try and please those customers instead of chasing the ever elusive "wider market".
It always feels weird when a kids property actually pays attention to who their customers are and go out of their way to try and please those customers instead of chasing the ever elusive "wider market".
Cyber Sleuth and Hacker's Memory are fun. Combat's nice enough and most Digimon have at least one cool, unique animation. Get the two pack where a lot of the new Digimon from HM were added into CS if you do.
I liked Survive's story. It's combat is super bare bones and feels like an afterthought. The story is essentially a darker take on the "kids at camp get sent to the Digital World" concept. Goes in some pretty surprising and ballsy directions and has a decent amount of branching paths. I'd say pick it up on sale if you can. It's not quite as jam-packed with content as CS/HM.
It always feels weird when a kids property actually pays attention to who their customers are and go out of their way to try and please those customers instead of chasing the ever elusive "wider market".
Cyber Sleuth, yes, absolutely. It's usually cheap and there's a ton of content there. Like FatMebius said, it comes with a spin-off/expansion that adds more story and mons, which is nice.
Survive I've heard described as very much like a Visual Novel with light gameplay so if you're cool with that, I've heard good things about its story.
Cyber Sleuth, yes, absolutely. It's usually cheap and there's a ton of content there. Like FatMebius said, it comes with a spin-off/expansion that adds more story and mons, which is nice.
Cutscene skip mod here. (actually it's only dialogue, my bad) It doesn't work perfectly last I used it (which was a while ago) but the movies are mostly enjoyable and aren't nearly as egregiously long as the inane yammering that goes on.
Cyber Sleuth, yes, absolutely. It's usually cheap and there's a ton of content there. Like FatMebius said, it comes with a spin-off/expansion that adds more story and mons, which is nice.
Survive I've heard described as very much like a Visual Novel with light gameplay so if you're cool with that, I've heard good things about its story.
Its a visual novel that gives you a certain amount of actions around the camp, and then a grid style turn based combat. If you like VNs, I'd probably recommend it. Some thoughts.
I liked it, my only problem is that the best route requires you to beat the game once. So to do everything, you have to beat it 4 times. I've done it twice, but I realized that more evolutions for Agumon that aren't War Greymon didn't actually interest me enough to play the other two.
One thing I do hate though, is they try and guilt you at a certain point in the story, which telegraphs how to do the fourth route, the problem is the game literally doesn't let you on your first run, which I just found annoying. The true route is a lot longer, and a lot harder, though once you've beat it, your starter Agumon can basically digivolve into God, so its easy going for an additional routes. Also, there's a plot point right after the route split for the fourth route that's great in the main three stories, but comes across as borderline retarded in the fourth. Spoiled below so you can see what I mean if spoilers don't bother you.
The translation can get a bit rough at points, but not gamebreaking, two examples. One of your group, Aoi, has a partner, Labramon, and the game cannot fucking decide if labramon is male or female. The game just kind of randomly switches every once in a while. The other is there's lots of convos with your teammates, that will give two options, one boosts affinity, one doesn't (you need 70 affinity for their final stage evolution iirc) but sometimes they're either phrased way too similar, or really ambiguous.
As an example, one of the later conversations with Aoi, when they're talking about going home, she wonders if they'll remain friends and hang out when they go back to the real world. The two options are, something like, "Sure", or "Whenever I can", when I read that, I assumed "Sure" was supposed to seem non-commital, and "Whenever I can" was saying that the protagonist wanted to be with his friends as much as possible. Instead, it was basically the opposite. Granted, it's easy to just set up quick saves and hop back to pick the "right" options.
In the main three routes, one of the older kids gets killed early on while losing his mind, which can only be avoided by talking to him a bunch in the fourth route. The game guilts you for not reaching out, even though you literally couldn't. Regardless, in the main three routes, this causes things to spiral, and the student president who is the de facto leader snaps with the pressure and starts abusing his partner digimon. This eventually causes it to dark digivolve and kill him, and is a boss fight.
After this, the teammate who's basically your bro, winds up freaking about what might happen with their digimon, and the paranoia causes him to be a bit of a dick to his partner digimon. They get in a fight, but wind up making up, and this allows his partner to digivolve. The issue is in the fourth route, the president lives, so now there is no dark digivolution, so this plot shouldn't happen, but they contrive to try and repeat it anyway. It's dumb.
They also use the term Kenogami instead of Digimon, which I found distracting, but whatever.
I did Hacker's Memory, and it was pretty fun. It's slightly more polished, though the whole conceit of the plot is that you're in the background of Cyber Sleuth influencing the events by what you're doing in Hacker's Memory, granted it wasn't hard to follow and I hadn't played Cyber Sleuth. I also remember having to Digivolve and De-Digivolve and grind specific stats to access their highest forms. It felt really unintuitive, but I'm a retard, and I managed to get all my favorites on my team, so, it shouldn't be impossible.
Haven't seen this trailer posted but looks good. A bunch of new digimon have been confirmed to include
medievalGallantmon
Parrotmon
Eaglemon
Nefertimon
Halsemon
SkullSeadramon: who is a new digimon made for this game
Seems they are doing more armor digi-evolutions which I like as the past games has ignored them for the most part. Digmon and Pegasusmon are likely to appear as well. I hope they add Shadramon as well to be fun.
I didn't know I needed Skull Seadramon in my life, but now I do. That thing is wicked, reminds me of a Final Fantasy boss. And the angler fish antenna charging up his beam attack?? DUUUUUUUDDDDEEEEE! It's so sick, I love it!
I never buy into "this is what keeps people hooked" type shit, but actually knowing the kids had no way out of the digiworld if not going forward was such a motivator. Like, working on your pc and things aren't going right, but you got no second PC, so you HAVE to fix it tonight or suffer immensely. The reboot of season 1 apparently had them already out of the world in episode 3 and dealing with like, nukes being sent or something?
Digimon had done best if it just stuck to being a monster world isekai. To involve the real world and mass-scale war is just.. SMT.
Forgot to mention technical details are coming out. The PS5 and Xbox versions will be locked at 30fps and the Steam version will be unlocked. Might upset some people.
There are also multiple different pre order versions with a list of different add ons. They all include the season pass which includes all planned three DLCs, so the only difference is cosmetics and access to certain digimon early.
The new mons they've been showing off for this game are SICK. Pokemon is getting absolutely blown the fuck out, no Pokemon in the last ten years has been even remotely this cool.
Got bored and decided to see what my favorite Digimon might be since I can't keep track of most of them unfortunately. I tried to avoid picking more than two members of a very straightforward line or blatant recolors, but I kind of forgot about that by the end because I was getting tired.
The site is surprisingly up-to-date; it had Digimon from the new anime poster, as well as Sharkmon (twice, for some reason, with both its English and Japanese names), and every single obscure variant you can think of. All I can say about my results is that I seem to have some very specific types, and that I'm upset I had no clue that Manticoremon existed before doing this.
This design kicks ass. It'd be perfect without the weird bib.
Curious to know the rest of the thread's favorites. I've only watched from Adventures to Tamers, so I'm not super up-to-date and I think it shows in some of my picks. I'd be interested in knowing what more devoted fans trend towards.
Lmao I ended up passing on Renamon in the line-up without even blinking (and not paying attention). This is gonna take me a while to do, I had no idea there was so much Digimon, there's quite a bit of cool ones I've never known existed.
That took forever and I think I ended up at an impasse because the ones it ended up showing me endlessly were of Digimon I actually liked, so I'm just gonna leave a list under spoilers of Digimon, no pics. I think I got all of them, but I could be missing a few.
