Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition

The game has a lot of good ideas but failed to execute them properly. Seems like a budget/time issue mostly. The coolest part is the digivolution and digimon progression system. You can make any digimon into any digimon and you can really minmax the hell out of your digimon's stats. However, I do feel like to really get a strong digimon you need to use the DigiFarm, a passive levelling and stat boosting program, which means you ... can't use your favorite digimon throughout the campaign if you want them to be your strongest. I currently have a bunch of really powerful digimon in my DigiFarm that I don't really like because my favorite digimon are, well, in my party because I want to use them. The battle mechanics are extremely simplistic. Pokemon has more complex battle mechanics and that's saying something. This makes the game very easy. I've been playing on hard with no prior knowledge and I've lost a single battle in 17h of gameplay. I've yet to find a strategy that is better than just "hit harder and faster than your opponent". Difficulty is largely inflated by bloated HP bars. Interacting with NPCs and Digimon through DigiLine, a chat system, is very repetitive and boring. You can't initiate anything, you usually only have one reply option and by hour 10 your digimon are just repeating things to you. Sad because it could have made you bond with your digimon in the DigiFarm a lot more. Character customization is very poor, too. In Cyber Sleuth, the protag's base outfit is so ugly and you can only change the shirt into a variety of pretty lame, mismatched shirts that don't go with the unchangeable pants. At least there's the semi-okay school uniform... There are also so many like shops that take up a lot of the scenery in Tokyo that you can't enter or interact with. It wouldn't be an issue if the game didn't put such a big focus on it. Your digimon will text you that they wanna listen to your favorite music with you so you should bring your favorite CD ... but I can't actually buy any CDs at the CD shop? Like to take control over the game's soundtrack or something? The story is cool, I think. The mystery is fun and definitely the kind of plot with evil megacorps and governments that I like. However, you get distracted by b-plots a lot and at a lot of times it's just ... odd and almost non-sensical. The protag's characterization is odd. Certain NPCs pop up at really odd and hard-to-believe times. Maybe it'd make sense if I played the game further but after 17h I'm thoroughly bored of the game.