Do you like digimon? do you like bandai rpgs? then this will be fine.
are the digimon fans gone? good, because ill be honest, these folks are like sonic fans, they dont actually know what a good game is so if it just barely holds together, they will sing its praises
i genuinly cannot for the life of me believe the GALL of charging the AAA price for this game, why you ask?
because this game is stuck in 2002, with its incredibly bad decisions in game design
have you in the last 20 years tried to buy an item in a game? you know how you can que up multiples of items of different types and buy them all at once? NOT HERE and every purchase is accompanied by dialog and an animation and a little at end dialog, and in a game about farming in large quantities ,this creates an extra padding of time that makes the process unnecessarily tedious, this is so blind to industry standard i swear the devs have a guide dog when in spitting distance of any electronic.
while we are talking about animation each dungeon has a unique feature youll do multiple times in one example i was in an area where i had to take a digimon, slow walk it to a gear and watch as a bridge changed position. you cant skip it, and situations like that happen multiple times every dungeon in every area you are currently in. this along with skipping a cutscene that drop you into another cutscene begs the question of WHY, WHY WOULDNT YOU JUST SKIP THE WHOLE DAMN SCENE?
finally, the digifarm, a little section that allows you to store digimon away to have them passively farm items and and gain exp.
you can also train specific stats to acheive certain digivolutions. i ask, no i BEG the devs to explain to me how the F@#k you make a system like that and not allow me to check the stat requirements for digivolution. so if i want to use the digifarm i have to enter the in between theater, found only in certain locations through out the game, then talk to a person at a desk, to acess a menu, to plop my digimon into a section of the map, and choose the digimon i want to train, choose what training i wish to do, now if im doing multiple of those training sessions and i happen to forget what the stat requirements are for a specific evolution, i have to take out the digimon, return him to my inventory (which btw youll not know at first how to remove your mon, because its not in a menu, its a button press, and i KNOW plenty enough people were lost because it got auto completed on a google search) check the stats i want to go for again, and return him to the digifarm.
thats this game in a nutshell.
THIS last point tells me the devs didnt actually play their game, they designed everything in a bubble not realizing how things interacted and how much stupid BLOAT it has
TLDR: buy it if youre a digimon fan NOT if youre looking for a good turnbased rpg
