Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition

In my opinion, the best Digimon game made to date (Although I have yet to play Time Stranger), good turn-based system and there’s some re-playability if you want to complete your monster collection and do all the achievements. In my opinion the best game here is Hacker’s Memory but the story for that game doesn’t make a lot of sense unless you play the first one which is a rather traditional ‘Hero saves the world against god’ story, still I think it’s worth playing both. My only complaint is that the developers/publishers had the mentality of treating people outside of Japan as second class citizens, for the longest time they refused to publish the game outside of Asia and when they did they localized it in a way that grinded quite a lot of edges and cultural references, some of which I understand (E.g. Changing a ‘Tower Records’ shop as they most likely didn’t have the licensing rights for it outside Japan) and some that are honestly stupid (E.g. changing the color of a [i]nun[/i] Digimon from black to blue because it’s very offensive, there’s an uncensored Satan Digimon in the game btw). Overall though I still recommend it, especially now when the mainstream monster collecting franchises are rather stagnant.

After 220+ hours I can officially say I perfected both CS and HM. Outside of the abnormal amount of grinding needed in order to perfect each game, the game itself is phenomenal gameplay-wise and okay story-wise. One thing to note is there is an insane amount of dialogue which isn't an issue for me usually but when it comes to less interesting missions it can be a bit obnoxious with the amount of dialogue there is. Though, like I said I'm okay with it so it wasn't a huge issue just a bit annoying during those missions. It also didn't help that there wasn't much quality of life stuff that could help mitigate it like a skip dialogue or at least an option to speed through it. That being said this game solidified my love for Digimon and I am now more of a Digimon fan than I am of a Pokemon fan. <3 Pros Gameplay loop is addicting (fastest Digimon go first, combos, type bonus, collecting all Digimon, etc) Tons of content Tons of Digimon Progression is rewarding (eliminate encounters, ability to run, stealth mode, etc) Cons Lots of dialogue Lack of quality of life (no skip cutscenes/dialogue, no running in CS) *Unnecessary grinding (achievement hunting issue not core game-related)