This review contains spoilers
Great duology! If you like the Persona 2 duology plus Soul Hackers you will probably like this, has a lot of similar plot elements.
A ton of queer characters as well, I only wish the game didn't force you to say "jk" after you pick the option to return your gay friends feelings.
A ton of queer characters as well, I only wish the game didn't force you to say "jk" after you pick the option to return your gay friends feelings.
The Digimon designs are all fantastic. The evolution/devolution mechanic was neat. Combat was solid. Feels like a brighter Shin Megami Tensei, and I think there’s a lot of merit to that. Unfortunately the story is insultingly bland and you spend 90% of the game in a generic grid with “hacker” aesthetic. Just miserable environments.
eta weno pero en gran parte del juego me sentia perdio
This game saved me during one of the worst depressive seasons of my life, so going back to it now might be a little painful. But I feel like it deserves it, I definitely need to beat it.
As a Digimon fan, this is so much fun! It's really not a perfect game, and if I weren't a fan of the franchise already, I'd just think it's a good game, but being able to sorta raise my own digimon and play around with the evo tree rly tickled my fancy. The story is typical digimon fare, which means I loved it. It had a couple innovations, like the digital world, the digital area and the hacker stuff. The music is pretty cool but nothing to write home about. Idk what else to say other than I'm having fun trying to get all the digimon
O jogo é até legal, o problema é a quantidade incessante de diálogos que na maioria das vezes não muda nada na historia. Mas isso é um problema de todo tipo de jogo nesse estilo.
no spoilers~ & this is just for the first game, cyber sleuth
i had so much fun with this game that I immediately launched into playing Hacker's Memory after 98 hrs of cyber sleuth~ it's not perfect by any means, with sum very uneven difficulty & invisible encounters for example, but the design is pretty solid, so that even grinding is fun (& u will have to grind a lil, even on normal). the story was fun & along with the character development it took sum unexpected & subtle turns that kept me engaged. as someone who was all about Pokemon growing up, this was super refreshing; actual characters, actual plot, darker & more mature themes, more challenging gameplay, & way more queer representation (the game is especially queer if u play as the girl)~ just a real one-up on the tired pokemon games (though I rly enjoyed Arceus, finally some innovation), aside from of course the classic digimon hit-or-miss quality in the monster design & naming department. I like how challenging it is to achieve some of the digivoloutions, & hard difficulty was actually hard for boss battles, which gave the game a lot more strategy elements. u cant just go in with no items & spam high-damage moves like u can in pokemon. I just wish they had spread the difficulty between easy, normal & hard instead of just normal & hard, because sumtimes hard was a lil frustrating & normal is way too easy, would've been nice to have sumthing in the middle as I found myself swapping between them (which I'm rly grateful you can do at any point!). the music is rly fun, I adored how cheesy it is from the beginning & then grew to love it~ I also thought the Japanese voice acting was good.
this collection is often on sale for really cheap, I highly recommend u pick it up if u like digimon, JRPGs, the monster-catching genre or are just in need of sumthing more fun & refreshing than main-line pokemon
oh, also, it is rly obvious the localization team had to translate the digiline texts out of context, which makes for some absolutely hilarious & often unintelligible conversations! i absolutely loved it hehe (& don't worry, the digiline texts are simply flavour & the rest of the game is translated well! tho sumtimes the cheese factor is veryy high or overly expository in the English translation)
i had so much fun with this game that I immediately launched into playing Hacker's Memory after 98 hrs of cyber sleuth~ it's not perfect by any means, with sum very uneven difficulty & invisible encounters for example, but the design is pretty solid, so that even grinding is fun (& u will have to grind a lil, even on normal). the story was fun & along with the character development it took sum unexpected & subtle turns that kept me engaged. as someone who was all about Pokemon growing up, this was super refreshing; actual characters, actual plot, darker & more mature themes, more challenging gameplay, & way more queer representation (the game is especially queer if u play as the girl)~ just a real one-up on the tired pokemon games (though I rly enjoyed Arceus, finally some innovation), aside from of course the classic digimon hit-or-miss quality in the monster design & naming department. I like how challenging it is to achieve some of the digivoloutions, & hard difficulty was actually hard for boss battles, which gave the game a lot more strategy elements. u cant just go in with no items & spam high-damage moves like u can in pokemon. I just wish they had spread the difficulty between easy, normal & hard instead of just normal & hard, because sumtimes hard was a lil frustrating & normal is way too easy, would've been nice to have sumthing in the middle as I found myself swapping between them (which I'm rly grateful you can do at any point!). the music is rly fun, I adored how cheesy it is from the beginning & then grew to love it~ I also thought the Japanese voice acting was good.
this collection is often on sale for really cheap, I highly recommend u pick it up if u like digimon, JRPGs, the monster-catching genre or are just in need of sumthing more fun & refreshing than main-line pokemon
oh, also, it is rly obvious the localization team had to translate the digiline texts out of context, which makes for some absolutely hilarious & often unintelligible conversations! i absolutely loved it hehe (& don't worry, the digiline texts are simply flavour & the rest of the game is translated well! tho sumtimes the cheese factor is veryy high or overly expository in the English translation)
meh
Very cool and the ability to put together a team of your own favorite Digimon is worth the price of admission alone, but it's also very grindy.
I also strongly recommend getting this on PC so you can install a Japanese names mod. Get that Omnimon shit out of here his name is Omegamon
I also strongly recommend getting this on PC so you can install a Japanese names mod. Get that Omnimon shit out of here his name is Omegamon
ficar evoluindo digimon nesse jogo é um dos maiorews vícios que já tive em jogo, loucura demais
A fun creature collector that feels like playing an anime, for better or for worse. Long episodes with lots of filler BUT some really cool moments and designs. The actual battle system is a bit "eh" though but toying around with getting the different Digimon is definitely addicting.
Completed
You have to grind so much to get the digimon you want and a lot of things are time based so you can be doing nothing for 30 mins waiting for your digimon to finish training. Story wise Cybersleuth is pretty basic but, Nokia is GOAT. Hacker's memories on the other hand is more intimate and nowhere near as grandiose as cybersleuth still Hacker's memories story is the best one and the emotional moments hit hard
This review contains spoilers
I am pretty fond of the Digimon Story games, though I started playing them when they were still called “World” in the US. Digimon World Dusk was a favorite of mine as a kid that I replayed probably at least 3 or 4 different times, so I was already very used to the Story gameplay by the time a close friend recommended I get Cyber Sleuth last year. If you’re not used to the gameplay, it can be definitely an adjustment though; the complaints of tediousness in these games mostly do not feel as such to me, but given that both games combined will almost definitely clock you over 100 hours of game time, I can see why a lot of people would find elements of it monotonous over time. Thankfully this game has quality of life upgrades that Dusk did not, such as gradually gaining the ability to reduce and then remove random encounters entirely if you want. I am very biased to sprite work, and the DS games were gorgeous looking, but there is something to be said about how good the 3D models and attacks look in this game, I never really got to the point where I wished there was a skip button because the attacks still looked so cool even after seeing them for the thousandth time. There were some Digimon I was expecting to be in this game and very sad to learn weren’t, but 90% of the main staples are here and I even learned about some cool new ones through playing both games in this collection.
The thing that stands out to me even more than the gameplay was the ending to Part 2(Hackers Memory), which I do not exaggerate when I say feels like it has to be the saddest ending of any game I’ve played. The game overall is not particularly heart wrenching, but I cannot think of another game that not just kills off a major character, but rewrites the whole continuity of the in-game story so that they never existed in the first place and none of their loved ones even remember who they were. When the player character goes into what used to be her room but sees it became a regular old closet and starts breaking into tears, I felt that in my bones 100%. You’re almost mad at the writer’s team for making something so cruel but then you remember that the fact that they got you that invested in a game about weird collectible dinosaurs speaks to their accomplishment. It will always hold a special place in my heart for that reason, even if I probably will not go back to it every year like I do with something like Pokémon Emerald.
The thing that stands out to me even more than the gameplay was the ending to Part 2(Hackers Memory), which I do not exaggerate when I say feels like it has to be the saddest ending of any game I’ve played. The game overall is not particularly heart wrenching, but I cannot think of another game that not just kills off a major character, but rewrites the whole continuity of the in-game story so that they never existed in the first place and none of their loved ones even remember who they were. When the player character goes into what used to be her room but sees it became a regular old closet and starts breaking into tears, I felt that in my bones 100%. You’re almost mad at the writer’s team for making something so cruel but then you remember that the fact that they got you that invested in a game about weird collectible dinosaurs speaks to their accomplishment. It will always hold a special place in my heart for that reason, even if I probably will not go back to it every year like I do with something like Pokémon Emerald.
Cyber Sleuth:
As a longtime Digimon fan, this was an experience so powerful that it managed to give me the same joy of watching Adventure for the first time. The world and the grand nature of this story was conveyed in such a way that truly blew me away, integrating franchise lore while keeping a fun personality, imaginative world, and great characters, it's Digimon in EVERY sense and I adore it for that.
Hacker's Memory:
Hackers' Memory gave me the same kind of enjoyment I felt playing Cyber Sleuth, with much of the same gameplay with slight new twists, but it does just feel like a glorified side story in comparison to Cyber Sleuth's grand story. Though, it still manages to pull off a personal story with one of my favorite characters in the franchise. That ending screwed me up.
As a longtime Digimon fan, this was an experience so powerful that it managed to give me the same joy of watching Adventure for the first time. The world and the grand nature of this story was conveyed in such a way that truly blew me away, integrating franchise lore while keeping a fun personality, imaginative world, and great characters, it's Digimon in EVERY sense and I adore it for that.
Hacker's Memory:
Hackers' Memory gave me the same kind of enjoyment I felt playing Cyber Sleuth, with much of the same gameplay with slight new twists, but it does just feel like a glorified side story in comparison to Cyber Sleuth's grand story. Though, it still manages to pull off a personal story with one of my favorite characters in the franchise. That ending screwed me up.
My first true experience with Digimon. Once again started as me watching my friend play through some of the early game before really wanting to try it (mainly seeing as the combat relatively resembled Pokemon, so I figured I wouldn't have issues figuring it out). Bought it on a whim, wanting to try something new, and I was not disappointed in the slightest.
I won't lie, both stories start a little slow, only really picking up a faster pace by the halfway point of each story, but despite that, it's a very fun and interesting game, and as a whole it's managed to get me to start being more interested in Digimon!
I won't lie, both stories start a little slow, only really picking up a faster pace by the halfway point of each story, but despite that, it's a very fun and interesting game, and as a whole it's managed to get me to start being more interested in Digimon!
I never actually finished Hacker's Memory, but Cyber Sleuth is a great game.
Playing this on Switch is hell. Constantly crashes. I've softlocked myself a couple times and had to load an earlier save a couple times to get past the area I got softlocked in. I'll maybe try to power through the rest of this game on Switch or just get it on Steam/PS Vita
oh boy i have a lot to say about this game... i might end up sounding like an entitled gamer who sucks lol
pros:
- two conceptually interesting stories that explore cyberspace in their own ways
- the digimon models are rendered wonderfully
- battle system is has slightly more nuance than its often compared to rival, pokemon
- both stories kept me intrigued the whole way
- funny localization moments (like bffr you've never heard someone say "oh snap! yo dawg let's bounce!")
- didn't experience any bugs as far as i noticed
cons (because i am a salty gamer):
- lack of essential quality of life things i've taken for granted in other jrpgs (skip cutscenes, skip text, battle fast forward, story recap)
- CHAPTER 16 HACKER'S MEMORY TERRITORY CAPTURE LEGEND ANGELS (they heal every other turn omfg)
- not really the most memorable ost, immersive for sure but not many bangers :(
- SILENT PROTAGONISTS (personally feel like this trope needs to die out)
- hacker's memory protag has a voice for like the very beginning and the very end, feels bad for the seiyuu tbh
- if you want decent digimon, you're kinda forced into grinding which is pretty sucky if you're just casually playing (constatnt digivolving and de-digivolving for ABI to go up by a mere 5)
- the voice acting is inconsistent. like you'd go from a voiced scene with the main cast to no voice right after. i get it but i personally thought the main cast should have had all their lines voiced
- random encounters felt a little dated tbh but i've just been spoiled by a lot of games today that have phased out the concept of random encounters
- dungeon design was lacking but it's nothing major to be upset at
- kinda surprised there was only two difficulties. normal and hard
i prefer cyber sleuth over hacker's memory in terms of story. given that cyber sleuth is kinda sorta the "main" story anyways, there's a noticable difference in regards to the writing quality between the two. hacker's memory kinda follows one driving plot point for most of it, resolves it SUPER quickly, and then moves onto another plot that's been building up in the background slowly.
i do like the mechanics in hacker's memory though. domination battles were neat (but ffs why can i not decide WHERE my characters start?)
so uhh long story short: neat stories locked behind some tedious gameplay if you're willing to endure it. i would say that cyber sleuth is the only one worth your time tbh
pros:
- two conceptually interesting stories that explore cyberspace in their own ways
- the digimon models are rendered wonderfully
- battle system is has slightly more nuance than its often compared to rival, pokemon
- both stories kept me intrigued the whole way
- funny localization moments (like bffr you've never heard someone say "oh snap! yo dawg let's bounce!")
- didn't experience any bugs as far as i noticed
cons (because i am a salty gamer):
- lack of essential quality of life things i've taken for granted in other jrpgs (skip cutscenes, skip text, battle fast forward, story recap)
- CHAPTER 16 HACKER'S MEMORY TERRITORY CAPTURE LEGEND ANGELS (they heal every other turn omfg)
- not really the most memorable ost, immersive for sure but not many bangers :(
- SILENT PROTAGONISTS (personally feel like this trope needs to die out)
- hacker's memory protag has a voice for like the very beginning and the very end, feels bad for the seiyuu tbh
- if you want decent digimon, you're kinda forced into grinding which is pretty sucky if you're just casually playing (constatnt digivolving and de-digivolving for ABI to go up by a mere 5)
- the voice acting is inconsistent. like you'd go from a voiced scene with the main cast to no voice right after. i get it but i personally thought the main cast should have had all their lines voiced
- random encounters felt a little dated tbh but i've just been spoiled by a lot of games today that have phased out the concept of random encounters
- dungeon design was lacking but it's nothing major to be upset at
- kinda surprised there was only two difficulties. normal and hard
i prefer cyber sleuth over hacker's memory in terms of story. given that cyber sleuth is kinda sorta the "main" story anyways, there's a noticable difference in regards to the writing quality between the two. hacker's memory kinda follows one driving plot point for most of it, resolves it SUPER quickly, and then moves onto another plot that's been building up in the background slowly.
i do like the mechanics in hacker's memory though. domination battles were neat (but ffs why can i not decide WHERE my characters start?)
so uhh long story short: neat stories locked behind some tedious gameplay if you're willing to endure it. i would say that cyber sleuth is the only one worth your time tbh
blah blah blah blah blah blah: the video game
Both of these games are peak digimon.. it's not a lot but its peak nonetheless
I have not played Hacker's Memory, therefore I am only reviewing the main story of Cyber Sleuth. Great entry in the Digimon series. The mechanics are good, game is fun and the Digimon evolution lines are interesting and are very adaptable. Easy to pick up if you have never played Digimon before. Battle system is a good, classic turn-based system which is clear at providing information as to what Digimon will attack next. Unfortunately, it did become very repetitive at times, and some of the soundtrack lacked variety. Storyline was good, but the pacing was inconsistent, with some chapters feeling very slow while others were much faster. Being a Cyber Sleuth that can travel through networks was a great combination and felt creative.
Unrated right now as I play the first one being Cyber Sleuth. Game feels like 60% reading, 20% combat, and 20% backtracking with a lot of the main quests and especially these side quests that have you find items. It is still extremely enjoyable however and I very much think people who are new to the series will find enjoyment in this game.
Would be cool to have a true sequel with an updated roster but this game goes hard
Digimon digital monsters Digimon are the champions-
no spoilers, & this is for hackers memory & thoughts after both games
these games are just really fun~ my feelings about this second installment are very similar to my feelings about the first, so I won't go on about those as u can just read my other log in here if u want.
as for hackers memory specifically, I found the lil quality of life improvements to be welcome. the music ofc still slaps! the story is alright, similar in quality to the first mb a bit better, tho it was a bit of a bummer sumtimes to have to play a guy, I missed how much queerer it felt to play as a girl in cyber sleuth. it got better towards the end, even stirring up sum emotions at sum points which I didn't expect. I didn't appreciate the ableist aspects of the narrative though (or the slight seasoning of misogyny that popped up here n there), it's cool that one of the main characters is Disabled but u can tell that whoever wrote it still has a lot of ableism to unlearn. I also really like Yu as a queer character, tho they kinda dropped him at one point that felt jarring, & ur interactions with him didn't leave u any agency to decide how u relate with him unfortunately seeing as u are playing as a more specific character in this game.
oh, there was a certain animated sequence toward the end at one point that I absolutely loved, wud love to see more experimentation like what they did there, v psychedelic!
I liked the addition of 3-person battles to shake up the approach to combat every now & then, but sum additional things like territory battles & the whole taking-friends-on-quests thing felt a lil uninspired. I liked a lot of the additional digimon designs, tho sum are just really hard to achieve without lots of grinding...
once I beat the game, it was really confusing how continuing ur game or new game + worked... & for sum reason u can only transfer digimon from your Digibank in Cyber sleuth into hackers memory, not any of the party or farm digimon... which is really frustrating as far as I can tell there is no way to go back into cyber sleuth & move digimon into your digibank, so I don't have access to most of my Digimon from the first game- bad design. there are still a few digivolutions I haven't gotten yet & am not sure if i will be able to find a fun way to keep playing to achieve them.
overall, I highly recommend this series! despite its flaws the two combined kept me engaged for longer than most games have, and it's definitely a way better monster-catching game & overall experience (better gameplay, story, characters, queer representation, evolution system etc) than pokemon main-line games, so pls check it out if u haven't yet! i picked it up for like $15 or sumthin, it goes on sale for cheap. I hope they do another game like these- better accessibility settings, difficulty settings (something other than super-easy & grindy-hard) & better story would take this to a whole nother level!
these games are just really fun~ my feelings about this second installment are very similar to my feelings about the first, so I won't go on about those as u can just read my other log in here if u want.
as for hackers memory specifically, I found the lil quality of life improvements to be welcome. the music ofc still slaps! the story is alright, similar in quality to the first mb a bit better, tho it was a bit of a bummer sumtimes to have to play a guy, I missed how much queerer it felt to play as a girl in cyber sleuth. it got better towards the end, even stirring up sum emotions at sum points which I didn't expect. I didn't appreciate the ableist aspects of the narrative though (or the slight seasoning of misogyny that popped up here n there), it's cool that one of the main characters is Disabled but u can tell that whoever wrote it still has a lot of ableism to unlearn. I also really like Yu as a queer character, tho they kinda dropped him at one point that felt jarring, & ur interactions with him didn't leave u any agency to decide how u relate with him unfortunately seeing as u are playing as a more specific character in this game.
oh, there was a certain animated sequence toward the end at one point that I absolutely loved, wud love to see more experimentation like what they did there, v psychedelic!
I liked the addition of 3-person battles to shake up the approach to combat every now & then, but sum additional things like territory battles & the whole taking-friends-on-quests thing felt a lil uninspired. I liked a lot of the additional digimon designs, tho sum are just really hard to achieve without lots of grinding...
once I beat the game, it was really confusing how continuing ur game or new game + worked... & for sum reason u can only transfer digimon from your Digibank in Cyber sleuth into hackers memory, not any of the party or farm digimon... which is really frustrating as far as I can tell there is no way to go back into cyber sleuth & move digimon into your digibank, so I don't have access to most of my Digimon from the first game- bad design. there are still a few digivolutions I haven't gotten yet & am not sure if i will be able to find a fun way to keep playing to achieve them.
overall, I highly recommend this series! despite its flaws the two combined kept me engaged for longer than most games have, and it's definitely a way better monster-catching game & overall experience (better gameplay, story, characters, queer representation, evolution system etc) than pokemon main-line games, so pls check it out if u haven't yet! i picked it up for like $15 or sumthin, it goes on sale for cheap. I hope they do another game like these- better accessibility settings, difficulty settings (something other than super-easy & grindy-hard) & better story would take this to a whole nother level!
For the first game, I really liked it. The combat was really fun and I loved the designs of the Digimon as well as the different animations. The animations felt really realistic which was funny considering the game. Yes, the combat did get pretty grind-heavy but I loved that about it. The story was pretty interesting too. I liked the detective angle and how it changed the gameplay sometimes. The biggest drawback of the game is how much of the game looks really similar thanks to the setting.
For the second game, I found it really fun. I thought the story was an interesting continuation of the first game. A ton of it was carried over from that game too which made it feel like not much of a new experience. Overall, I really like the game a lot but felt it could have had more new content than it did.
For the second game, I found it really fun. I thought the story was an interesting continuation of the first game. A ton of it was carried over from that game too which made it feel like not much of a new experience. Overall, I really like the game a lot but felt it could have had more new content than it did.
Un JRPG que por medio del universo Digimon cuenta una historia de identidad en tiempos de gentrificación. Las horas dedicadas dicen mas que lo que yo mismo puedo decir.
Terminei hoje o Cyber sleuth, e QUE JOGO BOMMM, amei muito todos personagens, toda a trama, e a gameplay me agradou bastante também.
Digimon > Pokémon