was really surprised by this game. it has its cliches and it’s tropes, as well as a first act that drags on a little too long, but even then it shows charm and expands on the world of digimon (which personally I have never delved too far into) and I loved pretty much every second of it. there were also some weird plot holes and pacing issues which bugged me when I finished, but I only got 1 out of 5 endings and plan to finish them all, so here’s hoping it saves itself there.

on the other side of the game that’s NOT the visual novel part, aka the SRPG sections, it’s very lackluster in my opinion! it suffers from being an extremely boring and simple SRPG but with digimon! it has its difficulty spikes too which I wasn’t a fan of seeing as how I was already doing some light grinding on the side and only played on normal difficulty. but it’s honestly easy to just set that part aside, turn the difficulty onto very easy, start auto battle, then watch as those mons get slaughtered by the dozen.

i completely forgot to mention as well how dark this game gets which is something I did not expect going in, I knew that it was,
A) a visual novel
B) a SRPG
and
C) digimon related
so being a couple hours in and then seeing
SPOILERS!
a bitch straight up just die after running into an illusion of his dead mom after being sent into mass hysteria is insane. but god I loved the darker take on the monster collecting genre.

overall, you’re gonna be playing digimon survive for the story if you’re playing it, and if that’s what you’re after, I highly recommend!!! but if you’re just looking for a solid SRPG, look somewhere else man im sorry.