On the one hand, I do enjoy the sense of character development a leveling system provides and some of the strategy behind the moves you use, but on the other, I also hate having to halt progress to grind or go find a shop to stock up on healing items just to get through one particularly difficult boss, as I feel it just ruins the games pacing. I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with traditional JRPG’s. While most random enemies are fairly easy, certain boss fights suddenly up the difficulty quite drastically, especially if you don’t have the correct type of Digimon on you, which may result in you having to grind from time to time. Mechanically, Cyber Sleuth is your stereotypical RPG with turn-based menu driven combat, random encounters and plenty of statistics and numbers. That said, the localisation is a bit patchy, with quite a number of awkward sentences that barely make sense, although you can still get the gist of what
However, that plot is full of most of your stereotypical anime tropes, but it works and keeps you compelled to keep pushing forward. Overall, the plot does a really good job at feeling like a full season of the Digimon TV show, with multiple story arcs ( some of which are better than others) all while continuously progressing the overarching plot. They end up having their digital selves separated from their real life bodies and are saved by a mysterious detective… and while that all seems like a lot to take in, it works out a lot better in execution. Naturally, our hero and a number of key cast members go to check it out and end up finding themselves caught up in all sorts of trouble, discovering Digimon and also being attacked by a crazy monster. A “hacker” breaks into this world and invites everyone to come meet him in one of EDEN’s seedier corners with the promise of a reward. Much like the internet, EDEN allows people to log in to do things to hang out with friends from all over the world, or go to virtual workplaces. In Cyber Sleuth you take on the role of a teenage boy or girl in Tokyo, Japan with access to a virtual world called EDEN. It certainly had my interest peaked from the get-go, but is this entry a glorious nostalgia trip and reminder of what I loved about the series in my childhood, or a reminder of why I fell off the bandwagon to begin with? To my surprise, the answer was to take a few concepts from one of my favourite JRPG’s, Persona 4, and combine them with a ton of those beloved digital monsters, in the franchise’s latest game: Digimon Story: Cyber Sluth. Over time, the question became what, if anything, would entice me into checking out the franchise once again.
However, as the series developed and started to go in some weird directions I eventually became almost completely disinterested in it.
Digimon is a franchise I used to love as a child.
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