freeofgreed
Member
So I've been on a Digimon binge and decided to pick this game. I've wanted this game since it was first announced in Japan, but I never ended up picking it up. So I finally beat it and I must say it is quite mediocre and has a lot of issues... but I enjoyed the hell out of it and by the time I finally decided to beat it, my save file was almost 90 hours long.
So what I like about this game
I enjoyed the story. Even though the first half and second half feel like they're from two completely different games. I liked the detective, conspiracy style story of the first half but didn't like how much of a back seat the digimon took, so I was happy that they were much more prevalent in the second half even if the story went a bit off the rails.
I really like Suzuhito Yasuda, so I'm glad that he's pretty much the defacto Digimon artist now. The soundtrack was good as well and had nice standout tracks. Also I like how the battle system is just FFX's battle system. FFX is one of my fav RPG battle systems so this was ok with me.
The game also has some surprisingly good side quests that have good story material in them. Some of them don't even feature any Digimon or battles too.
The best part of the game however is the digimon. The Digimon were given a lot of care in an otherwise low budget game. The models were all really nice, and I love how every single Digimon has at least 1 or 2 unique attack animations straight out of the show.
What I didn't like
I don't think I have any major issues with the game but I do have a bunch of small ones that add up.
-The dungeons are ass. They're very boring visually and most take like 5 minutes to complete. The game also has you retreated and backtracking a shitton.
-Encounter rate was waaay too low. This is probably the only JRPG i've ever played where I thought the encounter rate was too low. You could go entire screens without encountering a single fight and could complete entire dungeons only fighting 1 or two battles. You could circumvent that by using a hacker skill (which requires you keep a specific digimon in your party taking up valuable space), or by playing on hard....which leads me to my next point
-Game balance is shit. The game is waaaaaay too fucking easy. It is mind numbing easy. Towards the end game it gets a bit better but 95% of the fights in this game require no thought. Just match weakness and spam your strongest attack and you win. Now you could play on Hard which increases the encounter rate and mob difficulty (which was great) but it makes the bosses ridiculously difficult. I ended up just doing the dungeons on hard and switching to normal for the bosses.
-Digimon Bank QOL sucks. So many little things which were an unnecessary drag. Why is move and Digivolve separate menus? Why can't I move Digimon with a button while looking at their evolutions instead of switching back and forth. Why can't I access the settings from the digibank. I hate that I could only rename, change equipment etc... the digimon in my party and not the ones in the digibank/farms?
-Game is too vague. During main quests, after the initial text, there's no way of checking where you have to go. So if you forget or take a break from the game good luck remember on where to go. Also even when Kyoko or the Menu gives you hints on where to go, they get extremely vague. Like "Go to Eden". okay which part of Eden....
-Awful localization. This is probably one of the worst localization's I've ever seen. Tons of typos, text that was in the wrong part, incorrect pronouns, etc... the list goes on and on.
-No way to challenge friends. So I convinced my friend to get the game as well and we both got hooked on it and we both spent a lot of effort raising our digimon only to find out that there's no way for us to fight each other... wth? How did such an oversight happen? Luckily the game is dead online so we could fight each other by just constantly pressing ranked at the same time, but it's ridiculous that we'd even need to resort to such a method and if the game was more populated online it wouldn't have even been possible.
Now overall I still really enjoyed it. This is one of the few games where I actually enjoyed grinding. About half of my playtime was probably from grinding. I had more fun grinding then I did playing through the story. I just had so much fun acquiring new Digimon and evolving my old ones, Ultimately I'll say if you like Digimon and are a hardcore fan this game is great. For anyone else I'd say skip it. Especially now, there's tons of better JRPGS out there.
So what I like about this game
I enjoyed the story. Even though the first half and second half feel like they're from two completely different games. I liked the detective, conspiracy style story of the first half but didn't like how much of a back seat the digimon took, so I was happy that they were much more prevalent in the second half even if the story went a bit off the rails.
I really like Suzuhito Yasuda, so I'm glad that he's pretty much the defacto Digimon artist now. The soundtrack was good as well and had nice standout tracks. Also I like how the battle system is just FFX's battle system. FFX is one of my fav RPG battle systems so this was ok with me.
The game also has some surprisingly good side quests that have good story material in them. Some of them don't even feature any Digimon or battles too.
The best part of the game however is the digimon. The Digimon were given a lot of care in an otherwise low budget game. The models were all really nice, and I love how every single Digimon has at least 1 or 2 unique attack animations straight out of the show.
What I didn't like
I don't think I have any major issues with the game but I do have a bunch of small ones that add up.
-The dungeons are ass. They're very boring visually and most take like 5 minutes to complete. The game also has you retreated and backtracking a shitton.
-Encounter rate was waaay too low. This is probably the only JRPG i've ever played where I thought the encounter rate was too low. You could go entire screens without encountering a single fight and could complete entire dungeons only fighting 1 or two battles. You could circumvent that by using a hacker skill (which requires you keep a specific digimon in your party taking up valuable space), or by playing on hard....which leads me to my next point
-Game balance is shit. The game is waaaaaay too fucking easy. It is mind numbing easy. Towards the end game it gets a bit better but 95% of the fights in this game require no thought. Just match weakness and spam your strongest attack and you win. Now you could play on Hard which increases the encounter rate and mob difficulty (which was great) but it makes the bosses ridiculously difficult. I ended up just doing the dungeons on hard and switching to normal for the bosses.
-Digimon Bank QOL sucks. So many little things which were an unnecessary drag. Why is move and Digivolve separate menus? Why can't I move Digimon with a button while looking at their evolutions instead of switching back and forth. Why can't I access the settings from the digibank. I hate that I could only rename, change equipment etc... the digimon in my party and not the ones in the digibank/farms?
-Game is too vague. During main quests, after the initial text, there's no way of checking where you have to go. So if you forget or take a break from the game good luck remember on where to go. Also even when Kyoko or the Menu gives you hints on where to go, they get extremely vague. Like "Go to Eden". okay which part of Eden....
-Awful localization. This is probably one of the worst localization's I've ever seen. Tons of typos, text that was in the wrong part, incorrect pronouns, etc... the list goes on and on.
-No way to challenge friends. So I convinced my friend to get the game as well and we both got hooked on it and we both spent a lot of effort raising our digimon only to find out that there's no way for us to fight each other... wth? How did such an oversight happen? Luckily the game is dead online so we could fight each other by just constantly pressing ranked at the same time, but it's ridiculous that we'd even need to resort to such a method and if the game was more populated online it wouldn't have even been possible.
Now overall I still really enjoyed it. This is one of the few games where I actually enjoyed grinding. About half of my playtime was probably from grinding. I had more fun grinding then I did playing through the story. I just had so much fun acquiring new Digimon and evolving my old ones, Ultimately I'll say if you like Digimon and are a hardcore fan this game is great. For anyone else I'd say skip it. Especially now, there's tons of better JRPGS out there.
