Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Review
We haven’t seen a Digimon RPG release on console in a number of years, going all the way back to Digimon World Data Squad on the PlayStation 2, which has made the anticipation for this release even greater for fans! With 240 Digimon present and a battle system similar to that of Persona, could Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth be the game that we've been waiting for?
Cyber Sleuth sees the player take control of an amateur hacker (either a male or female avatar), who begins working as a cyber detective after an encounter while in EDEN (the game’s version of the Digital World) leaves the player with a half-digitized body. From there, the player undertakes cases whilst trying to find out what happened to their physical body.
Going digital |
One rather disappointing aspect of the game that has to be brought up is the player’s avatar. For a game based around using an avatar and entering a digital world, there really needed to be some sort of customisation option, which Cyber Sleuth has none of. This is made even worse by just how embarrassing your avatar looks during conversations with other characters. Your avatar won’t speak, but will open their mouth and move their body as if they are. It just looks ridiculous opposite the other characters (most of who do speak). It’s as if the developers weren’t sure whether or not to have the avatar speak and as a result, the avatar looks like they are doing a terrible mime impression.
Cyber Sleuth's colourful cast of characters |
Even though the turn based battle system doesn’t offer anything new, it does do its job perfectly fine and is incredibly solid overall. The auto battle option available lets your Digimon fight for themselves, which while a nice option to have; may work almost too well. No matter the difficulty of the case I undertook, auto battle managed to get me through every single battle (with items being the only thing I needed to do manually).
Whenever you encounter a Digimon in battle, they’re automatically scanned by the player. Once you’ve hit 100% of a scan, you’re entitled to convert that Digimon into your own. As a result, you’ll find yourself with plenty of Digimon available to use. This leads me onto the stand out (and most addictive) part of Cyber Sleuth…digivolving your Digimon. Digivolving is handled terrifically, with everything a Digimon fan could hope for being present including multiple digivolve choices, different conditions for digivolving and the oh-so-awesome DNA digivolve. You’ll find yourself constantly rushing back to the DigiLab (where digivolving takes place), so that you can see which Digimon are ready to take it to the next level.
What Digimon fan wouldn't want to have these two by their side? |
Lastly, the vibrant cel shaded art style looks pretty great when it comes to the main characters, each looking like they were plucked right out of the anime; however objects can sometimes look out of place due to the flatness of the textures. As for the music, it goes relatively well alongside the game’s cyber theme however it gets repetitive very, very quickly. You’ll find yourself getting absolutely sick of hearing the same themes after a couple hours.
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth may not bring anything new to the table, but it does provide players with a moderately entertaining cyber adventure. Digimon fans will surely appreciate the game big time, as it allows you to enjoy the type of experience you’ve wanted from a Digimon game ever since the first Digimon World.
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