Digimon Survive is an emotional, gripping, action-filled adventure that kept me invested from the moment I entered the Digital World. While the gameplay isn't vast, the combat is deep, and both compliment the Visual Novel style of the game. Digimon Survive may not be for everyone looking for a more direct influence on the story outside of dialogue options, but it delivers on what it promised. An amazing Digimon adventure for a whole new generation.
Despite some translation woes, Digimon Survive’s narrative still shines brightly. As cruel and dark as its narrative can be, neither you or the characters should ever give up completely. That’s the key to survival, and that message is apparent in the character relationships, the battles, and the developments of the story as a whole. Digimon Survive expresses the power that can come from your bonds with others, and how supporting each other can keep hope alive. That’s a message worth sharing, and Digimon Survive is a messenger worth experiencing.
I liked the concept of the game from the very first trailer. While I am not a fan of visual novels, Digimon Survive's tactical battles managed to balance the game between story and gameplay. The characters and their interactions, as well as their take on their situation felt far more genuine than any Digimon media so far, which was a breath of fresh air in my opinion. The multiple endings and the need for a second playthrough to get the true ending was actually satisfying.
Digimon Survive não só inovou ao trazer uma jogabilidade de RPG tático a franquia como também inovou ao trazer um enredo mais sombrio e voltado para um público mais adulto, definitivamente esse jogo não é adequado a crianças, a história é excelente, a arte e as animações também. Sem dúvida alguma é um jogo que vale muito a pena de ser jogado.
Digimon Survive excels in what's most important in a game of its genre by giving the player a deep and engaging storyline full of unexpected twists. You can almost compare this visual novel to a new chapter of the animated series thanks to a great general design and a well done characterization of its protagonists, both humans and Digimon. This is a game with a strong personality but an average combat system that sometimes ends up damaging the narration's rhythm. Despite this, Digimon Survive is undoubtedly a must have for any fan of the franchise.
Digimon Survive's uniquely dark take on the standard Digimon storyline is enough to carry a title that's sometimes poorly paced and basic in its approach to gameplay. A visual novel with RPG elements bolted on, it's difficult not to feel as though the creature taming and combat aspects of Survive could have been bigger and better. But ultimately, a mix of endearing characters and eye-opening plot points make this another worthwhile adventure in the digital world.
Visual novel and tactical RPG, with these words you already know if Digimon Survive is for you or not. The game has one of the best stories of the franchise thanks to its dark and mature tones. It’s however counterbalanced by many filler moments, empty dialogues and tacticless battles.
Such an odd choice of game design. They could make a Pokemon-style game with open-world battling and I'd have lapped it up, but this format has glaring issues. The pace is amazingly slow and the story far too long. Plus, the digi-volution is an obscured mess, with the best ones coming too late or not at all. The game is clearly oriented toward replayability, but no way am I sitting through this more than once.
I can't remember when was the time i saw SO MANY spelling mistakes in a single Game. It's like in every third sentence. Additionally to the lack of quality it's a very Bad Visual Novel. It lacks in animations, a good and not elongated Story and a refined battle system. its just boring and the bare minimum they could offer. Every fan should rate this piece of sh.. negatively it's just not a good digimon or good game overall
A bit late review but here we go:
Foreword: I wanted to love this game, I loved digimon as a kid, I had hopes for this game.
The game suffers from a number of problems which makes me not enjoy it, and as a result not recommend it to anyone in good conscience.
First off: The game was marketed with the mindset that your decisions will decide the fates of the characters, who dies who lives. This only applies on newgame+, which is a really odd design decision to me. When you're playing the game for the first time, your decisions have zero impact on deaths, if the game requires a character to die, they will die. This is simply not what was advertised.
Secondly: the story itself is very poorly and boringly told. When characters are about to do something, be it something as simple as walking forward a hundred meters they'll spend what seems like half an hour talking about doing it instead of just doing it. Also when an enemy is about to attack you, there's again, what feels like half an hour of 'he's about to attack me' dialogue, I am not kidding. This happens over and over again and gets boring really fast.
Thirdly: the tactical battles are an absolute chore, they're not fun and they're very basic. Not that you'll get to play many of them since 80% of the game is talking, which wouldn't be bad if it wasn't boring.
SummaryDigimon Survive presents a hybrid visual novel and tactical RPG set in a mysterious world filled with dangerous monsters and deadly battles that will test your ability to survive. After getting lost on a school trip, Takuma Momozuka finds himself transported to a world inhabited by ferocious foes and new allies. Join Takuma and his frien...