Digimon Survive

To preface this review, as I'm aware a lot of folks came in with different expectations, I'm no stranger to vn style games, I've been around the block with my fair share, so this review isn't born out of misplaced expectations, I knew what I was getting myself into. That said, Digimon Survive is a game that utterly frustrates me to no end because it has the bones of a story that could have been [spoiler] a fun reimagining of the events of Digimon Adventure,[/spoiler] even its characters all have moments and archetypes that were at the very least a bit enjoyable when they weren't beholden to plot contrivances, and boy, does its contrived plot really put a damper on it all. First off, the pacing is horrid, even by vn standards. A good vn will hold itself together even in the long haul, this game's writing is aggravating, padded and worst of all, dull. Had this game been written to be a quarter of the length I'd excuse it, but a single playthrough will take you around 30-40 hours by sheer volume of nothingburger arguments between the cast, events that lead nowhere, exercises in frustration as characters lose their minds with 0 intervention from everyone around them, and a whol…

Very different take to the franchise's regular television narratives (/pos)

As a fan of tactics style games, Digimon hit a home run here. If you aren't a fan of Visual Novels, this may not be for you, but the story is excellent. Multiple routes make it a great replay, and it never feels like its dragging or going nowhere.

IF IT WASN'T SUCH A ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DIALOG SIMULATOR. MY GOD... ZZZ

Amazing 10/10 story <3

I recommend if you like Digimon and you absolutely LOVE visual novels. (In any case, you should play to have your own opinion, specially if you really like Digimon). Do not expect something creative and original in that sense. It is an OK novel with fun tactics combats but lacks creativity, lacks content, and lack pacing. I would definitely love it if it was an anime series or movie, but the game at the end gets really slow and frustrating, with dialogs that lead nowhere just ot fill gameplay time. The Karma and Afinity mechanic is not really nice because in these games I want to answer what matches my personality, but if you want specific evolutions you need to choose your answeres accordingly even if you don't agree or if the answer makes no sense for the situation... Well I love digimon and I've only played Ace Attorney for VNs so it got me tired after too much time playing. Also the game has like 3 songs at maximum, that's really tiring too... The evolution moments are awesome and there are a lot of cool individual moments.