Here, more than in any other Digimon game or anime, the characters’ monster companions are essentially digital manifestations of their subconscious selves, aspects they have trouble acknowledging in normal life or would like to forget altogether. Digimon Survive is, at its core, a story about what we owe each other, and how we can work together to balance tradition and progress toward a better future. It outlines most of what become the key plot points early in the prologue. Digimon Survive is tight-fisted when it comes to doling out world-building and leaves most of it for the game’s final three of the total eight chapters, or about 15-20 hours of the total 60-hour run time.Įven so, the broader narrative’s main beats don’t go anywhere surprising, despite a promising start. During exploration, you chat with your fellow students, look for key items or paths forward, and generally get a better idea of what’s going on in this strange parallel world at least, you try to.
Your usual personalities are along for the ride, whether they want to be or not - the popular girl, the prankster and his serious companion, the moody loner, and the insecure class leader - but there’s no sense of optimistic adventuring once they land in the digital world, the series’ name for the alternate reality where Digimon dwell.ĭigimon Survive divides its lengthy run time between exploration, free time, and battle segments.
The visual-novel aspects seem ideal for the story Digimon Survive wants to tell, but whether from a lack of confidence in its own characters or a misunderstanding of what makes visual novels a powerful storytelling medium to begin with, it falls short of its abundant potential.ĭigimon Survive opens with strong similarities to the original Digimon: Digital Monsters anime: A group of students from different schools gather in the countryside for an educational camping trip. But that burden proves a bit too heavy to carry. But these are just some of the everyday tribulations for the unlucky band of middle schoolers in Digimon Survive.ĭeveloped by Hyde, Digimon Survive shoulders the heavy burden of evolving the series’ traditional blend of monster breeding and turn-based role-playing - namely, with the addition of visual-novel elements. You’re less likely to encounter classroom-sized spiders or intense personal trauma, and hopefully, you won’t be responsible for a friend never returning home. The itinerary for a class trip typically includes safe, normal things - visiting a historical landmark and learning how to cooperate with people from other schools, for instance.
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