Selling You On Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth 

CORRECTION: The first Digimon video game was actually Digital Monster Ver. S: Digimon Tamers for the Saturn. World was the first game to release in the west!

Cyber Sleuth gave me something I had always wanted from the Pokemon games. An actual cutscene with the monsters in your party. The moment at the end when Alphamon reveals that she teamed up with your Digimon in order to bring you back as the camera spins to show your character surrounded by your entire party almost made me tear up.

The second half of cybersleuth felt so smt it made me happy. Also on the switch I liked that if you sleep mode it still runs your digifarms, it looks like I played for 1600 hours because of all the times I let the farm do its thing while I was at work. Great game

Nokia surprising everyone with Omegamon only to then go ""... nani!?" is one of my favorite scenes on the franchise to this day XD

Can you imagine that it took the power of the fandom to bring this outside of Japan, we wouldn't even have the new Digimon TCG out in the west if it weren't for this movement. Bless Bandai for seeing that people care!

I really love this Digimon renaissance we're going through lately, and all thanks to Cyber Sleuth.

Cyber sleuth is by far one of the most important games in the digimon revival that has been happening in the west, with the digimon card game being a critical succes and digimon survive being an absolutely amazing story, digimon has been growing a lot recently, and with the vital bracelet and more products, digimon has been enjoying more and more popularity in recent years, and the first step that they took was releasing cyber sleuth, so yeah, one of the most iconic and fun games there is for any digimon fan everybody!

CyberSleuth is crazy addicting. Digi-volving back and forth to see what new creatures you get just hits hard. I find myself recommending these two games to anyone who has an interest in pokemon. No, it's not exactly the same but if you like collecting and evolving pokemon, you will absolutely love this because there's even more collecting and evolving because of how freely you can jump between different monsters.

The fact the localisation came out the same year as Uncharted 4 and Doom 2016 while still managing to sell well for a brand that had been falling behind prior is impressive. Had they waited longer to pull the trigger, it might have went up against stiff competition like Persona 5 and have a Rayman Legends situation happen with it.

Love Cyber Sleuth games - I think they're fun little games. And that's awesome of you to give away your oops order.

This game made me realize digimon and megaten are very similar with some monster designs and stuff lol. Cool video!

"CyberSleuth is just SMT, but in a good way." You, sir, just earned yourself a subscriber. I knew that there was a reason why Devil Summoner and Persona 3~5 call to me. I still have Digimon World 3 on my "in case of boredom, play game" shelf!

I LOVE HOW MUCH LOVE THE DIGIMON GAMES HAVE BEEN GETTING LATELY

Just a little tip if you don’t wanna wait hours to raise your digimon, you can play the switch version and leave the game in suspended mode, it’ll continue to play in the background and your digimon will continue to be in training gaining levels. At first it confused me why I had 100 hrs after not playing for over 3 days lmao, but I realized it helps a lot of you wanna level up digimon fast.

YES!! Cyber Sleuth and Hacker's Memory are my favorites RPGs ever. Been waiting this video ever since your mention in the What is SMT video. Even if they have more parallels with Soul Hackers, they actually inspired me to go after Devil Survivor 2 because of the similar graphic style, and that ended up becoming my second favorite RPG ever.

I have convinced my friends into playing Cybersleuth. And they liked it. I liked it. Coming from someone who had loved Digimon series and seeing how it tackles topics much darker than Pokemon, it was a really interesting series. I used to play the crud out of Digimon World Dawn back when it came out. Back to Cybersleuth, its story was something that caught my attention and played the memory out of it. The story itself was dark and twists at the time were really cool. Now I play the Digimon TCG as well which is becoming one of my top tcg to play now.

The combo Cyber Sleuth/Haker's Memory is currently my favorite set Digimon games. I'm so thankful we got it in the west. ~ Adam

I have to make to you a correction Macca, about the first video game, the first was Digital Monster Ver. S: Digimon Tamers. A game that came out for the Sega Saturn and was a port of the original toys to the home screen.

man i wish you made videos more often. your editing is so good and funny

Digimon's name isn't inspired by Pokemon's name at all. Pokemon's initial name was Pocket Monsters, not being named Pokemon until 1998. Tamagotchi is a portmanteau of tama(egg) and watch. Digimon's portmanteau name comes from the same naming convention. Tamagotchi = 1996, Digimon = 1997, and Pokemon = 1998. RU-vid is the single biggest source of gaming and japanese media misinformation. It took me less than 10 minutes to check for this information elsewhere.

I always loved the Digimon franchise since Adventure and Cyber Sleuth were a surprise to me when they came out! I instantly bought it when I found out about it and was satisfied. I knew that they were parallels to SMT and Cyber Slueth, but I didn't think it was extensive as is. Also, I would suggest a discussion video since it would leave the comparison more open on the comparison with SMT ...if and ...if; plus Strange Journey and Annihilation.

I remember being really let down by sword and shield and went on a tear looking for new games to scratch that itch. I found this and then Monster Hunter stories 2 and gotdamn I’m glad I did. Love the changes to the formula here and there. ESP here I loved just building a mega digimon going all the way to the end of the fusions and back and forth until I accumulated all the moves I needed. Just really pleasing stuff. Loved triple battles as the norm and the changing order on the side of the screen. It’s not perfect and it feels very stilted at times, but yeah. Big fan.

In the Megaten comparisons you could have added that the main character got framed for a crime he didn't commit, much like Ren was accused for assault by Shido in persona 5.

I loved this game when it came out. It helps that it feels like a Summer Wars spiritual successor.

It's crazy how little content there is on these amazing games. I've been thinking about how fun it would be if there was a slightly bigger community in the content creation sphere, so I really appreciate the video! Here's hoping for the giveaway.

Fantastic video, love to see any discussion around Digimon that isn't boiled down to it being compared to Pokemon. Also the brief history rundown in the beginning was great since it may be familiar to longtime fans but it helps outsiders feel a greater appreciation for the game. Have you gotten a chance to check out Survive yet? It totally delivers on the mature and dark storytelling front that Cyber Sleuth had to it.

Another thing to note about scanning is that the percentage varies depending on the classification of a Digimon. For example, a fresh Digimon will grant a much higher scanning percentage than a Mega level one. Cyber Sleuth is one of my favorite Digimon games as well as Digimon World DS and the Dawn and Dusk games. Will get into Hacker's Memory as well.

Ty for the rundown! As a kid I played sm Digimon World DS and I absolutely wanna relive the love for Digimon so I'll def be trying Cyber Sleuth!

Before watching the vid I'm gonna tell you chief... I'm already sold

I'm in the middle of SMT V and have a backlog that stretches miles long, but this video singlehandedly sold me on bumping Cybersleuth up to the next game on my agenda. I've got absolutely no history with Digimon, so I'm doubly enthusiastic about finally getting to experience its world with Cybersleuth.

I love everything about Digimon! The anime, the videogames, the card game, the soundtrack, the monster design, the storys. Everything! ❤️

The first Cyber Sleuth was my first experience with Digimon(outside of renting the movie when I was very young) cause my friend recommended it to me since I enjoy monster collecting games. I was so instantly hooked and now I am a certified Digimon fan and enjoy aspects of it way more than Pokemon, a series I have grown up with and have many fond memories of. But now I have fond memories and strong attachments to the Digimon in these games. To the point where when I look for, or make a deck for the new TCG, it almost always has involved my beloved team members from my playthrough. Cyber Sleuth is a great game and honestly the game I've recommended most people start with for Digimon. (Also great video and I didn't expect to come out of it being interested in a totally different game series)

I love these games, the cybersleuth duology is in my top 5 favorite games of all time I really can’t wait for the next Story game, Survive was fantastic but the Story and World series is where my love for digimon is ❤️

I’ve been interested in trying Cyber Sleuth for a while now ever since I got back into Digimon a couple years ago. If it weren’t for my massive back log of games I have but need to play I’d have already picked it up.

I remember the anticipation and wait for this one to leave Japan with the demand for a localisation being high. Actually playing through it right now.

I always wanted more of these games , cyber sleuth was the thing that made me fall in love with digimon again

for me this game was my first introduction to digimon as i have little memory of it as a kid. and i must say, it surprised me positively. Even got me into the francise

Yes, not only you reaffirmed to me that I should get this game, I'm also confident that I should pay a bit more to get it physical for Switch instead of cheaper digital on Steam.

Such an amazing game. Both of them were great. Haven’t finished survive but love it so far too. Huge digimon fan

Love how this video popped up right after I just finished replaying this game

Both games of Cybersleuth are great and I hope they make more games with this gameplay in mind.

I always liked to think of the first half of it being like the monster of the week parts of the anime then the later half being your kinda more plot oriented theme.You got your Dark Masters,your Arueknimons,your D-Reapers,your Corrupted Spritd etc.

Since the sub series name is technically Digital Monster Story, isn't it like just one step away from just Digital Devil Story? The latest game Digimon Survive also has a Negotiation mechanic that lets you recruit enemy Digimon or ask for items from them too. Anyway, great video! Kind of makes me want to go back to CS myself, though I personally prefer Next 0rder over it.

Had to check and make sure I was still subbed to you, I don't remember this popping up in my feed

what I really love about both cyber sleuth games is how timeless they are; multiple years after the release they are imo still one of the best jrpgs for ps4 and overall one of the better turn-based rpgs of the mid-late 2010s the biggest downside for me personally was the bad localisation at some points in the game as u mentioned; all in all really love your video and commentary on cyber sleuth!

very nice video! plenty of info, and a very good review/opinion and analysis of the game. I bought it for nintendo switch

I've played Cybersleuth (both of them) each like 4 times. I love this game to bits man.

I love digimon cyber sleuth so much if you did a play through id watch it all

I started this game years ago when it released but never finished it. I did recently pick up the steam version on a sale, maybe this video is what finally push me back to trying to finish it one and for all!

Ah yes, I need to finish both games

Love this game

You had me at "HEY! YOU LEFT ME TO STARVE!".

this game way the digimon game i always wanted. the character designs are nice and highly unique (Yuuko Kamishiro is my favourite btw), the story was entertaining with a few twists here and there, the gameplay was a blast and all the collecting and evolving made it much more distinct and fun. funnily enough i also played this game during a time of struggle and combining with the early childhhod digimon nostalgia, it has now a special place in my heart. all in all i want to thank you for this nic, informative and fun to watch video, i will probably play the game later again thanks to you and watch other of your videos.

Great video, literally just bought Cyber Sleuth and will be trying to beat it by the time Pokémon SV comes out. Thanks for making this!

wow. what a great review/essay. well done. and yes. i'm getting it today at my local retro game store. but it will be ps4 because that's what they have right now.

Yes you convinced me. I get recommended Cyber Sleuth every time I go to the steam store. But I have been skeptical for years that it won't have enough depth but you sold me.

Wooohoo it's good to hear that the second half of the game picks up the pace, because I'm definitely feeling stuck in the more "boring parts" because the missions keep making me go back to the same old locations multiple times. I love monster catching games, and I play a ton of them. Including Digimon Story, Monster Hunter Stories 2, Monster Sanctuary, Pokemon of course-- Legends Arceus especially, Nexomon Extinction, and recently got Temtem. Every good monster catching game has its own identity, downs, ups, and personality.

I’ve been a Digimon fan practically my entire life. It was the one of the few things that brought me joy when I was in the hell that is private school. Data Squad felt so grown up when I was in middle school. I loved it! Still love it 😅. Played all 3 DS titles (Dawn, dusk, and DS). Cyber sleuth was my return to the franchise after putting it down for a few years.

It's a good game, if I can show a small bit of bias after starting over after not playing for a while there is a good amount of dialog to go through in between some sections

this video reminded me that I owned this game and that I should play it... and typing that out reminded me of the like over 30 tv shows/games I still want to play/watch but every time I actually do that I watch/play about half of it then forget about it for 3-20 months.

A key franchise for both Mon-RPGs and Virtual Pets... I'm hungry for the next Story, the next World, and LUCEMON WILLING Survive 2. Also I feel like one of the most fun parts of Digimon is how the anime reinterpreted V-Pet care as analogue to self-care and in effect helped seal in the idea all Digimon media needs some level of trauma in it.

The switch version fixed alot of the text errors and id love a vid on your thoughts on survive

Over the course of the last 2ish years, I've really dived deep into the Digimon franchise. Being one the mentioned "Pokemon Refugees", Digimon has that rich and very, VERY deep lore and story that Pokemon only ever scratched the surface on. I feel like I've been missing out all these years, wasting my time with the same beaten horse when there was a stallion just up over the hill.

It's 7 am, I'm tired as fuck and banco namdai absolutely got me

Thanks for the video mac and just a heads up folks the vita version has unfortunately been delisted in the west. There is thankfully a physical version released in asia with English!

Digimon was an important part of my childhood. I'm so glad we are getting quality games, I hope the trend continues so I can relive the objectively good old days.

Started playing it while I wait for Jedi Survivor and I'm hooked. Gonna have so much fun getting a rise greymon. Data Squad goated.

I'm so glad someone else noticed that Arata is literally the Devil Survivor 2 protagonist, design-wise. Thought I was the only one lol Sadly, though, I have to say that you couldn't sell the game on me. But that's because I already bought the Steam version when it came out, so yeah, I love this game! And now I know why everything felt so natural to me even though I never grew up with Digimon, didn't watch the anime, etc. It really does have a lot of "SMT" in it. Even down to the hard mode with its easy enemies but damage sponges for bosses (if you're always underleveled, like me😅)

i was on the fence with this game cuz its on discount on steam rn, and u convinced me to get it xD thanks mate

Digimon Story Cyber sleuth was my first Digimon game. Considering playing new game+. I would like to see Digimon world series remade mainly for some much needed QOL and so I can actually experience it for myself.

Summer Wars got me back into digimon back in 2010.

This is a great set of games that I'm glad I got to play, they brought be back to being a fan after driftiing away from the franchise for quite some time.

Both cyber sleuth and hackers memory are one of best digimon games and loved gameplay and finished both games few years ago and still keep playing both of them

I do have issues with the mistranslations. Quite a lot and some related to Bakemon.

Another connection to SMT is Hudie. Hudie is represented by a blue butterfly. Blue butterflies are depicted either as representation of Philemon or Lavenza, depending on the game.

8:38 so thats why the cyber sleuth theme feels so familiar! Its super similar to a certain danganronpa track but i cant pick out which one. The opening part especially..

Great video my dude! Not gonna lie I watched it because yay Digimon but now I kinda want to play it.

The Nokia moment is the one moment in recent games where I genuinely felt a genuine emotional reaction as it happened

digimon fan since it arrived in germany. i love digimon forever. i even play the card game. bought cyber sleuth a couple years ago and this game is awesome. everyone who likes digimon must play this. some digivolutions are a pain to get but when you got them it was worth the effort.

This video single-handedly sold me on playing the game (which I am currently playing now lol)

Cyber Sleuth is a good middle ground for a Pokémon fan transitioning over to SMT. Especially esthetically

Solid take! I’m in a similar boat; I’m a lifelong Pokémon AND Digimon fan, but Digimon flat-out disappeared from my country after Tamers. I’ve currently sunk 120+ hours into Cyber Sleuth purely while watching RU-vid and grinding out various Digimon into their Mega forms. For its flaws - and there are a few - it still runs and looks pretty much better than current-gen Pokémon games (saying this as a fan). But I’ve started taking screenshots every time I come across a weird localisation instance, and I may run out of space on my SD. Corner cut clean off lol.

4:35 Digimon World was the first Digimon game... to see an international release. The ACTUAL first Digimon game was "Digital Monster Ver. S: Digimon Tamers" for Sega Saturn. 6:33 Similarly, "Digimon Savers: Another Mission" and "Digimon Championship" were released in America (yes, AMERICA, since Europe never got them nor the World DS/Dawn and Dusk) as "Digimon World: Data Squad" and "Digimon World Championship", the latter was the last Digimon console game released internationally. Funnily enough, the name of the campaign to convince Dandai Namco to release Digimon games in the West again was called "Operation Decode", in reference to "Digimon Story Re:Digitize Decode", which, to this day, is still Japan-exclusive (there are fan translations, at least). And, personally, Hacker's Memory is my favorite Digimon game, followed by Cyber Sleuth and Dawn/Dusk. I would love to see reviews of the older Digimon Story titles in the future.

This is the type of Digimon game I've been looking for. I saw it on psn store and getting it on next payday thanks to you.

I had a similar introduction to the Digimon franchise. Only that I could only watch it at my grandparents house as a child as they had the Disney channels.(though maybe the first might actually be the Digimon World 1 for ps1...?)

Honestly I am looking forward to the next Digimon story game if it is at all like Cyber Sleuth

I was introduced to Digimon through Cybersleuth last month, and I gotta say - I really love this game, despite its decent flaws. Being able to raise almost any Digimon, with stronger ones needing much more care and understanding about how ABI works is stupidly satisfying. Bringing your literal babies out of their shells is a mechanic much better executed in here than in Pokémon. They also nearly nailed battling, both it and raising are THE reason this game is fantastic, imo. One thing I think you should've touched more is the difficulty. Hard mode makes enemies just strong enough for you to need to consider your options, early on. Later on, you really will need to understand buffs/debuffs and the DEF/INT penetrating attacks. Sometimes it requires you to use items, but I found that it made the game that much more engaging if you want a challenge. I've just started Hacker's Memory and it's already making me drool thinking about replaying both it and Cybersleuth, experimenting with different Digimon paths and combinations. If they had skippable cutscenes, they'd be absolutely perfect for replaying.

You should be the first person on RU-vid to do a full story summary of cyber sleuth and Hackers memories

As an avid Pokemon fan who never played a single Digimon game (other than a little digivice...thing) and really only watched the first 3 series of Digimon, I was seriously surprised how much I love this game. I got it several months after getting Pokemon Sword and Shield. It was on discount on the Nintendo Switch and I was bored, looking for something new. Right away this "Pokemon knockoff" had: 1) full voice acting, 2) polished cutscenes, 3) THREE Digimon that follow behind you at once and 4) A serious plot with darker undertones. This is all stuff that people have complained about are missing in Pokemon games (with the exception of maybe #4 because Pokemon is pretty light hearted except in some spinoffs). After Sword and Shield, I can't help but wonder why this supposed less popular franchise put more quality into their game than Nintendo/Gamefreak did. Not to mention, I loved the soundtrack and was very happy to see I wasn't treating the Digimon as if they were Pokemon thanks to the complex type advantage system, more slots and of course the encouragement to digivolve AND dedigivolve to discover more forms. This was honestly one of the best purchases I ever made on a whim. It just stands out really well on its own.

Yeah for some reason on the UK psn store Cyber sleuth has been unlisted so you can only get hackers memory.

I was shocked by how good this game is. Not only is it a solid RPG in its own right, but it's easily the best Digimon RPG. It does the impossible and makes Digivolutions easy to understand.

Have you played that new Digimon Survive for the I think it’s the switch? . Personally I love Cybersleuth over Hacker’s Memory but both are great games. I just wish they were in dubbed...

I wanted to play this since I saw your what is and isn’t an SMT game video. I’ve gotten really into persona 4 and really am waiting for Persona 5 and 3 on steam. I’m saving up for a vita to get The original 3 persona games. I’m not sure the mainline is for me, but I still want to play the games that are in the persona universe like SMT if… and the devil summoner series even if I have to use a script for the original game. You mentioning the similarities between this and Soul Hackers 1 intrigued me.

Digimon could really use an adult focused reboot by like, Studio Trigger or something. Medabots too while I'm at it.

Can't wait for a video on digimon survive

Really liked the personal tangent really relatable for me, even though I was introduced to digimon with whatever the show was with like shoutmon so I was really late since I'm a bit younger, but anyways it was really relatable and it brought me back to that 6 year old watching digimon adventure for the first time on Netflix :) really glad I found this video

i just played Digimon cybersleuth & im surprised of its fanbase bc i have never seen another fan who enjoys digimon as much my family does! glad to know1

Pro tip get platinum sukamon its passive ability is boosting max exp earned per battle. Get 3 of them early on and once you have about 35 or 40 data size you can speed level digimon.

I just bought this game because of Christmas sale and def gonna give it a fair go :) Last Digimon game i played was Digimon World 3 on my Playstation back in the day :P

I've been playing this game for the past month. It definitely has some flaws as a game, but it's amazing being able to make all your favorite Digimon from the show and use them in game. Looking past it's flaws, I'd recommend this to anyone who's a Digimon fan or Monster collectors