Digimon Survive Has Been Delayed To 2021

The concept of a dark and edgy Digimon game is still rip roaringly funny to me.

The concept to me is exciting and I do love my turn-based SRPGs, but it's hard to get too excited before they can actually start showing some proper progress and footage.

I do hope that something will come out of this eventually.

I was a dubious of this game from the outset. They had really big detailed sprites which look nice but for a SRPG it isn't practical since you can hardly see the battlefield.

It's like the polar opposite of Fire Emblem where characters are small and you can see a lot of the map at once.

It just gives me vibes of Digimon World 1-4 where they kept switching genres but resulted on a load of half-baked ideas.

I've barely made a dent in Cyber Sleuth, so they're more than welcome to take all of the time they need.

at least we have Cyber Sleuth complete edition in the meantime

I am still fairly certain most companies are using the lockdown to justify delays and have more time to finish their products.

As much as I understand people being impatient, I wish this delay trend continues after Covid19 to allow developers to avoid crunch period and deliver better products.

@Tyranexx : I've played it a bit, but I've barely made a dent in it, and probably haven't touched it in about a year now. Other games have come along and taken my attention away from it, including Pokémon Sword/Shield, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Two Point Hospital etc.

I ought to get back to it sometime.

It's been great so far, but like many RPGs, it can be a little grindy, and objectives aren't always clear. I would highly recommend it though.

@Tyranexx I am in chapter 5 and I the ending is nowhere near in sight.

Still on the fence on this on one hand it looks interesting a Lord of the Flies set in Digimon on the other I am not fond of being forced into another generic seinen boy role.

@Noid why? digimons always had a darker side to it.

@Noid I mean... if they do it right it can work.

The problem with "edgy reboots" (like Bomberman Act Zero) is that they were mainly cashgrabs. With japaniese games was usually because of the mentality "that's just what the west likes!".
Who knows how Digimon Survive would be. I enjoyed Cyber Sleuth and that game tried to appeal to an older audience too.

@jowe_gw and you didn't think remastered of any console isn't a cash grab? Let's stop with the bucket scrapping and concentrate on gaming fun instead shall we.

I'm getting kingdom hearts 3 vibes from this

@Tyranexx I recently finished both. They're a lot of fun and well worth sticking it out to the end but yup, they can definitely start to feel like a bit of a repetitive slog, especially if you play them back to back like I did...

@Shadowmoon522 This. The uninitiated still think Digimon's a Pokemon knock-off. But Digimon has a TOOOOON of death and dark scenes. One lion-based digimon comes to mind.

I'm usually all about delays, because when they happen sans reports of behind-the-scenes drama, it usually turns out a high-quality game. But it's getting to a point where I'm starting to get worried =/

@Noid Digimon always had dark themes, and from the seasons I saw (1-3) they managed them quite well. Same with the Cyber Sleuth games. Digimon as a whole is that way in general, but it isn't dark for the sake of it which is when something becomes edgy.

I don't think the Digimon are surviving too well, eh?

I am starting to worry considering it has been a couple years and we still have no concrete gameplay footage. I really hope this one is worth the wait for the people looking forward to it.

@Tyranexx I platinumed the Vita version. The pacing was kind of weird. It was really slow the first 10 and things really picked up speed after that. It took me... 30 or 40 to beat the main plot I think, and then 70 or 80 to complete everything else. I think some of the stats and stuff got rebalanced on the switch so it might not take as long to complete everything now. I kind of preferred the second one, from what I played of it. I thought the pacing was better and I liked the new stuff it added. I didn’t finish that one, though. Next time it goes on sale, I might double (quadruple?)-dip and finally get around to doing that.

@SwitchForce What are you talking about?

What I meant is that the reasons why games like Bomber Act Zero (the extreme example I used) were made to be more "edgy" were purely money related. It was done because they thought that merely making their game more "dark" they would appeal more to the west and sell more.
Why they thought that? Probably because they looked at the yearly best selling games list of the time in the US.

My point was that, if a game from a franchise decides to be more dark than usual, it doesn't have to be a bad game by default. Spacially if there is some creative push aside from "it's popular".

Gotta love War Graymon's tata bazooka.

I excpected it, but it still doesn't make me any less upset

I didn't know about this game coming on switch

@Silly_G literally same, only bought it because it was on sale and it turns out its pretty magnificent

@Noid You must not have see much Digimon then. That was the main reason I liked the anime more than Pokémon growing up, it had a darker edge to it.