Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth

 PlayStation 4
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 439 Ratings

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  1. KBARR613
    Feb 3, 2016
    5
    Alright so when I saw the plethora of extremely positive reviews here I had to come and at least provide a non-biased viewpoint for an average gamer. I think that some long time fans are too generous with 9's and 10's.

    My credentials for feeling that I am qualified to write a review are: -I've played the game for 15 hours since I picked it up yesterday. -I pre-ordered a physical copy    Alright so when I saw the plethora of extremely positive reviews here I had to come and at least provide a non-biased viewpoint for an average gamer. I think that some long time fans are too generous with 9's and 10's.

    My credentials for feeling that I am qualified to write a review are:
    -I've played the game for 15 hours since I picked it up yesterday.
    -I pre-ordered a physical copy because I have been a long time digimon fan.
    -I am almost exclusively an rpg player.
    -I am not a huge fan of things that are Japanese just because of how painfully stereotypically Japanese they aspire to be

    First Impressions:
    First thing I saw was when they handed me the case in store. It was clean and somewhat bland. Pretty simple, with writing in French English and Spanish. Seems like a good sign that all things Japanese have been completely obliterated from the case.
    As soon as I'm in the car I crack open the (premium priced) case (same price as Destiny and Bloodborne and a number of other very high production value games) I am somewhat surprised to see the case has nothing in it but a cd. For a game that aspires to appeal to more mature rp gamers it seems funny that they would overlook including a book or even a pamphlet that gives us that little nostalgic shiver.
    I get home at about 10 am and pop the game in, and start it up.
    No English audio. I have dome some searching and found it stated in a couple of places online but nowhere on the case and nowhere on any of the sites selling the game have i seen it stated that the game wont have English audio. very disappointing. I shouldn't have to research a game beyond looking at its case to see something as big as that. So now I am starting to realize that Banadai's idea of localizing and remastering a game for PS4 is merely adding English subs and charging double what the game sold for when it was on PS Vita. Just great. Had I known this was what I was getting I would have bought the 3GB download on my Playstation TV for $40 instead of $80 CAD.
    Within the first half hour muted the in game voices because, while the male voices are fine, the female Japanese voices are so absurdly high pitched that they threaten to pierce my eardrums and crack windows. The game is also quite sexist. I know they said they want to appeal to a more mature audience but in my mind that means slightly more complicated game play than their earlier titles, not girls with half their breasts hanging out being leered at by digital perverts. Girls also seem to be portrayed as fairly dumb and helpless. Good old fashioned Japanese sexist humor at its best. This is not the uplifting empowering show and games I grew up loving. That's for sure. Anyhow after 2 hours PSN finally came back up from their regular tuesday update and I wen't on to redeem my in game DLC for preordering only to see that the digital copy of the game is selling for $20 CAD less and includes the "preorder only" DLC. Really??? so just to recap we have digital vita game at $40 digital PS4 game at $60 and physical PS4 game at $80. And btw there was no option to preorder the game digitally on the PS4 so the digital pricing was a complete surprise. What does this mean? this means that Bandai thought "why dont we take our most valuable audience, our most dedicated fans, and just take an extra $20 bucks from them." Bravo Bandai. Anyhow despite all this disappointment its still an okay game. But if you have the option. Just get it for Vita. Its certainly not a PS4 quality game. even better, if you wait a couple months you will probably game the opportunity to cross buy them both for $40 on sale. They have not improved the multiplayer in the game, its still just Pokemon style battles. Despite the game being in 3D you cannot rotate the camera it just always follows you at an awkwardly close angle. You can back the camera off to a comfortable distance but every time you change scenes you have to re-set it again. So to explain my 5/10 score, which I think is very fair, I would give this game 5/10 as an $80 game. Because that's what it gives. It provides half of what I would expect for a premium price. I'm off to return my physical copy to the store now after which I will buy the digital vita version of the game at which point ill be close to having a 8/10 quality game. It is not perfect and It is not very groundbreaking. It is fan service for extreme anime fans. But I don't feel fulfilled as a Digimon fan. Hope this has been some help. Take care.
    -Kyle    … Expand
  2. SnowDay
    Jul 20, 2016
    6
    Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth is entertaining enough. The Digimon franchise games seem to be getting better, as anyone can see the heavy Shin Megami Tensei influence in this title. Even though it still doesn't quite hit the mark for me, I look forward to the next release.
  3. Ayreos
    Sep 12, 2016
    5
    The whole digimon rising and battling mechanic is fairly entertaining, while the sleuthing plot is if standard anime fare, with extremely bare-bones 3d animation. It also takes its sweet time to pick up. The big problem is the meat of the gameplay, the "dungeon" traversing. In short, the game expects you to re-run the same twisted, featureless corridors for hours on end.

    At 10 hours in    The whole digimon rising and battling mechanic is fairly entertaining, while the sleuthing plot is if standard anime fare, with extremely bare-bones 3d animation. It also takes its sweet time to pick up. The big problem is the meat of the gameplay, the "dungeon" traversing. In short, the game expects you to re-run the same twisted, featureless corridors for hours on end.

    At 10 hours in my 3 starting digimon are champion-class and the story enemies are in-training. The "dungeons" presented are 3 featureless corridors. After the starting premise the scenario made an awkward genre change to the titular "sleuthing" and instantly devolved into an episodic grind.

    Example of a typical "case": Find the "mean guy" (marked with an "!") in the usual empty corridor-dungeon, fighting completely under-leveled enemies through random encounters. Defeat him in one shot. He assures you he is good now. Use (expensive) item to warp back to start of dungeon. Warp to base. Receive meager reward that doesn't cover the cost of the warping item. Story missions are essentially the same but usually require scouring areas looking for npcs with exclamation or lock signs on them (so much for sleuthing!).

    After 10 hours there is no challenge and no plot. Seeing your digimon pointlessly reach champion-level in droves, with no space to add more is the only reward for bothering with this game. At least the game features a coliseum. It might become somewhat better later, but i already wasted too many hours to bother finding out.    … Expand
  4. simony30
    Feb 8, 2016
    7
    Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth, a good opportunity gone bad. This game was one I was really excited about, finally a new game on digimon that wasn't meant for Nintendo or will but for the ps4. After playing it, I found that I enjoyed playing it with its graphics being better than in past digimon games, better ways to gain higher ranked digimon and even the story is quite amusing but this gameDigimon Story Cyber Sleuth, a good opportunity gone bad. This game was one I was really excited about, finally a new game on digimon that wasn't meant for Nintendo or will but for the ps4. After playing it, I found that I enjoyed playing it with its graphics being better than in past digimon games, better ways to gain higher ranked digimon and even the story is quite amusing but this game really has some disappointing parts to it. For it being geared towards adults, Digimon Story Cyber sleuth is a let down, with puzzles being too easy to solve, hard being more like normal mode,and the interaction between player and the map too limited; even the interaction with npcs are limited and most are just placed with no real purpose just for decor. not to mention some of the things you have in the game like the DigiLine feels wasted in a attempt to quell the players knowledge and to increase friendships between player, digimons, and npcs. I feel like this game is still a work in progress.… Expand
  5. Kira0169
    Feb 9, 2016
    5
    I was in love with this game!! 40 some hours in. Have 12 ultimate level ranging between level 50-60 and when I'm looking on how to get more Abi, which is a requirement for most to go their mega levels. Reading around the main way to do that is to devolve me digimon!? That took forever to get them where they are!! Now I'm going to try to finish the game with ultimatel levels and maybe makeI was in love with this game!! 40 some hours in. Have 12 ultimate level ranging between level 50-60 and when I'm looking on how to get more Abi, which is a requirement for most to go their mega levels. Reading around the main way to do that is to devolve me digimon!? That took forever to get them where they are!! Now I'm going to try to finish the game with ultimatel levels and maybe make some mega levelled digimon of scanned data if I'm lucky. But I've pretty much lost all motivation now to level grind. If I'm not sick of the game by the time I finish it maybe I'll devolve for new game plus mode just to give myself a boost. But what a bunch of bs. Really!!.… Expand
  6. Dogmatic_Hydra
    Apr 4, 2016
    5
    Over all its a pretty decent game. Ive enjoyed playing it thus far. However, i do have two complaints. The first: There are only 249 Digimon in the game which is barely 1/10 of all of the total digimon that have been created which is disappointing since the Digimon games on the Nintendo DS had far more then that. The second: It has more medals than actual digimon! Why on earth would theyOver all its a pretty decent game. Ive enjoyed playing it thus far. However, i do have two complaints. The first: There are only 249 Digimon in the game which is barely 1/10 of all of the total digimon that have been created which is disappointing since the Digimon games on the Nintendo DS had far more then that. The second: It has more medals than actual digimon! Why on earth would they do this?! Its almost as if this was a different project involving collecting medals and Bandai Namco switched it to being a Digimon game at the last minute! And as far as anyone knows they have no intentions of releasing dlc to expand the amount of Digimon within the game. So yeah.....its an okay game if you want to collect medals. But for a Digimon fan.....not so much.… Expand
  7. MatiasPrice
    Apr 12, 2016
    7
    Bien logrado, manteniendo la esencia de antiguos Digimon.
    Quizás debieron esmerarse más en sacar una traducción para la comodidad de toda latinoamerica y hacer que el aspecto visual se sacara partido de la consola, ya que es prácticamente un port de la versión de PsVita a PS4.
  8. Guity3
    Jun 9, 2016
    6
    So I like this game, and would love to give it a 9, but there's so many basic basic flaws that even though I can look past them, they still have to be accounted for. After having 100 hours in the game and beating it on hard, (the main story anyway) there are a few things that really have to be noted. These being how the whole "Detective" part doesn't belong, the difficulty settings areSo I like this game, and would love to give it a 9, but there's so many basic basic flaws that even though I can look past them, they still have to be accounted for. After having 100 hours in the game and beating it on hard, (the main story anyway) there are a few things that really have to be noted. These being how the whole "Detective" part doesn't belong, the difficulty settings are crazy extreme, and how the game seems to be designed as a grind but offers no good areas to grind.

    First off there are 2 games here, Digimon, and some really time consuming detective side story. The main plot is generic Digimon plot, if you think you know what that is, you know exactly what it is, and that's ok. It's not great but it's ok, and having that story as an option to see and invest in would be great, however there is no choice, you will watch every bit of dialogue with English subtitles like it or not. I played this game while watching YouTube, I'd say out of the 80 ish hours it took me to beat the game on hard, a solid 20 would be dialogue, like there are segments of 5-10 minutes where I would just have my controller smashing X while doing something else. Due to this you get a very slow paced game, the fact that everything can't be skipped on new game + is horrendous. On top of this you have this janky side thing of being a detective, basically side quests. And really the most basic of side quests at that, go here, talk, go here, talk, go here, fight, get item after winning, hope the game will teleport you back to main office so you don't have to manually get there. After completing every single "Case" I was so meh with the system, it just feels like adding a skip dialogue option, and having your decisions in dialogue actually matter would go a long way.

    I played the game on hard, this basically meant that I needed some basic things, Penetrating attacks, flat damage attacks (does 150 no matter what), a million restore items, and luck. The worst part in this game is running into an enemy you can't hurt because it's defense is just too high. I would have ultimate level Digimon that I had to turn back to champions because the champions had better moves. Every boss on hard isn't hard, it's just that some of them get to pull of some funky OP combos that you can't do anything about. So some boss types that are brutal, 1: My defense is too high for you to hurt me, oh and I heal, go back watch the cut scene to fight me again. 2: I have a really amazing combo move and since I get more moves per turn on hard mode you'd better just sit tight and pray I don't use them. (so there's the moves that deal tons of damage and heal the boss for a percent of damage done, so pretty much they will get full health and you will be at half health, so use that twice, you lose. My personal favorite is putting all the players Digimon to 1 health then using any AOE.) And 3: I counter your team, better lose then go make a new team. So those were annoying to deal with, and I finally switched to normal mode after beating the final boss and being upset with some of the Case battles killing 4-5 of my guys before I even got 1 turn in. Boy did I feel powerful, that boss who'd just took out my strongest 3 without me getting a turn got beat.. without him getting a turn... Now I don't need anything close to perfect balance in my PVE content, but Hard and Normal may as well be called "Grind and don't get unlucky" and "how do i even lose?" respectively.

    And the grind, oh man this game loves it's grind. First off early game there is no way to train well, the best place to train is the tournaments, and if you beat the tournament you no longer have a place to train EXP. So you obviously throw the last game in the tourney every time. This is so boring. It's not fun and it's poor design. And on hard, you have to do it. Well, unless you wanna save exploit the digifarm, which is pretty much what you'll have to do eventually. The exploit pretty much breaks the EXP system in the game, I'm talking like level 0-60 off one fight, and the weird part is that it still takes a decent time to amass a team of strong Digimon this way. I would recommend doing it as it didn't ruin the game for me at all and would have let me make a more unique team way faster.

    In the end I like this game, but a game having un-skipable long cut-scenes, nowhere to properly grind EXP in an absurdly grindy game, and difficulty settings that aren't balanced in the slightest, (well I guess that means the game just isn't balanced but you know what I mean) make the whole game really laughable. The other parts of the game are well done but you need to have the basics of a game down before you get to add cool features. Combat? Great. Digital world? Good. Digifarms? Amazing. Basic game design in an rpg? pretty meh.

    As for pvp it's also an unbalanced mess, but at least it's unbalanced for everyone so I kinda enjoy it.

    Overall a 8-9/10 game built on a 2-4/10 foundation    … Expand
  9. Equiixxx
    Jan 26, 2022
    6
    Good- The battles, the environment, the music, the variety on digimons and their designs are stunning.

    Bad- The Story is SO BAD, SO SO BAD, so damn simple and very boring quests. So many japanese clichés together that i could not enjoy this aspect of the game. Also, why they make you chose answers when they are totally useless? even sometimes the answers are just a full phrase divided    Good- The battles, the environment, the music, the variety on digimons and their designs are stunning.

    Bad- The Story is SO BAD, SO SO BAD, so damn simple and very boring quests. So many japanese clichés together that i could not enjoy this aspect of the game.
    Also, why they make you chose answers when they are totally useless? even sometimes the answers are just a full phrase divided on 3 parts! ridiculous. Sometimes they would make adult jokes that wont have any sense.    … Expand
  10. Keitaro004
    Jul 9, 2018
    6
    I had a lot of fun with this game until chapter 19, where you're literally forced to grind for 20+ hours to even stand a chance against the bosses. The difficulty spike was insane, even though I was playing on normal and everything before it was a cakewalk. My playtime was 20 hours by then, and I spent yet another 20+ hours on tedious grinding. You can't digivolve into the strongestI had a lot of fun with this game until chapter 19, where you're literally forced to grind for 20+ hours to even stand a chance against the bosses. The difficulty spike was insane, even though I was playing on normal and everything before it was a cakewalk. My playtime was 20 hours by then, and I spent yet another 20+ hours on tedious grinding. You can't digivolve into the strongest monsters without enoug API, and "API" requires you to level up your Digimon (preferably lvl 99 for the most points), then keep de-volving and digivolving your Digimon several times. Unfair padding at its' worst.

    Besides that, it's a pretty good game. Great visuals for a PS Vita game, a story that's engaging and a lot of side content for those who have the patience for that. It's great to see a more mature take on the Digimon franchise. However, when you spend more time on grinding than the story itself, it'll anger you. I never bothered to play the side quests after I had beaten the game because of this. I was just happy it was over and never touched the game again.    … Expand
  11. josesueiro
    Aug 6, 2016
    7
    Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth is a 2015 video game for the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 4, developed by Media.Vision and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, and based on the Digimon franchise.
  12. WiserCarli
    May 11, 2016
    7
    Puntos positivos:
    + Sistema de combates similar a pokemon muy clasico y divertido
    + Animaciones y cinematicas muy bien hechas que dan la sensacion que estamos viendo un anime + Gran variedad de digimons de diferentes tipos + Sistema de evolucion de digimons diferente a lo visto anteriormente en el que pueden crecer o decrecer + Duracion respetable a mi me duro haciendo todo unas 60-70    Puntos positivos:
    + Sistema de combates similar a pokemon muy clasico y divertido
    + Animaciones y cinematicas muy bien hechas que dan la sensacion que estamos viendo un anime
    + Gran variedad de digimons de diferentes tipos
    + Sistema de evolucion de digimons diferente a lo visto anteriormente en el que pueden crecer o decrecer
    + Duracion respetable a mi me duro haciendo todo unas 60-70 horas

    Puntos negativos:
    - Historia algo previsible y sin sentido en algunos puntos
    - Libertad 0 en algunos momentos en los que no paran de torturarte con dialogos infinitos
    - Repetitividad en misiones secundarias
    - Solo en ingles

    Conclusion: Juego divertido que merece la pena si consigues pillarlo a buen precio y eres amante de los jrpgs y de digimon sin duda te gustara

    NOTA: 7'4/10    … Expand
  13. XxJoseManuelxX
    Sep 12, 2016
    7
    Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth is a 2015 video game for the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 4, developed by Media.Vision and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, and based on the Digimon franchise.

    + Lots of Different Digimon to Choose From to Build Your Own Party
    - Story is a Bit Slow to Get Going
    - Dungeons Get a Bit Repetitive in Their Design
  14. Valcristus
    May 28, 2018
    7
    Teniendo un genial sistema de combate y progresión, una historia interesante y un atractivo más que notable terminan por dañar el acabado final del juego con diálogos excesivamente largos para explicar cosas excesivamente sencillas; hay personajes que exasperan y molesta cada vez que toca leer o escuchar sus intervenciones; en ciertos apartados jugables pudieron ser más innovadores peroTeniendo un genial sistema de combate y progresión, una historia interesante y un atractivo más que notable terminan por dañar el acabado final del juego con diálogos excesivamente largos para explicar cosas excesivamente sencillas; hay personajes que exasperan y molesta cada vez que toca leer o escuchar sus intervenciones; en ciertos apartados jugables pudieron ser más innovadores pero aun así el juego es un RPG bueno, eso sí, no me quedan muchas ganas de volver a jugar uno del mismo corte, en serio que es algo cansino pero vale la pena darle una oportunidad.… Expand
  15. Tdc17765
    Sep 29, 2017
    6
    Classic digimon game, with better graphics of course. However, there is too much dialogue and not enough challenging gameplay. Also, all audio is still in Japanese. Not super impressed and the game design seems to be a bit thoughtless.
  16. steste
    Dec 28, 2017
    6
    It started out pretty good and quite exciting to play a Digimon game again, especially where the game is a cross between solving detective cases and Digimon training. Parts of the game are based on real locations and the voice work was done well.
    At first the game seemed like your average JRPG with Digimon thrown into the mix. Then I started realizing several of the voice over tracks were    It started out pretty good and quite exciting to play a Digimon game again, especially where the game is a cross between solving detective cases and Digimon training. Parts of the game are based on real locations and the voice work was done well.
    At first the game seemed like your average JRPG with Digimon thrown into the mix. Then I started realizing several of the voice over tracks were missing randomly, a good portion of the English translation was not quality checked, several stat requirements to get the best Digimon had me spending several hours digivolving/de-digivolving Digimon to get enough stats, and found a game breaking glitch with the PS4 slim's hardware in either Chapter 12 or 20 (depending on who you ask, it happened right before the end credits for me).

    The game looked like it was going to be fun, was for a bit but then had several short comings that was probably a result of a rushed release, big budget cuts, or lack of QA. Hopefully the next game will be better but until then I'll be selling my copy off and wait for a better Digimon game to come out.    … Expand
  17. muzidli
    Jul 26, 2018
    6
    Great game at the start, very fun but after 10 hours its easy to get bored as its a lot of tedious grinding on the same monsters in the same location.

    Lot to be desired for Movement to different locations, quest assistance and combat can be improved.
  18. cjbz
    May 4, 2019
    7
    As many people say, this game is one of the best Digimon games created so far. You can build your team with the digimons you like, good battle mechanics and the concept of the story is great.

    However, there were two things I did not like: 1. The story is very slow. There are 20 Chapters, and the first 10 were boring sometimes, and the last 10 were very exciting. 2. It is a Digimon    As many people say, this game is one of the best Digimon games created so far. You can build your team with the digimons you like, good battle mechanics and the concept of the story is great.

    However, there were two things I did not like:
    1. The story is very slow. There are 20 Chapters, and the first 10 were boring sometimes, and the last 10 were very exciting.
    2. It is a Digimon game where you don't explore the Digital World. What happened with the forests, deserts, water, snow, mountains, and all those cool environments of the Digital World like in previous games?

    If they plan to create another Digimon game like this, I will play it definitely, but I hope they can include those 2 things. That would make a 9 or 10 review for the game in my opinion.    … Expand

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Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 45 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 27 out of 45
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 45
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  1. Gamer.nl
    Aug 9, 2016
    80
    Though Cyber Sleuth can get a bit grindy, the systems and the story that come with it are fascinating enough to keep you occupied for hours. This is the perfect grindgame for those long summer nights.
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  2. Gamers' Temple
    Jun 11, 2016
    92
    Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth took me by surprise the same way the Digimon TV show did a little while back. The evolution/de-evolution mechanic, the Japanese voice track and the surprisingly mature and deep storyline were my favorite aspects, but the game really has almost no weakness or faults.
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  3. GameCritics
    May 13, 2016
    70
    Cyber Sleuth doesn't reinvent the JRPG that comprises its core, but for a Digimon title, this is a solid step in the right direction.
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