u/Dra1n_Fafnir

Spoilers for the Story

I recently just finished Digimon Time Strangers. At least the story mode for it. I still have side missions.

But I think people really over exaggerate on how bad the story is. Like it's not peak fiction but the story is interesting with the fact >!Aeigiomon is the shadow the entire time and we are also Aeigiomon. I think it is a really enjoyable story even with its flaws.!<

It definitely does have a lot of flaws though I won't deny that. Inori feels pretty one dimensional with her pretty much only defining characteristics being that she's nice and even then I don't think she's the best at that in the game. I think the way they handled Venusmon was a better showing. Venusmon is nice and does want peace with everyone but she understands certain things aren't always going to pan out and sometimes you gotta make those tough decisions like when she poisoned Neptunemon to try and keep her village safe. I think they should have explored at least some darker idea with Inori such as maybe idk she becomes too obsessed with Aeigiomon becoming like her brother that she keeps forcing that on him to the point it's one of the main cruxes for his turning. She just doesn't feel like she should be one of the protagonist. That's not to say she's unbearable I quite liked the ending where's she's crying for Jupitermon and she gets to be with her brother again.

I think it's a solid 7/10 maybe 6/10 but nothing adhorent. I made a post complaining about the story a couple days ago but I've changed my mind it's really not that bad just nothing insanely good. Still would call it good, even great.

I also think it's funny how they repeatedly go out of their way to glaze characters like Omni Mon and the Demon Lords. Like they repeated that they're lucky the demon lords are fake like 15 times and Omnimon does more DMG than we did with the Olympus 12 to Chronomons Shield. Also who exactly is the God they were referencing is it like a known Digimon or at least an implied one or what. I haven't actually finished the anime

I've been recently getting into Digimon which includes Adventures, the DS game, New World and Cyber Sleuth. Something that's always kind of annoyed me especially with Time Stranger is how my choices seem to not matter. Like I'm at the point where Iori ask me to go to the sewer with her and her friend and I respond with "hey this could help stop global collapse" but instead of saying anything about Global Collapse it just completely moved on and doesn't acknowledge my decisions. If a story game is going to include choices it should acknowledge them even with a one liner.

In Persona 5 which I recently finished playing and Persona 3, all the conversations still funnel through the same way but there's at least some dialogue which acknowledges my choices. Id assume Digimon is a richer company than Shin Megumi Tensei or at least close so it just feels like laziness.

One of the things that makes a story really good is your ability to sync or connect with the characters and story. When your choices don't matter it's hard to really do that. I don't even care if it's only one ending (although I think it'd be cooler with several different endings) I just want dialogue choices to matter instead of being empty.

Combat and all the Digimon and visuals are cool though I like em. It's just the story where I feel like they're skimping out on because they know it's a game for kids or it's intended for kids at least. I feel like if they put more effect into just the story aspect it'd be way better. Story is what really helped Shin Megumi Tensei and Persona get out there as well.