I've been really excited to try Time Stranger since it came out and waited for a good sale to finally pick it up, but I just finished the radio tower fight and I have some serious hangups about it compared to CS/HM.

1. The tone of the story is much, much less mature. CS/HM delved into some actual topics narratively that matter or were at least interesting to think about, and so far TS has been... completely inoffensive, if not outright juvenile for the most part. I think even the Tamers season of the anime was darker and had more mature themes. So that's a bit disappointing. And compared to HM's story, there is so far for me no comparison at all in the character department. HM was genuinely good in a way where I don't feel like I have to add caveats like I do to a lot of video game stories, so this is pretty unfortunate even though I don't even really play RPGs for the story.

2. CS/HM's battle mechanics are more interesting to me. Digimon are properly differentiated by their stats, unlike TS where every mon can reach 9999 in every stat. The ability to move abilities around like equipment in TS removes a layer of strategy and planning that came from Digimon in CS/HM learning moves within a general family of available evolutions they could reasonably reach without excessive grinding, which also hurts mon identity and differentiation. Older games like World Dawn/Dusk also had Digimon able to reach max stats, but they were also limited by their evolution trees in terms of what moves they could learn. As such the main differentiating factor for mons in TS is mostly just type and resistances, which while resistances are more robust in TS by mons having multiple resistances and weaknesses apiece, it also means you need to experiment or memorize what mons are weak to instead of in CS/HM where you could dependably rely on the type chart to understand weaknesses. I also preferred the Party Memory system to the Agent Rank system, and I'm not happy that I went from having a robust team of up to 11 mons down to just 6+guests.

3. I don't like Aegiomon. I was happy at first to see the game had an English dub, until I realized that the voice acting in question was for two not untalented but sadly still annoying characters that has me moving to mute the voice acting, with Aegiomon's lines+delivery just being too immaturely written to the point of being grating. To be completely fair, I ended up muting the CS/HM voice acting as well, but because of the extremely repetitive lines that play at the end of battles rather than because the game was devoid of performances I actually liked, with Kyoko, Arata, Matayoshi, and Yuuko all being fairly pleasant to listen to even though I don't understand a lick of Japanese. Voice acting aside, I'm not really thrilled to have Aegiomon in my party as he exists mechanically. The fact that he is a permanent tanky vaccine type fixture of the team with no way to customize his build or affect him via the story that I can tell so far feels lame. His design also feels weak to me, we've always had humanoid designs in Digimon but a 10 year old kid with goat hooves and horns just does nothing for me compared to classics like Wizardmon and Angemon.

I know most of this is completely subjective, but I wanted to know if anyone else had these issues with Time Stranger coming from CS/HM specifically. I don't outright hate Time Stranger, but I do kind of regret buying it without a better sale because it just is not living up to the hype for me.

I'm saying this because number 1 its an ultra. Number 2 in the original cyber sleuth for ps4 you had to beat all the royal knights and paladin mode the founder himself to be able to even get the form.

For all that effort he should be a top tier mon in PVE and he just isn't. I don't know about pvp and i don't care because pvp kind of sucks in CSHM.

Ultras should by default do intense damage, yet Omnimon's transcendent sword barely leaves a dent against mons in the abyss server. Imo base Omnimon's sword should pierce and Zwart's cannon should pierce.

Paladin mode deserves the pierce. I don't know if he needs it but he deserves it.

Currently Chapter 3 and beat the shit out of that rocker dude.
I want some challenge but also read, that hard mode is way too overtuned on the other hand.
Will difficulty increase later on? Not so fun to feel overpowered.

Im trying to add so many digimon i can as possible so the total digimon in field guide are 1000 or more
Im currently at 950 but the mod manager is saying no more free slots

Theres no subscription to get more ”slots” or smth but is there a way i can get more digimon i tried uninstalling some useless mods and it did work but i had to delete too many mods including digimon
I want these digimon back so i can go over 950 what can i do to solve this?

Thanks in advance!

So, I've found a lot of threads explaining how your personality boosts stats they gain while training. But I'm not quite clear on how vital that will be. A digimon I have(waspmon in this case) I wanted to use(I just really like the bee evolution line) has the builder trait. So with the fact that it'll be slower gaining stats, is that going to make it to weak long term? Or is it not that huge a deal.

Also to check if im wrong, can personalities not be changed in cybersleuth, until I unlock the eden store items? i was finding people mentioning a few ways but they looked like Time Strangers exclusive?

Was wondering what digimon to use with ChaosGallantmon, bcs i really like him. I have beaten the game before using Zwart, Lilithmon, Sukuyamon, BlackWarGreymon, Sistermon Blanc, Kerpymon Black, Ouryumon, Armageddemon and Rosemon BM. I don't really wanna use them again, maybe 1 or 2.

i love shoutmon, but there's only two shoutmons in this game, which is why i'm asking.

for reference i've only played this digimon game (haven't finished it yet)