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tl;dr #DigimonStory #TimeStranger could have used a bit of time travel itself to mend some sticking points that it created itself, but perhaps it's best we leave history intact.

It's an 8/10

(8/8)

Fortunately, the team dialed up talent gain and lowered the required cap, which has actually made the game more of an exploration of its narrative and less reliving the days of grinding in MMOs, and that in particular rescues the game from the bad pacing that Cyber Sleuth slogged through

(7/8)

The rope hopping in the forests is particularly egregious for camera theft, which adds too much time to what is already a docile and languid platforming experience and causes reluctance to return to those areas

(6/8)

Unfortunately the game suffers from a classic case of "every zone its own niche" that extended to it's mechanics, which makes for forgettable, throwaway skills, the kind of stuff that haunts middle-of-the-road RPGs like Mega Man Star Force

(5/8)

If the Locomon network were even just demonstrated as wide-ranging, even if you have no ability to get there, then it is far more apparent that this universe is grand - but unfortunately it comes across as just miniscule - and the need to use Blimpmon is indicative of a broader issue

(4/8)

For narrative purposes, the world is only a few islands of civilization, which doesn't square with the magnitude of the Titan invasion as it is described in past or present - it is hard to suspend disbelief when catastrophe seems so localized - and part of this is a dearth of Locomon network

(3/8)

The inhabitants may have some level of accommodation in public spaces but not entirely, which is a frustrating slip in world building - for example, the tavern is extremely bipedal-coded still and does not allow quadrupeds to the same tables with ease

(2/8)

holy shit they made botamon real