Digimon Survive Gets Brand New English Trailer Ahead Of July Release

I'm probably in the minority, but I'm really bummed this isn't getting English voice acting. I hope there is at least an option to toggle off the voices, as I find it distracting hearing one language and reading another.

The headline reads "English trailer," but I'm hearing Japanese voices. And we're supposed to be upset that this and XC3 are getting released on the same day? lol

Turn-Based strategy games are my jam, so obviously I'm quite excited for this, however Digimon games are generally fickle and the long delay doesn't exactly inspire confidence either. I hope it's gonna be decent in the end.

@DJDM Same here. I don't mind it not having an english dub but please let there at least be a volume slider for speech.

@Fizza It wasn't made clear until about 2/3 months ago that it was a visual novel with a sprinkling of strategy combat thrown in.

@Expa0 Bear in mind that this is a visual novel game first and a strategy RPG second.

@Fizza given that it being "mostly a visual novel" has been emphasized repeatedly over the last several months, I'd say you at least haven't been paying much attention.

My criticism of the lack of localization aside, I'm still tentatively excited for this game - at the very least it's the first Digimon game in a long while that looks like it will stick to the core fantasy of the TV shows - Cybersleuth was a massive disappointment on this front. As someone who grew up watching the original three seasons, Digimon is about kids getting transported to a strange world and partnering up with Digimon to survive/save the world(s), not bumming around a bland metaverse with their ever-rotating/expanding collection of Digimon.

@Kiz3000
I had no idea, I figured it was gonna be balanced more like something like Devil Survivor which did have a light visual novel portion to it as well. Donno if its enough to cancel my preorder quite since I have enjoyed some visual novel games as well, but at least I know now to adjust my expectations a bit. Thanks for the info.

@DJDM
Couldn't have said it better myself, honestly I feel like that game wanted too much to be something like SMT/Persona and kind of just had the actual Digimon critters on the sidelines. It was a pretty mediocre RPG just in general too.

Visual novel?

I wasn't paying that much attention so I thought it would be a strategy game. Unfortunately it's a pass for me.

As a big Digimon fan, I can't wait to play this one. The wait has been quite long!

Definitely planning to get this after having played Cyber Sleuth.

But it's coming out the same day as Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Sadistic choice if not for my birthday being in August.

i guess im a minority here, but english voices are usually bad. the only exception being the novelty of british voices in xenoblade

@DsheroX I'm think that the English voiceovers in Japanese videogames are usually bad. If Japanese videogame have Japanese voiceovers and dual-audio support(opportunity to switch between English and Japanese dub), I'm always switching it to Japanese voiceovers. For example, I'm playing Resident Evil: Revelations with Japanese voiceovers. Yes - characters are Americans(not all of them, I guess?), and that's will be normal to play the game with English voiceovers... But I can't take it. I can play only American/European videogames with English voiceovers. In some games I'm even likes English voiceovers. The Shivah - Kosher Edition and Lamplight City, for example.

Between this, Live A Live, and Xeno 3 coming out within a week of each other, I am only choosing one.

And I think I'm going with Xeno 3. Nintendo won't discount that game, but Digimon and Live A Live will get discounts at some point after release

@Mando44646 Whilst I agree with your theory I believe Live A Live and certainly Digimon Survive will get such a low print run that I don't think we'll really see any reductions on those titles.

Xenoblade 3 is definitely the most bang for your buck title of the three so it makes the most sense to prioritise.

He used the word delve at the end of the trailer, the corpratists are going go buy TF out of this game now. 💰 🤑 💸 💲 🪙

Mine been in Preorder for the last 2 years if I recall...

@Kiz3000 even without physical discounts, digital will certainly be on sale at some point. Seems like the best way to allot money to me

Reminder this is mostly a VN game with with strategy game elements thrown in. No idea what they were smoking in not delaying the game [they already delayed a bunch at this point so what is the difference?] so they could directly compete with XB3

At least Live a Live looks good enough to justify being so close to XB3 release

@DJDM How is that a problem? .-. You wouldn't even understanding the japanese voices .-. It would be just like playing Banjoo kazooie or any other game with an fictional languague.

@fenlix I mean, I have not played Banjo Kazooie, but from the videos I've seen, it sounds like most of the dialog is accompanied by fairly simple sound effects, rather than a "fictional language." I'm generally fine with sound effects accompanying text - they tend to be used to suggest a particular mood or tone, but aren't so complex or affected that they distract from reading. I don't think I've ever played a game with a fully developed fictional language, so I can't comment on whether that would be similarly annoying.

The visual novel part looks AMAZING, but the combat looks like such a downgrade from Cyber Sleuth...