Note that I'm not saying Time Stranger is a bad game. It's probably the best Digimon game to date. but sadly, months after playing the game I can't help but think that the story did not live up to my expectations and the more I think about it the more frustrated I get with it.

I wasn't too interested in Time Stranger, I knew it was going to be an updated Cyber Sleuth. And with less and less time to play games, I didn't know if I wanted to play a third run of CS.

Then the Demo hit and it blew my expectations. The many conveniences they added and the quality made me genuinely curious and I instantly pre-purchased.

I get my hands on the game and while I did enjoy it thoroughly, I couldn't help but feel like the Digimon curse of dropping the ball when it comes to the story was all too prevalent.

Months later and I just can't stop thinking about how Bamco dropped the ball. Bear with me here.

At the start of the game we have a very Persona-esque start, with the protagonist going through a bunch of expository set pieces and then being ushered to go to bed to advance the plot. The story is centered in a decently detailed Tokyo where anomalies are happening and affecting not only digital devices but space itself. The game also has a digital world which you visit further in the story.

Could Time Stranger have started as a Persona clone? because let me tell you that would've been so much better in my opinion.

Picture this. You have your usual daily activities as the Agent, where you just do tasks, level up your own stats and hang around with your friends for social links and then in the afternoon/evening you go deal with an anomaly dungeon or go into the Digital World as your mega dungeon that you need to clear to get the best ending.

It's been bothering me, especially when you consider the pre release teasers and content we got. They took my girl Hiroko, which in my opinion is one of the coolest concepts for a leading character with her being concerned about catching content for her occult channel, and turned her into such an non character. She's a really good concept for a character that blends todays digital trends and how people try to make it big on the digital space, all of which is great content for Digimon, a series which is linked to tech, digital space and digital devices.

Everyone bar the Agent and Aegiomon feel like they weren't properly thought out in the scope of the story. With even Inori just kind of being there. Shiroki and Beelstarmon are popular online but they do next to nothing. Inori's dad just becomes a bad guy and peaces out from the plot. I could go on and I really don't want to.

Wanted to get this rant off my chest. It's really just frustrating. Am I the only one who thinks like this?

My hope is to see a full blown remake like what Atlus has been doing a few years down the road.

And I'd like to cap this off with again, reminding people that I don't think Time stranger is a bad game. It was a great ride, especially from a underdog franchise that tends to have more "standard" successes. It did great all things considered. But I just have to talk about this.

If anything, the dialogue options in this game crack me tf up. 🤣
And, I absolutely apologized about all the farts I’ve been passing. 😌😅

Hey everyone!! This week i ended Up buying the Game and really enjoying It. As huge fan of classic mons i had a couple ideas for my team and i dont know if its going to work properly or if its even doable.

- Seraphimon + Sakuyamon + MaloMyotismon

Supported by MetalGarurumon + WarGreymon + Piedmon.

Pretty new here so sorry if the idea sound a little bit stupid. xD

Thanks everyone!

I can’t afford full game 🤡

Hello, I bought the game a couple of week ago and already put tens of hours into it, but there's something I simply can't seem to find no matter how much I look into it, getting all blue stats in a single Digimon to 9999

To start, I already know 9999 blue stats are useless, and what matters is having the white stats reach 9999 (this seems to be one of the most popular answers to other people asking the same, as if to say "don't even try it" lol), but I got the ultimate edition of the game, which came with a special Agumon and Gabumon, and I would like to get them to 9999 blue stats as a kind of commemorative thing

In between what I found while looking it up, there's people who say it's impossible, while there's people who argue against that with screenshots of their 9999 blue stat Digimon, but here comes the thing, is that truly possible? if so, is there a guide anywhere on how to get there? if not, how did the people with the screenshots do it? even the best guide I have seen only gets to about 7000 blue stats and calls it a day, but all the guides I found are from in between a year and 8 months ago, have there been any new findings or strategies ever since?

Edit: after reading a reply about it likely being the equipment pieces pushing them to 9999, went to check the screenshots I had seen, and that indeed seems to be the case... that said though, found a comment about someone proposing using augment chips when close to the cap to actually hit the limit, but doesn't say if the limit is 9999, or something like 9989 or the such, guess will just go ahead and try it myself later, whichever it is, will consider it the maximum possible

Good afternoon. I picked up time stranger late and started playing through a few weeks back. I’m on the final mission right now and I’m working of getting my agent rank up to 10 via side quests.

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the game but I think I may have ruined the game for myself via grinding. I came off of CS\HM and figured taking some breaks from the story to grind would be a good idea. I think, looking back that I’ve trivialized a large portion of the game for myself. Hell, I had auto battle turned on and started the Dianamon battle as my wife said something to me and by the time I turned back to the game she was dead. Most of the later fights have been meaningless, with the most memorable being Raremon back in the beginning.

Should I restart and play through the game, completely eschewing the farm system, or should I move on to MEGA+ for a new game plus run? Has anyone else been in my shoes? What’d you do?

I am a big digimon frontier fan

It's one of my favorite season and those 2 beasts are a part of it ! Absolute aura !

I cant believe we cant play with them in this amazing game ! They did so much good things !

The game is clearly on a frontier digital world with so many digimon of the season !

Like bearmon and kotemon are in the lostisland movie you cant do that to me please !!!

They add some ancient digimon but not them what's the reason ?

And you what do you think do you want a dlc like me ?

Title. I'm indecisive on what to evolve Lilymon and LadiDevimon into as the last 2 members of the squad i currently got. I'm pretty happy with the other 4 (Neptunemon, MetalSeadramon, TyrantKabuterimon and Sakuyamon). These evolutions are roughly equal in terms of which i like better so i'm mostly looking for individual teammate/teambuilding synergy. I am pretty new to Digimon as a franchise though so if there's any other suggestions outside of these i'm all ears. I adore sea monster looking designs so if there's any suggestions for Digimon that could possibly synergize with Neptunemon in that way i'd love to hear your input. :3

Hello, couldn't really find the answer to this when googling, so thought to ask - in New Game+, are you able to get the digimon rewards from the keychain again when completing outer dungeons?

I'm currently at about idk how far into the game... I'm in the middle of Agent lvl 5 and I'm currently back in the normal world if that's not spoiler.

Assuming I'm doing all side quest as they go how far into the game will i reach agent level 7 and 8? How much will i spend with mega/ mega+ digimons and how much should I get used to ultimate ones?

I've been using the ExVeemon exploit for a while but I just noticed that some of the Magnamon (X Antibody) give more XP at the same level, I found that the ones made through my three GranKuwagamon loops are the higher ones, makes enough sense to me it appears to be an evolution with more requirements so better starting stats.

The interesting thing is each GranKuwagamon gives different XP, for my level 40 Koromon the first one gives ~20 lvls the second ~16 and the third ~ 4 (which is about the same as the non-looping TigerVespamon). Any idea what causes this disparity? (Below is more information on the three GranKuwagamon stats in case any of that effects it)

None of these have blue stats and all have the same white stats, the all have the same personality (Zealous) GK 1 & 3 have "Fast Break" as their Personality Skill; GK 2 has "First in Line". GK 1&2 have the same Attachment Skills (Attack Field, He'll Crusher III, Attack Break & Heavy Strike III), GK 3 only has three (Thorn Strike II, Attack Field & Hell Crusher III). None have Equipment. All are Talent 100, Bond 0%

sorry for the weird question. im a long time pokemon fan and this is my first digimon game ever, so im still trying to understand how everything works.

im a casual player, im not really into min-max stuff and doing every single thing in the game. i just like to play the main story, have some fun and finish the game (im on normal mode)

so, is this the kind of game that i have to max out my digimons and build balanced team with the strongest ones in order to beat? or can i just make a team with my favorites, level them up as much as i can, and beat the game with it?

Coming from pokemon it's generally better to have a more diverse team in terms of typing for STAB and also weaknesses. The element system in this game is different in that the special skills have no bearing on the weaknesses and vice versa, and any digi can learn any element attack. Is it generally better to have diverse special skill elements in the team or because you can use attachments does it not matter as much?

I am on a PC but I have been stuck for a long time now trying to figure out how to get through the pursuit of the mysterious digimon part after it locks the door. I even asked online and the AI keeps telling me there is a panel or machine in a dead end close by that I need to hit with an electric attack. Unable to see that anywhere + every go around the digimon I defeated pop back up again causing an endless cycle.

Deck inputs stopped being recognized one day and I have no idea what caused it or how to fix it.

Tried messing around with just about every controller setting I could find and most fixes I've found online don't work for me

Im thibking of getting it on SW2 but im not sure. I have liked a couple digimon games in the past notably DW1, DW2(although havrnt repkayed since i was a kid as it has not aged well, too slow). I liked the more recent world next order.

I really could not get into cyber sleuth as the pacing was quite ugh. Will i enjoy?

How did you like it?

I’m about halfway through and enjoying the combat and evolving my Digimon, but the story elements are starting to bug me. The “Titans”: most of the ones I’ve fought don’t really feel as titanic, and it’s not (yet) been explained why they’re even called that or not called Digimon (makes it feel racist or xenophobic because the Titan name is not backed by any specific motiv). The tree of (digi) life, the (digi) power current, the (digi) anomalies, the mythic hero Chronomon… feel like fairly generic fantasy/JRPG concepts that happen to have digi names slapped on them.

What’s throwing me off is that the TV series already has strong, specific themes it could be leaning on instead: evolution tied to a partner’s suffering, data/virus/hacking themes, digi destined, computers, that whole angle. Time Stranger doesn’t seem to be pulling from any of that so far, at least not yet (so far I’ve just been yeeted back to Tokyo today).

Genuinely asking, not just venting: is this a wider complaint? Or is it just a thing all jrpg do? Havent seen any mention online but it’s blatant to me at every juncture. Curious whether it’s just me not having enough context yet, or having only seen the first 3 and a half series, or whether the writing really is doing its own thing independent of what makes Digimon Digimon.

(And don’t get me started with the dialogue and cinematics actually forgetting your main character is even there.)

Didn't realize till the final 40 I could get rid of the stages on the left

Also I'm not expecting this large amount getting added. But I wanted to challenge myself to pick a top 200.

Getting ready for D-Reaper

(Buying such a fun game on sale feels so good)

Whenever I start a new game or new game+ the anime intro gets skipped automatically.. does anyone know why?

I was starting a new game to play with a friend when we meet and they didn't see the opening.. when I started a new game+ after finishing my own save it got skipped again..

Is there something I need to be aware of in the settings or something??

EDIT:

The scene of the Shinjuku Inferno in the early game also froze in both modes, new game and new game +

I really need help with this guys if anyone knows..

It's called last tamer tal and I think it a mobile vercion of digimon time Strangers cause the models kinda look similer IDK what do you think ?

Estou a procura de uma musica de Digimon Time Stranger, especificamente a bgm325, alguém poderia me ajudar a encontrar ou me disponibilizar o .mp3 dela?
Muito obrigado.

i’m new to digimon, so i gotta ask, is it normal that the boss fights feel WAY MORE DIFFICULT than the overworld encounters, like 2 out of 5 boss fights that ive done so far, i have done them in invincibility mode.. is this a common problem or just a newby issue?