Digimon Survive [Let's Play] - 22 - Shuuji's Desperation

10 days ago

Shuuji is dealing with a lot of inferiority issues while we're still in this life and death situation. Ouch!!

Digimon Survive is a Digimon Visual Novel with Turn-based strategy battles. The game follows a group of children who find themselves in another world, and their desperate attempts to find a way back home. The children find themselves involved with monsters, both as partners and enemies.

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This is the darkest piece of Digimon media I ever consumed, and Cybersleuth had pretty dark stuff too. Digimon Survive fuses the concept of Digital Monsters with Japanese folklore. It's amazing how the idea of "child sacrifice" integrates seamlessly with Digimon lore. The specific Digimon they choose for this game enhance this theme.

Digimon Survive is the closest modern entry to the old school Digimon anime vibes. Though, more than the earlier Digimon anime series, the game reminds me more of Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor series. In that series too, characters may die depending on your actions.

Below you can watch my playthrough of Digimon Survive, and the link to the whole playlist.

THIS PLAYTHROUGH IS MODDED: I installed the Improved Translation Mod and the Quirky Dialogue Font Mod. This playthrough should look a bit different from the official version.

Watch on YouTube:

Playlist:

 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt3R7_tP1xaH9mASCoJsRIYN96RihTAtI

22 - Shuuji's Desperation

The session starts with Shuuji's nightmare in which he remembers(?) his relationship with father and brother. He's really traumatized by not being good enough...

The party decide to go after the enemies base to ask them questions. Shuuji was against it the whole time, but he sounds more desperate than having any sort of plan. I agree with Kaito that we have to go ask, and beat them if they don't answer!!