First Trailer for Digimon Survive Is Here, Shows off Gameplay and Story Segments
Earlier this month, Bandai Namco unveiled a brand-new game set in the Digimon universe called Digimon Survive. Survive is a strategy RPG with survival elements and a choice-based narrative. It’s planned to release for the Nintendo Switch and PS4 sometime next year in Japan; during Bandai Namco’s Digimon Thanksgiving 2018 live stream today, the company showed off the first teaser trailer for the game as well as a close look at the battle system and story elements. You can watch that teaser trailer below:
In Digimon Survive, the main character’s name is Takuma Momotsuka and apparently, you’re not able to change his name because it is said by the other character’s in the story, who are actually voice-acted. Digimon Survive will have multiple endings that can be achieved by making decisions during conversations, endings that can even kill a favorite character of yours.
As for the narrative itself (via Gematsu): “The story develops through drama parts consisting of exploration, conversations with characters, and events, while turn-based strategy RPG battles play out through battle parts. Digimon can digivolve during battle by meeting certain conditions and consuming Energy. Energy can be recovered by attacking enemies and talking to Digimon during battle. The latter can also extend digivolution time. While there are about 100 playable Digimon, Habu noted that Digimon Survive places more emphasis on the story than it does collecting Digimon. Also, unlike the Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth games, there are essentially no sci-fi elements in Digimon Survive.”
During the live-stream, series producer for the Digimon games re-confirmed that a new title in the Digimon Story series is currently in development.
Again, Digimon Survive is scheduled to release sometime in 2019 in Japan. A Western release date has not been discussed, but we are sure that we will hear about a localized version pretty soon.