デジモンサヴァイブ・Digimon Survive
Genre: VN + Tactics battles
Summary:
Digimon Survive is primarily a visual novel though it also has tactical battles and digimon raising so it’s not all story. A bunch of high schoolers go on a school trip where they’re staying in a retro school building when suddenly weird occurrences start happening and they end up meeting with their digimon to explore the mystery.
Availability: PS4, Switch, PC, Xbox
Time to Beat: 31.5 hours
Personal Opinion:
This has been on my to-play list since Game Gengo gave it a pretty decent rating on his “games for language learners on Steam” list last year. A familiar franchise might have nostalgia for some
Pros
- VN with text replay (in the same scene) if you miss anything
- Sort of rural Japan setting
- Turn based gameplay lets you pause to look up language
Cons
- Western PC release requires modding to enable Japanese text
- Digimon names/attacks are not really useful language outside the franchise