Digimon Survive: How To Befriend Digimon
One of the main draws of most monster-catching games is the ability to accrue a huge collection of teammates from the critters you encounter on your journey, and this remains true for Digimon games. Usually, you either catch them with certain items, hatch them from eggs, or purchase them from merchants.
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Some games, however, will have you building your army through sheer force of will and charisma - and Digimon Survive is one of these games. Yes, in this game, your main method of taming Digimon is through having pleasant, successful conversations with them. Here's how to do that.
It's important to note, to begin with, that there are two different types of Digimon in Digimon Survive, partner digimon, and free digimon. Partner digimon are the digimon that stick around and appear during cutscenes; they are attached to one of the main human characters and are characters in their own right. Think of Takuma's Agumon or Minoru's Falcomon.
Partner digimon act like the digimon in the anime - they can digivolve but will always eventually revert back to their Rookie stage form. Sustaining their digivolutions in battle costs SP and can be triggered at will.
On the other hand, free digimon are recruited from the wild - through conversations during battle using the Talk command.
Not all digimon can be talked with. Certain digimon will not enter into conversations with you, sometimes the entire enemy party.
In addition, some characters - namely Shuuji and Ryo - cannot use the Talk command as they do not trust digimon.
Free digimon undergo evolution in a different fashion. Instead of being able to cycle through evolutions during battle, you must use certain items - Slabs of
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