Digimon Survive Makes Serious Changes to the Digivolution Process
In a few more months, Digimon Survive will finally be out. This visual novel-cross-tactical RPG has been suffering delays for years, but it finally has a global release date that is fast approaching. Even if it shares a release date with Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Digimon fans everywhere are looking forward to finally closing the door on this chapter of the franchise's gaming side. Sporting traditional visual novel elements infused with survival tropes, multiple story paths, and a tactical grid-based combat system that promises to deliver serious endgame challenges, there's a lot to look forward to.
As it stands, Digimon Survive has one of the most unique meta stories in the Digimon franchise. Initially aiming for a 2019 release date, it quickly slid into delay after delay. These bizarre circumstances have done a lot to bring attention to the game, and the directions its dark storytelling could go are promising for the Digimon franchise. Even after decades of Digimon World and Digimon Story titles, no game has ever been released that will play quite like Survive does. It's a strange yet exciting time, although fans reading into a recent developer breakdown of the gameplay have noticed something odd. It seems that in Survive's efforts to break away from the typical format of Digimon, it has also meddled with the series core mechanic of digivolution.
Digimon Survive's Unique Presentation Really Emphasizes Choice
Digivolution is handled differently from evolution in Pokemon and demon fusion in Shin Megami Tensei. Digimon are portrayed as being able to move up and down their evolutionary lines with some degree of freedom, rather than just evolving upwards linearly. Adding on to that, a Digimon can take different evolutionary
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