Are Cyber Sleuth and its sequel worth playing? Didn't really hear much about them after they came out
Digimon looks nice in the 3d artstyle plus a story that is somewhat involving (if not a bit too ambitious to its own end), though the budget and Vita upbrinings show heavy in the visuals and environments. It's not a
great looking game, but I think anyone that enjoys Digmon could find something from it.
I completed the sequel, Hacker's Memory, recently and, while not bad per se (better main cast chemistry, more Digimon), it's simply falls short by being too damn similar. Forgettable music tracks return, the same art style returns, most of the locations from the first game return, the story is different but many elements (some of which aren't great) return. It's clearly meant to be a stopgap game and it shows. Even though I played Cyber Sleuth well over a year or two prior, I did not really appreciate the return to memory lane.
So yeah, it's worth choosing one and playing it (since the stories take place at the same time, there's not too much you really miss playing one over the other). But playing both, or at least spending time doing sidequests and making your ultimate DIgimon team in each, brought me major burnout. I just want one created from a whole new core with better, new character/environmental visuals to boot.
Edit: Oh yeah, as said afterwards, the localization is wonky and the dungeons are just a means of having one (like in many JRPGs) in both, neither killed the game for me. It's just unfortunately weird.
