When comparing Tales of Zestiria vs Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth, the Slant community recommends Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth for most people. In the question“What are the best JRPGs for PS4?” Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth is ranked 15th while Tales of Zestiria is ranked 27th. The most important reason people chose Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth is:
Digivolving your partners in this game will send them straight back to level 1. So, there are quite a few things to take into consideration when making the decision to digivolve or not. Are you at a point in the game where you can spend some time powering up? Do you have any looming major encounters ahead of you? Things like this become very important.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Huge amount of content and gameplay
The game will take about 40 hours to complete.
Pro Amazing characters & story
Though like most JRPG's this game has a save the world story it's so different you get pulled in. The characters are deep with amazing back stories that pull you in and make you love them.
Pro Unique for the genre combat
Unlike most JRPGs, Tales of Zestiria has realtime action combat instead of turn based.
Pro There's a lot strategy in the digivolving system
Digivolving your partners in this game will send them straight back to level 1. So, there are quite a few things to take into consideration when making the decision to digivolve or not. Are you at a point in the game where you can spend some time powering up? Do you have any looming major encounters ahead of you? Things like this become very important.
Pro It appeals to a more mature audience than the Digimon of the past
Digimon Cyber Sleuth was made with a bit darker of a story, in an attempt to appeal to more mature audiences. Suffice it to say that it was brilliantly done, and will leave you wanting more.
The game takes place in a cyber world - think something like Second Life, and sets you up as a Cyber Sleuth - a person whose job is investigating cyber related crimes in the world, as hackers have been taking over and causing real-world problems, including comas and death.
Pro Solid classic JRPG elements
The game features classic JRPG turn-based combat, dungeon crawling, random enemy encounters, and customizable party members (Digital Monsters).
Cons
Con Terrible combat movement mechanic
The combat is horrible, you are locked in place and movement is horribly restricted until you achive a 50 hits combo to unlock the free movement.
Con No English Dub
The game is fully voiced in Japanese, providing only English subtitles. The lack of English voice-overs may be a turn off for some people.