History VideoGame / DigimonStoryCyberSleuth

* PosthumousCharacter: Yuuko's father, Satoru Kamishiro, died before the beginning of the story [[spoiler:thanks to Rie]]; Yuuko's motivation for her action in the story revolve around wanting to protect his ideal dream for EDEN as a place for people to connect with others.

* AmnesiacDissonance: [[spoiler:Yuuko receives a huge shock upon having her memories of being "Yuugo" restored, although her resulting HeroicBSOD comes less from a significant moral difference and more from the shock of from the memories of all the things she doesn't remember doing and the realization she'd been manipulated the entire time. Yuuko's resulting personality is a mixture of the two identities; still as distant and polite as her civilian identity, but as assertive as her hacker identity.]]

* ThoseTwoGuys: The player character's school friends Ryouta and Sakura, who never (at least willingly) get directly involved themselves with any of the hackers' incidents, but send you [=DigiLine=] chats every so often and occasionally get pulled into some missions. They're mostly there just for comic relief and to provide some normal daily-life situations in contrast to what you're dealing with. The most significant thing to happen about them is a minor subplot about Ryouta's very obvious crush on Sakura; [[spoiler:near the end of the game, Sakura tells you via [=DigiLine=] that they've started dating]].

* ThoseTwoGuys: The player character's school friends Ryouta and Sakura, who never (at least willingly) get directly involved themselves with any of the hackers' incidents, but send you [=DigiLine=] chats every so often and occasionally get pulled into some missions. They're mostly there just for comic relief and to provide some normal daily-life situations in contrast to what you're dealing with.

* HighjackedByGanon: Depending on how you see it, the end result could be depicted as this; the early game presents many different options for who'll end up being the main antagonistic force in this game. In the end, it ends up being [[spoiler:Yggdrasil and the Royal Knights, a plotline used at least twice in other incarnations of the ''Digimon'' franchise]].

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Not the trailers, but the promotional materials: the official website shows [[spoiler:Rie casting [=LordKnightmon's shadow=].

* ThoseTwoGuys: The player character's school friends Ryouta and Sakura, who never (at least willingly) get directly involved themselves in any of the hackers' stuff, but send you [=DigiLine=] chats every so often and occasionally get pulled into some missions. They're mostly there just for comic relief and to provide some normal daily-life situations in contrast to what you're dealing with.

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: The main ''Digimon'' franchise type effectiveness is present in this game, following the usual Virus > Data > Vaccine > Virus setup (applying a 2x multiplier to strong damage and a 0.5x multiplier for weak damage), along with the one native to ''Story'' games involving the different races (applying a 1.5x multiplier to strong damage and a 0.75 multiplier for weak damage). In this game in particular, the virus/data/vaccine setup is ''absolutely'' important for players to keep in mind; bringing too many Digimon of the wrong type leads very easily to a quick and painful loss to the point where it's best to look up the type of the Digimon you'll be fighting if you can before you fight them.

''Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth'' is a ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' game for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita, developed by Media.Vision and published by Creator/NamcoBandai. It falls within the ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldDS'' series, though characters from ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldReDigitize'' series make minor appearances.

The first official trailer can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4Res4zkJk here]], though it's in unsubtitled Japanese. The game was released in Japan on March 12, 2015. Like ''Re:Digitize'', the game's art is by Suzuhito Yasuda (of ''{{Durarara}}'' fame), while the music is done by Masafumi Takada (of ''NoMoreHeroes'' and ''DanganRonpa'' fame).

* GeniusBonus: People particularly familiar with ''Digimon'' franchise lore will likely notice some early hints at some later reveals; in particular, many fans noticed even before the game's release [[spoiler:Mirei's black and white cats being blatant parallels to her Angewomon and [=LadyDevimon=], and Kyouko's car suspiciously having Alphamon's color scheme]].

* GuestStarPartyMember: Plot characters will occasionally tag along with you for certain battles; although they're not controllable and will only work by AI, it won't harm you much since they don't take up an extra slot in your party, can have some powerful attacks (depending on the member in question), cannot take on status effects (and thus can't be sent into Panic and put your party at risk), and - perhaps the most useful - have no internal HP or SP bar, meaning they can tank hits for you endlessly and churn out powerful attacks one after another with no repercussion. In fact, for some bosses (particularly Eater's second form, which can put Dot status on your entire party, but cannot put it on the guest member) it's a useful strategy to rely entirely on your guest members.

* ProductPlacement: Aiba's shirt has the logo for AWA Studio on it. The Tower Records store and its mascot, Reiko Tawa, also factor into certain parts of the story. Certain brands such as Mandarake and even {{Sega}} (complete with ads for ''BorderBreak'') are real-life brands presented on signs and posters around Tokyo, although it's hard to say which ones are product placement and which ones are there purely for the realism factor (as the game strives for a fairly realistic and uncannily detailed depiction of the actual Tokyo locations).
* PurelyAestheticGender: The main character can be either male or female. If male, his default name is Takumi Aiba, and if female her name is Ami Aiba.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Kyouko Kuremi, the founder of the Kuremi Detective Agency, has her shirt mostly unbuttoned, exposing her ample cleavage and that she isn't wearing a bra. Rina Shinomiya from ''Re:Digitize: Decode'' also has her hoodie mostly unzipped, completely exposing her chest, but is wearing a bra underneath.

* HotterAndSexier: Due to the above-mentioned AudienceShift, characters like Kyouko Kuremi and Nokia Shiramine are rather scantily clad (this is partially due to the artist being Suzuhito Yasuda, who is generally guilty of this in his female characters). Some female Digimon like Angewomon are also quite busty and flaunt what they got in certain cinematics.

* OccultDetective: Aiba is recruited by the Kuremi Detective Agency to investigate strange goings on in the Digital World.

* HotterAndSexier: ''Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth'' has a larger number of scantily-clad busty female characters than its predecessors, including Rina Shinomiya from ''Re:Digitize: Decode'', Kyouko Kuremi, and Nokia Shiramine. Some female Digimon like Angewomon are also quite busty and flaunt what they got in certain cinematics.

* AudienceShift: It's been explicitly stated that, unlike the previous Story games, this game is aimed specifically at adults - thus, the {{Fanservice}}[=-based designs=] and the more complex language (note that there is no furigana in the game, an absolute necessity for kids' games in Japanese). It's notable that this is the first Digimon franchise game to get a CERO rating of B (age 12 and older). The plot also involves fun things like [[spoiler:trapping a child inside a digital network while his body remains comatose for years, the accompanying trauma for the other kids involved, and one kid willingly throwing away his humanity in exchange for power while visibly going off the deep end in sanity]], falling somewhere between the ''[[ShinMegamiTenseiPersona Persona]]'' and ''ShinMegamiTensei'' levels of things that most definitely would ''not'' belong in a kids' game.

* AudienceShift: It's been explicitly stated that, unlike the previous Story games, this game is aimed specifically at adults - thus, the {{Fanservice}}[=-based designs=] and the more complex language (note that there is no furigana in the game, an absolute necessity for kids' games in Japanese). It's notable that this is the first Digimon franchise game to get a CERO rating of B (age 12 and older). The plot also involves fun things like [[spoiler:trapping a child inside a digital network while his body remains comatose for years, trauma for the other kids involved]], falling somewhere between the ''[[ShinMegamiTenseiPersona Persona]]'' and ''ShinMegamiTensei'' levels of things that most definitely would ''not'' belong in a kids' game.

* AudienceShift: It's been explicitly stated that, unlike the previous Story games, this game is aimed specifically at adults - thus, the {{Fanservice}}[=-based designs=] and the more complex language (note that there is no furigana in the game, an absolute necessity for kids' games in Japanese). It's notable that this is the first Digimon franchise game to get a CERO rating of B (age 12 and older). The plot also involves fun things like [[spoiler:trapping a child inside a digital network while his body remains comatose for years, trauma for the other kids involved]], falling somewhere between the ''[[VideoGame/Persona]]'' and ''ShinMegamiTensei'' levels of things that most definitely would ''not'' belong in a kids' game.

* AudienceShift: It's been explicitly stated that, unlike the previous Story games, this game is aimed specifically at adults - thus, the {{Fanservice}}[=-based designs=] and the more complex language (note that there is no furigana in the game, an absolute necessity for kids' games in Japanese). It's notable that this is the first Digimon franchise game to get a CERO rating of B (age 12 and older).

* OccultDetective: Aiba is recruited by the Kuremi Detective Agency Academy to investigate strange goings on in the Digital World.

''Digimon World: Cyber Sleuth'' is a ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' game for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita, developed by Media.Vision and published by Creator/NamcoBandai. It falls within the ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldDS'' series, though characters from ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldReDigitize'' series make minor appearances.