History VideoGame / DigimonSurvive

* BossAlteringConsequence: When players are exploring the old school building after Aoi goes missing, they can find a spirit lamp by finding vinegar to weaken the webs covering the desk it's in. Managing to collect it causes Takuma to toss it at Dokugumon before the actual battle begins and deplete a decent amount of HP.

** The BrutalBonusLevel, once available, can be accessed at any time, even if the School Area is not accessible normally for story reasons. Its progress is also not reset upon game clear, allowing the player to resume in a NewGamePlus.

* ForWantOfANail:
** The routes diverge during [[spoiler:the Kenzoku attack on the Amusement Park's Castle and how the characters react to it]]:
*** In the Moral route, [[spoiler:Miu managed to remember about the trap door she used back in chapter 4 in-time. As such, the group stayed together and starts a fighting retreat. After the battle, Takuma and the professor choose to remain in the Throne Room in an attempt to snap Miyuki out from the Master's possession, but he increases his grip on her and attempts to kill Takuma, only for Jijimon to TakeTheBullet. This results in his death, but no humans are dead or rendered insane in the encounter]].
*** In the Harmony route, [[spoiler:Miu failed to remember the trap door in time, resulting in Kaito rushing off to fight the Kenzoku, with Miu following after him. Saki then noticed some Amusement Park monsters that had yet to be saved and rushed off to save them; Aoi decides to send Minoru to find an escape route, while she and Takuma followed after Saki. Takuma manages to both save the Amusement Park monsters and arrive in time to fend off the Kenzoku for Kaito and Miu, but the fog thickens and a stray Kenzoku taking the form of one of the Amusement Park monsters lures Miu to be preyed on before Takuma, Kaito and Miu can regroup with the others. This resulted in Miu's death and Kaito going insane]].
*** The Wrath route is similar to Harmony route in set-up, the difference being [[spoiler:Aoi's response; she sends Takuma to help Kaito and Miu, while she and Minoru rushes off after Saki, who was being lured in by Kenzoku disguised as Amusement Park monsters. Takuma, Kaito and Aoi manage to defeat all the Kenzoku, but one of the defeated Kenzoku springs back up to ambush and kill Saki, resulting in her death and Aoi going insane]].
*** In the Truthful Route, because of [[spoiler:Shuuji and the Professor successfully researching the murals in the Shrine, rather than going to the Amusement Park to ask Jijimon about the Kenzoku (which always fails and causes one death), they go find Baihumon in the same place for answers instead. The invading Kenzoku are all fended off with no casualities and thus the Amusement Park remains intact due to the Master failing to kill Baihumon, and the party manages to both get some concrete answers of what's really going on from Baihumon's partner and Baihumon's good side.]]
** The Nail for the [[GoldenEnding Truthful Route]] is [[spoiler:Kunemon managing to save Ryo and snap him out of his insanity. This leads to Ryo saving Shuuji and Lopmon, snapping the former out of his self-destructive and toxic behavior. As the team doesn't lose members, this continues to cause a ripple effect the rest of the game.]]
** The ''entire'' story turns out to be kickstarted by one of these. A few centuries ago, [[spoiler:after Haruchika and four others are thrown into the Kemonogami World as sacrifices by the acting priestess, she did not use her powers to return to the Kemonogami World and meet her younger brother Haruchika again. Turns out she was only too busy with her duties and died of old age before she can enter the other world, but her brother already took it as a betrayal. The end result is a horrible SerialKiller who has probably murdered a massive amount of children spanning across a few centuries over a misunderstanding that could had been cleared with some communication.]]

*** During Part 4, when everyone is planning to search for Miu at the amusement park, Minoru says that all kids love amusement parks and asks Haru and Miyuki if they agree. They both say they don't know, and Takuma wonders if neither of them have been to one before. In a later scene, Jijimon also states that the park was built "decades ago" (using Kemonogami World time), implying the real-world park was built recently and likely way after Miyuki [[spoiler:vanished]].

** The in-profile menus include stats for each human and Kemonogami pair. Haru notably doesn't have any stats listed in his profile while Miyuki, whose partner was seemingly no longer seen after the tutorial, does. Additionaly, Miyuki has a surname (Miyuki Minase) while brother Haru is just "Haru." Furthermore, If you talk to Haru in a Free Action or exploration segment at the first half of the game, he'll usually give you an item and/or his responses increase Karma like when you talk to Agumon or Falcomon rather than increasing affinity when you talk to the humans (although Miyuki and the professor also don't have affinity values when talked to). This is not a coincidence; [[spoiler:Miyuki's partner is the Renamon in the prologue and it's literally right there impersonating her brother.]] In a similar vein, the professor ''has'' stats listed on the profile despite seemingly having nothing to do with the boy in the prologue. [[spoiler:turns out he is the boy in the prologue aged up to the point that he's almost unrecognizable, and the Garurumon fought in Part 4 was his Gabumon.]]

** The in-profile menus include stats for each human and Kemonogami pair. Haru notably doesn't have any stats listed in his profile while the Professor and Miyuki, who also don't have a partner, do. Additionaly, Miyuki has a surname (Miyuki Minase) while brother Haru is just "Haru." Furthermore, If you talk to Haru in a Free Action or exploration segment at the first half of the game, he'll usually give you an item and/or his responses increase Karma like when you talk to Agumon or Falcomon rather than increasing affinity when you talk to the humans (although Miyuki and the professor also don't have affinity values when talked to).

** When [[spoiler:Aoi dark biomerges with Labramon into Plutomon, her voice is decidedly Aoi's voice with an extra filter, despite the Digimon's masculine appearance. Your Plutomon in the other hand, has the much, more fitting masculine voice reserved for "heroic" monsters like [=WarGreymon=] or Dinorexmon.]]

** Certain Skill-Equipment are obtainable by speaking to a partner monster during certain Free Actions (knowing which ones require a guide or knowledge from other players). The catch is that there are plenty of them, and the player can only get one in a given Free Action because it depends on the friend with the highest Affinity at the time.

In a similar vein to ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', and to a lesser extent ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld'', the game revolves around a group of {{Ordinary High School Student}}s (or rather, mostly middle school students, in this case), who after an incident during a school camping trip, find themselves TrappedInAnotherWorld filled with strange monsters. The protagonist Takuma Momozuka, alongside his friends and classmates Minoru Hinata, Aoi Shibuya, Saki Kimishima, Ryo Tominaga, Shuuji Kayama, as well as two locals Kaito Shinonome and Miu Shinonome, quickly find monster partners amongst the foes and together, they have to work to help survive the hostile wilderness surrounding them. In the process, they also must figure out what got them there, and if they can ever find their way home. Unfortunately, their trek in the other world is not an adventure where ThePowerOfFriendship wins over all but a danger-filled ordeal, and some of them might not come out from the other side to tell the tale.

* FinalBossNewDimension: All routes end with this.

** The Wrathful ending is [[spoiler: more on the bitter end. After putting an end to an insane Aoi-Plutomon, the sudden emergence of monsters in the human world resulted in partners who abuse them or use them for misdeeds, throwing society into chaos a year later, with anyone having a monster partner suffering from persecution and facing the risk of being put in isolation camps. The survivors form a team to fight back against oppressive governments to pursue human and monster coexistence, giving a glimmer of HopeSpot for the future.]]

** One of the Professor's theories in the prologue is that tales of the Kenomogami are nothing but superstition or a collective mental block designed to protect people of the past from something they'd rather not remember. [[spoiler: The reason for the Professor's mental fogginess throughout the game is because he himself sealed away his bad memories of the other world and losing his sister there]].

* NonIndicativeName: The "Day 1 DLC Pack" on Steam is less of a day 1 bonus than a method for Steam players to obtain Guilmon, which is previously unobtainable in that port.
* NonStandardGameOver: Part 8 has [[spoiler:Takuma temporarily [[TrappedInAnotherWorld return to the human world]] and learn that he and Agumon need to SaveBothWorlds. You can [[RefusalOfTheCall refuse to go back]], earning a DownerEnding in which Agumon tearfully says goodbye, none of their friends are ever seen again, Takuma becomes a pariah after pictures of him fighting with Agumon begin circulating on social media, and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the planet slowly becomes uninhabitable]] for reasons]] [[spoiler:implied to be [[TheBadGuyWins the Master successfully exacting revenge against his sister through wiping out humanity with deadly natural disasters,]]]] [[spoiler:with Takuma and his mother becoming refugees]] before the Game Over screen appears.

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* ReverseCerebusSyndrome:
** Usually, the end of Part 3 marks a major CerebusSyndrome moment for the game as [[spoiler:Ryo dies in that chapter.]] However, in the Truthful Route, the game progressively becomes [[spoiler:LighterAndSofter past there instead, with a more optimistic undertone and ominous and/or foreboding BGM plays less compared to the other routes, especially during cutscenes.]] To a lesser extent, this occurs in the Moral Route, [[spoiler:where the group is consistently in high spirits after Jijimon's death.]]

* TakingAThirdOption: [[spoiler:In NewGamePlus, if you save Ryo at the end of Part 3 by getting your Affinity with him high enough, you start a ''fourth'' route (Truthful) where Shuuji and Ryo are still alive and well, and nobody else dies later on, either. The story doesn't seriously diverge until Part 9, though; even Part 6 plays out the same, despite originally revolving around the ramifications of Lopmon going berserk and killing his own partner.]]

*** In the Truthful Route, because of [[spoiler:Shuuji and the Professor successfully researching the murals in the Shrine, rather than going to the Amusement Park to ask Jijimon about the Kenzoku (which always fails and causes one death), they go find Baihumon in the same place for answers instead. The invading Kenzoku are all fended off with no casualities and thus the Amusement Park remains intact due to the Master failing to kill Baihumon, and the party manages to get on Baihumon's good side.]]

*** The Wrath route is similar to Harmony route in set-up, the difference being [[spoiler:Aoi's response; she sends Takuma to help Kaito and Miu, while she and Minoru rushes off after Saki. Takuma, Kaito and Aoi manage to defeat all the Kenzoku, but one of the defeated Kenzoku springs back up to ambush and kill Saki, resulting in her death and Aoi going insane]].

*** In the Moral route, [[spoiler:Miu managed to remember about the trap door she used back in chapter 4 in-time. As such, the group stayed together and starts a fighting retreat. After the battle, Takuma and the professor choose to remain in the throne room in an attempt to snap Miyuki out from the Master's possession, but he increases his grip on her and attempts to kill Takuma, only for Jijimon to TakeTheBullet. This results in his death, but no humans are dead or rendered insane in the encounter]].

*** In the Moral route, [[spoiler:Miu managed to remember about the trap door she used back in chapter 4 in-time. As such, the group stayed together and fights a fighting retreat together. After the battle, Takuma and the professor choose to remain in the throne room in an attempt to snap Miyuki out from the Master's possession, but he increases his grip on her and attempts to kill Takuma, only for Jijimon to TakeTheBullet. This results in his death, but no humans are dead or rendered insane in the encounter]].

*** In the Harmony route, [[spoiler:Miu failed to remember the trap door in time, resulting in Kaito rushing off to fight the Kenzoku, with Miu following after him. Saki then noticed some Amusement Park monsters that had yet to be saved and rushed off to save them; Aoi decides to send Minoru to find an escape route, while she and Takuma followed after Saki. Despite Takuma managed save the Amusement Park monsters and came in time to fend off the Kenzoku for Kaito and Miu, Miu and Kaito undergo another argument just before the fog thickens, and a stray Kenzoku taking the form of one of the Amusement Park monsters lures Miu to be preyed on. This resulted in Miu's death and Kaito going insane]].

*** In the Harmony route, [[spoiler:Miu failed to remember the trap door in time, resulting in Kaito rushing off to fight the Kenzoku, with Miu following after him. Saki then noticed some Amusement Park monsters that had yet to be saved and rushed off to save them; Aoi decides to send Minoru to find an escape route, while she and Takuma followed after Saki. Despite Takuma, Kaito and Miu managed to fend off the Kenzoku, a stray Kenzoku taking the form of one of the Amusement Park monsters lures Miu to be preyed on after the battle. This resulted in Miu's death and Kaito going insane]].

*** In the Moral route, [[spoiler:Miu managed to remember about the trap door she used back in chapter 4 in-time. As such, the group stayed together and fights a fighting retreat together, resulting in Jijimon's death, but no humans are dead or rendered insane in the encounter]].
*** In the Harmony route, [[spoiler:Miu failed to remember the trap door in time, resulting in Kaito rushing off to fight the Kenzoku, with Miu following after him. Saki then noticed some Amusement Park monsters that had yet to be saved and rushed off to save them; Aoi decides to send Minoru to find an escape route, while she and Takuma followed after Saki. Despite Takuma, Kaito and Miu managed to fend of the Kenzoku, a stray Kenzoku taking the form of one of the Amusement Park monsters lures Miu to be preyed on after the battle. This resulted in Miu's death and Kaito going insane]].

*** In the Harmony route, [[spoiler:Miu failed to remember the trap door in time, resulting in Kaito rushing off to fight the Kenzoku, with Miu following after him. Saki then noticed some Amusement Park monsters that had yet to be saved and rushed off to save them; Aoi decides to send Minoru to find an escape route, while she and Takuma followed after Saki. This resulted in Miu's death and Kaito going insane]].
*** The Wrath route is similar to Harmony route in set-up, the difference being [[spoiler:Aoi's response; she sends Takuma to help Kaito and Miu, while she and Minoru rushes off after Saki, resulting in Saki's death and Aoi going insane]].