Digimon Story is back after 7 years with a big-budget turn-based JRPG to "bring the charm of Digimon to even more people"

Screenshot of Digimon Story: Time Stranger of a human character running with digital monsters.
(Image credit: Bandai Namco)

Digimon have taken many different forms over the years, from literal digital monsters that sat inside Tamagotchi-like toys to trading cards to multiple anime runs. Now the little icons are finally getting what looks like the big-budget JRPG treatment with Digimon Story: Time Stranger, announced at last night's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:State of Play.

It's been about seven years since the last Digimon Story game and the sub-series has gotten a pretty major glow-up by the looks of the trailer below. I feel like every major games showcase has at least four trailers that just blend together thanks to their super-serious, generic, doomed anime settings. Time Stranger's first look would've fallen victim to the same problem, but it has the awesome benefit of Digimon popping up halfway 🦂through, suddenly making the whole ordeal a million times more interesting/hilarious.

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. "We've been working hard to bring the charm 🍌of Digimon to even more people."

If you're unfamiliar with Digimon's deal, it's basically like Pokemon. You'll stumble upon iconic beasts, capture them in battle, customize and train them, evolve and devolve them, before sending them out in turn-based fights that largely come down to how well you take advantage of type affinities. Either way, it looks a lot more polished than Pokemon's last big open-world console outing, and I'm glad to see some competition in the space before 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Pokemon Legends Z-A comes out this year.

Digimon Story: 🍸Time Stranger is set to release sometime in 2025 on PC, Xbox Series🌺 X|S, and PS5.

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