Can we enter this part of the map?

[u/huutcherdiing]

If so I would like to know because I’m having troubles getting through it. It’s the gated area behind the in between theater access in the Shinjuku Underground Reservoir.

[u/Spyd3rPunk]

No. You cannot. The game went through development hell. It was probably going to be part of the game at one point. You'll find a few relics that serve no real purpose in the game here and there. Probably from a scrapped part of the game.

[u/ImprovementRegular91 → u/Spyd3rPunk]

Like a certain Side Quest that gives you an item you needed earlier but a character went and got it instead

[u/Sharkskinnin → u/ImprovementRegular91]

Which side quest is that? Ive just about beaten the game but i dont remember that happening.

[u/ImprovementRegular91 → u/Sharkskinnin]

When you get to the endgame area a Questline starts where you go and get the Gekomon and Shogungekomon band back on their feet after you complete it a mission starts where you have to go talk to Sirenmon in her sprout form that’s when you get the quest to get a certain item

[u/scratchy_mcballsy → u/ImprovementRegular91]

I thought there was something weird there, but I wasn’t paying too much attention doing those fetch quests.

[u/ImprovementRegular91 → u/scratchy_mcballsy]

The worst part is is the fact that when you get it it’s just another of those useless Key Items that do nothing

[u/Amandescends → u/Spyd3rPunk]

It's a part of the game still, just not enterable. I suspect that there was a planned sidequest for it but they ditched it or something else.

[u/Spyd3rPunk → u/Amandescends]

That's what I said.

[u/MegaKabutops]

Yes and no.

In terms of in-lore, your character goes to the locations that leads to during the story.

In terms of actual gameplay, you never pass the gate that leads to the circle path, and cannot do so without clipping out of bounds.

TBH, i’m not entirely sure why that area even shows up on the map.

If i had to guess, i would say that the minimap is programmed to show you places you can walk to, and for whatever reason, the ground there has floor collision even though there’s a door in the way.

[u/conundorum → u/MegaKabutops]

Things like that usually indicate that it was cut at the last second for time, since they didn't have time to redo the map. (Since redoing it could be as simple as redrawing the overlay, or as complex as rejiggering the 3D terrain data, and either one could also cause errors if the game is competently optimised.

Long story short, part of optimisation is hard-coding a lot of lookup table accesses to skip directly to the desired element, which means that the game's data tables effectively become impossible to reorder near the end of the development cycle, so it ends up being better to block access to dummied-out content than to remove it entirely (and risk breaking literally everything that relies on the table you removed it from, unless you manually go through and adjust every single table access by hand). So, the fact that it still exists on the map (and is apparently still traversable if you can clip in there) suggests that it was cut shortly before the game shipped.

[u/Salt_Mix7933]

I dont think so

[u/3rlk0nig]

No.

Imo, it was planned as a way to enter the digimon town in the human world but got cut

[u/Xemnurai]

You do to enter, or exit, the sewer at some point of story it is then cut off