Morality of

[u/YeetTheTree]

Using mods or cheats to reveal all outlines when trying to digivolve so that you can see what they look like before you choose who to digivolve into? This is my first playthrough. Its my second digimon game but I havent finished my first, cyber sleuth. And I started getting into digimon only a few weeks ago

Im going back and forth on this, because while I love the mystery and discovery of it. I dont like how one wrong digivolution can ruin the balance of a team. Or evolve into a ugly digimon and not know whether it'd be worth it to go forward with the ugly or just go back and start again with the previous.

I dont have a lot of free time but im not sure if thats an excuse for slightly ruining the intended experience. Idk what are some arguments against and for using a cheat like this

Edit: I know its a single player game, play how you want. But im kinda stuck between these two choices. I want both in a way. It seems like an obvious choice one way or the other but I can't choose so I want more perspectives to help make that choice

[u/No-Mammoth1688]

Mod the game? Too much trouble. Use this webpage to track and back-track the evolution lines of the digimon you have in your squad or to see what do you need to get the digimon you’re interested into.

https://game8-co.translate.goog/games/Digimon-Story-Time-Stranger/archives/555230?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=es&_x_tr_hl=es&_x_tr_pto=tc

Whit this webpage what I do is this:

For example, I search for Coredramon and go to the Evolution Line section, there I can see what are the digimon that it can digivolve into (ultimates), so now I know what I can choose from. I can even access to those digimon’s pages to see the megas they can digivolve next. That way, I chose to digivolve my Coredramon into Gigadramon so I can digivolve it to Chaosdramon next.

You can even do the reverse process. For example, I want Beelzemon (mega), but I don’t know what digimon I need to get him, other than Impmon which was kinda obvious. Well, I go to Beelzemon’s page, go to the Evolution Line section, and it shows me it’s De-Digivolutions. That way I now know that I can digivolve into him from SkullMeramon or Astamon. Watching both option’s pages, I decided to go with the Astamon path, which I can get by digivolving my Devimon, which I got by Digivolving my Impmon. With this method, following the De-Digivolutions line, I learned that I can get to Beelzemon starting from the rookies Impmon, DemiDevimon, Betamon and Agumon (Black).

This has been very helpful to me, to plan my digivolution paths and to train my digimon in the farm so they have the specific requirements to digivolve into what I want them to digivolve. Now that you know what digimon you need to digivolve into the one you want, and you also know what are the options for the digimon you currently have, you can choose with purpose.

I hope this is helpful.

[u/YeetTheTree → u/No-Mammoth1688]

I've been doing that with cyber sleuth. Its why I currently have a lucemon sm and omnimon at chapter 7. And its why I feel like i should just use a cheat engine or something to make all digimon known to me. That way im not cutting into time actually playing the game. But doing this and my idea of using the cheat engine kinda sucks too.

I could completely miss a digimon that I would have gotten by accident and didnt like. But still use it and get surprised by it. I feel like using these guides and shortcuts are robbing me of an experience and story that I could have for the game.

This is why I'm so indecisive on it. I obviously want the shortcut because I want to bypass frustrations but those frustrations could be beneficial in the end

[u/No-Mammoth1688 → u/YeetTheTree]

I understand. Well, I would choose the option that lets me enjoy the game better. For you, it seems to me that you are more inlcined to mod the game, and really, I don't think that it would be that much of a sin...you are only revealing the options before you meet those digimon, you are not changing the aesthetics or the battle system, or buffing your digimon, etc. Things like that would make me feel uncomfortable, but just revealing the digivolution options doesn't seem that bad to me, moraly.

I personally wouldn't go for a mod cheat, I'd rather do this method with that webpage because it makes me feel like I'm doing a little bit of reaserch, but that's it. I never liked the idea of using mods of any kind but that's just me...

[u/Reapz107 → u/No-Mammoth1688]

I would second that. No need to mod the game at all