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Digimon Story: Time Stranger (Video Game)
The story of a bond that transcends time.

Digimon Story: Time Stranger is a Digimon game developed by Media.Vision Inc and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, and the seventh game in the Digimon Story series. It was released for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on October 2nd, 2025, in Japan and October 3rd worldwide. The PC version was released via Steam on October 3rd, and the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 versions were released on July 10th, 2026.

The story begins with the player, a special agent of the Special Investigation Bureau ADAMAS, investigating an anomaly inside a government building, but the situation drastically goes off the rails as the agent encounters a giant robot, a mysterious shadow being, and a girl named Inori Misono. This sequence of events ends with a clash between the giant robot and a mysterious Digimon that causes an apocalyptic event called "the Shinjuku Inferno". This also leads to you being suddenly sent back eight years into the past, now tasked by your employers to investigate the cause of the incident, putting you on a journey alongside the aforementioned Inori Misono and a peculiar Digimon named Aegiomon across the human world and the Digital World of Iliad alike to solve the case and learning about the Olympos XII in the process. Like in many of the Digimon Story games, the player can choose between two characters of opposite gender, and this time, the one they don't pick will appear as an operator who will support the player.

The game features over 450 different obtainable Digimon; over a hundred more than its predecessor Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth - Hacker's Memory, which had 341. In addition to the Digimon in the base game, the game features a season pass consisting of three "Additional Digimon and Episode" packs, with each one including five new Digimon and new story content. The first pack, Alternate Dimension, released on December 8, 2025. The second, Gaku-Ran, was released on January 22, 2026. The third, Anti-ParadoX, released on March 20, 2026.

On October 13th, 2025, an animated short called "Prelude" was released on Bandai Namco's official YouTube, taking place three years prior to Inori's first meeting with the Agent and focusing on her younger brother Yuta and Deputymon.

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  • 20 Minutes into the Future: If the mission description for "All Eyes on Me!" is an indication (2020 is outright mentioned as the past), then the game's present day takes place in 2028.
  • Absurdly Low Level Cap: A staple for Digimon Story games. Digimon have a "Talent" stat, and this will be low for Digimon Converted with the bare minimum of effort. You can't level up past your Talent.
  • Actually Four Mooks: An enemy Digimon encountered in the overworld may consist of more than one being fought when the player engages it in battle. This setup also determines whether a DigiAttack will skip the battle altogether or not, as skill range and element against all the enemies in an encounter are taken into account.
  • All the Worlds Are a Stage: In the final area, time begins to collapse on itself, so most areas of the human and digital world get pulled into a pocket dimension as floating islands. Each area even reuses its old traversal gimmicks to get through the place.
  • Alternate Timeline: In the DLC Episodes, the Agent encounters some familiar faces, though they hail from another timeline where the Shinjuku Inferno took place and wasn't stopped in time, essentially being a Bad Future the Agent was unable to prevent. While the exact details are sparse, one of the differences between the alternate timelines and the main timeline is that Monica and Asuna managed to rejoin Public Safety.
  • Ambiguous Situation:
    • A DLC sidequest implies Time Stranger takes place within the same world as Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth. Captain Kodai Kuremi of Anomalous Affairs shares the same surname as Kyoko Kuremi, a major character from the previous game and the head of a detective agency. The sidequest also mentions "Project EDEN", Jindai Technologies, and a creature representing the apex of genome technology sealed inside a capsule. However, there are inconsistencies, primarily the fact the Royal Knights and King Drasil are helping humanity instead of trying to destroy them as they were in Cyber Sleuth (Though this could be explained by the fact their Digital World hasn't been destroyed yet),and Digimon being mistaken for advanced digital programs in cyberspace, raising the question as to whether it's a reference to the previous game or both games take place in the same continuity.
    • A constant worry of the Operator is that their actions will have an adverse effect on the future, possibly even causing the Shinjuku Inferno to occur earlier. For the most part, their fears seem well-founded as the public starts growing more aware of Digimon, especially when the Titans invade the Human World, resulting in tensions between humans and Digimon. Even the purpose of the Wall of Hope is changed; in the prologue, no one knew what it was for, and the government was trying to hide whatever was happening behind its walls, but when the Agent returns to the present, the Wall of Hope is stated to keep Digimon trapped inside and away from the general populace. That said, later revelations about the game and Stable Time Loop put into question whether the Agent is having an effect on the present, or if events are destined to play out anyway and they're simply changing the context.
  • Anti-Frustration Features:
    • If the player's Digimon are way stronger than a Digimon on the overworld, then the player can just skip the battle by having their Digimon one-shot the enemy with the DigiAttack mechanic. You still gain EXP and scan data like in a normal battle.
    • Digiconversion and Digivolution can be done anywhere instead of being limited to the Digibank. Additionally, all Digimon in the bank gain EXP over time without having to be placed in a DigiFarm.
    • You can strengthen your Digimon by using the Load Enhancement feature, which gives your Digimon significantly more EXP than fighting enemies, as well as Talent Points, which increase your Digimon's level cap. The player is encouraged to use the Convert feature a lot, which will allow you to create enough "fodder" to enhance your team. Additionally, since enemies respawn immediately after reentering maps, you can make the "training" process much quicker this way, so that even in the early parts of the game, your Digimon can grow strong enough to defeat Mega-Generation Digimon.
    • Items can be used without consuming a turn this time around, though this is limited to one usage per Digimon turn.
    • If your entire party is suffering from Deep Slumber at the same time, one of your Digimon will be "downgraded" to having regular Sleep, which wears off after two or three turns. This may happen during the Dianamon fight, for example.
    • HP and SP can be recovered out of battle within seconds just by standing around without moving, saving the trouble of having to use up items or detour to a recovery point between fights.
    • Mirei will let the player know through Digiline if a Digimon at the DigiFarm has finished training, and from there, the player may let the Digimon train with the same item again if they wish, without needing to go to the In-Between Theater, though the downside is that the player can not see the result through Digiline.
    • Oftentimes, you'll fall just short of depleting a boss's Weak Point's HP bar before it lets out its Special Skill. There are two concessions for the player; the first is that damage to the Weak Point at least partially carries over to the boss's main HP bar, and the second is that the Weak Point doesn't heal if you brought it down to a certain level (which varies per boss).
    • Bosses are far more likely to drop their matching Jogmon card than regular encounters, so that you don't have to save-scum for them.
    • After the Time Skip, Vulcanusmon will be unavailable. Thankfully, an NPC at the Factory Area can pick up the slack and craft items in his place, ensuring you can still get the items needed for Armor and Spirit Digivolution.
    • In the Dark Field, the player will have to speak cringeworthy, empty platitudes to Gekomon in order to jump from island to island. However, on each island, the player has to choose between two different platitudes, with only the correct one taking them to where they need to go, while the other will instead either take them back to the beginning of the area or to an optional island. If the player chooses the wrong platitude at any point, then any platitudes that they already got correct up to that point will then be marked with the ADAMAS symbol on subsequent attempts, effectively removing the need to memorize the correct platitudes.
    • The Great Escape sequence in Palace Otherside has battles against ClavisAngemon that can only be escaped from if he is afflicted with Sleep. This Digimon has souped up stats that not even Story difficulty will allow the player to simply beat him down (at least until later), making any encounter with him The Dreaded. Thankfully, the player's Guest-Star Party Member composition includes one that can inflict Sleep, so if the player's battle party for some reason is not equipped with Idle Bubble (or does not have a Signature Move that inflicts Sleep), there is always a chance to escape if caught, even though the player has to contend with the guest's A.I. Roulette.
  • Arbitrary Headcount Limit: The player can have up to three Digimon in the main battle party and three on reserve, like in the Nintendo DS Story games. Guest members are also limited to three slots.
  • Art Evolution: The models for the Digimon, as shown in the trailer, have become significantly more detailed compared to the Cyber Sleuth duology. In this example here, Greymon looks sharper and more muscular in Time Stranger.
  • Attack Its Weak Point: Boss battles require you to hit enemies at weak spots when they're in certain phases. For example, Parrotmon uses its wings to protect its body during its charging phase, but you can still deal significant damage if you aim for its exposed head.
  • Attack Reflector: "Reflect Physical" and "Reflect Magic" are rare Attachment Skills that let your Digimon bounce off incoming physical/magical hits, returning all the damage they would have taken back to their foes. The downside is that, if the user isn't hit with the right sort of attack that turn, they've basically wasted their turn. The upside is that it lets your weak-but-quick Digimon deal immense damage to heavy-hitters, if they play it right.
  • Automatic New Game: During the game's initial boot up, the player will be immediately taken to the game's setup screens before it can begin properly, with no title screen to be shown until the player quits to the title.
  • Auto-Save: Unlike previous Story entries, Time Stranger will autosave the game after certain actions. It has its own dedicated save slot to distinguish it from the manual saves.
  • Awesome, but Impractical: DNA Digivolution attacks are seen as cool and one of the very few ways to transform the player's Digimon mid-battle. However, using one consumes both turns of the compatible Digimon and, as a result, tends to be less efficient than just attacking separately or just having the DNA form to begin with.
  • Bad Future: The Cold Open has the Agent witnessing the Shinjuku Inferno, a catastrophic event that sees the whole world destroyed in a brutal battle between a giant metal titan and an unknown Digimon. The goal from that point on is to discover how the Shinjuku Inferno comes about and how to prevent it from happening. Despite the Agent's best efforts, however, the Shinjuku Inferno comes to pass, with the trigger being Inori's death and Aegiomon Digivolving into Aegiochusmon: Dark in response. Fortunately, the Agent is given another opportunity to avert this disaster by traveling back in time again. The Agent later learns the Bad Future is actually part of a time loop designed specifically to break Aegiomon, and that the Agent is a "human clone" of Aegiomon created specifically to help him break the loop.
  • The Bad Guy Wins: Chronomon's ultimate goal was to either have Aegiomon continue where he left off or get Aegiomon to kill him, thus freeing him from his metaphorical prison while Aegiomon takes his place. Come the final battle, Chronomon is finally vanquished and fades away, happy to finally be free. And as such, Aegiomon has to take over as the overseer of time to keep everything from collapsing, but since this did save the world and Aegiomon has come to terms with being the Keeper of Time, nobody is especially upset.
  • Bittersweet Ending:
    • For the prelude, emphasis on the bitter. Yuta and Justimon valiantly fight for the sake of the human world, but both ultimately die by the end, along with the former's mother. Not only will this have a negative impact on the Misono family, but many casualties also happened due to the arrival of Digimon. At the end of the day, all of this is only a minor setback for the antagonists. However, before Yuta and Justimon's deaths, they managed to protect the Digi-Egg that would become Aegiomon, who is prophesied to be the great guardian, and the one who will become instrumental in saving both Digimon and humanity, even if it'll take a while to get there.
    • For the game, emphasis on the sweet. The two worlds undergo a Cosmic Retcon to repair the damage to the timeline, resulting in the Digital World being cut off from the human world, and the human world going through a new timeline where Digimon never interacted. Humanity, including the major characters, loses all memory of the events of the story, and all Digimon are separated from their human friends and partners. Not to mention the growth and forged bonds between the characters (such as the friendship between Venusmon and Neptunemon or Ceresemon's understanding of Bacchusmon's struggles) never happen. However, Chronomon's damage has been repaired, humanity never suffered the fallout of the civil war of the Digital World, and Inori's family has been restored and is living a far happier life. On a more personal note, Aegiomon can no longer see Inori, but he's content with his role as Keeper of Time, and he sends the Agent back to the human world to watch over Inori in his place so they can all be at peace.
  • "Blind Idiot" Translation: While the English localization is vastly improved over the Cyber Sleuth games, it is still prone to a few typos here and there, as well as incorrect translation like Aegiomon's remark upon being sent back in time after dying from the poison at the Present Day Abyss Area mentioning the ocean not being red (while it is still red), when it was supposed to refer to the poisonous red gas not being there. Some of the other localizations are even less polished, with even more noticeable typos.
  • Bookends: Omnimon shows up at the start of the game to save you from a MetalGreymon (Blue) that you are woefully underleveled against. He shows up again at the end of the game to break Chronomon's barrier, allowing your party to actually damage him.
  • Breaking the Fellowship: After the second instance of the Shinjuku Inferno, just as the party is about to time jump again, Inori is suddenly pulled into and sealed within a time rift, which in turn causes Aegiomon to flip out, Digivolve into Aegiochusmon: Dark and fly off in a despair-induced rage, leaving the Agent completely alone. It's not until right before the final dungeon that everyone is able to reunite.
  • Break Meter: Starting with Minervamon's fight with a Titan Greymon (Blue), major bosses will charge up Cross Points of their own, accruing powerful buffs and eventually spitting out their Special Skill. While they're charging it up, you have two to three turns to attack a different spot on their body, which has completely different stats and typically different weaknesses; defeating that spot will deplete the boss's Cross Points, and give you a free turn to wail on them. Most of the damage to the different spot carries over to the main body, and it all carries over if you fail to defeat it in time, but get super close.
  • Bribing Your Way to Victory:
    • The "Outer Dungeons: The Halls of EXP, Gold, Materials" DLC, which is separate from the Deluxe/Ultimate Collector's Editions, is an additional Day 1 DLC that can be purchased with real money. It gives you access to an extra training area where you can gain tons of EXP items, yen, farm items, and more, allowing you to practically trivialize the game and save time to prepare for the harder contents of the game.
    • The Ultimate Edition gives you a pair of special Agumon and Gabumon that have early access to Agumon -Bond of Bravery- and Gabumon -Bond of Friendship-, two Mega+ Generation Digimon who are especially powerful in the earlier parts of the game. Unlike regular Agumon and Gabumon, which require you to be Agent Rank 8 and have unlocked dozens of skills in order to evolve into said forms, the special pair can evolve very early in the game with minimal effort. Unlike the other DLC above, the two "early access" Digimon serve more as Crutch Characters.
  • Bridge Logic: In the Factorial Area, one of the doors won't open, at which point the party is attacked by an UltimateBrachiomon. When the massive Digimon is defeated, its long neck acts as a bridge down to Vulcanus' lair. After the Time Skip, UltimateBrachiomon is turned into a tourist attraction, which you have to pay to use.
  • The Bus Came Back: A lot of Digimon that appeared in the previous Story instalments but didn't in the Cyber Sleuth duology make a return, including Coronamon, Mojyamon, and Muchomon.
  • Call-Back: During the DLC mission "Alternate Dimension", one of the locations the player will end up at is the ruined Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, a location only visited during the prologue, the one with the Chaosdramon roaming among the In-Trainings and Rookies. Sure enough, while the encounters there are at the Generations expected for endgame difficulty, the same Chaosdramon is still there, at the exact same spot, no less.
  • Calling Your Attacks: Digimon can talk during battles. Naturally, all of them say their attack names.
  • Camera Abuse: Several Digimon victory poses involve this, such as Brachiomon stepping on the camera or Arukenimon using it to jump away.
  • Cap:
    • Stats are capped at 9999 each.
    • Damage per hit can reach up to 99999.
    • This game's version of Aptitude/ABI, the Talent stat, determines the max level a Digimon can reach. This is capped at 100 (level 99).
    • An individual item can be stacked up to 999.
  • Card Battle Game: Both the Human World and the Digital World have "Jogmon", which has you load up "Jogmon" (Digimon virtual pets within the Digimon universe) from cards to engage in best-of-five combat. For the player, Jogmon is more of a vehicle to collect more cards than a proper card game. Battles are quite reminiscent of those in the older Digital Monster toys, so the individual outcomes are rather random. Your hand is drawn at random from your entire card collection, and you're not allowed to have duplicates. Having certain card combinations (and no other cards in your hand) makes your Jogmon device create a temporary new card. Depending on how you do, you can choose to copy up to three cards you don't own yet, from both your opponent's hand and the temporary cards your devices made.
  • Central Theme: Learning to let go of the past. Some characters, both before and after the Time Skip, are haunted by tragedies that continue to persist in their present lives and often struggle to move past them. Inori suffers from Chronic Hero Syndrome and always rushes to help people in need, heedless of the danger involved, and often puts herself at risk due to what happened to her younger brother, Yuta. Likewise, Inori's father has been struggling to move on with his life and look after Inori after losing his wife and son, and later joins D-SAT in developing an anti-Digimon weapon out of grief after seemingly losing what's left of his family during the Titan invasion of the Human World. Even Aegiomon suffers from this, with the Dark Shadows being echoes of previous attempts to alter the time loop and find a way to save Inori's life due to the promise he made to her. It's only by getting closure or having the resolve to move on with life that characters are able to find the strength to continue, with Aegiomon finally deciding to own up to his duties as the Great Guardian, protecting both Digimon and humans. This resolve is what lets him merge with the Agent and become Jupitermon, finally able to end Chronomon's time loop.
  • Cerebus Syndrome: While the first half of the game isn't sunshine and rainbows, given that the Agent is working to prevent the Shinjuku Inferno, the second half takes them to some dark places. Some of their allies from both the human and Digital World have grown embittered by the ongoing Digimon civil war and aren't the Agent's allies, humanity has grown fearful and distrusting of Digimon, and there's a government conspiracy involving the extermination of Digimon altogether.
  • Character Level:
    • Digimon have levels that go up to 99. A Digimon's natural level cap depends on its Generation when it was freshly converted, but the level cap can be increased by Digivolutionnote , as well as Load Enhancement. The higher their level, the higher their stats will be. Unlike past games, a Digimon's level is also accounted for in damage calculation. Certain Skills can be unlocked by leveling up.
    • The Agent has an Agent Rank, which can be increased up to 10 by completing missions. If you do, the player gets access to Digivolutions that are locked behind an Agent Rank, and the Agent can learn Agent Skills and more Cross Arts.
  • Character Name Limits: A Digimon's nickname can fit up to 23 characters.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: Early in the game, Aegiomon befriends a pair of kids, only for the relationship to fall apart after he's exposed as a Digimon. Surprisingly, he shows up again in an endgame sidequest as the True Card King. Fittingly, his sidequest involves the same minigame he introduced you to.
  • Continuity Nod: There are many references to past Digimon media. For instance:
    • As the game's real-life sections take place in Shinjuku, the setting for Digimon Tamers many of the landmarks from that series are shared between the stories. In particular, one of the early dungeons is the park utility shed that Guilmon lived in, and if the player brings a Guilmon to the location, it'll mention to the player that it wants to dig a hole into the shed.
    • If the player has an Armadillomon in their party, when it has a conversation asking for food, the player can suggest Chu-Chu Jelly, a fictional brand of energy gelatin that was Armadillomon's Trademark Favorite Food in Digimon Adventure 02 and Rei and Hackmon's favorite food in Digimon Universe: App Monsters.
    • The Digimon NPC social circles in Central Town are nearly all groups that reference hero or villain teams from the various anime.
    • Kodai Kuremi says he has a daughter around Inori's age, implicitly meaning a younger Kyoko Kuremi from Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth. This was eventually confirmed as true as of the release of DLC Episode Pack 1, which focuses on both characters.
    • Omnimon spends much of the game split into his two components, Agumon and Gabumon, just as he did in Cyber Sleuth. Although in that game they were the main characters and Nokia's partners, while in this one, they only show up in sidequests.
    • Early on in Digimon World Dawn/Dusk all Digimon are reverted to their Baby and In-Training levels, and the cause was due to Chronomon's power. As the final boss of this game, Chronomon also de-Digivolves your team during his fight.
  • Contractual Boss Immunity: Bosses are generally immune to the game's "Status Abnormalities", Status Effects that don't have a square icon and don't stack with each other. However, certain bosses have specific exceptions to their immunity; examples include ZombiePlutomon's weakness to Confusion, Apollomon's weakness to Sleep, and Junomon HM's weakness to Paralysis. A few only blow off Crystallization. Holes in the contract become more common after the Time Skip, though bosses still burn through turn-related statuses quickly with their extra actions each turn.
  • Cosmic Deadline: While the game's pacing is generally well done, certain plot elements end up being hastily resolved as the end draws closer. In particular, D-SAT's Heel–Face Turn and Inori reconciling with her father both happen entirely offscreen during the party's traversal through the final dungeon.
  • Cosmic Retcon: As a consequence of Chronomon being defeated, given his connection to the timeline, all of time itself starts to unravel and threatens to destroy both the human and digital worlds. To prevent this, Jupitermon takes Chronomon's place as the Keeper of Time and rewrites history so that the war that ruined both worlds never happened. Unfortunately, this means Inori and all other humans would never have met Aegiomon or the Agent, but on the bright side, Inori's mother and brother would still be alive, giving her and her family a much brighter future together. Despite this, a brief image of Aegiomon appears in Inori's eyes when she meets the Agent again in the new timeline, hinting that she might not have entirely forgotten the events of the story.
  • Counter-Attack: Certain Special Skills are prefaced with a one-turn "Counter Physical" or "Counter Magic" status, and only happen in response to that sort of incoming attack; as a trade-off, having the status also negates damage of their particular type. Compared to the "Reflect" Attachment Skills, these are more about the user's offenses, while the Reflects are more about the attacker's offenses.
  • Crazy Enough to Work: After all of the Olympos XII are saved, Mirei reveals that in order to save Inori from the time rift she was sealed into, the Agent must allow the Shinjuku Inferno to happen, as its only when the Stable Time Loop is about to reset that the flow of time is vulnerable enough that they can hope to find her. Amazingly enough, this actually does work, though it requires the aid of Aegiomon, Apollomon, and Dianamon to fully pull it off.
  • Crutch Character: Almost immediately after completing the Factorial Zone, you can do a quest helping Pegasusmon Armor Digivolve a Hawkmon into Shurimon, Gatomon into Nefertimon, and two Veemons into Flamedramon and Lighdramnon. With each at Level 20 out of 40, they are a good bit stronger than any Digimon you're raising (barring use of the DLC Outer Dungeions and the Agumon: Bond of Bravery and Gabumon: Bond of Friendship from the Ultimate Edition), but they will have trouble being viable in the late game.
  • Cutting Off the Branches: The Prelude anime short depicts Dan as the canon Agent, with the final shot showing him watching the Agent Alpha opening from the start of the game.
  • Darker and Edgier: Compared to the previous entry, Cyber Sleuth. While the last game wasn't all sunshine and rainbows, it managed to maintain a lighthearted tone up until the Royal Knights make their appearance and reveal their intention to destroy the Human World, after which the story took a dark turn. Time Stranger sets a serious tone from the get-go by tasking the Agent with stopping The End of the World as We Know It while also dealing with a Digimon civil war. Later, the Agent also has to deal with a government conspiracy that wants all Digimon dead, regardless of whether they're friendly, and many of your former human allies end up betraying you in favor of said conspiracy due to their own traumas from the Titans' crimes. And that's to say nothing of the Stable Time Loop specifically designed to force Aegiomon past the Despair Event Horizon.
  • Dark Is Not Evil:
    • The Agent is on the side of good and can have as a partner Digimon any Virus-type Digimon, including those that were a Big Bad in other parts of the franchise, like Devimon, Myotismon and his evolutions, and Infermon.
    • The dark shadows, looking downright sinister and only showing up whenever tragedy happens, end up being revealed as echoes of Aegiomon's prior attempts at averting the Shinjuku Inferno, ultimately coming off as good but misguided.
  • A Day in the Limelight: The game focuses primarily on Digital World: Illiad, and its protectors, the Olympos XII. It's also their origin story.
  • Demo Bonus: The demo version allows you to play the opening part of the game (up to the point when you first meet Hiroko), and there's a separate mode to explore Central City. Your save data in the demo version can be carried over to the full game.
  • Developer's Foresight:
    • If the Agent has two or more identical Digimon in the party, whether in battle or in reserve, they will be labeled with letters next to their names to distinguish one from another.
    • A Digimon affected by Crystallization (also known as Dot in the Cyber Sleuth games) will play a unique defeat animation upon being knocked out.
    • Aegiomon's Elecmon form has a more unique Victory Pose compared to regular Elecmon, even though the two battles said form is involved in can not be won by said form (one has him run away partway into the battle, while the other leads to his Digivolution into Aegiomon proper through a scripted event).
    • Every subsequent use of the Palmon DigiCo-op in the Present Day Gear Forest costs 100 yen after the first-time use. While minuscule considering how easy it is to grind money, the game generously places wild Lalamon outside walkable areas that can be struck down instantly with a DigiAttack, especially at isolated spots without any other enemies. These Lalamon only drop yen, preventing the highly unlikely Unwinnable situation where a player somehow does not have enough yen and has exhausted all other ways of earning such.
  • Diminishing Returns for Balance: While Bond is a nice stat for showing your Digimon that you care, you don't need it in massive quantities; a single percentage point is the difference between carrying and dropping accumulated stats with each (De-)Digivolution. Thus, feeding filler food to your Digimon (as in, food they don't really like) has diminishing returns for their Bond.
  • Disc-One Nuke:
    • It's possible to create a Kurisarimon before the end of the first chapter, though it takes facing the ones in the ruined government building's halls seven times to make one available and fourteen to get the boost from a 200% scan. Thanks to the restrictions on Digivolution above Rookie, it's the only Champion-Generation Digimon you'll get really early on that isn't Numemon or Geremon, and the only one you can get in the demo. It's higher Generation leaves it with the strongest starting stats of anything you'll get for a while.
    • An even more extreme example comes if the player bought the Ultimate Edition of the game, in the form of the DLC Agumon and Gabumon. This Agumon and Gabumon, in particular, have only one evolution possible for them, but with the evolution requirements all but eliminated. The thing is, those evolutions happen to be Agumon (Bond of Bravery) and Gabumon (Bond of Friendship), Mega+ Generation Digimon that otherwise require Agent Rank 8 and maxed out skill trees in their respective personality traits, effectively giving you end-game Digimon from the moment you first get access to the In-Between Theater.
  • Distinction Without a Difference: The game makes a point to list four other attributes outside of Virus/Vaccine/Data: Free, No Data, Unknown, and Variable. Despite these being officially categorized as different classes, they all mean the same thing as all four are neutral towards all other attributes. The "differences" are mostly in descriptions, association, and Extra Strikes bonus effects:
    • "No Data" Digimon are essentially babies, who haven't developed enough to fit into the Digital World's strange castes. They are the weakest Digimon in the game. All of the human technology you butt up against has the "No Data" attribute, including the Giant Slayer. Technically speaking, it's slightly better to have than the other attributes outside of Virus/Vaccine/Data; this is because it's not exactly an attribute, and thus is excluded by moves that are good against "all attributes".
    • "Free" Digimon are generally described as "ancient", predating the current Virus/Vaccine/Data blood feud (which isn't relevant to Iliad, much less the game's story). If they're not ancient, they're typically related to one who is, through a chain of Digivolving and/or "DNA Digivolving". A large fraction of Free Digimon are "Armor" Digimon, who Digivolved by being exposed to special Digi-Eggs with ancient crests on them.
    • "Variable" Digimon are all "Hybrid" Digimon, beings mixed with one of the spirits of the Ten Legendary Warriors. They're outside of Virus/Vaccine/Data because, for unexplained reasons, they adjust their own attribute to match whoever they face; hence the name. "Variable" Digimon are rare in Iliad, which has "Hybrid" Digimon from only three of the Ten Legendary Warriors. Susanomon (the incarnation of all ten) shows up at one of the Hosts' behest, and the Agent can make their own with a relatively simple DNA Digivolution, but he's a Mega-+-Generation Vaccine.
    • "Unknown" is the rarest attribute, though it's much more common as a Trait for certain Digimon to pound. "Unknown" Digimon (those with the attribute) are outside of Virus/Vaccine/Data because they're beyond other Digimon's understanding, whether by being Starfish Aliens or bound-breaking in some way. They're confined to a single Digivolution line (Keramon -> Kurisarimon -> Infermon -> Diaboromon -> Armageddemon), the Digivolved forms of those two Digimon you get in the Ultimate Edition DLC, and the game's toughest Superboss.
  • Dualvertisement: An update in December 2025 makes certain jumbotrons in the real world play the trailer for Digimon Beatbreak and adds promotional outfits based on said anime as well.
  • Dub-Induced Plot Hole: Tuskmon's Verbal Backspace in the DLC-exclusive "The Targeted Cosplayer" side mission is meant to tease Parallelmon, one of the Digimon that would appear in the DLC Episode Packs, as he almost name-dropped it before saying "that person" in Japanese. The English localization removed the name drop and just translated the latter as the very vague "Master".
  • Early-Bird Boss: At the beginning of the game, you can find a wild Chaosdramon at level 65 (Mega Generation) roaming around the area where you encounter wild Rookie Generation Digimon. Obviously, at this point in the game, you cannot even evolve your Digimon, and the highest Generation available to you is Rookie Generation Digimon. You have to avoid facing it in combat, or else your party will be defeated very quickly. According to an interview, Chaosdramon exists as an enemy for New Game Plus players, who are starting again with their high-Generation Digimon. Although players have found ways to defeat Chaosdramon even in their first playthroughs, it won't respawn again.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: During the first instance of the Shinjuku Inferno, the giant metal monster is attacked by a golden fist appearing from a portal, creating a World-Wrecking Wave and knocking the Agent eight years into the past. Said fist belongs to Jupitermon Wrath Mode, who you won't be seeing until the end of the game.
  • Elemental Powers: This game has 11 elemental types (up from Cyber Sleuth and -next 0rder-'s 9): Fire, Water, Plant, Ice, Electricity, Earth, Steel, Wind, Light, Dark and Null. While this game doesn't have Elemental Rock–Paper–Scissors when it comes to those elements, each Digimon species does have its own elemental resistances and weaknesses, and the player has to find ways to exploit them, either by trial-and-error or by having the Digimon fully registered in the Field Guide. The Agent can use the scan function to see the enemy's resistances and weaknesses. If you were to deal elemental damage that's effective against the enemy, the damage will be increased by 1.5x. (50% -> 75%, 100% -> 150%, 200% -> 300%). A resisted element will decrease the damage by 0.5x, to a lower limit of 30% with a resisted attribute and element. There are also cases where the elemental damage modifier is 2x or complete immunity.
  • Evolving Title Screen: Initially, the title screen shows the various locales of Iliad with Digimon freely roaming around. After beating the game, the title screen will instead show Aegiomon, Inori, and the Agent hanging out in the Gear Forest.
  • Experience Booster:
    • The Strategist's USB Stick doubles EXP gain as long as it is equipped on at least one of the main party members, even if on reserve.
    • The "Study of..." Agent Skills permanently boost EXP gain for Digimon of the respective Personality group.
  • Extra Turn: Most bosses use an ability to give themselves multiple turns per round early on in their fights. The effect lasts until the battle's end and can leave the boss with anywhere from two to four turns total.
  • Face–Heel Turn: With some exceptions, most of your allies in the Human World have changed for the worse due to the Digimon civil-war spilling out into the human world. Anomalous Affairs was affected the worst as it became D-SAT, an anti-Digimon Task Force that now aims to keep Digimon restricted past the Wall of Hope, and they won't hesitate to use lethal force if necessary. Tellingly, their Fantastic Racism even caused Dr. Simmons and Asuka to defect from the organization entirely. Even Junomon has become the Agent's enemy upon their return to Iliad, though in her case, she's being manipulated by Chronomon. That said...
    • Heel–Face Turn: Once both sides learn Chronomon has been playing them like fiddles, both groups work to make amends and assist the Agent in the final battle.
  • Fast-Forward Mechanic:
    • Cinematic cutscenes can be skipped by pressing and holding the Skip button.
    • Battle speed can be toggled with the right control stick, up to 5x.
  • Forbidden Zone: There are two, the Dark Field and the Cosmic Area, which are on the map long before you can access them. The former is a somewhat-decrepit series of floating islands that Plutomon rules over. The latter is a highly-unstable place that Apollomon and Dianamon homestead during the Time Skip.
  • Foreshadowing: The initial visit to the Cosmic Area has the party assisted by a Pumpkinmon who manages to convince the skeptical guards to allow the Agent to investigate. By this point, players have gotten used to having various NPC Digimon help them in every other given area in the Digital World, until they realize that Pumpkinmon's introduction is sudden and there is a complete lack of DigiCo-Op on either half of Cosmic Area. This Pumpkinmon turns out to be Junomon's confidant, and manages to bring the party including Apollomon and Dianamon into her trap.
  • Game-Breaking Bug:
    • On certain PC setups (reportedly more frequent on ones using AMD, according to players), the Demo version would be stuck on a white screen upon booting up and may end up crashing after waiting long enough. This has been patched as of September 12, 2025.
    • Due to an oversight, the Demo version could crash by having the player Digivolve their Digimon into one not available in this version, including one temporarily activated through special DNA Digivolution skills. This got noticed due to the party setup and encounters in the Central Town trial, allowing either scenario to be possible.note  A later patch eventually fixed this by making those Digimon available.
    • The full game's initial launch contained various game-stopping bugs that range from merely crashing the game to softlocking the player from further progress. An update released a week after launch addressed these bugs, including notable ones such as:
      • Certain areas that involve control switches required to make progress were prone to locking a player into an Unwinnable state due to game logic oversight, costing hours of gameplay unless the player had made an earlier save prior to this bug. This seemed to consistently happen from players proactively using the mechanism before the objective marker calls for it, with the most common occurrence happening in Factorial Area, where players have to move the cranes to change pathways.
      • Certain positionings on the Speed Is Victory Outer Dungeons may allow the Agent to draw an obstacle Digimon on the track area closer to him/her by hugging along the edges of the starting platform closest to said Digimon. Managing to perform a DigiAttack on the obstacle Digimon would crash the game.
      • Though not common, some players have reported getting stuck in solid objects or out of bounds through certain movements or actions, like managing to end up stuck out of bounds after using the Submarimon DigiCo-Op at a certain angle.
    • Despite the above fix, there are still some game-stopping bugs that remain. Some of these would be eventually fixed by yet another bugfix patch.
      • Successfully performing the Quick Time Event against a Crystallized enemy where the additional effect causes Crystallization will cause the game to crash.
      • If Combo Magic, which makes the same skill used twice, triggers during a DNA Digivolution attack, the game will crash. Combo Magic in general is rather buggy, as finishing off enemies with certain attacks during Combo Magic on the very first turn can also end up crashing the game.
      • In a New Game Plus, in any section where Aegiomon is the only playable party member, using the Digivolve command mid-battle before reaching the part of the story that unlocks it will erase him from the battlefield, softlocking the game.
      • A few players have reported the game becoming Unwinnable when they were about to meet Plutomon for the first time. If this bug happens, there is no way to interact with the objective properly unless the player reloads an earlier save. While there is no official word on what exactly caused this, many players put the run button as a potential factor, as the reports tend to come from players running towards the gate, and this somehow caused unintentional Script Breaking from skipping an Event Flag.
      • One elevator at Heat Cosmic, if the player saves while standing on it while it is at the top, will cause the Agent to spawn in mid-air as the elevator ends up reset back at the bottom, thus unable to move.
      • It is possible for the Player Character to end up stuck in the terrain in Chill Cosmic, specifically on the map that endlessly spawns sliding Penmon. Sadly, this spot and the Heat Cosmic equivalent with MudFrigimon are some of the players' favorite spots for Level Grinding, meaning the issue would be noticed too late after hours of AFK.
      • A few players have found themselves stuck in any room from the inside in the Special Forces Underground Base's Research Division during the "No Cure for Stupidity" mission due to the door suddenly no longer sliding open.
      • Some players have reported that story-tied achievements can end up not being rewarded to them, requiring a reload or even starting an entirely new game if they do not want to lose out on 100% Completion.
    • An oversight with tying DigiFarm timer to the current file's game time means that reaching maximum game time for said file, thus stopping the timer from accumulating further, would freeze DigiFarm training timers entirely, forcing the player to cough up yen as the only way to end trainings. This was eventually fixed on the July 10, 2026 update.
    • A relatively rare bug can lead to a completely Unwinnable game unless the player has a save from before reaching this state. If the game somehow glitches up not giving the player the Cyber Sleuth outfits despite having bought the DLC, the side mission that comes with it ("In the Palm of an Unknown Hand") can still be taken but the player will have no way to proceed further as one of the objectives requires dressing the Agent up in the Cyber Sleuth outfit. This would not be a problem if not for an oversight where the game still treats the player as still taking the side mission even if the player picked a different mission after getting that objective prompt, causing the player to be unable to leave the Vision Square (and thus progress the game at all).
    • The majority of PC players found the game crashing on boot if it was launched while having the Episode Pack 1 DLC enabled. This eventually got noticed by Bandai Namco, which proceeded to release a patch for it a few days later.
    • The DigiFarm has suffered from significant frame rate drops since the release of the "Alternate Dimension" DLC, and only got worse with the "GAKU-RAN" DLC, especially if it has plenty of Digimon roaming around.
  • Gameplay and Story Segregation:
    • Multiple characters will repeatedly comment on your character's strange choice of clothing, even if you've changed them into more normal clothes.
    • A lot of the Titans don't have the "Titan" trait, especially after you leave the Digital World for the first time. This is seemingly to dull Aegiomon's "Stun Beat Blow", and to further encourage use of his various Digivolutions.
    • A New Game Plus run does not take your Digimon into account. For example, when the blue Metalgreymon chases you, you would have Rookie Digimon at best during normal gameplay, which are no mach for it. In New Game Plus, your team might consist of several Olympus Mons, who could easily oneshot him. But you are still forced to flee this Metalgreymon.
    • Likewise, the scene where the Biyomon tries to fly you to the other side of the building is ridiculous if you have a Giant Flyer in your team from the previous playthrough.
  • Gameplay Automation:
    • Dialogue can be played automatically if the player doesn't want to press a button manually.
    • Auto-battles can be toggled on and off.
  • Game Within a Game: The Digimon cards return from Digimon World -next 0rder-, now called "Jogmon" because the humans aren't supposed to know what Digimon are. There's a card for each of the 451 Digimon in the base game, and scanning the cards on a Jogmon device loads a matching little "Jogmon". Cards are obtained in three ways:
  • Guest-Star Party Member: In addition to your frontline and reserve members, you can have up to three Guest members in your party who join you throughout the story. One of them is Aegiomon, who takes up one of the three Guest slots, but he can be controlled like any of your Digimon, unlike other Guest members, who are automated by AI.
  • Guide Dang It!:
    • A lot of Digimon past the Rookie Generation have Special Skills that are 50% stronger against certain Traits. While a Digimon's Traits typically line up with their "Type" (the descriptor between their Attribute and their Generation), quite a few Digimon have a mismatch. The only things that show a Digimon's real Traits are the Analyze function, which only works on enemies, and the Internet.
    • The Extra Strikes' additional effects upon a perfectly-executed Quick Time Event are never listed in the game proper, meaning players have to experiment with every Personality category in combination with the Digimon's own attribute, which is not an easy task due to the prompt appearing being luck-based.
    • Want to know how many more times left that a player can pass down cumulative stats to the next (de)Digivolution? Nope, there is no indicator for this, and the Digivolution History only keeps track of up to five transformations. To make this even more complicated, if the player earns another Bond % (assuming not maxed yet) after a (De)Digivolution that did not bring over cumulative stats, the (unseen) counter that allows this will go up again, making it even harder to keep track.
    • Certain card combinations for extra summons in Jogmon are this unless the player is very well-versed about Digimon lore and cross-media references... assuming the player gets the needed hand to do it and wins at least one round to keep it.
    • When going for the Alpha and Beta Switches in Palace Otherside, you have to knock out security cameras with a Digi-Attack. However, the cameras are so high up that you have to look up for once; the Analyze function of your Digivice won't tell you about them, because there are Treasure Chests nearby.
    • The three Collection Sidequests "Dreams or Reality?", "All Eyes on Me!", and "Silent Envy" devolve into this, though not so much for the latter side mission, thanks to utilizing Pre-existing Encounters and being confined to the Present Day human world. The second, while still needing to search manually, is still easier to spot since no Digimon roams openly in the human world 8 years ago. The first, however, has zero clue by the mission description alone, and as a further insult, only drops references to a given area through Digiline after the entity is found.
  • Hail Fire Peaks: The Cosmic area serves as this, with 1 central area connecting the fire half of the region with the ice half.
  • Harder Than Hard: The game has five difficulty settings: "Story", which is the game's easy mode and is recommended for players who are there to experience the story first and foremost. "Balanced" is the game's normal mode. "Hard" is exactly what it says. After that, there are "Mega" and "Mega +", which are accessible after you have beaten the game. The game's difficulty can be changed at any time within the game's Options menu. The main difference between "Story", "Balanced", and "Hard" is the stats of the enemy, but the amount of EXP your Digimon gains remains the same. Meanwhile, "Mega" not only ups enemy stats and levels further, but may also increase the number of Digimon in an encounter, and "Mega +", in addition to that, disables item use in battle and disables escaping from any battle.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: A non-lethal variety; Jupitermon, the fused form of Aegiomon and the Agent, willingly gives up their time with Inori, along with all her memories of them, in order to restore order to the timeline. Aegiomon then doubles down on this by forcefully splitting himself from the Agent, letting them return to the human world as well in order to watch over Inori in his place. While Aegiomon, now as Jupitermon, lives a happy life in the digital world as the leader of the Olympos XII, he understands that he can never go back to the human world again due to his role as the Keeper of Time.
  • Hopeless Boss Fight: The ClavisAngemon during the Great Escape sequence in Palace Otherside has insanely buffed stats and reflects physical attacks. The area's own effect also causes debuffs to the player's party. The only option until later on is to escape, but these fights are unique in that it disables the Escape option entirely unless ClavisAngemon is afflicted with Sleep. While it is possible to defeat him, you'll need to have seriously grinded your Digimon's stats and come prepared with magic attacks.
  • Hope Spot: After the Time Skip, the Agent is tasked with negotiating peace between the Titans and the Digimon in the Abyss region, with Lanamon giving them a peace offering to help smooth over discussions. Things look up when they learn the Titan leader in the region is Neptunemon, who happens to be the same Divermon Shellmon nursed back to health. The group returns with good news, though to their confusion, Venusmon quickly grows distraught. The next cutscene reveals that the "peace offering" was poisoned wine. Worse, even the Titans' abode turns red, revealing it wasn't the Titans who were polluting Abyss' waters, but someone else.
  • Horse of a Different Color: Brief scenes in the first trailer show the player riding a Garurumon on land (actually on a narrow creek), riding on a (rather small) Whamon underwater, and hanging on a Birdramon in the air. The release date trailer shows the player mounting other Digimon, including Peckmon and Gankoomon.
  • Inconsistent Dub: While the Asian languages keep Level 7's name as "Super Ultimate" within the game, the English language, which previously referred to it as "Ultra" in the previous two Story games, now calls it "Mega +", keeping the idea that it's just a stronger form of the final evolution stage. The other Western languages have followed suit, calling it "Mega +" (or "Extremo +" in the case of Brazilian Portuguese) as well. Previously, the German localization of the previous two Story titles called it "Super-Mega", but now calls it "Mega +" to keep it consistent with the English translation. In promotional materials, "Super Ultimate" a.k.a. "Mega +" Generation Digimon are still referred to as just "Ultimate"/"Mega".
  • Infinity +1 Sword:
    • After completing the main story and every mission, thus reaching Agent Rank 10 and maxing out all Agent Skill trees, Aegiochusmon (Dark) and Butenmon can both evolve into Chronomon Destroy Mode, who has immense stats (primarily a high ATK stat), no elemental weaknesses, and two incredible signature moves—most notably Chrono Devolution, a single-target dark magic attack with a high chance to debuff all of the target's stats, which is incredible for dealing with the optional Royal Knight boss fights. Meanwhile, Butenmon is also capable of evolving into Chronomon Holy Mode, who similarly has immense stats and no weaknesses, but is primarily magic focused as opposed to Destroy Mode's physical focus, and has the devastating Holy Flare attack, an all-targeting fire magic attack that removes all of the targets' stat buffs, which is excellent for enemies that buff themselves, such as the Olympos XII post-game gauntlet. The issue is, outside of those, or a Mega/Mega + difficulty run in New Game Plus, there's nothing left in the game to use them on, making them both cases of Bragging Rights Rewards.
    • Throughout the game, you'll get Fragment Memories pertaining to each member of the Olympos XII and Plutomon, which can be used, alongside the rare "Immortal Egg" item and other materials to craft incredibly powerful pieces of equipment that grant large stat bonuses, nullification against certain status effects, and an increased resistance to a specific element pertaining to that member of the Olympos XII. Special mention has to go to The Sky God's Thunderbolt, Jupitermon's equipment, which grants 500 ATK, 30% crit rate, immunity to all status effects, and increased electricity resistance. Like both forms of Chronomon though, outside of a Mega/Mega + run, it is merely a Bragging Rights Reward.
  • Interface Spoiler: In the game's Music settings, the character creation theme is named "The Will of the Higher Being", all but outright spilling out The Reveal about the Agent's true backstory.
  • Just Before the End: The story opens up with a conflict that leads to the end of the world dubbed "the Shinjuku Inferno", and the player, sent eight years into the past, is tasked to investigate the cause so that it can be stopped.
  • Later-Installment Weirdness: While older Digimon media were fairly consistent on what happens when Digimon die, Time Stranger is all over the place. A bunch of Titans in the early game dissolve into red data cubes, but some Digimon (Neptunemon, Bacchusmon, and possibly UltimateBrachiomon) leave their bodies behind, as well as bodies being strewn everywhere during certain scenes.
  • Leaked Experience: Like in the previous Story games, both main and reserve Digimon earn EXP after a battle. However, though not mentioned in the Log, boxed Digimon also earn EXP, as well.
  • Limited Move Arsenal: A Digimon can equip up to four skill discs. If the Digimon learns a new skill while already having four attached skills (or the same exact skill), the new skill will be automatically placed in the player's inventory.
  • Loophole Abuse: Due to the way this game handles de-Digivolutions of DNA-Digivolved Mons in this game, players soon discovered that it is possible to pretty much generate new Digimon with the same Talent and Bond score as the primary Digimon used by accessing the DNA form from another Digivolution route (for example, de-Digivolving TigerVespamon into DinoBeemon, then unfusing it). The resulting secondary Digimon can then be turned into any other Digimon the player wishes.
  • Mad Scientist: Among the humans, there's Monica Simmons, who's really excited about Digimon. But Simmons has morals; she's replaced by Dr. Kuga, who crosses ethical bounds to experiment on Digimon-In-Training, Angemon, and even one of the Olympus XII.
  • Mercy Mode: If you lose a battle in "Story" difficulty (the game's easiest difficulty), you are given the option to retry the battle in "Invincible Mode", which prevents your Digimon from getting knocked out again. This guarantees you will win the battle no matter how strong or difficult the enemies are.
  • Metal Slime: Rarely, an encounter can turn into a Surprise Encounter where this type of Digimonnote  appears among regular Digimon. Defeating them will drop great rewards, but they are prone to fleeing. Notably, Digitamamon drops the very rare Immortal Egg upon defeat, the only non-mission way to obtain them.
  • Mysterious Watcher: The Dark Shadow that appears sporadically throughout the game, usually teleporting before the Agent has a chance to confront it. Exactly what it is or if it's even a Digimon is unclear, save that it's very interested in Aegiomon. It shows up again after the Time Skip where it reacts violently to seeing Inori's corpse and is seemingly responsible for Aegiomon awakening to Akashic Vision, allowing him to rewind time. The identity of the Dark Shadow is revealed towards the end of the game: It's Aegiochusmon: Dark, Aegiomon's Dark Digivolution, who's been obsessively trying to find a way to save Inori's life.
  • Mythology Gag: Several references are made to the entire history, especially with NPCs in Central Town, but also in other places:
    • Digimon Adventure:
      • Myotismon and his minions are referenced, as there's a bridge where Pumpkinmon, Gotsumon, and Phantomon are seen hanging, while several nearby DemiDevimon can be seen flocking towards Myotismon, who is hiding in the shadows at a high place.
      • Go up a few ladders and you'll find all 8 of the original partner Digimon hanging out near each other in pairs.
      • You can also find a Tsunomon and Tokomon not too far, referencing the brothers Matt and T.K.
      • Just like in the original Adventure, your first major boss fight (unless you grinded to beat Chaosdramon) is a Kuwagamon.
      • Puppetmon's Puppet Pummel does increased damage to Digimon with the Vegetation trait, a nod to Puppetmon's tendency to kill his allied Digimon in the forest he held reign over.
      • Intentional or not, Gatomon's appearance as a bunch of enemy Digimon in the Akashic Backdoor can recall her time as being an antagonist in her early appearances.
      • The animation for MetalGarurumon's Metal Wolf Claw is taken from the end of Gabumon's Warp Digivolution sequence.
    • Digimon Adventure 02:
      • There's a group consisting of Veemon, Hawkmon, Armadillomon, and Wormmon, the four new main Partner Digimon.
      • Aquilamon and Golemon are shown facing each other behind a grid, with a Stingmon standing nearby them. Producer Hara has explicitly confirmed that it's a reference to an episode, which is episode 25, where Hawkmon first evolved to Aquilamon and teamed up with Stingmon to fight Golemon.
      • At the bar, you can see Gatomon and Hawkmon looking at each other near the entrance, who are both DNA Digivolution partners to form Silphymon.
      • Outside, you can find Arukenimon and Mummymon hanging together. They're a duo infamous for being the villains of the 02 series.
      • An ExVeemon and Stingmon appear in the Factorial Town after it's overrun by Titans. Both Digimon DNA Digivolve into Paildramon.
      • Near the end of the story, when Apollomon and Dianamon DNA Digivolve to GraceNovamon they recreate the DNA Digivolution sequence from 02, flying toward the camera with slow-motion focus shots, and then swirling around each other as they glow.
    • Digimon Adventure tri.: Agumon and Gatomon can be seen together in one of the balconies, as a reference to them living together with the Yagami family.
    • Digimon Tamers:
      • One dialogue of your Guilmon has him talk about digging holes and building a secret hideout. This is a reference to Takato's Guilmon. On a similar note, the Shinjuku Park has that secret hideout of said Guilmon (after all, it's based on a real location in Shinjuku). A sidequest has you finding a wild Guilmon in that exact spot, saying its Verbal Tic from the Japanese version.
      • A group of Terriermon, Lopmon, Impmon, Renamon, and Guardromon can be seen, which are all Partner Digimon of the main and supporting cast. Similarly, Guilmon and Monodramon can be seen training together, not too far away from the rest.
      • When using Izuna, Sakuyamon does her pose from her Biomerge sequence, with the only difference being the presence of her armor.
    • Digimon Frontier:
      • Agunimon and Lobomon are sitting at a table in the bar. The two are the Human-Hybrids of the main duo, Takuya and Kouji.
      • Dynasmon and LordKnightmon, who were the two Royal Knights in that series, are shown to be rather close here.
    • Digimon Data Squad:
      • In the final area you team up with the Olympos XII to fight the Seven Great Demon Lords. Merukimon is the one you work with to fight Belphemon, both of whom were antagonists in Data Squad.
    • Digimon Fusion:
      • You can see Shoutmon hanging around with Knightmon and Deputymon, all being members of the Fusion Fighters. A Kamemon can also be seen with them as a nod to its smaller form ChibiKamemon, another member of the army.
      • In a sidequest near the end of the game, Minervamon is revealed to find Beelzemon attractive, referencing the relationship between Beelzemon and Mervamon in Fusion.
    • Digimon Next:
      • King Drasil takes the form of a young girl, like its "Norn" disguise from Next.
    • The Jogmon card game also features references to the franchise's history, by having certain cards be generated by specific card combos, with the most common methods being:
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  • Nerf:
    • Digimon Talent (equivalent to previous games' Aptitude/ABI) can no longer be increased through deDigivolving in this game, possibly to compensate for Digivolution in general not requiring levels and Load Enhancement being an easy way to increase Talent this time around.
    • Penetrating effects have been removed from skills entirely, probably in response to their Game-Breaker status in the Cyber Sleuth games, which caused the playerbase to devolve into only using select Mons for much of the duology. The Brave Blow and Astute Blow Agent Skills are this game's only implementation of this effect, but is severely nerfed in that it requires the max Agent Rank for the intended 30% defense ignorance and the effect only applies to Digimon from the respective Personality and to their basic attacks, meaning Astute Digimon require the Secret Sage Art Personality skill just to make use of this Agent Skill.
    • Digimon's unique abilities are replaced with Personality skills that any Digimon can learn, allowing the player to build any Digimon into any role, though at the cost of the Digimon's own uniqueness (gone are the PlatinumNumemon Experience Boosters).
    • Setting up debuffs on bosses is more difficult as the bosses' Extra Turns will quickly wear off the debuffs unless the debuff user has Booing to give out longer-lasting debuffs.
    • As of an update on December 2025, the Speed Is Victory challenges have been modified to make them more reasonably beatable, especially for perfect runs, possibly in response to their challenges 3 and 4 being insanely difficult to clear their bonus challenges on.
  • New Game Plus: After beating the game, you get access to New Game Plus, which allows you to carry over everything but game progress over to a new playthrough. This is also how you get access to the Mega and Mega+ Difficulties of the game.
  • No Item Use for You:
    • Later into the Boss Battle against Junomon HM, the Items option will end up disabled as part of the battle area's disrupting effect.
    • The highest difficulty, Mega +, disables item use in battle.
  • Non-Standard Game Over: After defeating ZombiePlutomon, he prepares to unleash a deadly attack. Gekomon suggests that the Agent say a platitude so they can escape and survive the attack, but the player can also choose to tell him that they "ran out of material". Do so, and the party gets wiped out.
  • Not Quite Dead: Early in the game, Junomon relays a story about how Chronomon died from fatal injuries, though not before claiming a Digimon who would take up his role as the Great Guardian would appear one day in the future. Turns out the Digimon who supposedly died in that story is alive after all. Except Junomon's story left out the part that Chronomon wasn't actually killed but was sealed away, and he's now a Fallen Hero.
  • One-Hit-Point Wonder: Certain scenarios have the Agent being forced to start over a given sequence if he/she gets hit by an enemy Digimon once, without even so much as a battle sequence. This is already hinted at as early as the MetalGreymon chase scene in the beginning.
  • One-Time Dungeon: The Guardian Palace after the timeskip becomes unavailable after the player defeats Junomon HM.
  • Opening the Sandbox: Happens in The Very Definitely Final Dungeon, of all places. Before arriving in the Akashic Records, there's a rule that you can only leave the In-Between Theater right at the same place and time where you entered it. The Hosts change this rule for your party, since they don't want you to save the world with any regrets. In other words, now you can handle all of those sidequests the main story rushed you past, and quite a few others, too.
  • Optional Boss: Chaosdramon, who is on the first floor of the building when you pass through the Wall of Hope in Shinjuku, is an enemy you should avoid, since it's a Mega-Generation Digimon and is at level 65. While it's there to teach the player to avoid encounters, you can actually fight it and defeat it after you have strengthened your team of Rookie-Generation Digimon through grinding the game. Even when your team's levels are in the 20s, you can still win if you have a winning strategy. Chaosdramon does not respawn after you have defeated it.
  • Orange/Blue Contrast: The cover for the game uses a sunset orange to frame the redhead version of the player character, and a morning blue sky to frame their blue-haired female counterpart.
  • Origins Episode: Not only is Time Strangers the first game to focus on the Olympos XII, but it also serves as their origin story. As a matter of fact, the main goal of the Time Skip is to gather the future members of the Olympos XII to end the Digimon civil war. The group is officially formed at the end of the game after Aegiomon-as-Jupitermon assumes Chronomon's former post as the Keeper of Time.
  • Permanently Missable Content: Certain equipment are only found a few times with no other way to get them until New Game Plus. The most notable is ClavisAngemon's Charm, which can only be obtained by picking it up behind said Digimon during the time stop, which the game does not give an immediate indication, as it directs the player to pull the lever to trap him. And this item is not obtainable anywhere else, so there is only one shot at it per playthrough.
  • Personality Mechanic: There are 16 different Personality Types for Digimon, all of them enhancing the growth rate of two specific stats. The 16 Personality Types are also divided into four different Bond Types: Philanthropy, Valor, Wisdom, and Amicability. There are also Personality Skills, which grant the Digimon certain bonuses. Agent Skills can further enhance Digimon based on the Bond Type they belong to. According to Gematsu, "DNA Digivolution can occur when two Digimon with specific personalities come together". The player can change the Digimon's personality when they converse with them and answer their questions. Most of the answers indicate which Bond Type it will shift towards, whereas other answers do not shift their personality. After giving an answer that shifts a Digimon's personality to a certain Bond Type, the crosshair on their Personality screen will move diagonally towards the respective Bond Type. If the crosshair crosses over a different Personality Type, a personality change will occur, and the Digimon can receive a new Personality Skill or keep the old one. Even if you choose an answer that doesn't change your Digimon's personality, it is still possible to learn new Personality Skills. Some Digivolution and De-Digivolutions require specific Personality Types.
    • Each Personality Type has access to two Personality Skills (some of them are the same), and two additional Personality Skills are accessible to all four Personality Types within the Bond Type. A Digimon can only have one Personality Skill at a time.
    • Philanthropy has the Personalities Types Adoring, Devoted, Tolerant, and Overprotective, which all boost SPI and another stat. It gives access to the Personality Skills "Healing Wisdom" and "SP Supplement". Its Skill Tree favors DEF the most, and SPD the least by far. A perfect Extra Strike from a Philanthropic Digimon prompts a burst of SP recovery for the party.
      • 1) Adoring: An affectionate heart boosts SPI and DEF growth. Its Personality Skills are "Follow Up" and "Prayer for Aid". From the Philanthropy Skill Tree, the Adoring gets a perk that boosts the HP given by Equipment.
      • 2) Devoted: A dedicated heart boosts SPI and INT growth. Its Personality Skills are "First Aid" and "Stout Spirit". From the Philanthropy Skill Tree, the Devoted get a perk that boosts the power of HP recovery items (at least outside of Mega +).
      • 3) Tolerant: An accepting heart boosts SPI and SP growth. Its Personality Skills are "Steadfast Heart" and "Rally Blessing". From the Philanthropy Skill Tree, the Tolerant gets a perk that boosts the SP given by Equipment.
      • 4) Overprotective: A vigilant heart boosts SPI and HP growth. Its Personality Skills are "First in Line" and "Great Embrace". From the Philanthropy Skill Tree, the Overprotective get a perk that boosts the power of their HP recovery skills.
    • Valor has the Personality Types Zealous, Brave, Reckless, and Daring, which all boost ATK and another stat. It gives access to the Personality Skills "Warrior Wisdom" and "Song of Triumph". Its Skill Tree favors HP the most, and SPI the least by far. A perfect Extra Strike from a Valorous Digimon prompts a regular attack from them, known as an "Extra Brave".
      • 5) Zealous: A passionate heart boosts ATK and SPD growth. Its Personality Skills are "First in Line" and "Fast Break". From the Valor Skill Tree, the Zealous get a perk that provides healing whenever they Guard.
      • 6) Brave: A valiant heart boosts ATK and SP growth. Its Personality Skills are "Extra Strikes Tech" and "Vitality Theft". From the Valor Skill Tree, the Brave get a perk that provides partial DEF negation (up to 30% at Agent Rank 10).
      • 7) Reckless: A wild heart boosts ATK and HP growth. Its Personality Skills are "Steadfast Might" and "Counter". From the Valor Skill Tree, the Reckless gets a perk that boosts the ATK given by Equipment.
      • 8) Daring: A dauntless heart boosts ATK and DEF growth. From the Valor Tree, the Daring get a perk that boosts the effectiveness of Guarding (up to a 100% boost at Agent Rank 10).
    • Wisdom has the Personality Types Enlightened, Sly, Astute, and Strategic, which all boost INT and another stat. It gives access to the Personality Skills "Secret Sage Art" and "Magical Wisdom". Its Skill Tree favors INT the most, and ATK the least by far. A perfect Extra Strike from a Wise Digimon prompts a "Blight Break", which applies random tier-1 Status Abnormalities to the entire enemy team.
      • 9) Enlightened: An inspired heart boosts INT and SP growth. Its Personality Skills are "Intense Focus" and "Haymaker". From the Wisdom Skill Tree, the Enlightened get a perk that makes enemies more likely to drop items.
      • 10) Sly: A teasing heart boosts INT and HP growth. Its Personality Skills are "Meditation" and "Combo Magic". From the Wisdom Skill Tree, the Sly gets a perk that increases the amount of enemies drop more YEN.
      • 11) Astute: A wise heart boosts INT and SPD growth. Its Personality Skills are "Steadfast Emotion" and "Magic Theft". From the Wisdom Skill Tree, the Astute gets a perk that provides partial SPI negation (up to 30% at Agent Rank 10).
      • 12) Strategic: A strategic heart boosts INT and SPI growth. Its Personality Skills are "Follow Up" and "Soothing Song". From the Wisdom Skill Tree, the Strategic gets a perk that provides extra damage reduction against magic (up to 10% at Agent Rank 10).
    • Amicability has the Personality Types Opportunistic, Friendly, Sociable, and Compassionate, which all boost DEF and another stat. It gives access to the Personality Skills "Cheer" and "Prankster". Its Skill Tree favors SPD the most, and INT the least by far. Depending on the species, a perfect Extra Strike from an Amicable Digimon prompts either a burst of HP recovery for the party, random stat boosts for the party, or a random stat debuff for the target.
      • 13) Opportunistic: A crafty heart boosts DEF and SPI growth. Its Personality Skills are "Slow Starter" and "Planning Ahead". From the Amicability Skill Tree, the Opportunistic get a perk that provides HP and SP regeneration, though it only works while they're in the Reserve.
      • 14) Friendly: An amiable heart boosts DEF and ATK growth. Its Personality Skills are "Strategic Order" and "Fortifying Charge". From the Amicability Skill Tree, the Friendly get a perk that makes their Personality Skills more likely to change.
      • 15) Sociable: An outgoing heart boosts DEF and SP growth. Its Personality Skills are "Booing" and "Weak Point Blitz". From the Amicability Skill Tree, the Sociable get a perk that boosts buffing items used during their turn (at least outside of Mega +).
      • 16) Compassionate: A sympathetic heart boosts DEF and HP growth. Its Personality Skills are "Stout Strength" and "Hustle Cry". From the Amicability Skill Tree, the Compassionate get a perk that gives them a chance to refund items used during their turn (at least outside of Mega +).
    • Four of the sixteen Personality Types are unnaturally extreme to Digimon, and don't appear without player intervention. These are Adoring (#1), Brave (#6), Astute (#11), and Compassionate (#16).
  • Player and Protagonist Integration: A voice at the start of the game sounds like it's addressing you directly, but refers to someone already dead (or caught in the "resetting" phase of a "Groundhog Day" Loop). You could be the Agent's sense of Self, since Reincarnation is brought up, but otherwise you're just a Controller.
  • Practical Effects: This Making-of reveals that the shadow play was done with real puppets, not CGI.
  • Pre-existing Encounters: Unlike previous Story games, enemy Digimon roam the overworld and may chase the Agent if it notices them. A battle is initiated if the Agent makes contact with an enemy Digimon, either from the enemy getting to them first or through DigiAttack.
  • Promoted to Playable: Originally just an NPC in Central Town, Terriermon Assistant became a playable party Digimon through Mode Change from the original Terriermon since the July 10, 2026 update.
  • Quick Time Event: After landing a hit on an enemy (chance increases with Bond % and attack favorability), a prompt may occur that allows the attacking ally to perform Extra Strikes if the player presses the Confirm button before the prompt disappears. If the button is pressed at the right time, an additional effect will activate.
  • Regenerating Health / Mana: Have the Player Character stand still on the map for a few seconds, and the party will enter Regeneration Mode with the game stating the time needed to fully restore the party while keeping still.
  • Relocating the Explosion: The solution the party comes up with to ultimately deal with the Shinjuku Inferno. After learning from Mirei that the only way to rescue Inori is to let it happen, the Agent and Aegiomon decide to have GraceNovamon use their Space Master powers to move the moment of impact into a Pocket Dimension.
  • Researching the Monster: Monica Simmons is the Public Safety genius yet eccentric scientist who has a wild fascination with the Phase Electron Lifeforms aka Digimon as she conducts research and develops experimental technology made to defend against them.
  • Respawning Enemies: Since there are no random encounters, enemies on the map can respawn after some time has passed. Reentering the map will respawn them immediately (as well as certain items).
  • Revive Kills Zombie: And living beings too. Exclusive to the fight against ZombiePlutomon, there's a mist field effect that makes all healing effects fail to restore HP while also reducing maximum HP for the rest of the fight. It applies to all Digimon in the field, including the boss himself.
  • Save-Game Limits: The game offers 15 slots for manual saves.
  • Scunthorpe Problem: The name input system is heavily restrictive. For the simplest example, it is impossible to name the Player Character, say, Hoshino or Jessie, due to containing certain words considered inappropriate by the game. From the first name example, it is "ho", the shortest possible string detected as this, pretty much barring many innocuous names from being used. Note that the filter is dependent on the game's set language, as players can bypass this by changing the game language to one that will not trigger it and then returning to their original language after applying the "inappropriate" name, but this is only possible on the PC version.
  • Shout-Out:
    • After the Time Skip, Inori and Hiroko compare her predicament to that of Captain America, although not by name.
    • In the Main Quest, Throne of the Underworld, the player has to say empty platitudes to get Gekomon to teleport to the right location. At the end of the puzzle, he asks the player for one final cringe-worthy line. One of the responses is "Don't let your dreams be dreams! Just do it!"
    • Dr. Kuga pilots a black-painted Power Loader with guns.
    • After helping Kokuwamon A he shouts "Wooo yeah baby that's what I've been waiting for", just like the Moist Cr 1 Ti Ka L meme.
  • Show Within a Show: Agent Alpha, an old anime which several characters in the game are fans of, including Inori's little brother and Dr. Simmons. According to Simmons, it even got a foreign live-action remake some time ago, which not many people liked. And as often gets pointed out to Yuki, their uniform greatly resembles the design of Agent Alpha's main character. This isn't a coincidence; much of Yuki's false memories and existence is pulled directly from the show to disguise the fact they were only recently created, never mind that they're Aegiomon's "other half".
  • Skill Scores and Perks: To advance in Rank, the Agent has to invest Anomaly Points across five different Skill Trees: Loyalty, Valor, Philanthropy, Amicability, and Wisdom.
    • Loyalty provides all of the Cross Arts (other than Field), passive Cross Art Point generation when you enter battle (up to 25% of your Gauge at Agent Rank 10), and various bonuses that apply to all sub-Mega Digimon. The bonuses to combat stats are flat, as opposed to the multipliers found in the other Skill Trees.
    • The other four Skill Trees cater to four of the sixteen Personality Types each, and have almost no impact on the other twelve. The most common perks are "Body Boosts", percent stat increases; a full Skill Tree provides a 100% boost in the two stats a specific Personality Type favors, and a 75% boost in the other five. Other perks include increased EXP gain, faster DigiFarm training, lower SP costs, slightly-stronger Extra Strikes, slightly-higher odds of seeing rare Personality Skills, quicker indoctrination into the relevant Personality quadrant, a less onerous Level Cap, and (most significantly) an 80% reduction in the stat requirements for Digivolution.
  • Stable Time Loop: It's eventually revealed that all of reality has been trapped reliving the same eight years for a long time as part of Chronomon's Thanatos Gambit. Regardless of what the protagonists try to do, the Giant Slayer inevitably awakens and goes on a destructive rampage through Tokyo, culminating in it hunting down and, depending on the loop, either outright killing or mortally wounding Inori, which in turn causes Aegiomon/Jupitermon to fly into a rage and launch a savage attack against the Giant Slayer that unleashes a World-Wrecking Wave that devastates the world before the time loop resets. It eventually turns out that Yuki was created specifically to help Aegiomon find a way to break the time loop.
  • Starter Mon: Like the Cyber Sleuth duology, the player in the trailer will be given a choice between a Vaccine, Data, and Virus Digimon; In this case, it's Gomamon, Patamon, and DemiDevimon, respectively.
  • Status Effects: Time Stranger's status effects are treated like temporary buffs or debuffs, and only a few don't have dedicated moves. They're divided into two broad groups:
    • Abnormalities are always negative, of course. Three of them have the potential to resolve the bearer's turns automatically; this is generally worse for the player than for enemies, since it prevents the player from getting an item or a Cross Art in. A Digimon cannot have more than one Abnormality at a time. Only a few Abnormalities can overwrite other Abnormalities, and even then, they can only overwrite a few.
      • Poison deals damage every time the afflicted does something, based on the subject's maximum HP, and never expires on its own. Deadly Poison (which can overwrite Poison) is roughly twice as strong.
      • Paralysis reduces the afflicted's SPD, causing their turn to come up later, and has roughly a 50% chance to skip their turn outright. A skipped turn still counts against the Abnormality's duration. Immobilization (which can overwrite Paralysis) is guaranteed to skip turns.
      • Sleep skips the afflicted's turn automatically, whenever it comes up. However, any attack on the Sleeping will "cure" them. Deep Slumber (which can overwrite Sleep) will never expire on its own, though damage will still end it.
      • Confusion has roughly a 50% chance each turn to make the afflicted choose a random action, with a slight bias towards attacking themselves or their allies; they'll never choose to use their own Special Skill(s), though they might use Attachment Skills they have. However, any damage to the Confused will "cure" them. Chaos (which can overwrite Confusion) will never expire on its own, though damage will still end it.
      • Crystallization forces the afflicted into their low-resolution sprite form, also known as their "Pixel Model". This limits the scope of their actions to attacking, preventing them from Guarding or using Skills. If it's your own Digimon that's Crystallized, though, you still get to use items and Cross Arts on their turn.
    • The rest are just known as Statuses.
      • Injury prevents the afflicted from regaining HP until it expires. It doesn't outright prevent using recovery items, but it negates the HP-healing they provide. There isn't anything that just applies to an Injury.
      • Disease prevents the afflicted from regaining SP, until it expires. Its mechanics are identical to those of Injury. You see it pretty early in the game, due to a Raremon boss's moves being modified to also apply Disease, but there isn't anything that just applies a Disease.
      • Reverse effectively flips the way the subject interacts with the game's damage multipliers, with the exception of multipliers from Traits. Elemental Immunities become double weaknesses, and vice-versa. Attribute compatibilities are flipped as well. This affects both the Reversed's attacks and attacks directed at them. Reverse never expires, and you can't cancel out a Reverse with another Reverse.
      • Guts has the bearer stand back up from an otherwise-lethal attack, with 1 HP remaining. Practically speaking, it lasts until used; however, it actually has a duration of a dozen or so turns. The "Revive" Cross Art applies it.
      • Taunting never lasts more than a single turn, but prevents enemies from attacking anyone without the status until it expires. Aegiomon gets a skill that applies this alongside an Evasion buff.
      • Brave doesn't have an icon; it always comes up when a Digimon's HP bar turns red, it lasts only a single turn, and it increases the subject's ATK and INT by 30%.
  • Take Your Time: This is actually inverted for much of the back half of the game: No matter how quickly you rush to complete your current objective, you'll always be just a little too late. Good thing time travel is on the table, huh?
  • Thanatos Gambit: The events of Time Stranger are an elaborate gambit by Chronomon to kill him, as it's the only thing he has left by that point. As he embodies the concept of time, however, he needed to create a Digimon powerful enough to kill him, then orchestrate a series of events that would hone that Digimon to where it could eventually be powerful enough to kill him, or failing that, finish what he started and destroy Homeros. For this reason, he created Aegiomon, his supposed successor, and carefully manipulated the Digimon civil war so that it would spill out into the human world, raising hostilities between humans and Digimon, and creating the perfect conditions that would force Aegiomon into such despair that he'd Dark Digivolve into Jupitermon: Wrath Mode. In the end, Chronomon ends up getting what he wants, albeit not in the way he expected, thanks to the Agent's continued interference and Aegiomon's own dogged determination to save Inori. That said, Chronomon's dialogue in the final battle implies he was hoping Aegiomon would re-enact his rebellion, though he'll take death as a welcome consolation prize.
  • "They're Not Real" Reveal: Dr. Simmons reveals to the Agent that the Dr. Yuki they say they were adopted by is actually just an anime character from Agent Alpha. Shortly afterwards, it's also revealed that ADAMAS and the Operator do not exist either, them all being part of a fabricated backstory for the Agent.
  • Time Skip: The second half of the game takes place eight years in the future, when the Shinjuku Inferno is right around the corner.
  • Weapon of X-Slaying: Quite a few Special Skills trade a little Power to be "effective" against those of a certain Trait. The result is 50% more damage against those of that trait; 50% becomes 100% as normal, but it's otherwise a 1.5x damage multiplier, resulting in percentages you won't normally see (such as 150% becoming 230%). This effect also isn't flipped by the Reverse status.
    • A couple of Special Skills have this bonus against certain Attributes, in which case it does get flipped by Reverse (because it modifies existing matchups). Notably, Vulcanusmon and a few others have a skill effective against every Attribute, except for "No Data" (which technically indicates the Digimon doesn't have one).
    • A few Special Skills have the bonus against those who move after them, or before them, in the turn order. The bearers of these benefit the most from the "First in Line" (for the former) or "Last to Follow" (for the latter) Personality Skills, if you can get them.
  • Wham Episode:
    • The second instance of the Shinjuku Inferno. Not only does the Agent fail to stop it from happening, but Inori disappears, causing Aegiomon to go berserk and Dark Digivolve. Shortly after this, they're dumped back at the In-Between Theater and offered a second chance to stop the coming catastrophe, followed by another set of revelations involving the Agent's own past and their adoptive father, Dr. Yuki.
    • The visit to the Dark Field sheds light on Plutomon, the leader of the Titans, and provides more information about Chronomon that goes against what Junomon told the Agent and the others.
      • Upon finding Plutomon, the Agent is shocked and horrified to discover that the supposed leader of the Titans, who Merukimon hoped would agree to a ceasefire, is little more than a living corpse and has been reduced to ZombiePlutomon. The Agent ultimately succeeds in defeating ZombiePlutomon, though they're left with more questions than answers. The Dark Shadow then shows up and sends the Agent back in time so they can find the answers they seek. Which leads to...
      • Plutomon expands on the story of Chronomon, namely how he learned how to harness the power of time by deciphering the Akashic Records. This led Chronomon to discover the existence of a higher power, all but stated to be Homeostasis, and that all that occurred within Iliad was "pre-ordained", leading Chronomon to believe all were but "cogs in the machine". Plutomon proceeds to explain that it was Chronomon who led the Titans to rebel, only to be defeated and punished, with Chronomon becoming the Keeper of Time and the Titans banished to the lower levels of Iliad.
  • Wham Line:
    • After helping Merukimon reclaim Central Town, the other Digimon start cheering and congratulating the Agent for their efforts. It's from this point forward that many Digimon, including Junomon, start calling the Agent "the Great Guardian," a title that should belong to Aegiomon.
    • Dr. Simmons drops one on the Agent when they bring up their relation to Dr. Yuki, who is supposedly ADAMAS' brightest mind and the one who knows the most about Digimon. As it turns out, though...
      Simmons: Dr. Yuki is an anime character.
  • Wham Shot: After the second instance of the Shinjuku Inferno comes to pass, the Agent, Aegiomon, and Inori fall into a strange white space, where Inori is swallowed up by a black void and is seemingly killed right in front of Aegiomon. He's then swallowed by a dark energy and is replaced by the dark shadow that's been showing up lately...only you can now see the dark shadow's features, revealing it to be Aegiochusmon: Dark.
  • You Can't Thwart Stage One: Despite the Agent's best efforts, the Shinjuku Inferno still manages to come to pass as it did in the game's Cold Open. Fortunately, the Agent has another chance to avert the coming catastrophe, along with a Wham Episode that reveals the Agent's full backstory. Later, the Agent learns from Mirei that the Shinjuku Inferno has to happen in order to pull off a risky gambit to save Inori and take the fight to Chronomon, though it takes Apollomon and Dianamon for it to work.

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