Line #9 TearJerker/DigimonStoryCyberSleuth


1	* During Chapter 1, the player has to break into a hospital ward in order to investigate EDEN Syndrome. While there, they are confronted with their own body which they were separated from after the Eater attack.
2	* Agumon and Gabumon were being threatened by hackers before Nokia and the player rescue them. It's only after they're saved that the two reveal that Digimon are creatures from another world. The hackers don't even consider that Digimon are living beings and enslave them for their own, often criminal purposes.
3	** Almost all the Digimon in EDEN were forced to flee the Digital World. They're basically refugees looking for a safe place and they're being captured by hackers with the Digimon Capture program.
4	* One sidequest is tracking down someone who's been sending messages on the [=DigiLine=] of a Highschool student, who you track down on EDEN. That's not the sad part. The sad part is that the program has merged with a Digimon and completely destroyed its mind. While initially it was to track down the culprit, Kyoko urges you to MercyKill the poor thing.
5	* The ending of the Serial Disapperances in Akibahara. Not only was the woman, Nishino, a friend of Arata, but she was being driven insane by a Wisemon preying on her inadequate feelings. Just when you've nearly gotten through to her, an Eater shows up and she ends up becoming a victim of EDEN Syndrome.
6	* Another sidequest has you trying to find out more about a mysterious laser that's causing problems in Shinjuku. When you arrive, it turns out to be a digital laser controlled by a Tankmon that was being experimented on by a government as a potential weapon. The Tankmon talks about how it can't live with itself being a weapon, and wants to get away. The sad part is, it's completely willing to cooperate until you receive a message from Matayoshi, [[YankTheDogsChain which convinces the Tankmon that you're there to take it back to the government and causes it to attack you]].
7	** Oh and don't think this is like other games where innocent people randomly return to full health after a misunderstanding induced fight. Tankmon is NOT fine after the fight and dies wishing it was never born.
8	* What happened to Yuugo. Not the one you meet in EDEN, the real Yuugo who became the first EDEN Syndrome patient. For 8 years he's been trapped in an EldritchAbomination and [[BarrierMaiden single-handedly kept Eater from going on a rampage]].
9	** Just to make it worse, the protagonist's brave actions manage to push the ResetButton on a lot of bad things, but the part where Yuugo's been in a coma for most of his youth still happens even in the happy ending. Thankfully, he does wake up with the other EDEN Syndrome survivors...but the protagonist doesn't, meaning the five childhood friends are ''still'' one short even after all that has happened.
10	* Yuugo (the A.I. program) attempts to convince Yuuko not to delete it as it cannot exist outside of EDEN. It only wants to keep living. Luckily, Yuuko changes her mind at the end.
11	--> '''Yuugo:''' Please, don't misunderstand. I don't want to hurt you, but... I just don't want to be deleted.
12	* Beginning of Eden. The second you see an intact Galacta Park, you realize that it's actually the ''original version of Kowloon.'' Seeing it makes you realize that a product of love like this eventually gets written over, and replaced by a community of Hackers who just want to ruin it for everyone else.
13	* The backstory of Pete/Miko and Mr. Yoshito. Their story starts literally decades ago, back in the 1960's when Yoshito was the technician overseeing a massive vacuum computer hidden in the basement of Nakano Broadway. Yoshito's only company at the time was Miko, a cat to whom Yoshito would tell stories to pass the time. Miko and Yoshito became very close, but when the computer was finally shut down and sealed away in the wall, Miko was accidentally sealed inside with it, and, due to the effects of a massive Digital Wave that passes naturally through the building, became fused with the computer's data and turned into an amnesiac Wanyamon, "Pete." In the modern day, the now elderly Mr. Yoshito continues returning to the building in the early hours, looking for Miko, and Pete begins suffering an existential crisis as he tries to make sense of his memories and existence. With Aiba's help, Pete and Yoshito reunite and leave together, but there is an implication that they were actually DeadAllAlong and unable to find peace until they were finally reunited, and then there's Pete's last words to the player:
14	--> '''Pete''': Please, leave us be...Don't go looking for us.
15	* The moment just after the final boss when [[HopeSpot everything seems to go back to normal.]] Yuugo returns to his body, the Digimon return back to the Digital World, and Aiba prepares to head home with their friends...and then their body, stressed far beyond the breaking point, just evaporates into data as Nokia reaches for their hand to take them home. When they emerge in the real world, all that is left of Aiba is their Digivice on the ground, and Nokia, usually ever-positive, suffers a complete breakdown and begins crying in the street. Just like eight years ago, the five friends return missing one, only this time instead of being trapped in the Digital World, they're simply ''gone.''
16	** Aiba does a valiant effort in hiding their worsening condition from their friends, but to us it becomes more and more apparent as the game goes on that things are ''not'' well. Kyoko outright states in the beginning that their state is temporary at best; it simply wasn't meant to be, and it ''will'' disperse eventually. Towards the halfway point, they start spacing out every now and then, something eventually played for laughs...until a conversation between Pete and Kyoko reveals that it is a symptom that Aiba's body is glitching as it reaches ''terminal'' deterioration. And no, this is not a painless process. By the time the last chapters roll around, it is obvious that Aiba is in immense pain and barely able to remain on their feet, but they don't tell anyone, and they keep going. Even as every step they take, every Eater they jump into, tears more and more into them, ''destroying'' them from the inside until there won't be anything left. And even when Aiba's friends finally ''do'' realize what is going on, and ''beg'' them to stop, [[TheDeterminator they refuse to call it quits]] because they ''know'' [[AllLovingHero there's people that need their help.]]
17	* At the end of the game Alphamon, who had been acting as Kyoko for the entire game bids the player farewell, calling them their fair "Watson" one last time before leaving. Although the player would go on to meet the real Kyoko later, it's unknown if they'll ever see their trusted friend and savior ever again.
18	** This also applies to your own Digimon that saved your life by putting you back together. They're going back to the Digital World and it's unclear if you'll ever be reunited.
19	* Also at the end of the game everyone except certain people remember what happened before the reset. Sure this means that world destruction was prevented, but even if Digimon themselves remember what happens (as is implied with your Digimon rescuing your data), most humans will have forgotten their interactions with Digimon. This also means they will have forgotten any positive thing that happened as a result of said interaction such as the young girl's friendship with the two baby Digimon in one of the side quests.

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