Dianamon Has No Entry in the English Cyber Sleuth's Field Guide (Vita & PS4)

Dianamon is normally #195 in Cyber Sleuth, but is nowhere to be found in either version of the English localization.

February 3rd, 2016. Soon after Cyber Sleuth's North American launch yesterday, it was uncovered that several voiced dialogues in the English localization were absent from the Vita version of the game, along with a line of DLC quests and the unlockable Dianamon. Barring closer examination of the dialogue sequences, at this time the missing voice tracks seem to be confined specifically to chapters 4 through 6. Further reports from players across GameFAQs, Twitter, Tumblr, and Reddit have attested that Dianamon and the quests to unlock her are not available in some copies of the PlayStation 4 version of Cyber Sleuth. As between physical and digital there are currently several versions of Cyber Sleuth for each system in circulation, exactly what content is missing on each version of the game has not been concretely established.

The first of the purple DLC quests, which have been available on some PS4 copies of Cyber Sleuth.

At least one individual has reported that the purple DLC quests were available in their physical PS4 copy of the game, though many more have attested otherwise. YouTube user RespDMO showed the first of the Mirei quests being played on their PS4 copy. Thus far no one has reported Dianamon being available. While the Digimon was shown in one of Bandai US' official English Cyber Sleuth streams prior to launch, her entry in the in-game Field Guide (#195) is skipped in both Vita and PS4 versions. The Field Guide goes from 194 to 196, with no space between them. Additionally, some players have been unable to utilize the cross-save features between the PS4 and Vita versions.

Bandai Namco Entertainment has not yet made any public statements on these issues. Some fans have been quick to put the blame on the company, tying the difficult launch to old wounds involving the Vita version of Sword Art Online: Lost Song. The exact origin of theses problem is currently uncertain. Whether the absence of the quests and Dianamon is a bug or intentional is still unclear; Bandai may have intended for the missing Digimon and its line of DLC quests to be made available later, though some users being able to access those quests on PS4 versions of Sleuth contradicts this.

Voice Acted Scenes Removed in English Localization of Cyber Sleuth (Vita Only)

02/03/16 Update: Further investigations by fans have demonstrated that Dianamon and the Mirei quests are also not available on some copies of the PlayStation 4 version, though the voice issue has still only been documented on the Vita.

February 2nd, 2016. Several hours after the North American launch of Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth, it has become apparent that many minor and major scenes that originally had a voice track in the Japanese edition of Cyber Sleuth have had those tracks removed in the Vita version of its English localization. An exact count is hard to pin down at this time, but one scene that stands out is when the player meets with Yuuko in chapter 4; during this sequence Yuuko tries to act like a "normal high school girl," leading to her voice actor Itou Kanae putting on a stellar performance pretending to be a bad actor. ("You're *so* late... I got *ultra-super* worried.") Other scenes with removed dialogue include a confrontation with a major boss in chapter 6, and the player’s formal introduction to police detective Date Makiko. The removed voiced sequences are still present in the PlayStation 4 version of the game, as are several purple downloadable quests not available in the Vita game. These quests were available in the Japanese edition of Cyber Sleuth, which was exclusively on the Vita.

The localization has been far from perfect, with punctuation errors abounding in the script, from missing periods to uses of "it's" instead of "its." There are also several questionable translation choices, like choosing to call one of the core dungeons of the game "Kowloon" instead of the more accepted "Coulomb" or "Cron." (All three are written クーロン Kuuron in Japanese, and the area is officially written in English as "Cool-wrong" in one area of the Japanese game, which phonetically approximates how the name is said aloud.) The localization translates the Garakuta (Junk) Park as "Galacta Park," yet retains a dialogue in which an NPC says that the park is made of junk, resulting in the character claiming the park to be "made of Galacta." At another point, Shiramine Nokia says "Looks like he's not here" rather than "they're" while looking for two Digimon. As a whole the text appears not to have been proofread. Jarringly, Detective Matayoshi still refers to Kuremi Kyoko as "Kyo-chan" in the English script; thus far no other honorifics have been found to be used.