Part 2: Detective Assistant, EDEN Syndrome & Cyber Sleuth

Hi all. Back from my unannounced MIA.

See my status update and the General Chat thread for details.

I gather the rest of the avatar pieces and return to normal. Afterwards, we meet an older man who apparently knows and works with Kyoko. Afterwards, we get down to business as Kyoko pretty much makes us her detective assistant. Without even asking. Well... I guess it's better than doing nothing?

Either way we're informed of some happenings at a local hospital. Apparently a lot of people are coming down with something called 'EDEN Syndrome' that has apparently put a lot of people into comatose-like states. Sword Art Online/.hack much?

So Kyoko wants to investigate the hospital but the floor where they are holding the patients is heavily guarded. Which is apparently where we come in with our unknown Persona 4-like technology jumping ability. We meet a strange girl there and just stare at her. SMOOTH. REAL SMOOTH.

Eventually she leaves on the elevator and we're told to 'Connection Jump' in the General Ward to get to the Special Ward where all the EDEN Syndrome patients are. Which we do.

We find... a shocking truth. The main character's OWN PHYSICAL BODY. He's a EDEN Syndrome patient. Well... this is awkward...

We run into the same girl from before who's shocked to see us here. It's a bad situation, but, after explaining that we're working for a Detective Agency, that somehow gets her to talk with us. There are rumors of some sort of conspiracy with the company in charge of the hospital and EDEN Syndrome patients but the girl denies that. She also informs us that the patient that 'could be our twin' according to her came in recently. However... a really weird woman shows up who's apparently a big wig of the company in charge of the hospital. So we have to quickly hide.

This woman... not only is weird, she looks weird too and seems to think the girl is hiding a 'boyfriend' and goes around searching. Luckily, we jump into a computer to escape. Convenient.

Afterwards, we try to recover from the shocking truth of being an EDEN Patient walking around in a Cyber body. Kyoko realizes that we want the truth, WELL OF COURSE WE DO. So she makes us her official assistant calling us a 'Cyber Sleuth' NICE USE OF THE GAME NAME.

Our first mission... is to get Kyoko Coffee Beans. SERIOUSLY?! Well... it's also to apparently introduce us to the people around the main city we are in, Shinjuku. So we do that... and run into Nokia in the process. Who's glad to see that we're okay. Better not tell her the truth... huh?

We complete our errand and are allowed to roam the streets now. We run into some old classmates as well as Arata. Who doesn't want to talk about him being a hacker and just says 'it is what it is' REALLY NOW.

Eventually... we get another major case... from the girl in the hospital!! Her father has gone missing and she wants us to find him. Apparently, his EDEN account was hacked. Figures. Apparently a lot of people have been victims of 'account raiding' recently and the girl's father may be one of them. We've gathered some information about the situation though and we're told Zaxon may be involved. Wait... I think that's the group the guy who helped us in the beginning of the game is from. Uh oh...

Either way that was all I was able to do. I'm sorry for not listing names but they're hard to remember. Japanese names usually are. Not that I'm complaining. Also, I forgot to mention that occasionally there have been a few 'anime-like' cutscenes. Kind of like Persona. I'M SERIOUSLY IN LOVE WITH THIS GAME.

Also, I converted a Koromon as a temporary 3rd Digimon. I'm trying to find rookies but not having any luck so what I have now will have to do. Hopefully they can survive...

Next time:

We try to get to the bottom of the disappearing father. Is Team Zaxon involved? If so why? Will I have to fight them? Is there a boss fight coming up? Time will tell...