>Have an autism becase of how much I just fucking hate Western localization shenanigans
>Made it my job to go out of my way to specifically get Japanese versions of games
>Download the Japanese version of Digimon: Cyber Sluts - Hacker's Memory to my Vita
>Fire the game up
>Discover the main menu offering the "option" to play the first game
>Figure it's probably just some "Previously On..." option, like the digital comic in the PS3/WiiU versions of the Mass Effect sequels, of the catch-up videos seen in Tomb Raider Underworld
>No, it's the full fucking game!!!
>Wondering what's going on
>Decide to look it up online
>Turns out localizers managed to strike again
https://archive.ph/um6WH
<The story-select menu likely defaults to Hacker's Memory because this compilation actually was aimed towards people who played Cyber Sleuth first, at least initially (and the subsequent Switch and PC ports did nothing to change this). This game's history is a bit of a mess, but to break it down.....
<Cyber Sleuth releases on the Vita in Japan.
<Sony prematurely brushes the Vita off as a dead system in the west, causing Cyber Sleuth to be ported to the PS4 when it got localized (there was still a Vita localization, but it was digital-only). For a time, this PS4 port would be exclusive outside of Japan.
<Hacker's Memory is released in Japan for the PS4 and Vita, with Cyber Sleuth included as a compilation. With this, Japan gets the PS4 version of Cyber Sleuth for the first time, and players of the original Vita Cyber Sleuth could use cloud saving to transfer their old data (and the whole compilation comes off being geared towards those veteran players as a result).
<Hacker's Memory is released in the west for the PS4 (and digital-only Vita again), but it doesn't have Cyber Sleuth included. This robbed the west of features like being able to transfer Digimon between the two storylines in post-game, and being able to play Cyber Sleuth with the new Digimon and a few quality-of-life updates (though for what it's worth, they at least made it so you could complete the entire medal collection and get all evolution items in Hacker's Memory alone).
<Complete Edition gets ported to the Switch worldwide and Steam outside of Japan (I have no clue why, but some Bandai Namco games on Steam, while technically available in the region, lack Japanese language support). This is essentially the compilation version of Hacker's Memory that Japan had on the Vita and PS4 all along. Hell, the Japanese Switch version doesn't it even call it "Complete Edition", since it is just a port (though, I'm guessing the reason the Playstation game was titled "Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth - Hacker's Memory" wasn't so much because one was a side-story to the other, but more because it indicated both games in a collection, another thing that the western Playstation release sorta botched by keeping the title the same).
Never trust localized versions, NOT EVEN FUCKING ONCE!!!