First of all, I'm a completionist. Because of that I usually try to find and explore everything within a game before reviewing. Now for the actual comments:

Pros:
+ Animations: each digimon has 1 or 2 special skills with their own animations, they look great!
+ Digi-evolution chains: the tree is amazing and complex. It gives a lot of liberty on how to play and how to build more powerful digimons with each iteration.
+ Great way of mixing Digital and Real World! Story is interesting in that regard
+ Voicing is good

Cons:
- Starting with unskippable scenes and credits. This is always a bother
- Animations are too long. You can't skip them. So you either deactivate battle animations or watch every single one of them
- Grind. The grind is real in this game for leveling digimon up, be it through battle or digitalizing other digimons
- Items: they are a pain to get, either consumables are extremely expensive or they must be found in the wild (with incredible difficulty and very low in numbers). You can also do investigations on digifarms but you still need to sit for 0.5-1.5hrs for the investigation to end
- Story can be tedious
- Level building: they are tedious, long and for every investigation you need to go around them looking for something wherever it may be
- Sleuth skills have very little use except for the occasional wall break
- Stat increasing items are nowhere to be found, they are extremely needed for digievolving and for end game
- Difficulty: most fights are a breeze, yet suddenly there is an impossible fight or a 1hko boss with 7 straight attacks that you can't evade, block or prepare (mostly DLC)
- Side characters are as deep as a hot tub. Arata is savable and Kyoko and another character which appears almost end-game has personality, for the rest, not so much

This ends my review and why this game is a 5/10

This is the right direction Digimon RPGs should go sans all the weird fanservice.

As someone who's played all the translated Digimon Story DS games, this was a lot more fun from a gameplay POV.

I only hope things get better from here,

This game is similar to Pokémon, but it's more boring in terms of the storyline. The game barely tells you what you need to do or where to go. I spent a lot of time wandering aimlessly around the map, not knowing how to progress

like pokemon but much much worse

you play for 5 minutes, then talk to people for 15 minutes, and that's if you click A and don't read anything otherwise it would be much longer. it's basically a visual novel where you click A every 5 seconds, not a game. they also play into the worst anime stereotypes and are disgustingly lewd. by far the worst game I've played in 30 years

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One of the best

awesome

Digimon Are the Champions

yeah its an alright game

Absolutely amazing game. Especially this version. I give it a 9/10