I love Digimon. Grew up watching the first two seasons as a kid and eventually watched the sub and loved it even more. Digimon games, however, have often been hit or miss. The first Digimon world is one of my favorite PSone games and it’s a mess. Fun but messy. Jrpgs, pet sims, fighting games, racing games, this ip is all over the place and most games are not amazing. So I got this one on sale and gave it a shot. This game is one of the weirdest structured stories I’ve played in an rpg. The first half of this game is such a slog. It’s boring. Story is uninteresting and the characters are bland. The Digimon raising is great and collecting monsters through encounters is a good time. I almost gave up on this game. The story felt very uninteresting and felt like it had little to do with Digimon. Then half way through the game it suddenly gets good? I’ve played tons of games that start great and end pretty badly due to the writing falling apart. But this game does this in the opposite direction. Suddenly there is a Digimon focused story with Digimon antagonist and the characters suddenly have personality and an interesting back story. Cool side quest and then it has a decent ending. I was shocked. This game does have a lot of padding up and unnecessary fetch quest sometimes bland worlds.If you are a Digimon fan check it out.