>>715280214
>They'd never do it, Bandai still hasn't allowed it with Digimon
digimon as characters? it's weaved into the dna of digimon. all the partner digimon are characters of their own right. the games play with the concept to varying degrees too (digimon world 2 has a partner digimon that turns into a generic unit after the tutorial, digimon world 3 gives you a party of partners who turn into mimes, digimon world ds has a questline where you tag along with a pagumon, etc.). and let's not forget the partner agumon in survive, or aegiomon in time stranger
all the dqm: joker games also had a monster character in the incarnus
>pokemon who can only say their own names are out of the question
nevermind all the psychic pokemon that spoke in the movies, or the lucario from the mew movie. hell, you have the early episodes focused on the pokemon cooperating with each other when they become separated from the MCs