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>I argue that collecting demons and digimon through battle is very similar and the same comparison can be made with fusing demons and dedigivolving digimon
You can try but that's the bare essentials of any monster tamer game. Hell, devolving isn't much of a thing in SMT while jogress is the only form in Digimon.
>It also has similar status/element mechanics
Not at all. When it comes to types and such Cyber Sleuth functions more like Pokemon in that your attribute and element are both taken into account much like dual typing is so you can have 4x effectiveness and .25x if you have both weaknesses and resistances.
Smt doesn't really take alignment into account, which is the closest thing to virus/vaccine/data/neutral, so it's only x2.
Not to mention your MC doesn't fight at all and there's a lack of multiple endings.
>a Tokyo aesthetic
That would be like calling Yokai Watch an SMT clone. Not to mention it's not like you explore much of Tokyo in CSHM compared to an SMT game.
Anyway, point is we're talking about gameplay here, not aesthetics.
>I hope you're not going to respond with "actually, it doesn't have press turn so it is NOTHING at ALL like SMT
Let's add that to the list then.

You clearly haven't played CS or SMT.