Well I finished Digimon New World. For a little Pokemon Essentials game but with Digimon it ended up being pretty fun. The dev did a good job implementing recruiting digimon to File City. It was nice that it wasn't a 1-to-1 recreation of World 1's File City, so when I would get digimon to join it was a surprise on what they would add to the city still. They also didn't go overboard with materials you need to collect to upgrade some things, and upgrades you needed to make were few and far between so it didn't feel tedious.

Storywise it was basically Digimon World, but with a Pokemon style evil team. Some moments were interesting, but I don't think it really added or detracted from the overall game.

Gameplay is just Pokemon, so if you like the one vs one style of combat or not is going to depend on the person. I personally don't mind Pokemon's combat, so I found it enjoyable. Enemies give out decent EXP so it never felt grindy.

My biggest complaint was the complete lack of direction. At times you'd be told to go find digimon to recruit, but you've already explored every area. Then you do a lap around the entire map just to find a new cave entrance has appeared in an area. Even World 1 had NPCs and Shellmon's bulletin board to give you a bit of direction.

Overall I had a good time with it and I'll recomend it to anybody that likes Pokemon's gameplay.

Also pic related is my team. There were basically no Megas/Ultimates in this game, so it let me play with Ultimates/Perfects I wouldn't really get to use in more modern Digimon games since fully evolving is pretty much a necessity.