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>where the entire point is to simulate raising a pet. The objectives are making sure your digimon is trained in a specific way to stimulate its growth(evolution path)
Again, you're talking about something completely different conflating it with the concept and theme of a bond that was introduced by the anime.
As a game and by design there's no concept for a bond or getting your mon to love you in the v-pet. If you really want to get into the origins of Digimon then the spikes around the v-pet's screen are remnants of when it was a cage where Digimon were captured and forced to fight.
>It's literally the same thing the two of them were very much strong friends and their faith in one another was part of the series
It's not, again, while they had a bond it's not the same thing what we see in the anime which you and the other anon thought this series was about.
>v-tamer made use of the mechanics of the virtual pet
Which as we've established wasn't about bonds.
> C'Mon Digimon which predates both v-tamer and the anime.
Which again, also didn't feature bonds in the same way. The main character initially rejects bun if I remember right until he starts to project the feelings he had towards his dog on to it.
There's also a character in the beginning who just follows a guide to get metal Greymon as well.

>The raising and bonding aspect is integral to Digimon's identity as a franchise
And yet it only plays a significant part in one branch.