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>JRPG standards
I haven't played them myself but I'm sure people would point to Metaphor or Expedition 33. Also I was taking into account the entire genre as a whole, so new and old games.
>Monster Taming standards
Same as above. Taking into account the entire history of the genre, TS is well above average. If strictly talking more modern things? Well it sure as hell shits all over modern Pokemon. Could say SMT is still relevant, but I could go either way between TS and SMTVV honestly. Monster Hunter Stories 3 is probably gonna also be really damn good judging by what's been shown. Rest of the genre currently is mostly the indie scene so yeah TS has a solid step up over them.
>Digimon standards
I mean. Every Digimon game comes with caveats. World 1 is obtuse and needs a guide to know anything. World 2 is slow and grindy as shit. World 3 is also pretty slow and rife with backtracking. World 4 is World 4. Dawn/Dusk are grindy as shit and every area is a maze with mandatory filler sidequests to progress. CS/HM have shit translations and stuck with 90% of the areas being the same generic cyberspace. Next 0rder has a host of issues. You need to like VNs to like Survive because the SRPG aspect is so minimal.
This isn't EVERY Digimon game but you get the picture. These games have their own positives, some even over TS, but they come with sometimes major downsides.
Time Stranger, for all of it's own faults, has the least caveats to it's quality and is all around the best put-together Digimon game.