Today I finished my first Digimon game. A few days ago I asked what the Story games were about and so I decided to play the very first one to verify. This game was actually pretty fun, going completely blind. I thought the gameplay loop of scanning a Digimon at the start of every encounter and then recruiting them pretty addicting. The amounts of walking and frequency of encounters are very high but it didn't bother me until the second beach area where you fight that turtle guardian at the end and the second visit to the factory where you have to search and fight three niggas. I think what I liked the most was the quest system: the game always gives you tips about how to trigger every quest available and it always follows the format "put specific digimon and maybe an extra conditional", these quests always have dialogues with the Digimon you put in the farm and as someone that never watched Digimon, I found those interesting to read. The quests themselves are just fetch quests most of the time but I usually have patience for this kind of stuff, it's almost therapeutic. This game has three main weakenesses in my vision. The 40 Digimon limit is way too small and I think this is the worst aspect of this game. Pokémon RBY had a limit of 240 Pokémon which is more than enough to have everything but here you have to keep deleting your Digimon to get more. The second weakness is how slow the menus are. I gave up looking up traits because it takes just too much time selecting a Digimon and pressing the Trait menu. The third one is that apparently the whole Digimon Egg mechanic is multiplayer exclusive. I didn't even know that there were Digimon that required online features to obtain until I was Platinum Rank and then I discovered that there was two different kinds of Digimon Eggs, the ones that are just Evo conditions and the multiplayer mechanic that's apparently a big feature considering how many eggs are in the menu. I gave up 100%'ing because that.