>>41758832The satisfaction of Digimon comes from experimenting with how you raise them to see what abomination they become next. It doesn't have the same level of exploration that the Pokemon games have. Instead of exploring a huge region you're walking around the streets of Japan and crawling through loads of dungeons. Judging from the pic you posted, you're probably one of those people who only like cute mons. You might enjoy Digimon more than pokemon in that case because you can evolve and de-evolve your Digimon at will and they'll retain close to the same stats, so with enough time and dedication you can have cute rookie-level Digimon with stats and a moveset to match a fully evolved Mega-level Digimon.
There's a bunch of Digimon Story games on DS and GBA but the only ones that got localized were renamed Digimon World DS and Digimon World Dawn/Dusk. They're all solid games with much more interesting dungeons but the dungeons are encounter rate hell.
If you've got a Vita or PS4, Digimon World: Next Order has more focus on adventure to it but it uses an action + autobattle combat system that I'm not a huge fan of, but XBC fans might welcome it.
Skip Digimon: Survive when that comes out.
