>>13800643>Monster RancherYes. The best monster raising raising game with respect to building bro/sis-friends/feels. Having your mon's sprite waddle after you as you run in the overworld has got jack on Monster Rancher.
From birth
to death, MRancher is an unparalleled experience in raising and becoming a champion.
Battling will, however, keep Pokemon at the top forever and ever, since Digimon games rarely have the gameplay oomph Pokemon does (the best one would be Dawn/Dusk for the DS, which can be comparable, but with an infinitely worse post/lategame), and MRancher tends to be laughable in that aspect (it's simple and effective for what it is, but you'll never pick it up for the purpose of battling).