>>46691818>horrible animationsEach Digimon has a special animation, physical animation, two hurt animations, a victory animation and a special move animation. That's more care than Pokemon animations in battle get.
>map design>cutscenesNo argument there, but at least some of the sidequests are actually pretty good, like the one with the dude who got stuck in EDEN with his waifus.
>forced exp shareThis is good, though? Cybersleuth depends on you constantly evolving your Digimon which reset to level 1.