>>51401469Pokemon are monster raising games, with creature that will go from level 1 to 100 in a linear way, who will fight in 1 on 1. EXP Share means you don't have to raise all of your Pokemons, they will improve with you just focusing on one.
Persona 5, Dragon Quest XI, Final Fantasy VII, Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG are story focus. I don't raise my character, I follow their stories. They will improve over time, I can personalize them to find the best combination for the team, skills and equipments, but I don't raise them.
As for Digimon Story, while it's true that it's a monster raising game using EXP share, the raising aspect is still kept by the fact I can evolve AND de-evolve my Digimon into several possibilities for both and by the fact that I need some specific conditions to make them evolve, the evolution being made manually and not automatically after a certain level.
I can have a Squirtle evolving to a Blastoise, without using or checking him, my only freedom being to be able to cancel or not an evolution when it occurs, but not the freedom to go back. For Digimon, I will have to check the different conditions for each evolutions, decide that I don't want Gomamon to evolve into Seadramon and so decide to keep him as Gomamon until I can unlock Ikkakumon. I chose Terriermon for my first Digimon, I could have chosen the main evolution line until SaintGalgomon, but I decided to make him evolve to TigerVespamon, before going back to choose another branch. I still had the choice to choose what he will become. And I can do the same for every Digimon, used on unused.
