#the Digimon roster and overall evolution amount would also be very small compared to typical creature collection games and Digi amount

[galehowl]

I sometimes like to dream of a Digimon game that'd be like a big open world RPG where your Digimon is a full NPC, voiced and all, who's relationship with your player character revolves around the decisions you make in the main story and side quests, the way you treat your Digimon, and so on, in the best companion NPC traditions. But also based on the Digimon in question's personality, type, maybe even backstory.

You'd get several Digimon to choose from, each fully-rounded characters with their evolutions branching to an extent based on how the story goes, and the one you'd pick would be your main companion, but you'd also have other NPCs help you in the plot and progress the story/form the team, humans and Digimon.

I know it'd be pretty much impossible to do this due to how many totally different branching story paths, alternate endings, etc., it would have to have, as well as issues with combat and probably switching between two characters ( your Digi being your main fighter, with the pc likely being more of the support type, but with variations based on upgrades, unlocked perks, type of your Digi, how you level up the characters, etc.. ), and a million other problems, but.

I can dream LOL.