I love this game, both the setting and gameplay are very cool, although I wish they did more with the elements (weaknesses and resistances), also I found the difficulty inconsistent, it can be very easy most of the time but then it escalates suddenly, other than that it's a great game.

I always preferred Digimon as well, the only Digimon World games that I played were 3 and 4, they were pretty good, but my favorite Digimon game as a kid was Digimon Card Battle.

You're actually lucky that you put off this game for a while, when I heard about the Complete Edition I regretted buying the first game on PS4 (the funny part is, I even bought the game before I bought the console).