This game feels half-baked, a compromise when compared to what I assume was its original vision. I heard it had a troubled development cycle, so that tracks.

As a visual novel, it's interesting enough, plus it looks great. But it does suffer from quite a lot of seriously annoying padding and conversations that go in near-endless circles, but there's a lot to like in that department regardless. The characters are interesting, their plights relatable, the lore surrounding this universe of Digimon is also evocative and appealing, having darker sensibilities than what one might expect from the franchise.
But the story is frequently desperate to spell out its themes and character development to make sure you get it, often undercutting its own tone. The aforementioned padding also becomes a problem when you realize the characters keep acting in contrived ways in order to save twists for later, even though said twists are beyond obvious and telegraphed multiple times. A particular character keeps evading giving straight answers for flimsy reasons such as "I don't want to make this about me" and "I thought this would just distract you from trying to survive" which gets increasingly nonsensical.
The point and click elements can also be a bit grating and boring.

But the real problem comes with its other side, the SRPG game: it's quite frankly as barebones as it can possibly be, which wouldn't be that much of a problem if it wasn't soooooo slow, featuring battles that are infuriatingly padded due to taking place in giant empty arenas where each unit, from enemy to ally, has very limited movement, always moving too few tiles at a time. It takes forever for the monsters to reach each other, and when they do it basically comes down to evolving them to whichever level you've unlocked and spamming your best moves until the spongy enemies finally drop dead. There's little to no tactical considerations to be made, almost no way to avoid attacks from your sides or the back, you have plenty of items to help whenever you're running low on hp or sp, it always comes down to how long you're willing to bear it before being rewarded with the story advancing, and even then the characters may repeat themselves and each other multiple times before realizing the obvious and moving on with the plot.

It took me 25 hours to reach the Moral route ending, and quite frankly it felt like 40. I'm invested enough to at least consider going for the Truthful route, which is this game's version of a true route you can only access on NG+, but even then I'm not sure I'm willing to tolerate the SRPG elements slowing the whole thing down to a crawl. Even with the skip function on full blast, it took me 20 minutes just to get through the prologue as you still need to do the tutorial battles, and having Mega Digimon that literally one-shot early enemies still doesn't make the feeling of "this battle is just too long" go away.

There's much to enjoy here, but it trips over itself constantly and I can't really recommend it to anyone outside die-hard fans of the franchise and preferrebly at a discount at that. It's a shame, I really don't enjoy bashing games and you can see the effort pouring through the final product, but at some point I just gotta admit to myself that I came away from this first playthrough more annoyed than pleased.

Didnt play a lot yet but I dont like visuals novels, too much reading, but this one has a very interesting story and the fact it starts with legends and myths is awesome, love those, at times I got so invested I forgot I was playing and thought I was watching a digimon movie, the music helps a lot too, at the beginning it makes the game feel very mysterious and spooky while things are still "whats going on".
The battles are ok, the usual tactical battles, I just think they should have done something more like danganronpa during the exploration, where you can move around, clicking menu after menu gets a bit boring

This is a Digimon game and it easily has one of the darkest moments I've ever seen, even compared to R-rated horror titles.

Pretty fleshed out characters/story and an overall worthwhile entry into the franchise even if the gameplay can get a little stagnant.

Just be warned though; not for the faint of heart. Dives into some pretty gritty themes and honestly doesn't do much to shy away from their full consequences and lasting effects, this is probably closer to Lord of the Flies than it is to any other Digimon games, shows or movies.