Thank you. I can stomach a bad plot (I love Pokémon) but the lack of challenge sounds frustrating (one of my current beefs with Pokémon haha). If I care a lot about the roster of a monster collector, which is better, Time Stranger or the Cyber Sleuth ones you mentioned?
Time Stranger has the better wider more updated roster. (But I think it's an addition of like 50 new mons including Beel Starmon, the Olympus XII and a bunch of other stuff) However you only get access to Megas like MAYBE one or two Dungeons away from the end.
Cyber Sleuth has a more outdated roster, but you can access Megas at a much more reasonable point and the game caps you in a more interesting way. And you can use PlatinumNumemon as XP Slaves, lmao.
Cyber Sleuth and Hacker's Memory also are longer and have more interesting side quests, while Time Stranger is much more Modern AAA Video Game in its side quests.
But Cyber Sleuth/Hacker's Memory is in the budget dimension of using the same 10 micro dungeons.
While Time Stranger has actual set piece dungeons
I forget if you can turn off the heal mechanic for Time Stranger, I bounced hard after finishing it.