The Megami Tensei Thread

Following a Twitter-based countdown, Atlus revealed the new title Shin Megami Tensei IV Final. Famitsu is reporting that the game is a completely new title and will be released for Nintendo 3DS on February 10, 2016 in Japan.

Shin Megami Tensei IV Final is said to feature deicide as a key theme. It is unclear at this stage exactly how the game relates to Shin Megami Tensei IV, but more information will be released over the next week.

http://www.rpgamer.com/news/Q4-2015/100515d.html

It seems to be a side story (set during the main game) staring Akira. Yes, I had to look up who that was too.

Based on that one image it looks like they've possibly redone some of the demon artwork in one consistent style, which would be great if true, but then again they did the same thing with the SMTIV cover art and it didn't reflect the game at all.

Eh.

It seems odd to come out with a side story this long after the original came out. That feels really lazy. The SMT series is one of my favourites, but I'm not going to pay for such an incremental upgrade. It's going to have to have a hell of a lot of additional content for me to bother with this, especially after it took so long for the IV to even come out here in Europe.

This mostly reminds me that I still need to actually finish SMTIV at some stage.

2.5 years for a glorified level pack would indeed be embarrassing, but I'm not sure that's what this is. I suspect Atlus made another game in IV's universe because they're all about brand recognition now days, and SMT IV was (for better or worse) the best selling SMT game. Personally I was hoping for a remake of the original SMT in IV's engine, but I'll be more than happy to play this if it's IV with better characters and art design. Atlus will probably never make another game as good as Nocturne but IV was the only JRPG I've liked enough to finish in years.

http://gematsu.com/2015/10/shin-mega...racter-details

Sounds like it's a sequel based on the neutral ending of IV.

Yeah, Nocturne is still probably my favourite RPG of all time. Such a brilliantly crafted experience.

IV was great, but a bit too bloated for my liking.

I'll remain cautiously optimistic for now. Though if the last game is anything to go by, we'll be waiting another two years before we ever get the chance to play it...

This is why I have an import US 3DS. But it seems like SMTIV was delayed so much because the company that was originally handling the localization dropped it, so it probably won't be as bad this time.

Scans:













The MC is... uh... but the rest are a huge, huge improvement over IV. Still pretty anime but eh, it's what the kids want.

The MC looks like a rejected hybrid of the Demi-Fiend and a Beyblade character... urk.

Scan translations. Some of the interview questions are hilarious. "SMT4F has been praised as having an ‘awesome story’". By who? Atlus?

Drav wrote:

This is why I have an import US 3DS. But it seems like SMTIV was delayed so much because the company that was originally handling the localization dropped it, so it probably won't be as bad this time.

Speaking of which, I should probably import a US region game at some point to test whether the region lock removal that I found works.

Changing the thread title because we don't need multiple threads:



Megami Tensei finally goes full anime.

I've yet to play SMT, except for the first one which I honestly tried to like but found it to be a tad bit too primitive and confusing. Am I a horrible person?

No, "primitive and confusing" describes the first game pretty well, although I think it's still worth playing for the atmosphere. Nocturne was the first genuinely great Megami Tensei game.

That trailer does not give me high hopes for the game. I'm sure the core experience will still be great, but the art style is so far removed from Shin Megami Tensei they might as well call it Persona.

I have a feeling that Nintendo decided they'd rather just have their own Persona game early in production and scrapped whatever this game was originally going to be. I like Persona well enough and wasn't really sold on the whole crossover thing anyway, but this could not possibly be less relevant to either Fire Emblem or SMT.

SMT X FE only sold 23,000 copies in its first week, which is apparently only like 20% of its shipment. Somone fucked up bad.

So...I'm not alone in thinking that a SMT & FE crossover is like one of the most random things ever?

Fidel Castro wrote:

So...I'm not alone in thinking that a SMT & FE crossover is like one of the most random things ever?

It is. And it seems to be doing a bad job of emulating both.

Persona x Fire Emblem would be far more accurate. It doesn't feel like Shin Megami Tensei at all.

Some stellar stuff going on in the latest Persona 5 trailer:



None of the other JRPGs on the horizon even come close to looking this good.

Yeah, this looks incredible. I imagine the NA release is still pretty far out. I'll have Tokyo Mirage, FFXV, and Trails of Cold Steel II to play in the meantime.

It’s rare that anything makes me regret that I don’t have any current-gen consoles, but this certainly does it. Can’t think of anything else that has that effect except the Wii U Zelda.

I wish I was more invested in the Persona series so I could join in on the hype. Still have only played Persona 2 Innocent Sin (which I really liked but never finished due to hard drive failure). What the hell happened to all those promises of playing P3 and P4 all those years ago? Fuck me -__-

They're all stand-alone stories so there's no reason not to jump in with this one.

Oh right, I had forgotten about that.

The only Megami Tensei games I've played (but not finished) are Devil Survivor, Devil Survivor: Overclocked, and Strange Journey. Lord, the level grinding. My friend keeps on hounding me to play one of the Persona games, but it's only for the Vita, and I only have a 3DS. Nevermind, I think Persona 4 is available for the PS3, but you know...cba. The last games I played (but again, never finished) are Majora's Mask for the 3DS and Animal Crossing: Home Designer (shut up).

I feel like I might try playing Eternal Punishment soon since it's the only Persona title (aside from P4 Golden) that I haven't played yet. Could make a decent video too, I suppose. I wish I'd recorded footage for Innocent Sin since I also emulated that.

I'm terrible about starting games and never finishing them. I can't think of the last time I played a game for the first time that I eventually finished. It must have been years ago. The only games I've completed in the last several years have been old-school Zelda and Mario games, which are comparatively short when compared to most JRPGs. If something has a running time of longer than about ten hours, I probably won't finish it.

Which is a shame, because the Persona series seems like the kind of thing I would otherwise enjoy, but I very obviously just don't have the patience for JRPGs anymore.

September 20. Four days after DQVII fffffff

Ⓐaron wrote:

I'm terrible about starting games and never finishing them. I can't think of the last time I played a game for the first time that I eventually finished. It must have been years ago. The only games I've completed in the last several years have been old-school Zelda and Mario games, which are comparatively short when compared to most JRPGs. If something has a running time of longer than about ten hours, I probably won't finish it.

Which is a shame, because the Persona series seems like the kind of thing I would otherwise enjoy, but I very obviously just don't have the patience for JRPGs anymore.

It's not so much time, as much as it's your shit attention span. JRPGs like Persona are not a sprint, they're a marathon. I spent two years on the bus to work doing NG, NG+, NG++ and NG+++ on Persona 3 Portable. It was just a matter of taking my time and having something to do. Didn't hurt that the game's soundtrack fucking owns.