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* SaveGameLimits: Saving is restricted to Terminals, as well as between-chapter transitions.

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* SaveGameLimits: Saving is restricted to Terminals, as well as between-chapter transitions. The former becomes more and more rare as the game goes on.
* ScratchDamage: Unlike most games in the series, all characters will receive at least 1 point of damage when hit by an attack, even if they have a +9 Resistance level in the attack's element.
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** Elemental affinities are displayed as a chart of numeric Resistance Levels, with +1 to +9 representing resistances, and -1 to -9 representing weaknesses. Repel and Drain affinities are represented by appending the characters 反 and 吸 to the resistance level, respectively.
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* GratuitousEnglish: Most of the non-interactive parts of the battle interface are in English. The quality of said English tends to vary wildly.

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* GratuitousEnglish: Most of the non-interactive parts of the battle interface are in English. The quality of said English tends to vary wildly.wildly, but is usually legible at the very least.
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* SymmetricEffect: Several passive skills affect the damage output of all combatants in battle:
** "Time of Madness" and "Time of Merriment" increase physical and magic damage by 50%, respectively.
** "Time of Rest" and "Time of Requiem" decrease physical and magic damage by 50%, respectively.
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* [[spoiler:PeopleFarms: In Chapter 8, it's revealed that most of humanity perished in TheGreatFlood. In order to revive and preserve humanity, the Neo Messians headed by androids created a human factory to clone them on a massive scale, using the Desire Energy harvested from Life Ghosts.]]

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* [[spoiler:PeopleFarms: In PeopleFarms: [[spoiler:In Chapter 8, it's revealed that most of humanity perished in TheGreatFlood. In order to revive and preserve humanity, the Neo Messians headed by androids created a human factory to clone them on a massive scale, using the Desire Energy harvested from Life Ghosts.]]
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* GratuitousEnglish: Most of the non-interactive parts of the battle interface are in English. The quality of said English tends to vary wildly.
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* AnimatedArmor: Eligor and Berith are depicted as this. It's most noticeable during their attack animations, where their hands detach to stab their target, and their death animations, where they collapse in a heap on the ground.
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* NewWorkRecycledGraphics:
** Demons in RTS maps are represented by their artwork. While some got new designs for this game, others are re-used from past appearances. A particularly interesting example of this is Typhon, whose map icon is a recolored version of Tiamat's artwork from ''VideoGame/MegamiTenseiII''.
** The vaguely scream-like sound effect that was used throughout ''VideoGame/Persona2'' can be heard in a cutscene.
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** In battle, both sides are controlled by the AI.
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* RouteBoss:
** In Chapter 5, after hacking the disc Shiki gives you, you're given a choice between going to Roppongi to investigate further and going to Akiba Arena. Choosing the former leads to a fight with Alice, while the latter leads to five boss fights against human opponents, including a rematch against Green Bear, followed by Susano-o.



* StoryBranching:
** In Chapter 5, after hacking into the disk Shiki gives you, you can either go to Roppongi to investigate further, or to [[TheThunderdome Akiba Arena]] to fight in a gladiator tournament.
** The events of Chapter 9 vary depending on the protagonist's alignment.
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** Enemies with names in red are party leaders. If they die, the player wins the battle.

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** Enemies with names in red Curiously, this also applies to enemies as well. Taking out the "party leader" of a group of enemies automatically ends the fight, no matter how many are party leaders. If they die, the player wins the battle.left.
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*** [[spiler:Yaldabaoth has [[InstantRunes Testament]]]]

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*** [[spiler:Yaldabaoth [[spoiler:Yaldabaoth has [[InstantRunes Testament]]]]

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* CosmicKeystone: The Desire Disks are this trope. If they are destroyed, the Demons will break free from the Expense and flood into the Human World to cause an apocalypse.

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* CosmicKeystone: The Desire Disks are this trope. If they are destroyed, the Demons will break free from the Expense Expanse and flood into the Human World to cause an apocalypse.



* SecretAIMoves:
** Since the protagonist is the only playable character who can use Gun skills, all Gun combo skills are relegated to specific fights against groups of human enemies.
** The last few bosses have special Almighty skills that are exclusive to them:
*** [[spoiler:Raguel has [[WaveMotionGun Megido Fire]]]]
*** [[spoiler:Sariel has [[TakenForGranite Evil]] [[PowerNullifier Eye]]]]
*** [[spoiler:Maria has [[LightEmUp Immaculate]] [[StatusBuffDispel Shine]], as well as Megido Fire]]
*** [[spoiler:Lucifer has [[KillItWithIce Cocytus Pain]]]]
*** [[spiler:Yaldabaoth has [[InstantRunes Testament]]]]



* WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou: It's Game Over if the protagonist dies.

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* WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou: It's As usual, it's Game Over if the protagonist dies.
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* ResurrectionDeathLoop: [[spoiler:Since most of humanity perished in flood and in order to revive and preserve humanity, the newly-dubbed Neo-Messians headed by androids, created by the radical Order of the Messiah remnants left behind in the Cathedral, created a human factory to clone humans on a massive scale, using the Desire Energy harvested from Life Ghosts, digital human minds, to keep humanity existing. Too keep humanity in check, the Administration Bureau kills the human population every year on their day of worship to re-clone humanity again without memories to keep them docile. This act includes children like Emi who haven't aged in a decade because of this. All under the belief if they don't human desire will spiral out of control, summon hordes of demons, and cause God to send another flood.]]
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* [[spoiler:PeopleFarms: In Chapter 8, it's revealed that most of humanity perished in TheGreatFlood. In order to revive and preserve humanity, the Neo Messians created a human factory to clone them on a massive scale, using the Desire Energy harvested from Life Ghosts.]]

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* [[spoiler:PeopleFarms: In Chapter 8, it's revealed that most of humanity perished in TheGreatFlood. In order to revive and preserve humanity, the Neo Messians headed by androids created a human factory to clone them on a massive scale, using the Desire Energy harvested from Life Ghosts.]]
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* CosmicKeystone: The Desire Disks are this trope. If they are destroyed, the Demons will break free from the Expense and flood into the Human World and cause an apocalypse.

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* CosmicKeystone: The Desire Disks are this trope. If they are destroyed, the Demons will break free from the Expense and flood into the Human World and to cause an apocalypse.

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* CosmicKeystone: The Desire Disks are this trope. If they are destroyed, the Demons will break free from the Expense and flood into the Human World and cause an apocalypse.



* FloodedFutureWorld: [[spoiler:Most of the game takes place after TheGreatFlood that occured in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI'']]

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* FloodedFutureWorld: [[spoiler:Most of the game takes place after TheGreatFlood that occured occurred in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI'']]
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* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: [[spoiler:By the game's end, the Law affiliated allies are willing to accept anything from the Central Administration and endless death and cloning if it means maintaining peace and control in the CrapsackWorld they live it. If you side with Chaos, your only option is to kill them when they try to stop you from bringing down their plans.]]
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** [[spoiler:Central Administration Bureau tries to paint demons as programs and pets called "Navi" when they're really just regular demons on Neo Messian control.]]
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* [[spoiler:ResurrectionDeathLoop: The clones created in the Neo Messians' Human Factory are locked in one. They're created, live for a year, drop dead, then are reborn in the factory with no memory of the past year. Only one iteration is seen in-game, but it's hinted that it wasn't the first, and certainly won't be the last.]]

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* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation: Hacking is represented as a RealTimeStrategy minigame

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* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation: Hacking EmptyShell: Known as "Dolls" in-universe. This is represented as the fate of any casualties in a RealTimeStrategy minigameNoise outbreak.



* HackingMinigame: Whenever the main characters need to hack into something or [[DuelingHackers defend something from other hackers]], it takes the form of a surprisingly intricate RTS mini-game.



** Basic Attack and Shoot commands are absent. Instead, each weapon has an attached skill that serves this purpose.

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** Basic Attack and Shoot commands are absent. Instead, demons and weapons each weapon has an attached have their own skill that serves this purpose.

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** Buffs and debuffs are divided into single- and multi-target spells, are temporary, and usually don't stack.



** Multi-target magic is mostly relegated to [[CombinationAttack combos]]

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