Line #2 YMMV/ShinMegamiTenseiIMAGINE


1	* DemonicSpiders: ''Inugami'', for newbies. One of the early quests requires you to kill 10 of them, but they are very aggressive, and respawn ''very'' quickly. The place where they spawn in Suginami is known as ''Inugami Hell'' for a reason.
2	** ''Disciple of Sin Gandharva'', in the BossRoom of the Old Ichigaya Camp (Gold) dungeon. It can cast Bufudyne, Blizzard Cannon, a skill similar to [[GameBreaker Erosion Hex]], and [[UselessUsefulSpell Randomizer]]. They also dodge and counter a '''lot''', have no weaknesses, and have a good amount of HP that no player without [[GameBreaker game breaking]] gear can kill in one hit.
3	** The special ''Throne'' enemies called ''Protect Wall No.51'' in the 39th floor of ''[[SoloSequence Denshi Kairo]]''. You're up against 20 of these guys (though only 3-4 at a time). Each one of them has over 10.000 HP, loves to spam [[NoSell Tetrakarn/Makarakarn]], which will make you [[HoistByHisOwnPetard end up killing yourself]] much more than they do, and they also have Agidyne and Maragion with Fire Boost. There are a few reasons not many players get that far in Denshi Kairo, and these guys surely are one of these reasons.
4	* GameBreaker: Erosion Hex. It inflicts 4 different StatusEffects (2 of which are among the top 3 most useful ones) in a very wide area, costs only 10 MP, and has such low requirements to be learned that pretty much every build can include it without major problems.
5	* GoddamnedBats: Anything that can't be killed in one hit and isn't a boss qualifies as this.
6	* HilariousInHindsight: Jeanne D'arc and Tokisada are the only Fiends (besides Yoshitsune) who are based on historical figures. A few years later, they would appear in ''Literature/FateApocrypha'' as the Ruler-class Servants.
7	* MemeticMutation:
8	** "Let's see how you fare against two kodamas!"
9	** Back in 2009: "Meep!"[[note]]this was the cry of the Mothman boss in Old Tokio Metro when dying, but it was changed in early 2010[[/note]]
10	** In the Atlus Online forum, "Better rollback the server!" became a meme for a little while when talks of this happening were making everyone uneasy, and then one of the Mentors came up with [[http://forums.atlusonline.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=21633 this joke thread]].
11	--> Rollback brought back old bug! Better rollback!
12	** "Buy it or [[CrossesTheLineTwice I'll commit suicide]]" [[note]] A screenshot of the description of a Jack Frost being sold. [[/note]]
13	* ObviousBeta:
14	** Most new content seemed to have not even been tested. Special mention to version 1.605, which fixed one minor bug while introducing a crapton of others, some of which were [[GameBreakingBug pretty awful]]. In this particular case, it was impossible to revert the update, because it changed the entire game's build (the "update" actually had you download the whole game again).
15	** Back in the first implementation of the Denshi Kairo dungeon, so many things were bugged that they had to take the server down the next day to ''revert the update''.
16	** Creator/AeriaGames's Game Masters (and even some Game Sages) would always claim that they tested content extensively before implementing. One would think "extensive testing" would make them notice that the most popular dungeon (Old Ichigaya Camp Gold) is lacking AI, or that the most rewarding cash run bosses (Shiva & Vishnu, which were being spammed to hell and back at the time) are lacking ''two thirds of their HP'', or that the soulstones they just implemented are not working at all.
17	** Atlus Online isn't much better. They apparently had no testers at all, and had to have the players test their contents. This was made rather obvious when they tried to fix the [[PlayerVersusPlayer PvP]] bug twice, but players confirmed they failed half an hour after the maintenances. They also needed player confirmation when the bug was actually fixed on the third try.
18	* ThatOneSidequest:
19	** [[GottaCatchThemAll Registering 100 different demons in the Demonic Compendium]] to get the extra demon slot.
20	** Most plugin[[note]]key items that allow you to fuse some special demons[[/note]] quests:
21	*** Zhu Que's plugin: You need to go through a low level dungeon that gives no profit whatsoever in the hopes of finding the elusive special boss Zhu Que to get the key item and the earrings he drops, then create a dungeon on the other side of the map while having the earring equipped, and then talk to a statue in the boss room to trade the key item for the plugin. The problem here is that said special boss is [[LuckBasedMission so rare to spawn]] that some players have reportedly been running the dungeon ''dozens of times per week for over 3 years'', and still haven't seen the bird even once!
22	*** Also, [[FakeDifficulty the earrings it drops are gender restricted, and it's not 100% that the boss will drop both the earring and the key item at once]]. So when you do find the boss, there's a chance you'll either a) not get both items necessary, or b) get earrings of the wrong gender. And they aren't tradeable. Good luck with that.
23	*** Thor's plugin: You need to beat the boss room of [[MarathonLevel Celu Tower (Gold)]], which is filled to brim with DemonicSpiders and ''two bosses'', over and over again until you [[RandomDrops finally find the key item necessary]]. Then you have to run through the whole dungeon again, and talk to the NPC in front of the boss room door.
24	*** Raphael's plugin: You need to get an Inexperienced Uriel (which is only attainable during one of the main quests), then take it to a NPC. He then asks you to kill Raphael. Simple, right? Not really. While this isn't a LuckBasedMission, as are most other plugins, once killed, Raphael will only respawn 8 hours later ''in real time'', making you need to wait there for hours if you don't know when was the last time he was killed. While this wasn't so bad back in 2009-2010, when we had 7 different channels/game worlds, now that we have only one server with one channel, it's awful with people {{Kill Steal}}ling most often than not, and some people who just kill him for the experience and drops.
25	*** Nyarlathotep's plugin: You need to farm for a rare element, then trade it with an NPC for a consumable. Then you need to go to Nakano at a specific place at a specific time (between 0:00 and 6:00 during a full moon) and then use the item, which will spawn some DemonicSpiders. Once you defeat them, [[LuckBasedMission there's a chance the real enemy you need to defeat will appear]]. The main problem is that Nakano is a place with people passing all the time, so sometimes you'll get some random player wanting to KillSteal your plugin from you. It doesn't help that the game warns everyone in the area when the real boss spawns...
26	*** Ongyo-Ki's Plugin: First, go to an NPC in an Ichigaya Camp Gold instance that, once per day, will give you Oni charms that cost [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts 20,000 Magnetites]] each (though you can buy one that summons all 3 Oni at once). Then you have to summon and kill all 3 Oni bosses, who have a [[RandomlyDrops LOW CHANCE]] of dropping their own Lacquer Wood Piece. You then have to mix the pieces into an item that summons Onyx Storm Ongyo-Ki, who has a (again, [[RandomlyDrops low]]) chance of dropping the plugin item. After this, you take the item to another NPC, along with an Oni demon that has been taught ''all four elemental null skills'' to get the plugin. [[SarcasmMode Have fun]].
27	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The game was rated T, but Creator/AeriaGames never mentioned nor had any warnings in their website about this, advertising it simply as a "Fantasy MMORPG", giving the idea that any kid can play the game. Atlus Online followed the same way. This is coming from a game that has [[GagPenis Mara]], [[TeenyWeenie Gaki, Yaka]], Angel, [[GodivaHair Yaksini, Lamia]], Artemis, [=NPC=]s swearing, ritual sacrifice with dozens of Innocents, and [[spoiler: HalfTheManHeUsedToBe]] on-screen in a later act, among many other things. It's a wonder the game didn't earn an M, as the majority of ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games do in the west.

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