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* GodhoodSeeker: With the Creator dead, countless demons seek to take the God of Law's now vacant spot on the Empyrean Throne and become the new Creator. [[spoiler:When Bethel disbands, each god in charge of its branches goes out to find the humans with their Knowledge so they can become Nahobino and make for the Empyrean throne. Notably, Khonsu and Shiva are the only gods among them who don't want to become the new Creator; Khonsu is more interested in ensuring Miyazu's survival while Shiva has zero interest succeeding the God of Law, instead waiting patiently for the moment when he will destroy the world when a new Creator is named.]]

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* GodhoodSeeker: With the Creator dead, countless demons seek to take the God of Law's now vacant spot on the Empyrean Throne and become the new Creator. [[spoiler:When Bethel disbands, each god in charge of its branches goes out to find the humans with their Knowledge so they can become Nahobino and make for the Empyrean throne. Notably, Khonsu and Shiva are the only gods among them who don't want to become the new Creator; Khonsu is more interested in ensuring Miyazu's survival survival, while Shiva has zero interest in succeeding the God of Law, instead waiting patiently for the moment when he will destroy the world when a new Creator is named.]]



* GuestStarPartyMember: In the vanilla game, [[spoiler:Panagia Tao]] joins your party upon arriving in the Taito Region of Da'at, though they will leave you when you reach [[spoiler:the Empyrean Throne]]. In ''Vengeance'', the main human characters like Yoko can join you as temporary party members, represented by the "Guest" icon in their character portrait. It's even possible for ''the Demi-fiend'' to join you, though you will have to fulfill certain conditions.

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In the vanilla game, [[spoiler:Panagia Tao]] joins your party upon arriving in the Taito Region of Da'at, though they will leave you when you reach [[spoiler:the Empyrean Throne]]. Throne]].
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In ''Vengeance'', the main human characters like Yoko can join you as temporary party members, represented by the "Guest" icon in their character portrait. It's even possible for ''the Demi-fiend'' to join you, though you will have to fulfill certain conditions.

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* CombinationAttack: ''Vengeance'' introduces new Magatsuhi skills that allow certain demons to attack together to devastating effect. This includes the mentor and student pair of Scáthach and Cú Chulainn with Raging Whirlwind, and King Frost, Jack Frost, and Black Frost come together to perform Frost Storm.

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* CombinationAttack: ''Vengeance'' introduces new Magatsuhi skills that allow certain demons to attack together to devastating effect. This includes the mentor and student pair of Scáthach and Cú Chulainn with Raging Whirlwind, and King Frost, Jack Frost, and Black Frost come together to perform Frost Storm. Of course, in order to use said skills you need the prerequisite demons to pull them off.



* GodhoodSeeker: With the Creator dead, countless demons seek to take the God of Law's now vacant spot on the Empyrean Throne and become the new Creator. [[spoiler:When Bethel disbands, each god in charge of its branches goes out to find the humans with their Knowledge so they can become Nahobino and make for the Empyrean throne. Notably, Khonsu is the only god among them who doesn't want to become the new Creator.]]
* GodIsDead: Your first flashback into Aogami's memories after the first area in the game have Lucifer claim he just climbed the throne of heaven and killed God, before exploding into magatsuhi himself. Later on, it's basically confirmed that "the Creator" or whatever that represents the Great Will or God here is [[spoiler:already killed by Lucifer from the get-go. Since Tokyo was upheld by the Creator alone through a miracle, it fades slowly before someone takes the emptied throne.]]

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* GodhoodSeeker: With the Creator dead, countless demons seek to take the God of Law's now vacant spot on the Empyrean Throne and become the new Creator. [[spoiler:When Bethel disbands, each god in charge of its branches goes out to find the humans with their Knowledge so they can become Nahobino and make for the Empyrean throne. Notably, Khonsu is and Shiva are the only god gods among them who doesn't don't want to become the new Creator.Creator; Khonsu is more interested in ensuring Miyazu's survival while Shiva has zero interest succeeding the God of Law, instead waiting patiently for the moment when he will destroy the world when a new Creator is named.]]
* GodIsDead: Your first flashback into Aogami's memories after the first area in the game have has Lucifer claim he just climbed the throne of heaven and killed God, before exploding into magatsuhi himself. Later on, it's basically confirmed that "the Creator" or whatever that represents the Great Will or God here is [[spoiler:already killed by Lucifer from the get-go. Since Tokyo was upheld by the Creator alone through a miracle, it fades slowly before someone takes the emptied throne.]]



* GuestStarPartyMember: In the vanilla game, [[spoiler:Panagia Tao]] joins your party upon arriving in the Taito Region of Da'at, though they will leave you when you reach [[spoiler:the Empyrean Throne]]. In ''Vengeance'', the main human characters like Yoko can join you as temporary party members, represented by the "Guest" icon in their character portrait. It's even possible for ''the Demi-fiend'' to join you, though you will have to fulfill certain conditions.



** The DLC battle against the Demi-Fiend can easily become this. Unlike in ''Digital Devil Saga'', the conditions for him to use Gaea Rage is actually ''avoidable'' this time around, and with some very careful playing it's entirely possible to completely prevent him from using this attack by exploiting his AI. However, ''none'' of that is written anywhere in the game, and you will actually have to take multiple trial-and-error attempts until you find out that specific condition where he doesn't use Gaea Rage to annihilate your whole party.

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** The DLC battle against the Demi-Fiend can easily become this. Unlike in ''Digital Devil Saga'', the conditions for him to use Gaea Rage is are actually ''avoidable'' this time around, and with some very careful playing it's entirely possible to completely prevent him from using this attack by exploiting his AI. However, ''none'' of that is written anywhere in the game, and you will actually have to take multiple trial-and-error attempts until you find out that specific condition where he doesn't use Gaea Rage to annihilate your whole party.



* StoryBranching: According to previews, ''Vengeance'' offers you a choice at the start of the game, which sets you down two different story paths: Canon of Creation is the vanilla story and Canon of Vengeance is the new storyline, which follows Canon of Creation up until a certain point.

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* StoryBranching: According to previews, ''Vengeance'' offers In gameplay previews for ''Vengeance'', you approach the silhouette of a woman and are offered the choice at the start of the game, which sets to take her hand or refuse it. Refusing it leads you down two different story paths: the Canon of Creation Creation, which is the vanilla story and of ''Shin Megami Tensei V'' whereas choosing to take her hand leads you down the Canon of Vengeance is Vengeance, a new story that diverges from the new storyline, which follows Canon of Creation up until a certain point.in the early and middle stages of the game.
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* BossRush: In ''Vengeance'', a virtual battler allows players to rematch any boss fought previously in certain groups. In addition to being able to fight them normally, you can fight enhanced versions of them that get stronger by 100 levels every clear until they hit Level 999.
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* AbsurdlyHighLevelCap: According to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=par0L0MOjrg&ab_channel=BuffMaister Complete Guide]] showcase for ''Vengeance'', the Level Cap can be raised from 99 to 150 once certain conditions have been met.


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** As seen in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=par0L0MOjrg&ab_channel=BuffMaister Complete Guide showcase]], ''Vengeance'' will include various quality of life improvements, such as the ability to save anywhere instead of at a Leyline, fuse demons you currently have in stock with demons registered in the compendium outside Special Fusions, disable or enable specific Miracles, and use items that raise your stats or improve a skill affinity in bulk as opposed to using them one at a time.


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* HarderThanHard: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=par0L0MOjrg&ab_channel=BuffMaister Complete Guide showcase]] for ''Vengeance'' reveals the inclusion of a new difficulty mode called "Godborn". Available only in a NewGamePlus playthrough, the enemy Level is raised to 150. As a trade-off, Incenses (items that raise your stats) can now be purchased at the Cadaver's Hollow.
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* CentralTheme: Appropriately, the theme of ''Vengeance'' is "revenge". Several characters talk about getting revenge on offending parties in various gameplay previews and trailers, and the antagonists of the new Canon of Vengeance storyline claim their goal is to get revenge on those who wronged them and restore the world to its "natural form". In a developer interview, the Canon of Vengeance specifically explores the theme of the "Snake God", or the "oppressed god" who rages at the injustice of the "Bull God".
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* MonMode: Nahobino are humans who regained Knowledge in the form of Demons by fusing with them, giving them godlike powers. The Protagonist fuses with Aogami to become a [[HalfHumanHybrid Nahobino]] when he's transported to [[AfterTheEnd Da'at]]. Other Nahobinos are shown throughout the story as the Protagonist explores Da'at while defending Tokyo.
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* HopelessBossFight: If you try to engage Ishtar as soon as her fight becomes available, she will have '''''eight Press Turns per enemy phase''''', meaning that she can quite easily blitz through your entire party. However, a Decarabia you meet before her will tell you that she has devices set up to flow Magatsuhi into her to make her that strong, and destroying them will weaken her to the point that she will only have one Press Turn if you destroy all of them.

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* HopelessBossFight: If you try to engage Ishtar as soon as her fight becomes available, she will have '''''eight Press Turns per enemy phase''''', meaning that she can quite easily blitz through your entire party. However, a Decarabia you meet before her will tell you that she has devices set up to flow Magatsuhi into her to make her that strong, and destroying them will weaken her to the point that she will only have one Press Turn if you destroy all of them. Subverted though in that she IS defeatable even at max power, you will just need a very specific plan of attack to do so and you gain nothing extra for doing so, as the game assumes you will at least partially cripple her power.

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