Shin Megami Tensei Series

I glossed over that but I really hope they do away with demons ambushing you for no good reason.

I like the new skill affinities for demons. A lot of people complained that being able to pass on any skill in fusion, while awesome, made demons too interchangable. So making it so they're better at some skills but worse at others is a really great compromise.

@Hamburger Time: Someone saturated the shadowed demons.◊

edited 11th Oct '15 10:29:51 AM by Moth13

So the one on the left looks like something of Buddhism and the one on the right...I have no idea. Does anyone know any famous polytheistic gods known for only having one eye, other than Odin?

edited 18th Nov '15 2:14:38 PM by dragonfire5000

When is this game coming out again?

I still have to get all the other endings in Vanilla IV, but this looks like something I may want to check out at some point.

February 2016 in Japan. So that means July 2016 for America and mid 2017 for everyone else if Atlus's history is anything to go by.

edited 11th Oct '15 11:09:51 AM by Kostya

Cool. That gives me some time I guess. Still, I got so much to do. I don't know when I'll find the time to play everything. It just feels like I got too many games in my backlog.

I've never had a backlog before. It's really weird.

Hooooooly crap Doi redesigned Odin. WHELP.

By the way, where was the YHVH head from?

edited 11th Oct '15 11:47:59 AM by HamburgerTime

Moth: I dunno.... I kinda like that. It basically means you can go with whatever is the demon who, for example, has the design you most like and just not care about much.

Of course... given this game will have way more demons than 4 maybe you can do that in there as well without much difference. I dunno.

It was from the very beginning of the stream before the IV Final trailer played.

Edit: Here's a video

edited 11th Oct '15 2:17:10 PM by OmegaRadiance

Hahahaha that's some funny ass shit. They actually had YHVH head making a direct SMT 4 add addressed to people in Shinjuku.

Nice little touch, the assist character summon their demons for attacks. No longer will we have to wonder how their demons are a bit different.

That's terrifying. Did the people watching it know what was going to happen?

Finally, we can behold their demons!

That's a good question actually.

And I have once again completed SH. Now all that remains it to finish my Compendium.

The Corridor of Time bosses were still pretty underwhelming. Beelzebub's like fifteen times stronger in IV.

Soul Hackers was never hard.

The hardest part of Soul Hackers is honestly being hit by a stray Empty Wave or Eat Whole while going between objectives in dungeons.

How hard is the "Extra Dungeon," by the way?

Harder as I recall from when I played it. It's been awhile but I know that you can't save during it. I only beat the Norse segment if I recall right so I'm probably not the best to ask about that. I also didn't have a team made to combat it since it's mostly me, Nemissa, and Zeed.

Interestingly enough MC kinda fell off at the end for me. He spent most of the Manitou and Corridor fights guarding and passing out items.

Is the demon whispering system returning? That was a pretty slick method of gaining new skills.

I think the protagonist had skills with +1s on the side so I'm guessing it's coming back.

Light magic does do damage now. So it seems there will be a Null Death ailment like PQ had then.

Smirking adds instant death to Light magic as well. Other spells gain such effects as well. King Frosts special ice magic reduces defense for example.

King Frost's stats are apparently much better now, as well; he was near-useless in vanilla due to his terrible MP.

Most physical-based monsters were near-useless in vanilla due to their terrible MP. What Final needs to do is have all of the physical attacks use HP again as opposed to MP, because otherwise, there isn't much reason to have physical-based demons in your party.

edited 11th Oct '15 7:04:24 PM by kkhohoho

It's not happening and no that isn't something that needs fixed.

They just need to increase MP for Phys demons, just like Mage Demons need more HP and its already confirmed Phys skills use MP.