Shin Megami Tensei Series

Atlus has a pretty great track record for updated rereleases and remakes.

Does anybody play any of the original versions of these games? Persona 4 Golden surpassed the original, the 3DS Devil Survivor games appear to be universally acclaimed as better than the originals and I think the initial hostility to SJR is totally gone now and everybody recognizes it's infinitely better than the original. Maybe some weird folks who just hate Alex too much. I mean, I have no great love for her and she does not enter my mind at all when I assess why I love the game. But she's not that terrible taht her presence can detract from everything else SJR improved.

She's sort of a middle tier Inserted Waifu. Marie being Top Tier and that chick from Triangulum being bottom tier.

But yeah, the new versions pretty much always trump the old in Atlus' case it seems.

Well, some of us owned a PS 2 but not a Vita...

Also I don't know what you're talking about. Drag Queen Yamato is an S-tier waifu.

The atlus art team's NPC designs for SJR are still off-putting to this day tbh.

Dent has the best design of the lot.

Alex isn't a love interest though, she is in all likelihood your character's daughter (or later descendant) from the future.

Thats the implication from Louisa turning into a spooky ghost and walking through Space Marine when they first meet amyways.

A scene change added specofically in Redux.

Edited by OmegaRadiance on Jan 16th 2021 at 1:11:29 AM

Come on, we all know the spoilered part of your post isn't actually a retort to the non-spoilered part. You know how people are.

Am I the only one who's heart completely stopped for a split second after seeing the word "Megidoladyne" during the Lucifer fight in Devil Survivor?

No. And I haven't even gotten to that part in Overclocked.

What was even more alarming was seeing "Megidoladyne" when fighting the Ticos in Record Breaker.

"I fear no man...but that...thing...Megidoladyne...it scares me."

Real men survive Stigmatic Gleam.

In Overclocked, I use the first casting of Megidoladyne to determine if my characters are strong enough to continue fighting Lucifer, since I use Lucifer's map for endgame grinding. If they have a reasonable amount of health left after the first cast, I keep on fighting. If not, I exit the map and then go in again for more grinding.

Man, every single fight against Lucifer is awesome.

I mean, Nocturne's might've been the hardest and had the best atmosphere, but the rest are still awesome.

So people actually paid that guy wh n they died in SMTIV?

Why? You can save anywhere. Just reload. It's what I always did and probably why they just had Dagda revive you for free in IVA.

If you pay the guy after being beaten to death by a Fiend, you can save after paying him and get unlimited chances to beat the Fiend instead of having to go through the 1/256 chance of finding it again.

I just used Play Coins. Had to find some use for those.

Pretty sure I've lost some 20 pounds from the all the walks SMT IV made me take...

Also I've been trying to figure out what to play next and considering an SMT replay but not sure which one.

I loaded up a De Su 2 save to look at my endgame team and try to recall how to even play this game. Look at all those Null Phys/Phys Repel/Drain Phys abilities.

True, I had to grind for it to make the final gauntlet doable. Well, maybe doable is not the right word, but it makes it so much simpler when you probably die in the final stretch and have to d redo it all over. Take care of Phys + Holy Dance + Multi-Strike = quick path to hopeful victory.

But I noticed in my recent replay of Nocturne and Apoc how much better balanced Apoc is than this game or Nocturne. In Nocturne especially you get demons who can drain or null elements very early on. Nocturne Jack Frost Drains Ice, Apoc Jack Frost only Resists as I notice to my initial frustration when dealing with the guardian of the ark whose name I can never remember.

Also I could not find a Phys-canceling transferable skill until Alilat at which point I just fuckin' left Alilat in my endgame team. It and its Null Phys did just fine. Never found a Phys Repel or Drain skill, though.

As opposed to De Su 2 where I got all the Phys canceling skills on everyone.

I think my ultimate strategy last time I played was to get Victory Cry/Drain/Megido/bunch of anti-most/almighty or Phys cancel with the main party and then just infinitely stall until either the enemy ran out of MP or died lol, next time I'll probably go for more phys oriented skill sets instead of my all magic skillsets just to see how that goes.

Apocalypse Part 33: A Twisted City I

This week's updates will cover Twisted Tokyo, with this one covering the first half up through Red Rider.

So in terms of gameplay, what are your 3 top requested features for Shin Megami Tensei V? Here's mine:

• Demon-Specific Quests: Specifically, this would be quests that unlock after you recruit a demon to your party, which deals with their myth or is just a fun little story with them at the center of it. Completing these would unlock special rewards or even make the demon evolve. For obvious reasons, not all demons would have them.

• Demon Equipment: Nothing too crazy, I'd be satisfied with just one equipment slot for each demon, allowing to boost their stats or grant them elemental resistances. Like Magatama but for Demons.

• 3D battles please. This is the most likely of the three to be implemented lol. I honestly don't find the 2D first-person battles all that interesting compared to the combat style of Nocturne.

I wanna see Bael come back.

Also, more Lovecraft mythos representation.

At least two variations of each alignment ending like SJR had. That is my big request.

Speaking of which, what are the bonuses for a Neutral run in SJR? Chaos you get to fight the...I wanna call them Kishins but you know who I mean. Zouchouten and the others in Sector E and you get a cool weapon out of it IIRC. Law, my first run, allowed me to use Seraph or fuse Seraph or something.

What's Neutral get?

Edited by Nikkolas on Jan 19th 2021 at 11:06:41 AM

An extremely-strong sword.