Majin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis is the second game in the Majin Tensei series. In Tokyo, 1996, a demonic invasion and coup d'état by a mysterious man transforms the city into the "demon capital". A group of people called Partisan stages a rebellion against the new government, but before long the situation escalates. What follows is a battle between parallel universes with time travel as a key element. As Naoki, the player makes choices that will ultimately determine how the crisis is resolved, and with what results.
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So, first things first: if you play this game on original hardware without any sort of speedup function.
This is a 0/10 absolute piece of fucking dogshit, horrific abomination of a programming mistake, how the actual hell did they make this game slower than the first one??? Why the fuck do I need to watch every deactivated enemy do Nothing? Why does field movement take SO LONG? Why are battles so slow, even with animations turned off????
But, if you do play this with speed up like I did, then this is honestly a really, really fun game!
The stages are designed incredibly well, always challenging but never unfair, and the plays you can make them in make you feel really smart!
The difficulty is pretty good all throughout the game actually, and while balancing is a bit off with how much better flying units are above all the others, very few of the demon races are outright "worthless", specially in the early game, and compared to the first game, your human protagonists don't become completely worthless near the end which is really good (tho they honestly get kinda, too good... I had one of my party members min-maxxing speed and attack and he killed the final boss in one turn).
Writing's quite good, the characters were endearing and bounced off of each other pretty well, the ending I got felt kinda weak but, that was the Neutral-Neutral ending so, who knows, maybe the other endings are better!
Visuals, I felt initially were really weak compared to the first game, but honestly? I've come to really like them! The GPS system aesthetic is done really well and it makes the game really readable.
Music is also Stellar but, if you play with speedup like I did, it unfortunately becomes too sped-up to be good.
So overall, a VAST improvement over Majin Tensei 1 and a really, really good game in its own right! I'd highly recommend this one if you like TRPGs!
This is a 0/10 absolute piece of fucking dogshit, horrific abomination of a programming mistake, how the actual hell did they make this game slower than the first one??? Why the fuck do I need to watch every deactivated enemy do Nothing? Why does field movement take SO LONG? Why are battles so slow, even with animations turned off????
But, if you do play this with speed up like I did, then this is honestly a really, really fun game!
The stages are designed incredibly well, always challenging but never unfair, and the plays you can make them in make you feel really smart!
The difficulty is pretty good all throughout the game actually, and while balancing is a bit off with how much better flying units are above all the others, very few of the demon races are outright "worthless", specially in the early game, and compared to the first game, your human protagonists don't become completely worthless near the end which is really good (tho they honestly get kinda, too good... I had one of my party members min-maxxing speed and attack and he killed the final boss in one turn).
Writing's quite good, the characters were endearing and bounced off of each other pretty well, the ending I got felt kinda weak but, that was the Neutral-Neutral ending so, who knows, maybe the other endings are better!
Visuals, I felt initially were really weak compared to the first game, but honestly? I've come to really like them! The GPS system aesthetic is done really well and it makes the game really readable.
Music is also Stellar but, if you play with speedup like I did, it unfortunately becomes too sped-up to be good.
So overall, a VAST improvement over Majin Tensei 1 and a really, really good game in its own right! I'd highly recommend this one if you like TRPGs!
The vibes are impeccable as always.
This is an INCREDIBLY cool game! The story is dope, characters are all great, endings interesting, and music FANTASTIC
Unfortunately though, the gameplay is still kind of a chore, MUCH better then Majin I thankfully, but still not good.
Unfortunately though, the gameplay is still kind of a chore, MUCH better then Majin I thankfully, but still not good.
Peak, I’m afraid. When’s Majin Tensei 3?
it's smt tactics idk what more to say. i have not reached my tactics freak phase so i will not be playing this thoroughly. great background art tho.
While still being a very slow game, Majin Tensei II improves on everything from it's predecessor. It has tons of charm, rad visuals, a great soundtrack, intriguing characters and an interesting story. But it is still a sluggish, frustrating game with pure evil level design at times. It's still a fun game at it's core and Ogiwara is awesome