Pro gamer tip: you can turn of battle animations, it's the first option in settings. Also there is a translated English script of the game provided by AutisticTranslator, use that if you want to play this game.

This game gets a lot of flack for being ugly and that's usually where discussion of it begins and end; which is not only pretty vapid criticism but a shame because there's some neat stuff in it. For one the story is crazy, tons of weird stuff is constantly happening or being revealed, like at one point your fighting the cyborg Japanese military with advanced microwave technology alongside robot Muhammad Ali (who is a party member) and the next moment you have to rescue Joan of Arc from being burned at the stake. The game goes places and for that reason I find it to actually be better then the first 2, which I found pretty boring for the most part. It even does some neat stuff with the mythology it focuses on, that being zoroastrianism (check out AutisticTranslators reddit post for more details on that). Honestly, I like that it's ugly too, there's a certain charm from these horrid early CGI attempts, I can't hate it. Especially with how much effort was put in, there's a lot of models and enviroments they made for one off set pieces, it's clear they put a lot of work into it and I feel like there's a base level of respect it should be given (even if it looks really bad). Like, they even do a Final Fantasy VII and make new character models for the climax, it's neat.

The main problem with the game is how slow it is, even after turning off the battle animations (although somehow still faster than the first 2). Because of that I can't really say the gameplay is good, it's servicable and sometimes I had fun with it but for the most part I was just going through it. A lot of the elements felt tedious but had some intrigue to them. Like the demon contract system is neat but it's a pain to acutally get demons until a certain point in the game where they give you a compendium, until that point demons are kinda usless because of how limited of a resource they are. Demon negotiation does not work like you might think, you have to kill a demon and then there's a chance a negotiation will occur, and only with certain party memebers. It's pretty rare to get one from the field and I got most of mine from fusion and abusing the compedium. Make sure to do demon item fusion by the way, very important, it's where you'll get most of your gear. But once you amass enough resources to engage with the systems in a meaningful way it can actually be neat, demon contracts are similar to demon wispering from 4, where you can get some moves from some the demons.

A lot of people say this is the worst megaten game, and as some one who has actually played a good deal of them I can't agree at all. This game is good, I think. I had fun with it.

Also how can a game that has Lucifer reincarnated into the body of a baby who then becomes a party memeber be bad, huh? Answer me that.