enemy phase so slow I'd turn into a corpse without the fast forward feature of my emulator
The vibes are impeccable as always.
Peak, I’m afraid. When’s Majin Tensei 3?
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
This game is a mixtape in a cartridge. Prod. by Hidehito Aoki, Misaki Okibe
Game wise it's ok. Nothing to run home about. Still full of the oldschool megaten charm.
Game wise it's ok. Nothing to run home about. Still full of the oldschool megaten charm.
This is an overall improvement over the original but it’s much slower in the movement speed and fast forward is much more of a necessity. The story is better than the original (yet very slow), along with the gameplay (isometric is a lot more fun in my opinion). My only problem is that the branching paths don’t make a whole lot of sense and there’s no documentation on how it all works.
(Played during the summer but forgot to log it)
(Played during the summer but forgot to log it)
no hubo un espiral
In theory this game should be way better than the first game, way more important and well realized story and characters, a meaningful progression through the game, more demons, faster gameplay and more strategy than just banging your head against enemies, but jesus christ this game is difficult, like, REALLY difficult, you have 4-5 main characters compared to the only 2 of the first game, which in theory also would be cooler, it's like you're controlling a whole squad of demon summoners/hunters, in practice most of them aren't very useful and if ANY of them die is game over, so you have to micro manage and play pretty much perfectly with ALL of them or else you'll be seeing the game over screen over and over again, its INCREDABLY frustrating, also the EXP gain is complete horse shit, it's almost impossible to keep the LV of all characters about the same. Tie this with the fact that you can't safely grind in any part of the game, it becomes a impossible race of trying to catchup LV's with all your characters.
The game is really long and tiresome, i had very little fun or enjoyment playing this, it's a kinda bad smt game that feels like a chore. Some of the demon designs are cool tho, also the OST is nice most of the time.
The game is really long and tiresome, i had very little fun or enjoyment playing this, it's a kinda bad smt game that feels like a chore. Some of the demon designs are cool tho, also the OST is nice most of the time.
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!
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.
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.
An overall improvement to the previous game. This game has a heavier story, with the MC talking, its actually kinda crazy. The music is even better. The combat is even better. There is more strategy witht eh demons. I actuaally made a notepad because it was really exciting learning more about this. There is more party memebers and they aare relevant to the game. I like the more dynamic maps and sci fi setting. This game still has a bit of a slow down like its predecessor, but I found it to be less annoying and time consuming. There are like 50 stages to thsi game and I am currently at half way. Honestly, charming and memorable when looked back at it
Still slow. Still boring. They learned nothing.
YO BUT THAT OST THO, TURN THAT **** UP!!
YO BUT THAT OST THO, TURN THAT **** UP!!
Majin 2 Beelzebub makes my pp hard
Seems a lot better than the first but after a few hours it still seems pretty easy to just walk though. You can save every turn which means you never have to think more than one turn ahead of where you are.
The story started out a little better but then you end up doing several maps where basically nothing happens.
Your main guy seemingly never takes any damage and one shots everything and the maps, while better than the first, still seem to be turning into more and more of a slog as I progress. Instead of interesting maps they seem to just be corridors with a few tiles every now and again that drop your move to one tile which takes everything take ages but doesn't make it any harder.
It's a shame because I want to like the game but it's doing it's best to be a pain in the arse to play.
At least there's a funny 3D rendered head that raises it's eyebrows at you when you unlock the fusing demons area.
The story started out a little better but then you end up doing several maps where basically nothing happens.
Your main guy seemingly never takes any damage and one shots everything and the maps, while better than the first, still seem to be turning into more and more of a slog as I progress. Instead of interesting maps they seem to just be corridors with a few tiles every now and again that drop your move to one tile which takes everything take ages but doesn't make it any harder.
It's a shame because I want to like the game but it's doing it's best to be a pain in the arse to play.
At least there's a funny 3D rendered head that raises it's eyebrows at you when you unlock the fusing demons area.
Quite decent SRPG for SNES, the experience obtained is quite low. Anyways, assorted classes and monsters gives a good choice to make your team.