I went into this game completely blind only going off of what friends had to say about it. After finally taking the plunge myself and getting the game I can say without a doubt, this is one of my all time favorite JRPGs. I had no problems with literally anything here, this game was a 40 hour long journey and everything kept me engaged and interested. All the main characters in this game are so damn good and well developed that I care for all of them, it's rare when you find a JRPG where you care about EVERY main character. The last game I can think of is Xenoblade 3. This games OST is so fucking BALLER man, I'm not an idol person nor did I ever care about that kind of stuff but this game made me love all the performances and songs being sung.
Shoutout to my girl Kiria who sings Reincarnation, the song that basically got me interested in this game, and is also the best character in the game both personality and battle wise. Plus I love her :)

I got this game on Christmas and the more I kept playing the more I was invested in this world and its characters. I was so pleasantly surprised with just how much fun I was having. This game sort of taught me that I do, in a way, like fire emblem, but the main problem I have with that series is not so much the characters or the story, but the gameplay. I'm not a tactical RPG person, and i've experimented with enough fire emblem games to know this series just aint for me. Since i'm someone who values gameplay over anything else, that makes it difficult for me to be invested in these worlds and games when I just don't vibe with the gameplay. This games gameplay tho is so fucking fun especially once you understand how it works under the hood. The amount of session combos you can get is pure ecstasy. I never once had any issue with any of the bosses or difficulty because if anything the game actually gets easier the more you play and unlock more and more characters to continue the session combos, which are this games whole gimmick. Couple it in with both Fire Emblem weapon trees and Shin Megami Tensei's signature combat and you have a recipe for a good ass game. Legit I would just stay and grind for hours because of how fun this game is.

So would I recommend this game to anyone who hasn't played it? Not really, as much as I love this game I can see it not being everyones thing, you sort of have to be familiar with both SMT and Fire Emblem enough to really give it a shot, more so SMT. Still though even if 2024 just started this is one of the best games i've played this year and you know if they somehow for whatever reason announce a Tokyo Mirage Sessions sequel in a Nintendo Direct sometime in the future, you bet your ass I'll be there no matter what.
Fucking phenomenal game.

Stylish and melodramatic shin megami tensei aesthetics thrown in the fire emblem mosaic. The artistry and performance motifs create the imagery of the game, that has a bunch of great ideas that are truly hard to put into practice. Mamori is a run saver and Ellie is broken. The difficulty doesn't matter, hard is normal, normal is easy, easy is a visual novel. Overthink and have fun calculating the sessions that will do most damage; underthink and have fun seeing the bright colors and fun pop melodies.

I can say with full confidence that this is my favorite game of all time and it's a great rerelease of the Wii u version. I enjoy the music, the characters, and the questionable localization that came along with this game, I skipped my finals to buy this game day 1 when it released and I've been doing a run at least every year since. The characters are adorable and I love how they sound and look. When I went to Japan I made it my mission to find a Japanese copy of this game and it's soundtrack I love them so much

Whilst I enjoyed the core gameplay of this, the story was uninteresting to the point where I would just let the dialogue run on auto while I zoned out and did something else.

The game looks great, I actually quite liked the interface as well. Nice clean and shiny menus. Good battle mechanics and that. But I simply do not care about a bunch of mopey teens training to become pop stars.

If there was as much emphasis on the gameplay as the story in the first few hours, I'd probably have stuck with it a bit longer. But 20 minute conversations about trivial bullshit and idiot teens was too much for me.

Pros:
- Combat is fun, sessions was a unique and fun mechanic
- Enjoyed playing as all the cast members
- Lots of costumes to collect
- The upgrade systems for weapons, skills, and other mechanics is really good

Cons:
- Little to no quality of life across most aspects of the game
- Lots of wasted time in menus, battle, questing, traversing
- No way to check sidequests
- The game drags on a little too long and without the QoL it starts to feel like a drag
- Combat isn't particularly well balanced, on hard either feel too strong or too weak. Which is a shame because the few battles that they got right were lots of fun

Overall:
A fun, lighthearted JRPG to play on the switch. The story is uplifting and lightweight, the characters are interesting enough and the gameplay is decent for a relative of SMT. The only real downsides are the lack of quality of life features, and the way the game drags in most aspects; story, dungeons, travelling, etc. That being said the combat is fun, and I enjoyed the upgrade system. The music is nothing to write home about, especially from a game based around idols.

This is such a weird doofy anime game. Getting this out of the way, if you were looking for a mashup of SMT and Fire Emblem, you'll be in for quite a shock when you see an extremely lighthearted RPG that centers around idol culture. It definitely has some elements from both series like the Sword-Spear-Axe rock-paper-scissors system and all the spell names from SMT plus a familiar turn based random battle gameplay that SMT is known for, but this story is really a beast all of its own. It's basically a pastiche of anime and follows so many tropes to a T. The characters are actually really likable and you get to know them a lot more than some SMT characters (cough cough Nocturne and SMT V). But for what those games lack in story and characters, they more than outclass Tokyo Mirage Sessions in an addicting gameplay loop and fun yet challenging battle system. Tokyo Mirage Sessions doesn't have a bad system at all, it's just kind of vanilla and battles usually play out the same until the final two chapters, that's when you got to really think about what you need to do reach turn which is pretty fun actually.
It's a relatively short experience for modern RPG standards (50 hours), but it doesn't overstay it's welcome and never takes itself too seriously. It's goofy, charming, and a fun JRPG experience.

#TokyoMirageSession Finished. Well, a game that brings together SMT, and Fire Emblem with idols and performances had to be peculiar=atlus. The game is fine, it's not a marvel but it's interesting, cliched, cool combos and skills gameplay. I hate the 106 dungeon with all my being.
#TokyoMirageSession Terminado. Bueno, un juego que te junta SMT, y Fire Emblem con idols y performances tenia que ser peculiar=atlus. El juego bien, no es una maravilla pero interesante, cliche, jugabilidad combos y skills guay. Odio la dungeon del 106 con todo mi ser.