SMT fan spaces and discussions have become so miserable that I had all but divorced myself of them at around the time this came out, so I missed all the reasons why people thought it was bad. I'm glad I ended up finally playing it; its pretty fun despite some noticeable issues and it scratched the SMT itch. Great cast and fun battle system, although could use some boss variety and the dungeons were anemic. Not worth the level of vitriol people spilled over it as is usually the case with this series. If they called it Devil Summoner: Cyber Demons or some shit I bet they could have avoided a ton of hate from people who pretended to care about Soul Hackers 1.