What a surprise, the MegaTen game that launched the series into being a cult classic thing in the US and has been universally praised in JRPG circles for the last 20 years lived up to the hype and kicks total ass.
This is a direct upgrade from SMT4 in basically every way, so much so that this could have been sold to me as the game that came after and I would have believed it. Better demon recruiting systems, better overworld, better presentation, better dungeon design. This is still to this day basically the ideal and quintessential SMT game, not my favorite but the one that the series should probably strive to be more like.
Some really fun boss encounters, those last two at the end were absolutely wonderful. Has a pretty reasonable difficulty curve aside from a couple moments, to the point where I actually think this is still a good entry point into the series.
Only downside is that the story is kinda basic I guess. It does what it sets out to do, it just doesn't set out to do a whole lot.
This is a direct upgrade from SMT4 in basically every way, so much so that this could have been sold to me as the game that came after and I would have believed it. Better demon recruiting systems, better overworld, better presentation, better dungeon design. This is still to this day basically the ideal and quintessential SMT game, not my favorite but the one that the series should probably strive to be more like.
Some really fun boss encounters, those last two at the end were absolutely wonderful. Has a pretty reasonable difficulty curve aside from a couple moments, to the point where I actually think this is still a good entry point into the series.
Only downside is that the story is kinda basic I guess. It does what it sets out to do, it just doesn't set out to do a whole lot.
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6 months ago