In the days of early PC gaming, the oft repeated query whether you had a powerful rig was "Can it run Crysis?"
Well the year is 2021, nearly 2022, and Nintendo is a few years in to its beautiful marriage of portable and home consoles, the Nintendo Switch. Now we must ask yourself: "Can your Switch Run SMTV?" The answer at the moment, is no.
SMTV Pros:
-Awesome Demon Design
-Cool TMS#FE UI
SMTV Cons:
-Horrendous Performance: Frame drops, odd blurs, defiantly ugly movement
-Camera Control: This was horrendous in the open world
-Atrocious Platforming
-Drab and Boring Open Worlds: Each zone, unlike Nocturne, is a tremendously sized zone-segmented (near) open world that requires traversal to accomplish objectives. It's a needless and lifeless touch to a series that had some awesome success in dungeon design in SMTIII. Enemies fill this open world ad nauseum and make even moving around or trying to find the next place to go an absolute rage inducing nightmare.
-Levelling: I fought every single enemy I saw en route to the first boss, I was still five levels down and was decimated.
-Horrible Maze Design: Just like SMTIII, SMTV returned with some maze/labyrinth action, and just like in Nocturne it is absolutely infuriating and overstays its welcome.
-Underwhelming OST: Given this is SMT and Atlus, I thought the OST would again be something to remember as it had been in Persona and in Nocturne. Unfortunately it was largely forgettable and added little to the overall game.
-Story and Characters: These were rather underwhelming as many other reviewers have said.
All in all, this was just a less exciting or unique experience as SMTIII was. SMTV is much less exciting and adds many frustrating gameplay elements to the between the lore segments, and the lore is largely unfulfilling. Of course this game is hard, and many players look forward to that in SMT, but to me this felt a little too much in the unrewarding sense. I didn't feel rewarded for the grinding I had done or party I had put together as I had in Nocturne.
I try not to regret purchases, but I cannot recommend this game.
Well the year is 2021, nearly 2022, and Nintendo is a few years in to its beautiful marriage of portable and home consoles, the Nintendo Switch. Now we must ask yourself: "Can your Switch Run SMTV?" The answer at the moment, is no.
SMTV Pros:
-Awesome Demon Design
-Cool TMS#FE UI
SMTV Cons:
-Horrendous Performance: Frame drops, odd blurs, defiantly ugly movement
-Camera Control: This was horrendous in the open world
-Atrocious Platforming
-Drab and Boring Open Worlds: Each zone, unlike Nocturne, is a tremendously sized zone-segmented (near) open world that requires traversal to accomplish objectives. It's a needless and lifeless touch to a series that had some awesome success in dungeon design in SMTIII. Enemies fill this open world ad nauseum and make even moving around or trying to find the next place to go an absolute rage inducing nightmare.
-Levelling: I fought every single enemy I saw en route to the first boss, I was still five levels down and was decimated.
-Horrible Maze Design: Just like SMTIII, SMTV returned with some maze/labyrinth action, and just like in Nocturne it is absolutely infuriating and overstays its welcome.
-Underwhelming OST: Given this is SMT and Atlus, I thought the OST would again be something to remember as it had been in Persona and in Nocturne. Unfortunately it was largely forgettable and added little to the overall game.
-Story and Characters: These were rather underwhelming as many other reviewers have said.
All in all, this was just a less exciting or unique experience as SMTIII was. SMTV is much less exciting and adds many frustrating gameplay elements to the between the lore segments, and the lore is largely unfulfilling. Of course this game is hard, and many players look forward to that in SMT, but to me this felt a little too much in the unrewarding sense. I didn't feel rewarded for the grinding I had done or party I had put together as I had in Nocturne.
I try not to regret purchases, but I cannot recommend this game.
NOWITSREYNTIME17
2 years ago