Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster

I want to preface this by saying that SMT3 is a fantastic JRPG, with a great story, and the hardest game in the franchise its praise is well warranted. The confusing thing is at this moment copies of SMT3 for PS2 can be found in listings as low as $15 at Gamestop. At some point you have to question if ATLUS realizes this games worth. It is an extremely outdated game, it's 20 years old and the design elements show. The HD remake did not do much to improve these QOL issues. When this game was originally ported to PC all music files in the game were corrupted and required you to install them to the file directory. Luckily this is fixed now but even at that time this game was selling for $50 on Steam. Even a PS2 emulator with HD textures can do better than ATLUS (at least in an emulator you can increase the ingame speed with the amount of walking and dying you do). They should have at least fixed some QOL issues with SMT3. ATLUS has a history of creating fantastic JRPGs, but ATLUS and SEGA (by extension) find it acceptable to release a port of SMT3 in this state at this price point. If you're a game collector you're better off buying a physical copy of the PS2 version and running it on emulator or native hardware. If you think this game is worth $10 less than SMT5 or Persona 5 you're mistaken. ATLUS wants to rob you, just buy a pre-owned game.

ATLUS I'm begging you, please remaster the Digital Devil Saga games

阿特拉斯你妈死了 你这次的高清重置就是一坨屎 21年的重置竟然锁三十帧 就像是你妈年过花甲不想着怎么让你妈舒服一点选择给你妈套个贞操锁 重置态度差 cg动画用的原版 bgm音质极差 我也是傻逼 竟然玩的不亦乐乎

Not the best port but got this for half-off so no complaints. Definitely mod it, the 60+ fps mod + uncompressed audio mods highly recommended. Game as a whole holds up tons in terms of gameplay + story. I only played this game once on PS2 and always wanted to give it another go. One of the more brutal SMT's, I do prefer SMTIV and STMV over it but loved this game for being the 1st 3D Megaten game. I never suggest this game to people new to Megaten games, do Persona 3 or 4 first. Then check out SMTV.

Atmosphere and vibe of the game hits diff when you're in a depression episode

When you try to get the cute girls to join your party they demand money 3 times, honestly the most realistic game i've ever played 10/10

why does a ps2 game have Denuvo

The game is good and this is more of a neutral review due to the quality of this remaster, however Steam does not give you this option so I have to give this one a negative rating. Personal advice: Set in-game brightness to -2 and contrast to +3, that makes the game look close to how it looks on my calibrated CRT playing the PS2 version. These setting work great on my VA monitor, slightly different values could work better on your display. On default the game is too bright with washed out colors and lighting. Combining this with the resolution mod set to 4K internal resolution + MSAA 4x mod, this makes the game look very good in my opinion. Now to the actual review: The game is good, especially if you are into turn based RPGs. If you love Persona games I'm sure you will love Nocturne. However this is probably the most low effort remaster I have ever played, and the fact they are asking 70€ for the whole package is just insane to me. The internal resolution is very low. On my 1440p screen and highest settings, it seems the game renders at 1080p or maybe even 720p resolution, it looks bad. You can fix it via mod, but you shouldn't have to, especially at steep price as this, thus the negative rating. This port doesn't even have anisotropic texture filtering. The audio quality is very low, it sounds compressed. It sounds bad at first, personally I got used to it and don't notice it anymore while I play. The game runs at 30FPS, and while this isn't a problem for me in a game like this, especially this old, it may be a deal breaker to some. Can be tweaked via mod as well. Right controller joystick never works after booting up the game, unless you Alt+Tab once, then it works for some reason. However it's not all that bad. Compared to the PS2 version, they added Japanese and English voice-overs and the UI has been reworked into high resolution. Get it on deep discount.