This is a very sloppy Playstation ported JRPG (Why is it always the Japanese Playstation ports that are the worst in existence?) in a popular (in Japan, not anywhere else) franchise, "True Goddess Reincarnation" which is about an effeminate schoolboy who carries a handbag (yet somehow doesn't get bullied relentlessly) who turns into an angel and battles a bunch of demons that ravage Tokyo.
Okay, I guess that's pretty normal for a Japanese anime plot. Visually the game is pretty poor, cartoony graphics and NPCs so lazily done they don't even have eyes. Detail is at least added to the (well over 100) demon enemy types you have to fight. That sounds like a lot, right? That's because this is an insane grindfest where you just do endless battle after battle... all of them very shallow, of course, JRPGs seldom, if ever have the same kind of depth as western RPGs (take a look at BG3 for examples of that). It's all just number pumping with JRPGs and this is no exception.
On the upside, the game does feature customisable controls and resolution, so at least some of the basic, minimum requirements have been met. Unfortunately there's a number of other technical defects and shortcomings which contribute to the game being difficult to recommend to gamers.
Because this is designed for consoles, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the inferior console gaming appliances that the game was designed for. These are unfortunate compromises and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was a second thought for the console-centric developers. The game is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for consoles forces upon a game. Once more, console peasants have made gaming worse for everyone.
The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time and money, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here.
Those technical flaws drag this game well below the minimum quality standards expected of a modern PC game.
Let's look at the price and what kind of value this actually offers gamers. Should you buy this game? Is it one of the best of the 140,000+ games on Steam?
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance has the total ripoff price of $59.99, for which you could easily get any number of recent AAA PC games.... or you could buy this lazy PS port.
The quality problems and defects with this game makes the asking price totally unrealistic. It's impossible to recommend this to gamers here on Steam. Only to be considered by people who bought a PC thinking it was a Playstation, or something.
