Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance

Best Smt game I’ve ever played (haven’t played the 4th yet) great gameplay and story.

I played this game five years ago on the Switch when it first came out. This re-release is such a big upgrade for many reasons, chiefly among them having the option to play the game at 120 FPS instead of 25. If you haven't played any SMT game before, this is a good start. The best thing about these games is how customizable everything is. You have absolute control over every aspect of your party of mythological creatures. Fusing old monsters into new ones is such a great system and leads you to constantly change out your party to better fight against rougher foes. The Press-Turn battle system is largely unchanged from other SMT games since 3, but this system is great so I am totally fine with no changes. Exploration is the big new emphasis in this game, and I like the attempt. Actually being able to see enemies roaming ruined Tokyo is a big step up from random encounters, I also liked searching the levels and trying to find loot. Some people might not like awkward 3D platforming in their RPG, but I liked the change of pace. I would also like this greatly expanded on in the future. The biggest fumble in this game is the story and general presentation, which are downgrades from the other games in mainline SMT. This is especially disappointing after 4, which I thought had a really great story and atmosphere. 5 has a really interesting concept but doesn't really do anything with it until the game is nearly over. This is a game first and foremost, and the gameplay here is engaging and fun the entire runthrough, even if you skip cutscenes. VVengeance is great and worth your time if you enjoy JRPGs.

BEST ATLUS GAME OF ALL TIME

Outside the ancient spreadsheet based rock paper scissors battle system, this game has next to nothing that the series built itself up to represent. The pacing, story, characters, and combat are all mind-numbingly boring. There are 4 worlds, and they're all identical deserts re-colored with re-used assets. It's worse than Soul Hackers 2. Ten hours and there's been 3-4 cutscenes and absolutely none of them go beyond "look at this anime waifu rant about disconnected vague garbage that you're never going to be shown in game". It's 99% talking heads with no action, no animations, no character development, just mobile game level garbage. This is not SMT and the developers should be ashamed of themselves. SMT3 is 22 years old and beats the snot out of this title in every way imaginable!

Esse jogo é bom pra krl, tanto que adorei o game a ponto de platinar tudo e passar dezenas de horas nele. Ele se tornou o meu SMT favorito do lado de Nocturne, refinando demais tudo o que a franquia tem de melhor. A exploração do mundo aberto é fluida pra cacete com o dash e a movimentação rápida, o combate Press Turn está na sua melhor versão, e a rota do Canon of Vengeance consertou os problemas de história do original, trazendo personagens muito mais interessantes e um enredo bem mais pika e envolvente de acompanhar. Porém, e o jogo tem uns momentos que eu acho meio meh. Eu odiei com todas as minhas forças a dungeon do Castelo do Rei Demônio e detestei o mapa de Chiyoda, pprt. Chiyoda é um inferno de verticalidade confusa, onde você quer chegar numa rua que está do seu lado, mas tem que dar uma volta gigantesca subindo prédio e pulando trilho de trem só pra achar o caminho. E o Castelo do Rei Demônio consegue ser ainda pior com aquele labirinto de vento e portais chato pra caralho, não é difícil só é chato de navegar. Tirando essas 2 partes com level design questionável, o jogo é uma obra-prima absoluta do gênero, e o sentimento de platinar tudo e dominar o combate foi recompensador demais.

I'm not a fan of anime or japanese stuff in general at all, but my friend kept talking about this series and recommending it, so I decided to get this one when it was on humble choice and I loved it. I love when real life mythology gets incorporated in fiction, and I enjoyed the turn based combat too. I found the story to be genuinely enjoyable even though it was a bit cringy or awkward at times since I'm not used to japanese stuff.

I don't like it. Nearly the entire game is just a desert with little variation. Nocturne had plenty of exoteric and odd structures to compensate for that. The magatsuhi gameplay is extremely annoying on random encounters, you will randomly lose or get half your team dead whenever you lack the dps to end the fight in one turn. On bosses this turns into either knowing which element they're gonna use and getting a free turn or not being aware and being wiped. Many times you can just spam dampeners/block for the whole fight and watch as the enemy never gets a single attack through. Demons have too much hp, in previous SMT it's normal to be able to oneshot entire groups with a single spell if you have the required stats and levels but on V I find myself being unable to end fighs quickly even against demons 5 levels below me. The story is just weird but not in a fun way. The entire world is an apocalyptic hellhole but protagonist-kun still has to worry about going to school? Not funny Japan. Yoko sure talks a lot but she never has anything interesting to say, just superficially boring observations about whatever you're doing. The other characters are so thin I can barely remember that they exist. You can pick dialogue options some times but it is implied that the Nahobino just *fluoride stares* at everydody who talks at him when you're not given an option. I know that it's supposed to be funny but I did not laugh. The music is amazing of course. The graphics are PS3 tier but whatever. The open world is just a running simulator, everything is very far apart and there's a billion miman and apples and others to find. No way to tell if that unique demon over there is a couple of levels above you or 50. Too many quests involve going backwards across the map over and over again or researching which one of the 200 directions on the map contains the next part. I am not impressed by a single boss so far. Maybe it's like an MMO and it gets better at the endgame but honestly every other SMT had grabbed far before the point I'm at on V

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I loooove the Persona series and this at first glance looked similar so I decided to grab it. Sadly enough ... this isn't Persona. It's not even as good as Metaphor. Nor is it actually that great on its own. Let me get specific: - Persona &Metaphor had varied surroundings, lots of people to talk to, a strong story, comedy & drama mixed - Shin Megami has none of this - it's far more combat focussed with constantly respawning monsters, boring characters, a meh story and while combat works decently well, there's too much of it & it gets incredibly grindy I can't recommend this game if you expect more than combat after identical combat. There's a decent amount of depth sure but there just isn't enough to keep you playing. I never get the urge to keep playing to find out what happens next - that's why the mediocre story is such a shame. I'm honestly surprised this gets so many positive reviews.

Quite literally the best game I played 10/10