Soul Hackers 2

You will be disappointed if you go into this expecting soul hackers. BUT if you keep an open mind this game is a nice midpoint between persona and SMT. i think its good for a persona fan looking to get deeper into the smt franchise but is maybe apprehensive about the difficulty of the mainline games. saizo best boy <3

作为Atlus时隔25年推出的续作，其无比高昂的售价以及称其为垃圾都大有侮辱垃圾这个词的超级游戏品质，彻彻底底征服了我。 从场景设计来看，游戏虽构建了赛博朋克风格的未来东京，但实际可探索区域极为受限。以华乐町这个场景为例制作的通过设置海量空气墙的办法，将玩家限制在了道路的右侧那条又窄又短的直道上，乐华厅的情况绝对个例，而是在任何一个场景中即使如此，例如作为剧情发展关键地的新三道，只需短短15秒就能全部过完，孤儿院场景更是短到仅需3秒，大量精美背景沦为无法互动的贴图。 活动范围小也就罢了，能够真正互动的内容同样少的可怜，商店、任务中心等交互场景采用模板化设计，仅以静态立绘和文字堆砌，缺乏P5的沉浸式细节。关键场所“恶魔合体马戏团”的动画更是简陋，阿特拉斯贡献了女神系列近10年以来最为敷衍的合体动画，简单来说，现在屏幕两边各放一个仲魔，接着红色大幕一拉一开，新的恶魔它就诞生了，就算是在数年前技能万分有限的psv，3ds上合体过程都没敢如此潦草过，反而是到了游戏技术突飞猛进的2022年，阿特拉斯却有勇气把这段不入流的画面堂而皇之的搬上屏幕。 对于送给预购玩家的P5服装和付费的服装DLC，这些衣服竟然能且只能在战斗中显示，你要想赚钱就好好做，倘若舍不得或能力不足大可不必拿这些半截货来恶心我们。 游戏性方面也根本无法让人满足，或者严格来说它的内核处处散发着庸俗与无聊的狐臭啊。首先是了无生趣的战斗系统，战斗方式无限趋近于女神异闻录，为避免两者太过相近，制作组还是做了一些十分必要的改变，核心机制“魔宴”通过弱点攻击叠加层数触发终结技，每叠加一层就会有一只恶魔参与到合集中，初期视觉效果颇具冲击力，首次接触到他的时候，我甚至一度幻想魔宴能让游戏变得与众不同，给我留下一段令人难忘的游戏体验，然而该系统缺乏策略纵深，技能栏被缩减至4-6格（传统为8格），招牌技能如源义经的“八艘跳”遭删除，角色培养自由度大幅受限。毁掉一个超人气角色，除了愚蠢，我想不出任何动机。 另一方面是不加节制的滥用该系统，敌方未设计对应机制，导致战斗沦为“打弱点→攒层数→放魔宴”的单调循环，后期重复感显著。辅助指令一键通关的设计虽简化操作，却牺牲了策略深度。 剧情与迷宫设计成为最大痛点，如果依照主角团拯救世界的烂俗套路默默把故事讲完，铁定会被诟病乃至嘲笑，但至少达成了某种逻辑自洽。很无奈创作者一心作死，强行在剧情发展中添加各种毫无伏笔的两极反转，其生硬到了在他出现于屏幕上的那一刻，我恨不得在脚底光速抠出个三室两厅，总而言之，一顿操作下来之后就把一个至少6分打底的故事活生生折腾成了不及格。 最后是离谱至极的迷宫设计，灵魂矩阵仅以光秃地板构成，缺乏设计；希望塔等场景堆砌纸箱与围栏，破坏场景意境。单向传送门与高频率遇敌（1.02版前）进一步加剧烦躁感，即便更新优化后仍被指“复用《真女神转生5》弃用方案”，我衷心感谢阿特拉斯八辈子祖宗，我谢谢你们。 总体而言，灵魂骇客2为玩家们带来了穷酸入骨的画面，乏善可陈的战斗，生硬呆板的剧情和又臭又长的迷宫。即便打折也不推荐入手，它比无聊本身更无聊。无论制作这款游戏的目的是锻炼新人还是为女神系列的后续作品筹集资金，亦或是两者兼而有之，都希望开发组记住，在当下这个无比混乱的游戏圈子中，能够得到玩家信任的厂商本就寥寥无几，作为其中一员更应该努力做好游戏，而不是记录这份感情，肆意敛财，你可以骗玩家一次，但最好不要有下一次。

Upon finishing: Summary: Soul Hackers 2 is a hidden gem of a game. The story is quite beautifully written, with a cast of characters whom you get to know and care about. Combat is simple and fun, music is overall very good, voice acting is super high quality, and art is stylistically one of Atlus' best. The world-building is quite well done; you feel drawn into the narrative and are invested in the outcomes of the people and the world they inhabit. The "Soul Matrix" dungeon in particular holds it back. but the game's positives than the negatives. -0.75 for dungeon design, -0.5 total for miscellaneous nitpicks. Final Score: 8.75/10 (Details): The game does very well to explores themes of conflict and sacrifice in characters with different ideas of what would constitute a better future, a staple feature of most SMT games, and Soul Hackers 2 hits it out of the park. Of course, there are many characters you meet who are just trying to get by in this both hauntingly beautiful and hideous dystopic world. I'd say that the way you get to know characters more in-depth through bonding scenes and watching memories together is quite Persona-esque in a way. Might be a hot take, but I generally don't care for a lot of the characters in most Megaten mainline games, with a few exceptions. Soul Hackers 2 is fortunately in the Persona/DeSu (moreso 2, but the characters in 1 were alright, too) group of character likeability. Ringo is widely praised as one of Atlus' best protags for a good reason, but characters like Figue, Saizo (plus Ash) and Milady are very compelling, too. The superb voice actors really help in this regard. The combat is both simple and elegant. There's some strategic depth but there's nothing that's too annoyingly RNG or convoluted. Dungeon design is the worst part of the game by far, but to advocate for SH2, the dungeons in say, SMT4, weren't much better (cocoon-like demon domains, etc). Each overworld location has its own unique tune the suits it. The main boss battle theme is jamming, however, there isn't enough variety when it comes to dungeon and battle themes. Visually, SH2 is rather stunning. Designs tell you a bit about the characters, but they also have some hidden depth (light spoilers); Ringo is bright and lively but develops to be more thoughtful, Milady is a tough beauty with some thorns, but can be a softy on the inside,Saizo seems hedonistic but is actually rather selfless, and Arrow is umm...kinda bland, but does get his plot relevance (haha...). They also did justice to the setting of a futuristic dystopia with its own set of charms. Overall, please give this game a try and ignore the haters telling you it sucks. I'd also be the first to tell you to wait for a sale [but I buy pretty much all my games on sale ;) games are getting so expensive at full price...] Previous review a few hours in: The game has been pretty solid so far. Never played the first Soul Hackers so I don't have that reference point, but it's an interesting little world that they built here. I like the MC and the supporting cast is okay, too. The plot is somewhat intriguing and I want to find out what happens next. Dungeons are a bit bland (which is a common criticism I heard before playing), but that's the case with most SMT games, imo, plus Tartarus in Persona 3. I like the voice acting (listening to JP subs in my case), and the artstyle is easy on the eyes. 8/10 is the score I'd give Soul Hackers 2 at the moment.

This game was kinda bootysweat. I'm all for Atlus returning to PS2 era of reusing assets and stuff to make low to mid costing games, but they gotta at least be written well. This was just boring and the ending was incredibly subpar.

ソウルハッカーズを期待してはいけない ソウルハッカーズとは別物 ガッカリ

It’s a recommend for me. On sale, yes it’s good if you like Atlus games. Story and characters are good. Art is great. Music was exceptional which is not uncommon from Atlus. They cut corners on the world and dungeons. NPCs will say the same thing throughout the game unless a new quest is available at a certain time in the game. The world involves little hubs you can fast travel to on a map and they’re small. Design is really cool though, just wish you could dive deeper into it. Dungeons are kinda like Tartarus from Persona 3. Just hallways and battling every ten seconds until next checkpoint. The story again, is really good. I like that it’s focused on a few main characters and not adding extra just to muddy the execution. The villain is better than I expected. The twist feels earned. The writing is mostly excellent. There’s so much to like here. If this game was given the budget of the mainline Persona games, we could have had a game as good as the Persona 3 Remake or Persona 5. But half the game or more is the dungeons which I can’t let go how tedious and repetitive they get. Especially the Soul Matrix portions to unlock backstory. Last note, I felt the execution of backstory through little views into pivotal memories of your cast was done well. It was an artistic and design choice that really worked for this story, whereas it would have been risky or failed completely in another game. It just fit the tone and left you with the desire to keep going to find out more so they did well there.

今更ながらやってみたが評判の割には普通に楽しかった。 システムは全体的に単純化され奥深さはないかもしれないが 分かりやすさとトレードオフ。 登場人物は皆大人なためか細かいことを説明しなくても なんとなくわかるだろってな具合で話が早い。 ボケもツッコミも尖ったキャラも居ない。 メガテンシリーズなのだと思えば薄味に感じるかもしれないが 「女神転生」でも「デビルサマナー」でもないと思えば こんなのもあっていいと思う。長年の様式に拘る必要は私は感じない。 総じて簡単に遊べてキャラクターも変なのがいなくて遊びやすいと思った。 かつてのゲーマー同志たちよ。我々は歳を取ってしまったんだよ。きっと。