>>716150125
SMT comes in many forms and some games dropped the ball hard and subverted exceptations in the worst ways. I think it's good that SMT fans are ready to critique the series they love for things the series did wrong instead of eating up Atlus slop no matter the form just because it's SMT. Though /v/ threads are most often made by Megaten tourists, who are usually talking out of their ass with zero experience in other games of the series to validate their point

>>715400337
I literally mentioned it, that's Kagome Tower. No, I didn't find it bland because it looks cool, the theme is baller and it being a tower it did it's purpose of going straight up and holding something inside of it.
The dungeons can be called bland for not turning you around and not being giant mazes, but aesthetically they're far from bland. It didn't bother me in IV because once I was done with a short dungeon like Kagome Tower I just went back to explore more of Tokyo which I found more fun than V. Though I do find it really upsetting that they didn't reuse this theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj7Z4sKR73g

Reverse hills is an upside down building and buildings usually have mirrored designs between floors. Again, I didn't mind it being that because being in an upside-down hellzone where kids are being grinded into ibuprofen for the demons made it interesting for me.
>>715400404
To each their own, I read somewhere that with V they were inspired with BOTW and I guess that kind of gameplay sticks better with you than it does with me. Some of the exploration tracks are fantastic, I agree.

Sinner for this?

>>528907374
While I agree, I kinda don't want them to change the gameplay, at least the combat. I both like the tuned version in IVA but the smirk bullshit is kind of the sovl of IV for me.
I also imagine fatlus could be afraid of an IV port getting mogged by nocturne and V for not having 3d demons. Then again I much preferred IV's quantity over having precious 3d model slots occupied with waifushit like artemis and Idun, even if I actually liked them.