WHAT WERE THEY THINKING??

they were thinking about sticking ringo's ass into your face at any point in the game and hoping it would help them sell the game (it did, I bought a copy)

>>714685901 (OP)
Cashgrab to fund Persona 6 development

>>714685901 (OP)
I riked it.

>>714685901 (OP)
Ringo was 100 steps forward for Atlus in terms of MC quality, too bad they will never do MC like that again because outside of her game was pretty medicore and therefore flopped

Ishida thought being on Wii U was the only reason TMS failed and decided to pull the same bait and switch bullshit again. To the surprise of no one it flopped again.

It had a lower budget compared to SMT. More dungeon variety could have helped.

>>714685901 (OP)
Is this game good?

>>714685901 (OP)
>lets make a new 7th dragon game and hastily attach it to a lesser known SMT subseries

>>714688539
Lol

>>714685901 (OP)
Rumor I heard is it was planned to be some new thing but got rebranded by Atlus as Soul Hackers 2 for brand recognition so they had to then retool it last minute.

they took a dungeon crawler and turned it into persona because..... uhh..... they just did

>>714688539
It's a 5. Legitimately just a 5. It's bang average. Painfully average. Boring gameplay. Sabbath manages to be more braindead than most mechanics in morden atlus games. I'd you think SMT V dungeons were bad you are not ready for this. Ok characters. Only saving grace. There's a reason why this game is almost always at around 20ish bucks.

>>714688539
It's decent. Dungeon design sucks ass, but battles are pretty good. The difficulty is somewhere in-between Persona and mainline SMT.
I also like Ringo, she's a fun MC.

>>714687910
It's funny this piece of shit has a bigger fanbase than Ringo (nobody is a sh2 fan)

>>714685901 (OP)
They weren't

>>714685901 (OP)
We all know SMT faggots prefer to play as a femboy no wonder Persona stomps your inferior series

>>714690964
>We all know SMT faggots prefer to play as a femboy
That's just the Vtroons

>>714690964
>literally one (1) female protagonist in persona over 20 years ago

>>714685901 (OP)

>>714685901 (OP)
Third Pillar.

>>714692854
Bantz like this only lands if you manage to equal or surpass the predecessor.
Same thing with the new Star Wars trilogy, a lot of talking down on fan expectations, then fumbling to say anything once given the floor to. SH1 didn't even have to go that deep to at least raise salient points, shameful.

>>714693252
Criticism alone is pointless. Literally anyone can say "this is bad", not everyone can articulate why.

>>714685901 (OP)
I tried to like it, but it felt more like the space genshin game than SMT.

>>714690964
At least faggots like to play as the nahobingo. No one wants to play as ringo.

>>714685901 (OP)
They were thinking Ringo sexo.

>>714693941
>>714689023
that sounds good to me

>>714685901 (OP)
>Soul Hackers
>look inside
>literally nothing to do with Soul Hackers

>>714696297
>"I'll use Soul Hack®"
I wish there was a way to uninstall a game from existence.

The game is great

>>714696297
The first SH has a better world, with there being a surplus of other demon summoners, but the story in 2 was great

>>714685901 (OP)
the C team made this

>>714685901 (OP)
Just the dungeons and side quests were shit.
The rest of the game was fine.

>>714698374
The first SH has better everything other than maybe visuals and graphics but that is debatable. SH2 is an undercooked piece of shit with 3 dungeon tilesets and half of the game spent in a blue blender project zone.
The strongest part of SH2 were the characters and the interactions between them because it actually made me interested in them without going full persona mode. The opening to SH1 alone oozes more atmoshpere and sovl than the entirety of SH2. Story is also much less cool than people's souls being drained by a city-wide VR beta test, written in the 90s.

https://youtu.be/hIZJs9jM-Sw?si=edEseUGo5tgIs6lL&t=13

>>714688539
No, it's like the worst parts of SMT and Persona combined.
The story is stupid. The characters are bad, I grew to hate them the more I learned about them.
The demons take a back seat, you only see them if you hit a weakness and as enemies.
The costumes dont work outside of combat, but you can mod it in.
The characters' pelvises freak me out for some reason.
The levels are terrible, the Soul Matrix is like a PS2 level.
You have limited variety of team mates.

>>714698751
>You have limited variety of team mates.
And still they have no unique attack animations. lmfao all their unique skills use the same basic attack animation. It's embarrassing.

>>714685901 (OP)
Very cool design elements, but this game play looks horrible.

It's a pretty cool game, I enjoyed it more than ReFantazio

>>714701105
that's not possible

>>714698670
There's something about that chaotic jazz that just hits right.

>>714701105
>tfw hated both SH2 and Re:Fantazio for different reasons
it's hard being a Megaten fan in 202X

>>714701507
real, based gale

>>714701507
Why hate Metaphor? I thought it was good, outside of the forced social links.

>>714702720
Forced social links were a big deal for me once the demo straight up told me to go to talk to homeless people for 3 days or I won't unlock a dungeon and a shop. The UI is unironically too fucking bright and eyefucky, going through menus shouldn't flash a hundred million colors in your face like that. I thought Persona 5 was bad for it but Metaphor made me realize it can get even worse.
Combat was okay but the archetypes or whatever they were called were boring, demons are much cooler and have better designs. On top of that despite the game letting you spec anyone into anything, there's always a BEST option for your party members that's their ultimate archetype or whatever.
If it tried being more standalone like it seemed for the first 3 hours of the demo, i think it'd be an interesting game. Then it reveals it's colors as a reskinned persona 3-5 clone with swords and catgirls. I don't see why they didn't include romance options (not that I really give a fuck about that in megaten games) while including social links. It should have been the other way around.

The calendar is also a fucking stupid system unless backed by a good reason for it to exist. Persona 3 did it alright, then every next Persona game tried copying the concept without understanding why they put it in P3 to being with. While it sorta kinda made sense to have a time limit in Re:Fantazio, it's also stupid and pointless because the game forces you to spend your days talking to homeless and poor people on the streets rather than getting your goal done. Just let me go to the next fucking dungeon already like any good JRPG.

tl;dr it started off like a standalone game (reminiscent of DDS in some places) but quickly devolved into persona with a high fantasy template thrown over it.

>>714703295
>I don't see why they didn't include romance options
Because Will already has a girlfriend that he sleeps with every single night.

They're going to be Oberon and Titania 2.0