Thread 535112663

>RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army Released on Steam and Switch 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Xyh3SciAM

>Raidou Remastered World Spotlight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIr3mDfEAlo

>VV has a demo now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Br8Pt11f0

>SMT VV patch 1.0.3 is out. includes 6 new navigators, one new quest and demon

>Atlus 2025 Aspirations Tease Upcoming Announcement from Shin Megami Tensei Team, New Experience from Persona Team:
https://personacentral.com/atlus-2025-aspirations-tease/

>Giten Megami Tensei's partial translation patch for PC-98
https://www.romhacking.net/translations/7343/

>Vengeance OST scans
https://imgur.com/a/smtvv-ost-liner-notes-cNN28YJ

>Shin Megami Tensei The Board Game Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smtboardgame/shin-megami-tensei-board-game

>Megaten Fusion Tools [For real fusion autists!]
https://aqiu384.github.io/megaten-fusion-tool/home

>Archive of 3DS Texture Packs
https://reddit.com/r/Megaten/comments/1b6v86u/3ds_games_hd_texture_packs_are_gone/

>Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2 soundtracks are now available on digital streaming services

>Old neocities site containing info and useful links (no longer updated)
https://smtgen.neocities.org/#original-post

>SMT TTRPG Campaign PDF:
https://files.catbox.moe/rdqfh3.pdf

>20XX rereleased on April 24th for the Nintendo Switch. Steam on May 8th
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3652460/GMODE_20XX/

>真 /smtg/ plays is underway. we're playing smt IV.
No White Ending yet Fuckos

Last cycle: >>534416470

I don't think SMT: NINE takes place in the timeline the way the official guide book and all other sources say it does.
At the very least it certainly is impossible for it to lead into SMT2, not a single of NINE's nine endings is compatible with 2.
But to go further I don't even think it branches from SMT1, at least not the SMT1 we know. Its more like a weird slightly fucked up different version of the events of SMT1 where theres some specific but notable changes, like the lack of the cathedral and a difference in how much of humanity survives

SJ is peak.

>>535107414
It's not as spicy though and that means I'll still need to generate 3 chaos demons.

The fujo merch of smtv that does exist is honestly pretty fucking funny when you think about it:
>a limited time drink during a smtv collab that described them being inseparable
>a sexual innuendo picture between them you can only see in the Atlus 30th anniversary book
>expensive earphones where you can self insert as the young man while Aogami tells you they should take a nap together
>a 16,000 yen acrylic portrait of them together that you can frame

What did she mean by this?

Is this SJ smtg plays or SMT IV smtg plays lol

Alex kinda hurts the narrative of SJ huh. I don't think it's egregiously bad but it's also really fucking stupid.

>>535122040
I think she is the worst rerelease girl in any Atlus game

>>535122263
Haven't played Full Body yet but I heard Rin was pretty bad too.

Ain 20XX

>>535123819
Need more chocolate heroines

>>535122389
Rin isn't the worst rerelease girl because Rin isn't a g___

>>535060360
Eat shit and die i don't want to see you ever again. Getting 8 hours of sleep made this thing way easier

>>535126787
here's the team btw

>>535126787
>>535126990
Nice job-also BUENO
>>535124428
We need more heroines in general. Give us cute girls that throw magic around again!

what external tools do you use? for me its pic related in conjunction with aqui384

>>535128642
I use aqui384 but only when my fusion autism is strong.

I could have solved the plot of Apocalypse without any of the extra god nonsense. Just give me a stick of butter, Asahi, and some jerky.

I hate on paper I know I would love NINE and there is no translation patch.

I found out the boss of the second dungeon was apparently inspired by my own likeness.
Also Reiko croaked and we got to meet her guardian spirit. kind of thought it'd be something a bit more, uh, elegant. She has magic now but no offensive spells which is still a pretty big problem if we run into an anti-phys enemy that can counter Chud's overwhelming retard strength.

>>535132513
Asahi is a sexy dog

>>535134686
She is. It’s the combination of her design and annoying optimism that makes me want to corrupt and impregnate her. Other characters I have a respect for, but I feeling nothing but carnal desire for Asahi

>>535135354
What's your favorite art of her?

With the Johnathan/Walter split in lV, I honestly like Johnathan's events so much more than Walters even though Walter has much harder boss fights. It's extremely memorable and thematic.

>>535135742
Probably this one? Exclude nanashi and hallelujah, and it’s a pretty cute Asahi. Kinda sad there’s not more art of her.

>>535136408
I agree it's very pretty. What about lewd art?

I am currently playing through SMT 1 for the first time, How grindy is it? Not familiar with these games.

>>535137012
Once you get nerve bullets with a gun that hits multiple targets at once, you almost never need to worry about the combat.

>>535136690
https://files.catbox.moe/xtmqgv.jpeg
Kinda hard to pinpoint but this one is the cutest
>>535137012
It’s less grindy and more the encounter rate is a bit of a bitch.

>>535137192
A good amount of cum around her lips with her bare tits. Good taste.

>>535137012
The beginning of the game before you get a multi hit gun will be hard. You'll hit another road block potentially at Ginza because a lot of enemies like casting bind and it's the most annoying status effect to deal with because only your heroine has the means of curing it and if she's binded she can't cast it.

No grinding is really needed at all besides getting money. Leveling is pointless.

The other thing to watch out for is alignment towards the middle of the game. There are two rooms that can force you onto the law or chaos end if you walk into them law or chaos aligned. Other than that alignment doesn't matter until you enter the final boss room in Tokyo destiny land. Whatever you want your alignment to be, walk into that room with it on to get that ending. If you want to lock it earlier you can by going into those two rooms I mentioned.

fuck I wanna replay SJ now that it's getting talked about
should I finally do SJR? I never played it and kinda want to see the new dungeons and bosses even if the story is garbo

>>535139349
I like it, it's easier and removes some stuff for the sector transition graphics. Mad Gasser is too OP not to use.

>>535140553
>removes some stuff for the sector transition graphics
what does this mean

>>535141102
You get a boring menu instead of seeing 3D models for the sectors and no animations of the ship traveling to them.

normies getting filtered by nocturne makes me wonder.. is there actually a single classical jrpg that's actually hard? or is nocturne about where it caps out?

>>535141642
90s JRPGs are harder than Nocturne. Nocturne is mostly easy once you get speed buffs

>>535142628
The The Room of SMT

>>535139349
it depends. if you think the lack of QoL could make you stop playing the game go with SJR.

Ringoschizo here. I'm working on a Nuwa mod. What do you think of it so far?

Here's a another image of my WIP mod.

please make them bigger

>>535117287
>all limited time items that you can't even get anymore
lmao

>have an Asahi 3D model
>have no clue how to put it in games

A demon gobbled up my mom but I'm still pretty chill about it.

>>535150181
Try not to feel too bad.

>>535150181
sorry bro she looked so tasty

Why did Kozuka call Aogami a mother?

>>535143903
>>535144106
Is this a actual mod you're working on or are you just fucking around with the models
Please don't lie

>>535152137
Source?

>>535152529
https://booru.allthefallen.moe/posts/929956?q=shin_megami_tensei_devil_children+

Please say sike. Please.

I'm a demonsexual. I'm not attracted to ALL demons, but I'm only attracted to demons.

>>535155239
Yakumo....

Is there such a thing as a bad smt game?

>>535156460
this made me wonder what the public considers the ranking so I looked up a list and it's the most dogshit thing I've ever seen
https://www.thegamer.com/every-shin-megami-tensei-game-ranked/ smt2 is worse than 1? the 11th in the franchise? If... is 5th best? what the fuck

>>535156460
IV

Hope all you devil summoners sleep well, I got back to Tokyo proper.
>Infernal Tokyo (The rest)
Well I was able to recruit Vasuki while trying to find Shinjuku and it fucking learned Drain Fire as the random skill. Also its comedic both barkeepers mention about there being multiple quests needing to be done but there's only 2 quests, 1 from a demon talk and another from the Kasumigaseki barkeeper. For weird trivia there's a hint from a demonoid that the neurisher/demonoid thing might've been a response to the white rather than how the world was originally. Finally, while Blasted Tokyo sold a nigh-empty world that was trying to kill itself, Infernal Tokyo is a world I'd love to see expanded upon, feel like it was really limited by dev hell but still an area with concepts/vibe that's infectious. Maybe it's all the demonoids feeding the child in me... Fuck this could explore having multiple designs of the same demon in the same game, IV Lilith as is but then also SMT Lilith in Infernal Tokyo each with a different flair in personality.
>Vetala
Metatron served a concentrated Agidyne and it seems to have been too spicy for him. One round. Get he's a mini-boss but surely can last longer than a wild encounter.
>Mahamayuri
Firstly I greatly respect the Debilitate and Makarakarns indicating a phase change, just that 6k HP is easy to eat through thanks to concentrated Ziodynes and his healing only being Diarama. This honestly could've used Diarahan as a segue into his phase 2 for a functional 9/10k HP. Something with Floral Gust/Mahamaon/Debilitate + 3rd press turn?

>>535157854
>Kenji
He could not fight against repel/drain phys so he died while dealing minimal damage. Concentrated Agidynes, Ragnaroks, and even a few shot from the brave Bob led to him properly dying. The fuck does Conquerer Spirit even do. As for writing, I don't hate how he was handled too much beyond wishing we got more, my read's that he's someone managing both the human side wanting to stop the fighting and the demon side wanting to not stop indulging (in this case battle). That could be a neat way to showcase an argument against Chaos, with one who's bored/tired of it all or his impulses being a new set of chains, but not something explored too deeply with just one encounter.
>Monochromatic Forest
Warp mazes where you have to memorize the walls in the maze, so fun, much great, somehow not even that long but probably because I already got all the high level demons so fusion autism was minimal (I got a decent Mara as Abbadon + Loki = Salamander and I had a Chi You).
>White (Hugo)
Was the target of Myriad Arrows Fenrir because I wanted to see Bloody Glee in action. Only took a 2nd attempt because Lost is an ailment that exists in this game for some reason and I wanted exp on Marici who was to make another Myriad Arrows user in Ananta. Got Repel Phys because of course that's what I'll get from mutating a Trisagion.
>White (K)
Respect the Riot Guns that did kill the MC the first time but I was able to win that attempt despite no more healing. 2nd attempt was nothing as I swapped my shirt and he didn't get to Smirk Riot Gun a cap in my ass.
>White (Isabeau)
I repelled the Impossible Slash. Is she secretly Kakyoin?
>White (Issachar)
Wasn't a complete nothing fight, LCandy + Charge could've been scary if my team wasn't cracked. Shocking thing to realize is that there's no Almighty among the White collectively, just weird. Also with how they played him, my theory before about the White being failed alignments can be shot down (completely forgot K was one of them).

When the young man needs motivation.

>>535128642
I do this with pen and paper
also draw maps this way

>>535152137
>>535154341
I'm not lying nor joking around. This is indeed a real mod I'm working on and it should hopefully be ready somewhere around later this month or early September, since I'm trying to make sure Nuwa doesn't clip through things.
>>535145762
I'll think about it, maybe as a optional thing for the mod.

>>535112663 (OP)
真 /smtg/ plays anchor post

真 /smtg/ plays page:
>https://rentry.org/shin-smtg-plays
any suggestions for the event or rentry page?

how long should the smt 4 event last?
>https://strawpoll.com/61gD9v11WZw

>funniest moment?
>unpopular opinions?
>did you like the references to the past games?
>how would you describe smt 4?
>favorite aspect of smt 4?

i havent played smtiv in ages and probably won't in ages but honestly if i did i'd probably go for all the fashion options
visible armor is cool as hell

>>535161137
will this be compatible with vanilla V?

Hehehe

>>535170421
is nine character artist the same guy who made kite and mezzo forte?

>>535172942
Yerrpp that's right

>>535143903
>>535144106
>>535161137
Vfags aren't just degenerate coomers, they said.

>>535174075
Ringoschizo does nothing but shit on V, but he also datamines it and poses with the models. I remember him making sahori and Tao stuff back with the original switch version.
He's a paradox

>>535174179
Tsundere behavior

Is chatgpt technically a demon since it's just a construct built from human information

>>535173046
nice

ngl i wish we did have one h scene with FeMC in Kite with her hair down. she looked way cuter that way

>>535153304
>you need an account to see this image
Sad.

Isabeau is so underrated, I think she needed a makeover midway through tokyo though with hair extensions.

This artist is underrated.

>>535180174
I like the idea of her having an absolutely killer sleeper bod, like in >>535179209
It would make since that she was fit, being a samurai and all.

>>535182395
Nozomi actually looks appealing here. And damn Isabeau

>>535182516
They can make almost any demon look good.

>>535182582
You say that as if Leanan Sidhe was already "hot mature blonde lady in a low cut dress"

>>535182757
I know, but I wanted to post that image anyways.

>>535182810
Isabeau and Asahi look the sexiest here

>>535183107
It's because you can clearly see the hip definition the most.

>>535182516
>>535183320
i hate nozomi so much. what were they thinking getting her to rat you out to the hunter's association? nanashi can't die fine. but I wouldn't be surprised if hunter association didn't just outright fucking lynch you right there and then.

>>535183742
Many of the "friends" in the game can say you outright hate you depending on your choices. Isabue, if you kill her, says if you decided not to help those who were injured, that she has despised you ever since and was planning to murder you anyways. Asahi and Toki are the only ones that aren't using you for their own goals.

Do heroines prefer demons with horsecocks or demons with canine cocks?

What did Jimenez mean by this?

>>535183742
There’s a lot of missteps with the characterization of your ‘friends.’ If anything Gaston is probably the better written character since he’s consistent. Nozomi ratting you out by pretending to be your ally? Okay that’s fine, but you can’t have both where she betrays your trust and goes back to your party. I honestly think that her being a hunter glowie is neat, if it went all the way at least where she leaves the party entirely. I don’t know, just a thought on that.
>>535184045
>older women want to kill you
>the girls of nanashi’s age are pretty chill
Atlus, what did you mean by this?

>>535184387
Aahi and Toki are more innocent to the world around them, while Izanami and Isabue have faced much more shit where they have survived that long for a reason. They don't have any more SMTlV art.

>>535184387
i know we memed this a shit ton but the game should've really been you and asahi against the world.
>>535184045
haha isabeau was funny as fuck "I always hated you".

>>535184620
You know, that’s a fair point. Asahi is extremely innocent and naive with Toki being sheltered. Makes sense there. Gaston still second best partner though

>>535184754
>you and asahi
No see, it would have been really cool. Nanashi is the magic using godslayer while Asahi is the comp and gun user so there’d be a reason as to why they would stick together in a practical sense, and them being childhood friends for the obvious. These two against both the demons and the hunter association who think Nanashi is a demon, Asahi dying by shesha causing nanashi to crash out and sacrifice the universe to bring her back, etc etc. I’m just spitballing and in no way an industry writer, but apocalypse really did have some very cool concepts that would have surpassed the original IV

>>535184840
Gaston I would consider having an innocence to the world with his upbringing and being a Samurai, not seeing Tokyo until recently. He steals my press turns, so I never used him. Most of the game he's using the party as a means of an end, and by some point he begins to actually like the characters with him. The same could be said for Narrve where at first he's using the party but then grows to like everyone.
>>535185216
Apparently the original idea was Asahi's dad being the MC and her being a child heroine.

>>535185216
>>535185295
hey man don't dare say that's your idea because that was OUR idea, we've regurgitated that over and over again in the past generals haha

Are there diminishing returns for stats over 200 in SMT4?

>>535185295
….do I just like innocent characters naive to the true workings of the world?

>>535185641
Bit of a soft cap at ~250 but you’re more than welcome to keep putting in points for the stats. You can go 999 if you had the time to

>>535185641
Not really, it's very minimal and there is no reason to stop stat dumping.
>>535185670
Nothing wrong with the idea as it gives some idea to want to protect them. While girls like Nozomi can protect herself.

>>535185346
My favorite joke from that proto discussion is toki being a dilf hunter just to piss Asahi off

>>535185838
>>535185847
Perfect, I'll keep it going

I actually like Nanashi and Asahi final design compared to the concept art

>>535188821
Asahi is sexier with her final design.

Isabeau bros....

>>535191450
Monkey look like THAT!?!

>>535190309
Can agree-the cap + dress she has is much sexier. Simultaneously innocent yet sexy

>>535191710
Doi knows how to draw sexy girls.

can we just commission a lot more desu2 and smt iv stuff? Thanks! :D

>>535192987
>DeSu 2
Meh
>iv
Only of asahi

>>535193312
WHAT

>>535179260
what an angel

>>535195735
weird looking dog

>>535122040
Most of Atlus's rereleases add unnecessary content or characters that turn the game into less than the sum of its parts. You can't just staple new events and characters onto a game and have it function. Alex is pretty bad and her involvement drags down the value of the mainline plot.
I would say that VV is one of the few exceptions because Vengeance is very clearly a case of "what if we actually finished the fucking game." Not even Nocturne is totally safe from this because, while the Labyrinth of Amala is a cool dungeon, it devalues all of the other paths through the game by making TDE have the most content by a mile. Doing the Labyrinth also fucks with the fairly tight pacing of the base game.

>>535197808
Is P3FES still their "best" rerelease? I'm trying to think of others but I haven't played EO or Radiant Historia.

I guess P5R was okay but they BROKE that gameplay lmfao.

>>535198007
Probably. The extra material in FES was almost purely upside and wasn't intrusive. Aigis always should have had a social link and it helps fill out December where you'd probably be running low on things to do normally anyway. The Answer is hit or miss, but importantly it is basically just an epilogue chapter, so it doesn't step on the main game's toes.
P5R is a weird one. The gameplay is absolutely broken because the game was already piss easy even without the additions of traits and whatnot, but the writing additions are super mixed. Maruki is a decent villain and his plot is honestly better than much of the main game finale to me, but I despised Sumire and how forced her addition is to an already bloated cast. She's similar levels of annoying as Alex in Strange Journey or Marie in P4.
Atlus is just awful at add-on stories because their writing is typically mediocre to begin with, but then they strain it further by trying to get ambitious before even having solid footing.

>>535197808
V was a finished game already. CoV is basically playing the same game again with some small add ons. One new map and one dungeon are the only significant content changes. What CoV did was add back a cut story plot about snakes since the whole game's metatextual narrative is about original sin, down to the Nahobino dynamic itself but it means nothing because Lucifer is completely absent from the plot. Turns out Yoko was where the snake plot was, they just didn't know how to fit it back in after the rewrites.

>>535198626
>V was a finished game already
Stopped reading.

>>535198007
I'd say the best Atlus rerelease is DeSu overclocked, most of it are gameplay upgrades and instead of shoehorning a new ending they chose to expand three of the already existing ones. I feel like this is the only case we've ever had of a rerelease truly making the base game obsolete.

>>535198724
desu2?

>>535198721
I'm not surprised since you think a glorified port is barely any different from the base game. Or even call that "finished" in comparison.

>>535198784
I'll be honest, I never played Record Breaker so I can't compare the two. I emulated vanilla DeSu2 on my phone five-or-so years ago and didn't like it very much so I never bothered to replay it.

>>535199097
heratic!

>>535199059
Neither game is finished

>>535198626
>What CoV did was add back a cut story plot about snakes since the whole game's metatextual narrative is about original sin
I'd say this is pretty indicative of the game being "unfinished" in the colloquial use of the term. They "finished" the game in the sense that it went gold and they shipped it, but it was lacking in some areas and it wasn't complete thematically. VV just adds back in what should have been there from the start and delivers a more interesting plot.

>>535199183
Thematically yes, but gameplay wise the game was complete. And even then they did try to keep the original sin plot in the game, they even showed Lucifer tempting Dazai and Abdiel, but it wasn't nearly as prevalent as it needed to be.

The snake/dragon elements are so obviously present in nahobinos design to the extent before release people were predicting the true identify was going to be watatsumi, but the entire plotline ended up being cut and only references to the bull part were left in a single questline
Not being able to implement a plotline that literally influenced key parts of the mcs design (and is a core facet of the structure of the entire universe) sounds like a pretty unfinished game to me

>>535202539
This was speculation and secondly the new form with Koshimizu has a lot more snake elements in the design. Also this can still be true in the base game. This isn't the first time Susano-o has been compared to a snake in smt. Think about how Susano-o represents duality of law and chaos. Law is the bull while chaos is the snake. So the fact he has elements from both surrounding him just make sense.

Someone is definitely working on a SMT II ps1 patch, they're just hoarding it until it's done hahaha..... right?

>>535204107
maybe Tom will do it once he's done with Persona

>>535192987
Someone should commission another megaten NSFW pixel animation, but with SMT IV.

>>535206464
Any decent artists?

>>535206464
DeSu2 already has pixel characters tho

in what SMT games is lucifer an asshole?

>>535206939
Most of them.

>>535206772
I was thinking theevilfallenone, since he did make two already.

>>535207197
1,2,3 he seems fine

>>535207636
>1
>screws with you using Lilith, tells you to turn around from fighting Asura several floors down just to waste your time fighting Beelzebub on an island in the middle of no where
>2
>thinks he has to take a chunk out of the millennium with a snake and it's the only way to stop YHVH's plan, if you tell him that's fucking stupid as neutral he'll fight you and then say "oh maybe you were right" and tells you how to kill the snake
>3
>tries to sell you on an anti-creation pyramid scheme, makes a copy of your teacher that talks like her to manipulate you

>>535207357
what about anyone else?

>>535208375
the beezlebub part was funny as fuck. why was he like that lmfao.

Rie SMT1?

>>535208940
he's a fly nigga bzzzzzz

>>535208940
>why was he like that

>Lilith plan failed, knows she is going to get her ass kicked shortly
>"Hey did you know there is this super secret way to beat Asura??? Fucking walk all the way back up and go to this random island for a surprise!"

If anything it was desperate and he was hoping you would be stupid enough to go.

>>535208590
Funk dangerfield and Froll are pretty decent.

>>535209749
>both unavailable
It’s over

Yuriko reverse raping hero in amazon position while heroine is tied up and forced to watch

>>535191450
Built for BDC (big demon cock)

>>535211071
>reverse raping
Isn't that just consensual sex? What the fuck is reverse rape?

>>535212284
It's just goonbrain talk for when a woman rapes a man

>>535212284
It's when a woman has sex with a faggot

>>535212420
>goonbrain talk
Ah, that's why it makes no sense.

I goon.

I got the goonies

>>535191450
Lore wise what is stopping me from forcing Isabeau to lust after me with continued attacks of marin karin

>>535215252
Flynn

>>535215192
Meta Sloth

>>535215381
Okay so what’s stopping me from doing so when Flynn gets kidnapped?

>>535215536
Me.

>>535215734
>Repels Dream Fist
>Smirks
>Madness Needles even harder

>>535217139
>not Fire of Sinai

So.... news soon right? Gamescom and Tokyo Game Show are coming up....

>>535222779
Doubtful. At best, maybe a port to the switch 2 of VV

>>535222998
>At best, maybe a port to the switch 2 of VV
Would require a nintendo direct and I think there is no hope for that for a while.

>>535222779
DLC soon, VVbros. This time for real.

>>535223137
With no direct, then there is no news for SMT at all.

>>535223137
>>535222998
my god what's with switchies and always muh ports muh ports muh ports.

>>535223847
The only reason to care is new content in the form of dlc sold on the other platforms the game is on. Other switch 2 ports also do this.

>>535223847
What would be the most likely news for atlus?
>new game
Lol
>dlc
Lmao
So really it’s either a port or nothing, most likely nothing

>>535224420
The only thing VV needs for the switch 2 is a minor patch which would get them few to no new sales. It doesn't even need a direct, just a twitter post saying we fixed the resolution and frame rate cap, go download the patch on the nintendo eshop. That still hasn't happened yet, probably because they have nothing to gain doing that. If they want to make money or even sell an entire Switch 2 port, it has to come with new content.

Toki should have been a hag

>>535224420
>>535224039
it's not that but it's just more if you have an announcement or like a nintendo direct or something that shit shouldn't be ALL fucking ports.

also atlus going between systems is fucking stupid. nintendo ps1 ps2 nintendo again the fuck are those dumbasses doing

>>535225058
If VV is done then the only other feasible thing would be more ports. IV being the most likely. A new smt game won't be for a long ass time.

>>535225029
>Clingy chaos touch-starved milf
Hold up, you might be onto something.

>>535225501
That's just Lilith again.

I never even knew he count become binded.

I really wasn't expecting to get neutral.

>>535226178
>he got demon ending

>>535226178
doesn't Hikaru say the same thing when you first encounter her there after finding Waltuh?

>>535226178
>he thoughted

>>535226178
>side by side
I hate that

>>535228274
It's good enough.

>people say IV A has the happiest ending
walter and jonathan are still dead....

>>535229579
They're talking about the other ending.

>>535229579
am I supposed to care

before i play smt iv, do i have to read or watch rose of versatitties?

>>535230256
Yeah, game is unplayable otherwise

>tried to summon a mature DFC hag demon
>accidentally summoned a naive big tiddy goth demon instead
It's hard out here for a Summoner

>>535230256
and anime/manga/anime (remake)???

>>535232493
Try summoning a job.

>>535230256
Yes, make sure to order your maid costume now in preparation for IVA

>go gun shopping
>immediately fuck up with magazine ejection
How the hell did Futsuo not fuck up with the guns he buys?

>>535232996
I do have a job, how else would I have enough MACCA and MAG to summon demons?

>>535233306
SMT isn't meant to be realistic. What gun did you get?

>>535229579
Pretty sure CoV law is currently the happiest smt ending now.

SMT IV Law is a pretty good ending, murder-suicide aside.

>>535228358
Bald.

>>535244682
Hair loss comes for us all

>>535132761
just play it blind, pussy

>tripfag
>shit taste in waifus
That tracks

>>535228274
Big and small screens makes the bottom too small, I wish I could pick the scaling

>>535247651
newfag

>>535250738
oldfag

What was Atlus trying to say by having Susano-o replace YHVH as the one true god?

I don't know how I feel about SJR so far. In Sector D and I just think going to the SMT 1/2 formula kinda stinks. especially with random stat distribution like frick off I just wanna unga bunga. It hasn't really clicked for me and while I thought getting locked into certain demons would be cool but it's just fucking annoying lol.

also what the heck is with womb of grief? I could only clear floor one and then floor two freaking wipes me.

>>535244682
Bald thread
Bald general
Bald game
Bald series
Bald franchise
Bald company

>>535251336
Nothing, the one true god is the Great Will, YHVH is just an avatar, plus last game had a thirteen year old take God's place, so it's nothing special.

>>535252165
>Sector D boss
oh my fucking god is the rest of the game going to be this bullshit too?

>>535253574
Mostly yes, strange journey is a pretty tough game.

>>535253574
Sector E was the point where I went "oh okay, so its this kind of game" and realized I was just going to have to grind my HP higher than what she could hit me with.
Sector D's boss is merely an annoyance in comparison

>Nahobino's sword looks and feels like slapping them with a floppy noodle.
I miss Demi-Fiends snappy punch. The sword has zero impact
>Normal battle music is trying to be cool like SMT4's explosion of action
Nice try but it's not as cool

>>535253298
A human replacing YHVH and abolishing all religion has a narrative behind it you know. That doesn't just mean "nothing". It's about atheism.

>>535253574
Aren't you playing the demake that lets you make your entire team immune to status effects for free? The fuck is your problem?

>>535253574
holy this is so cheesy, I've fucking had 1/20 tries where I got to half health but everything else is just he charms my demons oh look they wipe me LOL GG SKILL ISSUE >:D
>>535257559
you dumbass you get that AFTER you beat this boss

I swear this must be a canon event or something. it really seems like you have to win this fight with black frost as your last stand homie.

ringoschizo plays: Strange Journey Redux

>...Ugh...How shameful...to be defeated...by a human...
why does sound like hentai

does everyone make everyone a schizo now?

Who is your Heroine?

>>535247187
I want to actually understand what is going on

>>535262356
Aogami

>>535262356
Asahi

>>535262356
I'm the heroine

>>535264438
h-hi

>>535262356
Marici

In SMT4 I need some help. I want to do the quest that allows me to fly, but no demon has given me the quest. UI haven't gotten to the bottom right corner of the map and I have no idea how. I can't do one of the required neutral quests without being able to fly and I'm in a pickle.

please send help

>>535267783
This is the first time I heard you could fly in SMT 4, is this still a thing in 4A? Also you can get more quests by going to a bar and looking at the blackboard or score thing

>>535268579
It's a demon quest. I have to go a certain region to get the quest.

>>535268804
A demon quests where you have to negotiate for it to work? If it's not popping up you might have to clear even more quests to unlock it, try the wiki to find the quest you're looking for.

>>535262356
Yoko.

>>535267783
Don't forget not only to look at all boards when Burroughs gets an update (she won't auto pickup all side quests), but there's some quests you can only get by scouting demons (usually these have a very high priority, if you go 5 or so and don't get a quest, safe to assume demons don't have a quest to give).

>the quest you get a ship
That's post alignment lock, very late game. Need to send the White in bodybags levels of late game, not just choosing Ichigaya or Tsukiji Hongwanji.

>>535268906
>>535269195
I'm late game. I only have 2 required side quests for neutral, but Tokyo Cosmos needs the flying to get to certain areas faster without dealing with random encounters

>>535269441
Then you just need to Scout more demons and ask for details when they give a quest (could be to another side quest if you didn't pick them up), maybe try it near/at Camp Ichigaya as that's where I got a few of demon-talk quests for the late game. It won't be guaranteed first demon you talk to but usually has a high priority.

>>535269195
Anon, that's a butch lesbian snake.

>>535133031
Made it all the way to the final boss without much difficulty but he absolutely mollywopped me due to his debuff build combined with being immune to my strongest weapon that I totally did not get by cheating at Keno in the casinos. On the bright side I finally got to meet my guardian spirit, but I guess it's time to actually grind out some levels and fuse up some demons to counter his bullshit.
After the Envy dungeon I'm convinced that whoever is heading these games 110% has a hypnofetish with how many mind control/brainwashing arcs there are in these games. not that I'm complaining, it's a kino fetish.

>>535162090
>funniest moment?
Isabeau when calling Tayama out for kidnapping children for his School advert. I like to think Tayama was laughing (lmao these Mikado kids don't know school) and sweating (he either already did or was about to) in equal measure. Close second being pic related by absurdity, this is so awkward to me it'd fit in The Room.
>unpopular opinions?
For IV? I don't know really unless saying it's a mixed bag (positive leaning) is a hot take.
>did you like the references to the past games?
I didn't play the original games so I can't say much beyond the Demonicas and I don't think much of them.
>how would you describe smt 4?
Wanting to save full thoughts for when I'm finished and roll credits, compiling my thoughts meanwhile. If I had to go for a tl;dr currently, "comfort SMT". Is it the best thing SMT game ever? No, SJ and VV exist. Is it the worst thing ever? Also no, IVA exists. It has many rough edges but was still a game I had a lot of fun of because it got things well enough that I can just play it and relatively relax. Chaos route was as fun as my first time, even after recognizing the many caveats within.
>favorite aspect of smt 4?
Walter (or maybe just the higher brass of chaos reps here as Lilith/Lucifer both shone too despite the rest of the game trying to paint a dark chaos interpretation), the ost, or how powerful your demons can get without needing to be at end game. Its dumb I'm loading up on Nulls and Pleromas before level 40 but the path to the rainbow demons of bullshit is nice. And yes, Walter is an absolute Chaos-bro, part of my ending headcanon will be acting as his wingman while he's inside Lucifer's mind palace. I know Lucifer said the conscience died in the fusion but considering Walter says a piece at the end of his boss fights in Law/Neutral, I don't think its far-fetched to say they're back-seat gaming more so than anything.

>>535270091
Idk about you but she was holding hands with my Nahobino.

>>535272612
He also held hands with other people and she also held Tao.

>>535272804
But not sensually like the final red-carpet walk out onto the next world's sunrise.

And now my nightly IV parting thoughts, hope you all sleep well, this is a long one.

>Walter's sacrifice
Got me realizing as I picked the dialogue to be the sacrifice, I kind of wished the player had more agency in their alignment. A lot of Chaos/Law is just following the reps. Yes they're fine reps, I'm proud to be Walter's shield-brother, but I picked the self-sacrifice dialogue because I don't necessarily get a moment to shill Chaos myself and that future needs a heart behind it like Walter. It adds just the slightest bit of hollowness to Walter's speech because what type of leader have I made myself at this point? Maybe there'll be small moments where I can showcase it, perhaps I can fanfic the sidequests as something, but I remember the ending clearly and the game itself doesn't recognize how you acted within the alignment. How's the new Tokyo gonna be when Nozomi's leading the fairy village? When I've proven myself as one to believe in rematches in the hunter tournaments? Admittedly this is more a personal SMT gripe with how Chaos generally gets handled, Naoya's route's the big exception coming to mind where you can define it, but Walter's speech highlighted it here. Maybe I'm just spoiled by good Obsidian games or something.
>"We will demonstrate the laws of power to the kingdom of deceit"
Complements to the verbal assassination Squidward, appreciate didn't forget about Walter but why are you paying me macca to beat up Merkabah? It's probably one of the most bizarre payouts in the entire game.
>Analyze rant
Burroughs, why is it piss? It doesn't update as new info's presented (such as you hitting with an element), it doesn't give you information about their conditions (such as an ailment). I think I made Isabeau sick but I can barely tell because she's already a dark sprite so its not a big contrast. It should've been a perma-Spyglass.
(1/3)

>>535273828
>sensually
When? And the narration says the world hasn't ended yet. Did you read it?

Rare NINE art.

NINE is a hoax

>>535273937
Talking about the CoV Chaos ending itself. Yes it's more current world's sunset rather than new world's sunrise, but that's a thin line since "a new future will be born".
https://youtu.be/NhApPSVrkVw?t=985

>yo check this out, demons they talk like this "eeh ehhhhhh ehhhhhhhh"
>but angels, they talk like this "ouooooooh"

>>535273828
>Isabeau (fight)
For the fight itself... I had NDR phys on my team and targeted Joan of Arc before she could LCandy, it was not in Isabeau's favor from the start. Even when holding back and not using spells until the very end it was a steamroll, a concentrated Ziodyne from Samael would've one shot her Valkyrie. Finally its weird that Isabeau's team didn't seem to have any elemental coverage (or it was all on Joan of Arc who died quickly). Tetrakarn spam + poor targeting meant Isabeau's Riot Guns didn't force me out of Siegfried's clothes when I ramped up. As for the writing. Feels like she got the wrong memo about what my brand of Chaos is on about, especially when this is coming after Walter's speech about not being Kenji 2.0. Could work if it was her trying to showcase that the ideals would be unreachable against how it'd be in practice but that's not how she goes about it. This did ruin the dynamics as it felt like I'm punching Pirate Software a bit, especially as the first dialogue went hard into the dark lord of chaos. But doing nothing at the last 25% was nice, and her taking her own life to preserve your hands was a strong moment for Isabeau. Maybe pin this on Infernal Tokyo not being developed enough (1) due to writing/console limitations, low hanging fruit as it might be to blame dev hell. I do know about the NPCs in Tokyo but I don't see demons in any of the shelters when making my rounds and doesn't mitigate my complaints, that being Isabeau feels like she's complaining about Cernunnos' chaos, not mine/Lucifer's.
>1
Yes it had gang wars but all you did was assassinate a top head and a guard, you never really got to experience the conflict real-time. Wasn't like the overworld had demonoids doing their best to prove their strength but get replaced as you progressed here to show how cheap life is.
(2/3)

>>535278089
End Game Round-up: Day 1
>Infernal Ikebukuro
A pleasant surprise, I like there's more time to flesh this world out a little more. Its a surprisingly clean district despite the people being more inline with Kenji than Akira. The four horsemen quest should've let you fuse Belial if you were chaos aligned instead of locking him behind the law route, and why does the shop's armors only resist? We're post alignment lock, why's the only armor that isn't from Ginza's back alley shop a quest unlock from Mikado just to Null Fire? Balor's balling a Null and a resist with zero weakness aside from one ailment (Sick) well before this point.
>Infernal Shibuya
Pleasant surprise #2 also for the extra demons somewhat easily accessible, Berserker's a nice find. Still wondering why the doors in Ichigaya don't unlock in all 3 worlds. I get wanting equality Akira but I did that have to include equal suffering? As mentioned before I am taking a look at the NPCs here and Covered Tokyo to see how they're reacting to everything.
>Demiurge
Another Riot Gun user? You know I figured the gun-weakness on Siegfried's armor would've been flavor-text at end-game, not an actual detriment, 2nd one that succeeded in making me explode. Also is the first time I had to recognize AI boss patterns. He won't touch Judgement Light if Tretaja's used and will Dekunda at -3, not beforehand. That said he is the first scary boss since the Koga's first fight, when he wasn't clicking Attack on Phys Drain Lilith (salty dog?), he was scary with Debilitates out the ass, Antichthon and applying sick (I/Lilith freed us of Sickness) made this the first fight of attrition. Probably helped Son Goku kept whiffing Myriad Arrows too, maybe because he was under-leveled (only level 60). Topping this off with an epilogue from Lucifer, it just reminds me what I wanted from IV side quests. This should've been the standard, not the exception alongside Nozomi's quests.
(3/3)

is shoji made of win?

>>535281124
yes

In SMT1, what's the max number of item/money/mag requests a demon can ask from you? I just got a demon fleecing me of 4 items before finally relenting. I don't even know what they want to use it for.

>>535282385
You can tell a demon no and then try to pacify them. If it works they will only ask for one more of something and then join you. If you don't do that and just keep saying yes they can ask for more up to 5 times.

>>535297369
Based Amon.
Doi is a hack and stole design.

What was their fucking problem

>>535301452
Now Messiah, you must...eat.

>>535304070
They were trying to find the messiah

>>535270091
A butch "lesbian" obsessed with bussy

Rank the following
>I
>II
>III
>SJ
>IV
>V
IV > V = III (V plays the best but III is a "better" experience) > SJ > I > II

>>535307715
lV>SJ>2>3>1>>>V

>>535307715
V>SJ>III>I>II>IV

>>535307715
VV>IVA>SJ>I>II>V>III>IV

>>535307715
SJ >= IV >= III > II > I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> V / VV

>>535308139
>rating base V above Nocturne and IV
Bait

>>535310020
I just enjoyed it more than those two.

>>535310560
I'm willing to concede that to IV but if you enjoy it more than Kinocturne then you have dogshit taste my man. Not to mention V is poorly trying to ape Nocturne.

>>535310020
IV is above V though. o_o
and III is equal to V. I think V is just a really fun game to play but it's absolutely scuffed. It's probably the game I'd least like to play a replaythrough of lol. It feels so one and done compared to the other games. Maybe it's just the open world autism and lack of variety.

>>535310919
ngl. sorry folks, I think I might've squatted a little too hard at the gym this morning.

>>535310919
>IV is above V though
No that's IVA. And yes the open world fatigue makes replying V a fucking nightmare.

>>535310020
IV is the worst game in the series. It's unironically an unfinished mess.

>>535311597
Yeah but it has funny memes

>>535310895
I don't know what to say, in spite of its many qualities, Nocturne also has a lot of tedious and unfun shit, which is why it rank so low.

Rankings are gay.

>>535306667
She cared more about Tao after the school section.

>>535312325
Why haven't you posted your ranking then?

SMT Tokyo requiem is being released via steam

>>535313096
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3713410/GMODE/
If it gets a translation patch then I'll buy it.

>>535313096
>another literal who phone game
damn we're eating good

>>535314018
SMT is saved

>>535313946
They don't even have the decency to put cheevos into these g-mode games

>>535314492
>cheevos
Gay.

>>535313096
Devils coliseum and hazama chapter please, thats basically all the remaining ones I want

>>535314705
I need to beat video game and have the validation of video game telling me I beat video game so I can show everyone online my gamer cred

>>535314018
Definite cope but what if the phone games being pushed to steam is an experiment for maybe smt 1-2 to be pushed there?

>>535312331
Fujocope.

>>535314492
It's a Unity container which is holding an emulator for a flip phone inside and the unity container is sending data to and from the emulator.

>>535316842
this was a good fap

>>535317105
it's still possible to do achievements with a setup like that but cheevos are gay anyway

>>535315287
Insisting Yoko ever saw him as more than a friend is the cope.

>>535318405
>Inside you there are two Wolves

>>535319327
holy sexxo

>>535319327
cunny club

>>535319327
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2LQMElLoLs

>>535320757
>now neither of us will be virgins

>>535319327
Imagine the demon summoning....

Why is she so OP in VV?

>>535319327
ToT...

>>535318405
Holy shit it's Lucemon Falldown Mode

>>535317414
That's it, I'm getting me Garudynes.

>>535315153
Never going to happen. G-Mode is the one who's rereleasing these games because they legitimately want their older catalog more accessible than being stuck on phones from the 2000s. The only thing Atlus does is giving them the thumbs up, as they own the SMT/Persona IP. Also by the way, Atlus would not simply port SMT 1 + 2 onto PC. They'll come up with some method to force you to buy the game around $70, bunch of dogshit DLC, and slap Devuno on it as a bonus.

>>535322125
>last resort
>destroys a city block
>>535325071
You are right but man is that disheartening all the same

SMT but your heroine is a little girl demon who focuses on drain spells

>>535326792
can she drain the protag to give him a buff

>>535325071
The only thing I can hope for is they do a collection of the older SMT games for 80 dollars

>>535326960
yes

>>535326792
literally Acheri, you plebian

Drain: Balls

Age Verification Dyne

Grokma

>>535333821
made for big Pazuzu cock

>>535334129
Why are you like this

>>535307715
III > SJ > II > I > VV > IVA > IV > V

It's a little weird how you guys rate V and VV seperately but don't do III vs III Maniax vs III Chronicle and SMT 1 (SFC) vs SMT 1 (PS1) vs SMT1 (gba) vs SMT2 (sfc) vs okay let's be honest nobody played the untranslated versions yet.

>>535338083
I'd be surprised if there's even one anon here who has played through vanilla Nocturne

>>535338083
You some kinda retard?

>>535338524
>>535338393
You can play vanilla Nocturne right now on the HD remaster you very smart demon hunter you.

>>535338393
There's a retard here who did it a few years ago completely in Japanese without knowing a lick of the language just to prove a point. He was rightfully laughed at.

>>535338694
it still isn't vanilla even if you play without the DLC

>>535112663 (OP)
I like how in the visionary quests the extremely authoritarian fundamentalist stance that Gimel takes is said by the ‘elites’ to be contrary to true Messian ideals, really giving an image that the true original Messian ideology is very different to what we think they are.And it makes sense with the Messian’s hermetic trappings with hermetic Christianity being linked to humanism in the Renaissance, there’s an irony of a group that would be persecuted by mainstream churches becoming the same tyrannical church like what they broke off from

SMT makes it clearer that the law faction tends to be at odds with law’s actual ideology, in almost every SMT game this seems to be the case even the law ending for SMT 1 clashes with the messian’s extremist ideology, law is linked with socialism and equality but we always see the law faction do the exact opposite (in SMT 2 it got so bad that it made Chaos care for the weak, at least temporarily during the events of the game only to destroy the centre and any semblance of law, in contrast. And when you got the guy who in the first game explicitly said that he is the embodiment of a world where the weak is crushed by the strong to support those that are weaker to spite you, you know you are fucked) of that only to be corrected by the true forces of law.

Would love for the origins of the messians to be explored, how they are like when they are truly aligned with their ideals instead of given to corruption

>>535318405
>old man grooms shirtless teenage boy

>>535338817
what point was he trying to prove?

>>535314018
I mean these games would be completely unplayable and lost otherwise, it’s great for preservation and they expand the story/worlds of previous games

The most impressive and important ones are the persona 2 ones, since they actually have substantial content that actually adds to the original in terms of story but we haven’t gotten those yet. I am glad we got 20XX I was looking forward to that since I wanted to see an expansion of Tokyo Millenium, the persona 1 sequel seems to be quite minimal and disappointing despite the cool premise but I am glad that we got that still; at least more time with the characters even if it is a bit shit, and we get to see the persona 1 cast in makai

>>535339185
don't manual skill inheritance

>>535340321
>leads me in a campaign to destroy all creation
>first world we jump into
>"Ok we're going to kick this guy off his throne off and start a war here"
>wait a long as time
>fight in war
>kill god (again)
>Lucifer gets some knowledge juice
>"Actually, I was wrong. We're fighting an impossible up hill battle here. I'm going to groom another teenager and put him on the throne to end creation in this world because the rest are hopeless. This will at least send a message to big GW that his rules can be broken. It's the best I can do.
>wat
>Tells me to chill in the hall of chaos until the teenager arrives
>he's blue and looks like a fag

Thanks I guess

>>535112663 (OP)
>>535112663 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDDxY3M5qFw

Why haven’t you started yet? You have time for 15 minutes of basic rituals a day, right?

>>535156606
SMT 2 is the Persona 2 of SMT, both these games need hard-type patches with level scaling or extremely diminished exp for enemies of a lower level to prevent over-levelling. Magic in SMT 2 is so fucked that it must have been glitch with how useless it is in terms of damage, and luck has the opposite issue of it not taking much luck for you to get countless items from every fucking battle so that you constantly are over encumbered. Fantastic game, terrible gameplay

>>535342520
My ocd way of playing is partially the issue, because I like to check everything including demon negotiations to get the most out of the game but I am not the only person with this issue

>>535340370
nta but iirc that vanilla was superior or something

>>535338083
SMT 3 maniax can be essentially played the exact same as vanilla in the same playthrough, you aren’t getting a completely different experience just one added to the already existing base vanilla game

If you are comparing V with VV then you are essentially comparing chronicle of creation with chronicle of vengeance

>>535334354
He's Pazuzu

>>535345015
Labubu

>>535344515
don't care. make it consistent

>>535345197
Labubu, Labu Labu Labubu

>>535333821
why does she get a doujin out of nowhere?

>>535348816
The thought process for this was that it would have been nice to have something for the digital devil story series, and that maybe someone might get inspired to play MT2 after their fap session.

>>535348816
because that nigga paid for it, bless his autism

>>535349938
>>535349123
what are some underrated SMT/MT related doujins

>>535348816
Man paid 1k for it.

>>535112663 (OP)
Are the residents of the abyss so desperate?

>>535351173
man if that's all it takes....
no wait that's hella expensive the fuck? I'd pay at max $200 and that's not even USD.

IMAGINE If... Meguro kept making kino electro rock instead of cringe jazz and boring orchestral music

>>535352076
10 pages of anything, regardless of quality, is gonna get expensive

>>535353785
Imagine If? Like an Imagine sequel that takes place in a school? That would be neat.

>>535353847
Persona 1 and 2? SMT V is as school based as SMT it is honestly

>>535354624
I would rather have a more occult persona game

>>535112663 (OP)
If you replaced the fucking in porn with dungeon crawling or non-story gameplay, then SMT 1 and 3 would be a film like Caligula; yes there are plenty of hardcore scenes that distract from the plot, but the plot is still very much carrying the film. SMT V in comparison barely qualifies as a hardcore porno, honestly close to being internet porn

>>535350745
That one soul hackers doujin with the sister

>>535356726
yeah, for sure...

>>535356726
What

Hahaha
What if
What if there was like a skill called fountain of youth and it turned you into a loli as a status effects hahaha
I just think it would be funny if your heroine got turned into a loli
Wouldn't that be so funny lol hahaha

>>535147690
May we see it?

>>535360840
https://files.catbox.moe/a1hp9q.7z

>Sector E
okay now I really kinda wanna join you guys in playing SMT IV instead..

>>535363901
might as well skip to V if you just want a game that babies you

>>535352076
Multiple pages costs a lot of money. You could go on fiverr and pay for it from some Indian, but there is very limited quality control.

One thing nobody mentions is how most of the Ring of Gaia dies off when the route split happens.

>>535364686
Is that not a plot point in IVA?

>>535351926
Cool image, where's it from?

>>535366878
Cover art by Jack Gaughan for Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, March 1978

>>535363901
Just use a guide. It's not even a fun teleporter maze. It's just pointlessly confusing.

Do you think soul hackers 2 will get the rerelease treatment at some point to try and bandaid it, or will they move on and never acknowledge it again?

>>535367276
> It was ironic that Ann Bagley got mixed up with a bunch of extraterrestrials in a night club at the top of the Mile-Hi Building in Chicago. But maybe it was inevitable. She was the daughter of the minister of a flock in a place like Zion, Illinois, home of the ecclesiastical fig newton, only it was a smaller place. I won’t name it here, or name him....
Parallel worlds, interplanetary romance, and religion are just some of the elements of this gonzo science fiction story!

>>535367582
Most likely it won’t be acknowledged except for the occasional blurb that it exists. It didn’t do well sales wise and several fans have a mixed to negative opinion on it, even from the devs themselves

>>535367582
Watch them think it’s because of a lack of interest in devil summoner instead of it being a shit game

>>535367582
It would need a full remake, not just a few patch.

>>535367582
In a few years I think they will. They probably have a priority to make other rereleases first.

>>535112663 (OP)
>had a dream I lived in a virtual reality game with Tokyo Millennium aesthetics
>apocalyptic last moments of the game, meet woman in storage facility, game shuts down all turns to black
>a few days later get to the part in SMT 2 where I have the option to shut down Arcadia, though I don’t irl

Very unexpected prophetic dream, but it did have a creepy somber vibe when I had it

>>535368882
Oh cool someone else that has prophetic dreams of random bullshit

>>535368985
It’s been happening a lot, though sometimes I have visions of something that will happen the next day even while awake, though I do relevant spiritual work so it’s not like they are unasked for

>>535112663 (OP)
Awkward silence

>>535377795
An all star American.

>>535361452
Also in case you’re weary about the link, you can find the original here in the dude’s profile
https://bsky.app/profile/xelandis.bsky.social

>>535379274
>troonsky

>>535379363
>check twitter for original link
>dead
Take what you can get. I’m still trying to shove asahi into New Vegas

>>535307715
Of what I've played so far from best to worst
MT2
SMT2
SMT1
Majin Tensei (second half)
MT1
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P-P-P-P-POWER GAP
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Majin Tensei (first half)
Last Bible 1
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Last Bible 2

Currently on SMT IF which looks like it's probably going snugly between Majin's second half and MT1

Was the comic where Hazama calls Akira fused with Amon cringe and gets told he is cringe actually something that was drawn?

>>535377795
What is this

>>535388145
Play Maken. It's peak.

>>535388181
ATLUS can't make action games

Sector E almost completed. Transportation was whatever, I got it locked down pretty well. What I didn't fucking like was spending 1-2 hours looping trying to find X-Metal only to realize the passage is completely out of the transportation shit. >_>

I want to make a 3d model of Asmodeus, but I'm practically a beginner at it.

>>535388330
Sector E is fun once you get the teleportation down, and you’re almost done besides a couple more objectives. Hope you like Jack

>>535388272
Every action game Atlus has released has been fun
>>535388407
Same. Asmodeus is one of the more complex models too.

Anyone have the text box png for SMT 4 apocalypse? I am currently discussing asahi content with the guy that did the futsuo mom incest animation and debating on making a cutscene

>>535162090
The Hunter Tournaments have been the hardest part of the game so far, to the point that I actually had to start using consumables. Maybe it's just because I'm an Ag-let, but every single team went first and usually killed at least one demon before I got to act. That and not being able to change my team before the next fight made me restart quite a few times. Thank god it's over.

>>535388814
not gonna lie SJ is a LOT more old school then I thought. I was expecting a lot less bullshit but I feel like I had a much easier time in SMT1 and SMT2 and even IF.

Merkabah down, his instakill from his breasts kept getting spammed. Flynn's DPS has gotten around 500-700 since getting the plasma sword, which is making it easier. I'm going to do some of the smaller side quests to see what I missed before Killing Lucifer.

>>535389410
A big part of them is instant kill spam. The final are more annoying since the hunters there have protection against certain types of instakills and use group instakills themselves.

I have played every game related to dds/mt, what do I play now?

>>535397120
Play with your ass

>>535397428
That's how it started, obviously.

>>535397120
Hundred Line

>>535389780
of course ourobous is a bitch too >_> freaking hell
any tips? I thought of just getting all chaos demons since that's all the fusions are giving me and even asura black flame could not handle mahama + status effect bungaloo.

>>535398638
Frost Ace is very good in this section. But it’s been a while and Ourourbus is a bitch to deal with, so just outheal her and try to focus on survival rather than pure damage

For me, my only strategy for Ourourbus was to go in over leveled. That's it. If I was going to sit there fighting her for ages because of how much she heals, I might as well grind instead. Fight is definitely not that bad when you're 5 levels over what level you should be there.

>>535398768
ngl I just really cheesed her and fused everyone with agidyne and just melted her that way. actually 45 range gives you lots of null expel demons which was nice

>>535397120
Graduate to Pokemon nuzlockes

End Game Round-up: Day 2
>Torifune's Shawl; the ship
Do wish it had more QoL like lifting you off from anywhere but it's still a very appreciated way to expedite movement across Tokyo. Noble attempt of the mini-map trying to differentiate landing zones from the other areas even if overworld-map doesn't.
>Multi-Demon Fusion (Cernunnos)
It was a fight that used Megidolaon alright, the most notable thing being my team having a strong inclination to missing with their multi-target, do I need to farm AGL Incenses for all of them? I can excuse Wukong for being in the mid 60s and maybe fucking over math somewhere but Demiurge, you're level 96 with a fucking +1 ACC boost, what's your excuse?
>South-West Tokyo (Tennozu + Toyosu)
Very appreciated the Monochrome Forest folk have a home without Girimehkala considering you can't go there anymore. Shout out to Kiba Storage reminding me of the man-made horror known as Twisted Tokyo. Gauntlet Whore, why can't you have an emergency mapper program that let's a player keep track of their steps, I don't see you handing out pen and paper for this shit.
>Baal + Beelzebub
Baal was neat in that he threw a variety elements instead of almighty but wasn't much of a fight. Beelzebub scared me because while Demiurge might've had Antichthon, he wasn't spamming it as much as Beelzebub would spam Megidolaon after Heaven's Bow wasn't working out enough, Lilith could live two when buffs were in order but not 3. Took a few attempts to optimize my damage, was stubborn in having Wukong stay even if he was just a bad debilitate bot. Notably this means I completed all the sidequests you can in NG for chaos route.
>Trivia: Where are my early/Mikado Demons at now?
They became Demiurge, Seth, Amaterasu, Lilith, and Wukong.
>Fucky happenings
Lilith, why are you doing more Attack damage than Wukong? He has more Str/Dex than you. Can't even say level-scaling because this persists even after both hit 99 and Wukong has a lot more STR.
(1/2)

>>535402343
but I don't like building squads of monsters or dungeon crawling, just here for the vibes/story

>>535402864
>DLC
Also yes I'm grinding for pet demons via DLC and and aim to deal with the bosses too. Plan to handle them before the Purgatorium. Now here's to hoping I don't need the entire stock at 99 and they're good enough.
>More trivia
Leveling up low/mid level pet demons with the apps does make them really good in comparison to just high level natural demons, Mara has around 130 STR and nowhere near as good in the other stats. Also Occult Flash is not a signature skill from Masakados, you could farm skill mutations for it on a demon and put it to the compendium if you really want it (had the choice but denied it because it'd replace a good skill I had on the demon).
(2/2)

>>535403239
You've don't like building squads of monsters or dungeon crawling but played every MT game?

>>535403684
that's right. all the dungeon crawling feels like a bullet I have to bite to get to the rest. I mean the monster squad building is fine I don't mind it at all, it's just not what I'm there for. but my favorite games are definitely the ones that don't have very complex dungeons, which is thankfully the majority

>>535397120
Play fangames.

>>535397120
read the Lesser Key of Solomon and summon some real demons

>>535403239
>>535404029

https://files.catbox.moe/s5f9j0.png
I noticed this cool megaten artist (https://skeb.jp/@o_mitomi) had a pretty low price considering the high quality of their art so I wanted to get a smt1 heroine/s from them

>>535419008
I've seen their art before on twitter.

Is she a kuck queen or does she still have a chance?

is sj really the hardest SMT game? at least in mainline? like god damn bros I feel like most boss fights are a literal dice roll depending on how much RNG wants to FUCK me. Ourborous 2 was hardest than 1 with how much his physical MELTED my agi bots. it sucks too since there's not much demon variety at this level and my alignment. I mean I get it they shouldn't really have the same balancing but I do wish there was a more designated design choice like Law has more and better demon choices early game compared to late game and Chaos is the opposite while neutral is the happy medium or something like that compared to a complete hmm, am I going to find an alignment demon that's actually decent or do I have to fuse shitmons until the next level range.

>>535430730
Ouroboros is a huge difficulty spike and the hardest boss in the game because the first 4 sectors are easy, the only time I died before Eridanus was from a mudo in the second sector and I played full blind
As long as you use demon co-op you won't have much trouble

>>535403239
You're a fake fan.

>>535419008
That's really fucking good for that price, I have to learn skeb.

>>535389959
What would this design even look like in 3d I wonder

>>535432823
i don't think some of the guest designs work in 3D since they re very flat, in 3D Merkabah's true form would be a pretzel

>>535430730
SJ has the hardest story bosses but only has 1-2 difficult dungeons.

>>535430730
Meme Alpeh buck breaks you if you let her

My late game Nahobino build

Profaned Land will be replaced with Paraselene Blur but that's the only thing I plan on changing

>>535432161
...idk about you but asura was a straight bitch too

>>535437656
>canon name
GAY

>>535436815
She can be a huge bitch if you've been coasting for a while. I got to her when I just had a couple shitters filling out my party and was surprised for some reason when she molly-whopped my shit until I actually fused a couple of ringers.

>convert asahi’s model to .nif
>holy shit I can finally have this chick in new vegas?!
>invalid directory when applying model to a new character
Tfw no asahi as your heroine

>>535440121
Only gay because you can imagine Aogami saying it to him late at night.

holy fuck SMT needs more villains like Jack. SJR story is so fucking good. Why the fuck did Atlus stop making stories like this and Catherine?

I wish they gave new moves in the neutral route to the final bosses

>>535451294
>SJR story
that's just the SJ story. SJR is when they butchered it.

>>535451294
Anon those filters look awful, jesus fucking christ

If you had a 1/10th scale clone of Beth would you torture it?

>>535452098
what filters

>>535452797
no but can she cast magic

>>535452996
She can but its 1/10th of the power of normal beth's

>>535451814
are we playing semantics? okay what is the difference between a pail and a bucket?

>>535451294
This guy and the whole Jack's Squad segment just felt like a missed opportunity to me
There should have been a route where you join him and stop the Schwarzvelt's expansion without destroying it and use all the formas you farmed to catapult humanity into a new golden age of technological advancements

The only thing about SJ is I wish the cast was a little bit more emotive. It doesn't really feel like they're desperate to get out and they're stuck in hell. I get some of them are trained soldiers, but also a good chunk of them are just there because they're scientist and stuff and they're definitely not trained for this type of stuff. Maybe because the mission was already a suicide mission? Although don't think that was the case. Like crashing in Sector F should've been some huge oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck but it was just "welp shit, arthur what do we do now?"

I wish we got more stuff like the megami tensei OVA. I'm not even asking for full length anime series like desu2 or persona. Just ovas at least

>>535453478
Soldiers should not panic and freak the fuck out, especially when these teams are supposed to be the best the world has to offer.

>>535453643
Then I hope you asked for it when there was a question specifically about that in the survey and said yes.

>>535453817
Survey wasn't in my region

>>535427789
Susan narries the Kushinada-Hime
V-kun marries the snake girl

Seems shrimple to me.

>>535454265
But none of that happened. Aogami doesn't eve want Kush to know he exists.

>>535455338
snake slut

>>535162090
I had the name Hooligan under the smtg plays website. But here is my save data, and I made it where it showcases the final Flynn build with the save file. No, I didn't plan for it being 42:42:42. Happy accident with 42 being the meaning of the universe.
>funniest moment?
Waltah casting Agi.
>unpopular opinions?
Law/Chaos feel more satisfying for endings compared to neutral in the gameplay/context/dialogue. It doesn't help every Red Knight form is harder than the default final bosses. Monkey not being there for Lucifer to say anything makes it feel a little empty fighting him.
I think the biggest unpopular opinion is that I like Johnathan, he feels very dynamic with some of his interactions. He's never brought up when people mention good Law reps in the series. There are so many good law reps that it could be that most people would rather think about Zelenin/Amane or Zayin who are very unique and direct than someone more down to earth like Johnathan.
>did you like the references to the past games?
Yes, it's comfy with how it's showcased.
>how would you describe smt 4?
The culmination of what is SMT with what came before it outside of Nocturne.
>favorite aspect of smt 4?
This playthrough I've gotten more involved with the basic weapons/guns/armors. I like being able to customize Flynn with it being visual. Tokyo is great where every aspect feels alive with things to discover.

>>535456462
I forgot to mention Dazai, but you know.

>>535453478
>>535453660
this is funny to read because a common complaint of SJ's writing is that no one acts like soldiers and everyone is too emotive/fragile

need more witch heroines

>>535451536
they took the SMT1 references too literal

The next game will combine the role of heroine with ____?

Most of the population in Tokyo must have gotten completely wiped out with just a 30 second warning before the nukes dropped.

>>535459239
Personally I rather the six party system

>>535453660
>Soldiers
me:
>I get some of them are trained soldiers, but also a good chunk of them are just there because they're scientist and stuff and they're definitely not trained for this type of stuff.

>>535457321
really? because some of the cast never even seen combat before and i'd imagine they would be freaking significantly more out.

>>535453817
>>535453643
Atlus dropped the ball on P5 anime and DeSu2 anime and just said never again LOL

>>535460098
Man an anime about Strange Journey (not redux) would be so good. If GATE was popular back in the day, there’s no doubt that SJ would be pretty popular with the current era of anime fans since it hits all of their bullshit
>oh my god anime with adults as the protags
>oh my god it’s just like LotGH’s!
>demons and death
>this guy said fuck it’s so mature!

>>535451536
I wish the demon that was hyped up as the Neutral final boss wasn't cut out of the game and sold as Day-1 DLC

>>535459906
>but also a good chunk of them are just there because they're scientist and stuff
>best the world has to offer

I got banned from the smtg discord for not being a good fit for the server...

>>535461912
yes and? you think a biologist is going to be perfectly cool where people are getting torn in half?

>>535460836
>this guy said fuck it’s so mature
You just reminded me of "that" scene in DmC with Donte and the ugly succubus where they just spam fuck and act like it's the coolest thing ever despite being bringy as fuck.
I guess it doesn't take much to impress burgers.

>>535459906
You don't understand how a military works it seems. Scientists, logistics, and tech personnel get field training when part of the military. Pilots too. All these people do not go into the front lines but they are all trained under the prospect that if they are forced to they can react appropriately and not just be gunned down and killed immediately. Have you ever watched Stargate SG1? Half of their survey teams are comprised of scientists and logistics personnel and they can all fire a gun and hold their own in a fight against all kinds of crazy ass scenarios. It's not that different from how the military actually handles it.

>>535459906
IIRC only the Elve ship was dedicated to scientific pursuits in there, so most of the expedition was composed of soldiers as you'd expect

>>535162090
>funniest moment
when the black samurai says "now you'll never know how your manga ends!"
>unpopular opinions
the ost is just okay. there are a couple songs i really like. namely, tokyo and battle c3.
>references
i think it made sense to include them. smt 4 is a return to the classic formula after nocturne deviated from it.
>describe smt 4
hard at the beginning but later on comfy. i nice handheld title.
>favorite aspect
the demon sprites. i liked demon whisper as a!mechanic as well. it gave me complete freedom in building flynn.

>>535459758
I wish this design was used more.

>>535462654
Would you believe me if Donte’s game has more nuance and subtlety compared to the Netflix anime?
>>535457321
While that is a valid complaint, you have to admit that the schwartzwelt is a situation that no amount of discipline can completely cover up the fear. It’s the rigorous drills and coping mechanisms by the experienced personnel that are able to get through it and by the time sector F hits, everyone is already accepting the new scenario with more of a “fuck, this again?” rather than the initial fear in the first sector

>>535462863
I'm going to throw you in the middle of a demon apocolypse and record down how you cope.

>>535464282
Half the episodes of SG1 were like that. I think of the crews in SJ much like that show which is why I mentioned it. Also you're being retarded.

>be tough navy seals
>confirmed 500 kills and many awards
>visit a black hole to another dimension?
>Just another tuesday
>watch my entire crew get slaughtered by a single snowman
>other carriers destroyed
>wtf did command send me to?

>>535456462
>Jonathan
I like him but I think the issue is that he's in the same room as Walter and Walter practically steals every scene he's in. Jonathan is mostly reserved while Walter is more willing to put himself out there/wear his heart on his sleeve (not a bad thing, but more a why one is more preferred than the other in terms of the fandom). Of course that just makes it where when Jonathan does crack just a little it's that much sweeter, have played the law route before.

>>535460836
>Pic name
Wrong. If it was actually good the player would be getting to lay his head on his demon lady's lap in the new chaos ending.

>>535464943
Walter has all of the memes too.

>>535452797
I would pour boiling milk in her eyes.

>>535452797
Jar

>>535452797
I use cumdyne on her

>>535463829
>Would you believe me if Donte’s game has more nuance and subtlety compared to the Netflix anime?
Haven't watched it and probably never will but based on what I've seen in the threads on /v/, I have no issues believing you.

>>535465343
I was more pointing out how the memes came about in the first place. While I'd have no problems with either as a shield-brother for less-faggy future (it is a moral imperative to avert the doomed IVA timeline), Walter just feels like a closer bro because he cares of the happenings of Tokyo (and Mikado in his own way) while Jonathan's more about Mikado exclusively. So in a game where you spend most of the time in Tokyo, Walter has more time to shine.

IV should have had a lot more to do on the surface, both before and after you enter Tokyo. Such an underutilized area...

>>535470218
The surface has side quests for gathering, but the dialogue is interesting. It would be nice if there was more side quests that open up before killing Merkabah, but some of them only happen when going into the forest into one of the areas to talk to where a guy there gives out quests.

>>535271172
Managed to barely beat him in a few more tries after grinding up my levels and using a combination of reflections and debuffs to win a war of attrition.
And then I found out there was more.
I'm probably about to get my colon collapsed with my gaggle of beat up demons who hardly have any MP left between them and already just died and got rezzed. But Decarabia still has plenty left in the tank for attack debuffs, Reiko has magic reflect and defese buffs, and I got a shitload of Somas on the way here since Orochis were dropping them like candy.
Let's get it on,

I think it's funny that devil summoner 1 has like... Vampires in it and they've never once come up again in any other game. Not like, an individual demon vampire the same as other demons, like kudlak or something. But as like a distinct race who can turn other humans into vampires
It's so weird

>>535459758
ATLUS is crazy for this one

>>535474327
crazy based

>>535473652
The next heroine will be a vampire

>>535473652
Now I want the game to be translated even faster

>>535473652
haven't played debisama, are you referring to Victor doing a blood transfusion with a vampire or what

>>535465343
jonathan has that cat thing

>>535476202
>>535477658
https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Tenzan_Tendou
https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Takashi
The leader of an antagonistic crime group is a vampire and he turns a random gang member goon into a vampire through the course of the story

>>535478286
weird

>>535478729
This artist is so good.

good afternoon! i love megaten.
i wish you all a pleasant rest of your day.

>Enemy Pierce Yap
What if Pierce in SMT, instead of ignoring all resistances, only ignored passive resistances. Works against a Drain Ice you passed onto a demon but not Sarasvati's native Repel Ice. Feel like this could be a good way to passive spam without making NDR completely worthless while still letting Almighty still have value. Admittedly probably not how it should be in the player's hands since Demons shouldn't have custom resistances (even if IV is willing to indulge) but idk how else to do it but all-or-nothing.

>>535482046
hoy!

There's lots of weird one off things in certain megaten games
IMAGINE is supposed to take place in the original timeline in-between 1 and 2 but it also has this weird... non human yet non demon race in it called yagi that aren't in anything else
https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Yagi

>>535463829
>Donte’s game
Nta but I honestly don't hate that game; it's no where near the mechanical depth of DMC proper but it's far and away one of the most fun Western action games

I forgot just how much I love the atmosphere of SMT IV... The music does most of the work but the little 3D environments and lots of NPCs to talk to are all great. Makes me even more sad that IVA turned into the shlock that it is instead of being a fixed/expanded version of IV.

>>535462654
>>535463829
I love DmC more than the anime.

>>535464474
I have never watched it. I will pick it up. soredemo!!!! I still think having a hope spot of going home and then xD lol fuck you you're here forever would've driven anyone insane.
>>535473291
ugh I should go back to beat IF, the only thing I don't like is if you get sweeped here, you have to go back to the school and that means I have to go back up -> turbo grind -> die -> Fuse more demons -> get hinokagafiresword -> go back -> maybe grind a bit more -> go back down to fuse a bit more -> THEN face him again.
it's freaking annoying

I wish there were expansive sources of information for IMAGINE. The wiki is pretty sparse. Theres this random little bitch called madam justice who has a butler called Alfred just like SMT2 madam, is she supposed to be a kid version of SMT L2 madam or is it just a funny reference?
If it were any other megaten I'd obviously just play to learn everything it but it being a weird MMO is off-putting

>>535485445
>Makes me even more sad that IVA turned into the shlock that it is instead of being a fixed/expanded version of IV.
what did he mean by this

>>535486882
just play it! it's pretty fun although a little weird to get into considering the fan made server has some OC changes so now builds and stuff are all new

>>535487560
>what did he mean by this
It could have been IV but with fixed gameplay and a new ending instead of a whole new story with awful characters and a cringy tone.

Convincing Isamu to be my discord kitten

>>535491439
this but Mirai

Hatless

Society if atlus actually cared and there were no lost, inaccessible or untranslated megaten titles

>>535486696
Would you have preferred if SJ had the entire crew roll up into the fetal position and cry while they all died because none of them could comprehend what was happening to them?

>>535493795
at least one of them sure

>>535494289
>at least one
There were probably some off camera as there were a lot of deaths. They didn't need to go into detail about every single one.

>>535493795
Bigger question is who was the barracks bunny?

is this a bug or something, jack uses terror shot on MC and it instant kills him. that makes no sense. am i missing something?

>>535494973
Are you weak to pierce?

>>535495405
nope I see it doing like 150/500 damage but I'm instantly dead.

>>535495679
Oh shit then that is just a bug. It’s only supposed to paralyze you at a high rate, but think the paralysis got switched with insta death. Best tip I can say is get equipment that nulls death or resists mudo

How the fuck do i beat the matador? my attack keep on missing and his wind attack is destroying me.

>>535496375
Use buffs retard (fan girl at level 15 with sukukaja and Nozuchi for null Zan)

>>535495902
oh fuck hope this doesn't screw me at end game

>>535493527
WHERE IS HER FLOWER

>>535498410
If insta death and paralysis are switched, you might have some fun in end game battles

Looks like my Strange Journey is...οver.

Hey does anyone remember how to get the national defense divinities? I thought you were supposed to talk with the master samurai guy in Roppongi and interact with the rocks, but for some reason when I try Tenkai's nothing happens. Law btw

>>535504557
(me) seems like you need to go in twice that's stupid. I thinik it would be really easy to miss

Meguro or Kozuka?

>>535506951
Metaphor made me realize that Meguro is completely washed, all of the commissioned tracks he's made ever since he went independent sucked too.

Sex with demons (asherah)

>>535506951
Kozuka.

>>535506951
Wasn't as impressed with V's ost but it's still good and IV's is my favorite of all time. Nocturne's is great but SJ's isn't exactly my favorite.
Kozuka

>>535473291
VICTORY.
SMT IF COMPLETE.
Holy fucking shit those last two bosses were insane, especially after how much of a cake walk the rest of the game was. This is the first time I really had to build a team with serious thought.
After predictably getting my shit pushed in the first time I settled on building an unga bunga phys attack centric team with buff support which still faceplanted due to the accuracy debuffs. So I shopped around until I finally cooked up Durga who could nullify debuffs while also shitting out as much damage as Chud. Reiko rendered his magic useless so it was just a matter of waiting him out after that. My only real gripe is that it's insanely short compared to the other games. If it wasn't for the endgame stuff I'd have completed it in a day. Feels less like it's own game and more like an SMT2 Expansion pack.

Storywise I've noticed there's a trend in the overall series of the MCs getting cucked by all sorts of inventive means but Chud may be the most cucked of all, Reiko got brainwashed by a sex doll, brainwashed into stripping for literal rando demons during negotiations, and dumped the MC to fulfill her brocon fantasies in eternal purgatory. Poor dude took more Ls than an NTR protag.
Majin Tensei 2 next.

>>535504507
kek

>>535506951
Meguro. I don't give a single shit if Metaphor OST is bad or forgettable according to other anons here. The guy is responsible for creating the music of Nocturne, DDS, Raidou, every Persona entry except for Persona 2, Maken X, The Trauma Center series, Catherine, Devil Survivor 2, and the obvious Strange Journey. Without him, this franchise would have been worse in the music department. Also you know....those are good games he's been involved in. I don't think Kozuka has ever composed for a game that's widely agreed to be good.

I really like how SJ references and recontextualizes shit from SMT1. It's neat. I do think the pacing is a little scuffed though.

>>535419008
I'm having a payment from something through paypal sometime in the next 1-2 weeks, does it work with skeb? I know nothing about skeb, but that price point is too good.

can you guys pay annonymously when commisioning

>>535512073
Just started it up to make sure everything is working right and already have some thoughts.
Music is already best in the series so far, and it's the first game to use the then novel Stereo setting to it's fullest. Definitely a game to play with headphones on.
The intro was one of the coolest things I've seen on a SNES game.
The named characters look like James Sutherland, Ellis from L4D2, and Vince Russo respectively.
Unless the gameplay catastrophically shits the bed I think I'm in for some TRPG kino the likes of which I've never experienced before.

>>535515545
I think you’ll like Naoki

>>535515545
It's one of my favorites, have fun anon. Make sure you boost agility once in a while at least, having low agility in that game is a death sentence.

anyone feel that II is overhyped?

>>535519496
I've seen more people call it overrated than people talking about how good it is desu

anyone feel that Ronde is overhyped?

>>535522247
yes

>PROFOUND AI BITCH SLAPPING
Burroughs, BURROUGHS, B U R R O U G H S! Can your Analyze function not be straight out of Bethesda Game Studios? Can it fucking work for rematches of the DLC bosses at the very least, please and fucking thank you. Did it to poke Sanat for a bit for any extra info/experimentation and the most I got was that Sanat has Javelin Rain for the lols. I guess if Sanat is any indication, bid me good luck against Masakdos' Shadow. My progress posts are the DLC bosses, each DLC gets its own post as I describe them and give thoughts.
>tl;dr
Archangels actually give insight into what good end-game SMTIV fights could be, Ancient of Days has decent writing for what it is but mechanically I'm not the biggest fan of it (but wasn't outright awful), Sanat gargles on enough dicks that I thought I walked into a fujo's horny fanfic. It's a shame the game couldn't have gotten the resources dedicated to a proper expansion for the alt timelines rather than the mixed bag of one-shot bosses and demons.

>>535522247
no, it's neither overhyped nor underhyped because no one has ever talked about it

DLC Round-up: Day 1, need new demons to beat Masakados' Shadow.

Clipped Wings 1
>Story
Feel like there's room to enable an alt Law ending based on what this "M" fellow is saying. But I also don't remember how dealing with Mastema went. Secondly, archangel boss fight theme is really fucking good.
>Uriel
Uriel fucking died, 4.8k concentrated Glacial Blast from Lilith and Wukongs Myriad Arrows for another 4k did him in on the 2nd round after a 4 hit Kannuki-Throw hit a Phys Drain. Kind of anti-climactic but with how the DLCs are designed as a 2-part boss rush, I think them being glass cannon is good.
>Raphael
As for Raphael, well he opened Serpent of Shoel which drained my Wukong dry and has custom resistances (Repel Ice instead of Null). He also has Dekunda/Dekaja and Rakukaja which seems just weird for something intending to be end-game. Though this was Atlus' first attempt so they might've not known what they were doing or sign-post when they should be done. The fact he had battle dialogue to go through was neat and puts it above move side quests.
>Base game Trivia
Lucifer/Merkabah do have lines for chowing down in Tokyo to heal which I thought was neat. Not common but neat.

>Extra TL;DR
If I were to give another issue for the DLCs beyond getting somehow worse in terms of gameplay after the archangels it'd be that you can't act on them. Your experience with the Archangels, Ancient of Days, Masakados' Shadow, and Sanat don't let you make new endings for the respective alignments. I get it'd be dumb to place it on beating a single boss from a DLC but less dumb than them meaning nothing. Ideally these would've been updates to farm goodwill (yes I know I'm talking about AAA gaming here) instead of micro-transactions, that way the small scale + some pallet swaps wouldn't have been that offensive. As is it stands it feels like wasted potential even if not all of it sucked.

>>535528763
Clipped Wings 2
>Story
Not even an extra preamble? Okay.
>Gabriel
She's ailment spam with fucky Pierce. Most games have pierce be a blanket ignore, IV instead makes it where it pierces all but Repel, including passive Repels like from Abbadon... I was so close to give this game a massive W for a good implementation of pierce except I was getting it wrong until Michael showed me otherwise. She has Luster Candy and Megidolaon but doesn't seem to be spam happy on the latter so this isn't Beelzebub two. The main thing to lament is that Brand can't be cured with Salvation, wouldn't mind if it stopped the heal from Salvation so you'd need two heals for a demon but not a big fan of this Infinity+1-upmanship. Out of the DLC bosses this is the best one and shows IV at its best with a late game boss that keeps up with you decently well. A Charged Myriad Arrows did put her to half health but chop that up to IV's being fast paced and 4 hits is a high roll, though this is probably the boss that did last the longest in the entire game for me as I tried to get myself into a position to fire a high powered Myriad arrows through ailments.
>Michael
Fallen Grace is a potentially fine way to do almighty insta-kill, doesn't auto-kill unless they're severely under-leveled or a mage stat-spread that wasn't complemented, my main issue being that Doping isn't enough on its own (maybe split it two skills, one that's a percentage boost and another that's a flat boost, +300 is worse for high HP demons but for low HP demons it'd be better). Archangel's Grace forcing Smirk is scary but from what I can tell he did it after an attempt where I didn't have a Repel Fire to punish Inferno of God spam. The battle dialogue giving a heal + half press turn was a neat prelude to what IVA would explore. On my winning attempt, 2nd one, he died in 3 rounds.

>>535529220
Ancient One of the Sun
>Story
Ixtab's favorite clients return and intro/outro's did nothing for me. Kiyoharu having his faith shatter is strong relative to the other DLCs for a character moment, weird it didn't do anything in the fight.
>Fight
New design is a step in the right direction. As for the fight? Sadly begins the first thing in a pattern with the three, that being these were made/nigh-balanced with the other DLCs in mind. If you hit a weakness, the AoD Diarahans, does mean we do have exact numbers for his HP at 17,775. Furthermore while he does have elements, they're basic ma-dynes so resistances matter. His unique skills are almighty attacks with either Poison or Brand and Spirit Focus, bigger multiplier Concentrate that also stacks with Concentrate (thankfully the boss doesn't have both). Finally he doesn't buff/debuff but does have Silent Prayer, what procs it? Can't confidently tell you. Experimentation leads me to believe its HP/time based? Not tethered to whether he healed or directly to the mid-battle dialogue. It is possible to beat him without abusing Brand from the archangels as he can be bursted down if you get room to buff. Don't even need Myriad Arrows, just a trio of Concentrated Deadly Winds should be fine even if I did use MA as 3rd damage. The most interesting part of the fight was how my slow Flynn could crit-smirk and did blunt his turns, preventing the Spirit Focus almighty spam nightmares. This does lead to my main hangup against the fight, it doesn't have much going on. The ailment spam was scarier on Gabriel because it was more than Poison, potentially getting in the way of things more and wasn't attached to a Concentrated Megidolaon that killed the team anyway. There was more to take into account with the archangel's magic for teambuilding and Raphael's MP theft felt like a better way to instigate a timer because 100 MP's a lot, that's 2 Debilitates/Salvations or a concentrated Antichthon.

didn't ask

>>535530045
The Eternal Youth
>Story
So we have Sanat going around claiming cities at first but then is chill enough we have to go to him for an audience? I get its $2.5 for a single boss but try a little harder. Fuck even the in-game battle dialogue makes little sense. What do you mean I'm thinking small when I mention "all possible futures", did you forget you're in a timeline jumping jamboree?
>Fight
First he nulls all but Gun, and those elemental nulls are custom, already a bad start. Then we have load-out, Dark Energy which is just physical Spirit Focus, Myriad Arrows, Silent Prayer, Javelin Rain, and his almighty skill, Gaea's Rage. First his Silent Prayer, he does it immediately upon +3 debuff/buff, +2/-2 is completely safe. Secondly, Gaea's Rage is an Almighty all skill that has a 30% chance to make the ally lost; super instakill that you can't revive from because fuck you. What trips him into spamming his super instakill move? I have no fucking clue. Experimentation didn't give me a clear pattern; one run had him spamming Myriad Arrows for a bit while I did almighty before 3x Gaea Rage, he hit a weakness + Null. Another run had him begin with Gaea Rage and never stopped, I only clicked almighty damage at the time. 3rd earnest attempt he randomly landed a basic attack on my smirked Takeru before missing a Gaea Rage. Was this the game's attempt to have a boss centered around maintaining Smirk to help dodge Gaea Rage? Note it's not 100% dodge chance btw, my monkey was Lost while in Smirk in the 2nd attempt. Won 3rd time because I got lucky enough to land a charged myriad arrows with Wukong and not lose my entire team amidst Gaea Rage spam. There's two things I can compliment, Dark Energy doesn't boost Gaea Rage and even if the responses suck, I like the dynamic they were trying with him trying to bring out your best potential even if his best idea was with Cancer.

>>535530547
For the Past and the Future (currently filtered)
>Story
So you get to see how the firmament was formed with a little back and forth between Stephen and Burroughs. Alright I guess.
>Fight
Drain All? Drain All. This fight came with a price increase to $3 instead of $2.5, reminder this isn't IVA and pierce only exists if you got Sanat or the Archangel DLCs, otherwise its almighty time for your ass, which he also resists because fuck you. Nulled Shivering Taboo so no ailments to save you here. If his resistances are super aids maybe his skills/AI will be down-tuned to compensate? First I saw Curse Thy Enemy, an almighty that gives him smirk because it counts as a weakness. Homeland Song returns from Takeru to be 2-3 random almighty hits. Has Heaven's Bow + Gun Pierce because why the fuck not. Has Silent Prayer, and finally I got to see he has Concentrate but haven't seen a Concentrated CTE so far thankfully. Was able to get insight from on his behavior from experimentation, firstly you can't debuff him, instantly retaliates with CTE spam and will wipe your entire party that turn because Silent Prayer should've been Dekaja. Secondly, his behavior on Silent Prayer seems to be to first try it if you either hit +3 or maybe if you try to raise stats twice in a single turn.

All right, hope you all sleep well and good luck on your playthroughs because I'm heading to bed. Who knows how much or little respect I'm to give to the orange avacado come tomorrow.

How much did I handicap myself. Any actual usage for AGI?
(first time playing)

>>535519496
II is genuinely not a good game. It has some bizarre gameplay moments, like fucking scavenger hunts and the "lol gotcha" wisdom check. But it's story is one of the best and most interesting which is why it gets the hype it does. It has a fun setting, lots of twists and turns and fun characters. There are also a lot of humanoid demons too that you can help. Demons aren't just set pieces like they were in I, they are trying to exist alongside human society peacefully and it even mellows out Lucifer because he wants to see a world like that. I just with the gameplay wasn't so shit, and the dungeons designs aren't much better. They are mediocre like in I.

Nahobino fusion feels like sex btw

>>535536423
fusing with Alice-chan...

What's the best way of playing SMT1, 2 and If short of learning Japanese? Preferably not on phone, every fucking time I emulate those games on my phone something happens and they fucking die or get stolen

Sex with Alice

>>535536930
All those games have fan translations.

>>535531794
>>535531962
>Equal Spread
What are you doing? Increasing Ag is glld, but you should choose either Ma or Dx for your main offensive skills with some Lu here and there
St is useless in IV

>>535537051
Guess I'm fucked then, those games are cursed and I don't want to lose another phone

>>535537225
>glld
I mean "good"

>>535537329
Do you have any older console that can be homebrewed? You can put an emulator on it.

>>535513758
I agree Meguro is 'better' but its not fair to bring in game quality into this since he was part of Atlus's golden years. Kozuka is their only talented employee left.

>>535513758
Vengeance is widely agreed to be good.
You not agreeing with that is a different matter.

I can't imagine playing any of these games (Persona included) without the online fusion calculator... except maybe V
How did oldfags manage back in the day?

>>535540485
Just remembered x race + y race= z race

dead thread
dead series

>>535541530
dead franchise, /pg/ is no different now

>>535536930
>SMT1
SNES, PS1, and GBA translations all have pros and cons. iOS version is the same as GBA version but good luck tracking down the hardware it will actually run on.

>SMT2 and SMT If...
SNES version is the only one translated currently

Oni Jorou my beloved

>>535543068
She can cast Zio on my balls, anytime

>>535514594
Nope unless you use xmr; the banking system is designed to be able to trace every transaction.

>>535537329
>>535537436
dont you have a computer? :V

what difficulty for smt iv and iva?

>>535551217
You can't select Master in IV until NG+ so Prentice. War should be manageable in Apocalypse if you want more of a challenge.

yuriko nursing handjob

lilith nursing snakejob

>>535551217
even on a new game Master doesn't make the game harder.

Zioqueen prostate massage

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2288350/discussions/0/595156583817695595/
is it that bad?

IP Gobbler

Why is this so funny?

>>535557805
yeah

>>535560863
Because you're a psychopath

Has anyone tried running SMTVX on android via joiplay? Does it work?

>>535262356
nepeta

Heroine futa

>>535311597
It has the best core gameplay loop. SMT3 does not have the fun overworld and SMT5 does not have the compendium to match or hyper-fusion

I finished SMT IV and I absolutely loved it, I thought of starting from the beginning with SMT I.
Does anyone have any tips or stuff like that? I wouldn't normally ask stuff like this but I'm a bit wary with older games. Though I will be playing the PS1 version.

>>535568121
guns are overpowered as hell

>>535568121
Guns are OP.

>>535568121
goons are powerful

>>535530393
Don't care, because even if I didn't ask I still want to hear about people experiencing these games. Fucking someone around here has to actually be playing a game to justify the general's existence. Do you want to end up like /pg/?

>>535540485
I made whatever looked cool and didn't worry about specific fusions too much. If a found a demon I really wanted to make good, then I would work backwards in the fusion chain the old fashioned way to get there. The manuals for these games often had a rudimentary racial fusion chart as well.

I heavily enjoy Kaneko's demon designs.

>>535342520
SMT2 Limitless exists, but is JP only.

>>535452797
only if she asked me to

>>535483816
Jack Parsons refrence

This guy carried

Ended up using him almost the entire game, the utility of Hassou Tobi guaranteed critical hits is just too useful for both bosses and regular enemies

>>535568121
dont go into the game for gameplay, go in for story and adventure

>>535515545
It DOES shit the bed in Paranoia. Especially in Gee with the 2 Pendragons and their batshit insane ranges taking potshots at you while being forced to move as slow as Molasses unless you got flying demons to hunt down and knock them off.

>>535574876
You did not beated the game, sorry

>>535568121
have you tried guns

>>535574876
this guy was so powerful in persona 4

Bumpidyne

>Co-Op Enhance W
OH FUCK YEAH. FUCK NEUTRAL DEMONS TIME FOR MY CHAOS BREATHERNS TO RISE

>>535162090
remember to vote on the poll. it ends in a day.

how do demons born?

>>535592634
you see, when a human thought and magnetite love each other very much...