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Atlus has opened a countdown webpage apparently related to Soul Hackers
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So they dropped the Devil Summoner title and it's now just Soul Hackers. neat. I wonder if they were influenced by Digimon Cybersleuth.
It's actually the other way arround. Cyber Sleuth was very likely influenced by the first Soul Hackers
To me it seems like their idea was that "if futuristic tech was like this in the nineties, what would it be like now?", similar to how Digimon has done it in the past.
But it's also interesting how this feels more like Persona and SMTV in terms of gameplay.
Sure but I meant that Cyber Sleuth's success might have sparked an idea for a new Soul hackers in their head.
Everything but Switch... At least XBOX Boys are eating today. Will get this on Steam probably.
Gatchaman Crowds is a good comparison, yeah. I need to finish that show someday.
The countdown was counting down to 8 pm jst on february 21st, but the way the count down works is that it checks your systems time, and counts down to 8 pm on february 21st in your time zone(ex if your in pst, it counts down to 8 pm pst.)
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Is this like Persona and Shin Megami Tensei where the games are mostly disconnected or a full sequel? I've never played 1 and this trailer is very intriguing to me.
According to the devs it's mostly its own thing, so far they've mentioned a few concepts from the previous devil summoner titles but those concepts are pretty vague even in those games (for example: There are good Devil Summoners who are members of the Yatagarasu, there are evil Devil Summoners who are members of the Phantom Society, there's an Otherworld where demons roam, etc)
There were also some thematic homages to previous games, but those seem to be a bit more of a "Oh, haha I get the reference" than something you desperately need to know to understand the story.
But this is all based on the initial reveal and is subject to change as more information becomes available. After all person with a Xenoblade avatar, sometimes sequels are initially promoted as being stand alone titles but then have Very Strong Ties to previous entries in the series.
Really excited about this, and hope it leads to more SMT and adjacent properties going multiplat.
Would be great if it meant releasing older games on new systems too but I won't get my hopes up. :(
Would be great if it meant releasing older games on new systems too but I won't get my hopes up. :(
Seems like the sort of project that's meant to piggy back off of the asset creation pipeline for the mainline SMT and Persona games.
All those demons getting new HD/3D models, and they need to find other places to use them to maximize returns on the investment.
It looks really "thrown together" for an Atlus game.
All those demons getting new HD/3D models, and they need to find other places to use them to maximize returns on the investment.
It looks really "thrown together" for an Atlus game.
Man, I hope that this is the start of ATLUS making more spinoff games in the SMT series. I'll take new shit and sequels like Devil Survivor 3 please!
You can say that about almost any new project from an established developer. Souls, Yakuza, Judgement, Xenoblade, and many other series reuse assets all the time so I don't see why Atlus is singled out when it's relatively common in the industry. They wanted to make a new Soul Hackers so why not reuse assets?
I mean if you followed Atlus during the PS2 days Devil Summoner 1&2, Digital Devil Saga 1&2, Persona 3&4, and SMT Nocturne all reused assets so this is nothing new to us Atlus fans.
I know this isn't the thread for it, but Atlus also just uploaded the Strikers and P5R soundtracks to Spotify and Apple Music.
I can't find that VGM Spotify thread that was floating around before and don't know where else to put this. Oh well.
Persona 5 Royal (Apple Music, Spotify)
Persona 5 Strikers (Apple Music, Spotify)
I can't find that VGM Spotify thread that was floating around before and don't know where else to put this. Oh well.
Persona 5 Royal (Apple Music, Spotify)
Persona 5 Strikers (Apple Music, Spotify)
I would rather Atlus re-use assets and produce more games vs waiting 6-7 years between releases. PS2 Atlus era was glorious.
have you played any PS2 or DS/3DS SMT game? They've always done that.
yeh
Shit, back on the SNES they'd recolour their sprites for entirely separate demons.
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Atlus released a bunch of excellent JPRGs back in the PS2 era and with the exception of NINE (which was the first 3D SMT game) all of them borrowed 3D assets from some previous title.
Every SMT game with 2D assets has reused illustrations dating back to the SNES era, all the way up to Strange Journey Redux.
It may not be the right thread, but I absolutely love you for mentioning this. Been waiting for royal to come to Spotify since release. Hell yeah.
I'm not saying it's at all a new thing or a bad thing, just that it seems particularly egregious in this case.
I mean, did you ever play the Raidou games?
Most of the new demons were reskins.
It's not the reused assets that made me say anything, really, it's the seeming quality of the original assets that's being wrapped around them.
Just seems a bit slapdash, somehow.
Continue in announcement thread instead:
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Soul Hackers 2 announced for PC, PS4/5, & all Xbox Platforms (Release Date: August 25th, 2022)
There are SO MANY demons that haven't been seen since the SMT IV games. But even beyond that there's a lot of obscure weird demons that haven't been seen outside of the Devil Summoner games that have a chance to show up here. It's exciting.
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