We'll know once the eShop page is up, eShop pages always list supported languages. I don't see it right now though.
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This might win the title of "best out of combat movement in a turn-based RPG"
Which, yeah, not exactly a competitive field but it does look really good. Hopefully it's actually useful for traversal and such
Bleak works for Dark Souls, and SMT has a tradition of bleakness. That being said we don't know yet what the world will be like. We had a 3 min trailer, 15 mins of treehouse game play of a probably 50-70 hour game. There's definitely a lot of diversity in the world. And we still don't know what the protagonist home world will play in the game.
That may well be true, but we can only go by what they showed off. And traditionally trailers like this are supposed to up the excitement ante by showing off the kind of diversity or visual splendor the game world's etc entail. I just didn't feel this trailer did that.
This is so much better. Still too much focus on combat for me (essentially dungeon crawler but outdoors), but at least the visual variety here in the locations etc is stronger. They should have just spliced snippets from this on to the US trailer.
Only one I played was III, which I didn't actually finish or enjoy all that much. So I'm basically pretty new to the franchise. Perhaps I just need to give it another go.
Really can't wait for this one! Like I'm really surprised how beautiful it looks. Really exceeded my expectations. Right now I'm playing Nocturne HD in anticipation of this game. November can't come soon enough :((
this looking like a direct sequel to 3 and im all for it
There's still time until November, so I wouldn't be surprised if they showed off some more before then. This is really the first time they showed any gameplay at all.
Anyway, the SMT franchise features some of the most interesting depictions of post-apocalyptic societies (human or otherwise) I've seen in gaming, so I'm not too worried on that front. This will skew less cyberpunk than usual, but I'm sure it will be disturbing, and I don't think there has been an SMT game set in (or around) Tokyo without towns or districts to enter. They've usually been good at having visually distinct areas, too, so we've definitely only scratched the surface.
Never played this series but i was very impressed. Where do i start if i want to get into the series?
SMT is structurally a dungeon crawling series, so that's the focus. Dungeons and combat. IV/A had a lot of sidequests as well, though I wouldn't say most were anything super impressive.
As for story: yes, but it's not like the usual story with a heavy focus on characters. It's more like... philosophical warfare. The characters are more vessels for ideology than fully rounded characters.
With V, or the Nocturne Remaster, or IV on the 3DS. The games are largely all standalone for the most part. Like II is a sequel to I but mostly just in terms of the setting/timeline, and IV:Apocalypse is a direct sequel to IV, but otherwise there's not some overarching narrative of any kind you need to follow or worry about. You can jump in anywhere.
Was legitimately hard to listen to.
Very excited for the game though.
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Guys c'mon, don't so rough. I consider myself a fan of the SMT series, but I still consider colour variety to be an achievable objective. Look at strange journey. Antila with blues, coloful bootes, modern carina, brown delphinus, green eridanus
I get the concept of colours expressing desolation, but you can still have variety, and I think a lot is possible. SMT 5 being a barren desert world isn't too out of the norm, but I also hope they complement with other variegated colours and worlds.
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overworld looks like a 3ds game. gonna have to pass, sadly. not going to pay full price for a budget game.
No gatekeeping SMT pls, we want new people to get into the series.
I mean, all they did was ask if they played a SMT game, because what they said isn't typical of a SMT game
Not being rough or gatekeeping at all
Hopefully you can get back into 3, because even though V is still obviously in production, its showing some similarities to 3, and 3 is also good, just really bleak which may or may not be your thing
Oh man...i have to say, it does not look so good...but like a 3DS game...so untrue!
this kinda reaching my guy. Its definitely a switch title but to say a 3ds game? LOL
for the limiting hardware of the current switch power id say it does a pretty good job. and the animations are great.
some of thee most gorgeous looking games end up being the least fun thoooo
The Japanese trailer shows more variety if you're interested and doesnt include the VA narration.
Holy cats that trailer is so much more hype.
Legit want that CE, that and I want to see if Satan is going to get a decent role this time as they are my favorite SMT character.
Don't really care about most of this personally, but the art book would be nice to have, and that game cover is waaaaaaay better than the standard edition one.
Having more animations than just the usual ones for each demon is *chef's kiss*this kinda reaching my guy. Its definitely a switch title but to say a 3ds game? LOL
for the limiting hardware of the current switch power id say it does a pretty good job. and the animations are great.
some of thee most gorgeous looking games end up being the least fun thoooo
I wasn't expecting SMT of all series to outclass Pokemon in this regard, and I'm all for it.
a part of me thinks the demon amount may be lower than an average SMT game but the demons will have unique animations...
or they can go balls to wall and go crazy animation on 400+ demons (probably not gonna do that)
We already know there'll be ~200 demons. So yeah, smaller roster, but more realized.
I mean, that's SMT. It's essentially a dungeon crawler with a story packed with philosophy and occult in the background.
No joke, most if not all of Doi's concept art is better than the final product.
I was so happy with the trailer. Too bad they didn't show too much gameplay during the Treehouse Live segment, but maybe they weren't allowed. I'm getting very strong Nocturne vibes from the game, which isn't a bad thing. Love how the main character looks in their "fused" form. November can't come soon enough. We've waited so long for this game and I'm so happy that it's finally happening. My highlight of the Direct alongside the new Metroid.
Okay great I'm happy I'm not the only one who picked up on that line.
Atlus Japan is doing a separate live stream tomorow at 9 am EST. for the home market. Usually those tend to be longer with more stuff shown.
Yep, and it seems that it's just not in the overworld either.
Correct me if I'm wrong but Pixie's idle battle animation is slightly changed too right? I think during the Treehouse video, you see her kicking her feet and then doing a twirl as part of it as the guy playing was slowly picking his commands. Everything else was the same