I feel SMT game's stories are difficult to put into trailers.
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Yeah, between this and NTWEWY, this is an incredibly hype year. SMTV looks easily GotY material and honestly I expect this thing to take off with the masses if they keep marketing it like this.
Given that they never showed off the other humans before this trailer, I think it was much needed. We got a bit more info on the setup of the plot to begin with: no one knows how Tokyo ended up like this, something happened while they were in the highway tunnel.
Huge ass motherfucking Surt and Abbadon, that's what I'm talking about, baby.
The mood on this looks incredible, for real. The animation is also extremely detailed.
The mood on this looks incredible, for real. The animation is also extremely detailed.
That shot of Abaddon just being there in the field opening his mouth trying to take a chunk out of Nahobino was incredible.
It looks good, but to say easily GOTY material is a big reach. Atlus hasn't done anything close to that since Persona 4G
Yes, it was and they're finally not dwarf versions of themselves! These demons are supposed to be huge, feels good to finally see them this way.
I really don't understand why there's normal ass people talking about demons and invasions/worlds as if it's some normal shit they're already experienced with. Nocturne was the same way and I really disliked it. Felt so incoherent and disconnected. SMTIV handled the story in a compelling and engaging way where the characters acted in a believable manner.
We don't have much context. So we don't know if it makes sense or not.
My memory on 4A is super foggy, but I saw Nocturne as people immediately coming to the realization that that was their world from then on out, and they have to adapt like asap. Since Nocturne is more naturally on the chaotic alignment from the jump and their whole sthick is power over demons/survive in this fucked world with STRENGTH AND MIGHT in SMT storylines usually
The game looks so good. I've never been particularly interested in SMT but I'm pretty excited for this.
The group seems more like JP's from Devil Survivor 2, a special organization prepared to face demons from the start. It's just not clear why they have to use teenagers here, but there probably will be some excuse.
Honestly they might just be out of other options. Humanity seems to be pretty sparse
Plus at least one of those teenagers is bonded to a god so at least that's a good investment
I think it's because the Tokyo the protagonist is from is some kind of false reality, and every once in a while people slip from it into Da'ath.
This is probably going to end up being GOTY. I don't see anything else this year capable of topping it.
This also made Pokemon look even more embarrassing than usual in terms of animation quality. There is just so much soul imbued into how the demons and Nahobino move.
This also made Pokemon look even more embarrassing than usual in terms of animation quality. There is just so much soul imbued into how the demons and Nahobino move.
Looks absolutely wild. Like, biggest Atlus game ever wild. The scope of everything is insane and it looks super polished.
Serious GOTY contender.
Serious GOTY contender.
To be absolutely fair to Pokemon, they do have twice as many monsters at minimum
Now, would they be as good as SMTV if they had had the same number? Probably not. SMTV looks phenomenal. Just the scaling on some of these demons alone is just so good and makes them look really imposing (though I wonder if they'll be downscaled once they're on your team just for visibility's sake. We'll have to see)
So glad the people that were convinced this game didn't exist last year were wrong. Never lost faith
Not to derail this into a Pokemon thread, but I think it's plenty fair to Pokemon. Pokemon is a lot bigger franchise and they still cut down the number of Pokemon from the full roster. My one hope when they announced there wouldn't be a national Dex was that they would just make the Pokemon that were there look better! They didn't do that, and that was disappointing.
SMT and Persona games have never been focused on having ALL the demons/Personas, but they pick a lot of those and make them look good (within budget). In Strange Journey, most of those demons did not have animated sprites before. They got those. IV and IV: A got the same treatment, rather than just having motionless 2D art. The PS2 era models looked good at the time, and still look decent today, albeit dated. SMTV is really taking that to a whole new level, and it's hard to look at that alongside Pokemon, which is also bringing a subset of it's monsters, and not be disappointed in Pokemon.
I don't buy in to all that "GaMe FrEaK lIeD!!!" bullshit, but I think it's frustrating to see Pokemon look rather poor like that.
Coming from Nocturne, the story and characters and choices for IV were so boring. And it weirdly had too much dialogue. Isabue was anything but believable to me.
I'm not really into RPGs but this game has my attention. The art style is so overtly vivid and the monster designs are incredibly unique.
I've been seeing these comments more and more. Hope this entry finally gets mainstream attention
I have to imagine Team Maniax had everyone from the TMS, Devil Survivor, mainline SMT working all on this together. They must have been full-on deck with this game especially seeing how much it expanded from the 3DS games.
Kinda random to drop it now but it's an amazing trailer, the hype is building for SMTV. The time is nigh.
it's pretty hard to say, the Switch has such a wide variety of artstyles going on that it's hard to point at one and say "that's the one!". For instance if you look at Link's Awakening, can you really find a flaw in that art direction? I can't, does that make it the best? maybe. I think the contenders are probably Luigi's Mansion 3, Alien Isolation, Astral Chain and Odyssey. I definitely think SMTV will warrant a spot among those if the framerate doesn't drop too frequently.
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Game looks incredible! Also love all the over-the-top poses Nahobino does when attacking.
I'm wondering if we will at some point fight Demi-Fiend too given we are going against Lucifer and his army, assuming the True Demon Ending in Nocturne was canon?
I'm wondering if we will at some point fight Demi-Fiend too given we are going against Lucifer and his army, assuming the True Demon Ending in Nocturne was canon?
