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SMTV is coming to the west
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Eh, after the trailers for Devil Survivor 2 and Apocalypse, 5 is pretty tame.
I'm super hyped for SMTV! Hoping for a 2nd quarter 2018 release, this game would fit in that gap nicely for me. ^_^
The giant dick and balls monster was shown at the switch conference and they didn't even give out a warning before showing the trailer. Pretty sure the trailer is rated to be E for everyone as well.
Doesn't look like it, Deep Silver/Koch Media is handling the retail release in Europe, same for Persona 5. From this announcement, I would say the chance of having EFIGS localization are not very high, unless maybe Nintendo push Atlus in that direction more than Sony did for P5.
i mean yeah, but getting torn apart by a demon? pretty hardcore stuff. hopefully it sets the tone for the rest of the game
mara is inherent to SMT, cant not have him around
Yeah, Doi corrected a lot of the original designs' flaws in Apocalypse, but I agree that they could be further simplified. They're still very good, however, unlike the originals in IV. Matching Kaneko's Nocturne-era designs, the culmination of over a decade of work on the series, will be a difficult task for anyone.
God, that time where Atlus US released Persona 3... After 3 FES was already out in Japan...
Or even further than that that time where there was talk of releasing Devil Summoner in english on the Saturn... And years later rumors of the PSP localization... Sigh.
Or when they made everyone nervous about what we came to know as SMTIV Apocalypse and took about 6 months to announce the localization for it. I think part of the reason for that was the name change, which there was a detailed blog post about and they had many internal arguments about what to change the name to.
Obviously Strange Journey Redux seemed like a much easier name to come up with, since they couldn't really keep "Deep Strange Journey" since that sounds like a porn title.
I don't know if you have ever played an SMT game, but just be warned that while this does share some similarities with Persona games (the demons, the battle system being based on exploiting weaknesses, fusion, etc.), it's definitely not the same type of tone as a Persona game, at least not modern Persona.
That said, you might even end up liking this more.
Good stuff. Announcing the localization relatively early is a good sign.
Here's hoping they really learned their lesson from P5 and try to collaborate more with Atlus USA during development instead of them having to wait until the game is near completion.
Here's hoping they really learned their lesson from P5 and try to collaborate more with Atlus USA during development instead of them having to wait until the game is near completion.
I wouldn't call them sober. Some are very intricate and detailed. I believe the clean lines and the modest use of shadows make Kaneko's design more "tidy".
just look at this
I'm pretty sure we will be good on that front. It's guaranteed to be M rated, so we shouldn't be losing any of the good stuff.
I love Kaneko's demons and characters, but Doi's are quite great too. All of the main demons for Apocalypse were fantastic, and for the most part aesthetically don't clash with Kaneko's demons and fit in pretty well. SMTIV's issue was all guest artists handling demons most of which were all super important main boss demons. Those almost universally sucked save for one or two.
I will be incredibly happy if Doi is responsible for everything in V and would not mind at all if he updated some of the older demons that have no gotten a redesign in quite sometime.
I will be incredibly happy if Doi is responsible for everything in V and would not mind at all if he updated some of the older demons that have no gotten a redesign in quite sometime.
EU trailer was PEGI 18 on top of that. No rating higher than that.
For those coming from Persona 3-5 and interested in SMT, these are some differences between recent Persona and (most) recent SMTs to take in mind:
SMT V is one of my most anticipated games and I hope it comes out no later than 2019. I loved IV and really liked Apocalypse and Nocturne.
- No high school setting
- No calendar/deadlines
- No social links
- Darker story
- Its battle system revolves around abusing (de)buffs and opponent's weaknesses even more than Persona's One More system
- You use demons instead of personas, they are separate party members instead of just giving the protagonist skills and elemental resistances
- You recruit demons via negotiation, they may just ask questions, kind of like in Persona 5, but they also ask you for money/items/HP and may run away with your stuff
SMT V is one of my most anticipated games and I hope it comes out no later than 2019. I loved IV and really liked Apocalypse and Nocturne.
"not anytime soon" is the words they used a couple months back I believe so you might wait a while.
well, the series has never been on particularly strong hardware. Switch and UE4 finally gives them a chance to have blood and guts spilled with lovingly rendered physically based materials
Nice to have more turn based RPGs available on the big screen! Maybe this will be the first mainline SMT I'll manage to beat...
Curious to see how UE4 works out for Atlus. Never in a million years did I think I would have Tim Sweeney to thank for all these fantastic Japanese games this gen.
Curious to see how UE4 works out for Atlus. Never in a million years did I think I would have Tim Sweeney to thank for all these fantastic Japanese games this gen.
I mean relatively speaking, it was on appropriate hardware for the time when it was on consoles. But since the 3DS boomed, its obviously fallen off.
I see, something to look into then, P5 was quite a huge game without that part even. I used some pre-order dlc persona after the first palace and never had to change and even then I mostly used attack and the other party members persona. :p
....how the hell did you get through P5 by "skipping" fusion? Is that even possible?
A lad named Picaro I believe, a bit OP in the second palace but not that great during the late game. Things got a bit tricky in the end on normal but I survived.
I don't think Nintendo plays things up like that any more. 3DS games never boasted about being exclusive.
I don't think Octopath Traveller really says it's exclusive either.
Personally, I don't think his art really fits with SMT. This mainly has to do with his human characters.
I can't wait. I know it was basically assumed we'd get it from the start but it's really nice to have an official announcement so early in development.
Winter 2018, right Atlas? On a more serious note I would expect it mid-2019 if it comes out late 2018 in Japan.