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Post by One_Vurfed_Gwrx on Nov 2, 2021 1:25:53 GMT
Need to polish off Lost Judgment and Metroid Dread ready for this. Possibly SMT IV too but we shall see if I have time to finish it.
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Post by elstoof on Nov 2, 2021 8:37:15 GMT
Is there much crossing back and forth between demon world and real world in the SMT games, like there is in Persona? The trailers almost exclusively show the demon world from what I’ve seen
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Post by suicida on Nov 2, 2021 9:11:06 GMT
No. The mainline SMT games that I've played have more of a post-apocalyptic world where there has been some calamity and the real world is no more.
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Post by elstoof on Nov 2, 2021 9:13:37 GMT
Cool, thanks for that. The hype train was getting me interested but not sure if it’s for me
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Post by Tuffty on Nov 2, 2021 9:40:04 GMT
SMT is very much more focused on the dungeon crawling aspects and isn't interested in the social link, dating sim, calendar management aspects of Persona. Always been the case and yet I fully expect reviews to criticise it for not being more like Persona.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Nov 2, 2021 12:14:28 GMT
Is there much crossing back and forth between demon world and real world in the SMT games, like there is in Persona? The trailers almost exclusively show the demon world from what I’ve seen The mainline SMT games are more your standard JRPG. As someone said, there's typically none of the social mechanics - the only real carry over (other than theming) is that you collect demons to fight with you
Feeling the same as you - not played a JRPG in ages and loved Nocturne/Lucifer's Call way back
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Post by Tuffty on Nov 4, 2021 19:03:06 GMT
Reviews out today. High scores all round, certainly on my radar. Didn't take long to see some publications like IGN say that it's an interior game to Persona which got the fanboys all rabid.
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Post by malek86 on Nov 4, 2021 19:09:11 GMT
I might be somewhat interested in this obvious Persona spinoff.
Shame that nowadays I'm tired of JRPGs in general. I couldn't even get far into SMT4. Last one I have finished has been FF13, last year.
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Post by Gearoid on Nov 4, 2021 19:46:26 GMT
I enjoyed Tokyo Mirage Sessions and Persona 5 so I'm probably picking this one up. Haven't decided if it's a day one purchase though as the Animal Crossing update + DLC is dropping.
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Post by suicida on Nov 6, 2021 14:24:20 GMT
Yes! Mara is back in SMTV, standing proud in all his glory
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Post by Aunt Alison on Nov 6, 2021 14:29:23 GMT
Anyone ever noticed that from a certain angle Mara looks a little bit like a penis
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Post by One_Vurfed_Gwrx on Nov 6, 2021 14:32:41 GMT
Anyone ever noticed that from a certain angle Mara looks a little bit like a penis My first encounter with Mara was getting the figurine as the secret bonus character in the one-coin figure series, took me a few minutes to 'notice' as I assembled it... |
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Post by dangerousdave on Nov 7, 2021 12:00:36 GMT
I might be somewhat interested in this obvious Persona spinoff. It's Persona that is the spin off series, believe it or not. |
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Post by elstoof on Nov 7, 2021 12:32:56 GMT
I think that was the joke
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Post by Aunt Alison on Nov 7, 2021 18:29:22 GMT
I haven't been following this - is it the usual SMT mainline fare? World is destroyed, kid uses demons to fight, get strong, kills a god? I noticed some other children in the trailer, are there Persona elements?
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Post by malek86 on Nov 7, 2021 18:35:37 GMT
From what I've been hearing, this is basically SMT3-2. Guess Atlus knew what they were doing when they remastered that game before releasing this one.
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Post by malek86 on Nov 7, 2021 18:38:16 GMT
I might be somewhat interested in this obvious Persona spinoff. It's Persona that is the spin off series, believe it or not. You are wrong. Both Persona and SMT are actually spinoffs of Devil Summoner 3: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. Knuckles (featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series). |
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Post by suicida on Nov 7, 2021 18:40:51 GMT
Yeah I've been getting major Nocturne vibes from V. For the most part I've been avoiding plot spoilers though.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Nov 7, 2021 18:54:48 GMT
I loved SMT3. It had a really dream like quality to it - a mixture of the muted colour palette and quite simplistic art style for the environments. Hadn't played an SMT game before so when they said the world was going to end at the beginning, I wasn't expecting to actually watch the world coming to an end in the first hour or so and was quite taken aback I might pick this up. Don't know anything about it so think I'll keep it that way |
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Post by dfunked on Nov 7, 2021 19:41:19 GMT
Anyone ever noticed that from a certain angle Mara looks a little bit like a penis My first encounter with Mara was getting the figurine as the secret bonus character in the one-coin figure series, took me a few minutes to 'notice' as I assembled it... Please tell me it was an 8"+ figure?... I can just imagine the awkwardness. |
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Post by suicida on Nov 7, 2021 20:44:35 GMT
My first encounter with Mara was getting the figurine as the secret bonus character in the one-coin figure series, took me a few minutes to 'notice' as I assembled it... Please tell me it was an 8"+ figure?... I can just imagine the awkwardness. |
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Post by Aunt Alison on Nov 7, 2021 21:01:38 GMT
Not sure I'd pay $400 for a model of a dick monster
Wouldn't it already have lost quite a bit of value as soon as they opened it?
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Post by Aunt Alison on Nov 7, 2021 21:10:22 GMT
Swap out Noddy for one of these Much cheaper and you can hardly tell the difference
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Post by One_Vurfed_Gwrx on Nov 7, 2021 21:37:17 GMT
My first encounter with Mara was getting the figurine as the secret bonus character in the one-coin figure series, took me a few minutes to 'notice' as I assembled it... Please tell me it was an 8"+ figure?... I can just imagine the awkwardness. Mine wasn't the giant expensive one, just a teeny 3 in her  As pictured here (not my exact model, just nabbed from Google)   |
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Post by Humperfunk on Nov 9, 2021 12:27:47 GMT
Really looking forward to this. Got all endings on III HD earlier this year, really good game. This basically looks like III but modern so removed a lot of the things that have dated. I'm away for a week on Saturday so will take the Switch with me, perfect.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Nov 11, 2021 17:40:20 GMT
Really looking forward to this. Got all endings on III HD earlier this year, really good game. This basically looks like III but modern so removed a lot of the things that have dated. I'm away for a week on Saturday so will take the Switch with me, perfect. By my reckoning that's at least 5 playthroughs?
What's the release date for VI?
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Post by Humperfunk on Nov 11, 2021 18:02:37 GMT
I did some clever saving so had to replay vast bulks of the game a number of times, I believe there are six endings so took me a while!
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Post by suicida on Nov 12, 2021 8:50:30 GMT
Out today! Got the day off work, trying to resist the urge to just constantly f5 the delivery tracking page for my special edition
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Post by Tuffty on Nov 12, 2021 8:56:55 GMT
Really want to play this, but I vowed to myself to clear some of the backlog first.
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Post by uiruki on Nov 12, 2021 9:35:36 GMT
It unlocked on Wednesday afternoon for me (Japanese release) and I'm honestly finding it a bit hard to play with the framerate. It's better in handheld but it's really quite rough on a TV. I've been considering hacking my Switch so I can just take the files off it and run the game on an emulator.
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