How was this game?

How was this game?

Gameplay's great
The party members are pretty annoying
Also has a lot of reused content from IV

Worse than this game.

The power of friendship stuff felt really out of place for SMT. You can kill your friends, sure, but that's like 40 hours in. Otherwise it was really quite good, I thought.

Yeah, gameplay looks great from what I've seen, although I'd heard the tone of the game is a bit off-putting. If you can kill your friends like said, what's it like up until that point?

Pretty good, the friendship stuff was dumb though.

Gameplay is an improvement from IV but the story is total dog shit and all of the characters are annoying and too cutsey animu ^____^. Also all the new areas that are shit. The final dungeon is an eyesore and a huge slog.

>what's it like up until that point?
Anime waifus wanting to suck your dick for 50 hours.

Nozomi didn't want your dick. Though, Hallelujah certainly did.

All right, difficulty on War felt really great so that was a nice change of pace. The story outside of the Polytheist gods was pretty bad. Most of the characters aren't very good and felt very alien compared to SMTIV.

I agree with the final dungeon. I don't mind a gigantic final dungeon like Tower of Kagutsuchi in Nocturne but the final dungeon in IVA was just full of fucking nothing and was so open, it really got boring fast and it never ended.

is this a good starter for my first smt game? kind of want to get it

The cast is awful, 3/4 of the game's dungeons, music and art assets are recycled from IV, but the story is admittedly better.

The cast really is horrible, though, with the slight upside that you can kill all of them.

Start with IV.
while not quite a sequel, apocalypse requires some knowledge of and is better off played after iv

No, it's a direct sequel to IV, which is good but probably not what most people would recommend beginning with.

I would only not suggest IV because of Naraku and navigating Tokyo.

I haven't been paying attention, did they just remove all the SMT branding from this or something?

Pretty much has nothing to do with SMT other than it has persona style combat.

alright I'll start with IV if it's any good

>Game has postapocaliptic grim setting
>Other game has medieval fantasy setting
>Fusion of both is idolshit

How could they blew it so hard.

Nozomi is a whore who snitched for no reason.

IV and IV:A are by far my favorite 3DS games. The beginning does start out extremely slow though, so bear with it.

>navigating Tokyo

I don't understand why people get frustrated about the overworld map; none of the first three mainline games were any more straightforward. Also the whole series before IV is to some degree about dungeon crawling, how does anyone get lost on the world map often enough to complain about it versus the rest of the game?

>postapocaliptic

It's mostly bad because of backtracking for stuff.

Hey kid, you know what would be great? Killing your friends.

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Nice game

But friendship is important

Is this a Persona game ?

I didnt like that part but at the end you can kill them and became a true godslayer

I recommend this game

>Still not released in EU
This sucks man

Fuck off, the "dungeons" in vanilla IV are the worst in the series, IVA doesn't have the best dungeons but they're all fairly solid and real SMT dungeons with stupid puzzles, traps and way too many bosses, nothing like the casualry junk in IV.

I like all the friends. they are a pretty dope especially satsui-no-hallelujah

>actively pretending IV:A didn't copy 90% of its locations from IV

Why are you doing this?

More like fixed them.

Look at Camp Ichigaya in the original, it's just a few crummy hallways leading to the reactor room, then you come back later to Lucifer's manor which is two room. But in IVA the hallways now lead to different Manor's and clearing both opens the way to reactor. The whole dungeon has 5 boss fights, including both of IV's final bosses back to back. It's great.

>the "dungeons" in vanilla IV are the worst in the series
>IVA doesn't have the best dungeons but they're all fairly solid
Do you realize how stupid you sound? They reused pretty much all the old dungeons and just added shitty traps and walls you have to use the jade dagger on. The cosmic egg and YHVHs dungeon were total shit.

>But I don't wanna kill my friends!!
>oh.. uh, heh, hang on let me make it so Dagda doesn't wanna kill everybody anymore
Story is absolute garbage.

Still boggles my mind to this day.