Now that the dust has settled, what's the general consensus on SMT4A?

Now that the dust has settled, what's the general consensus on SMT4A?

Pretty good, trying to be Persona held it back a lot but it still managed to shine despite that.

Pretty garbage, trying to be Persona held it back a lot.

Great gameplay, shitty party of friends but you can kill them all anyway

The power of friendship stuff was grating. The rest was great.

I'm ~Lv40 at this point. The gameplay is good, demons are the same as ever. I hate to say it, but it is a little on the easy side so far, but I don't know if this is because I've simply played too much of the series. (Also I'm on the highest non-permadeath setting)
Apparently the DLC snaps the difficulty in half, but I haven't bought any yet.

Gameplay is much better, but they personafied the plot and it suffers dramatically for it.

The Persona shit needs to go and honestly makes it worse than IV to me, but the gameplay is mostly improved over IV. Also still too easy.

>wahh muh purse owner
then don't pick bonds your whiny faggots.

I agree except the characters are all flat 1-dimensional shit tropes. Guess you can't expect more from atlus but it feels like an opportunity lost.

That said, apocalypse is awesome.

The party still stays on your dick no matter what until the split.

It was pretty good

I absolutely loved the game right up until the final dungeon, YHVH's universe. Then I fucking hated it because that dungeon was so awful, I'm shocked I had the motivation to finish the game desu.

The start of the massacre route was cool, Dagda was great, the YHVH fight looked nice but was really over-hyped, didn't like it very much

Overall 2nd best SMT in my optionion, Strange Journey's still the king for me

Better than IV overall

4 was bad and this one doesn't look improved at all. did they fire that shitty designer that drew the 4 archangels and lucifer at least?

They were drawn by different people, but there's no more guest artist drawings. Some of their designs were redrawn though.

Ayy Lucifer looks way better, yes

Better mechanics and designs than 4, but the plot contains tons of "power of friendship" garbage. Pretty good overall, though.

color scheme looks better but why the fuck did they keep that shitty design? there was nothing wrong with kaneko's designs

Because it's a direct sequel to IV, it'd be very inconsistent to completely change his appearance when he's such a major player in the story.

I'm not a huge fan of the ayy lmao design but it's obvious why they kept it

Half of the plot is an apology for IV heaps of missing exposition

Gameplay and demon stats/skills is rebalanced to fix many problems (fusion being more of a portrait change than anything still one of them though)

>an apology for IV heaps of missing exposition
The lack of exposition was the best part of IV.

Fun game, but inferior to the original.

iv is the worst smt i've ever the displeasure to play. just looking back, it looks like shit and plays like shit.
it pisses me off how terrible they were in developing a bare-minimum functional narrative and still fall flat on their noses with nothing but cheap uninspired story devices.

gotta admit though, i thought they had me up until i defeated medusa