Smt 3ds

How are the 3ds smt games? what's the best one I could get?

Apocalypse is the best, but you'd be foolish not to play SMTIV first given the world building and how the story of Apocalypse begins halfway through SMTIV

Thanks

SMT IV Final is the best 3DS Megaten in gameplay terms but you'll be super lost if you don't play IV first.

If you want to play SMT IV, make sure you've played MTI/MTIII and SMT 1-3 first. SMT IV focuses a lot more on worldbuilding and atmosphere than earlier games, and Apocalypse is where the "meat" of the story is.

Devil Survivor 1 and 2 are decent games, I found the gameplay a bit clunky due to the hybrid RPG/SRPG game design, but the storyline and characters are good in both and they do a good job of incorporating mainline ideas and interpreting them in a different way.

I've never really liked the Devil Summoner games, I'm sure someone else could give you a better opinion on Soul Hackers.

Persona Q is pretty fun, people complain about it stereotyping characters but it wasn't like there was much there in the first place. It's got the typical anime shenanigans that Persona has (de)evolved into, your enjoyment of it would probably be linked to that as gameplay wise it isn't much difficult.

>Burroughs, what's this?
>Scanning...
>This is a relic known as a gun. It's a weapon that fires projectiles known as bullets.

Why was this scene so memorable to me?

>If you want to play SMT IV, make sure you've played MTI/MTIII and SMT 1-3 first.
>Persona Q is pretty fun

Yeah, don´t listen to this guy, you can play IV as your first SMT game, in fact is recomended

Abot to play nocturne is hard any good or is it just turning the bosses into damage sponges?
Also I am playing lucifers call version and I heard that one had a major gamebreaking glitch.

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You'd be missing out on the numerous callbacks, references, and the continuation of the larger storyline present in the Megami Tensei series if you just start at the fourth title in the series. The game doesn't explain any of these references to you because it expects you to know them already.

You are forgetting OP asked for a game on the 3ds.

Of course you´ll be missing references, but that´s like saying you should start playing Final fantasy at the first one because you won´t feel the same when a fucking chocobo appears. Let him fall in love with the series first, then if he likes them he may play the rest, that´s what happened to me

I perfer SMTIV's gameplay to SMTIVA, the affinites ruined alot of demons that I liked.

Unironically telling people to play the SNES SMTs should be a bannable offense. They're fucking atrocious and you know it.

I just said OP shouldn't jump into SMT IV right away if he hasn't played the series fully yet. There are other 3DS games in the series that don't require playing earlier games in the series.

It's not just references, there are parts of the game where you'd be lost if you hadn't played the early games. A lot of the narrative in the last third or so of the game would lose a lot weight if you didn't understand the implications it had on the larger scale of the series.

I thoight affinities only enhances the demons.
It removed the tedium of reloading to get a decent skill set without making the demons just mp and hp bars

They're some of the best games in the series, I don't understand what you're talking about.

>A lot of the narrative in the last third or so of the game would lose a lot weight if you didn't understand the implications it had on the larger scale of the series.
You mean going to blasted and infernal tokyo? before smt iv I only played desu and persona and I managed just fine.

Recommended them to my friend this year, who had never played an SMT game. He loved them.

It's not just nostalgia dude, they are good games even if a bit dated in things like UI.

Alright how about this,
OP here. Never played a SMT before. ill play IV. if I like what I see. ill play apocalypse. Then ill just start with the first smt and play em in order if I ever felt like it, including 4 and 4A. that way ill catch up with any references I missed on my first playthrough. This is all given I like the game to begin with obviously.

Pretty fucking bad.

Absolute nonsense. Either you're going in knowing what's the deal or you're going in like the Samurai and discovering everything. There is nothing wrong with either option

That, and a lot of the actions by the Archangels and side characters like Mastema shed more light on the Law faction and answers questions left by SMT II, and the Neutral Route and Apocalypse routes explain a lot more about Steven's agenda and the larger nature of the Law/Neutral/Chaos fight.

I've noticed a lot of people seem to dislike the SMT games just out of their opinion of IV, I'd hate to have them ignore the rest of the series just because they had a subpar experience not playing the games in the intended order.

So what you're is that the first Smt is better than IV?

Again, IV was my first SMT, and I highly doubt that anyone that plays it as their first is going to dislike it, SMT is famous because it´s different in a lot of ways to any other jrpg you ever played, and IV has all of the things that makes this series so fucking great.

Not him, but yes.

Intresting. I Might start with that one then, really wanted to play a game on my n3ds tho