Makai Agito

Review written after finishing the first dungeon. This game's mechanics are very reminiscent of Persona 2, with the field and battle UI arrangement from SMT: If... or Soul Hackers. Some of the Arcane designs could use more polish, but I mean this in the sense I'm not sure what the dude was supposed to be. Others are weird, like the giant sawblade, egg, and the ship's wheel, but I can hang. And others are gorgeous, like the Pixie thing. My biggest gripe is the performance, even when I set my 2015-era AMD FX-8800p laptop to high performance mode. The load time coming out of classrooms is annoying, and the effects entering a battle tend to be unreliable as to whether they fire or not due to framedrop. And yet, the actual movement of and through the dungeon hallways was extremely fluid. Which is to say, it feels exactly like PS1 loading times and exploration on my laptop, if not for the effects dropping out. :D Secondary gripes are that the sheriff and first two party members guys' portrait art feels a little weird somehow, and that the font feels VERY default-RPG Maker. Some parts of the UI feel like more custom polish went into them than others. But you know what? I think I'm going to keep playing this anyway. It's on sale at time of review, but even with my gripes so far I say buy it at the full US$9.99 price. I'd love to see a sequel, or even remake, on a better-performing engine.

This is a great game. I don't love how many "random" encounters there are but I understand that was a thing during the era this game is based off of. Everything else about the game is amazing. Haven't finished it yet but I plan to. Would love to see them build on this and make more games that are similar.

Only a little bit in and I am in love with this game. It seems like a love letter to classic Shin Megami Tensei, down to the creature designs and how magic and enemy placement work. The default controls are odd, and the resolution isn't meant for ultrawide monitors (definitely seems like it feels at home at 640x800). Other than that I'm hooked and looking forward to seeing where this goes. will update after spending more time with it.

Got hooked immeiately

這款非常好玩,看不懂英文,目前也有不少AI OCR翻譯軟體可以用 請放心服用,全破後自然拿到全成就,喜歡女神異聞錄1+惡魔招喚師1 的玩家可安心服用

This is a good one. Pretty impressive as a Shin Megami Tensei clone made in RPG maker. First person dungeons complete with traps feels like it could have been made by Atlus themselves. The negotiation system is a little light, and really unnecessary, but that's actually my only complaint, this was really fun to play and get all the achievements. My favorite knock off Persona is Mike.

why is it so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard