Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance

Melhor jogo da Atlus. O cânon da Criação é infeliz no quesito história, porém o da Vingança conserta tudo.

No idea how Atlus managed to make such a bad game. I am big fun of their games and SMT/Persona formula but the "improved" re-release couldn't help this game. Annoying exploration, stupid labyrinths in empty "open world" map, tons of backtracking, no indication if chest, Miman or npc is below or above me, why bother having jump as seperate button if sometimes you can jump, sometimes you can't and you get blocked on random hills trying to go up. Just make it like in P5 where you can jump on selected places and it was more fluent than this. And have fun backtracking because there is mountain and you can't go this way or you failed to slide down and now you have to either reload or walk again. Mapping an auto run button by devs sums up a lot. Forcing players to find the exact spot to jump through roofs is okay if you really want, but don't make random holes that you can fall down and you have to repeat whole climbing again. Combat is standard press turn, it's good with some SMT moment if you are not careful or get unlucky. Making strategies for bosses and fusing demons is fun, although the Magatsuhi mechanic on enemies takes the combat to "do something, enemy gets Magatsuhi, spam blocking items, repeat". And giving MC an instakill weakness at the start of the game is certainly a choice. Plot is a big mess (if there is any), if Venegance is an improved version then ooh boy. Empty world, not much plot just few lines in each cutscene, no idea why some characters act this way, how everything started, most of the plot is resolved by standing still and talking, it's like so little happens between exploring nothingness and next main story stop that it's hard to follow what's going on, and you have no idea why certain characters starts acting their way after some time. And it's baffling, since SMT IV had an interesting twist and plot with great world buidling, and here you have an empty map with tons of walking in silence. Looks like Venegance tried to improve this a bit, but base game is not good enough to make it better. Even navigators are annoying, it could be fun to have Ippon or Mothman but hearing their SFX all the time gets tiring very quickly. And whoever thought of those achievements to get 100% and forcing to slog through multiple playthroughs of this tragic plot, just WOW. If you get this on discount, ignore that it tries to have a plot and treat like some kind of puzzle-stratetgic turn based battles then it will be fun, but otherwise sadly it's meh.