Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance

Sadly, this one just didn't stick with me. From the MC being a zero-personality twink to the world itself, I found very little here that kept me invested. I actually enjoyed playing SMT III, so I came into Vengeance expecting one of the strongest turn-based RPGs out there. Instead, I ended up feeling pretty bored. The biggest problem for me is the world. It's a huge, empty open world filled with collectibles and side quests that rarely feel meaningful. You run into demons and quest NPCs that seem completely clueless, and most of the side content has little to no story behind it. It feels like the open world exists mainly to give you things to collect rather than to actually build a world worth exploring. The story doesn't help either. The whole Heaven vs Hell, angels vs demons thing feels incredibly edgy and predictable, like it was written by Japanese devs who think Heaven and Hell are the edgiest concepts imaginable. Even the music didn't really work for me, with some tracks feeling more cringe than memorable. I also really disliked the DLC.... especially the Tears DLC. Giving you resources that make the game significantly easier completely kills the sense of progression and makes a lot of the exploration and rewards feel pointless. When the game is supposed to be built around challenging turn-based combat and progression, making that progression trivial feels completely counterproductive. Even the demons themselves didn't impress me as much as I expected. The combat is solid, but the presentation, effects, monster designs, and overall gameplay loop didn't give me the feeling that I was playing some "legendary" turn-based RPG. Vengeance feels like a game that could have been much better with a little more focus. Give the story and characters even 5% more effort, remove the empty open-world padding, and make exploration actually meaningful, and I think this could have been something special. Unfortunately, for me, it was a total miss. I came expecting an amazing gameplay-focused RPG and ended up with a game that felt empty, repetitive, and unrewarding.

My first game from the SMT mainline games. It was fun and I enjoyed the gameplay far more than the Persona™ games. The combat was electric and I was genuinely struggling in the end and it was a blast. The demon designs are super cool and this is their best look imo. This game has the worst story I have ever played, it is so boring and lifeless. If they had just cut all dialogue out of the game and it would have been more enjoyable. It is so boring I would get up to leave mid cutscene because this main cast interacting with each other makes me want to glue sandpaper under my eyelids. Atlus has done good silent protags in the past but this one is not good. The side characters are terrible, the only one I had any sort of interest in was Yoko and she disappears midgame. Im going to turn Ricardo V into a smoking pair of shoes. The story is so so so bad but the gameplay is probably my favorite turn based game ive ever played. Hopefully this was just a one off and the rest of the series is awesome. -Sent from my HeehooDeck™

Ciertamente es un juego bastante adictivo, la mecanica de combate es interesante, las mejoras para el personaje principal son interesantes, el sistema de afinidades y atributos es muy interesante, vale mucho la pena entender con funciona. La historia es interesante ademas que tengo entendido que las dos rutas principales del juego son totalmente distintas( aun no termino la primera pero eh visto en foros que ambas rutas son diferentes), por tanto da mas motivos para rejugarlo, mas allá de jugar otra run aplicando todo lo aprendido con intensión de destrozar todo desde minuto 1. Aunque es raro ver al personaje principal solamente parado sin decir mucho (cosas de RPGS). Yo vine a esta juego porque recientemente me jugué el persona3 reload y el 5royale, si es tu caso, te vendría saber que este juego es mas difícil que los anteriormente mencionados y aunque comparte sistemas basicos ciertamente puedo decir que este es un tanto mas exigente al momento de planificar la build de personaje principal y la de los compañeros de equipo.

I don't love it but there are a lot to like about this game. The music, especially the ones from battles are insanely good. If you've played SMTIV and liked that industrial esque sound and aggresive synths, they're here as well. Demons and characters are finally in 3D with unique animations and in my opinion, this is one of the most impressive part of the game as an evolution from previous entries. Demon interactions are as good as ever, snappy, charmful, witty. Demon fusion received some polishes that combined with "Miracles" you can learn making it easier to craft the specific demon build that you wish. I don't like how cumbersome it is to switch between menus on the shop and world of shadows, though. They could have made it switch-through with say, shoulder buttons like R1 and L1 but instead I have to go back and forth between sub-menus. I don't like the Demon Haunt feature, as well. I like the concept but the execution felt like the dev just want the feature to be there so you can get items from demon allies and them level up from unclear "chemistry", it's boring, sorry. I don't like how the open world aspect was done in this, mainly because how lifeless the world feels after the novelty wears off. I much prefer how SMTIII did it as a world map because it's simpler and faster. I don't like the characters and I feel like the game failed to make me care about them. Look, SMT is combat focused and all, I know, but frankly there's no reason for me to go about all this adventure. SMTIII had me go into a hospital with friends to look for our teacher and then the world got flipped inside out. Why the comparison? Because the game is explicitly a succesion + homage to Nocturne. Not my fault for finding inferiorities and calling them out. Definitely felt like a game that went through a dose of development hell to me (as if the concept of the Vengeance edition hasn't made it clear enough). I hope SMTVI steals from IV or Strange Journey if ATLUS is hell bent on not creating entirely new plots and worlds. Or just anything that doesn't have a 10+ hours of sand dunes on the opening act. Also, multiplatform re-release should come with better texture resolutions. The ones on uniforms and rocks are just embarassing for a full priced re-release. Do better. Tried both CoC and CoV route, unfinished both as you can see my hours played. Will come back later after a break. If you find similarities on aspects you don't like in a game from my review, I don't recommend this game. ATLUS catalog is quite massive so play something else instead. This is not ATLUS at their best.

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[h1]Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance[/h1] Честно, я понятия не имею, почему людям нравится SMT. В плане философии, несомненно, это интересно, плюс тут полно отсылок к знаменитой художественной литературе, к такой как "Библия". Но в плане сюжета и геймплея... [hr][/hr] [h2]Геймплей[/h2] Я знаю, что серия Persona произошла изначально от SMT. Туда и демонов перенесли, и навыки с системой боёвки, но чего в персоне нет, так это: 1. Крит элемент навыков и навыков с пробитием свойств. (P5X и P5T не в счёт) 2. Душных локаций-лабиринтов, которые растянуты чтобы были. (Тартара и Башен из P4 с нами в этой комнате нет). 3. Обязательного гринда, который нужен чтоб растянуть геймплей. 4. Уймы долбанных, растянутых, неинтересных, однообразных, к черту необязательных побочных квестов, которые дают либо шляпу в виде расходника, либо одну из ульт, которые реально могут быть имбой. [hr][/hr] [h2]Сюжет[/h2] Вот когда сюжет совмещался со школьной жизнью и с другим миром - было интересно, но когда всё действо ушло в иной мир - сюжет начал скатываться. И всё портит арка со становлением Богом, которая растянута до нельзя и в которой всё что говорится "пойди стань Богом и создай мир получше, но сначала..." и так часов на 30. А потом идут лабиринты на последних двух локациях. А уже в самом конце насрали подряд жирными мобами и боссами. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3768567765 [hr][/hr] [h2]Боссы[/h2] Помимо обычных, неинтересных боссов из оригинального сюжета, тут есть ещё и боссы из DLC и вот они уже поинтереснее. Один чего Деми - гг третьей части стоит с его рекомендуемым уровнем к прохождения в виде 999 уровня (с игровым лимитом в 99 уровней). И, могу признаться, мало того что необязательные боссы по типу Деми или Шивы и визуально красиво выглядят, и атаки интересные имеют, и игрока в рот имеют... https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3636917450 [hr][/hr] [h1]Итог[/h1] Я пытался. Мне нравится Персона за сюжет, музыку, возможности и персонажей. Мне нравится Метафор за стиль. Мне нравится Экспедиция 33 за геймплей. Но SMT - нет, меня не зацепила вообще никак. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3768567604 [code]4/10[/code]

10/10 would play again 10/10 would recommend 10/10 would tell a friend