This feels like a fucking Persona game

>>388494880
your mom feels like a persona game

Persona characters usually have a second dimension

>>388495026
I fucking wish
>tow Kawakami will never be your mommy

The whole Dagda resolution was such bullshit and then the friendship overpowers all part was ugh.

>>388494880
Something Something kill your friends boyo

Blue vested girl needs more porn.

I don't get why people complain about this when the game lets you be an edgy little shit the whole way through.

>>388495802
I thought everyone hated Asahi

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>SMTIV Apocalypse: Friendship is magic!
>Persona 5: Chaosfags kill Gnostic YHVH with Gnostic Lucifer shooting a bullet through his head

>>388494880
Kill yer friends kid

Yeah what was Atlus thinking adding social links and a calendar system to SMT

>>388497076
>I'm going to be a moron so it looks like I'm making a point!

>>388494880
its the dark souls of persona so yeah it is a persona game

I blame lawfags

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>the greatest game of all time will never be topped
Why was SJ so fucking good?

>>388498858
Simple.
All-adult cast. All adult problems. Who would've thought?

>>388498770
But this game shits on lawfags, shits on chaosfags too.

As a neutralfag I fucking hated that. The system works best when all three routes are equally shitty for different reasons. Neutral/bonds was literally everyone lives happily ever after. It was fucking shit.

At least IV:A had great combat.

>>388494880
No, it would be good if it felt like a Persona game

>>388498985
Nah. SMTI-III had mostly all teenager casts and it was fine. Still I did enjoy the all adult cast of SJ myself.

IV and IV:A had a greater story and character focus then the previous four mainline games. This is fine but the problem is it wasn't done well. IV's cast was tolerable but the story has a ton of plotholes. IV:A's story and cast is genuinely just shit.

>>388499105
The way Asahi came back was just terrible

>>388496009
She's still sexy enough and I agree with >>388495802
But every other girl in this game also needs this, the little girl was the only one who got a minimal amount of porn.

>>388499105
>Nah. SMTI-III had mostly all teenager casts and it was fine. Still I did enjoy the all adult cast of SJ myself.
He was asking about why SJ was good you fucking idiot. Why would you drag SMT 3 into the picture when it isn't part of the discussion? You're so fucking stupid and not worth talking to. Learn to have a proper discussion about a topic before butting in you fucking dumbass.
>Guy 1: Why was game A so good?
>Guy 2: Because game A had this and that
>Idiot Guy 3(You): Hurrr hey game B was like this and Game C and D was like this, but I won't talk about answering your question about game A at all and add nothing to the actual discussion! TeeHee!
Kill yourself you obnoxious sperg

>>388499159
I genuinely can't imagine anyone gave a shit about her dying. The edgey animation turns it from hammy into genuinely hilarious.

The combat is great and there are some cool aspects, the divine powers are genuinely great villains, but holy fuck did they fuck up with the cast and overall plot.

>>388499350
I played this after P5, so Toki really bugged me because all I could see was Morgana every time she talked
Toki's lust scene REALLY creeped me out because of it

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>>388494880
That's right kiddo, this persona power of friendship shite is played out. You know what route to pick.

>>388499369
https://psychology-tools.com/autism-spectrum-quotient/

Try it.

Peace route was utter shit and I felt more for Dagda than the entire cast of fags that followed me around

Be sure to kill them all when you get the chance OP

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>>388494880
I want to FUCK Hallelujah.

>>388499105
>A totally different game with a totally different story was ok with a different cast so it invalidates your reason
LOL RETARD

>>388499482
haha no real argument. As expected of a fool

how come there are no good ways to play any of the SMT series. The one on PS2 emulates terribly and the other modern ones are shitty DS games right.

>>388499159
the entire asspull way that the writers came up with to justify the player still being alive despite betraying dagda was fucking horrible

It's so fucking clear that they made the Anarchy route first and then hastily slapped together the Power of Friendship route as an afterthought because "its an smt we need to pretend their choices matter"

>>388499512
Literally creates a slave version of her son

>save Odin in 4, he's a prety cool guy
>in the sequel he's a dickhead

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Why does the fandom hate this cutie?

>>388498858
The quality of SMT and Persona games have always been inversely proportional to how many teenagers/kids are in the cast.

>>388499604
Nocturne emulates fine, psn version is fine too if your in the US. If you're in Europe you're pretty fucked though.
>>388499612
The thing too is the bonds route is so obviously the "morally correct" route that it just shits on the idea of multiple. Law, chaos, and neutral was a good system as all of them were shitty, it was up tp the player to decide what was least shitty though. With bonds and anarchy it was nice to see them try something new but I hope it never returns.

>>388499796
Because no one plays SMT for this shit. Keep that shit for DeSu and persona.

>>388499864
100% agree. Waifu shit is the stuff that only kids and lonely shits would like and adds nothing meaningful to the struggle of the story except as cheap motivation

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>>388499512
>that part where he talks about how they used to literally be the rain and wind and how free that used to feel, now they're trapped in their fates because of *record scratch*
>All he wants is to go back to this and to start over in a universe where no one else has to be trapped like this
>even lets Nanashi keep his free will because he wants a free person to rule his new free universe


>fucking make a clone of him and have his subservient clone with no free will kill his old self
>this is the "good guy" ending


Dagda's motivations were good fuck Danu fuck Peace route fucking fuck

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>>388499398
They actually used a jump scare. Then the moment was ruined by the death of Asahi. It felt like it was written by some edgy 13 year old, especially the whole giant pool of blood

>>388499604
I've played through nocturne on PCSX 2 and on PS3 and it's run great on both

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>>388499796
>literally word for word copypasting tsundere memes into smt games

This was when I decided Dagda was right and that they all needed to die.

>>388499864
>>388499954
I'm talking about her specifically, not the romance. I mean, Toki did the same shit but she doesn't get nearly the amount of hate that Asahi gets.

>>388500024
>It felt like it was written by some edgy 13 year old
Not surprising with the target audience present in this thread and the quality of the output of discussion.
Watching you all putting out your own comprehension of the story and different parts in it like it was oh so deep is very amusing.

>>388500118
>>388499434
>>388496279
Go away Dagda

>>388499954
You know I don't have a hateboner for persona, not a fan of the games but they make atlas money so whatever, but keep that shit in persona or at least DeSu. I know it was dlc that is entirely optional but no mainline SMT should have a fucking fan service hot spring/beach scene. The closest to that before that comes to mind is the beach scene in DDS2 but that was a imaginery flashback where you barely even see the characters.

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Name a worse fucking dungeon in the history of videogames.

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>been tired of every recent JRPG I play ending with a melancholy or bittersweet ending
>just want a fucking ending where everyone is happy because sad endings have become the new cliche
>apocalypse comes out
>well I won't like the ending but I like SMT's gameplay, so let's do this I guess
>my fucking face when I save the world using the power of friendship and everyone is happy in the Bonds ending

Someone wanna tell me why SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI of all fucking series gave me the ending I've been looking for?

>>388500204
Literally what the fuck are you talking about? Even the most diehard mainlinefags will tell you IV:A had a shitty plot.

>>388500281
your mom's ass. too bad you got out.

>>388499796
I don't hate her at all.

She became my goddess.

>>388500296
>>been tired of every recent JRPG I play ending with a melancholy or bittersweet ending
Persona 4 and 5 weren't enough for you?

>>388494880
If your friends become an annoyance you can just kill them

>>388500296
You have the mentality of a child then. Happy endings are garbage.

>>388500365
Persona 4's ending brought me to fucking tears. Yu will have to ride a train for a FULL HOUR just to see his group of anime tropes again.

>>388500470
>Happy endings are garbage.

Why would every happy ending be garbage just because they're happy? Are you 13?

>>388500024
How did everyone fall for this in-universe? Flynn never talked that much and definitely wasn't the type for rousing speeches. Yet only Isabeau thought this was weird?

>>388500550
>Guy obssessed with unrealistic happy endings accuses someone else of being underage.
Oh, grow up

>>388500470
Not him but it really depends. In something lighthearted and pure a simple happy ending is nice. To me the best endings are ones where the protagonists completes their goal but their is still things to do. I think it's good to end on a optimistic note while acknowledging all the terrible shit has and will happen still.
>>388500582
IV:A technically takes place in a seperate universe meaning he could be different personality wise. Also other then Isabeau and Navarre, who barely knew him, people only knew him from title and work around Tokyo and not his personality.

>>388500662
Would you fuck off and stop shitting up this thread, I'm assuming it's you making these snide masturbatory posts about how dumb we all are so do yourself a favor and put yourself to work on something captain ritalin

>>388500748
>IV:A technically takes place in a seperate universe meaning he could be different personality wise.
His real personality is shown in the beginning of the game. Pretty much the typical protag, man of few words, nice guy
Then when he comes back he's suddenly taking tv time, letting you do most of the work when he's very hands on, and using the people as decoys. It was weird that nobody found this suspicious, when Flynn was hands on in the beginning

>>388500582
Wasn't the entire point of neutral route Flynn to inspire the people of Tokyo with a shitton of sidequests? That's pretty much what everyone should have expected him to be like at that point.

Apocalypse is probably my favorite mainline game, though I have to actually finish 1 and go through 2 before I say that. I really have issues with first person dungeon crawlers but it's been okay in 1, SJ can fuck off though.

>>388500843
Fair point, his personality basically just is "good guy protagonist".

Speaking of IV:A Flynn his voice always seemed so weird to me. I guess it's because he's the most Japanese looking protagonist so far and I imaged him sounding more forign but it just felt weird to listen to him. Wonder why the actor for him from IV didn't return even if he only says "Burroughs".

>>388500662
> He never got the golden ending

Sucks to be you edgefag

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>>388500996
>SJ can fuck off though
Best game ever made fag.

I genuinely enjoy SMTI over SMTII but maybe that"s just me.

>>388501040
It's the same VA from IV actually.

>>388494880
It doesn't feel that terrible so far, though granted I'm still running through the game blindly right now.

Nocturne is heavily dated shit and needs a remake with the same atmosphere but improved and reworked mechanics

inb4 nostalgiafags try to say Nocturne is fine when it is really really not.

>>388501167
Really? Weird, I thought it was the guybwho did dagda and the P5 hero.

>>388494880
The gameplay is good, the story isn't too bad, but the gang does feel persona-ish and the "good" ending really does feel like Persona.

Just kill your friends, game literally gives you the option.

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>>388501289
Faggot. Nocturne has genuinely aged like wine for the most part. Cel shading still looks great and press turn is a pretty good system if somewhat abusable. Notveven my favorite SMT either, just a solid game.

>>388501363
Atlus really dropped the ball in this installment.

>>388499398
>I genuinely can't imagine anyone gave a shit about her dying.
I did, mostly because she was the ally I used the most.

>Nanashi says "Dagda" slightly differently if you go Anarchy

...why?

>>388501629
Why? Literally everyone else was more usefull in both random and boss battles. Her entire story arc is realizing she's useless which is perfect.

>>388501363
I can't fucking explain it but I like most of the Apocalypse cast individually but I fucking hate them as a collective team

Hallelujah, Gaston, Navarre, all great on their own but when it comes to scenes where everyone is together I can't stand them

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>>388501132
As a dungeon crawler, perhaps.
As an SMT it's too washed down to compete with anything else other than Nocturne.
Alignment is an arbitrary personality test with exaggerated answers and never presents any real dilemmas.
All 3 supporting characters go full retard about their alignment so hard I actually wished there was a route that would allow me to tell everyone to bugger off.

>>388500582
Of course he didn't talk much before, you were him.

>>388501629
>because she was the ally I used the most.

nigga why

she's the only one in the cast who has a fucking failstate for her turn and it happens like 25% of the time

literally everyone else has something better to bring to the table

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>>388501783
Disagree but fair enough points. The setting and atmosphere are just what really makes it for me.
>All 3 supporting characters go full retard about their alignment so hard I actually wished there was a route that would allow me to tell everyone to bugger off.
Redux has a new ending focusing on Alex, possibly might be this. However I think Arthur and Gore were pretty good neutralfags.

>>388501783
>Can't handle the idea of people actually stick to their principles and ideals instead of unrealistically betraying them to be MC's bitchslave subordinates like in every other fucking RPG out there
Hahahahahaha you should stay in your room because I can tell you can't handle the real world.

>>388501728
>Her entire story arc is realizing she's useless which is perfect.
That has nothing with why I'd pick an ally though. She had good healing and could get rid of ailments so I didn't have to worry as much about it. Didn't help that they changed Salvation to only cure in Smirk state.

>>388501825
Must've been lucky cause that shit never really happened to me. Plus no one else brought anything I cared for to the table besides Toki for grinding and Gaston for those snake fights.

>>388501456
>Random Encounters on PS2
>Kagatsuchi mechanic means walking in circles for chests or special fusion types
>Random skill inheritance
>Said random skill inheritance generally favoring useless skills like the negotiation ones
>Some unbalanced bosses. Mot can RNG you and Baal Avatar can fuck you over with an uncurable and heavily crippling status, while Surt you can equip a fire immunity and press triangle. Noah on the otherhand is unbearably boring and slow in comparison.
>Luck barely does anything
>Magatama displays the next skill learned but not when so you're just left leveling until you get it
>Fusion is rarely needed from mid-game on game because if you have good immunities those are better to have than a potentially more damage dealing demon without them due to the Press Turn system.
>Too many puzzles that rely on teleporting you to other places and trial and error rather than critical thinking skills. Combined with random encounters this gets really fucking annoying fast.
>Classic SMT Balance where non-Elec magic is shit and Elec is only good for rolling for crits. World of STR and Demifiend punching things aren't memes for nothing.

I can go on if you'd like. Presentation wise the game is fucking amazing but under the hood there are problems.

>>388494880
like i say
the more guns the better and that garbage has less than the rest

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>>388496013
>disgusting harufag

>>388501728
She becomes useful after that realization though. Her constantly smirking my party was great, and I didn't have to waste a turn doing it myself

>>388502385
Okay, I'll give credit where it's due, these are all reasonable critiques. I thought you were just shiting on it just cause but these are valid points. Still, I think it's a solid game and while a possible remale that fixes some things would be nice it's still a great game to play.

>>388502385
>Random skill inheritance
You know you can back out and re-enter the demons to get the skills you want, right?
>random encounters
There is a skill that counts that down and you can get it pretty early. Think it's called Estoma Sword

>>388502567
I agree it was good for a playthrough, but the only way I would ever replay it would be through a remake

>>388502668
>X X O O
>Fixing the problem of random skill inheritance
I lost a shitload of time rolling for decent demons. Some would take 15-20 minutes just to get one with even two of the skills I wanted. If anything it makes random skill inheritance even more frustrating.
>Estoma Sword
That's one of those "there is no way I could know this skill even exists without looking it up or finding it by chance", primarily due to its low distribution, and encourages walkthrough mentality. It also doesn't overall fix the fact that random encounters shouldn't have been a thing on PS2 in the first place. The item that lowers or raises it only lasts until Kagatsuchi cycles which also refers back to the incredibly flawed Kagatsuchi mechanic.

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>>388499796
good dog, shit waifu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLcXXz01Tn8

>>388499796
wow she really is cute
but since tsundere is cancer she is cancer

>>388499796
She should have stayed dead but lol Dagda

seriously why have an emotional sacrifice if you're just going to be brought back later with mild fanfare

>>388501339
Nope, it's the guy who wonders how often you get to the Cloud District; oh what is he saying, of course you don't. Also Shido.

>>388501674
He says it more evil like. It's a cool detail in my opinion

>>388494880
It has persona tier-characters but the gameplay and difficulty is top notch.

>>388503076
So many fights in this game made me reeeee. YHVH and Vishnu Flynn were the worst especially on massacre route, Odin was a bitch too.

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>>388503076
so its a persona game then?

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>>388503076
what about best characters the Divine Powers
Krishna made the game for me, and Shesha's Ruse Cruise was actually pretty well done

>>388503149
Only fights that gave me a touch time were YHVH, Krishna, Sukuna-Hikona and Maitreya due to being a gauntlet.

>>388503219
The Divine Powers were great, it's just the main playable characters weren't good.

I wouldn't say that, Persona parties don't get as terrible as the one in Apocalypse. The dog was probably the most tolerable.

>>388503292
How did the Asahi is a dog meme start? I never got that

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>>388503292
>Persona parties don't get as terrible
really nigger

>>388503378
I preferred the cast of Apocslypse over P5 definitely

>>388503335
One of the names you can suggest her at the beginning is Pascal.

>>388503417
Oh nice, didn't click with me for some reason

>>388503282
I disliked most of them but felt Gaston had a very natural transition from asshole to comrade and was really well written. At least that's how I felt.

Nozomi I wanted to kill every minute she spoke and it was even worse when remembering she was only there as an excuse to drag Danu along for the ride.

>>388503378
Nothing is wrong with Haru except that she didn't get any screentime of her own after her own dungeon. Like Yukiko, but Haru didn't have a Chie to make her relevant in other scenes.

>>388503459
>>388503417
If you keep recommending it, she starts to like the idea and even blushes about it, but she still goes with Asahi anyways

>>388494880
Nothing wrong with having social link-type shit in the game. It doesn't have to be romantic though, before you start sperging out.

The actual problem was that both the Law and Chaos routes were pretty shit and it clearly was skewed towards you doing the Neutral one, it shouldn't be that biased towards any one choice.

>>388503501
I liked Nozomi in SMTIV but she was so weird in IVA.

>>388503501
Gaston is a amazingly well written character period. Wish persona characters had development like him

>>388503531
General social links are fine when the characters aren't all fucking annoying.

>>388503557
Huh I don't remember Nozomi in IV

>>388503638
She is the NPC you do the really long quest line for to make her the queen of the faeries.

>>388503638
She's a sidequest biker chick in IV. And she has Rise's VA.

>>388503531
But it was a neutral route with 2 branches. I liked it.

>>388494880
The writing, routes and characters were shittily executed. I loved bullying the dog.
I wish there was a scene where you could outright tell her she's useless or tell her to kill herself

>>388503669
>>388503665
Ah I never did a lot of side quest in IV, need to replay it sometime and do a neutral run

>>388503501
>Nothing is wrong with Haru
disgusting harufag
>Like Yukiko
nope, yukiko is at least likable

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>>388503638
I preferred her look and voice in IV.

Shesha-Flynn still scares the crap out of me I can't replay this game

>>388503717
>haha funny joke Nanashi!

>>388503669
>has Rise's VA.
10/10

>>388503717
There's actually a scene where you can call her useless. I think it's after Gaston calls her a leech.

>>388503531
The game is a continuation of Neutral and isn't really about Law or Chaos. It's about the pros and cons of Neutral. Therefore I was fine with Law and Chaos being essentially throwaway endings.

>>388503585
It's surprising no one really mentions him where as more popular characters were way worse got brought up more often. It's weird that the overall plot is decent but his story alone is up there with the tops of video game writing to me.

>>388503638
She's a mandatory sidequest for Neutral, which pretty much sets up her role in IVA.

>>388503669
Was it Rise's in IV? it was Aigis' VA in IVA. And it's obvious because she has like no range whatsoever. Homeslice went all bananacakes like that I guess.

>>388503754
i hated how they made her look sluttier, whats wrong with that outift?

>>388494880
God damn I want to fuck that bitch on the left
Those fucking sideburns get me rock hard dammit

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>>388503754
Her voiced never changed in the corrected version.

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>>388503739
>Harufag
Nope.

>>388503825
yep
https://youtu.be/dEjtQKtrRvk?t=161
She also clearly has a lady boner for Flynn the more you help her, so you see a different side to her personality. In IVA, she's team mom all the time so she feels different

>>388503754
>>388503794
Laura Bailey makes everyone better

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>>388503869
>only has eyes for Flynn

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>>388503926
you are ok in my book

>>388503869
>>388504056
How is she not as famous as Flynn in-universe? She's right there with him doing requests and shit in the Neutral path, especially in this game where they never make it to the point where she separates from him after he kills Merkabah

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>>388503869
She's cute, but she doesn't put as much effort into her hair as Flynn does.

>>388499864
>>388499954
I'm gonna buy this game just so I can waifu this cutie, expect more waifu in your series now thanks to me SMT cucks

>>388504119
she is a retarded fujo with a stupid monkey like haircut

>>388503926
She's hot in p4G

>>388503869
get in line

>>388504180
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>>388503243
I remember one of the gauntlet fights was particularly bullshit because it treated it as 1 fight instead of seperate fights, so my demons with Victory Cry wouldn't get their MP back

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>>388504184
but not the hottest

>>388504119
Because she's not the one one-shotting archangels with a sword like Flynn is in cutscenes. Or the one who can parry Odin's lightning. She's just a hanger-on who's maybe a bit more capable than Nozomi in-plot, Flynn is a force of nature. Especially when you consider he can pretty much solo'd Merkabah/Lucifer in SMT4, and then in 4A you see Lucifer and Merkabah can vaporize people by the dozens with a wave of the hand.

She's also not present for the Gaean vs Tayama war, or wielding Masakado's Katana.

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>>388504056
>only has eyes for Flynn
>not making her your Goddess and making your Godslayer servant Flynn watch as you pound her butt for all eternity in the cosmic expanse

shiggy diggy doo

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>>388504275
>suddenly gauntletfights all the time
>well shit, Victory Cry is not useless in this game
>no more gauntlets after I fuse some demons with VC

>>388504429
She even says she's always hated you in the Anarchy path before you kill her.

Too bad all doujins or art are exclusively Hope. Can't even have Nanashi fucking Flynn in front of her.

>>388499527
Best girl.

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>>388494880
Am i the only one who thought this character was supposed to be female and this wasn't just some reverse trap/tomboy character when they first saw the character design?

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As someone who has never played a single SMT game, can you tell me where a good start is? Should I start with persona 1 and then play them in release order? Or timeline order? Or are there any other games I should play before even diving into persona to get full enjoyment?

>>388504375
This game really made you feel like an inferior protag compared to almighty god Flynn. Fucker tanks multiple Odin attacks before he finally goes down, and then just one shots Krishna like nothing
The gods are literally afraid to fight Flynn in IVA

>>388504554
Sounds like you've come down with a terminal case of dyke cataracts.

>>388503807
Yeah I loved how her laugh trailed off and the hurt look on her face when you tell her.
Bitch knows how useless she is deep down and how she tries ignoring it and Nanashis evil dialog choices just makes me harder and harder
>My childhood friend can't be a bully!

>>388504548
>She even says she's always hated you in the Anarchy path before you kill her.

Only if you were a dick and didn't help her at the beginning of the game

>>388504554
The skrillex cut is really ambiguous

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>>388504554
This was like, the first art we ever saw of him. He looks like a young boy in a cyberpunk world, like he is.

>>388504616
smt1 is hard as fuck

>>388504492
I'm so glad Lucifer and Merkabah didn't use their 2nd forms.

>>388504749
The way he's portrayed in all the art makes me believe the Anarchy path is what fits his personality the best. It's clear the game was made solely to push that route.

>>388504762
It's only hard as fuck if you don't pick the right stats in the beginning
If you manage to guess the right way to play it's pretty easy, albeit quite annoying at times

>>388504616
Start with IV and IVA. IV is entry level and IVA ups the difficulty

>>388504674
That's not even being a dick. That is totally unreasonable expectations.

She hates you if you don't carry a full grown adult a few city blocks over your shoulders as a malnourished 15 year old kid who was just wounded even harder than the person you're going to carry.

It also means if you made that choice and went with friendship, in the back of her mind she still hates you.

>>388504616
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GKtzYt2M6M
Most consider Ronde to be a good starting point for the SMT franchise it's just hard to play since it's a Sega Saturn exclusive.

>>388504823
It's especially obvious when you see how half-assed the writing for the Peace route is.

>>388504823
I'm not sure why you would think that when virtually the entire game is designed to positively encourage going the other way and there are no negative consequences for doing so.

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>>388504823
I mean, they specifically said they made the art to display either BITTER or SWEET (like this is the counterpart). Not really a set kind of thing, you're just supposed to go all in one one or the other.

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Okay I beat IV and IV:A /v/. What next?

>>388505350
Avatar tuner and AT 2

>>388504867
Why do you believe to play those first? Then which should I play after to get the full SMT experience?

>>388505595
strange journey
then maybe >>388505403
then after those raidou
Then nocturne
Then Devil survivor 1 and 2
Then just start picking them out from there on your own

>>388505350
Reminds me of Boss.

>>388504762
It's the easiest game in the series, ailments are ridiculously OP.

>>388505350
I started with the Devil Survivor series, maybe try them next?

fuck it
best girl smt go

>>388503037
She DOES stay dead if you side with Dagda. You're not forced to take her as your goddess.

>>388504620
That's pretty awesome though, because if you did play IV and got Neutral you basically made that Flynn.

I want to murderrape Toki while she's in trance!

>>388505350
I'm still butthurt that we got what we did instead of that design for Nanashi. Why did Apocalypse's cast have to be so much younger than any other SMT protag? Except for Aleph since he's like two years old if I recall correctly.

>>388506275
Yeah I like how this didn't do the usual sequel thing of having the new protag shit all over the previous protag. Flynn looks like an unstoppable beast, even Nanashi relied on Dagda's power

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>>388505950
Parvati is a CUTE

>>388506428
Nozomi is an adult though right? At the very least she's Flynn's age

>>388506683
I think Nozomi's older than Flynn, but she sure as fuck doesn't act like she's mid 20s. IV's cast is around 18 or so I think? Meanwhile, Nozomi's spouting all kinds of garbage like the infamous "homeslice went bananacakes" as if she's desperate to appear younger than she is, while...also trying to take on the role of team mum because she's the fairy queen and hosts Danu? I don't know.