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Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance Steelbook Launch Edition (Switch, PS5 or Xbox)
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Very mid game, but as a SMT fan, I liked it. Great music, great battle system, entirely forgettable characters, super bland story with poor pacing and arcs that go nowhere. I grew to enjoy the level-based gameplay outside of battles. Each location in the game is like its own miniature open world with nice post-apocalyptic atmosphere. The game has shortcomings all over the place, but as a complete package, I liked it.
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Very mid game, but as a SMT fan, I liked it. Great music, great battle system, entirely forgettable characters, super bland story with poor pacing and arcs that go nowhere. I grew to enjoy the level-based gameplay outside of battles. Each location in the game is like its own miniature open world with nice post-apocalyptic atmosphere. The game has shortcomings all over the place, but as a complete package, I liked it.
Very mid game, but as a SMT fan, I liked it. Great music, great battle system, entirely forgettable characters, super bland story with poor pacing and arcs that go nowhere. I grew to enjoy the level-based gameplay outside of battles. Each location in the game is like its own miniature open world with nice post-apocalyptic atmosphere. The game has shortcomings all over the place, but as a complete package, I liked it.
I got it for PS5, though, and it runs nice and smooth over there. The extra content is nice to have, and for a discount. But I'd say if you're in the market for an SMT entry, this one is EASIER over Nocturne. And that's just because of many QoL changes out there, and some other features.
I am try to beat mainline story first before the Vengeance route myself, but the game is definitely addicting.
SMT is like Persona without any of the social stuff. For me, that makes it much less appealing. But if you just liked collecting personas and the combat system it's similar.
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SMT has many side quests, but your goal isn't to max a link with a specific character. You can get some overpowered demons in SMT compared to Persona series, early on.
Both games have high-school students which is a common base for JP games still. P5's visuals are definitely more stylish.
I got it for PS5, though, and it runs nice and smooth over there. The extra content is nice to have, and for a discount. But I'd say if you're in the market for an SMT entry, this one is EASIER over Nocturne. And that's just because of many QoL changes out there, and some other features.
I am try to beat mainline story first before the Vengeance route myself, but the game is definitely addicting.
It's difficult if you speed run it but that's only because the game is severely level capped. A couple levels is the difference between stomping through a fight on God mode and barely doing any damage and getting one hit. Level is king in this game and the level modifier is very severe, speed running involves cheesing with certain status effects and turtling up and healing and running long chains of attacks on vulnerabilities and not allowing them to attack. Speed running through severely under leveled is difficult until you get the strategy down but then every fights the same and it very much feels like you are cheesing fights and not playing the game as intended and it's a slog where 90% of the damage inflicted is through status effects and 20 turn long uninterrupted attack chains and you either do it exactly right and lock the boss down and get lucky setting up and easily win or you get wiped in a single boss turn. It doesn't really matter what your fighting if it's 5 or more levels above you, it will barely take damage and wipe your team in a single turn, a fight against something 6 levels or 20 levels above you is the same strategy and feels pretty much the same.
Being the exact level to ideally 4 or 5 levels below the major fights is the most enjoyable experience. If you grind and collect a bit and go into a fight 5 levels or more ahead, the flight is beyond trivial and your attacks do exponentially more damage, a combo that would do just a little chip of damage at a lower level is a one hit KO.
I've heard that previous games were not like this and had a different combat system and that a lot of these issues were reworked and fixed in vengeance. I almost loved this game and feel that it was almost really good but overall was disappointed and felt that the combat was very gimmicky and shallow.
Is it worth getting vengeance? Is it true that the combat mechanics were meaningfully overhauled?
Very mid game, but as a SMT fan, I liked it. Great music, great battle system, entirely forgettable characters, super bland story with poor pacing and arcs that go nowhere. I grew to enjoy the level-based gameplay outside of battles. Each location in the game is like its own miniature open world with nice post-apocalyptic atmosphere. The game has shortcomings all over the place, but as a complete package, I liked it.