Look at the Treehouse footage. Enemies are original, and are mostly robots or cyborgs. They also have character classes, although some of them have a generic monster class.
Only SMT demon shown off so far is the Jack Frost cameo.
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Tharja, Virion (Awakening), & Draug (Shadow Dragon) Confirmed for Genei Ibun Roku #FE
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Look at the Treehouse footage. Enemies are original, and are mostly robots or cyborgs. They also have character classes, although some of them have a generic monster class.
Only SMT demon shown off so far is the Jack Frost cameo.
What does the press release in the OP of this very thread say this game is a crossover of?
Drilbit777
Member
Is the US version actually going to use the title "Genei Ibun Roku" or will they change it?
I think it's likely to change for brand recognition.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
Ugh, of course they would put fucking Tharja in this. Oh well, the game should still be fun.
CrimsonFist
Member
What press release? The source for this is a Japanese blog which has an early copy of famitsu. There's no direct quotes anywhere from the original magazine source. Any quotes referring to it being a crossover are editorialising.
It's not a crossover with SMT or Persona, and since the actual reveal the devs haven't pretended otherwise. There's a few cameos, but I'd have really thought that people would have gotten over the fact that it's not what was shown in the original teaser by now.
CrackPebbles
Member
Awesome. I can't wait to see Tharja's new design.
Pretty sure this was just in reference to the text and gameplay, because again, they were making a big deal about the Japanese voices/singing.
SoldnerKei
Member
Soon...
glad to know I am not the only one who did this
Cordelia is next
and would totally dig Fire Emblem amiibos, no matter how painful to get they might be
That's the fault of bloggers and journalists carrying on the original miscommunication.
I understand disinterest in the game's aesthetic and themes, but we didn't have a crossover taken from us; that was just something we all thought up because of a hastily thrown-together teaser for a project that was announced far too early.
I should be past this, but reading those two new character descriptions... I still have to wonder how the minds behind SMT: Strange Journey, SMT: Nocturne, Radiant Historia, SMTIV and even Devil Survivor came together and, given free reign, came up with such a seemingly lighthearted game.
It's like they were tired of the desolate/dire worlds and serious characters they've been dealing with, so they decided to do the reverse.
It's like they were tired of the desolate/dire worlds and serious characters they've been dealing with, so they decided to do the reverse.
Linkstrikesback
Member
I sort of agree with you, but I have no idea what Nintendo was expecting when they threw a series of artwork of the SMT main characters and then FE main characters followed by SMT X FIRE EMBLEM on screen.
That is of course, assuming the world doesn't go to hell at some point and they're just keeping it a secret.
who is to say this doesn't suddenly get dark?
Or it'll be about the dark side of showbiz.
Yeah... that's always in the back of my mind, but it'd be an actual subversion of my expectations at this point.
My first thought
I really don't have much hope of that happening honestly, and even if it does, I'm going to guess it will be relatively little of the game, or some kind of "Mirage world", alternate dimension, or something like that.
When the original teaser was shown, we saw the protagonists from every mainline SMT with FE charterers. Now I figured it was unlikely we would see Devil Buster, Aleph, Demi-Fiend, and Flynn all in the same game. At the very least though I expected something that has the atmosphere of a real SMT game mixed with Fire Emblem. What we have now is nothing of the sort, basically seeing Persona take SMT's place. It's a slap in the face to people that like SMT and wanted something with the tone of an SMT game. It's pretty telling that this is just a game pandering to the people obsessed with Japanese culture. Just look at how there are attacks with dancing idols, Tiki from FE is a popular "singaloid", the characters have their "Performance", there is no sign of COMPs or even SMT demons other than a cameo by Jack Frost, and that it looks unlikely that there will be any kind of apocalypse at all. I'm willing to bet there won't even be a Law, Chaos, or Neutral choice.
It's so frustrating to see Atlus just pumping out stuff like this and seemingly endless Persona spinoffs. Persona 5 gives me a glimmer of hope since demons are back at least, but since SMT4, we have received no word of any new SMT game. I would gladly accept a Strange Journey-esque " spinoff", a term I use loosely for SJ as it played very much like a modernized SMT1 or 2 before Press Turn.
NeonZ
Member
Right now there's one one allied Mirage per character, there's no way they'd have two cavaliers in such a small selection. So, no Abel.
For the other ones, the game was already said to be focused on Shadow Dragon and Awakening characters. If there's no mirage switch and recruitment, it's very unlikely we'll see any of those characters.
There were references to other SMT demons in other stores, similar to the Jack Frost one. No actual appearances though. For example, there's a store with an Ame no Uzume theme (Nocturne design) here:
https://youtu.be/QLeOta98VrQ?t=1m7s
I guess taking the game in this direction might explain why they stayed in silence for so long, hoping people would just forget the initial announcement. They clearly still want to throw some SMT elements there, probably due to that initial announcement, even though so far it seems very half hearted. They really should have made some mirages SMT based - made based on former human characters, rather than demons, in order to differentiate them. Although I guess there's still the strong possibility that there won't be extra mirages at all, just one per character, but that'd be a really big mistake for a game with guest characters like this drawing from at least two FE games with large casts...
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Haha
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
What in God's name do you think tree house is? O.O they had troy baker in kid icarus
Back in 2012, before he became unionized & up to his neck in AAA games. Nintendo Treehouse usually goes on the cheap with voice acting, normally going for non-union VAs.
Soon...
lol bravo.
Sumio Mondo
Member
What in the..."what I noticed was...how grounded in reality this game is" and even the translator looks kind of confused by what that Nintendo rep is saying. This game is anime as fuck.
Alternatively, it's aimed at actual Japanese people.
AcademicSaucer
Member
They could have made a collaborative game with the SMT tone instead of jpop .
CaviarMeths
Member
Never in a million years will I understand the notion that content creators "owe" consumers a damn thing. It's fine if you're not liking what you're seeing and would like to see Atlus make something different, but this "slap in the face" nonsense is bullshit of the highest order.
FunkyDealer
Banned
I just hope this game gets a localisation as good as the Persona series does. Keep in mind the Japanese VA are singing as well.
I just hope we get it here in the west next year.
Tharja will be.... Interesting.
I just hope we get it here in the west next year.
Tharja will be.... Interesting.
Slap some subtitles on the songs and that's it. No need to change the lyrics.
The game is set in Tokyo and this is not Ace Attorney,
It's clearly the well-known American city of San Fransokyo.
CrimsonFist
Member
The problem you have there is that it's the actual characters singing in universe, so it might come across as odd if they suddenly switch languages. I'd compare it to the band scene in Persona 4 Golden. That wouldn't have worked if they just left it in Japanese and subbed it.
So they're giving me yet another reason to ignore this game? Great.
Never did I say anything about content creators owing anything. I said that they announced something, and duped the fans when the thing they announced was completely different.
It's like how people are just a little upset that Konami is making that Silent Hill mobile game with "erotic violence" after cancelling PT/Silent Hills.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Um, the erotic violence is a Pachinko Castlevania game.
They duped no one with this game. Stop.
From where now?
Smiles and Cries
Member
Is this still Wii U?
We weren't duped. We were hoodwinked!
Perhaps not intentionally, there are a lot of people still referring to this game as a "cross-over" or "SMTxFE" (or "FExSMT," which has been a reoccurring one). They announced the game too early under a false pretense, and that's why this topic of discussion is still coming up, and probably will in perpetuity even after the game's out.
Oh boy
...What? How is that not true? You realize the producer of this game acknowledges this?
Azure Phoenix
Member
Tharja? Yes please, the more games she is in the better.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Its a pretty good representation of the actual streets of tokyo