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First #FE (SMTxFE) live gameplay on Treehouse Stream

Yeah, the two previous trailers didn't do a very good job of conveying the actual mechanics of this game. This looks very Megaten, in terms of its combat and dungeon crawling. That "Performa" stuff is reminiscent of Persona specifically, but the aesthetic isn't.
 
This game is super duper Persona, except I don't think the dungeons are randomly generated. Hopefully we'll see something similar in Persona 5 too!
Didn't they already confirm the Persona 5 dungeons are still randomly generated, except for the occasional one-off story dungeon? Unless I'm misinterpreting the scale.

http://www.siliconera.com/2015/02/09/persona-5-details-protagonist-setting-dungeons/

The dungeon that was shown in the trailer was not automatically-generated, and the story will have various main places that are suitable for a challenge to a phantom thief with all kinds of stages and gimmicks. However, this doesn’t mean there won’t be any auto-generated elements in game.
 
This game is super duper Persona, except I don't think the dungeons are randomly generated. Hopefully we'll see something similar in Persona 5 too!

After Persona Q I really hope they don't. The generated dungeons were not fun. From what it looked like the the tiny bit of gameplay we've seen though, it seems that it won't be randomly generated *fingers crossed*
 
The battle system actually looks really fun, but the art style is such a turn off, I don't know if I can stomach it.

I know what you mean, that and I'm realllllllllly not a fan of jpop and the angle they appear to be taking here...

I love Fire Emblem, however it looks as though this game isn't for me.
 
So, do you think you'll be able to get more Performa like in Persona, or are you always with the set-characters?

It's such a Kamen Rider/Megaman ZX thing. I originally thought we'd be doing shit like summoning Marth stands to fight Medeus stands but this is neat too. :lol

Yup. Actually I got Kamen Rider Kiva vibes from it since Chrom's VA Sugita was in Kamen Rider Kiva as the transformation device, Kivat.
 
I really wish this was a FE game mixed with that other series, not the other way around (not sure if those games are like this). After finally seeing some actual gameplay, there's nothing interesting here for me. I like RPGs, but I just don't see the appeal of this kind of stuff. Xenoblade Chronicles X will be my RPG to go definately, will pass on this one.

Eh, Atlus was the lead developer so we know it was going to be more SMTish like Hyrule Warriors was Warriorish.
 
Admittedly, I'm not a fan of Japanese culture and anime or whatever. But I do Love Fire Emblem (only played awakening but loved It). This, honestly, looks like garbage.

The plot is about a dark force sucking people's creativity? Sounds like they literally ran out of ideas for this game and then decided to just make the game about not having any ideas left for the game.

The art style is one thing, not my thing per se but not poor. However, I really hope this is REALLY early production build, because his looks like a poor PS2 game up-resed, graphically. It's 2015, you know…

Also, loading screens before battles seems LOOOONG.

The Wii U is far more powerful than this. This is embarrassing. It's so… empty.

Also, they keep hammering that they are only showing games coming out this year… so not encouraging that this is an early production version, the game is probably more than halfway through development if its coming out by December.

Hype decimated.
 
People need to get over the fact that this isn't the SMT X FE game they created in their heads after the announcement...but something completely its own thing.

This looks neat.
 
There is nothing SMT about this.

HA right
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inb4 not a real SMT
 
What I'm currently seeing on Treehouse convinces me to jump in on day one. Looks like those awesome PS2/GCN JRPGs in the best possible sense! Also looks like a Persona spin off. This, Xenoblade and Zelda is one hell of a swan song to the Wii U!
 
You know what I think I know what it is. I love me some anime and JRPGs but this feels almost a bit obnoxious but it seems fun.

I think I figured it out, why this game feels weird to me.

This is like "What if Nintendo and the SMT crew made a Compile Heart game with an actual budget?". Not that it looks like a Complile Heart game, it looks like a Singing Persona/Digital Devil Saga game. That said this looks pretty fun.

There is nothing SMT about this.

I said that when we first saw the trailers but seeing gameplay now, it obviously plays like a SMT game, or at bare minimum Persona.

Sure aesthetically it may not FEEL like SMT (with it being all upbeat) but the navigation and even the HUD seems like a damn SMT game.
 
This game is super duper Persona, except I don't think the dungeons are randomly generated. Hopefully we'll see something similar in Persona 5 too!

The maid thing seems a shade too much work to do procedurally. Definitely doable, but probably more hassle than it's worth. So I suspect they're designed dungeons.
 
However, they never said that. They didn't lie to anyone.

they did indeed never say it was, but looking at the two franchises it's how it should turn out...

I mean you wouldn't expect a Halloween and Aliens cross over movie to turn out like Scary Movie right?

Really while they didn't lie about it directly, they originally presented the game as a cross over of the two universes, what we are getting is something instead that is unique and a cross over between the skills of two teams to make something new (also likely why we got a name change). They really should have just announced this as a cross over project between the megaten team and the fire emblem team and left both names out of the title in general.

like I said though I was buying it regardless. I have faith atlus will make a good game and this new stuff indeed looks like it.
 
I'm not seeing that much of the "disgusting dreck" fanservice right now, could someone point it to me?

It looks pretty great so far, very colorful and decent visuals. Not sure about the fighting system, looks a bit simple.

This is my view as well. I feel like people are grossly over-exaggerating and it's really tiresome after awhile.

It looks like it could be a dungeon right outside of Persona 4. Same with the fighting style. It's an early dungeon demo so I am hoping that it gets more difficult later. Considering who is making it I can imagine with to be the case. This jumped up from a probably to a day 1 for me.

they did indeed never say it was, but looking at the two franchises it's how it should turn out...

I mean you wouldn't expect a Halloween and Aliens cross over movie to turn out like Scary Movie right?

Really while they didn't lie about it directly, they originally presented the game as a cross over of the two universes, what we are getting is something instead that is unique and a cross over between the skills of two teams to make something new (also likely why we got a name change). They really should have just announced this as a cross over project between the megaten team and the fire emblem team and left both names out of the title in general.

They literally showed nothing but a title and character designs from old games because they had nothing to show. To the point were people were (annoyingly) repeating "vaporware' ad naseum, even when the company said otherwise multiple times. People were (ironically0 comparing it to TLG and stuff.

If people wanna fill in the blanks on what was effectively a blank sketchbook they have nothing but themselves to blame when they are wrong.
 
Please tell me what bubbly J-pop and over the top fanservice has to do with SMT. I didn't see any of that in Nocturne and SMTIV.

Ah, yes, Nocturne and SMT4, the only two SMT games ever made. In retrospect, it was weird of them to start the series numbering with 4, but Atlus gonna do what Atlus gonna do, am I right?
 
I guess the Fire Emblem part of this game is rather minimal?
The only fire emblem part I saw was the level up screen/sounds. They said something about item shops but many games have those. I'm not counting "Chrom" because he looks nothing like Fire Emblem Chrom.
 
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