What is this? Persona?
Day 1 anyway
i chuckled way harder then i should have.
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Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse |OT| Tokyo's Bad Day Is Too Sweet
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i chuckled way harder then i should have.
Checked my order and im in the same boat as you. Sucks :\
MetroidPrimeRib
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Too busy with Dragon Quest 7 (I think, I don't really like it a whole lot 3 hours in) but I'm still picking this up on principle
Talk to their reps and get a free month of prime (if you are a prime member)
Fine Ham Abounds
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Can't wait. One of the 4 or 5 games I will make time for this year.
What is this? Persona?
Day 1 anyway
I believe this is a Persona parody.
SpaceBridge
Member
Well at least there'll be some new areas of Tokyo to explore.
How is the camera? Is it fully rotatable this time?
They said this Winter. That could mean the same day Persona 5 comes. That is the reason I imported it, I cannot wait that long.
Sumio Mondo
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Could very well mean Early next year, which would be annoying since so much else is coming out then too (Nier, Nioh, Persona 5, Hitman, Yakuza 0, Berserk etc). All we can do is hope it's before the end of the year.
Was starting up IV again and was spoiled about how
and I think I'll just put it down and head right into this one. The question is now whether I want to spoil everything story-wise so I'm all caught up going into this game.
the two other samurai turn into monsters
Also interested in this if anyone has a recommendation, preferably a video. Played the game but didn't do all the routes.
Now it only if they would recognize Etrian Untold 2's localization, which is probably the sloppiest one they've ever done, but for entirely different reasons.
Toadthemushroom
Member
Does anyone know if this game is New-3DS enhanced, like native C-Stick support out the box and visual improvements?
Dragon1893
Member
Ah yes, the feeling of seeing the OT for a game of your favorite franchise while not knowing when it will be available in Europe.
I hope they at least keep their promise of releasing it this year.
Enjoy the game guys, will follow the thread for impressions, please be mindful of spoilers.
I hope they at least keep their promise of releasing it this year.
Enjoy the game guys, will follow the thread for impressions, please be mindful of spoilers.
Dragon1893
Member
Lol, I can't deny having seen all of the above.
I love all SMT games (with a couple of exceptions) and if I were to rank them it would be a healthy mix between mainline and spinoffs.
What is undeniable, at least to me, is that they are all high quality rpgs deserving of anyone's time.
I do feel Persona 2 doesn't get the love it deserves which is frustrating but that's not for this thread.
Magicpaint
Member
Yeah! Though I'm actually quietly glad it's not right now, as I have DQVII to play.
cj_iwakura
Member
They're from /smtg. Facetious.
names2hard4you
Member
He's young Skrillex.Is it me or does Nanashi look like Natalie Dormer from Hunger Games?
Trojita
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Stop trying to kill my love for this character.
names2hard4you
Member
What was wrong with Untold 2?
No, it's the same.
sixteen-bit
Member
pretty psyched for this, but I still gotta finish SMT4
Voice actors are starting to announce their roles, but exciting is that it's a lot of new blood.
Of particular interest is that Sarah Anne Williams now voices the Jacks.
There's also some really weird casting and acting for some of the characters. The highs in the game are actually way higher than U1's, but the thing's a bigger mixed bag overall. To the point where one of the actors told me via email that they don't understand why they were cast the way they were when I asked if they were in the game.
Of particular interest is that Sarah Anne Williams now voices the Jacks.
A lot of things, but the biggest one is that they copy-and-pasted text from the original II's localization, and I mean that literally. There are a bunch of scenes that don't even make sense because they're referring to things that were removed in the remake. There's also a ton of cases of text breaking the bounding boxes (including the very first food buff you get in the game), and tons of terms being localized differently depending on the scene. There are some cases where you'll see the same item called completely different things depending on what screen you're looking at.
There's also some really weird casting and acting for some of the characters. The highs in the game are actually way higher than U1's, but the thing's a bigger mixed bag overall. To the point where one of the actors told me via email that they don't understand why they were cast the way they were when I asked if they were in the game.
Has Gaston's been announced? I thought I saw a tweet a couple of days ago, but I can't find anything.
Wow. Usually I pick up on this stuff and I don't think I noticed any of that. But then I played Story mode, and it sounds like a lot of these problems would be in Classic mode.
There's a good amount of recycled areas but there are new ones to explore thrown in between the retreaded territory of IV.
Pureauthor
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Tyrant Rave
Banned
I'm hoping someone puts out something like SMT4Tool for this. That thing was amazingly useful for finding fusion recipes.
So excited! My physical copy should arrive in a few days, allowing me to finish Ace Attorney and (maybe) Xenoblade Chronicles. I'm about 10 hours away from the end of each, I believe, which won't take long on 3DS \o/
The new music tracks are amazing; I especially love the world map theme. Since SMTIV had a great soundtrack I don't mind that some of its music gets recycled, but I'll have to see how familiar it feels with the other recycled assets and areas. Finished SMTIV earlier this year with a Dex build and the Neutral ending, will probably go for Dex again or maybe Strength if it's improved over the original. Exciting!
The new music tracks are amazing; I especially love the world map theme. Since SMTIV had a great soundtrack I don't mind that some of its music gets recycled, but I'll have to see how familiar it feels with the other recycled assets and areas. Finished SMTIV earlier this year with a Dex build and the Neutral ending, will probably go for Dex again or maybe Strength if it's improved over the original. Exciting!
Grim Patron
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Hope you all enjoy this. I loved it.
Amazon shipped 1 copy to my friend. My own physical copies get here tomorrow (wednesday). Curious to see how the emblems were packaged. Disappointed we don't get a guide / artbook like last time but I rectified that thanks to Amazon JP.
Amazon shipped 1 copy to my friend. My own physical copies get here tomorrow (wednesday). Curious to see how the emblems were packaged. Disappointed we don't get a guide / artbook like last time but I rectified that thanks to Amazon JP.
PapaEmeritus
Member
Unfortunately no
It told me arriving thursday and shipping today for like 40 hours. It shipped around 2 AM and is now arriving Wednesday.
Of course it was supposed to arrive today, so a lovely experience.
Toadthemushroom
Member
Is that no as in "it's not enhanced", or no as in "no one knows"
Still, if it's the former I guess I'm not surprised. Etrian Odyssey V wasn't enhanced either and overall, was a step back from IV/Untold in some visual aspects. For example, draw distance was dialled back and texture filtering was removed from environments.
Haven't seen anything, but I just got to his introduction. I'm pretty sure it's Haberkorn, and man, does he chew that scenery. He and Sean Chiplock/Navarre are tied for my favorite performances so far.
Yeah, to be fair, most of the stuff is fine in the main game. It's in the post-game, particularly on classic, where the floodgates really open.