SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI V REVIEW - Happy Console Gamer 

You should invite Johnny to your podcast !

Please make a reviw of this Game friend

I love both of your channels so much.

I'm a simple man: if @ACG trusts, i trust.

I'll get down voted to hell but I'll say this as delicately as I can. I much prefer the scripted and structured nature of your videos than this. I can see why this appeals to some people but it just feels like a conversation I would overhear in a gamestop. I watch a lot of hcg's videos but I'm not really a fan of this super free form back and forth with him and his wife.

You gotta have blue hair!

Aren't you that guy who was plagiarized?

The sound of the voice in the ign review made me switch to this one in less than 30 seconds. Im glad I did.

Yup this is the one where I wish I was a reviewer & got it and could just quit that gig once I got it. I've day dreamed that scheme

Same! We got Metroid Dread and SMT 5 in the same year. What a time to be alive ❤️

@@nomadscorpio it's been a pretty good year for Nintendo Exclusives. Metroid Dread, SMT 5 and Monster Hunter Rise all got great reviews.

@@nomadscorpio I’d rather be alive next year for BotW 2 and Elden Ring

@@THamm-xt8jm what's elden ring?

World wide release? Yet people already got the game.

@@Okanekaseku I am aware. My statement was an objective truth. Objectively if people get something early, it's technically not a world wide release. I do hate developers who do this practice though.

@@ItApproaches its literally every game, every electronic, every car, every piece of software. You have no idea what you are talking about

@@drowningin You're attempting to insult me off a failure to understand the view point in question. How human of you.

@@ItApproaches you are saying you don't want reviews to exist at the time of release, and buyers should go in blind because no one has had the ability to try the game. "It's not world wide release if people writing reviews most people base their decisions on can get it before me" so yes I am correct in saying you do not know what you were talking about. Humans are often wrong, and I was informing you as a fellow human. So yes, how human

Looks to me like they have though. Mitama’s

@@sebr2761 Mitama have always existed.

@@sebr2761 You don't have to download this DLC.

Lol same! I’m doing that very thing. Been buying all the old persona titles on my ps vita and persona 3 on the ps3. Im gonna get the other SMT on ps 4 and one day get a switch. All this started because of ps5 royal.

Same, just beat the first palace in P5R (my first Persona) and am looking forward to this (also my first SMT).

Dude, same here! I'm at the point were I almost bought all the SMT and Persona games of the last years and haven't played them yet but I know I'll love em in the end. It's strange...

I've bought 5x as many as I've played through. Once you get a taste, you have to start collecting. I even have all the Arena and Dancing games lol.

@@butchdeadlift7551 I bought sealed copies of Digital Devil Saga and DDS2, Persona 3 FES and Persona 4 and Nocturne for the PS2. Got the steelbook edition for Persona 5 Royal. I preordered the steelbook for SMT V and don't even have a Switch yet lol

Cool to have girl who likes gaming and anime

Same here

Yeah, she's good vibes personified

@@cartem304 most do lol

@@Lonewulf321 lol dudes like him think girls that likes video games and anime are a very rare breed that only exist on popular social media platforms and are hard to find, and once they see one on youtube they immediately begin simping and pointing out their like for anime and games, ignoring absolutely everything else about them lmao

Lower them

They are good games for sure, as a fan i'm glad peple are gonna get into it from this one. Be warned though, unlike persona smt doesn't guide you too much, you tend to get lost a lot and to some people that gets really frustrating. If you are not put off by that then i say go for it, if not then that's okay too.

@@hyakky9945 There will probably be a walkthrough later.

You’re definitely in for a ride. Welcome, my friend, to the Cathedral of Shadows, where demons gather.

​@JamieNelsonsPool As for me it is quite the opposite, whenever i play persona game i end up just wanting to blitz trough it to see the character interactions (might as well just be an anime). Meanwhile with megaten i often see myself locked in a place because i want to see all possible demons to get in that place and then optimize my team. Also SMT V does not seem to be as much of a plot oriented game as smt 1,2 and 4 but nevertheless i am happy with having this game come out.

Can't say I got into jrpgs with this channel, but it sure as hell has encouraged me to keep playing em. I only got into the genre like 2 years ago so I've a lot of catching up to do, to play all the classics I missed out on

I ordered the Japanese SE, because I want the shirt, and it was expensive. But with all the shipping problems, I probably won’t be playing it until January:) The Japanese version has English subs, by the way.

I managed to buy the special edition after checking Nintendo's site every single day

@@samuraigundam0079 I'll have to try that. I think it was impossible to get one cause for some reason they decided to just make the premium online only. So you could not order any pre-orders at stores.

Play the remake, Strange Journey Redux on the 3DS. It's way better.

@@ltb1345 I bought it but I never opened it. Now its worth something so I dont want to open it.

loved strange journey. Unfortunately smt4 not so much. That goddamn map was godawful

@@ltb1345 you're high, that game is ass, the original is the way to go

@@kuzunohaxiv7912 The only one high here is you. The original had tons of problems as well as awful balance issues. The MC couldn't do jack sh*t for nearly the entire game, fans back then called him the Medicine dispenser as that was the only thing he was good at. Really bad difficulty spikes when going to new areas, you finish an area at level 30? Enjoy the next one having enemies being 40 or 45. Poorly balanced bosses that didn't mesh well with the nerfed fusion system, having a team where everyone was resistant to what bosses could go was night impossible so all fights, even with full knowledge and all the preparations came down to pure luck. What's that? Asura landed is Asura Roga skill? Too bad dude, enjoy your instant game over, try again, and this time you better pray harder to RNG Jesus. I can go on, but Redux fixed all of that. The obnoxious maps later on with a million teleports were made more tolerable with the ability to save anywhere, the MC now could use Command Skills that made him not only useful made reduced the RNGness of the bosses as some, like Brave Heart could negate debuffs for a few turns. Womb of Grief fixed the difficulty spikes as now you had a place to go and level up to catch up to a new zone, it also fixed the endings which in the original were all just different flavors of "Bad End". It added a lot of Apps with good QoL things. If you want to cry "game was easier!" Fixing issues and poor balancing is never a bad thing. But if you want your nuts crushed because you are that hardcore then you can play on Insane or w/e the new difficulty mode was called. With all of this I don't mean the original was bad, it was still good, but Redux made it much better.

Welcome to the family

Same here

after this one i recommend smt 4 duology they are master pices and from the spin off y realy recommend you digital devil saga and devil survivor

They released them on GBA those are the versions I patched. I'm jealous cuz Japan's snes app has 1 & maybe 2 already

Play Strange Journey Redux. It's the best one IMO.

Be aware, the first two SMT have not aged all that well. DEFINITELY play with a guide. No shame in using one. And if you liked _SMT I_ and _SMT II,_ you should give _SMT: If_ a try as well.

@@BknMoonStudios Yep. Can't start a series until I know what I'm getting myself into. If I was younger I'd enjoy figuring things out, but I'm middle aged, and it's crunch time. Crunch time means guide time. [SMT: if] has my attention big time as a niche offering. Might be dated mechanically, but those three should offer some eye candy, and good stories.

@@drowningin Note taken. I can read kana, but that would be just way too much Google Translate for one man.

literally just watching game reviews for fun cause I enjoy the game so much 💀

I hated that map in smt 4. It really turned me off to playing it past a certain point. Couldn't find my way anywhere

@@Demiurge13 I agree with you 100% I've wasted a solid couple of hours because the map was too tiny and hard to read. But still a solid game nonetheless.

@@nickhalfmann8397 yea, I think mainline smt games aren't good for mobile

Is it a Sequel to the True Demon Ending from SMT 3 Nocturne?

It would be kick ass, if they did remasters for both Digital Devil Saga games! I love the Nocturne remaster, as well.

In before "the black cube of jupiter" gets mentioned

That dude seemed really salty that he wasn’t playing persona 6 and that game was too hard lol

SMT invented monster catching and came before pokemon.

Most mainline SMT games are standalone experiences, this is seemingly a perfect jumping point for newcomers :3

@@yansu841 Sweet, I'll definitely be picking it up then. Because it looks amazing but having never played a main SMT until now I was a little worried if you needed to play the previous games to know what is going on. 😋

If you enjoy the RPG side of things in Persona then you’ll probably enjoy SMT. SMT focus more on being an RPG rather than being a hybrid of RPG/visual novel kind of game like Persona. The combat is tougher than Persona because of that. So if you like challenging JRPG then that’s another reason to try SMT. In SMT, you can build your character however you want. My favorite aspect of any SMT game is the ability to build my own party of demons. You can have magic nuke demon or physical demon, healer demon, buff/debuff demon, and more. These sort of things are not possible to do in a Persona game because your character’s stats are tied to the Persona you’re currently using and you can’t really customize your party members either since they come in preset.

"Ys VIII" is probably the best Action-JRPG I've ever played. The story is so ... so ... heartbreaking. "Ys IX" and "Tales of Arise" comes close gameplay wise ... but the story .. oh my! It still gives me goosebumps.

@@henrikfisch I've only just started. I finished Ys Origin and I was ready for something else from the series. I'd heard John give the game high praise so I figured that should be my next game. So far, so good.

@@MadPanicGaming Good choice. Oh man (or girl) ... I am getting jealous when thinking about what you are going to experience in "Ys VIII" which I already went through. All the best, Henrik

You look dope

@@BitchChill By dope, I meant it looks badass or awesome