You SHOULD PLAY Shin Megami Tensei 

Pretty bold decision for Altus to include baby Demi Fiend and Nahobino on the roster ngl

i think shin megami tensei would be better if there was a 2nd larry koopa in it

You forgot one thing, THE DIFFICULTY, to quote RU-vidr Yakkocmn, you either take advantage of the wide variety of skills & demons at your disposal, or you get your shit pushed in by a skeleton

When I first played SMT I played SMT 4 completely blind, I went into Naraku going through the progression and after the Minotaur I literally thought I was going to go to hell. My shock realizing I ended up in a tower in a city, I thought this tower was the Seattle Space Neddle and that I was in Seattle.

The series should be multiplatform since SMT Noc

12:53 YOYOGI KOEN - YOYOGI KOEN

I noticed you didn't mention anything about SMT 1/2. What are your thoughts on those games?

I always thought it was interesting that Nocturne, ostensibly the "prototypical" modern SMT, aligns every single companion with Law by having them go along with Kagutsuchi. Pre-Maniax, Chaos wasn't even really an option.

Is there a pink gold megami tensei

I like how you started with mario kart and then said absolutely nothing about Mario kart XD

Great video! Love seeing the SMT love

>that intro Mario Kart would never take advantage of our innate gullibility

I'm really enjoying your videos, I can tell you have a real talent for making them! If I could give you some constructive criticism, I think that your transitions are a bit abrupt and suffer from not narrating the titles of the segments. These factors can make the video a little disorientating. The meat of your videos is very well constructed and presented. Keep up the great work. Also I'm big fan of SMT, seeing another fan always sparks joy.

Nice! :) doggifu is recommending us to play a REAL Shin Megoomi Tensei game :)

As a persona fan that didnt touch mainline smt YET, I wanna say that this video was awesome and needs more views.

Beautifully done video. Loved the SMT series since Nocturne came out because I loved mythology so much, couldn't get enough since. If anyone is interested, please try it out

i just need an smt iv port to modern platforms and i can die peacefully.

I tried this (5, specifically) after having played persona 4G and bounced off. I’m currently playing 5 Royal and love it, though it’s not perfect… But the thought of going back to SMT5 seems less than appealing. It… it’s like just running mementos from 5R forever… or to be fairer I suppose it’s like just the Palaces all string together. Indefinitely. I guess I just need more than combat for dozens of hours. Idk. Maybe I’m missing something. Maybe I did t get far enough in and something changes like twenty hours in. Idk.

Mokoi.

ME FOUL SLIME!! LIKE VIDEO!!!

SMT is peak fiction

Subscribed! More JRPG stuff please!!

I love this video and would subscribe but they took my wife in the divorce.

Gambo should be a Megaten demon.

Love the video keep up the good work

One word, Jakku Frosto

It would be nice if all SMT(and related) games were on PS4, PS5, Switch, etc.

Way ahead of you SMT IV is my favorite JRPG of all time.

A lot of the good gameplay elements in 5 came from 4a

Started my first mainline smt game so far being 5. Very good so far though I prefer p5r just because it is great all around while I've heard some negative stuff about the smt 5 story and I prefer the story of p5r though the game looks good. Pretty difficult bosses too. People are very split on this game though.

Stop naggin me, just finished Kyuuyaku, SMT 1, 2, If... Persona 1, 2 IS, 2 ET, gimme a break!

I’ll look into buying smt 5

apocalypse is good tho

im playing persona 1 right now. but i sooo prefer smt.

Pixie.

I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you on most of the points you make here. while, yes quite a few of the gameplay elements in SMT in general are quite interesting, stuff like the Press Turn system tend to alternate between making the games it is in either too easy or downright *unbearable.* you get punished for not knowing a specific enemy's weakness beforehand, or even missing an attack- *something which you have NO CONTROL OVER* -but if you do all the necessary preparation for the fight that's been the bane of your existence for the past hour, suddenly it becomes trivially easy to the point that the enemy in question can't do *crap* against you. not to mention the relatively recent emphasis on "affinities" which greatly hinders the player's ability to really customize their teams. after all, if your demons are only really meant to use a specific element, then well, there's not really much you can do about it. I'm a bit "eh" when it comes to atmosphere and it's effect overall, so I'll concede you that point, though I personally believe-and I hope you agree-that atmosphere alone doesn't make or break a game. while SMT games usually do indeed have stories, more often than not there are not *good* stories. on average they're half-decent at best, with games like Devil Survivor and Strange Journey being exceptions that prove the rule. at it's best SMT is still filled with plotholtes, inconsistencies, and characters acting like idiots for no reason. and at worst? Devil Summoner "Soul Hackers 2" and Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse. the absolute bottom of the barrel when it comes to SMT. and when it comes to religion and the various figures from within it, usually they're not portrayed faithfully to their source material *at all.* sure there's references and a few surface-level similarities, and occasionally there are demons who somewhat closely resemble their original counterparts, but more often than not they might as well be completely different characters. God goes from an all-power all-loving benevolent Creator to a petty spiteful tin-pot dictator who isn't even all that special that *stole* the world which just came into existence on it's own, and who hates free will for no reason other than being big and bad and stupid. Satan, meanwhile, has been divided into two *separate* demons-Satan, who is usually blindly obedient to God's will (until he isn't), and Lucifer, who is often portrayed as a "tragic hero" who went against the big evil dumb head in the sky because he *cared* about people and their free will, and was punished for doing so. might I add that despite all the shit Law gets, Chaos is objectively the worst alignment for humanity? these are two of the most egregious examples, but I assure you there are many more. the amount of blatant mischaracterizations among religious figures in each game is about as high as the number of entries in each game's demonic compendium! and honestly, I find you saying that the demons in SMT are in fact 1:1 with their original versions to be just as insulting as you found Nintendo's statements regarding Paper Mario being a series that's all about paper. Neither is true. in regards to your reccomendations, well, SMT V is just bad. I'm sorry, but the "story" consists of characters either standing around spouting exposition, bashing God and the Law alignment over and over, or barebones "character interactions" between "characters" with personalities as paper-thin as any in Apocalypse. IV is one of the three SMT games that I downloaded when I decided to take a closer look at the series for myself, and it is easily the worst of the three. I might have screwed myself by going in knowing to some extent what to expect-though for some reason it wasn't nearly as much of an issue with the other two-but overall the story, gameplay, characters etc. are superior only to it's garbage-tier alternate timeline "sequel", but garbage is still garbage even if it doesn't smell as bad. I have not played Nocturne myself, so all I really have to go off of is the footage of it that I've seen, and honestly I actually think it's a good game. religion-bashing is kept to a minimum, most of the alignments are fairly balanced, the demon inaccuracies can be handwaved away by them just being Fallen Angels-or in the case of guys like the Reason Bosses, being interesting and unique enough that it doesn't really matter how inaccurate they are-and while the press turn system is doubtlessly as bone-grindingly frustrating as it is elsewhere, the whole POINT of Nocturne is that it's bone-grindingly frustrating so it doesn't really make much of a difference. anyway, for people who want to play SMT, my personal recommendations are Strange Journey, Devil Survivor (the first one), and Devil Summoner Soul Hackers (again, the first one) in regards to Strange Journey-well, redux at the very least, I haven't played the original-the game is forgiving enough in comparison to most other entries that you can actually have fun with it and usually game-overs are your own fault and not the game's. the story is actually interesting, though the constant repetition of the game's environmentalist message does get old very fast, and the various alignments are actually interesting...at least, until Alex shows up and you find out that they all end badly. oh, and Demon Source is an amazing mechanic, and the fact that the protagonist is just a soldier rather than a super special teenage whatever blessed with the powers of God and Anime is a breath of fresh air. Soul Hackers I haven't played, but I recommend based on the story *alone.* not only does it fit the times we live in super well, it's just a good story overall. and the fact that the Demons of Judeo-Christian lore are actually portrayed somewhat accurately-i.e. evil, subversive, viewing humans as beneath them-is just icing on the cake. lastly, Devil Survivor. I personally recommend Overclocked for the gameplay, but if you want to stick with quality storytelling, then the original is probably enough. aside from being airheaded idiots-especially in the extra content-the characters' personalities are interesting enough, especially by SMT standards, and there's plenty of opportunities to get to know everyone better. the gameplay itself is also amazing, and is a near-perfect blend of traditional SMT gameplay, *modern* SMT gameplay, and tactical RPGs that I am *shocked* wasn't used as a basis for a crossover with Fire Emblem. add in alignments that actually *don't* suck overall-unless you take the extra content into account-and a God who's arguably not an unbearable arsehole and instead actually gives a damn about humanity as a whole, then you've got yourself as close to a masterpiece as Atlus is physically capable of producing. ....shame that the sequel didn't live up to the legacy of it's predecessor.

SMTIV is not only my favorite mainline game but one of my favorite games of all time (also I agree Apocalypse sucked imo and it tried to fix things that weren’t broken imo even the combat)

Hee-ho!

The only good SMT game is Jack Bros.

I tried SMT5, but I didn't enjoy playing it.

>Apocalypse is the worst BASED I wanted to side with Merkabah over everyone else in that one. And I'm a neutralfag.

Yes, play SMT, just not the dogshit SMT V

No you shouldn't play it...its not that good.

Thing is, Shin Megami Tensei is the most superficial franchise in the history of Japanese video games. The minimalist storytelling forces you to do all the work for the game, in addition to having horrendously emotionless characters you can't ever get to care about, try as hard as you'd like. There's a reason Persona is more popular - it just exudes more passion in the writing department.