Shin Megami Tensei 5 refines this system, where the tone of your answers when entering talks with a demon actually matter, and you’ll quickly build a familiarity with some of the more common personality traits of demons.Ĭollecting new and powerful demons is vital to your survival. Atlus’s 2017 RPG, itself originally a spin-off of the Shin Megami Tensei series, also boasted negotiations with various demonic foes, but the result was more of a guessing game where the personality of said demon didn’t really factor into how you approached negotiations. This is one area that’s had a mini upgrade since Persona 5. You’ll really have to pay attention to the demon’s personality here - if they’re bubbly and optimistic, you’ll perhaps want to recruit them through praise, but if they’re headstrong and overly aggressive, you might want to try fighting fire with fire and puff out your chest in negotiations. When engaging with an enemy devil in battle, the protagonist can temporarily halt trading blows and engage them in a war of words, cautiously negotiating to try and recruit the demon to their side.
Every periodic boss encounter for a story beat is a mountain to be summited, where you’ll have to spend hours repeatedly sprinting through all the foes you’ve gone through beforehand, slowly accumulating precious experience points so the boss can’t wipe away your entire team with a flick of its finger.Ītlus’s latest RPG actually functions as a collect-a-thon. If you thought modern RPGs like Dragon Quest 11 and even Tales of Arise required a steady slog through an army of enemies to boost your level, Shin Megami Tensei 5 is a league above that. What this results in is one hell of a grind. The combat system could be fairly described as a war of attrition, where both sides are slowly whittling down the health of one another, and supremely powerful abilities that can lay waste to a number of foes are extremely few and far between. Its combat is turn-based in perhaps its purest form, with barely anything interrupting your party and the enemy demons taking turns to poke and prod each other with various supernatural abilities. Shin Megami Tensei 5 functions as an RPG, and a tough as nails one at that. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.
Shin Megami Tensei 5, the latest in the long-standing RPG franchise from developer Atlus, is one such game, beckoning you into an interdimensional war between heaven and hell, where humanity’s fate is on the line but the lowliest enemy can still beat you into submission. Sometimes a game greets you with a kick in the teeth.
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