The trailers with gameplay footage would show footage of Flynn, the protagonist in Tokyo, but no idea how exactly the game would jump from Middle Ages-town to Tokyo. It clearly talked about how the setting was "the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado", showing a very Middle Ages-esque civilization. The marketing for the game back then was actually kind of smart. I remember back when I played IV for the first time, I knew Tokyo was in the game, I just didn't know how I would get there eventually. Strange Journey didn't even take place in Tokyo and had a story about ending up in a strange dimension with the initial goal to escape. IV: Apocalypse reused IV's world and many of it's mechanics, refining many of those mechanics to their most polished state, but taking a story approach of a shonen anime. V had the semi-open world free running aspect of it, but still kept a lid on progression in it's areas where there was a general path you would follow. IV featured locales and dungeons that were more like places people could inhabit in real life, with enemies being represented by blobs of pixels. III generally brought the dungeon crawling from the earlier games into 3D, but of course adding systems like Press Turn among other things. I think something that you can appreciate in every mainline SMT since Nocturne is that they're all pretty distinct from each other. I played Nocturne HD earlier in 2021, so that game was pretty fresh on my mind. While I agree with a lot of the problems he outlines in that post, I still really enjoyed the game and had fun with it, and that inspired me to do another playthrough of the game. The second was in the thread here about SMTV, someone posted Eirikr's blog post about the problems with SMTIV. I did this playthrough around December 2021 but am just now finishing and posting my RttP for it. First, of course, was having recently finished Shin Megami Tensei V, which I loved. What prompted this playthrough? There were a few factors. I played it at first when it came out and really enjoyed it, but I was pretty early on in my getting into SMT games at that point. ![]() Shin Megami Tensei IV is a game I've played multiple times before. Some comparisons will be made to Shin Megami Tensei V, but anything that's spoilers for that game will be appropriately marked. ![]() Warning: This is going to be full of spoilers, and will have SOME spoilers for Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse, some of which might be major.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |