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Well, what can I say? It is time to start this one.  What is Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey? Well, it is the last mainline SMT title, it is also a pretty drat good dungeon crawler for the DS. It does not really follow any plot points from the previous entries in the series (and all things considered, neither did Nocturne, really). Still, it is the latest, it is one of the few SMT titles that DON'T take place in Japan, and, well, we'll see. Table of Contents Update 1: Plotdumps! Update 2: Meeting the Demonica Update 3: Activating the Demonica and such. Update 4: Turbulence Update 5: Near Death Update 6: First Encounter Update 7: Getting used to things Update 8: Negotiation! Update 9: Rescue Mission Time Update 10: Explosion time Update 11: Reaching the Blue Jet Update 12: Arthur is back Update 13: Scavenging Update 14: Forma Update 15: A possible way out. Update 16: Underground Update 17: Battlefield Update 18: Fusion time! Update 19: York fails to hit on an Angel Update 20: Goddamn Onis Update 21: Catching up again Update 22: Morax Update 24: Bootes initial exploration Update 25: Signal! Update 26: Norris goes nuts. Update 27: Shenanigans. Update 28: Pleasure Palace? Update 29:Delays caused by Dark Souls and Robocop. Update 30: Bad situation. Update 31: Mitra Update 32: Back to the ship Update 33: The feint Update 34: Norris found! Update 35: Mastema Update 36: Succesful rescue! Update 37: Invisible visibility Update 38 No more invisible doorman. Update 39: Bugaboo? Update 40: Sidequesting, and wasting time. Update 41: Accessing Mitra's antechamber Update 42: Hunting in the Palace Update 43: Mitra Update 44: Phase shift into Carina Update 45: Toilets? Update 46: Carina Update 47: Meeting Mastema again Update 48: Horkos Update 49: What the hell is a shibboleth Update 50: Horkos Buster Update 51:Goddamn Horkos. Update 52: Unlockin' Update 53: Separation at last Update 54: Transmission Update 55: Horkos attacks Update 56: Relax spray failure. Update 57: Processing fuckup, and getting annoyed at specific spawn areas Update 59: Carina is OVER Update 60: Delphinus is gross Update 61: Trash place. Update 62: Conveyance Update 63:Triangulation Update 64:Possession Update 65: Back to Bootes. Update 66: Anthony. Update 67: Bootes' stash Update 68: Madman Stone Update 69 MK Gun. Also, Not-Belmont Update 70: Cured! Update 71: Forgin' Update 72: Kudlak receives his spear Update 73:Fight with a strange thing Update 74:Oh no, Gore. Update 75: Delphinus Parasite Update 76: Relapse? Update 77: A drat dead end. Update 78: A night light!. Update 79: Dark belts! Update 80: No more Rosetta signal? Update 81: Empty uPDATE 82: Asura Update 83: Eridanus Update 85: Welp, teleport Update 86: Another darkness. Update 87: Exploring that red darkness. Updare 88: Wake up! Update 89: Teleports! Update 90: The TOP Update 91: The trip back Update 92: Back to Carina Update 93: Lightning Update 94: Captain Jack Update 95: Avoiding going back to Eridanus Update 96: gently caress Eridanus Update 97: gently caress Eridanus Update 98: gently caress Eridanus Update 99: Reporting to Jack Update 100: Opening ways. Update 101: Yggdrasil again Update 102: Ouroboros Update 103: Ouroboros AGAIN Update 104: Out of Eridanus Update 105: Fornax Update 106: Exploring Fornax Update 107: Bosses? Plural? Update 108: Oh no, Alice Update 109: Mithras Update 110: Jack's new place Update 111: Jack's place Update 112: Oh well it was rhetorical Luisfe fucked around with this message at May 16, 2013 around 06:29 |
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Actually reserving this post for cast and details. Commander Gore: American, leader of the mission. Apparently well liked by the crew. Pretty drat optimistic about the mission.   First Lieutenant Zelenin: Russian. Stationed on the Elve, Science officer of some sort. Technobabble ahoy!   Main Character:American. He is the main character. Thus, like all traditional SMT main characters, a mute.   Jimenez: Hot headed, American. Doesn't seem to care much about respect or authority, but will do what is asked of him as long as he gets paid. 
Luisfe fucked around with this message at Aug 7, 2011 around 04:00 |
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Fuckin' hell, this game. I love it so, but it sure doesn't love me.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 08:04 |
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No kidding. This game abuses it's player, and I have Stockholm syndrome for it.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 08:13 |
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Couldn't get into this game at all. Old-school JRPGs simply don't do it for me anymore. The premise of the story was great, though, so I'll be bookmarking this thread.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 08:16 |
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Oh good, at least someone's doing this. Tried playing it some but got tired of endless demon juggling and indecisiveness about which ones I should stick with and which ones to fuse, especially since now there's aligments thrown into the mix as well. I guess Persona is a bad starting point in that regard since there's a lot less choice overall, especially in 3 and 4. Didn't bother me as much in Devil Survivor though, probably because of easier character customization and the fact that you only need to plan out for a single battle at a time. Not that it'd matter since I would've quit out of frustration in latter dungeons anyway based on what I've heard of them.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 08:40 |
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I still haven't beaten it. I am at the final boss and realize I am in need of some heavy grinding or else some great strategy that eludes me. There's no loving way I'm replaying this game until I beat it the first time, but grinding is sooooo loving slow--there's no handy exp bags for me to exploit, so far as I know.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 08:45 |
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Ah, Strange Journey. The first game of it's kind I'd ever played (first person dungeon crawler), it sure is... something. Generally not as hard as it gets credit for, though there are some bullshit segments we have to look forward to! Game's a lot of fun and this should be fun to follow. Already can't wait to see some fusing and recruiting.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 08:54 |
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Oh, this is such a good game. I had so much fun the entire time through. I just really, really dug the Jules Verne with demons thing it had going. Awesome to see you doing this.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 08:56 |
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Love this game. Too bad Atlus sucks and just churns out more awful date sim Persona games instead of stuff like this.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 09:00 |
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You brave soul, I love this game so much. Will there be a chance to donate some demons/codes to you, or are you going to only make your own monsters?
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 09:01 |
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RentCavalier posted:I still haven't beaten it. I am at the final boss and realize I am in need of some heavy grinding or else some great strategy that eludes me. There's no loving way I'm replaying this game until I beat it the first time, but grinding is sooooo loving slow--there's no handy exp bags for me to exploit, so far as I know. I'm in the EXACT same situation, which is really annoying considering how I never really had to grind much before that point, barring a boss or two. I'd love to finish it but I'm not about to spend hours wandering in (directionless) circles.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 09:07 |
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I am interested to see how this SMT spinoff unfolds. (and no I do not consider it a mainline SMT title despite the OP and anyone else who finds that 'wrong')
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 09:08 |
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meteor9 posted:I'm in the EXACT same situation, which is really annoying considering how I never really had to grind much before that point, barring a boss or two. I'd love to finish it but I'm not about to spend hours wandering in (directionless) circles. You both could just cheese it with a premade demon. They'd be expensive, but if you really want to see the ending, nothing helps curb stomp an end boss like a few Jihads.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 09:22 |
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RentCavalier posted:I still haven't beaten it. I am at the final boss and realize I am in need of some heavy grinding or else some great strategy that eludes me. There's no loving way I'm replaying this game until I beat it the first time, but grinding is sooooo loving slow--there's no handy exp bags for me to exploit, so far as I know. Which one? There are two different final bosses. I didn't have too many problems with the one you're more likely to meet, a few retries were needed though.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 09:50 |
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I love this game and for some reason find it more accessible then nocturne. Will be following the thread in earnest.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 10:13 |
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I began this one just after SMT Devil Survivor (only one I have finished), but quickly lost interest in dungeon crawling. Great premise and sense of exploration, though, so I'll be following.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 11:10 |
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Azure_Horizon posted:I am interested to see how this SMT spinoff unfolds. There is middle ground in this debate. Let's get one thing clear: Strange Journey was originally conceived as SMT4. So what happened? Basically, Atlus Japan, due to the success of Atlus USA, realized that there is an international market for SMT. Thus, Kaneko changed the name and the setting away from Tokyo. The SMT games only get a number if they are set in Tokyo. No really. That's the entire reason it's not SMT4 on the box: it's not set in Tokyo, in order to give the game more international appeal. So, if for some reason you're one of those people who think SMT cannot be mainline because it's not set in Tokyo, then it's not SMT4. Sort of kind of, kind of like how this game was envisioned as sort of kind of SMT4. --- ...So what is my point? Less of this Persona dating sim bullshit, more of Strange Journey. Tallgeese fucked around with this message at Aug 6, 2011 around 11:14 |
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So ummmmm where's the update?
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 11:15 |
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The OP was most likely just a placeholder for now. Why Luisfe did not just wait until he had some content, I have no idea.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 11:17 |
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Yes! I love this game so much, even though the dungeons can be painful. Also I love both mainline SMTs and Persona games. 
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 11:21 |
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I've been playing this game for over a year now. I still haven't beaten it.  Looking forward to the LP.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 12:44 |
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Ditto to looking forward to this. I got to around level 40 something or so the first time I played before the sidequests and backtracking overwhelmed me, but I still had a lot of fun.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 14:43 |
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RentCavalier posted:I still haven't beaten it. I am at the final boss and realize I am in need of some heavy grinding or else some great strategy that eludes me. There's no loving way I'm replaying this game until I beat it the first time, but grinding is sooooo loving slow--there's no handy exp bags for me to exploit, so far as I know. Enemy Search in Sector H works pretty well actually if you're feeling weak. There are blips that spawn in the general vicinity of the last boss. The real trick to the last boss is to not be shy about using items and things like that. This is the best game by the way, and Law is the best path. You're free to disagree if you'd like to be wrong but this time the Law people in the story just kinda own. Tallgeese posted:...So what is my point? Less of this Persona dating sim bullshit, more of Strange Journey. It certainly would be nice if the next Persona game was a hybrid of what was great about the recent entries' gameplay but back to being a bit more like the earlier entries. Feinne fucked around with this message at Aug 6, 2011 around 14:58 |
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Feinne posted:This is the best game by the way, and Law is the best path. You're free to disagree if you'd like to be wrong but this time the Law people in the story just kinda own. It's true. A bunch of people do not like the Law ending, but their objections are pretty short-sighted and fail to consider it in an objective manner. Plus the head Law guy is just awesome all the time (except in the Chaos path where they ruin his character in two sentences, but we can safely ignore that bit of bullshit). The Chaos guys are steadfast but simply not well-developed, and the Neutral started cool but gets really stupid really fast after a certain point, regardless of path. Tallgeese fucked around with this message at Aug 6, 2011 around 15:16 |
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Tallgeese posted:It's true. A bunch of people do not like the Law ending, but their objections are pretty short-sighted and fail to consider it in an objective manner. Considering your avatar and custom title, some people might consider this opinion suspect. bewilderment fucked around with this message at Aug 7, 2011 around 01:46 |
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bewilderment posted:Considering your avatar and custom title, some people might consider this opinion suspect. He got it for arguing this exact same thing in a different SMT thread, I've heard.
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Well, those people would be wrong, but hey, what can I do? I would have provided a laundry list of reasoning to back the opinion, but I am trying not to spoil the game. If you want me to I will gladly oblige and show why exactly Law is superior in this game. Keep in mind that I am mainly referring to this game, Law is pretty badly presented in 2. The presentation in SJ is much improved, barring certain wrinkles once you hit endgame. Also, please edit the quote to cover the spoiler.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 15:21 |
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Oh hey this game. I like this game. Sometimes it's just bullcrap unfun and unfair, but other than that it's pretty enjoyable. On the topic of alignment chat, I've never really given that much thought to the alignments in this series, it's usually a question of who I like best. And I've never really liked the Law characters in this game. Or the Chaos characters. But Neutral has Anthony, who is totally rad.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 15:22 |
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I think this is probably my least-favourite game in the Megaten canon (bar IMAGINE). Which still puts it ahead of most other games out there. I think I stopped playing mainly because I hate grinding for enemy drops to make items and weapons. Any game that has that eventually ends up trying my patience before long. Which probably explains why I hate MMOs now that I think about it.Feinne posted:It certainly would be nice if the next Persona game was a hybrid of what was great about the recent entries' gameplay but back to being a bit more like the earlier entries. I just wish Shoji Meguro would get back to the outstanding soundtracks we heard in Nocturne and Digital Devil Saga. I liked some of the stuff from P3&4, but on the whole, I loved the earlier games' OSTs. There's some great stuff in P3&4, like Backside Of The TV or The Snow Queen, but the J-Pop gets a little wearing after a while, y'know? Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:He got it for arguing this exact same thing in a different SMT thread, I've heard. Or every SMT thread. Ever.
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Tallgeese posted:Well, those people would be wrong, but hey, what can I do? Seriously? When I played this Law came off...better than it has in previous SMT games, but it still doesn't come off good.
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alcharagia posted:But Neutral has Anthony, who is totally rad. ...That guy isn't Neutral aligned, he is "Whatever Gets Me Laid" aligned. When my girlfriend and I were playing this game we were calling that guy "the omega goon", so it's no surprise you fellas like him.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 15:26 |
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Isaac Clarke Fights The Demons. This is only the fourth M-rated DS title I know of, and that's really interesting to me for some reason.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 15:31 |
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Slime posted:Seriously? When I played this Law came off...better than it has in previous SMT games, but it still doesn't come off good. This is simply a flaw in your perspective, colored as it is from past SMT games. Objectively, given that happiness is the result of a chemical produced by the brain, the Law ending is the happiest ending.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 15:33 |
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Tallgeese posted:The OP was most likely just a placeholder for now. I had the update. But I also required sleep. Update to be posted VERY soon. Sorry for the delay.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 15:36 |
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I've heard things about this game. Brutal things. This is gonna be a fun ride.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 15:37 |
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Tallgeese posted:This is simply a flaw in your perspective, colored as it is from past SMT games. It's also clearly the best possible outcome given knowledge of the potential results of the dilemma in question.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 15:39 |
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Feinne posted:It's also clearly the best possible outcome given knowledge of the potential results of the dilemma in question. This is true. The Chaos ending at least GOES somewhere, whereas Neutral is essentially "back to status quo, PS this will happen again so you accomplished nothing".
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 15:41 |
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I love this, even if some of the dungeons just got plain annoying to advance through.
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| # ? Aug 6, 2011 16:17 |
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I bought this game and got to...Sector E I think before its grindiness got the best of me and I gave up. I just don't have the mindset to play pure dungeon crawlers like that. Still, it's a great concept for a game and I'm interested in seeing its completion.
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