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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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Game Title: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: Strategy RPG
Developer:
Atlus
Summary: Yet another spin-off of the Shin Megami Tensei series, Atlus brings the series to the Nintendo DS. This is a stand alone game as the story holds no links to any of the other games in the series. This game allows the player to take control of a protoganist whom the players can name, they are then throwned into a situation where they are locked in Tokyo and everyone involved in the lockdown would perish after seven days.
Graphics: The human characters are generally interesting and the main character once again has headphones jus like most of the pther main characters in this series. Some of the demon's art are reused from previous games but there are some new ones too. Mos of the demons originated from some legends and myths such as Buddhisim and Norse Myths involving gods such as Odin.
Music: The music fits the environment and is nice though not very memorable. The more memorable ones are generally very dark and slow, during scenes such as the opening and closing of the game. Sound effects in the game are pretty okay, though sometimes they would get repeatative due to scenes such as multiple demons dying at a time or stuff like that.
Story: The player is trapped in Tokyo with 2 of his friends and many others. Demons are running loose and all forms of communication and eletricity are down. The hero and his friends are attempting to find their way out of this mess when before they knew it, they got involved with something much larger. The players decision could decide the fate of other characters as well as how the protoganist would react. Thus the ending of the game is entirely up to the player's will.
Gameplay: The game takes on a traditional SRPG game where characters move on a grid and most of the time they have to be adjacent to an enemy unit in order to attack them. However each character consists of a team of the human character as well as 2 other demons. This game involves more about fusing and buying new demons rather than training your old ones. As players play through different paths and routes, they would generally unlock new and stronger demons for fusing.
Conclusion: Even if players have not played the Shin Megami Tensei series before, I would still tell them to play this game as long as they are interested in the SRPG genre. Players do not need to have any pior knowledge of the series other than the fact that the games involves both angels and demons. As there are many different endings and also a new game+ function, this encourages players to play though multiple times to know all the endings as well as get better demonds. There's also a secret boss at the end of their second or thereafter runthough too, though players would have to be pretty well prepared and train in order to stand a chance against it.