Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
- First SMT game on Nintendo DS
- Elements of tactical and traditional RPGs come together to provide gamers with fresh new ways to fight enemies
- Choose your stat points and unique skills as you develop your characters, and also apply the same level of customization to the demons to collect and fuse
- Every play session promises to be completely different as you find new ways to advance your characters and demons
- Devil Survivor provides a narrative wrought with emotion and conviction, but also one with multiple endings
THE SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI SERIES FINALLY COMES TO NINTENDO DS! Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor marks the first time the popular RPG franchise has made its way onto Nintendo DS, and it certainly takes advantage of the opportunity. An incredibly innovative RPG/SRPG system, with tactical yet action-packed combat, compliments a powerful narrative in the great tradition of the SMT games. Fans will surely be thrilled with the stylish aesthetics, novel game mechanics, and original story, and newcomers will find a fresh new spin on the critically-acclaimed SMT universe.Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor marks the first time the popular RPG franchise has made its way onto Nintendo DS, and it certainly takes advantage of the opportunity. An incredibly innovative RPG/SRPG system—with tactical yet action-packed combat— compliments a powerful narrative in the great tradition of the SMT games. Fans will surely be thrilled with the stylish aesthetics, novel game mechanics, and original story, and newcomers will find a fresh new spin on the critically-acclaimed SMT universe.
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Review by N. Durham for Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
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The Shin Megami Tensei series has grown on me the past couple years, mainly thanks to the great past few releases on the PS2. Now Atlus’ long running RPG series makes its debut on the DS with Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor, and the results are just as spectacular. The game’s storyline finds life in Tokyo going to Hell, pretty literally. With the ability to summon your own demons to take down the rampant baddies running around the city wreacking havoc, and time always working against you, Devil Survivor pits you in some interestingly designed battles that mix traditional turn-based attacks with a hearty amount of strategic input as well. There is a ton of character customization to behold as well, as well as the promise of multiple endings thanks to some many plot branches, which means that Devil Survivor is a game you will keep coming back to again and again. The game looks good and features plenty of atmosphere and nicely designed settings and character models, and having some addictive gameplay doesn’t hurt matters either. If there’s any drawbacks to the game, it’s that there are a good amount of moments where you just seem to plod along, but these moments are few and far between. All in all, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor is another fantastic RPG on the DS, and if you’re an RPG loving DS owner, you need to pick this game up, even if you’re unfamiliar with the Shin Megami Tensei franchise.
Review by D. Morales for Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
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This game is about kids fighting with demons and going to hell. Sounds like right up my ally. I am a huge SMT fan (I own literally every game on the PS2 with the name……at least the ones released in the U.S.) I was kind of disappointed that there was not bonuses things included in the release (the art books in both persona games were awesome). I just started the game up about 5 hours into it and I am not much of a grid RPG fan but so far it has been a blast playing. Im just finding it hard not to kill everyone.
There is a learning curve in my opinion for those people who have not played a SMT game. You really have to learn the lingo of attacks (bufu, garu, hama, mudo) they really arn’t as strait forward. But when you get the attacks down and your own personal strategy going your not going to want to put down this game.
Who should buy this game:
-Teens looking for a good challenge and who like RPG games
-ANY SMT fan
-Anyone looking for something other than a kids game on their new DSi
Who should not buy this game:
-Kids (trust me its not for them they will not understand the story line)
-People who are sensitive to demonic literature (this game is full of demons and references to hell Lucifer ect.)
Over all very fun and unique twist to an already great series of games.
Review by N. J. Heldt for Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
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I bought this game along with “The World Ends with You.” TWEWY is a fine game, but I really didn’t like the touch interface terribly much. Since the game relies exlusively on how you touch the screen, enemy battles can be drawn out since the DS cannot differ between similar strokes on the screen. Since “Devil Survivor” doesn’t use the touch interface, all commands are entered through the buttons. This naturally enables the player to not make any mistakes with what type of command you want to execute, unlike TWEWY.
I played that game for a while, then set it aside. Next, I fired up “Devil Survivor,’ and I haven’t put the game down since! This game is great because it has an incredibly refined, and dynamic, battle system. While you are battling enemy demons, the key to victory is exploiting their elemental weaknesses. Whenever you exploit the weakness of your enemy, you will get an extra turn to deal out more damage. Watch out, though, because the enemy will do the same to your demons. Another fun aspect about this game is the “monster breeder” aspects to demon fusion. You acquire demons by the in-game online auction. Once you have enough demons in your arsenal, you can combine them for more powerful demons. In fact, this is the way that some of the most powerful demons can be accessed in this game. So “mixing and matching” can yield some unexpected, and exciting, results. I somehow created King Frost, a unique demon with advanced stats, and I don’t even know how! Sometimes, though, you just need to grind away to level-up. You earn experience points in battles, but the great thing is you can leave optional battles if you realize you don’t have the right equipped demons.
Of course, no game is without any annoyances. Sometimes the battles can swing heavily in the enemy’s favor even before you have the chance to issue a command to your party. My biggest complaint against this game is that the female lead, Yuzu, is typically girly. She really doesn’t like computer technology because “it is above her understanding.” She is also whines excessively about the situation at hand. Yuzu doesn’t exactly represent teen-aged girls very well.
Other than that, this game is a real gem. I highly recommend it. 4.5/5 stars
~Galaxy
Review by One Man Army for Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
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I have been a long time SMT Fan, SMT stands for Shin Megami Tensei if your not familiar with the series. SMT series usually deals with post apocalyptic worlds, Demons, heaven and hell and the eternal struggle between God and Lucifer. However it is not a “religious” game. There is no pandering to any sort of demographic and takes all of the religious icons and use them in intelligent and rather incredible ways. SMT games usually ask you the difficult questions, make you question your ideals and beliefs. SMT usually asks you to decide what to do with the world, and is usually giving you multiple “Just” paths. The Chaos hero, Neutral hero, and Law hero are common characters in the SMT world.
Its rather hard to explain this in a review so I encourage you to look it up on your own if you want more details.
Here’s what you should know, in SMT Devil Survivor, you and a few friends are wound up trapped in Tokyo and cut off from the rest of the world. Demons start to invade and you find yourself thrown into an ordeal between Angels and Demons. You and your friends get “COMPS” which allow you to summon your own demons, and battle the forces of [good?] and [evil?] as you slowly find the truth behind the lockdown. Oh and you only have 7 days before everyone dies.
With multiple endings, a really powerful secret boss, and tons of dialogue and moral choices in the game, it is so worth the price. It is a work of genius and in my opinion, one of the strongest DS releases in the last few years. This is a Strategy RPG.
The demons are designed by the fantastic artist Kazuma Kaneko, who has done most of the artwork for the entire SMT franchise and its spinoffs (Like Persona~) However, the artwork for the characters are done by some ‘popular’ mangaka who does Shoujo manga or something…and i detest their style…with the main character and Yuzu (his female friend who so obviously has a crush on you) look like ripoffs of the persona 3 characters, MC (the main character never has a name…or Shujinko which means, main character) and Yukari Takeba. And the odd, inconsistencies in the character design looked cheap…like Yuzu’s ever altering boobage which is either huge, or Ginormous. or the hands that mysteriously shrink and melt into her boobs… I don’t know, the portrait art was not up to par. Not sure why they didn’t let Kaneko design them like he always does.
Anyway, enough dogging the art, The battle system is turn based and goes back to the old first person view of old SMT games, some people are probably disappointed that the sprites had no real animation except walking, so its a bit different than most SRPG games. Every character had a team of them self, and 2 demons. and you can only ever have 4 leaders on the field, so its a pretty small playing field. But they add extra objectives like protect civilians etc to add to the strategy part of this srpg.
I highly recommend this game for anyone looking for a good story, thrilling gameplay, and a lot of replayability.
Review by A. Tarrant for Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
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Not prone to review games on Amazon, I felt I just had to give a hearty thumbs-up to this very solid and highly-addictive strategy RPG by Atlus. Having played a number of strategy RPGs in the past (including Fire Emblem, Disgaea, and Final Fantasy Tactics) I was expecting more of the same. Instead, I encounted an innovative game that perfectly blends an Atlus Shin Megami Tensei RPG (characterized by dark, occult-based story-lines and customizable demon sidekicks, ala pokemon) with a grid-based strategy game.
Although this might sound like an odd combination at first, once you delve into the game proper this odd formula becomes highly addictive and extremely rewarding. Yes, some of the battles are challenging, especially for someone who has limited experience with Shin Megami Tensei games and strategy RPGs. However, even the more challenging battles are quite winnable with a good bit of foresight and a well-equipped party.
For this reason, I’m giving the game a perfect 5 out of 5, as Atlus accomplished exactly what they set out to do: which is to create a genuine Shin Megami Tensei-style adventure that fits perfectly on the DS handheld. Buy it, play it, love it…. you won’t be disappointed.