Better than IV

In Neutral route, it's part of the main quest to do all the sidequests and rise in the rankings so all the people recognize you as awesome and place their hope in you.

>DLC won't be completely out until mid-October
>a kind pirate found a way to get it all available
mega.nz/#!1wUhwZzC!Niru70NbFfv5AdAswxg9ZbLihFzybR7Q_V4aUTJ9wl8

Alice is pretty great. She carried the team for most of the middle of the game. I had to put her in the sidelines end game though cause too many enemies are resistant to dark skills and she's too under-leveled.

Me and Beelzebub have been wrecking this shit up in the last two dungeons. Best demon.

Was in the second brane of the final dungeon when I saw this.
Now I gotta head alllll the way back to the entrance to start up the DLC. Playing as Demifiend and Aleph again is an opportunity I can't pass up.

I was kinda level 90 when I started the cosmic egg and because of a couple fusion boosts, I could use pretty much every demon but Shiva and Demiurge.
Mara with his Hell Rush is amazing.
Odin is also better as an 'All around' demon than Beelz

nice, thanks

>Chose Neutral Anarchy Route
>Dagda gives me an option to revive one of my friends
>Pick Asahi cause I've been with her the longest and having a non-demon healer rn is good
>expect her to come back yelling at me and being pissed at my decision
>just a lifeless puppet

That shit hit the feels way more than it should've. I didn't even like her that much throughout the game...

PC WHEN?

Anybody got English screenshots of Stephen DLC?

Asahi gets eaten by Shesha before Nanashi makes the choice. There's no way that she would know that he picked Massacre.

Is Stephen supposed to be Stephen Hawking?

No, Stephen is supposed to be a bhudda.

>a social link with Asahi

I'm playing through IV and why does it feel like that the game wants me to die randomly?

>reinforcements
>crit the fuck out of the demon in my active party who has a skill to which reinforcements are weak to
>whatever I should be able to kill these guys anyways
>MISS
>enemy is smirking
>kill another demon next turn, Flynn is low
>alright, even if Flynn dies the other demon is still full hp
>2/3 dead, MISS
>Flynn dead
>Ok, at least the last one is low
>MISS
>last demon on low hp but at least he survived
>kill last enemy
>reinforcements have arrived
>enemy's turn

This is almost as bad as in Etrian Odyssey with the bullshit ambushes in the lategame.
At least let me do something stupid/wrong first

What the fuck do I do after Maitreya? The goal is telling me to go to my room in Kinshicho, but the only option I have is to rest.

Thanks for the dolphin porn

If i have never played an SMT game before would this be an ok place to start or should I play 4?

reinforcements are a fuck ton worse in Apocalypse

>beat a group of demons
>REINFORCEMENTS!
>beat that group of demons
>REINFORCEMENTS!
>beat that group of demons
>REINFORCEMENTS!
>low on mana now
>one of them uses a skill that is one of my demon's weaknesses
>slaughters us
>game over

yeah, that's what you do. You rest/go to sleep for the rest of the day.
The game will continue on to the next day so more plot will happen.

This is a direct sequel to IV's neutral route, assumes you've played IV and know about its plot.

Play IV first. IV was also made specifically for newcomers of the series, so it's one of the best ways to get into SMT these days.

>mfw 4 horde reinforcement in a row
>all my demons can hit their weakness
Got an entire level worth of XP

Maybe I wasn't clear. The only option is the temporary rest nap that just heals you HP. I don't have the option to advance to the next day.

What makes Strange Journey such a good game? I always hear people in these threads saying is the best SMT game , but IV and now Apocalypse are the only two SMT games I´ve ever played, and I love both of them.

It doesn't assume shit and you can play this game without playing iv just fine.
I played iv only until tokyo and stopped because it was such shit. Finished this months ago and understood everything fine.

Strange Journey has such amazing quests like "please steal my techers panties", also the dungeons are fun and the final boss is pretty cool.

Louisa is also fucking creepy so it's all good.

It's just a really good old-school JRPG. From the dungeon design to the difficulty to the music it perfect encapsulates all the feelings of playing those old games.

Atmosphere is 10/10
Music is 10/10
Gameplay is tight, visuals are good, story/themes/characters are interesting.

It's not for everyone being a FPS dungeon crawler with crazy high difficulty though.

Still halfway through DQVII and then I'll start it ASAP.

Hmm...that's weird.

Are you in a challenge that might lock you in for that day? Or maybe you have to go to the hunter's association or some shit?

That would suck if you were locked into a glitch.

Play IV. It's made for newcomers and it's nice to have the context for what happens in Apocalypse.

does it has difficulty settings like IV/Apocalypse?

Strange Journey's just a good game that gets everything right for SMT. Best of everything.

But Nocturne is still the king of SMT games. SJ comes close.

I am enjoying Apocalypse a lot, around halfway to full moon at the moment. I've been playing so much of the other SMT games the last few weeks though and I'm already kind of burnt out after 20 hours of this. I'm just hoping the story becomes more interesting again because fighting Sesha over and over again is boring as fuck.

Trust me, story gets interesting after the half moon. More so Day 6.

Nope, sorry.

Lived long enough to witness mainline becoming a fucking Persona. Its trash.

I'd this a screenshot upscaled in Waifu 2x?

Yes, because waifus has certainly never been in SMT before

Persona is not SMT, dog.

Don't reply to obvious bait, faggots.

Also, Soul Hackers is best SMT game.

What?

SMTV will be made by Yamai, so it will actually be good.

That realistic photo of Shesha at the party fucking made me jump. Fuck you Atlus for doing that.

Whatever you say nerd.

so which ones the best?and why is it persona 4

I think it was a reference to Exorcist.

There are better ways to bump a thread user. >tfw mainline Persona will always stay console while SMTV will probably be on ios

>Every couple of fights I have to run all the way back home to heal
What am i doing wrong

Will EU get a physical release this time?

Yes.

Is this Atlus?
Are trying just trying to get my hopes up just to crash them?

SJ is utter shit, don't listen to the memers here

Nothing, it's SMT.

Buy some healing items or just go to Hunter Associations. Also be on the lookout for some healing spots that'll pop up soon.

Deep Silver will publish it in yurop.
If the company doesn't spontaenously go bankcrupt somewhere in the next few months, you will get that physical release.

No, not in the first game. But to be fair, they aren't sucking his cock for no reason, this is near-endgame Flynn that fucked up Ring of Gaea and Ashura Kai AND Lawfags AND Chaosfags.

does this work with undub version of the game?

This is a good thing though, because it's great for grinding. Just use hama/mudo, or Toki for ez exp

>Tfw using magic
>Magic Nanashi feels WAY weaker than Magic Flynn

Maybe it's because I haven't gotten Hama or Mudo yet but I'm starting to regret not going WORLD OF STRENGTH now.

MP Party Recovery -> spam Mediarahan without giving a fuck because your entire party's MP will be restored in a couple of steps

Can I play it without playing the old SMTIV? I've asked two people, one said no, the other said apart from a couple of references its fine.

I'm surprised there are people that don't immediately snag it, it's easily the most useful app in the game alongside discounting compendium prices.

It's fine, but the problem is that it might be best to play IV either way even though the game's pretty flawed

It's pretty separated from the first, and they do explain the backstory anyway.

The database explains who Flynn and Isabeau are so you won't be lost.

But skipping IV means you don't get to experience the wonders of Hoyboy and his Hoys.

In my experience you shouldn´t, and I wouldn´t even recommend to play Apocalypse if you don´t have IV more or less recent. Yes, I guess you would understand the story, but without the same depth and surprises (like when a recurring character shows up)

You totally can, but I think you will enjoy it better if you play IV first.

My party is self sustainable thanks to energy drain.

Just play IV. You can knock it out in a few days, get that SMT high feeling, and go right into Apocalypse knowing the context and characters and layouts.

it only lasted about 25 hours on my first playthrough and that´s doing the neutral ending, which is the longest. Do what this user says.

Ah great I was wondering if it was a meme or an actual good skill
Was afraid of spending AP on it only for it to regen 2 MP every 5 minutes

I'm getting the game in mail today, so what am I in for. Waifu shit doesn't bother me because I'm not that petty and so far that seems to be the only complaint I'm seeing.

The first two tiers are garbage, but the third one - the one that actually restores MP to the party - is amazing. People say chakra walk is good too, but I value my skill slots a lot more than my app points

I'm relatively early in so I guess i'll go for skill slots and get MP restore later when i have more easy AP access

Can you get every skill ? Do you get more AP at higher levels ?

Some skills are exclusive to demons only, but you can probably get like 85% of all skills. There's alot of good ones you'll get.

No, AP stays the same throughout. Actually once you reach level 100 (if you have the DLC that pushes the level cap to 999) you start only getting 1-2 AP for whatever retarded reason. At that point you just grind the "Gain lots of AP" DLC.

Nope, 10 AP per level. Haven't found any app cards, and I'm on day 7/8. There are corpses you can report for like, 1-5 APP, but they're quite rare.

Is it still piss easy after the first hour?

>physical skills still don't cost HP in current year

nice worthless auto attack demons here

Depends on the difficulty. The only battles I really ever had trouble with were Maitreya and Krishna, both first and second battles with them

MAG user here, should I restart and go DEX or STR?

MAG protagonist just doesn't feel as satisfying as in SMT IV.

Go STR, it comes in handy for the Shesha fights. Magic doesn't get good until late game.

Now hear me out user.
user,
listen to me,
You could always....

go balanced

>Balanced

Great dungeons, great atmosphere. Terrible combat and fusion.

>magicfags

HAHAHAHA

Mag is useful for stacking press turns, which is always a good thing.
Concentrate + Smirk + abusing weakesses does a shit ton.

>that review that complained about over sexualised demons and confusing story even though if you were stupid enough to not play the previous game it still tells you everything in the Notes section of your phone

shake my head

why is magic worse?

Here's a better handled review:
christcenteredgamer.com/index.php/reviews/handhelds/3ds/6272-shin-megami-tensei-iv-apocalypse-3ds

Hit like a truck in IV, doesn't feel as nice to use.

Hama/ Mudo is still gloriously OP though.

Magic in Apocalypse isn't OP. Only Hama and Mudo Skill has that feeling and only a few demons have it.

This is truly the best page for reviews.

>Christ centred gamer

What the hell

Review was much better than that other one I was writing about though

>reviews the game objectively and doesn't let their personal beliefs get in the way of their judgment

we need more like them

Fuck this shit three god damn bosses in a row

REEEEEEEEEEE

>reviews objectively
do you not understand what a review is

It's actually probably the most fair review site out there, regardless of content. The only main difference is it telling consumers if the game has content that may be questionable for religious types.

There's really ton of improvement in the game compare to vanilla IV

Still don't like how they reuse like 90% of the map though

I wasn't expecting it either but they're actually pretty damn good at reviewing shit. Especially compared to how game reviews are handled right now.

Glad you liked our review

>2d battles in 2016
lmao what the fuck

are non magic demons even good? they never have high enough luck to crit smirk so i just always have magic demons

They're actually really good. The only thing is that they're a bunch of poorfags so they can only review games people give them.
CGC threads are pretty cool. They even drop in at times and post some stuff.
>That one time they tweeted out that they were in a thread here and told people to check it out wirh a big NSFW warning
The madmen.

Yeah nobody wants to advertise with us so we rely on donations and patreon. I think we do a good job given what we have to work with though.

So do you lurk here and just wait for someone to drop one of your reviews or something? Cause that seems to be he the case.

Also, Peace or Anarchy?

>shilling your review on an anonymous christian board

>That one time they tweeted out that they were in a thread here and told people to check it out wirh a big NSFW warning
They just did that again.

When I see a traffic spike on Google Analytics I stop by to see what the fuss is all about. :)

I didn't write this review, but I tend to go for peace unless there's a good reason to stir up some anarchy

I didn't link the review somebody else did, I just stopped by after tracing the source of the traffic

>Navarre took all my items
Fucking Navarre

>it's not fake

Thanks for posting this user, you're a good guy.

That's what you get, murder asshole

Are there three endings? LE has three badges, so I'm guessing there's one for each alignment? Dagda, Polytheistic Alliance and humanity?

>didn't realize I had no items until I had no mana halfway through the Krishna battle
fucking Navarre

looks like the author is here and chose Anarchy twitter.com/AfterAnAutopsy_/status/778605994985136128

Does FBI work for installing the Apocalypse DLC?

Four endings.

One for Law. One for Chaos. One Neutral where you murder your friends and become the new god, One Neutral where you bond with your friends and everyone lives a happy life.

Wait when?

yes. It can install any CIA file.

Yeah, though if you're on an EU 3ds with luma, you'll need to enable the locales option in luma3ds config, then make a locales folder in luma, a text file in that with apocalypses titleID as the filename containing the text USA EN

how do I access the config?

The penalty only happens if you go against your natural alignment and your only dialogue choices are complete edgelord or Saint Michael. Theres also no reason to choose being a complete edgelord either, and Anarchy isnt even that edgy of a route.

Assuming you installed it via the plailect guide, hold select before booting on the 3ds.

If you go against your natural alignment by decision time you suffer a penalty. Going Peace to Anarchy has Navarre take all your items. On the flip side, going the other way makes Dagda release all your demons.

Does the angel line still evolve every 4 - 6 levels like in 4? I remember that I fused an angel in early 4, and was surprised when it evolved and gained like 6 levels. That demon with its ever changing forms and level jumps carried me almost to end game.

kek why do you even want to accept such a harsh penalty

What skills should I put on Satan?
And by that I mean, what skills should I put on Merkabah and Lucifer that will go to Satan?

Thanks user but I don't see any mention of locales unless it's the enable region option?

Just an addendum, image shows the filepath and shit. Doing this is the accepted method for getting out of region DLC to work on 3ds systems in different regions. It'll work for any game, substitute USA for EUR, or JPN to change to that region, and the EN to JP, GR, etc, to change the language the game loads in.

Do I just install this like any other cia file?

Yeah. It goes up to Cherub which is around Lv 70.
The angels are fans of Pokemon it seems.

it's that one, yes.

...

Thanks for the help all you guys.

Because Dagda is right, but the only way to score points with him is to a complete edgelord to everyone when there's no given reason to actually be one unless you wanna be a dick for no reason.

>playing on War
>Increases the compendium cost for some reason
>switch to Conflict
>everything is too easy
Fuck. I wish SMT would stop increasing prices on things in Hard mode. It just means I have to grind for macca more often.

There's no need to be an asshole when Dagda and Gaston do it for you.

Just switch to easy for the compendium then switch back

Yeah, I've been switching to Conflict for pulling and fusing from the compendium, but I just wish it was an extra step that I didn't have to do.

Well Gaston gets over it kinda. It takes Hallelujah decking him and losing his rank to do it though.

What is a good stat spread for World of STR?

3 str 1 agi 1 luc or 2 str 2 agi 1 luc?

The latter of 2/2/1luck is more popular

He wasn't really an asshole, just under a lot of pressure to clear his family name because Navarre fucked it up real good.

I can confirm that that DLC pack has the quest where the previous SMT protags show up, the store bonuses, and all the rest of it.

Fucking rad.

>Level 13, in the fairy forest
>Grinding some levels, taking a while
>Maybe 200 - 350 xp per encounter
>Check challenge quests, see a couple
>Figure I'll go and do those, get some XP and cash
>Go to retrieve a smart phone
>Walk into demon domain
>Demons are level 20
>Had been getting fusion boosters, my demons are levels 14 - 18
>Beat my first group, 1,400 XP
>MFW

How THE FUCK am I supposed to get into the prison or whatever in Ginza. You know, so I can sneak into the DiPo base. No spoilers pls

is it harder than smt iv? Cuz if it's not, it's hot garbage

>White people?

>*crowd starts getting upset and heckles begin*

>Listen, listen my brothers!

>White people should be fucking ENSLAVED!

>*crowd starts slowly applauding*

>Every single fucking subhuman white man should be strung on meat hooks

>*crowd starts standing and giving a standing ovation*

>The white man should then be anally penetrated with not black cocks, but black dildos...

>*crowd is stunned and is getting slightly violent*

>Why you ask? These privileged white men don't deserve the dark chocolate cock!!!!

>*crowd ferociously yells in approval*

>These white men will only lick up the creme filling after their women are chained up and rammed by the giant chocolate yodels that are the BBC!!!!!

>*crowd is making tribal chants*

>We will hunt down the white man!! We shall castrate them all and sacrifice their women to the black man!!!!!! The offspring will be brought to the interracial breeding grounds!!!! I will clean up the remains with my white boy tongue!!! I shall serve the black man's cock with my white boy tongue!!!! The black man will have his way with me and my people!!!!

>*crowd is erupting and stampedes the theater as the white men are hog tied and dragged to the cock chambers and the women willfully submit to their black masters

>SHABAZZ!!! SHABAZZ!!!! THE BLACK MAN SHALL RISE AGAIN. LITTLE WHITE COCK? I THINK NOT!!!!!!!!!

>Expect SMT thread to be good
>HUR DUR WAIFUZ
>HUR DUR PERSONA xDDD
>HUR DUR MUH NOCTURNE
>HURRRRRR MUH ANARCHY IS BETTER THAN PEACE
>HURRR DURRR MUH LOUIS C.K. BBC COPYPASTA

Smtfags are more cancerous than Console war faggots now.

Isn't there a guy who tells you?
But from what I can remember, you have to go into the actual area of Ginza and look around.

Is there a way to get jewels naturally? Cause I can't seem to find any.

You can get some sometimes when you use Navarre's sword to break those weird purple flower satellite things.

Reminder that SMTcucks parrot the opinions of the amazing banana fucker, rasenbran, and Infowars

where have you been?

Oh is that what those things are?

If it is under SJ, it is number 2.

Threadly reminder the TMS is a better game.

>UMI DA DLC
>Have to choose which girl's swimsuit is best
>Can just say fuck it and fight the boss and end the DLC
This game.

i dunno if harder but it certainly makes the combat in IV look unnecesarily broken, you can´t cheese out your way with smirks as easily this time around, it´s better balanced and skill affinities are a great addition

Can anyone explain this a little more?

>muh repetitive "IDOLWHORE GOT KIDNAPPED AGAIN"
>"""""(((good)))"""""

I really liked the dub of SMT IV, eventhough I am usually a dub purist.
I particularly enjoyed Walters and Nozomi voices.
Half of the reason why I am playing it dubbed right now is because Nozomi is now a partner and I wanted to enjoy her pure ear sex voice at all times, but now I heard that her original voice actor got replaced and I doubt that the new ones voice work is as good as the first one.
So what I am asking is how much Walter is in it and should I play the undubbed version.

time passes differently on tokyo and mikado, i wish i knew why tho, maybe a side effect of masakado´s barrier

I'm assuming you mean the 7 years older part.

Time passes slower in Tokyo. A few days in Tokyo might as well be almost a year or so in Mikado.

Time flows faster above the ceiling
That's why in tokyo only 25 years have passed since the nukes when above a whole kingdom sprouted, with multiple generations of samurai n sheet

Time flows faster in Mikado that is why no one in Mikado remembers Tokyo or the old technology.
I don't remember if it was ever explained in the first game though.

Walter (and Jonathan) are barely in it. They already gave their souls to Lucifer and Merkabah, but they do pop up in their human disguises from time to time.

Nozomi has a good ear sex voice in this one too. I'd say play the dub version, it's good enoug.

Should i get this for 75 or rise of tomb raider for 40?

so far i´m really loving how it makes the IV universe feel more complete, both games complement themselves really good
Also i have to ask, do you visit infernal tokyo in this game or any of the DLC ?