SMT: DEVIL SURVIVOR

Yeah it sounds awesome on paper especially with the hybrid battle system. I saw the trailer and notice the personas from Persona 4 so that's caught my attention (I've never played a SMT game prior to that).

There's a typo in your topic title it should read "The World Ends With You"

EDIT: Sorry I'm a fan of tasteless jokes

Am I the only person in the world who found TWEWY extremely disappointing and just plain bad?

Yahtzee is hardly a fan of JRPGs so his disdain for the game isn't surprising.

I didn't like TWEWY that much either but mainly because the music got on my nerves. The battle system was great but I never really had the motivation to play through the whole game on whatever difficulty you needed to just to get added plot in the form of...words...IIRC. Plus Lightning Rook was broken. ;(

SMT may have come before TWEWY but when you see storylines like this

So you're in the middle of Shibuya when all of a sudden you get a message on your handheld device. It says "Let's Survive!" Suddenly you are attacked by demons, and you realize that you must band together with your friends in order to make it through seven days in one piece.

- you start to wonder...

That little blurb does not do justice to the story.
First, I don't remember getting any message .Second, you receive your COMPs only a few minutes into the game and by activating it you summon demons, who, after a brief battle, form your first contracts. Third, Tokyo (part of it? I'm not familiar with the layout of this city) is under lockdown and no one really knows why; people aren't aware of the presence of demons. They all think it's a terrorist attack and patiently await for the police to resolve it.

There are also a few cool ideas like e-mails predicting what'll happen (it's up to you to make sure it doesn't, as they are pretty much all genocides); numbers above people's heads (???), and more. You also have different routes for the last day, you can, among others, become the King of Demons, the Messiah, or simply escape the lockdown. There's New Game+ of course, and an optional super boss.

All in all the story's surprisingly solid. I'd say it's on par with Persona 2 and feels like reimagining of SMT 1. You never know what's really going on until the last day, and you slowly uncover the truth piece by piece. It's linear, but your decisions affect some things, like whether minor characters live or die, and, most importantly, what routes become available.

It's one of the few DS games I truly recommend.

This is SMT, there's no "true" ending, only the one you think best suits your feelings (or which you think is the most fun).

You can't mess up, but based on with whom you talk with and your responses you'll be given a different number of routes to choose from. I believe it's possible to get them all in one playthrough.

http://ameblo.jp/koulinovesperia/entry-10229747969.html

Experiment to find weaknesses, fast. It's a Shin Megami Tensei. Weaknesses are life and death.

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Experiment to find weaknesses, fast. It's a Shin Megami Tensei. Weaknesses are life and death.

They aren't that important, but they are worth taking advantage of when fighting tough enemies. Also, it tells you enemies' elemental resistances right off the bat so you won't need to do any trial and error.
EDIT: Whoa. I'm on Day 3, and I have only 2 things available to me right now: a free battle and a fight with some zealots. Both are really fucking hard. I was having a pretty easy time with this game, but all of a sudden I'm taking tons of damage and doing practically none in return. I can still kill enemies, but I can't win either battle, so I'll just have to do some hit and run grinding in the free battle.