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Saturday, Jun 27, 2009

So, recently, my DS hasn't gotten much activity from me.
I mean, I went away from the city, and it entertained me with Hotel Dusk: Room 215, but it was more of a novel, and I was hungering for more of a game. Unfortunately, from all of the games I own, none appealed to me/I weren't in the mood for them.
Luckily, recently (yesterday) I got a game named Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor. The game is a jRPG.

I had heard of Shin Megami Tensei before, and while it seemed I wasn't in the right niché for those games, something about Devil Survivor appealed to me, so I bought it.
You can move around different "districts" on a list, they have different activities on them (free battles for grinding, story events etc) and then you enter them. In battle, you move around in a top-down isometric view.
You can have 4 characters, each of them with different abilities, moving distance, bla bla, you've heard it all before.
It's basically like Final Fantasy Tactics A2, only that when you attack someone, you go into a first-person view and you get one turn every time you attack, plus you can acquire extra turns, as can the enemy.

The game has a branching storyline, and often you get to choose what line of dialogue you want to say (in fact, everything the main character says is chosen by you). Depending on that choice, you get different endings, and it affects the gameplay. For example, you can lose a party member permanently from the game, depending on the choices you make. The game has a wierd, but compelling storyline. The game requires some grinding, but it's fun to do so.
All in all, this game got me out of my "don't-want-to-play-anything" mood, and that really goes to show that I love this game.
I'd definitely recommend this game to anyone owning a DS and interested in RPGs. While I've never tried such an RPG like this, I'm liking it.

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Posted by -Beatz-, 6:57am
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I have heard that game is fun. I'm not a big fan of heavily based decision games though, but they can be fun if you know what you're doing.
Posted Jun 27, 2009 12:10 pm PT
@TeenGamer92: "I'm not a big fan of heavily based decision games though", and you say that while having an avatar of Cloud from FFVII?

Anyway, I know that that's your opinion. I, personally like action RPGs more than strategy and turn-based RPGs (god how much I love the Kingdom Hearts series), but I still like those games.
I could play turn-based games if I wanted, but random encounters are something that have thrown me off very many RPGs.
Posted Jun 27, 2009 3:26 pm PT
I know SMT... It's a boring game about boring things
Posted Jun 28, 2009 12:37 pm PT
@x2926014: Umm, I don't know if you're trolling me or the game.
Either way, Shin Megami Tensei has a pretty big following, and from what I've seen from Devil Survivor, it's not a more boring game than any.
Posted Jun 29, 2009 4:30 am PT
hmm...trolling a new interwebz slang...Can you explain?
Posted Jun 29, 2009 12:23 pm PT
@x29: Dude, seriously, what are you talkin' about? Have you never heard of the word "trolling"?
Why are you suddenly so aggressive? Because a site you made I said that it didn't have a forum?
Wow, cry me a river.
Posted Jun 29, 2009 2:24 pm PT
Lol I see what you mean by what I said. But I'm talking about the games where if you don't do something right, it dramatically changes your game ending.
Posted Jul 3, 2009 7:41 am PT
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