![]() ![]() If you have trouble navigating the travel menus in Mikado, don’t worry. Fourth in our party is Isabeau, yet another anime stock character who loves romance manga and criticizes the rude and frat-boy attitudes of the men around her. Our other comrade in Samurai training is Jonathan, a quiet and proper anime stock character who leads his actions with thoughts instead of feeling. He just loves to talk back to anyone who even looks sideways at him, peer or authority. Walter is an anime stock character with a brash and arrogant attitude. ![]() Our protagonist (default name: Flynn) comes from the Casualry class along with his friend Walter. The government of Mikado recruits Samurai to protect the kingdom contained with walled cities of Luxurors and Casualries (the former being the pompous aristocracy and the latter subjected to squalor and heavy labor). The story of Shin Megami Tensei IV begins in the realm of the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado, a rather knights-and-dragons European medieval setting that is home to our main characters, a small team of novice Samurai. Regardless, this straight-forward RPG with full English voice work spoken over an incredibly Japanese world is a sort of curiosity that I thought would be perfect to help explore this genre further. To my confusion, I found that SMTIV is not any sort of sequel to any other Shin Megami Tensei title, leading me to wonder why it even has that name. SPOILER WARNING: This review contains copious spoilers for the detailed story of SMTIV.Ībove was my mental process before jumping into Shin Megami Tensei IV, an RPG developed and published by Atlus on the Nintendo 3DS in 2013. My history with Chinese tells me that those kanji mean “reincarnation of the true goddess”. Something so damn Japanese that they don’t even bother translating the title. Full of adult language, murder, and questions raised about when mere men are given the power to control the outcome of the entire human world. I mean a gritty, dark, complex JRPG by the famous minds behind the Persona series. Wait, no! You know what might be fun?Ī Japanese role-playing game! I don’t mean family-friendly Nintendo fare like Pokemon, Paper Mario, Golden Sun, or Fire Emblem. Maybe an open world Western action/RPG littered with bugs and DLC. I’m not about to experiment with mobile slop or online RTS any time soon. One can only spend so much time playing colorful platformers, multiplayer shooters, and adventure/puzzle games before one wants to try something new. ![]()
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