Next ShinMegaTen DS Game Gets Western Confirmation, Release Date
While its existence is old news, the latest game in the Shin Megami Tensei series, featuring a sci-fi setting and a return to form by going back to direct negotiation, coercion, and bribery to convince a host of demons to your side, will now definitely be seeing Western shores and bringing happy smiles and determined grimaces to English-speaking gamers.
For those RPG fans unfamiliar with the concept, the SMT series started on the SNES and has kept a familiar theme throughout. Seemingly ordinary (but customizable!) protagonists often find themselves in the midst of a crisis with but one tool to help their survival: the ability to summon, control, or negotiate with myriad demons and folk creatures, often with their own personalities and motivations, who are infinitely collectible with the bonus of being able to be combined to form a new, upgraded demons. Think Pokémon, but with 100% more sacrilege, interesting battle systems, and around half a dozen endings per game.
The latest offering by Atlus, Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, has already been pretty thoroughly examined here, but it's only recently that we've gotten a solid promise to see the game in English, possibly because of how well other recent games sold. SMT: Strange Journey will let Western gamers start making first contact with the demonic dimension on March 10th of next year.
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Posted to Video Games on 6 November 2009
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