Quick Look: Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey

As much as I'm sure Strange Journey is a great game, the art style just really bothers me. Like seriously that helmet looks fucked, it's like an inverted pale with plumbing pipe randomly welded on it. I also don't like the first person dungeons but the combat looks fun, I donno.

This isn't that much of a strange journey, a strange journey for Shin Megami Tensei would include the following: salaryman getting drunk in Tokyo, waking up in a dumpster in Mexico with wicked hangover, 5 new tattoos of Chie, Teddie walking by in a sombrero & a variety of wanted posters of the salaryman plastered all over town; now figure out what happened & how to find Chie & get home.

do not take off robot pants!

Yeah Vinny, I'm picking up the 2001 refrences you're putting down brother!

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This isn't that much of a strange journey, a strange journey for Shin Megami Tensei would include the following: salaryman getting drunk in Tokyo, waking up in a dumpster in Mexico with wicked hangover, 5 new tattoos of Chie, Teddie walking by in a sombrero & a variety of wanted posters of the salaryman plastered all over town; now figure out what happened & how to find Chie & get home.

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From what game was the battle theme that Vin was mimicking at 17:56?

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This game has awesome music, damn.

Charles Fishman = gold.
 
It would be awesome if this was P4 canon: the main characters are one and the same, and he's the leader of the entire expedition because he's dealt with Shadows and demons before... he's been through some shit...
 
I wonder how the conversation with 'Satan' would go down.

Oh, DOOD!!! I've been waiting for this...it looks awesome

" @johnausten: um.... what? You give a plot synopsis of persona 3 and then a link to a site selling term papers? I don't get it. "

" WHERE BE CHIE AT?! "

Those aren't the buggies from moon patrol. 
They're refitted Paperboy 2000s ( which were just modified Landmasters ).

In space, no one can hear you Yip.

CHARIE TUNA!

The cinematics impress me very much! Esspecially considering this is for the DS. Luckly I have one so maybe I'll buy this.

Commander Gore is fixing the slowly vanishing artic? Wow at least they were subtle.

 Charles Fishman !! ...I miss the ER... 

Haha, Charles Fishman! Oh Jeff.
 
I'm embarrassed at how long it took me to make that connection.. I spent most of the QL wondering what the heck kinda name Fishman is...

<3

First game to feature Demon Co-op? wonder if thats printed on the box.

Good Quick Look. I think I have an idea of what to expect from the game now. :)
 
And Terry's great. I hope to see more of him.

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Yeah Vinny, I'm picking up the 2001 refrences you're putting down brother!

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" Haha, Charles Fishman! Oh Jeff.  I'm embarrassed at how long it took me to make that connection.. I spent most of the QL wondering what the heck kinda name Fishman is... "

I'm usuallu a sucker for these things and love Dragon Quest, which this is probably influenced by but this looks kind of generic and the introduction...wow, that just seems unnessesarily long even for a RPG.

This looks like one of the most boring games ever IMO.

" I'm usuallu a sucker for these things and love Dragon Quest, which this is probably influenced by but this looks kind of generic and the introduction...wow, that just seems unnessesarily long even for a RPG. "

Oh fuck yes this game is gonna be good

Terry would never lose to some pansy demons.

From the makers of Persona 4 comes... Menus!: The game!
 
"are you tired of actually 'playing' your games? I sure was, which is why i was so happy when atlus announced Menus! : The game!
 
now I don't have to play anything, just tap through text screens, tap to move to a different enviroment and tap my way through a battle system. 
 
Thanks atlus for helping me to barely play a game! :D"

" Jeah. Lotsa Quick Looks this week.  But say, where is my Deadly Premonition ER? "

This brings back so memories of Persona 4!!! T_T

IT'S A SOUP-TASTROPHE!!!

" From the makers of Persona 4 comes... Menus!: The game!  "are you tired of actually 'playing' your games? I sure was, which is why i was so happy when atlus announced Menus! : The game!  now I don't have to play anything, just tap through text screens, tap to move to a different enviroment and tap my way through a battle system.   Thanks atlus for helping me to barely play a game! :D" "

" @Soap:  Clearly you have little experience with RPGs (or games in general) if you think there's anything strange about the amount of menus in the game. 

" @Wiseman4545 said:

" @Soap:  Clearly you have little experience with RPGs (or games in general) if you think there's anything strange about the amount of menus in the game. 

Yeah, I suppose gaming pretty much constantly since I was seven, plus being about 3 weeks away from leaving uni (on a games design degree) with a 1st is little experience with games.  The point I was try to make is, creating a game that revolves almost entirely around menus (like this game) is not good games design, it's just fucking lazy. "

 

regardless of what system you own, there is only one correct answer.  Pokémon.

I dunno why but one of the things that made me laugh most in this quick look was "Here's an inconvenient chart".The stuff with Terry was the best bit though.

" @Soap said:

" @Wiseman4545 said:

" @Soap:  Clearly you have little experience with RPGs (or games in general) if you think there's anything strange about the amount of menus in the game. 

Yeah, I suppose gaming pretty much constantly since I was seven, plus being about 3 weeks away from leaving uni (on a games design degree) with a 1st is little experience with games.  The point I was try to make is, creating a game that revolves almost entirely around menus (like this game) is not good games design, it's just fucking lazy. "

 
Again:
 
If you honestly think there are too many menus in this game, you clearly don't know  much about RPGs.
 
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regardless of what system you own, there is only one correct answer.  Pokémon.

  Wow. one look through your post history already shows some hypocrisy. Pokemon is just as menubased as SMT:SJ . And outside of competitive play hilariously easy and mind numbingly dull,archaic and slow. "

It looks like a decent enough game, but after playing SMT: Nocturne, I automatically turn down games where you recruit monsters to your party instead of getting actual people, the total lack of character development makes it incredibly unappealing to me. 
 
I used to make an exception for the Pokemon games, but even they are wearing on me these days.

" Again:  I think I know more about this subject than you, but thanks for your input.  ;D 

 
 

Also, the difference with pokémon is that it doesn't try and stray outside of the limitations of the game.    It's a DS game and it plays like a DS game.  This looks like a PS2 game crammed into a DS to the point were the navigation looks awful. If they had worked better with the system they were developing this for it wouldn't be that way. "

 @Soap: You really don't have even the slightest clue what you're talking about, do you? This interface is very common in first person RPGs. Etrian Odyssey? Exact same interface. The Dark Spire? Very similar interface. Shining in the Darkness? Again, very similar. Most importantly lets not forget the game this is actually modeled after, the original Shin Megami Tensei games on the SNES. We can even go outside of RPGs. The Ace Attorney series? Literally nothing but menus.
 Using menus for navigation is not lazy game design, it's actually good game design when it works for the game. Walking from one end of that ship to the other in first person would add absolutely nothing to the game. It would just make getting to key points on the ship more tedious and time consuming than there is any reason to be, especially since you'll be visiting them many times over the course of the game. That doesn't mean the whole game is nothing but menus. Most of the game takes place in the actual dungeon, and you don't use menus to navigate that.