Shin Megami Tensei IV Has a New Trailer

@doozer667 said:

I think people see non-animated 2D sprites and think "garbage". It's honestly a fair criticism in 2013, even though I do understand that Atlus is not overflowing with cash and probably couldn't possibly pay animators to cook up animations for several hundred unique demons.

I really do think the battles could look better, and hopefully that doesn't turn people away from the game.

Sawmurai

on another note, i'm really curious about the setting because it says it takes place in 1492, but some pictures show him in modern day shibuya. wonder what that's about?

its been almost ten years since nocturne. my patience is finally going to be rewarded cause Raidou, Serph and Minato can only hold me off for so long. and this time it comes with full voice acting and original sprite battles!!!

I know right? I actually found this earlier today and thought it was funny. It probably overly dramatizes the differences between mainline and spinoff fans, especially since I like Persona, but LOVE mainline (the story mostly, the gameplay of the first one can get....overly tedious at times), but it felt appropriate in a lot of ways.

Granted that is probably hyperbolic, an overly stereotyping of the fanbases, and biased from the SMT fanboy's point of view, but I can understand the annoyances, especially when the new players don't even take the time to research the previous games before going off on generalizations about things they know nothing about.

Pretty excited for this game! Hoping to finish up Soul Hackers before this releases in July.

Wait, SMT is emo compared to Persona? :p

Also, most of the gameplay takes place in modern, post-some-kind-of-destruction Tokyo, so the 1492 thing is little more than a ruse. Undoubtedly there is purpose behind that though.

All you people complaining should just pony up and get a 3DS...I love mine and can't wait for this game. Instead of wishing it was on an "HD" console just go where the games are.

Gotta love how people think 2d sprites + handheld =garbage apparently. I'm quite certain this game will be excellent and I really hope enough people get it for the awesome street pass functionality to come into play.

http://www.siliconera.com/2013/05/03/shin-megami-tensei-iv-has-some-crazy-samurai-costumes/

Looks interesting...

My only SMT contact is the Persona series (as is with many, I assume), so all the main SMT entries seem weirdly 'emo', whatever that means these days. The strangely European wardrobe the design, the more realistic or adult demon designs, everything screams 'hard-core'. However, there's probably a reason they've been making them so long - because they're good. The recent SMT titles and the Persona titles have had some ties to the modern world - I wonder how another take on the 1500's in a foreign universe will go over.

Soooo... I guess I'll buy a 3DS now, just to play this, Luigi's Mansion and Fire Emblem...

@sidoran: Yes. Most other SMT games have had Dragon Quest style first person battles. Many people are confused by this because the exception is that on the PS2 Atlus made a 3D engine for their SMT games, and they just recycled that engine (and a TON of assets) for all the PS2 releases. So those were all 3D. But everything else (NES, SNES, Saturn, Gameboy, DS, and now 3DS) has done first person combat with sprites like we see here.

Because they dominate the Japanese market.

Because it's cheaper. HD consoles are REALLY expensive to develop for. This made many of the old guard in Japanese game switch to handhelds because they couldn't afford to upgrade to HD engines. It's a complex situation that's pretty sad when you get into it. But the simplest way to put it is they just can't afford to develop for big consoles. Atlus is the only profitable arm of a big dirt stupid corporation (Index) that's almost insolvent. They don't have a lot of million seller titles so they really aren't in a position to develop HD releases unless they have the potential to justify the, for them, massive cost of development. So pretty much the only internally developed Atlus title you'll see in HD is a new Persona. Catherine was their biggest launch at 250k so you gotta understand what kind of numbers they're used to. .

I'm definitely going to be a Samurai.

Samurai love electric guitar shredding.

I wish I could be as excited about anything as this guy is about being a sahmurai.

And did you know: in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue? It's true!

hey guys this game has over 400 demons and you can read all about them here on giant bomb dot com

I am so hyped for this.

Rye does not approve "Saw Moo" to the 256th power.

Sure, if you pronounce "hat" like "hot."

@hailinel: You're either joking or completely wrong. The character 'A' in all japanese words are pronounced a like in 'hat'.

"Or is there more?" Ummm is it an SMT game? Then yes, yes there is

"OH SHIT THERE'S MORE!" *can jump down*

Samurai I will become-want.

Hooray for all the 3DS has to offer this year.

Pre-ordered my copy already. I had a lot of fun with Soul Hackers, and this is just that but flashier!

...Just, how?

Yep.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

In MegaTen, it never pays to be the whiner.

Alignment wars, ho!

It would appear that this is just me, but about 25 seconds in, the video went to the, "grey-screen-because-duder-its-over" screen, but kept playing the audio. First time that has happened.

@solidocelot: They're a hell of a lot cheaper to produce on a hand held than on an HD console where gamers expect amazing graphics to blow them away.

Ta for posting, Alex.

Might just me, but in the last year there must have been at least 5 occasions where I wished a 'platforms' tag were to be found on videos like this. Would be nice if the template for posting videos could support it.

I know I know. I need to know because I'll never get that combined lost time of .. (open calculator ... 5 occasions * 2 min videos) 10 mins. Btw, has Turbo Graphics stopped putting out games or something? fingers cross that next vid will be 'bonk*ers*'.

Well, to be fair, Atlus isn't exactly a huge publisher with a lot of money and SMT IV isn't exactly going to make enough money to justify putting the game on a console, where they would have to design animations and all. Besides, this allows for a more mechanically complex game with way more demons and, hopefully, more interesting dungeons because they aren't spending money on battle animations. After playing Strange Journey and Etrian Odyssey IV, I can tell you that I might like the first person battle format more just because it's much, much faster. Walking around on tiles in first person wasn't so thrilling, so I'm glad that the actual dungeon crawling is now more Nocturne-ish.

What if it has something to do with Christopher Columbus? What else happened in 1492?

I WANT TO BE A SAW-MOO-RYE

Look kid, you can be a samurai, okay? Will you please just shut up about it?

That guy speaking will be...

A) Eaten by a demon

B) Dismissively smote by an angry god.

C) Turn into a monstrous human-elder thing hybrid in a bid for supernatural power and be killed by the protag.

Glorious Megaten plot goodness.

Sah moo rye

I saw nothing but "Persona V" as the title and was going wtf as I watch the trailer

This game is looking to be extremely inspired by the first game, and I mean there are a lot of mirrored things from it. From previews I read even the very beginning of the game has a cutscene that sounded almost exactly like the intro to SMT I. There is also a ton of remixed music from the first two games, you have your law and chaos heroes, whose names could possibly be inspired from Kaneko's writings on the first two law and chaos heroes (the first syllable sound), and even STEVEN. Granted there are plent of things that they have improved upon from what it seems and I'm so damned hyped for this release, especially after playing through the first three games already.

So I made my previous comment after just seeing the image capture... So that is a dude... the fuck?

Korra?

Time to become a samurai and talk to some demons.

Yep bought my 3ds at just the right time :D

If it weren't for 3DS i would buy it. Their loss lol

@sidoran: Yeah. Most games in the series feature battles presented in that style.

Nice! I've been playing Strange Journey to cope with the wait and for anyone disappointed about the lack of 3D battles, you get used to the first person battles real quick. The fusion and battle systems are so addicting that it doesn't really matter after awhile.

I'm pretty excited that they're adding 3D exploration in this one though since the first person exploration can feel a little outdated.

I WANT TO BE A SAMURAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!

It's been that way for years and I'm guessing because it's cheaper and less risky. Kind of just how this generation went. If you want JRPGs, look toward handhelds. The stuff released on consoles just isn't as plentiful which is unfortunate for people who like to play on a couch with a big TV.

A decent chunk of SMT games have battles in first person. As I understand it they're making it 3D outside of combat like in Nocturne (SMT3) and having battles in first person like in Shin Megami Tensei 1 & 2.

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