/smt/ general #1 - Schwarzwelt edition
What's hidden at the South Pole is the Schwarzwelt, which is a world comprised of alternate dimensions inhabited my demons. The Schwarzwelt is connected to humanity's abuse of nature. As long as humans harm the environment, the Schwarzwelt can not be removed from reality.
https://smtgen.neocities.org/starter_guideThread question: Do you prefer the DS or 3DS version of Strange Journey? Why?
>>41408that's too high brow for me but I remember him talking about how he got in a conversation with a Mexican cab driver, got the idea to make software for astrology and horoscope, which then gave him the idea to make the first DDS book
that's why moon phases are a thing I think
>>41415You should try p3fes for the ps2 instead. IMHO the psp version ruins the experience by giving you total control of your party members, getting rid of the explorable world and the new social links for femc are borderline fanfic.
And don't listen the risefag
>>41419, p3 has better gameplay than p4 because atlus decided it would be a good idea to:
* Merge all types of melee attacks into a single category, making melee the overall best type of attack against enemies that cannot nullify it or completely useless against those who can.
* Lock you into a single weapon type, so you only get one way of approaching shadows now.
* Give you full party control, destroying any kind of difficulty.
* Allow the multi target attacks to grant you an extra turn as long as you knock at least one enemy down instead of all them.
* Make the dungeons hand crafted instead of procgen, eliminating any sense of exploration without improving the blandness.
* Eliminate fusion spells.
There are other minor things like neutering death, giving chie (best party member) an install kill move as her follow up move, screw up the turn view by only letting you know who is next instead of the full queue and making the analyze useless since it doesn't show up all the details of the enemy.
>>41476I'm guessing Nemissa since she's on his site and Soul Hackers fits some of his aesthetics
>that's not persona tho-don't care, SMT supremacy also Devil Summoner is canon in Persona
>>41501I was literally almost gonna go on reddit before finding this thread
t. /smtg/er
We had a booru but it shat itself some years ago
>>41502Has it been that long? The guy accidentally deleted it, right?
I've been lurking on some discord servers off reddit but I don't get the impression of any significant exodus and the feeling isn't the same. I imagine most of the userbase is just sitting waiting.
>>41491Nemissa is so good, I need to play that again
Is it worth it to get citra or just dust off my n3ds?
>>41518Dust off your 3DS and mod it
https://3ds.hacks.guide/If not that, download Azahar because it's the current version of Citra that's actually being updated, however you'll have to change .3ds to .cci if you're not using .cia files
https://github.com/azahar-emu/azahar/releases/tag/2120.3 >>41547It's good but not as good as the first one. If you want Devil Survivor + Neon Genesis Evangelion then it's perfect.
Do the Triangulum arc stuff after you finish the original game because imo it's a better story than the original, but doesn't make sense without seeing the original endings first.
>>41491she's top tier as well, mfs will lead a communist revolution for a goth gf fr
soul hackers has such an incredible vibe, hard to describe exactly but it hits, most cyberpunk stuff feels boomer, locked in the 1980s, but that game felt very fresh, y2k vibes. this music video gives me a similar vibe
>>41503>>41508The neocities creator is the guy who lost interest(it was over Soul Hackers 2) and stopped updating the site.
While the booru went down because someone fucked up and everything got lost. Two different instances.
Quite a shame for both, the neocities was a great resource but also had some nice /smtg/ events, like presenting [spoiler]fan fiction[/spoiler] anons on the gen wrote
[spoiler]/smtg/ and the greater megaten community as a whole apparently had some problem with some schizo who constantly triedfucking shit up and destroy all sorts of fan projects and attacking fanart and scanners and shit, he has a track record throughout the fandom, so my schizoism makes me assume he probably had something do with the death of at least the booru[/spoiler]
>>41514>8chanNever going back there
>>41524SMT, maybe not. Though they at least remastered the first three Etrian Odyssey games so who knows
Also kinda fucked that they made Metaphor because they wanted a new, non Megaten, fantasy RPG series when EO was right there
>>41655Kowloon High-School Chronicle
It's somewhere between devil summoner era SMT/oldsona and nusona, while being released before p3. Some pretty weird first-person dungeon crawling with some SRPG aspects to it, lots of mythological themeing, dungeon crawling through ancient ruins under a high school where you also have some life sim and dating sim-esque mechanics with other students. I need to get back to playing it
It's part of some wider series involving high schoolers and mythological stuff, I think the original was an SRPG on the PS1, we only got this one and game on the PSP or VIta I think.
>>41665For Megami Tensei 2 at least
>post-apocalypse >you're a vault dweller in your own vault uniform >leave for a Mad Max wasteland>Even get an iconic computer on your arm though here it's after you lose your armpretty crazy fr fr
I remember there was 8bit Japanese demake of Fallout 3 in Flash done in a more Dragon Quest style, when really it already exists as MT2
>>41655baroque wallpaper I made with the manual
>>41681need a dungeon chill episode on this asap
thanks /smtg/ for letting me know this site exists
>>41458It's probably about as japanese imperialism apologist as the average japanese is, so a little bit
>>42088Me too, kinda wished it lived more.
>>42106This thread was nice, ignore the bickering on /smtg/. 4cucks seethe whenever this site is mentioned so I hope they don't treat as a boogeyman. Don't know if I should continue dumping my autism here or there, it's funny to see some people shit on this place while you're initiating on-topic discussion
And yeah Raidou is apologist, which is better than full blown endorsement at least. It has some rose colored views of the Taisho era as more peaceful and free, but that's a common Japanese viewpoint
>>42115Short answer: Unironically anywhere really. Most games are self contained and do their own thing, besides sequels like IV → IVA or I -> II
Longer one: It's controversial to say, but IV is a good introduction. Just realize that the first dungeon is really fucking long, but that's only the beginning of the game. Some people don't like the Smirk+Press Turn system, but I think getting fucked by it just makes it more rewarding when you do it right.
Nocturne was a lot of people's first foray into mainline back in the day, but it was basically a soft reboot and purposely meant to break a lot of series traditions. IV, for better and for worse, takes a lot from people expect out of a traditional SMT.
If you want more classic dungeon crawling, try Strange Journey. Which version depends on how hard you want it to be.
If you want the SNES experience, the GBA remake of SMT 1 is a good one, just note that the GBA fucks up the music.
Hell try Devil Survivor
>>42197I can't handle how much they talk about trans shit in ever thread.
Every general I went on last time I was there they just could not stop bringing it up and derailing the thread
Bought a new 3DS recently after my old one finally shit the bed. Planning on playing devil survivor. When I was in high school I remember emulating the ds version on my phone and having a lot of fun with it but I hated playing on a phone and lost interest when I found out overclocked existed.
>>42206Shit is almost comical with how pervasive it is. Roguelike general? Complaining about trans people. Fighting games? trans people. Gamedev general? Take a guess. I want to believe it's just bots.
>>42171I guess I should post on here more. I get kinda paranoid and don't want them to recognize me as a crossposter, I can't possibly post
>>42018 on there anymore
>>42197100% disagree(didn't finish reading)
>>42287She's one of the first demons you see in SMT 1, and of course she's agreed upon as part of demifiend's "canon" demon party, if not the only accepted demon he "canonically" has.
Before her, Cerberus was almost like a pre-Jack Frost mascot for the series. It was Nakajima's demon, and SMT 1 Hero's dog turns into it.
For me though, Mokoi is the early level demon I think deserves mascot tier appreciation. He's kinda part of Raidou's party in cutscenes and the manga.
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