Why was it so mid?

Why was it so mid?

Schizophrenic Conspiracy Theorist Shirt $21.68

Homeless People Are Sexy Shirt $21.68

Schizophrenic Conspiracy Theorist Shirt $21.68

  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Saw it on my local Target for 10 bux on clearance
    First time I felt sorry for a video game.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    B team were making it while the A team where taking a vacation.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I didn't even finish it. U right shit ain't even mid shits trash. Soul hackers 2? More like soul hackers MID

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      so it is mid?

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Soul Hackers in name only and it's the same team as TMS.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      TMS was more fun though, the combat system itself was pure SMT so why didn't they just keep it or expand on it?

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    not enough lewd scenes of Ringo

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It was a prime example of a game that it was sent out to die

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It was below average. The game felt like a low budget Vita game.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      bruh vita was mid this shit ain't even that

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Mid

        Get out of here child

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    SH1 was organic vaporwave that inspired the aesthetic 20 years later. 2 is a pastiche of that trend.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Atlus have yet to realize people only care about Persona

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm an EO fan. I don't like Persona.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You, me, and the other 3 guys aren't enough to make the series profitable.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      "Lets take a game based on 80s cyberpunk with a sprinkle of SMT occultism and make a sequel that has nothing to do with it."

      Actually the school system has turned me off Persona since 3. I prefer mainline SMT.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Zoomers only care about Persona because they’re all lame bisexual little boys, mainline is way more sick, way better style and the music wrecks Persona. Persona is for little kids and lame late-bloomers, mainline is for edgy teens and it’s sick.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        They're both for zoomers.
        SMT Nocturne is the quintessential edgy zoomer experience.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is it actually worth playing?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Might as well play Tokyo Mirage if you want to get the full experience from this team.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I played this shit on Gamepass and it's probably the most boring MegaTen game I've played so far.
      I don't mind the jank and everything but the main issue is the main combat mechanic, that Sabbath shit. Basically it's kinda like a reverse Persona AOA. Every time you hit a weakness you get a stack, and at the end of the turn, those get resolved in an animation where all of your demons attack the enemies. It looks cool and all but the problem is that the damage is more or less just a bonus and it happens EVERY SINGLE FRICKING TURN. And it doesn't feel like it adds any sort of tactical depth. Like, Press Turn has the whole half turn management thing. Persona's One More wants you to hit every enemy with its weakness to quickly eliminate them. 3 and 4 also had the whole thing where you hit them again and they go dizzy giving you some breathing room. In SH2 the most depth you will get is "how do I spread around my damage so the Sabbath doesn't just do overkill damage". Maybe it opens up a bit later on but 15 hours in it was still a fricking bore.

      And that is just purely regarding combat. There's like one music track for all the dungeons, it's all shipping yards and metros, "personal" dungeons are just a more boring final zone from IVA AND THEY ALL LOOK THE FRICKING SAME, dungeons are basically just empty mazes with no puzzles.

      I could live with the jank but dear god there is nothing that stands out here. I played both Caligula games recently. They're also jank but at least they have some really fricking catchy music, the second one even more so, and the combat seems like a neat idea (but still needs refinement).

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Also, I should probably say "low budget feeling" rather thank "jank", because the game actually doesn't feel like that outside a bit of menu navigation.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Caligula 2 music are god-tier
        Caligula 1 is way more soulful though

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      play the first one instead

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's not even worth pirating, just like that fire emblem x SMT crossover on the WiiU.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Can it even be pirated? I thought it had Denuvo and it was never cracked.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          You can play it on ps4 through piracy

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I thought it was above average for a modern Megaten

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I thought it was above average for a modern Megaten
      How? The only games to compare it to are P5 and SMTV, maybe IV/IVA depending on your definition of modern. I would take any of those games over SH2.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It wasn't made by TMS team it was made by contractors they brought in IIRC. That's why it's so cheap.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >the girls are hot
    >the guys look like that dorito-face senpai meme
    what is this art, man

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's Shirou Miwa's stuff in a nutshell.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Kek I forgot I own this game, can I play it without playing the first? I havent touched my PS5 in close to a year

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's not connected to SH1 at all outside of a couple of returning characters.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    hopefully miwa was thrown into a volcano after this abortion
    pikazo next

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It feels like those Digimon games on the PS4 that were actually made for Vita, it's like you're playing something cheap as another anon said.

    But, creatively cheap would be the appropriate word, I'm sure even with a low budget they could have taken better decisions to make it fun.
    It's better to just pick up your 3ds and play Soul Hackers there, can't believe I was hyped about a sequel to my favorite entry and they do this shit. SH1 is one of the most atmospheric games ever

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Cyber bawds had a considered art stye and didn't look like the piece of Unity filth that SH2 is.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    not like this megatenbros, this can't be the last game we get on the PS4

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    should have come out on the switch. i bought the game on xbox at launch but im barely in the ozaka towers dungeon. im like level 30. as much as i like the characters, this megaten game is taking me the longest to play simply because i just dont feel like playing it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      also i love ringo

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I fapped to her a lot

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous
          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous
            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous
              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous
              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I havent even played her game.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Is this a scene from the game, or is this just fanporn?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous
      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I love Ringo too!!

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous
      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I love Ringo too!!

        This apple girl is so cute.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Japanese game

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It really just helped expose how shallow the megaten/persona combat system is. The combat in these games truly is just a matter of matching shapes and colors. There is almost never a reason not to just hit an enemy's weakness. This is one step more advanced than final fantasy turn based combat, where the enemies are so non lethal aht the games can practically be played through without ever needing to think critically in combat at all. This game really wasn't any worse than any other 3d megaten. But it was so bland and easy it made persona games look good.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      On the contrary, it revealed how fricking brilliant press turn and one more are that just haphazardly trying to copy it to fit something else without understanding just bogs the whole thing down.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It doesn't matter whether you get an extra turn or you do a group attack, or you get to pass your turn to someone else, there's ultimately no reason not to fit the circle piece into the circle shaped hole in these games. It is always the optimal move. The only one that I've played with some strategy involved with weaknesses was strange journey, where you might not decide to use your best demons stat-wise as a trade off for using demons of all the same alignment.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          git gud shitter

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >get gud

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Devil Survivor has the best combat. While obviously you want to hit the elemental weakness of the enemy, battles are a group of different demons and you can still get royally fricked because there's too many combinations

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Devil survivor is a strategy game, it's a different beast from four homies in a row entirely. Srpgs are basically better than jrpgs on principle

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Etrian odyssey games mog the shit out of any megaten/persona games, and are great examples of how great turn based "4 in a row" style jrpgs can be.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Etrian odyssey is five homies in two rows and isn't as combat focused as smt.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                They're even more so combat focused than the smt games. There's almost no story at all in EO games, they're just pure exploration and combat. Having two rows adds to the complexity of the combat for sure but I would still argue it belongs in the category of "X characters in a row" style jrpgs.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                The combat is mostly resource management and not actually figuring out how to beat the enemies, you just use your strongest attacks like in any braindead jrpg. The challenge comes from figuring out how to win while expending as little tp and items as possible so you can extend your dungeon dive. It's just an extension of the exploration. Bosses are obviously the exception but there are like 10 in each game.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                What you just described is a combat centric rpg. Everything you say also applies to SMT combat, except that in EO there is much more nuance in party composition, combos, weaknesses and debuffs, on top of enemies generally just being more lethal.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          While I pretty much agree with you in terms of the combat, most SMT games challenge isn't about playing inside of the actual fight, but rather the diligence of the team building. The battle begins before you show up for combat. Either through making a well balanced team with few weaknesses that can deal with as much as possible, or constructing a specialized team for mowing down that area/boss.

          That being said, SMT sucks at that too and you're better off with Pokémon for that.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Ringo was the only good thing about the game

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Remember when this game was touted as a great game solely because it wasn't on Nintendo consoles?

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why release a sequel when you know most people haven't played the first?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Actually, isn't Soul Hackers one of the most beloved SMT games? I know a lot of people played it on the 3ds as their first SMT.
      Sure, it wasn't P5 levels but, i mean, waht fricking JRPG is on P5 tier? Regardless, SH1 had quite the cult following.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Ok, but how many people played it? How many more looked at the title on steam and skipped over it because they haven't played the first one?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Nemissa is the ultimate waifu, literally female Danny Phantom

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Actually, isn't Soul Hackers one of the most beloved SMT games?
        God I genuinely hope not. Soul Hackers was absolute garbage, but unique. The reason that 2 sucks is that it's no longer unique. That just leaves the garbage.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The saddest thing about this game is it's still the only megaten game that I've actually somewhat enjoyed in almost ten years. Good lord what happened to this franchise?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Atlus is a gang of lazy bastards, some of the big names among them having left, and the shots are called by SEGA, perhaps the biggest morons in the business.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Game felt like a scam, or maybe more that they were testing the market outside of the Switch and specifically on Xbox. Didn’t feel even close to a full game, felt more like an SMT rip-off.

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just beat the game on very hard, liked it way more than I thought I would.

    Best combat and boss mechanics in the series, better than SMT/Persona

    The bosses have actual strategy, like building up stacks based on hitting adds weaknesses, changing weaknesses, and the DLC superboss gimmick of needing to take demons with specific weaknesses

    It's not just "pick 4 characters with fire moves and blast the boss".

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No one cares for your shitty attempt at shilling, your whole post reeks of disingenuous coping.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I just really loved the game.

        I went in not liking the art style and thinking it was budget Persona, and came out loving the character customization and combat more than SMT V or Persona 5.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The game already failed and is the biggest flop Atlus has had in the past 20 years, you're not going to get paid anymore.

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    for me it was the gutted demon negotiation and the SMTIV tier dungeons
    though i can't bring myself to hate it since the boss battles were good
    hard was a little too easy and not being able to use items in very hard is super gay so i gave up on that after beating kaburagi
    story and characters were decent i guess
    i'm glad i got the true ending on my first try because i really don't feel like replaying it ever

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What the frick is 'mid'? What is this zoomer Black person babble? The game sucks balls cause it's an ill conceived 'sequel' to a 20 year old saturn game. That's why it fricking blows, you shit for brains Black person.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Ringo doesn't shut the frick up
    >first boss she says "Take the L"
    >all the party members are souless
    >Ringo still talking about useless shit
    Look, I am starting to thing that I'm misogynist now after playing this game.

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Well the main problem with this game was the part where your mother is a fat prostitute, OP

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    zero variety, re-used the same 3 dungeon tilesets over and over, half the dialogue is dogshit at least in en, soul dungeons are literally empty voids, isn't soul hackers at all cause soul hackers was pretty good. combat is at least decent though

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Made with Unity
    Atlus couldn't even be fricked paying to remove the fricking watermark. Would it kill these companies to not induce buyer's remorse the nanosecond I boot up the game? Thought I'd still give the game a chance and I actually like the characters but frick me the graphics and artstyle are putrid Unity shit where even the demons look like smooth, undefined arse.

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No fanservice

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    it sucks

Leave a Reply to Anonymous Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *