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Cheers people - I'll try and spread the word best I can. I've got plenty of time to play the games luckily as it's part of my university course (Games Art and Design). I should be doing research but....bleh.

I wish you luck yksehtniycul.

Hey people - I don't know if you remember me, but I was a patron of this site back when Tony was running (?) it. This place was down for ages but there's nowhere else for the SMT enthusiast - I'm so glad it's back up!

Please let me know if there's anything I can do.

I'm gonna pre-order FES this Monday through my usual eBay importer - I'll prolly have to wait a bit longer than all of you though : P

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You misunderstood my meaning.

the death of the PS2, the next-gens are taking over blah blah

I wasn't being serious : P

I see what you mean about people saying the PS2 is dead though. It's outselling the PS3 (although I think that will come to an end soon) at the moment and has bucket loads of games I'd have over the massively disappointing catalogue of PS3 games. It's got, what, three RPGs and Devil May Cry? Plus, DMC is on a much cheaper console anyway.

I've yet to play Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria, Odin Sphere and Rogue Galaxy.

It's prolly got something to do with the death of the PS2, the next-gens are taking over blah blah. There's now a tiny section for PS2 games in most shops I've been into with all the ugly PS3 and 360 games taking up most of the shelf space. It's such a shame.

I've seen Odin Sphere everywhere though *shrug*

I dunno. I quite like the sound of post-apocalyptic Satanic Pokemon beating the shit out of each other, enslaved by their power-crazed, S&M obsessed masters and mistresses who want nothing more than to sacrifice the world to their dark god. Or something.

What? I'd buy it

I wonder if you see Mitsuru "punishing" the boys in Fes? I would love to see it.

I live in the UK but consider myself an import gamer - my friend bought it for me last year in September and I've not regretted it (NTSC games are superior in a few aspects although a little fuzzy sometimes). Thank eBay.

However, I've not seen P3 anywhere at all. Gamestation, Game, HMV, Zavvi (or Virgin or whatever it is), it's just nowhere to be seen. Is there a shortage or delay or something? It's getting a lot of media attention (EuroGamers gave it a whopping 9/10) but it's like it doesn't exist in retailers.

I've always loved Kaneko's art. Alongside - let's say, Tetsuya frickin' Nomura - I think his artwork is a breath of fresh air in purely JRPG terms. His work on the Persona series, Lucifer's Call and Digital Devil Saga are what inspired me to start concept designing. I don't worship the ground he walks on, but in a over-populated sometimes insipid genre, his work stands out.

Argilla's design still gives me the giggles ^_^

On to P4, it has been called a "clone of P3" by rpgamer and I have to say I half agree. I'm secretly pleased it's on PS2 (in my book, there's still a great variety of games on it I'm interested in) but hope it does something to distinguish itself from P3. I really like the idea that the lead wears glasses.

I gave up very early on. It was so boring. The Personae are a massive disappointment - no names, no mythology, and hard to see. Literally. The first "battle" scene was hilarious as I just couldn't see what the hell was going on. The Personae don't even seem to be individual - they're all blurry shadows with randomly coloured dots on them as far as I can tell.

Yeah, I got that glitch. Pretty disturbing after a while, even if it is just pixels. I had to reset

Is it me or does the new Hero look dull?



If I'm honest, I'm not impressed. The US hasn't even got FES yet and P4's already has a release date? The characters don't look much different than P3's characters and Trinity Soul is a pretty bad anime (it's so goddamned boring and the Persona designs are too blurry and a let down) - Atlus is worrying me at this point.

I hope they pour everything into Shin Megami Tensei 4.

I didn't think they meshed very well with the game. Some of the songs were good - I liked the new Velvet Room BGM (I still love Revelations' one more) and the final boss theme was a clever play on that theme, but some of the music was pretty alienating unless you happen to like J-Pop and J-Hip Hop. Unfortunately I despise the two, but I managed with P3's soundtrack. I hope they make P4's music along the lines of Eternal Punishment (in terms of style) and I hope they don't continue along the same main character-in-high-school vein. I personally liked the "outsider" view on high schools that was present in EP.

It's not like the music was crap (in my opinion), it was just a poor choice in terms of theme for the game.

It was fun, just a bit.....simple. The battle system was boring.
I loved reading minds though and setting people on fire. That was brilliant and needs to be in more games. Those two schoolgirls were hilarious.

Dammit. I just spent my artbook money on Hyung Tae Kim's Oxide.

Want it.