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Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker |OT| at Last
- Thread starter CrimsonFist
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SpaceBridge
Member
Was same with DeSu 1 at least this one lets you increase volume of voices.
PreyingShark
Member
Got a few hours in so far. Aside from certain boobs looking weird, this is some really good shit. Looking forward to playing more.
ChickenHunter
Member
Got the game. Glad to see the protagonist can still be as much of a goofball as ever. Gonna go for
ending before I start the new stuff.
Al Saiduq's
(The other requisite Devil Survivor 2 picture)
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
I feel like Yuri Lowenthal is Atlus USA's John Ratzenberger at this point.
robotzombie
Member
So I have the original DS version and never played. Is the original mainline story in this any different at all? Gameplay improvements or anything? Or are all the changes based on adding the new storyline and voicework and stuff?
I'm trying to figure out if I should just play the DS version, or get this one and go for the whole deal.
I'm trying to figure out if I should just play the DS version, or get this one and go for the whole deal.
Read the OP.
robotzombie
Member
I know that, but I'm specifically talking about gameplay tweaks, things like any additional conveniences to demon auction/fusing, rebalancing of skills or stats, etc. that make the game just play better in general. I didn't see much in the way of that in the OP section on new features, so I was hoping for confirmation in that regard
CrimsonFist
Member
There's the spotpass and DLC stuff, which affects the original game as well. Besides that, I don't know of any balance changes.
SpaceBridge
Member
Why isn't there a middle difficulty setting?
ChickenHunter
Member
In many ways, this game is way more light hearted than the first game. Theres moments of seriousness but for the most part theres a lot of levity weirdly enough. Lots of messed up shit happens but the game never really explores the full ramifications of the apocalyptic setting like the first game did. In many ways its similar to the tonal differences between Personas 3 and 4.
CrimsonFist
Member
The producer is Shinjiro Takada. He worked on some of the Langrisser and Growlanser games, no Fire Emblems as far as I can find.
Ok, I had jumbled things around in my dead. He work on those series and he is now working on Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem.
Flying Toaster
Member
I don't believe it is a more comical approach, but the response selections are much more lighter than the first one or other games SMT games.
For anyone that overlooked the first one. Please try this one. It is truly amazing and quite a gem. I am glad this came out.
Xenoflare
Member
But Jungo is the best boy :T
What anime has this kind of budget, lord.
names2hard4you
Member
Damnit, I said I wouldn't but I ended up buying this after seeing the beautiful packaging. I already beat the original story on my DS so I think I'm just going to start from the triangulum arc.
cj_iwakura
Member
As I understand it, the Devil Survivor guys are basically the Growlanser team, or at least there's a lot of crossover.
Ufotable? I have no idea what that's from, though.
Ufotable? I have no idea what that's from, though.
SpaceBridge
Member
Got my first game over, maybe blessed wasn't so easy
What part are you talking about? Put it in spoiler tags if necessary.
ladyluthien
Member
My copy surprisingly came today! It wasn't supposed to arrive till Saturday. Thank you BestBuy!
Can't wait to start this up, a bit busy these next couple of days but will definitely try to start it up by the weekend.
Can't wait to start this up, a bit busy these next couple of days but will definitely try to start it up by the weekend.
Hacker girl. I was fighting her with mediocre teams. Leveled teammates to 12 and MC to 15. I could actually kill her very easily at 10, its just the adds.
kunonabi
Member
That last boss was something else. I was down to just my MC who would have died with one more attack and I managed to get the final blow with my weakest attack moments before he wiped me out. I'm not sure I would have even a tried a second time if I had lost that battle.
ChickenHunter
Member
If you mean gameplay; There is a ton of variety in the sheer nonsense and unreasonable odds they'll start throwing at you the deeper you go in. Spoilers for one of the final bosses:
There is a boss that has a skill called "Null-Human"
Story-wise; The game isn't as overbearing with the making you feel like shit thing (assuming you manage to save everyone and don't let anyone die) as DeSu1 was. But it won't pull any punches.
MissDeviling
Member
Tried the Wal-mart, Best Buy, and EB Games at my local mall, but none had it. 
Have to go to another EB Games tomorrow, which I know has in stock but wasn't in the area today.
Have to go to another EB Games tomorrow, which I know has in stock but wasn't in the area today.Oh okay. Yeah, the inevitable idea of screwing over SOMEONE always in desu1 felt bad.
AND OH JOY.
I made my friend agree to get this as his first smt. He must know our pain :3
SpaceBridge
Member
I'm at this battle now. Had my first game over. Trying again. Don't think my party is at the same level.
I mean, for story missions, you may want to just kill the middle enemy, acknowledging 50% exp isnt that bad considering free battles will make it up down the line.
Hilariously, I just roadkilled the day 2 boss after getting stuck on that fight you're doing. Just go level up a little :3 Maybe grab some new demons?
Shadow Broker
Banned
So is the all Magic build still OP compare to a Physical build like in Devil Survivor 1 or is it balance this time round?
Velcro Fly
Member
Starting this right now, as if I don't have a ton of other games I'm also playing. Have high hopes for the game though. Going to do my best to stick with Apocalypse difficulty
Would it have given me a game over if I
I was too squeamish to do that to myself
Would it have given me a game over if I
had wanted to give up on life?
Starting this right now, as if I don't have a ton of other games I'm also playing. Have high hopes for the game though. Going to do my best to stick with Apocalypse difficulty
Would it have given me a game over if II was too squeamish to do that to myselfhad wanted to give up on life?
lol yup, first thing I tried. MC don't want any of this bullshit.
DeSu1 could be very unforgiving if you werent set up for the situation/you were underleveled and didnt want to grind a lot.
On day 3, just did
the optional battle against ghost q in the morning. He ran away after I massacred his minions in a 1v1, which brought me from a 17 to a 19
So yeah, start of day 3 and level 19 with 18 teammates, I'm happy with my levels :3
PreyingShark
Member
Did it first try but I lost two of my teams and was running out of mojo with the two remaining ones. Definitely going to go do some free battles now before continuing with the story.
DS1 has Baldr.
.
And it was my first SMT.
Let me put that into plain english- I went a slightly str build and kept my other stats decently balanced.
Thats literally signing my own funeral.
On that note, SMT is kind of obnoxious, because going into one blind I dont think one would reasonably assume to do otherwise (because with the exception of luck, why would I completely ignore something!)
But whatever, I've played a half dozen now, so I guess I now don't even think about it?
But yeah, with DeSu1 having weird things like physical reflect as common things...the game screwed you over.
It's not like "pierce resist" and you can use a diff type- they basically ruined your entire build :/
Also some obnoxiously powerful bosses.
I wanted to like DeSu1, but it was simply too cruel for going in blind.