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Shin Megami Tensei IV |OT| The Dark Souls of Persona
- Thread starter Volcynika
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I have Repel Physical armor. It's nice!
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
That boss is special it seems.
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The Final DLC is gonna be awesome. If you know what it is.
Until Demiurge uses his gun.
CornBurrito
Member
THEY MADE METATRON A STR BASED DEMON? FUCK EVERYYYYYTHING.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Nulling/blocking/draining an attack.
Haha, yeah. ;.; In that battle he actually killed everyone but my Vishnu, who kept getting healed by draining the physical attacks. Got through with Vishnu alone.
Yeah, my Metatron ended up being mostly useless for attacking anything because when I fused him he was all magic spells. He was just there to cast debuffs and absorb stuff.
I picked the wrong choice at first and would've been on Law path. "Nope."
Restarted, picked the other choice and
Stephen showed up.
CornBurrito
Member
I must be the only person that was kind of hoping to end up on the Law path. But my choices have me as CHAOS thus far. 
I finished every possible quest (checking some guides) for Chaos. I think I ended at 61 hours.
Hmmm. Seems like I still got a lot to do.
I am so happy I set Soul Hackers down to start this. Absolutely loving it so far! After you guys pointed out that I could use the barracks to heal I completely annihilated that tutorial section and am progressing nicely.
Burroughs is freakin' great, I love her! At one point I got distracted by something on TV and she told me I was spacing out LOL
Aiming for neutral seems like it's going to be hard to stay faithful too because Walter is my favorite comrade so far.
Burroughs is freakin' great, I love her! At one point I got distracted by something on TV and she told me I was spacing out LOL
Aiming for neutral seems like it's going to be hard to stay faithful too because Walter is my favorite comrade so far.
I thought that too, actually! But then, well, Chaos gonna Chaos.
Magic if you're going to do a magic build, Dexterity if you want a physical build. Agility and Luck are also useful to boost!
I see, I see. Is it just preference or is there a drastic difference between being a fighter or being a mage? SMT newbie here.
Deified Data
Banned
I put 90% of my points into magic. I haven't seen any physical weapons or skills yet that make a physical-based character seem like a better choice.
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Deleted member 20920
Unconfirmed Member
Late game challenge quest question.
Quest name:
Where do I find
?
Quest name:
Tokyo Bay Mixer
Where do I find
Vasukis
Most people seem to feel magic is the easier route, but I can't say since I haven't been able to compare them.
They show up randomly on the world map. They're pretty rare though. Took me awhile to find a couple.
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Deleted member 20920
Unconfirmed Member
Thanks
Do they appear as red enemies?
Nope, just normal enemies!
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Deleted member 20920
Unconfirmed Member
Oooo...That's kind of annoying lol...Thanks.
There's so much to do in this game XD And I play so slowly.
Gamer @ Heart
Member
Can anyone link me to a guide for side quests.
The past hour has been a huge waste of time for me as I run all over the place battling fodder trying desperately to find quest locations not knowing if I'm far enough in the story to access it or not.
God the map is terrible and having dozens of Japanese names of thrown at me all the time is confusing.
I hope one of you can help me over come this and continue my love affair with this game.
The past hour has been a huge waste of time for me as I run all over the place battling fodder trying desperately to find quest locations not knowing if I'm far enough in the story to access it or not.
God the map is terrible and having dozens of Japanese names of thrown at me all the time is confusing.
I hope one of you can help me over come this and continue my love affair with this game.
I finished every quest but the Amaterasu, and some Naraku thing, and Demiurge one at 71 hours or so.
I was gonna go and do those, but I couldn't do anything after beating the last boss.
I decided not to reload either, so I just said whatever, and am now blazing through Law.
I really want to start playing this, but as I only have a Japanese 3DS - I'm hesitant.
Why do I have a Japanese 3DS ? Well I study Japanese and figured it was a good way too force myself into immersion. I'm decent at Japanese but by no means very good, so far I've stuck to fairly simple games and haven't had much trouble at all.
Could anyone gauge how hard it might be to play this with a limited understanding of the language? Desperate to start playing it! I might just order it anyway and slave away with dictionary in hand.
Why do I have a Japanese 3DS ? Well I study Japanese and figured it was a good way too force myself into immersion. I'm decent at Japanese but by no means very good, so far I've stuck to fairly simple games and haven't had much trouble at all.
Could anyone gauge how hard it might be to play this with a limited understanding of the language? Desperate to start playing it! I might just order it anyway and slave away with dictionary in hand.
I have a lot of experience with the series in Japanese, and based on that I'd say it would be pretty difficult for someone who does not have a higher level grasp of the language. Also, instructions of where you need to go and what you need to do in this game in particular are vague at best. Requires a lot of exploration and speaking with other characters to get an understanding of what the game wants you to do.
Well, the game has voice acting and the Japanese version has furigana for the non-voiced dialog. If you're serious about studying, it could be a pretty good aid.
I did most of the sidequests - you're required to do a lot of them for neutral, and I didn't know which ones so I ended up just doing them all. I missed a couple in Naraku but that's it. I mean, it's very possible that I missed some of the quests that you get via demon conversation, but yeah. I finished in 40 hours. But I generally finish RPGs a lot faster than other people for some reason.
Otherspacing
Member
Hm, in which point do I know if I'm locked into one of the endings ?
When you
show up in a monochrome forest
Yes.
Hm so It is do-able, but will be a challenge.... I know a lot of Kanji so I can generally divulge at least the very basic essence of what is being said, when I don't understand something. Can you turn on Japanese subs for the voice acting? That would be a big help.
Vague instructions are going to be a challenge... but I guess a long as I can wander around for long enough and take the time trying to translate what everyone is saying I should hopefully be able to glean what to do.
Ha thanks guys... I really want to play this!
Otherspacing
Member
Is this right after that decision you have to take choosing going with Walter or going with Jonathan ? (by after I mean after completing the quest you chose)
zero shift
Banned
Pellaidh
Crash Station
Member
Haven't read up much on it, but is Neutral really that big of a pain in the ass to get? I remember just picking the choices I thought were right back in Nocturne.
Will you know if/when you're on the right path and/or is there some way of finding out your current alignment? At what point in the game can you really lock yourself out of the ending?
Will you know if/when you're on the right path and/or is there some way of finding out your current alignment? At what point in the game can you really lock yourself out of the ending?
Urban Scholar
Member
Ginza spoiler question
Yes major alignment questions came at me & I totally remain neutral are their more choices to worry about?
Neutral is kind of a narrow window, and the final choice forces you to put a punch of points into one side or the other. Although tons of people here got it, so it can't be that difficult. I just got unlucky.
Law and Chaos paths get some challenge quests that unlock route-specific demons. Also, if you choose to reset your character, you start with all eight skill slots on both your MC and your demons, which is sort of like a refund of those app points.
That's it though, to my knowledge.