
About a week ago, Atlus teased an announcement of a new game on the main page for Shin Megami Tensei IV and promised to make the big reveal once it was spread around sufficiently on Twitter. Naturally, the internet overcame this challenge quickly and the announcement was revealed to be Shin Megami Tensei IV: Final, a brand new title that appears to be something of a sequel to Shin Megami Tensei IV.
Now that the cat's out of the bag, Kazuyuki Yamai – the game's producer - shared all sorts of new details on a NicoNico livestream. We've got them listed below, the translation's courtesy of Siliconera:
- Shin Megami Tensei IV: Final will follow a "neutral" storyline that'll have multiple endings.
- Newcomers won't need to have played Shin Megami Tensei IV to understand what's going on, but there'll be references that veterans will appreciate.
- The gauntlet worn by the protagonist is his smartphone. Evidently, the gauntlets from Shin Megami Tensei IV were smartphones of a different form.
- Asahi will be the heroine of the game.
- Navarre will have more of a role in Shin Megami Tensei IV: Final than he did in Shin Megami Tensei IV.
- There'll be about 450 demons.
- The Partner System will be different this time around; other human characters will appear as partners.
- A new mechanic called "Assist Attack" will have Partners show up in a pinch.
- You'll be able to raise humans in addition to demons.
- The main character will be a silent protagonist.
- Demons will be able to use magic that they don't specialize in, but will be more effective when using magic they do specialize in.
- Demon stats have been changed up for a fresh experience.
- Isabeau will be in and we'll need to "stay tuned for more" for Flynn.
- This isn't the end of the series, just the end of the main Shin Megami Tensei IV arc.
What do you think? Does any of this make you more interested in the game? What else would you like to see out of this game? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
[source siliconera.com]
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Great stuff. I loved IV so I'm hyped for this. Hopefully the NA release date isn't far off from the Japanese release date.
When is snowboard kids 3 coming out Atlus?!
Soooooooo hyped!
Currently playing and enjoying SMTIV so this is good news for me
sounds good to me.if its half as good as the last game its already worth buying.
@sandman89 Haha, when did one and two come out?
Yay! Isabeu is the best of the 3! And Navarre deserve a bit of more exploration. My only concern is about the navigation on Tokyo, that overworld was SO AWFUL
This sounds totally RAD!
@Frank90 Yeah. I can't tell you how many times I got lost in it.
Well I'm stuck near the end of the natural path so I guess maybe that's what I'll play next. I really need to just beat it but this boss is kicking my butt!!
@Frank90 Totally. Tokyo is precisely where my interest started to majorly drop in SMT4.
The tokyo map isn't that hard to navigate, just look at the minimap and you'll see where all the roads are and where they lead.
So in other words, this means the Neutral Path ending was canon? (Seeing as how Isabeau is returning, and Navarre is still at large...) This tends to be the case in the SMT series, but it's unusual for an entire entry to be following the logic of the Neutral Path. The last time that happened was in SMT2. This suggests even more influence from SMT2, in addition to the theme of "deicide."
Sounds good so far, looking forward to more details.
@vincentgoodwin Mine too, I was in love with the game, but after Tokyo it was hard to continue.
@SamirMalik me too, sometimes the path was right in front of me but I could not see it.
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