We know Donkey Kong Country was just confirmed for the Nintendo Switch Online here in the west, but once again, Japan's monthly line-up seems to be slightly better. Instead of Natsume Championship Wrestling, in its place is the 1992 Super Famicom RPG Shin Megami Tensei by Atlus.
Here's the rundown, courtesy of Japanese Nintendo:
"The first title in the Shin Megami Tensei series (although the third in the Megami Tensei series) that originally released on the Super Famicom in 1992. Shin Megami Tensei is a first-person dungeon crawler that features turn-based 3D battles against demons, where players can both recruit demons as allies and fuse demons together to create new ones. By using the character’s three attributes (Law, Chaos, and Neutral), you can change the outcome of the ending of the game."
If you would like to play this game, you'll need to have access to a Japanese Switch account and the Super Famicom app.
Instead of the NES title The Immortal, Japan will receive Sammy's 1991 multi-genre game, Gun-Dec (Vice: Project Doom). Will you be trying out Shin Megami Tensei when it arrives next week? Tell us down below.
[source topics.nintendo.co.jp]
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First post, yes. ... Unhappy post. Come on, Atlus. Come on, Nintendo. Start thinking globally.
Thought this was going to be Smt V news
Oh come on! I was just saying how I want some JRPGs on the service, why only Japan?!
Oh wait, I speak Japanese. Well, I'm annoyed for those who don't!
Urgh, just when I was excited about our offering, Japan’s is better as usual. SMT is a classic, if brutally, insanely difficult. Oh well, I’ve used a translation guide before, I can use one again.
I’m still glad we got DKC I really don’t care about anything else 😂
Nice! I already have the fan translated rom, but this is cool to see. Maybe one day we’ll get another official English release, since the mobile version is no longer available.
Citation needed on that claim about SMTV
How disappointing, translations would have definitely made these offering more meaningful but we never get anything. I'd homebrew my switch to play classic games if it wasnt so easy to get online banned...
@Heavyarms55: 🤣 せやなぁ!たまに役に立つだもんね〜w
Atlus proving yet again that they are the most disappointing when it comes to supporting the Switch. An English version exists that was ported to iOS yet they couldn't be bothered to translate it? Jeez...
@kayleedayo ネンテンドライフでは外国語を話すことが禁止だけど。。。
(Speaking foreign languages is banned on NintendoLife however.)
Wendigo confirmed for smash. My uncle is a janitor at Nintendo HQ so he saw the crumpled papers in Miyamoto’s office garbage bin.
this stings a little but I already played Shin Megami 1 and 2 on emulators (the original two megami tensei's snes version as well)
more happy they acknowleged SMT V
@JR150 Yes, disappointing they didn't port the iOS localization. But if it says something, on the 3DS VC, Atlus rereleased the Megami Tensei GBC spinoff games in Japan while not even giving the west the one game they DID localize originally (Last Bible 1 aka Revelations: The Demon Slayer).
Happy to play GunDec
@Heavyarms55 I can read that enough to see the spelling error. Maybe Nentendo Life will be more forgiving.
To avoid any confusion, I've removed Japanese Nintendo's line about SMTV. As of December 2019, it was still in active development:
https://www.siliconera.com/shin-megami-tensei-v-and-project-re-fantasy-are-still-in-active-development-assures-atlus/
idiots!! we want SMT too!
SMT would have been nice in other countries, but that would be more work than Nintendo would be willing to put in It's not like it hasn't already received an official localisation though.
The English port is the only reason I still have an original iPhone somewhere, that and my 3DS are my SMT machines. Hopefully the Switch can join that lineup.
Yeah, that doesn't make me envious at all. Nope. Not even a bit. Deeefinitely not jealous.
Why only japan.i would love to play this on switch.played it on emulator,but thats just not the same
Was this ever translated officially?
@ROBLOGNICK
Only on iOS
This would have been the perfect time to introduce the world to Shin Megami Tensei 1.
@Heavyarms55
Just make a Japanese account on the Switch. It's not that difficult, and it won't cost you a penny.
Thank you for nothing, nintendo
@TechEagle it would me more down to Atlus than Nintendo for never translating the Super Famicom version.
Well we've already got Gun dec, and that's all that matters here.
love these games why not a switch collection of ds and 3ds games
I would love it if they translated it so I play this game in an official way.
Now that's what I call a ***** punch.
Another game I can be jealous of, alongside Fire Emblem not being translated (I understand why).
I will give it a try on the Famicom app.
@Slowdive Given Atlus' grappling with Switch development, a compilation seems logical in two respects: building the fanbase, and sustaining excitement (patience) during the long development cycle. Isn't Atlus forever searching for their breakout hit? (Persona 5's sales figures place it firmly in - Metroid territory! Oy...)
Perhaps Atlus isn't big enough to oversee a compilation project while sustaining all their other output? I get the feeling that the release of SMT V will resemble the generation-crossing Persona 5, or BOTW...
Are people actually complaining that Atlus didn't create an English patch for a 25-year old SNES game for a free re-release? Get over yourselves. If you want to play the Japanese version, you can create a Japanese E-Shop account pretty easily.
Played some of the translated rom before - while navigation is more tedious due to having to fish the map out of several menu screens every time (and by then, I had been spoiled beyond measure by Strange Journey's separate screen one, too), the game itself is atmospheric and complex enough to be a classic on its platform and remains recognizable as a trademark SMT experience it refined from the first Megami Tensei games and saw its own many successors refine further. And now Switch has a mainline SMT game, not that it'll shut the fandom up about V.
I bet everybody will put イエス as the name of your first companion
To anyone moaning about the Japenese app getting better games, well firstly it takes like 30 seconds to download the Japenese SNES app and it's perfectly easy to use. Also, you might be surprised to discover they actually have far less games on there than the UK/USA app.
@Stude it's in the last line of the post from Nintendo Japan linked in the article
@RadioShadow I have one. Have had one for several years.
@COVIDberry What is there to be unhappy about? You're mad because another classic game is available?
@Ahlvin23 It's not "only" available in Japan. Anyone anywhere can play it with next to no effort. The only reason it isn't posted to the other territory apps is because the game has never been officially translated. If you read Japanese or don't mind using a guide, you can be playing this in under 3 minutes.
Okay, I'm annoyed!
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