If you're a fan of SMT you'll love this game. If you're not a fan of SMT it probably won't do much to change your mind.

SMT V is basically Nocturne for the current gen, but with god-tier exploration that almost feels like it came out of a platformer or action game and the combat has been sharpened to the finest point possible. While there's some great concepts and an interesting battle of ideologies shown, the plot and characters are sadly kinda underdeveloped and also rely very heavily on typical SMT tropes that might have you saying 'Here we go again', but SMT has never been a story heavy series and its tropes are certainly unique among the J-RPG genre, so it's not that much of a problem to me. It's all about the gameplay and rocking music and those things are absolutely top notch in SMT V.

Also Idun's idle animation. I rest my case.

Reviewed on Dec 02, 2021


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