All around really good game. The combat system is fun and the story is emotional, it knows how to reach your feelings, at least it worked very well with me.

For years I heard a lot people say that "this is the point where the series gets too pretentious and serious for its own good" and I have to say, now that I played it, those people are cowards and boring.

Some abilities like dodge roll being tied to Forms sucks major ass though, whoever thought that was a good idea is dumb.

I can't believe this game is actually pretty decent. It's essentially an arcadey twin sick shooter where you navigate a series of mazes and instead of a life meter you have... time. If you get hit your time goes down. Luckily there's stuff everywhere to replenish it.

The final Area and final boss are a pain in the ass but otherwise I think it's pretty manageable, you can beat it in about an hour. Probably less if you know what you're doing.

I wanted to make a joke about this being "the real shin megami tensei game" but I got nothing.