as someone who is still very not experienced with much of mainline SMT this game s basically everything i want out of these
the setting and style are like peak shit here. all the usual SMT apocalypse environments are mixed with the 90s cyberpunk city feel so well it's like very easily my favorite setting in any of these games that i've played no contest. in other mainline games i've played i felt like most of the cast are very non active participants in the world around them making them feel so separated and not essential compared to how good the worldbuilding usually is. but here like almost every event is driven by you or what the people in The Gang™ want at that moment, so the game is able to specifically have both support each other so any themes that come up from either are able to be explored as much as possible and GOD you have no idea how much i wanted that when i played nocturne and SMT5. this game's ideas on its own could edge so close to "technology bad" and that'd be really funny but how it relates to the characters and SMT's general themes of how humans & demon live with each other is so insanely strong that it's like the first time i'm fully satisfied with the story in a mainline game i love this shit dude. it's also got insanely good gameplay/story integration with SMT's usual mechanics for customization and the demon loyalty system AND the ost is some of the best shit ever but "the gameplay and music in SMT is very good" is like the coldest take of all time so yknow yknow.
but yea it's good it's GREAT i need soul hackers 2 so fucking bad man
also god all my long reviews are about SMT games they give me so much to say even if it's one i don't like lmao
the setting and style are like peak shit here. all the usual SMT apocalypse environments are mixed with the 90s cyberpunk city feel so well it's like very easily my favorite setting in any of these games that i've played no contest. in other mainline games i've played i felt like most of the cast are very non active participants in the world around them making them feel so separated and not essential compared to how good the worldbuilding usually is. but here like almost every event is driven by you or what the people in The Gang™ want at that moment, so the game is able to specifically have both support each other so any themes that come up from either are able to be explored as much as possible and GOD you have no idea how much i wanted that when i played nocturne and SMT5. this game's ideas on its own could edge so close to "technology bad" and that'd be really funny but how it relates to the characters and SMT's general themes of how humans & demon live with each other is so insanely strong that it's like the first time i'm fully satisfied with the story in a mainline game i love this shit dude. it's also got insanely good gameplay/story integration with SMT's usual mechanics for customization and the demon loyalty system AND the ost is some of the best shit ever but "the gameplay and music in SMT is very good" is like the coldest take of all time so yknow yknow.
but yea it's good it's GREAT i need soul hackers 2 so fucking bad man
also god all my long reviews are about SMT games they give me so much to say even if it's one i don't like lmao