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Cal12 posted...

Fair warning if youre sensitive to suicide it may not be the game for you. While they arent actually committing suicide it appears that way when they summon in the game.

That's one game in particular (Persona 3)

The dungeon crawling in mainline SMT is more... retro, I'd guess you say. Classically first-person perspective, but IV updated it for 3D walking around more like Persona.

One of the most important gameplay aspects is that the typical battle of SMT is that your "party" is you as the main character and demons you've got currently summoned. You can have a bunch of demons in your stock, but only three at a time alongside you, whereas in Persona you just had one demon attached to your and all your pals had their own demons that couldn't be changed.

In this way there's a lot more freedom in structuring your party, especially when you juggle skills about. The games respond by punishing you HARD if you don't keep your demons to be prepared to deal with most types of encounters.

There's no time-elapsing like in Persona. It's all take as long as you want. There is shifts of the moon through its phases, which effects certain things depending on the game, but it's just all cyclical.

I'd suggest either SMT4 or SMT Strange Journey Redux for your initial one. Or you can wait until SMT5 comes out like the rest of us.

As far as story, the running theme in mainline SMT is "apocalypse" or sometimes "rebirth". Yeah, Persona games usually faced some bad stuff at the end, but in SMT games, the apocalypse usually has either already happened or it will happen in the course of the game and your role is to pick up the pieces afterwards.

EDIT: Also if you've played P5, a fair few SMT aspects were brought into it, so the transition should be smoother. Speaking to demons to recruit them is one of the big ones.
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