Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne (PlayStation 2, 2004)

After playing RPGs for about 15 years, I would have thought I seen it all. I began to get bored of the 'average' rpg, and would wait years inbetween FF releases to even touch a game. But when I got my hands on Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne all that changed. I was emersed in a struggle for good and evil, saving the world, saving the girl, all while enlisting the help of over a hundred different kinds of demons.

The story starts out as the world is about to be reborn by an unknown 'cult'. You and your friends happen to be part of the few who survive. You as a half demon decide to change the world back to normal and thus start your quest.

Demons can be coersed to befriend you, and help you on your quest. As you get stronger they get stronger, you can either allow them to evolve (kind of like pokemon) or merge them with another demon and create a whole new demon.

The gameplay is about 50hrs, at least. There are many different sidequests and even alternate paths and endings. Even Donte from Devil May Cry shows up to push you around. With a charachter art style that could not be forgetton, and wonderful graphics, I was taken back with in the first few minutes of gameplay.

With a great story, intense indepth gameplay, an army of demons to befriend, and some pretty spiffy art, if you can manage to get a copy you can't go wrong with this game.

Somthing that you do in just about every RPG is save the world. Not here. In the first half hour, the earth is destroyed. Instead, by being in the right place at the right time you happen to be in the one location that humans could survive in during this catastrophe brought on by rival cults. Yet through some outside force you awake after this happened as a demon, and the world as you know it is changed as it seems that humans are replaced by demons. And this is only the first half hour.

The story in this game is an interesting one. As you play through you meet with several factions that are trying to control this new demon world. You as a new demon and one of the few survivers of the catastrophe are trying to survive in this world. And to do that you have to recruit demons along the way. Whats nice is there are several ending based on the philosophical decisons you make at some points with statments you choose.

The graphics in this game are excellent. The cell shaded but dark look of the game is nothing short of eyecatching. Environments seem a little bland at times, but the character and monster designs more then make up for it. In fact there is a wide range of monsters from cute, to awsome, even grotesque and outright strange. Yet it all works. Though there are times where character movments, epecially in battle seems a little rigid.

The sound in this game is good. The music is decent and always seems to fit the situation. Also some of the sound effects are nice too. For some some reason to me anyway some of the sounds seem a little muted or somthing. Also there is a generous amount of dialog at times yet there is no voice acting at all.

Where Nocturne really shines is in gameplay. Nnearly all monsters in this game have some sort of elemental alignment that they are strong and weak agaisnt. In fact, most of the gameplay revolves around this and will punish you if you do not pay attention to this. If you hit an enemy monster with the element they are weak against, you get an extra "half turn" if you will during your party's battle phase. However, if you hit your opponante with the element they are strong against, they even might be healed and you will lose a turn during your battle phase. You opponants during their battle phase has these benifits/problems as well. In other words, keeping yoour party of 4 elemently balnaced is practically a must. Another area that is innovative is the fact that with your character, you can change his stats and elemental alignment by ingesting demonic parasites. Depending which one you have equiped you can learn different attacks. However, one of the gamplay's few draw backs is that you can only stock a limited number of abilities through characters. When each character learns the abilities it is limted with, to learn new ones you have to erase old ones. And with the main character you are going to do this a lot and will groan over it. The other twist in gameplay is to form your party you are going to have to recruit the demons that you fight. Instead of attacking a demon, you have the option of talking to it. To convinve it to join you will have to do what it ask from giving it money, an item, and even answering a philisophical question. IF you do what they ask they may join you, though some will run away with the stuff you gave them. In fact in battle some monsters may beg for there lives and might even give you somthign if you spare them.

If you want a great RPG, this is the way to go

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I must say this is the best RPG I've ever played (and I'm a serious Final Fantasy fan) and my favorite game on any video game system. It has an awesome story, actually challenging gameplay, a soundtrack that I hate to say...beats Uematsu's stuff to a pulp. I put in a good 80 hours into this game only beating it once, I could easily play it 5 more times to get all of the endings and not get bored. I played it with the strategy guide and I still died a good bit. If you want a real challenge, play this game...without the strategy guide....on difficult mode. Definately worth the money I payed for it, I love it and I hope you enjoy it as well.

This game is one of the best RPGs around. I have not found a more exciting game then Nocturne. I have beaten it almost 4 times already and seen different endings.You can easily put 100 hours into this game, one time around.It has a great story and an awsome set of characters to recruit and fuse into better ones.There are many levels and bosses. There is even a great soundtrack to the game. to me this game will never be dated.

Excellent video game, but not for people who aren't willing to sit through a long game. Do NOT expect to beat this in a day, or even a week without sitting there. There's so much to do, and once you get into the demon fusion, things just get ridiculous. It's not easy, it's not short, but it is a very good game both concept-wise and gameplay. Very high replay value. Enough said.

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A great game in the SMT game series. I love the games because they are not like other RPG's. There is no voice acting but the game looks good. I have not played it much. I am no where near beating this game.

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This is a great RPG for the PS2, and it is quite hard to find. If anyone who reads this can get their hands on it, definitely buy it!

Awesome game, your a kid turned demon set in an apocalyptic world. You can recruit demons to join your party, and even fuse some of them together to get even more powerful demons. It also has an interesting storyline that changes depending on your choices in the game.

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The game is kind of confusing it dont explain much durring the game as far as the battle system or any of the different elements or even where to go sometimes you hit dead ends until you run around and find out where you need to go, other than thoes couple of flaws it is a pretty good game good action and the battle system is a classic rpg type system all in all not a bad game at all

Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne is for rpg die-hard gamers only.
Great graphics and gameplay. can be exhausting for causal gamers.

This is one of my favorite games. If u get tired of using the same characters, just make a new one, fuse old one's into new one's plus it's FAST paced meaning it doesn't take forever gameplay wise. U press, it's done. I am not too crazy about all it's sequels since they've straid from the fusing and game play but this game can still hold it's own even today with all the super graphic rpgs that worry more about graphics and less about game play and FUN factor. U would be CRAZY not to give the dark storied game play with multiple endings a try.

This installment of the Mhin Megami Tensei series has to be the best of them all! The complexity of gameplay with demon fusion and the seemingly endless combinations give your imagination endless possibilities. However, the actual task of playing the game is surprisingly easy to understand. There is no two hour tutorial, you are able to learn quickly as the beginning of the game progresses. The storyline is new and fresh, something that only SMT has the guts to experiment with. SMT is known for the use of demons and the such throughput their titles, however, in this storyline it is quite interesting. There is very little to add to this game that could possibly improve it. Maybe charachter voice over but that is not a necessity due to the engrossing gameplay. I wanted this game initially for the rarity and to complete my SMT collection. Now that I have invested a few hours in the game itself, I enjoy it that much more. If Atlus could invest just a little more money in their RPS's and add charachter voice overs Square-Enix could find themselves looking over their shoulder for the best RPG games. I recommend this game if anyone is looking for something outside the usual RPG format and perhaps a little controversey to go with it.

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne is a difficult, but thoroughly original JRPG from the renouned series. It is definitely worth a look to any JRPG fan. Its dark tones and strange gameplay are truly remarkable. Highly recommended.

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The Shin Megami Tensei (Megaten) series is little known outside of Japan which is unfortunate, because I believe it's the best console RPG series to come out of Japan. Noctunre's character and party customability puts many other RPGs, both console and PC to shame. The ability to build your character and group as you see fit is one of the better selling points of the game. The cell-shaded graphics also work very well in giving the game its own unique feel while never taking the serious tone away from the game.

However, it's the impressive and somewhat controversial plotline that makes this game so enjoyable. An apoclyptic plotline spanning across a very changed Tokyo. Consisting of everything from creatures of Japanese folklore to Judeo-Christian characters straight out of the book of Revelation it may not be appropriate to everyone's taste, but the plotline which includes six different endings will keep players who are willing to try something a bit different entertained. It also doesn't hurt that Atlus was able to convience Capcom to include Dante from the Devil May Cry series in this game as an antagonist and later on as an ally.

The only real drawback to this game is the amount of time players will spend simply improving their character and their party. The game practically requires that the player spend hours in the same place gaining experience just to survive. It also requires extensive amounts of time to build a "perfect" group as the game tends to be very unforgiving to players who make mistakes during combat.

If you want to try something different and have the money to spend on a copy of a rather rare playstation 2 game, then I highly reccomend this title, just be prepared to sink a lot of time into it.