Shin Megami Tensei V (2021)

Atlus

Nintendo Switch

4.01 from 258 ratings

894 members have it in their collection · 97 playing now · 369 backlogged · 472 wish listed

How long? Main story 45h · with extras 57h · 100% 92h (from 17 logged playthroughs)

Shin Megami Tensei V, the fifth numbered game of the Shin Megami Tensei series, is a role-playing video game set in modern-day Tokyo. It will feature returning gameplay elements from previous games, such as the ability to fuse demons, along with new mechanics.
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Details

Developers
Atlus
Publishers
Atlus, Sega
Genres
Adventure, Role-playing (RPG)
Themes
Fantasy
Franchises
Megami Tensei, Shin Megami Tensei
Series
Shin Megami Tensei
Event
The Game Awards 2021

Release dates

  • Nov 12, 2021 (Europe) Nintendo Switch
  • Nov 12, 2021 (North_America) Nintendo Switch

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Rating distribution

5 stars
90
4 stars
104
3 stars
47
2 stars
10
1 star
7
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Community All Reviews Statuses

jademonkey

Status jademonkey Nov 20, 2021

Hoo boy does it feel bad to die to random crits and lose 10-20 minutes of progress twice in one play session. The only thing I could have done to avoid either death is just never even let the enemy have a single action. I've even been pumping points into vitality to try to stop that shit from happening. I've …

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Hoo boy does it feel bad to die to random crits and lose 10-20 minutes of progress twice in one play session. The only thing I could have done to avoid either death is just never even let the enemy have a single action. I've even been pumping points into vitality to try to stop that shit from happening. I've never really liked how swingy the press turn system is, and I'm not really sure I have patience for it at this point in my life. That said, I love the atmosphere, demon collecting and weirdly sparse stories in the mainline SMT games.

Maybe I'll buy safety mode so I can just enjoy the game and not deal with it? That type of thing just usually ends with me losing interest in the game altogether, though.

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NightTray

Status NightTray Nov 18, 2021

Finished this game recently and I found it kinda funny that IGN turned out to be on the nose when saying this was like "Persona without the heart". Even though story in SMT is never the focus, they somehow managed to make a story and characters far less interesting than that of SMT4/Apocalypse. It doesn't help that this game absolutely …

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Finished this game recently and I found it kinda funny that IGN turned out to be on the nose when saying this was like "Persona without the heart". Even though story in SMT is never the focus, they somehow managed to make a story and characters far less interesting than that of SMT4/Apocalypse. It doesn't help that this game absolutely CHUGS on the Switch, especially while docked. While this may not initially seem like a huge deal to some, SMT5 has alot of platforming in its overworld that gets incredibly obnoxious and irritating, to downright frustrating thanks to the performance issues you're constantly hit with. At the very least the combat itself is still very solid for the most part. Fusing and building demons still scratches that minmax itch but the difficulty scaling is very... weird. I want to say you need to start on Hard difficulty, but the beginning of the game is quite rough and also unnecessarily long. However, once you get to the 30-50 level range the game becomes ridiculously easy. The demons you're able to fuse at that level range are just... ridiculous. Some of the new demons and new skills they come with are also pretty damn strong, bordering on completely broken (looking at you Idun and Lahmu). Bosses are a cakewalk with these demons on top of just being able to spam dampener items. Honestly... just start on Hard difficulty. Most of the deaths you'll experience in this game are the unavoidable "Enemies got first turn and hit your nahobino's weakness twice in a row" and casual/normal difficulty is definitely not saving you from those though safety difficulty might. It's an OK game and probably still a solid one for most SMT fans.

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peter

Status peter Nov 14, 2021

I just picked this up last night. I’m hoping to dig in a little during the thanksgiving break here in America next week. I haven’t seen a lot of chatter on here yet. I’ll try and change that when I get a chance to play.

I also wrote some code for this site for the first time in a little …

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I just picked this up last night. I’m hoping to dig in a little during the thanksgiving break here in America next week. I haven’t seen a lot of chatter on here yet. I’ll try and change that when I get a chance to play.

I also wrote some code for this site for the first time in a little while this past week. It felt good. You all are the best.

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BadBoyBule

Status BadBoyBule Nov 12, 2021

Allright demi-fiends, anyone ready for this?

This has been a long, long way coming and finally it is launch day. Oh joy, can't wait to see what kind of a nihilistic and depressing apocalypse story awaits me.