Thus, by attacking the enemy's weaknesses you maximize the number of turns you get in one round.

A normal action consumes one Press Icon, but inflicting a critical hit or attacking the enemy's weakness only consumes half a Press Icon. An additional degree of difficulty is added by the fact that your character can only know eight skills at any one time, and must forget moves to learn new ones once they are forgotten, they are gone for good.īattles are conducted with the Press Turn system, where at the start of each round you receive a number of actions equal to the number of characters in your battle party. The Main Character develops by equipping different Magatama, each of which has a set of abilities that will be learned upon leveling up. A handful of demons will also evolve once they have reached a certain level. Most will demand money and items as a bribe before they will listen to you, but some will also pose a philosophical question that you must answer to their satisfaction.Īs demons level up extremely slowly, the quickest way to maintain a strong team is to fuse your demons together at the Cathedral of Shadows, creating entirely new demons with new powers and some inherited from their previous forms.

By talking to demons, you can convince them to give you money, items or to join your party. Your party is made up of the main character and the demons that you have recruited to your cause. Gone are the cyberpunk elements of the previous Shin Megami Tensei games as your character is a demon you have no need to use a computer to translate and summon. The game is largely a dungeon crawler, as you make your way across the ruins of Tokyo looking for answers and your missing friends. Will you side with one of the emerging armies to help make their idea of a perfect world a reality? Or will you destroy them all and take the power of creation into your own two hands? As the legendary Demi-Fiend, you have the power to decide the fate of the Vortex World.

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