Do you think the more plastic feel of modern anime aesthetics has to do with it at all? Looking back, the way 80s and 90s anime was produced, using hand drawn and more drab colors contributed to works from that era having a more “human” touch. And the occult, which is SMT’s bread and butter comes across better in that style imo.

SMTIV and V struck a good balance and had beautiful art direction, but also felt like kind of an aesthetic throwback in some ways.

That is exactly what it is. Modern anime aesthetics like with Persona are the bread winner. Weebs love it and it sells. It alienates a lot of core fans who prefer otherwise but the other is the majority now. The grittier feel of the 80s and 90s Megaten aesthetic matched perfectly for occult games. You don’t get that same sense of scary and creepiness with the modern anime looks which is the problem. The direction shifted with Persona 3 and 4 but both maintained it well enough it wasn’t a problem. Persons 5 went full weeb. And I agree with 3DS SMT. It was the perfect mix

I’m heated SH2 ain’t coming to switch

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Just hit me that all atlus games revolve around personas or demons or whatever the f*** they choose to call them in these different uh universes

do they even make new monsters anymore for these

every new game has new demons/redesigns for old demons.

this jacket looks kinda cool but when am I ever gonna find myself wearing this lol
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If u drip enough, u can wear that s*** everywhere

Love the jack frost hoodie

I wasn't that much of a fan of the aesthetic before but i'm getting more interested the more I see this game

Need dlc or something more for SMT V so bad

Personally, I was sold at first look lol

I never played Soul Hackers 1 but I have always seen character designs and art for the game and I really loved that aesthetic.

I was expecting something similar when I heard talks about a sequel so seeing this really threw me off

yeah I've been seeing that a lot online and I get it but since the new story is taking place decades after the first and Atlus seeming to really want to spin it off from SMT, moving on from the era-appropriate 90s cyberpunk look of the original game made sense.

clean

smtv a hot mess

Damn i feel Atlus is releasing a lot of trailers and announcing well this game, i feel weekly i see sum new bout the game

They even doing the daily demon thingy

Hyped for it tho

did anyone here beat SMTV and think "Wow, this was prolly my favorite game this year" and then see twitter tear it apart lol

i very much enjoyed smt v. has some flaws for sure (particularly the story & easier difficulty), but i had more than enough fun to overlook em.

Same here, I understand that the story and characters weren't handled well but I think the gameplay aspect is really overlooked, honestly the best JRPG I have played from a gameplay standpoint

I had a 13 hour play session because I was free on time that day, most fun I had with a jrpg in a long time

in hindsight p5 had immaculate vibes back in highschool playing that s*** till 2am on hot ass summer nights was so fire, writing still mid asf tho

My SMT IV journey starts today, why the menu theme going so hard already

you in for a treat