Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne

Strengths: Top-class art design and graphics; deep monster raising system not unlike Pokemon - but with demons; plenty of hours of game play (if you don't mind spending most of it leveling up); strong story.

Weakness: Mute lead character; simple, or lack there of, story excution ruins makings of amazing story; stale gameplay (aka monster raising) for the casual gamer or Pokemon vet; wasted cameo by Dante from DMC.

You may not believe this, but unlike what seems to be the entire population of gamers out there who have played this game, I did not enjoy my time in the SMT:N world. At first, the awesome graphics (which are helped out greatly by fresh art design) push you quickly through the first few hours. You go through a few dungeons, get a few demons in your party and story is progressing nicely. Then you...

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Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne

Strengths: great atmosphere, battle system

Weakness: Very difficult

The most intersting thing about SMT is the atmosphere. With the dark setting, few games are like it. Aside from that, the battle system is amazing. You are able to combin different monsters to gain different ability and form interesting parties. The only weakness is that it might be too hard for most people. It is game over if your main charater dies, so it can be hard if you don't know what you...

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Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne

Strengths: Looks nice, innovative setting and feel.

Weakness: Lots of fighting.

This has been one of my favorite games as of late. I especially appreciate the very innovative and refreshingly dark storyline that is definitely out of the ordinary. After playing so many save the princess/kingdom/family games it's quite nice playing a game like this. Also I had a lot of fun with the massive amount of customization of characters and the monster collecting aspect. A great game...

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what?

Strengths: graphics, storyline twist, demon depth, and difficulty.

Weakness: If it is the music, I wouldnt know. I wasn't paying attention to that. But on the outer map moving from icon to icon, as an icon was not great. some freedom of movement.

In an age where games are beatdown in days or just hours, looking for games that are worth my money and give me something to do, are hard to find. Why on earth are people referring this to a pokemon type game is beyond me. I've never played pokemon. However I have played YU-GI-OH. I enjoy yugioh. The reference is to the fact that as you talk to demons and recruit them they fight with you. YOU may...

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Beauty, No Brains

Strengths: + cool,stylish art design and graphics;

Weakness: - the battle system is not innovative - the presentation of the overhead map is weak; instead of the character walking from town to town, you move a simple icon on a map.

You'll either love SMT: Nocturne or hate it. The setting, graphics, character designs are refreshing, but the battle system and the overhead map aren't anywhere as innovative. SMT: Nocturne offers probably the best use of cell shaded graphics I have ever seen. It's almost like watching an anime cartoon. On the other hand the battle system is nothing new; it's pretty much selecting moves through...

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Shin Megami

Strengths: Looks nice and has interesting character design

Weakness: Requires TONS of time and patience

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocture is based off a popular rpg series in Japan. I wanted to like this game, but I couldn't. While the game does a good job at presenting it's dark atmosphere, everything else didn't hold up. You will be assaulted with lots of battles thanks to the game's high encounter rate and yet will gain levels at a pitifully slow rate. To make matters worse, some extreme balance...

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cool rpg

Strengths: Dante from DMC, engaging plot, multiple endings= replayability

Weakness: can get repetative (like any rpg), definitly not for rpg newbies

A great RPG, SMT: Nocturne will last you a while, with multiple endings to get, and tons of side quests to do. The style, story, and gameplay do a very good job of being different from almost any other game on the market as well. A great game, but only for the truly RPG hardcore, due to its sometimes complicated, and always deep gameplay. Recomended if you are up to it.

SMT: Nocturne

Strengths: Great storyline, recruiting demons, cut-scene graphics

Weakness: None

SMT: Nocturne is one of my favorite games. It has a great storyline and puts an interesting spin on the role-playing events that take place. The main character fights against demons that have been brought through to Earth’s dimension by an evil force. However, the main character has also been turned into a half-demon and now has the power to fight against this new threat. During the game, the...

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Postapocalyptic

Strengths: Great battle system, great setting

Weakness: getting whooped by enemies that are 3 times weaker than you

This game is pretty good. The setting is awesome, post apocalyptic Tokyo. You are a demon who gets to choose his own fate. Pretty cool. The battle system is great. It allows for you to kill monsters much stronger than you if you know their weaknesses. However this means weak monsters can whoop you if they hit your weakness. All in all pretty great game.

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne

Strengths: Graphics, Characters, Monster creation/capturing system, and designs.

Weakness: Its tedious and difficult.

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne is a RPG for PS2. This is the first true Shin Megami Tensei game to make it to the US. You play as a kid who happens to be chosen to be one of the few survivors to see the destruction of the world and the start of a new one. The game plays like a capture the monster turnbased RPG. You can capture so many various monsters and then combine them to make even more...

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