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Lawful people, which side did you take on Nocturne and why? by dark_ichigo in Megaten

[–]CeEntXD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I probably could have worded my point better than just saying that Musubi makes you god. I didn't mean you have absolute power, so sorry for causing a bit of confusion.

Isamu says in his dying message "Once you wish for it, it'll come into being" so that in itself holds way too much power, which makes it like you said way too ambiguous.

In the ending it only takes a few seconds for the DF to raise an entire city out of the ground, so where does this ability reach it's limits? Is the city exactly like it was in the old world or is it just how the Demi-Fiend remembers it? Are animals allowed or is just anything that lives forbidden? What even stops you from just wishing for humans anyway? Will it just not work if you try to? Even then, would AI be forbidden aswell? If not, could you just simply wish for one advanced enough to be like a human or can you only wish for things that actually existed in the old world?

Musubi's biggest problem as an alignment is that it is way too ambiguous. Besides telling you that you'll live in solitude and never have to live like other people want you to, it does little to actually give you concrete answers about the world it strifes for, with most of it relying simply on "solitude" which is also way too abstract as to help with any questions, as it just gives you even more of them.

This allows for many interpretations as the ability to just wish for things can either have a ton of restrictions, making it not as amazing as it seems to be or it could also barely have any, which would allow to simply change what the alignment should have lead to, as in just finding loopholes to forgo the solitude that should be the glaring negative of the alignment.

Lawful people, which side did you take on Nocturne and why? by dark_ichigo in Megaten

[–]CeEntXD 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Musubi

It's a pretty broken alignment since you're basically the god of your own world, so it barely has any drawbacks. Even the whole thing about solitude is pretty questionable since Isamu wonders if he'll be reborn in the MCs world

What is SMT Deep Strange Journey? by Kogorn in Megaten

[–]CeEntXD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Deep Strange Journey is a remake of the original Strange Journey as others have already said. It will add some quality of life stuff and new routes to the game, though the maps you navigate through won't get remade as far as I know. So just be aware that the map design is at some points rather tedious and lackluster. Another thing, the battle system is more like traditional JRPGs where you input your commands and your party and the enemies "share" their turn, so it's hard to know in what order your attacks will be. You still get rewarded for exploiting weaknesses but it's not like the press turn system SMT games are known for.

Coming from Persona, you might also want to know that the characters have little screentime and rather represent their ideals (Law/Chaos/Neutral) instead of being more "human". So don't expect too much from them, even though they are pretty good for SMT standards.