Finally, I am back at home. Today, I am going to review about this game called Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor. This game is quite old and the sole reason I am going to review it because of its interesting plot, plus this game has the same game maker as "The World Shall End With Me"This game took place in Tokyo. With you as the main character and two other person, Atsuro and Yuzu, were meeting up with Naoya (Main Character's Cousin) . This is where the lockdown of the Tokyo occurred. Naoya too, passed them devices which which in the later known as COMPS (Communication Players). These COMPS will become devil summoning devices, and also gives the people around COMPS to have the ability to fight with demons. But first of all, you must defeat the first demon that come out of the COMPS in order the control the demon.
During the lockdown, demons were spawned all over Tokyo and your objective is to survive and to found out the truth about the lockdown, which was planned by someone to trap an organization. As the days progress, you select how the story progress. Like for instance, skipping the time till the main story occurs or spend time talking to other characters to advance with their plot. Like for instance, saving keisuke from kaido... =)I think there are 5 paths, Amane, Atsuro, Gin/Haru, Naoya, Yuzu. So far, I only completed Amane's ending, which is become the Messiah and save the world. Guess i would replay the game and try for a Naoya ending (Evil) =)
This game has a Battle System and Grid Square System.
There is a maximum of 4 teams, each team consits of one human and two demon. (As shown on the right)Each character and each demon has skills slots, three command skills, three passive skills and for humans one auto skill slot and for demon it is one racial skills.
You can choose and adjust the skills for the humans but for the demons you need to wait for a certain bar to reach the max then the demon can learn new command skills from your skill lists. In order to gain skills, you must skill crack demons.
Like for instance Demon A has this skill called Prayer that heals to the max hp and cures all aliments to a team. So in order to let Yuzu learn it, I set this skill to be skill cracked under Yuzu before the start of the battle. Once the battle commence, I use Yuzu to finish off the demon A and i willl have the skill Prayer in my skill list. BUT if any character other then Yuzu like Atsuro kills demon A, the skill will not be learned.
Stats
STR = Strength = Physical Damage
MA = Magic = Magic Damage and Max MP
VIT = Life = Defence and Max HP
AGI = Agility = Movement Speed and Turn Speed
Only the main character which is you has stats that can be assigned. Other characters such as Yuzu will assign their stats automatically.
For me i build my character in the following way. As soon as i started the game i added all my stats to strength until it hit 40. 40 is the maximum you can add to. The reason why i did this is that i plan to assign my magics and spells and revives on to the rest of the teams. That did not work quite well around the last day as majority of the demons near the last few days gets physical drain or anti physical. BUT the final boss doesn't have it =) After adding to strength, i start to add to agi to around 20 until i can use this skill ATTACK ALL, which allows me to attack the whole team instead of one. After adding agi, i added VIT for a bit of defence.
For skill setup, i choose dia and any 2 command skills. Command skills doesn't matter to me as i only use pure brute strength. Attack ALL, Pierce, Ares Aid as my passive skills. These three skills are very important is that, attack all can attack the whole team, Ares aid boost my critical rate for 50% and Pierce does 100% to enemies even if they have Anti Physical.
For team skill, i choose between tailwind and hustle. Around the later part of the game, i got rage soul and it boosts your attack by two times.
The last final boss for Amane path was horror to me =/. You will get the change to fight all the bosses again, and my characters all ran out of mana when fighting the final boss. I left my main character and Yuzu standing. Since my main character is physical build, he just keeps wacking the boss and dies. Yuzu would keep reviving him. The lucky part is that this boss keeps changing its form of element, and the 2nd time it changes its form of element, it will be physically weak. And this is where my main character finishes it off within 1 turn.After that, get to enjoy the ending scene.
KaRl gives this game a 4/5
