Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne - Official Thread

[StriderKyo]

Finally reached the top (128th floor!). These three sisters are some bullshit.

EDIT: Wrong! 143 floors! That was insane, that might be the most hardcore mid-game dungeon I've ever seen. It took me NINE FREAKING HOURS of game time, not including the hour+ I lost to random deaths. That's as long as some entire games. Unbelievable.

The best part is I almost bought it against some phantoms on my way back to the S-Terminal when they all randomly decided to use kamikaze on my main character at once. I don't know if I could have kept going after that

[Rem]

I own own of these, I fell asleep playing it.

[StriderKyo]

Holy shit, the Pale rider was such a crazy fight. He must have wiped me out 5 or 6 times before I got him, most of the demons in my party were weak against everything he did and his God's Bow 1-hit kill is cheap as fuck. He was waiting outside whatever save point I went to, so I couldn't do anything but fight him - no healing, grinding, fusing etc., I was stuck with what I had. I was ready to put this game away and never pick it up again. I finally figured out I could debuff his attack enough so he wouldn't kill all my characters in 2 hits with his flame attack, and from there my only recourse was to mana drain him & his healing cronies until they weren't able to use God's Bow/mediarama every freaking turn. Still, he managed to kill every single demon I had until I had him drained enough that I could bring everybody back.

[bbobb]

Yeah, if you haven't played a lot of SMT games, debuffs/buffs are your friends, stack the living shit out of them in every boss fight.

[StriderKyo]

Oh my God, there's more of them.

[Vlos]

White Red Pale Black Mother Harlot and then GODDAMN TRUMPETER. Debilitate is your friend, he fights for justice.

[StriderKyo]

Dang you fight the entire Anti-Christ sequence from Revelations? That's bananas. The other horsemen weren't as tough as the first guy though. Once I keyed into what I needed to do I fused an Ose, who had war cry + defensive buffs, used him while I had Daisoujou & my main character drain 200+ mana from them each round. Between that and casting their own spells they were dry after 6-8 rounds, at which point they're basically helpless.

[Vlos]

Makes me sad that when I tried to play Nocturne on PCSX2 it crashed on the Third Kalpa during the Rider cutscene . True Demon Ending or nothing sir, I am no hooligan.

[StriderKyo]

I got to the part in the third Kalpa where Dante is chasing you around the Labyrinth. What a bastard!

[StriderKyo]

Okay, I'm at Yoyogi Park, and I gotta admit, after 60 hours this game is wearing me down. Fightfightfightfightfightfightfightfightfightfight guh.

I'll power through it because I want to finish it and I know if I put it down now I may never pick it up again, but man. This game would have benefitted from some compression. There are so many things I really like about this game, but a 30 second plot scene every 7 hours with endless random battles in between gets old after a while.