Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (Nintendo DS)

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In the beginning of 21st century, an atomic explosion in the South Pole caused a strange, unseen phenomenon: a black hole appeared and started spreading, threatening to swallow the Earth. It was named Schwarzwelt, or "black world". The United Nations send a team of four trained specialists from different countries to venture inside the Schwarzwelt. The protagonist is an unnamed North American (Japanese, in the original Japanese release) soldier. Upon arriving into the Schwarzwelt, the team finds out that demons have entered the Earth...

Strange Journey is in many ways "return to the roots" of Megaten games, particularly to the first Shin Megami Tensei. The gameplay system is very similar to that original template: it is a first-person dungeon crawler, which retains all the basic ingredients of a traditional Shin Megami Tensei title. The focus of the gameplay is on fighting, negotiating, and eventually and recruiting regular enemies (demons), summoning them afterwards as controllable characters within the player's party. As in classic Megaten games, it is possible to fuse demons to create more powerful ones. The game retains the Law-Neutral-Chaos axis, usage of guns during the turn-based combat, spell names, and other characteristic elements of the franchise. Unlike other games in the main Shin Megami Tensei series, Strange Journey has automatic leveling up.

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Alternate Titles

• "真・女神転生 ストレンジ ジャーニー" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Gameplay feature: Creature breeding / fusion
• Gameplay feature: New Game+
• Megami Tensei / Megaten universe
• Shin Megami Tensei series

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RPGFan	Mar 22, 2010	93 out of 100	93
Worth Playing	Mar 24, 2010	9.3 out of 10	93
Game Shark	Apr 18, 2010	A-	91
Thunderbolt Games	Apr 04, 2010	9 out of 10	90
Cheat Code Central	2010	4.5 out of 5	90
Gamervision	Apr 14, 2010	9 out of 10	90
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Apr 12, 2010	8 out of 10	80
4Players.de	Jun 01, 2010	78 out of 100	78
RPGamer	2010	3.5 out of 5	70
Pocket Magazine / Pockett Videogames	Jan 29, 2013		60

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