Great story telling with meaningful choices.
- I am not familiar with the Shin Megami Tensei series;
- This is a personal review of the game;
- I have really short time to play games today;
- English is not my main language. =)
Devil survivor It is an RPG game with turn based mechanics. The story is quite dense, and I laughed and got pissed off with lots of characters. Personally, I rather have a good ride. The conclusion it self (which is good btw) comes second if we talk about entertaning. But thats just me.
Anyways, during the story, you'll be able to make meaningful choices, that will change the course of the game. Since its a turn based game, you can choose to talk to X, Y and Z and leave T, W, and P behind. Its up to you. You can choose to save someone or not. You'll can make meaningful choices to the story. And that's quite rare for games that carries RPG on its genre. Take Final Fantasy for exemple. Its a great series, but the only change you gonna make is which character is with you and if you should gather more money to get that piece of equipment.
In Devil survivor, in a simple way, you'll be able to customize the atributes of your character level by level. And its powers you'll be able to change any time youre not in battle. Also, you'll be a monster tamer, and you can also switch your monsters anytime youre not in battle. Battle itself mixes movement like Final Fantasy tatics and Final Fantasy battles. If you get closer to a monster you deceide what will you do. Normally boost yourself and have 1 round of combat againt them. There's ways to get another bonus round, but that you'll see when you check out the game. Anyways, it quite fun and hardly gets boring.
The art is good itself. Its kind of manga/anime like, with some pixel art. Great stuff. Music is also great, specially the opening music.
I just say go for it. Games are undoubtely my main hobbie, but unfortunately I have real short time to spend on it. And I am glad that I chose Devil Survivor, and I hope it entertains you as much as it did to me.