Untangle the Twisted Threads of Fate in Soul Hackers 2

Any idea if the difficulty will be like the first one or would it be similar to the persona series?

@Shadcai Even the first Soul Hackers is relatively easy (for a classic MegaTen), and this seems to be going for the crowd that was drawn in by Persona 5, so I'd expect it's probably pretty approachable on all difficulty levels. A brutal hard mode would be a nice surprise, but I'm not expecting it.

@Ralizah It looks like even the art style has changed to be more like persona, I preferred the dark cyberpunk style from the original

@Shadcai Combat is also similar to Persona now, since you're primarily attacking with humans and only briefly summon demons when using skills instead of fighting alongside them. It feels less like a new Devil Summoner game/Soul Hackers sequel to me and more like a new spin-off that's co-opting an existing IP.

I'd also have preferred something akin to the last game.

@Shadcai @Ralizah
It was confirmed there will be a very hard/brutal difficulty but it won't be at launch. It will come in a patch sometime soon after launch. At launch it's just classic Easy, Normal, and Hard.

I'm very much looking forward to it. I think it looks excellent from the previews I've seen. To be fair though I never played the original so I can understand being a little let down that it doesn't look too faithful to that game. Maybe the trailers just give off the wrong vibe and the final game is more like it than the trailers seem? We will see soon!

@Korgon I'll still be getting the game as I'm a huge fan of the megami tensei franchises, hopefully once this releases there will be news of persona 6

I really hope this does a good job filling the gap in my life that misses persona 5

This game is looking pretty good but I'm still not quite finished with SMT V and then there's Xenoblade 3! All these JRPGs back to back can't be good for me 😂

most anticipated game and perfect for a bday gift to myself lol!
this trailer was really good, and sets the mood/tone for the game. I gotta find it with JPN voice acting though, can't fully enjoy it with ENG dub. the music is fire so far.

Still one of my most anticipated games of the year! Though I just started XC3 which I told myself I wouldn't buy until the DLC was out, but it slotted into my "between games" list perfectly so I went for it. Might be longer than I thought before I get into SH2.

@Ralizah Yeah, I really don't like that they're coopting the IP. It's not like it's a known IP that anyone but Atlus die hards knows exists anyway, so it's not really going to help the game gain traction, it squanders an existing IP that had its own identity, and it necessarily hamstrings this game with expectations from the old game from die hard fans. Weird choice, I'd have liked to see it as a new subseries. Or even a sub-sub series under Persona (which would help its marketing more than a Sega Saturn darling

@tabris95 It's easy to drown underneath all of these 100+ hour JRPG epics!

@Korgon Oh, cool. Hopefully it doesn't unintentionally make the game easier to play like P5R's hardest mode did. If Soul Hackers 2 actually manages to feature some potentially brutal press-turn combat, it'll be a compelling reason to pick up the game, since that largely doesn't exist outside of mainline SMT games now.

@NEStalgia Well, it's weird, right? The sub-series is actually Devil Summoner. Soul Hackers was just the name of one of the games within it. The branding is very weird.

How are you getting on with Xenoblade 3, btw?

Looking forward to this, trails to zero and star ocean and the the diofield chronicle

@Ralizah It's super weird. Why make what's clearly a new game, then brand it as a sequel to a specific entry of a specific sub-series of a main series, when it has absolutely nothing to do with that specific game, nor the entire subseries that game is part of. It wouldn't even make sense as a new Devil Summoner let alone SH2. And it doesn't even help with marketing because practically nobody played or even heard of the game it's a sequel to except the core fans that know the series enough to know this isn't it.

It's like taking a game with dragons and castles and knights and wizards and calling it Mass Effect Andromeda 2.

Then again TMS#FE was basically Persona + Tiki, and was neither SMT nor FE, despite the two having obviously compatible dark themes. Sometimes Atlus just does..... stuff....

As for Xenoblade 3, I'm really feeling it, but I want something a bit meatier.

Seriously, though, it's good so far. Very strong XC1 vibes, though "Colony 9" is pretty on the nose that's the point. Combat so far is too much XC1 and not enough XC2 but that might open up, I'm still REALLY early on, just got it started Sunday night and barely got to play yesterday so I'm still just heading out from Colony 9 after introductions. I think the biggest hurdle it's going to have is after all the epic story and mega plot twists of the first 2.5 games it has a whole lot to live up to that would be hard for any game to live up to, so I'm managing expectations that it won't be as much of a roller coaster. Then again, if you open an XC game with "Colony 9" and an obvious Mechon-like-design-asethetic......you're setting expectations at a certain threshold.

I wish they would bring back Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine I enjoyed that game a lot though it was a bit of an oddball game.

I'm actually surprised by this game when I watched the trailer, I find it better than nexus which was bland and medicore, I stuck to my guns and never brought it after trying the demo, but this game as it's made by atlus and I want to get back into turned based RPGs again even tho they a very long investment, I like the dark Pokémon vibes this game gives and I'm definitely interested

And why didn't the 1st game come to the west (UK) like this game? 🤔🤔 Hope someone can answer that

@Ralizah well screw it, I'm getting a gaming chair soon and I'm really going to invest into a RPG that's worth it, ps plus extra just adds to that with games I want to play, I'm planning to finish all the games I wanted to play in extra before I put time into games like this 😑😑

Going to wait a year for the Royal version. It's Atlus and I don't want to buy the same game again just for a little extra content as they don't do upgrade paths.

@Dirk_Diggler but this isn't a Persona game. they've only done those for Persona titles. I don't think they do those for other SMT mainline or lineage games (that I'm aware of anyway)

Pumped for this game but I doubt I’ll buy it Day 1. Nowadays, games improve the longer you wait so the benefits of buying right away are less. I want to play a more polished version with most of its updates finished. Plus, games in the Summer tend to be on the big “Buy 2, Get 1 Free” Black Friday deals