I recently beat Persona 4 and really enjoyed it. It's the only game from its series I've ever played and I wanted to get P3 next, however I wanted to try Shin Megami Tensei. There are many SMT titles and I know nothing about them, so which one would be a good introduction to the series?
just pick one and play
IV would be a good intro. Then play Nocturne if you want to play the best. Soul Hackers is a really good old school one to play, too.
>>318078681
How do you "beat" a game about talking to girls?
How do you bring yourself to play a game so... just...
Why?
>>318078681
I say emulate DeSu, Nocturne, or SJ.
4 has the most forgiving mechanics while still being fairly challenging. It's story is pretty great as well.
Nocturne is probably the most "pure" SMT, absolutely perfect gameplay if you can forgive somewhat obtuse mechanics and a high random encounter rate. Story and characters are pretty barebones but a lot of people like it so YMMV.
I and II are worth playing if you're a mad fan of the series, especially since II probably has the craziest story imo.
If you liked the waifu simulator shit from P4, then P3 is worth a shot. P2 is a way better game though imo.
Avoid PQ unless you like fanserv
>>318078681
I found nocturne a great intro to the series
>>318078681
STRANGE JOURNEY
>>318079476
I look forward to your successful escape.
>>318079818
>>318079232
I can't ever recommend 4 to first timers because of how rough the first couple of hours are. Most other SMTs have a smoother difficulty curve, in SMT4 everything is very powerful at start, there's no way to cover your weaknesses at start, and then you have to go up against a boss with a melee attack that's strong enough to one shot anyone you can recruit up until that point unless you grind up to fuse a resistant or physical immune demon or grind to get a demon with debuffs. Once you get past the Minotaur and Medusa though, it's smooth sailing through the rest of the game since you're actually high enough level to fuse some useful demons. If anyone does play SMT4 first, I recommend getting the app that lets you fuse demons above your level since it both carries over to new games and will get you useful demons far before you'd normally be allowed to fuse them.
Strange Journey probably has the easiest first dungeon in SMT, and Nocturne isn't so bad outside of hard either. I'd say SJ would be the best intro to SMT unless you really, really hate first person navigation and maps.
Honorable mention to DDS.
>>318080092
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU-cori12KU
Play 4, it should play well with a Purseowner like you, faggot.
>>318080274
I dunno if I'd recommend SJ to a first timer though,Mem Alephis just absurdly difficult. Much more than the first few hours of Naraku.
I mean, I feel like dangling the ending that far from a new player might discourage them from trying the others.
>>318080679
>final boss is hard
Well excuse me princess.
>breeze through naraku
>get shit on by every boss in tokyo
>go on /v/
>everybody saying that naraku is hard and the rest of the game is piss easy
did i get a beta copy or something?
>>318081325
Minotaur and Medusa are actually quite difficult unless you're overleveled
>>318081426
I must have been overleveled then. Last time I played, I breezed through the cleaning corpses mission just to be obliterated by dullahan (i think that's her name. the headless robot woman). should i be grinding? i'm above level 25 if that helps
>>318081898
>should i be grinding?
>>318081898
>should i be grinding?
No. Grinding and trying to brute force it doesn't really work in SMT. Recruit/fuse demons, and make sure you cover your weaknesses and exploit the enemies weaknesses. Buffs/debuffs are also really useful. Dullahan is weak to electric, so just spamming zio skills should make quick work of her.
>>318081898
>not grinding
>in an smt game
>>318081898
>Grinding
Will give you a +1 to str and Luck on MP-type demon after hour of work maybe
You don't grind in SMT, you fuse useful demon that covers your weaknesses and overcome challenge
