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Just when you think a game likeShin Megami Tensei Vcan’t get any darker , a new version comes for line of descent .
On June 21 , theNintendo Switch RPGis making a counter with the souped - upShin Megami Tensei V : Vengeance . The updated rendering make for the former Nintendo console exclusive to PlayStation and Xbox . Vengeancedoesn’t just beef up the original ’s visuals and performance , though – it ’s bringing a whole new story route dub Canon of Vengeance . Fans of the master can dig into an completely fresh narrative about angels and fiend , satiate with Modern persona and locations .
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It is n’t a lowly bite of new subject either . sooner this month , I play two hours ofShin Megami Tensei V : Vengeance ’s unexampled content . The chronicle - driven demo teased an implausibly grim story about payback that ’s sure to trigger off some raw moral argumentation . Of course , that ’s paired with some hard as nails RPG challenge that have already wiped the base with me .
Out for blood
My demonstration was broken up into two hourlong chunks . The first was a more story - focused part ( I ’d only fight one battle at the end ) that gave me an introduction to Canon of Vengeance ’s tone and major players . The big addition here is a new character : Yoko Hiromine . When I meet her , I learn that my party found her in the waste of the demon - infest Tokyo . She was a student of St. Marina ’s Girls High School , where some considered her to be a “ saint ” since she had the ability to exorcize demons . She ’s long since dropped out , but she sign on up at Jouin High School to remain nearer to the champion as they look to help Bethel Japan disembarrass the city of monsters .
At first , I ca n’t get a read on who Yoko is . She seems like a absolutely polite , if chilly , pupil . It ’s one episode near the conclusion of my first demo that clue me in to her dark side . One day during school , Tao Isonokami asks me to suffer her on the dormitory room roof . There , she tells me that one of her friends is being bullied . When she enquire for advice , I tell her that the best thing she can do is be there for her Quaker and offer support . It ’s a sweet moment … until Yoko butts in .
She has a much more uttermost resolution : Kill the ruffian . It ’s a shocking moment that freeze down me in my seat as Yoko hold out on a dark harangue about how victim of abuse want to take revenge . course , Tao and the nameless protagonist are both a little freaked out . That small succession set the stage for Canon of Vengeance ’s auction pitch black story , which seems to shell out with cycles of vehemence and punishment .
I ’d get another taste of that in the second hr of my demonstration . That half was more focused on familiar scrap and geographic expedition , as I course around an candid country filled with opposition and items to pick up . None of that is too unlike from the gameplay of the base game , but I get a few more story tidbits that fascinate me . Here , I learn that I ’m hunting down the Qadištu , a cabal of demonic ( or perhaps angelic ) women . I learn that the mathematical group has been turn the great unwashed into salt both in the Netherworld and the actual world . It ’s a scriptural act , calling back to a story in which a woman is turned into a column of saltiness as punishment for look back at the metropolis of Sodom .
you could probably sense a theme here . Canon of Vengeance is all about citizenry getting what ’s coming to them — or at least what others cogitate should come to them .
by from the new write up subject , Vengeancebrings some tough battles . My first fight against a Qadištu warrior would go south quickly as it bust my party apart . I ’d likewise get ripped to shreds by a wandering Mara , an tremendous immature phallic freak riding a chariot , in the 2nd section . If you thought that creature was intimidate before , wait until you see it chase you down while towering write up above your political party .
Performance boost
As a cherry on top , Vengeancecomes with a serious execution boost on PlayStation and Xbox . I demoed a PlayStation 5 build of the game , which looked sporty than ever and run at a smooth 60 frames per second ( the Switch version is still 30 , though ) . If you never acquire around to playing the original when it first come out , patience has turn out to be a virtue . It feels more like a current - contemporaries game now than something squeezed down to fitNintendo ’s limited tech .
At this point , I ’m sure player already lie with whether or not they ’re going to dip intoVengeance . It ’s a no - brainer forShin Megami Tensei Vfans looking to dive into more tarradiddle content . If you ’ve yet to play it , though , Vengeance is shaping up to be a solid determinate version that adulterate an already protracted RPG up with even more content . Just be gear up for the grim journeying it ’s about to take you on . It ’s pitch black down there .
Shin Megami Tensei V : Vengeancelaunches on June 14 for PlayStati0n 4 , PS5 , Xbox One , Xbox Series X / S , Nintendo Switch , and PC .
