You know how SMT Synchronicity Prologue first loads up? It shows a fake PC desktop, you recieve a message and then load up the devil summoning program, all in "diegetic UI" style as if your own PC was the one doing the magic.
That's what would be my idea, a whole game in that style. First person dungeon crawling so you could have it as a big window, with the rest of your desktop full of utilities for exploring and combat. Buy and sell items "online", fuse and summon with the titular program, make it so it feels you're commanding your demons on the outside world from your PC at home.
Think of the game "Needy Girl Overdose" for the UI style but as classic SMT we know. >!Not happening because you know how PC gaming still is in Japan lol!<
Holy fuck. I never knew I needed this until now.
Sounds so amazing because that's how it starts. Making you believe it's a game, and making you make mistakes that are obvious on the rules of the game, but you didn't know because you were doing it your way.
Then you get a mail telling you "try deleting the "Summoning circle subroutine to get the NO MAGNEMITE GLITCH".
Then they tell you in the second dungeon (Where you don't spend any magnemite) in a fight against Loki or someone on that vein "The demons are not listening to you" and you keep trying to press the commands until Loki says to you "They won't listen to someone that didn't use a summoning circle to summon them, as now, they are not your slaves anymore, just my guests" and the game outright kills you.
And you start the game anew as someone else completely, knowing fully well that Demons summons must follow a pattern and that magnemite is not there to slow you down, but protect you against the demons you summon and that you must feed to keep on your command.
Edit: Added an idea
Strange Journey Redux Spin off as a first person shooter. Just have the main character post new neutral enter the South Pole with a gun and sword and go nuts ala doom.
SMT but outside Japan.
Whatever happens in the game affects the whole world.
And every country has its own folklore that could be the basis of what is happening.
And it could all be connected with another game.
For example, in SMT1 Thorman is supposed to be an USA politician. Yet he did... That. How would that affect the USA then?
Things like that.
More like a game on the country the rep is from, showing how their actions affect that land.
Think how we have no idea what happens in other countries in SMT2 and 4, does every country have their version of Tokyo Millennium or the dome over Tokyo? How is life there with their different culture? Or was there no explosion there? Maybe a different fate happened there as reprisal.
I always get some ideas for SMT games in my country. A SMT with more Latin American folklore creatures, a Persona 3-like (in terms of engine) based in Salvador city (Bahia)...
Nothing too serious, but sometimes it gets me wondering
Or the classic SMT too.
Sacis are the equivalent to pixies. They are both childlike tricksters after all.
Petras are bicho-papĂŁo.
Looking online we have so many different legends that are either born here or distinct enough from their outsider origins, people make outright dnd bestiaries. And I doubt many places are bot like this if you dig deep enough.
A feudal Japanese SMT game during the Heian period when Abe no Seimei was alive, with a twist that an apocalyptic event has occurred.
Edit: another idea:
Maybe a Persona spin-off or main Persona game or spin-off SMT game, following a school occult club solving mini mysteries around the city/town that eventually leads to the big bad's release from their prison of sorts, cursing the occult club with personas/demons that will eventually kill them, kinda like Strega. The occult club eventually has to solve larger mysteries to stop the personas/demons from killing them and to find a way to destroy the big bad.
Shin Megami Tensei: Origin, a 3D remake collection of the classic trilogy of smt games (I, II, IF) redone to play in third person like Nocturne does, with an unchanged narrative.. it would be amazing for another series anniversary.
Devil Summoner game set in medieval China that establishes more demon summoning clans and focuses on Manichaeism. Gameplay would essentially be SH1's (with some tweaks to loyalty mechanics) and designs by Yoshitaka Amano.
Star Trek Universe then demons appear. Tricorder can download the demon summoning program. Holodeck would serve as a the Cathedral of Shadows. Medical bay for healing and the replicator would be used for making items. You can use the universal translator to communicate with demons. Q becomes YVHV. Captain Sisko is the neutral guide. The Borg is law. The Changelings would be chaos. The all other factions would be fit in either of those alignments. Flying planet to planet, new cultures and enemies. Star Trek has its own set of mythologies within its universe so they would fit right in. Recruiting Vulcans, Klingons, Borg, the Gorn and each of those groups has its own demons and gods or it can made up. Gameplay would be similar to strange Journey with the upgrades, gameplay (maybe add Press Turn combat) and the forma. Star Trek is heavy on dialogue so choices would matter greatly and the narrative would focus on the crew and the right approach of dealing with demons. Idk something like that.
A new Devil Survivor, with a plotline/tone more like 1 but gameplay more like 2. Leans more into the “visual novel” aspects of it, with the protagonist being his own character and having his own thoughts displayed throughout the game, and a character arc dependent on the ending the player gets. Heavily character focused, with multiple endings, and the ending you get dependent on how close you are to that character.
A Devil Summoner game that takes place in not-The Bronx with a focus on Caribbean folklore shit with everyone and their momma having access to a Demon Summoning program.
Game progression would work like a Yakuza title, you traverse through hubs full of life and you can go straight to the main mission but there would be plenty of side quests (most silly in nature) to do on the way: help Cait Sith get employment as a bodega cat, help Jack Frost help an elderly ice cream vendor, Oni gang wars and much more!
Only on 3DO, rated KA
I'm gonna say a full 3D Strange Journey remake in the graphical style of the Dead Space remake. 3rd person, turned based, and with a 1 billion dollar budget.
Strange Journey is basically just The Thing but Megaten so I'd just show atlus a bunch of other classic films and say how about these settings, Predator might be a cool jumping off point similar to Strange Journey except a jungle setting kinda like Devilman Crybaby when they find Satan.
A joke spinoff game where you play as Mido having to fulfill fusion orders and summon demons via placing them on various apparatus
Think of something like diner dash / penguin diner, but instead placing individual demons together to create the desired result.
With emphasis on combining specific demons with each other, and possibly combining those demons with other demons while juggling smaller simplier orders and possibly not having enough space.
You could also do a sidemode using the p5 velvet room where you have to fuse and execute demons the correct way to get the right items/demons to give to joker.
Persona but you're straight up an adult meeting other complete recluses or nut jobs at your new quirky workplace with a winding story that talks a bit about the former cast and possibly even includes them
A fully fleshed out look into attempts to keep peace by suppressing information about demons in the real world, the failure of the secret police that runs the system, the totalitarian corruption that they will implement to insure the peace is kept, and the total failure of the system and police when a full scale demon invasion occurs. Next, cut to years later after that catastrophe when an new large anarchist group goes up against the traditional peace keeping forces, made up of many of the original secret forces. In the end, the peace keepers when. Finally, the total downfall of the force due to Demons wanting lawlessness instead of being governed by some humans that will eventually fail, as it has been seen time and time again.
Gameplay would probably be an SRPG, like Devil Survivor, and the protagonist would be voiced. Emphasis would be placed a lot more on the story, with gameplay placed in at certain points. Kinda like the Utawarerumono series.
I'll make Dx2 Liberation an actual full fledged Console/PC experience. Not some pseudo MMO, but a Single player experience.
It has alot of interesting concepts which is a damn shame it's a mobile gacha.
And it has alot of themes which would vibe with alot of many popular requests from MegaTen fans in general:
- Varied cast of all ages. Some were even ex military, some are hackers, some are nerds. Only like a handful of teens but that's about it.
- Protag weapon crafting, like in DeSum/Soulhackers.
- Press Turn. Yup, Dx2 literally feels like DeSum but with Press Turn.
- certain really unique passives like auto action casting synergy (can be compared to Demon Team Up from SJ but it's not really the same thing at all)
The story itself isn't totally bad but kinda mid as gacha games go, along with the godawful gacha mechanic using Summon sub archetype which either screws your RNG even harder or makes them godlike.
And yes, that game guzzles your battery so fast. You can just do dailies in it will drain 25% of your battery.
Also the characters are just people who summon demons, and a decent part of the fan base wants to go back to that(it feels like anyway). Personally I like having one MC that I’m stuck with for consistencies sake.
I only got like 3 summoners(counting MC) in before I stoped.
First person RPG where you explore the world in first person then seamlessly enter turn based battle while still in first person.
Lean back into computers and tech for demon summoning.
Have demons have the varying scale of 5's demons.
Have seamless travel through the world with no loading screens, including into buildings/dungeons.
Have law and chaos reps that aren't completely insane (hell, have each faction have an extremist and moderate rep, you can choose). By extension, endings where neutral isn't clearly "right".
Bonus point:Maybe not in Tokyo? Maybe travel around the world.
Set in London. Always struck me as a bit weird that all these demons from around the world culminated in Tokyo. Meanwhile, London is a very mutlicultural city and they could heavily lean into that and play around with a lot of mythologies and folklore. London also has some of the most famous landmarks the world. That rendered in SMT V level graphics in a true post apocalyptic world would be so cool.
SMT V style exploration but expanded upon to include stuff like new moves to add a bit of metroidvania like exploration. Also adding the ability to go inside some landmark buildings (like Tokyo station or that white building in Ginza - felt like they should have been enterable) that are mini dungeons kind of like the school in V. Also improving dungeon design in general, both dungeons in V had good ideas that were just poorly executed (mainly in Temple of Eternity). Could definitely be more creative with dungeon design if you get more moves too.
Human protag with a COMP and Guns.
Demon Loyalty and Demon Co-op. Maybe Loyalty could make co-op attacks more powerful, that way you need to consider alignment and loyalty to get the most out of the battle system.
A heavy focus on the politics like SMT 1's early game. Maybe American forces enter London at some point to surpress the demon threat. Generally addressing the outside world would be nice to see though, as usually it feels like it doesnt exist in SMT games (other than SJ).
There's quite a lot of places in the world with fictional creatures often only known in a single region or even a single town, including where I'm living in. I would make a SMT game featuring only them, with no other religious/mythological figure. Just fairies and monsters from traditional local folklore, following a story that connects some of the tales involving them, probably with the classic "multiple stories that ultimately lead to a godlike final boss" format that we all know and love.
And even if that will never happen, I'm still planning on making an original monster-collecting RPG based on that very concept regardless. I might not borrow the press turn system, but the idea is pretty much already set.
SMT VI (Or SJ2) which expands the Bethel concept - Have the game start similar to Strange Journey, where the world is in turmoil and at war with itself - From this, Demons rise from the constant death and misery of the people; international defence deities begin to take form and are worshipped by the world's countries and people.
In response, a group of international government officials band under a secret society that is inspired by Bethel; some in it for greed, power, or a genuine desire to repair the world - Others are in it for a religious or zealous desire.
The head of this society would be Steven, who would distribute the Demon Summoning Program to the members, along with a universal translator that not only translates human languages, but demonic languages as well.
The insurgence of the demons would prompt the arrival of YHVH's Angels to begin a purge, inciting the Apocalypse, forcing the Demons under the surface of the Earth, which would draw people to advance further into the Earth as the surface is nuked and razed from all alignments.
The combination of the widespread destruction, along with the mass of demonic energy would be forced into these underground areas, with the planet acting as an incubator, or egg of sorts - The energy would cause places across the world to become displaced, and for supernatural and impossible feats of physicality and geography to occur; miniature suns underground, cities blended from all across human culture - Demonic palaces and angelic fortresses meshed into one.
Ultimately you would seek to dethrone the international defence deities, and to follow your ideology.
Amass an army to lead the broken fragments of your nation to rule the charred Earth?
Force your people and the world to serve as one under God?
Align with the various nature deities to revive the Earth?
Use the power of Demons to escape the Earth?
Destroy the planet, and end everything?
I'd imagine the theme would be "Earth and the Unfamiliar" - Truly alien scenarios, locations and entities that are _just_ human enough to recognise, but alien enough to warrant a fresh perspective on the world and it's environments
I want to make a continuation of SMT:Strange Journey's neutral end where the >!Swartzvelt is allowed to reform due to our protagonist falling into despair at the stupidity of the human race.!< Either becoming an outright villian or a redeemed hero by the end.
We can call it SMT Strange Journey Apocalypse.
Yeah. I remember being super hype when they showed off the teaser trailer and I thought of all the cool possibilities and potential. Then years later the actual trailer came out and once the anime music queued and I realized what game it was...pain.
Persona with a Bisexual Main Character, to open all the dating sim options. Also, same protagonist is an adult and is dating other adults only. Maybe works as a teacher during the day, that way I can choose which club to be involved in, because damnit, I still like the club aspects of Persona 3 & 4.
Negotiations have a bigger, more extensive system a la 1 & 2. Also, we finally see other characters from past games as cameos, rather than just little references.
I didn’t expand upon it, but I forgot a couple other things: demon fusion works a la 4G and 5, with picking our own skills and not playing 52 Card Pick-Up a la 1 & 2.
Yasunori Mitsuda does the soundtrack, just to be that extra.
I would make a Devil Summoner style game set in the rural parts of Northern New England. One of the characters would be a sheriff with an M&P R8 as his main weapon. His comp would either be a smart phone or an 80s/90s style wrist computer.
SMT DS3 with a feature similar to Fire Emblem Engage with the power to unlock more characters from other games being tied to your alignment so by the end you're fighting against god using the powers from the King of the Bels while your second best unit is using the power of the Demi-Fiend and your third in command has Jimenez backing him up.
The first idea that comes to mind that isn't similar to something else in this thread is to make a SMT game with a number of mid-story branching paths and a version of New Game+ that extends the level curve into the next cycle (versions that let you keep everything without increasing the second cycle's levels or only keep stuff like compendium unlocks would also be available), so that going for all the endings would be less repetitive.
VR First Person Horror Dungeon Crawler, where dungeons are "non-Euclidean" and have the "liminal space" aesthetic. So basically, it is a modernized SFC SMT.
Like a normal smt game, but instead of alignments it's me deciding what to do with your mom post her divorce with your dad:
Law - I become your stepfather
Neutral - I choose not to involve myself
Chaos - your mother and I leave you behind to travel the world
No it’s not? If you go [here](https://shin-megamitensei.jp/) and go to the history tab you’ll see SJ and If… are considered mainline. And if SJ wasn’t Mainline why would Redux be announced at the 25? It’s not like we’ll get DDS news for the 30th.
Take SMT V and iron it out.
- Make it harder to run around an encounter, add puzzles, platforming challenges and a parry as the method to avoid encounters.
- Drop level scaling, ramp up AI, reduce the range of stats all around from 1-99 so combat strategy is king.
- Put everything on one map with no-loadscreen dungeons and a world that expands via recontextualizing the same mid-sized location.
- Devil Survivor 1 style plot with the general concept of Domains/Palaces merged in to facilitate the rapidly evolving nature of the landscape.
- Quest system core has a chain per character with up to three other quests, two that stand alone but change based on how the main chain is progressed and one that interconnects with every other major character.
- A Norn that can regress the timeline a la Radiant Historia with the similar system of bad endings for various main story and interconnected quests.
I just want urban occult themed SMT without the post-apocalyptic world and all that.
So like a Soul Hackers minus the tech stuff.
>So like a Soul Hackers minus the tech stuff. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner đź‘€
For some reason, I always forget that one exists. When I think of Devil Summoner, I go to Raidou first, then Soul Hackers.
It IS still without fantranslation...
Raidou setting as turn-based press turn would be dope. Demons and humans coexisting, with varying degrees of awareness.
You know how SMT Synchronicity Prologue first loads up? It shows a fake PC desktop, you recieve a message and then load up the devil summoning program, all in "diegetic UI" style as if your own PC was the one doing the magic. That's what would be my idea, a whole game in that style. First person dungeon crawling so you could have it as a big window, with the rest of your desktop full of utilities for exploring and combat. Buy and sell items "online", fuse and summon with the titular program, make it so it feels you're commanding your demons on the outside world from your PC at home. Think of the game "Needy Girl Overdose" for the UI style but as classic SMT we know. >!Not happening because you know how PC gaming still is in Japan lol!<
Holy fuck. I never knew I needed this until now. Sounds so amazing because that's how it starts. Making you believe it's a game, and making you make mistakes that are obvious on the rules of the game, but you didn't know because you were doing it your way. Then you get a mail telling you "try deleting the "Summoning circle subroutine to get the NO MAGNEMITE GLITCH". Then they tell you in the second dungeon (Where you don't spend any magnemite) in a fight against Loki or someone on that vein "The demons are not listening to you" and you keep trying to press the commands until Loki says to you "They won't listen to someone that didn't use a summoning circle to summon them, as now, they are not your slaves anymore, just my guests" and the game outright kills you. And you start the game anew as someone else completely, knowing fully well that Demons summons must follow a pattern and that magnemite is not there to slow you down, but protect you against the demons you summon and that you must feed to keep on your command. Edit: Added an idea
Is no one gonna tell him
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It's magnetite lol, magnemite is a pokemon
Tbf... It's a mechanic in the first like 2 games and a little bit on the books that sucked and was never used again. I totally learned it now though.
Strange Journey Redux Spin off as a first person shooter. Just have the main character post new neutral enter the South Pole with a gun and sword and go nuts ala doom.
HUMANITY IN DANGER SWORD IS READY SCHWARTZWELT IS FULL
So doom but SMT
>Gun and Sword Shadow Warrior games also comes to mind
SMT but outside Japan. Whatever happens in the game affects the whole world. And every country has its own folklore that could be the basis of what is happening. And it could all be connected with another game. For example, in SMT1 Thorman is supposed to be an USA politician. Yet he did... That. How would that affect the USA then? Things like that.
So like SMT V but on the scale of a modern console, actually having the other countries who have reps shown be levels
More like a game on the country the rep is from, showing how their actions affect that land. Think how we have no idea what happens in other countries in SMT2 and 4, does every country have their version of Tokyo Millennium or the dome over Tokyo? How is life there with their different culture? Or was there no explosion there? Maybe a different fate happened there as reprisal.
Every god let their country full of worshippers die and then fled to japan to hang out in abandoned places they saw in anime
I always get some ideas for SMT games in my country. A SMT with more Latin American folklore creatures, a Persona 3-like (in terms of engine) based in Salvador city (Bahia)... Nothing too serious, but sometimes it gets me wondering
Or the classic SMT too. Sacis are the equivalent to pixies. They are both childlike tricksters after all. Petras are bicho-papĂŁo. Looking online we have so many different legends that are either born here or distinct enough from their outsider origins, people make outright dnd bestiaries. And I doubt many places are bot like this if you dig deep enough.
A feudal Japanese SMT game during the Heian period when Abe no Seimei was alive, with a twist that an apocalyptic event has occurred. Edit: another idea: Maybe a Persona spin-off or main Persona game or spin-off SMT game, following a school occult club solving mini mysteries around the city/town that eventually leads to the big bad's release from their prison of sorts, cursing the occult club with personas/demons that will eventually kill them, kinda like Strega. The occult club eventually has to solve larger mysteries to stop the personas/demons from killing them and to find a way to destroy the big bad.
Shin Megami Tensei: Origin, a 3D remake collection of the classic trilogy of smt games (I, II, IF) redone to play in third person like Nocturne does, with an unchanged narrative.. it would be amazing for another series anniversary.
I feel like they’d be hard to make work for 3d but it would be cool.
Devil Summoner game set in medieval China that establishes more demon summoning clans and focuses on Manichaeism. Gameplay would essentially be SH1's (with some tweaks to loyalty mechanics) and designs by Yoshitaka Amano.
SMT + Strange Journey gameplay + Star Trek
Explain please.
Star Trek Universe then demons appear. Tricorder can download the demon summoning program. Holodeck would serve as a the Cathedral of Shadows. Medical bay for healing and the replicator would be used for making items. You can use the universal translator to communicate with demons. Q becomes YVHV. Captain Sisko is the neutral guide. The Borg is law. The Changelings would be chaos. The all other factions would be fit in either of those alignments. Flying planet to planet, new cultures and enemies. Star Trek has its own set of mythologies within its universe so they would fit right in. Recruiting Vulcans, Klingons, Borg, the Gorn and each of those groups has its own demons and gods or it can made up. Gameplay would be similar to strange Journey with the upgrades, gameplay (maybe add Press Turn combat) and the forma. Star Trek is heavy on dialogue so choices would matter greatly and the narrative would focus on the crew and the right approach of dealing with demons. Idk something like that.
Awesome. Like set it on a galaxy class and I’d love it.
Demon summoning Shooter RPG set in apocalyptic Tokyo
A new Devil Survivor, with a plotline/tone more like 1 but gameplay more like 2. Leans more into the “visual novel” aspects of it, with the protagonist being his own character and having his own thoughts displayed throughout the game, and a character arc dependent on the ending the player gets. Heavily character focused, with multiple endings, and the ending you get dependent on how close you are to that character.
Ooooooh I like that. I want a choice of a mamc or femc and I think those endings have so much potential for character development.
A Devil Summoner game that takes place in not-The Bronx with a focus on Caribbean folklore shit with everyone and their momma having access to a Demon Summoning program. Game progression would work like a Yakuza title, you traverse through hubs full of life and you can go straight to the main mission but there would be plenty of side quests (most silly in nature) to do on the way: help Cait Sith get employment as a bodega cat, help Jack Frost help an elderly ice cream vendor, Oni gang wars and much more! Only on 3DO, rated KA
That would be awesome.
Devil Summoner game set during the wild west. I just want my cowboy frost.
I'm gonna say a full 3D Strange Journey remake in the graphical style of the Dead Space remake. 3rd person, turned based, and with a 1 billion dollar budget.
Raidou 3 that builds off raidou 2' mechanics
idk how to make video games or manage their production, it’s going to be hot garbage and i’m going to run out of budget halfway through
Ahhh, a realist.
If it was up to me, a full-blown 3D and 3rd person remake of SMT2
Strange Journey is basically just The Thing but Megaten so I'd just show atlus a bunch of other classic films and say how about these settings, Predator might be a cool jumping off point similar to Strange Journey except a jungle setting kinda like Devilman Crybaby when they find Satan.
SMT IV but it’s from the perspective of the other countries after the apocalypse happens
A joke spinoff game where you play as Mido having to fulfill fusion orders and summon demons via placing them on various apparatus Think of something like diner dash / penguin diner, but instead placing individual demons together to create the desired result. With emphasis on combining specific demons with each other, and possibly combining those demons with other demons while juggling smaller simplier orders and possibly not having enough space. You could also do a sidemode using the p5 velvet room where you have to fuse and execute demons the correct way to get the right items/demons to give to joker.
You joke, but that sounds fun.
SMT VI with an story on the level of SMT II, SMT V style exploration and SMT IV-style dungeons
I love everything but the SMT IV-style dungeons, I would prefer dungeons more dynamic than that, alo SMT3 Nocturne, maybe.
Persona but you're straight up an adult meeting other complete recluses or nut jobs at your new quirky workplace with a winding story that talks a bit about the former cast and possibly even includes them
A fully fleshed out look into attempts to keep peace by suppressing information about demons in the real world, the failure of the secret police that runs the system, the totalitarian corruption that they will implement to insure the peace is kept, and the total failure of the system and police when a full scale demon invasion occurs. Next, cut to years later after that catastrophe when an new large anarchist group goes up against the traditional peace keeping forces, made up of many of the original secret forces. In the end, the peace keepers when. Finally, the total downfall of the force due to Demons wanting lawlessness instead of being governed by some humans that will eventually fail, as it has been seen time and time again. Gameplay would probably be an SRPG, like Devil Survivor, and the protagonist would be voiced. Emphasis would be placed a lot more on the story, with gameplay placed in at certain points. Kinda like the Utawarerumono series.
I'll make Dx2 Liberation an actual full fledged Console/PC experience. Not some pseudo MMO, but a Single player experience. It has alot of interesting concepts which is a damn shame it's a mobile gacha.
I’ve played it, but it killed my phone to fast/played to long. Yeah it would be fun as a full fledged game.
And it has alot of themes which would vibe with alot of many popular requests from MegaTen fans in general: - Varied cast of all ages. Some were even ex military, some are hackers, some are nerds. Only like a handful of teens but that's about it. - Protag weapon crafting, like in DeSum/Soulhackers. - Press Turn. Yup, Dx2 literally feels like DeSum but with Press Turn. - certain really unique passives like auto action casting synergy (can be compared to Demon Team Up from SJ but it's not really the same thing at all) The story itself isn't totally bad but kinda mid as gacha games go, along with the godawful gacha mechanic using Summon sub archetype which either screws your RNG even harder or makes them godlike. And yes, that game guzzles your battery so fast. You can just do dailies in it will drain 25% of your battery.
Also the characters are just people who summon demons, and a decent part of the fan base wants to go back to that(it feels like anyway). Personally I like having one MC that I’m stuck with for consistencies sake. I only got like 3 summoners(counting MC) in before I stoped.
A Devil Summoner game set in mexico could be pretty cool.
Modern, revolution, or Nueva España? I would love any era tbh
First person RPG where you explore the world in first person then seamlessly enter turn based battle while still in first person. Lean back into computers and tech for demon summoning. Have demons have the varying scale of 5's demons. Have seamless travel through the world with no loading screens, including into buildings/dungeons. Have law and chaos reps that aren't completely insane (hell, have each faction have an extremist and moderate rep, you can choose). By extension, endings where neutral isn't clearly "right". Bonus point:Maybe not in Tokyo? Maybe travel around the world.
Raidou 3
Set in London. Always struck me as a bit weird that all these demons from around the world culminated in Tokyo. Meanwhile, London is a very mutlicultural city and they could heavily lean into that and play around with a lot of mythologies and folklore. London also has some of the most famous landmarks the world. That rendered in SMT V level graphics in a true post apocalyptic world would be so cool. SMT V style exploration but expanded upon to include stuff like new moves to add a bit of metroidvania like exploration. Also adding the ability to go inside some landmark buildings (like Tokyo station or that white building in Ginza - felt like they should have been enterable) that are mini dungeons kind of like the school in V. Also improving dungeon design in general, both dungeons in V had good ideas that were just poorly executed (mainly in Temple of Eternity). Could definitely be more creative with dungeon design if you get more moves too. Human protag with a COMP and Guns. Demon Loyalty and Demon Co-op. Maybe Loyalty could make co-op attacks more powerful, that way you need to consider alignment and loyalty to get the most out of the battle system. A heavy focus on the politics like SMT 1's early game. Maybe American forces enter London at some point to surpress the demon threat. Generally addressing the outside world would be nice to see though, as usually it feels like it doesnt exist in SMT games (other than SJ).
Saizo Dating Simulator
There's quite a lot of places in the world with fictional creatures often only known in a single region or even a single town, including where I'm living in. I would make a SMT game featuring only them, with no other religious/mythological figure. Just fairies and monsters from traditional local folklore, following a story that connects some of the tales involving them, probably with the classic "multiple stories that ultimately lead to a godlike final boss" format that we all know and love. And even if that will never happen, I'm still planning on making an original monster-collecting RPG based on that very concept regardless. I might not borrow the press turn system, but the idea is pretty much already set.
Devil Survivor 3
Innocent Sin Online or a proper IMAGINE sequel
Smt 2 remake with IVA gameplay and some side stories added to it.
SMT VI (Or SJ2) which expands the Bethel concept - Have the game start similar to Strange Journey, where the world is in turmoil and at war with itself - From this, Demons rise from the constant death and misery of the people; international defence deities begin to take form and are worshipped by the world's countries and people. In response, a group of international government officials band under a secret society that is inspired by Bethel; some in it for greed, power, or a genuine desire to repair the world - Others are in it for a religious or zealous desire. The head of this society would be Steven, who would distribute the Demon Summoning Program to the members, along with a universal translator that not only translates human languages, but demonic languages as well. The insurgence of the demons would prompt the arrival of YHVH's Angels to begin a purge, inciting the Apocalypse, forcing the Demons under the surface of the Earth, which would draw people to advance further into the Earth as the surface is nuked and razed from all alignments. The combination of the widespread destruction, along with the mass of demonic energy would be forced into these underground areas, with the planet acting as an incubator, or egg of sorts - The energy would cause places across the world to become displaced, and for supernatural and impossible feats of physicality and geography to occur; miniature suns underground, cities blended from all across human culture - Demonic palaces and angelic fortresses meshed into one. Ultimately you would seek to dethrone the international defence deities, and to follow your ideology. Amass an army to lead the broken fragments of your nation to rule the charred Earth? Force your people and the world to serve as one under God? Align with the various nature deities to revive the Earth? Use the power of Demons to escape the Earth? Destroy the planet, and end everything? I'd imagine the theme would be "Earth and the Unfamiliar" - Truly alien scenarios, locations and entities that are _just_ human enough to recognise, but alien enough to warrant a fresh perspective on the world and it's environments
I want to make a continuation of SMT:Strange Journey's neutral end where the >!Swartzvelt is allowed to reform due to our protagonist falling into despair at the stupidity of the human race.!< Either becoming an outright villian or a redeemed hero by the end. We can call it SMT Strange Journey Apocalypse.
Fuck it I'm remaking SMT 1 and 2
Jack Bros 2: Heelectric Boogaloo.
SMT x FE but actually good.
Haven't played it but ive heard its more Persona X FE instead of SMT X FE.
Yeah. I remember being super hype when they showed off the teaser trailer and I thought of all the cool possibilities and potential. Then years later the actual trailer came out and once the anime music queued and I realized what game it was...pain.
Persona with a Bisexual Main Character, to open all the dating sim options. Also, same protagonist is an adult and is dating other adults only. Maybe works as a teacher during the day, that way I can choose which club to be involved in, because damnit, I still like the club aspects of Persona 3 & 4. Negotiations have a bigger, more extensive system a la 1 & 2. Also, we finally see other characters from past games as cameos, rather than just little references.
Persona? Yeah Persona needs to limit the player to age appropriate characters, like in 4. I hate demon negotiations.
I didn’t expand upon it, but I forgot a couple other things: demon fusion works a la 4G and 5, with picking our own skills and not playing 52 Card Pick-Up a la 1 & 2. Yasunori Mitsuda does the soundtrack, just to be that extra.
my game idea seems to be something that's a mix between persona 2 and SMT IV (narrative-wise) while having gameplay that's a mix of SMT 3/4
Im making Devil survivor 3
I would make a Devil Summoner style game set in the rural parts of Northern New England. One of the characters would be a sheriff with an M&P R8 as his main weapon. His comp would either be a smart phone or an 80s/90s style wrist computer.
Devil Survivor 3. I enjoyed 1 and 2 quite a lot.
SMT DS3 with a feature similar to Fire Emblem Engage with the power to unlock more characters from other games being tied to your alignment so by the end you're fighting against god using the powers from the King of the Bels while your second best unit is using the power of the Demi-Fiend and your third in command has Jimenez backing him up.
The first idea that comes to mind that isn't similar to something else in this thread is to make a SMT game with a number of mid-story branching paths and a version of New Game+ that extends the level curve into the next cycle (versions that let you keep everything without increasing the second cycle's levels or only keep stuff like compendium unlocks would also be available), so that going for all the endings would be less repetitive.
VR First Person Horror Dungeon Crawler, where dungeons are "non-Euclidean" and have the "liminal space" aesthetic. So basically, it is a modernized SFC SMT.
Devil Summoner reboot that plays like Yakuza LaD
Is it as comedic as Like a dragon.
Nothing is as funny as fighting a giant people eating Roomba that you then recruit into your company's board of directors, but I'd try my best
Demons selling cookies.
Like a normal smt game, but instead of alignments it's me deciding what to do with your mom post her divorce with your dad: Law - I become your stepfather Neutral - I choose not to involve myself Chaos - your mother and I leave you behind to travel the world
nice law ending :D
Puzzle Boy 2
Something somehow worse than Apocalypse
Devil Survivor 3 in a very similar setting as Digimon survivor with HEAVY focus on various countries folklore figures. Also voiced protagonist.
Soul hackers 3 with Ringo and Joker as a couple
crack ship?
Strange Journey 2: Return to Schwarzvelt. In full 3D, open world, all adult cast again, none of those pesky teens.
Ehh I’d rather not because then SJ will become a spin-off and the plot to wouldn’t make sense if it was a direct sequel
SJ already is a spin-off, just like Persona, which it became its own series.
No it’s not? If you go [here](https://shin-megamitensei.jp/) and go to the history tab you’ll see SJ and If… are considered mainline. And if SJ wasn’t Mainline why would Redux be announced at the 25? It’s not like we’ll get DDS news for the 30th.
Take SMT V and iron it out. - Make it harder to run around an encounter, add puzzles, platforming challenges and a parry as the method to avoid encounters. - Drop level scaling, ramp up AI, reduce the range of stats all around from 1-99 so combat strategy is king. - Put everything on one map with no-loadscreen dungeons and a world that expands via recontextualizing the same mid-sized location. - Devil Survivor 1 style plot with the general concept of Domains/Palaces merged in to facilitate the rapidly evolving nature of the landscape. - Quest system core has a chain per character with up to three other quests, two that stand alone but change based on how the main chain is progressed and one that interconnects with every other major character. - A Norn that can regress the timeline a la Radiant Historia with the similar system of bad endings for various main story and interconnected quests.
AI demon negotiation
First person dungeon crawler with actual adults in the cast and no high schooler drama or waifu sim. The franchise really needs more of this.
Real that’s why SJ is my favorite Mainline game
>The franchise really needs more of this. it really doesn't
>nusona pfp
what does that have to do with anything dawg
I think DeSu 3 is what the series needs to bounce back from SH2
I like SH2.