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Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga

DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA アバタール・チューナー

Developer / Publisher: Atlus
15 July 2004
Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga [DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA アバタール・チューナー] - cover art
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In a bleak world known only as "The Junkyard," several tribes wage war in order to emerge victorious, and reach the promised "Nirvana." With the sudden appearance of a strange girl called Sera, the residents of the junkyard are transformed into cannibalistic demons. Serph, and the tribe of Embryon search for answers.
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Another Shin Megami Tensei 'spinoff', Digital Devil Saga is actually a more straightforward take on SMT: Nocturne, adopting its aesthetic and ideas while instilling a psychological quality to their trademark demons. Plenty of new and borrowed systems streamline the teambuilding tedium found in prior games, replacing past mechanics with a notable hybrid of skill trees and Esper-like mastery - but for what it gains in convenience, options and synergies, it also loses in combat balance. While its Press-turn combat (also derived from SMT3) has certainly expanded, freely adjustable skillsets - among other incentives like Hunt skills/Devour, point it towards linear element-matching gameplay instead. This system is at its best when type coverage is modulated, for instance, by more restrictive mechanics like demon fusion, and too much leeway spoils it a little. RNG-rooted setbacks are in no short supply here, but the boss fights mostly disappoint, lacking the intensity that made Nocturne's roadblocks so appealing.

The contrast between this and mainline titles - in both gameplay (fixed ally stat paths with relatively accessible dungeon crawling) and non-gameplay (greater attention paid to character building, cutscenes, dialogue, relations, etc.) betray Atlus' interest in a more conventional form of SMT, one still anchored to its parent's brutal spirit (as opposed to Persona) but without some of the bite. Ultimately, their most original achievement turns out to be the premise, crossing a multitude of genres to yield a twisted landscape awash with distinct themes; both post-apocalyptic and existential, religious and futuristic, yet off-kilter and brooding all the same.
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da__sein Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2024-03-28T21:20:50Z
PS2 • XNA
2024-03-28T21:20:50Z
3.5
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noyade DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA アバタール・チューナー 2024-03-25T21:58:20Z
2024-03-25T21:58:20Z
2.0
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jydah DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA アバタール・チューナー 2024-03-22T20:14:54Z
2024-03-22T20:14:54Z
2.5
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saylexs DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA アバタール・チューナー 2024-03-19T16:19:27Z
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Smooth1e DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA アバタール・チューナー 2024-03-15T16:11:18Z
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Anatommy DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA アバタール・チューナー 2024-03-12T11:03:16Z
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3.5
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bebe12345 DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA アバタール・チューナー 2024-03-07T13:42:17Z
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schmerzen DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA アバタール・チューナー 2024-03-04T17:55:52Z
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5.0
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808wtf DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA アバタール・チューナー 2024-02-19T06:31:39Z
2024-02-19T06:31:39Z
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cecefem DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA アバタール・チューナー 2024-02-06T17:41:37Z
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epicj DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA アバタール・チューナー 2024-01-27T22:33:54Z
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OolDSnake DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA アバタール・チューナー 2024-01-19T19:54:58Z
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  • Fowlawneeshafow 2021-03-08 16:49:53.034147+00
    Praying for a remaster of this duology one day
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    • ... 2021-09-09 14:33:22.41374+00
      what is qds
    • oculi 2022-02-03 19:38:46.590574+00
      @VIG01
      quantum devil saga, the novel series from the original writer of the digital devil saga world.
    • watercolour 2023-04-27 23:36:25.114327+00
      don't worry, it will happen. Atlus, from their history, seem to be much more in tune with their fanbase than the larger corporate-brained companies
    • Fowlawneeshafow 2023-06-12 22:57:43.784534+00
      ^ except not really. They only started doing lots of ports when SEGA took over. Atlus is a very creative-driven studio/company from what I can tell and they do what they want rather than what fans want.

      If anything, it's more a corporate brained thing to give the fans what they want all the time and then sell it to them. It would be a corporate brained move to make a remaster duology and charge $60 for it.
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  • oculi 2022-02-28 19:46:49.880635+00
    The Rain Stopped is one of the best ending themes Meguro ever did
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  • RiskR 2023-07-30 23:46:18.94371+00
    so weird going on metacritic and seeing these games get such low scores

    DDS 2 has a 4.7 lol
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  • RiskR 2023-08-04 13:44:09.703286+00
    like halfway through this is the most 8/10 game i've ever played
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  • TheInverseCynicism 2023-09-25 23:41:04.683918+00
    FFXIII steal some things from here
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  • The_Prep 2024-02-24 05:41:22.269042+00
    Seeing so many different takes on games in the SMT series I feel like I just gotta play em all man.
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