I thought I was done writing about
Shin Megami Tensei IV, but I
suppose one is never done when it involves a game this good. Just yesterday, I
found myself in the mood to take a break from
DmC Devil May Cry and
A Link Between Worlds, and decided to return to
Shin Megami Tensei
IV instead.
The last time I was playing
Shin Megami Tensei IV, I stopped because
the final portion of the game requires you to complete number of sidequests in
order to proceed any further. One of these quests required that you find a
certain kind of demon in Shinjuku... five of them, actually. The catch was that
in order for any of them to show up on your map, you’d need to come across the
first one so that your Navigation AI, Burroughs, could identify it and then
track down the rest.
Needless to see, as with any quest of this sort, I spent a couple of hours
wandering around Shinjuku without anything to show for it, and eventually, put
the game down and moved on. I’d played through most of
Shin Megami Tensei
IV without a FAQ, and I didn’t really want to start using one now. I
figured I’d take a break and come back to it later.
Last night, when I resumed my game, I was reminded that there was also
another reason I didn’t keep playing
SMTIV—it was because I didn’t want the game to end.