Shin Megami Tensei IV
Building on the styles of ATLUS' Persona, Devil Summoner, and Devil Survivor titles, SMTIV is the first true successor to 2004's Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne. The story of SMTIV revolves around the Samurai…
Shin Megami Tensei IV is an adventure developed by Atlus, released 23 May 2013 on Nintendo 3DS. The main story takes about 45.5 hrs to finish.
What Shin Megami Tensei IV is
Shin Megami Tensei IV is an adventure game developed by Atlus and released in 2013. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Shin Megami Tensei IV is a role-playing video game developed and published by Atlus for the Nintendo 3DS. The game is the fourth mainline entry in the Shin Megami Tensei series, the central series of the Megami Tensei franchise, though no direct story connection exists to previous entries. It was released in May and July 2013 for Japan and North America respectively. It was released digitally in PAL territories in October 2014. The gameplay is reminiscent of previous Shin Megami Tensei games, carrying over the turn-based Press Turn battle system, where players and enemies fight and exploit weaknesses, allowing either side to gain additional turns or lose them.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Megami Tensei series
Shin Megami Tensei IV is the 106th of 151 entries we hold in the Megami Tensei series. The next entry was Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Collection in 2013. Its critic score of 86 is 6 points above the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Persona 5 at 94.
How it was received
Shin Megami Tensei IV holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 83, across 79 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 45.5 hrs.
What it launched against
Shin Megami Tensei IV launched on 23 May 2013, within three weeks of Metro: Last Light, Trine 2: Complete Story, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy and The Swapper. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Metro: Last Light, Trine 2: Complete Story, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy, The Swapper.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Shin Megami Tensei IV yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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