Shin Megami Tensei 5 Review - The Final Verdict

Shin Megami Tensei 5 is a great game, and a triumph at mostly everything it sets out to do. A staggering amount of mechanical depth, and a renewed focus on exploration, discovery, and traversal in a gigantic world, paired with an intriguing story, and a stunning sense of ambition, all come together to make this one of the most ridiculously expansive and ambitious RPGs I’ve ever played. That’s not to say it doesn’t have problems, and some of its technical issues are disappointing, as can be the insane difficulty spikes – but the game is honestly, legitimately, so good, and so addictive, that those issues matter far less than they would in a lesser game. Which isn’t to say they stop mattering – they’re there, and you notice them, but they can’t detract from just how well the game ends up doing pretty much everything else that it sets out to do. Fans of roleplaying games of any ilk would do well to look into Shin Megami Tensei 5 – it’s a fantastic game on pretty much every level.