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Did westerners miss out? How would’ve this game been regarded if it was released in the USA/Europe?

>> No.8825395

>>8825372
Would have been radical, I can see it being a """"hidden gem""""; but it's hard to imagine any timeline where anyone thought localizing Shin Megami Tensei would have been a financially sound move in the 90s.

>> No.8825408

>>8825372
Lufia tier. P1 and P2 got released in the west and no one gave a fuck

>> No.8825446

Let me say, I absolutely love this series. I played a fan translation of SMT1 right when it came out. I played Persona 1 on PSX when it came out. Nocturne is one of my favorite games.

Honestly? It wasn't released domestically due to a lack of interest AT THE TIME. No, JRPGs were not totally niche. Like, I owned FF1 and my friend group was big into FF3/FF6 and Chrono Trigger. However, the first-person mechanics wouldn't have gained much traction at that point. It was too obtuse, and would've been called a Japanese Wizardry clone.

>> No.8825447

>>8825408
Yeah but those games are shitty

>> No.8825789

>>8825447
I like P1, P2 and P2,5.
The rest of the Persona series can go suck a shit.
HA! My captcha for this post is NTSCJ. That's fun.

>> No.8825915

>>8825372
I was just on a downloading spree
I skipped over all the RPGs
even the translated ones

its not that i hate them
but i only play rpg on mobile

>> No.8825942

>>8825447
P1 is just as good as the SFC trilogy. P2 is pretty bad

>> No.8826078

>>8825372
It would validate the satanic panic

>> No.8826085

>>8825372
Would probably have been a game weirdos like me would have liked, but largely ignored because RPGs weren't that popular on consoles during this time period and SMT is not quite the same type of game as the Wizardry and M&M games of the same time period. I could imagine it finding fans from PC gaming at the time though.

>> No.8826091

>>8825372
>>8826078
moreover, just in 1989 NEC had a controversy because J.J. Harrolds (detective game) had a newspaper that mentioned a rape happening elsewhere, and it wasn't censored in the English version so newspapers gave a lot of negative coverage to the game just because of the word "rape". NEC told developers after that to start changing religious/controversial content for US versions more often.
SMT has Disneyland too, and the PC Engine version has their actual likeness. Disney might have gotten involved.

Maybe the backlash would have scared Japanese developers off the mandatory "kill God as final boss" cliche and write more original end bosses.

>> No.8826092
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Atlus did bring over a game with similar themes to the PC Engine, but still had to make a lot of changes to the plot, and in the end it didn't even sell that well to justify more.

>> No.8826113

the pce version of this has a horrific soundtrack

>> No.8826115

>>8826091
Wasn't it Destinyland, not Disneyland?

>> No.8826126

>>8825372
Definitely could have been a cult hit 10 years down the line like Earthbound but the shitty gameplay was never going to let it be truly relevant

>> No.8826127

>>8826078
The world we currently live in validates the Satanic panic.

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>>8825372
this >>8825446
>the first-person mechanics wouldn't have gained much traction at that point. It was too obtuse, and would've been called a Japanese Wizardry clone.

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>>8826115
It is Destinyland.

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>>8827563
Sure, Atlus.

>> No.8828870

>>8826127
Meds.

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>>8826127
Based and truth-pilled.

>> No.8828875 [DELETED] 

>>8825372
Do you specifically mean the Mega CD remake or the sufami classic? Because the Mega CD game has terrible movement in 3D Fields

>> No.8829183

>>8828868
They're not accesible in normal gameplay on the SFC, iirc. The PCE version I posted does have them included, but they're "legally distinct" this time around.

>> No.8829186

>>8825372
Highly regarded
Oh no I meant retarded
Highly retarded

>> No.8830582

>>8825372
Those super cd