Originally Posted by
Deadhands
Nocturne was one of the best RPGs I've played in a long time. It was long, fairly unforgiving if you screwed up and had a nice story.
Devil Summoner I got thinking it would be on par with DDS and Nocturne and it was a huge let down. The story was subpar at best and the combat system came off as a poor hack n slash system. It barely required any strategy compared to Nocturne where you had to customize your demons and abilities for certain fights otherwise you'd get smoked two rounds in.
Where SMT I & II JP only or were there US releases? I got into the series with Nocturne and couldn't really find much on the previous versions in the series.