This doesn't stop him from being somehow physical, capable of slaying Amy in the backstory of. The leader of the Ashura-kai. If you go with Jonathan to kill her, she's the last boss you face before the Expanse Gate is opened. Stephen is said to have based her on a woman who died. Tasks the player with reviving the Great Spirit of Hope by inspiring hope in the people, then with recovering the Great Spirits of Goodwill and Spite from the angels and demons so that the barrier between Tokyo and the outside world might be removed. Taiwan At the end of the Neutral path, an NPC in Ginza says that his wife and daughter appeared to him as "white shadows," urging him to join them in death. Isabeau represents the Neutral alignment. Then there are the White, and in a, When she reveals herself as Gabriel, she states that anyone who is filthy will be eliminated should they try to move to the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado. Isabeau (イザボー): The lone lady among the samurai, she is a veracious young woman with a strong mind. you kick his ass in battle and he gets dragged into the Yamato reactor, where who knows what happens to him. Each of them takes on the appearance of one of Flynn's closest allies (K, Hugo, Isabeau, and Issachar) in order to sway him to their side. I left a bunch of the fetch quests (there are a ton) undone. create the Firmament to protect Tokyo from God's wrath (of ICBMs). Other. The throne chariot of God, and the leader of the forces of Law. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/ShinMegamiTenseiIV. It was in this climate that development of Shin Megami Tensei IV began. We'll be sticking with the basic character layouts and plot outline that SMT IV has laid out, and adding to it, putting meat back on the bones. You fight Barong and Rangda, and when you beat them, he fuses them into Shiva. The giant rock in the middle of Ginza is his head; the rest of his body is the barrier between Tokyo and Mikado. Like is it just generic things like heal items and junk or is it more impressive things that you can get from beating the different endings in SMT IV? In Demonic Gene, she introduces herself as Hiruko, and appears to have no relation to Lilith. Supporting. She also manages to rise from her execution in Mikado none the worse for wear. Longs to become a Samurai. Nanashi - Dagda - Asahi - Navarre - Nozomi - Hallelujah - Gaston - Toki. All other tropes on him can be found on the main series character page. he fuses with Lucifer to restore his power; he absorbs Hiruko through Amaymon's mouths, resulting in a monstrous. 3 Persona: Character Building Where SMT IV saw many of its shortcomings stem from "flat" or underdeveloped characters, Persona is widely known for having extremely strong casts to the point where they reappear in tons of … Before the worlds began to diverge, each Akira started as a member of the Counter-Demon Force whose older sister was kidnapped by Angels and placed into the Cocoon. The fate of mankind rests within your hands! When you reunite with him after the angel takeover, he is obsessed with escaping to a place where there are no demons, and the mere thought of becoming a Hunter in Tokyo sends him into a traumatized frenzy. Likely he, like Burroughs, was based on a living entity and made this way by Stephen. They're patriots who protect the people and the country in their own way, even if it means they must antagonize the very humans they are trying to protect. Isabeau will ask you if you will be forgiven for annihilating Tokyo or the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado, respectively. And then much, much later in the game, he wants to leave everything behind and live where there are no demons. As time passes, he's losing more control, as seen when he fights against Yaso-Magatsuhi and doesn't even understand what happened - Amaymon's influence is getting stronger. For general tropes on the character, see the main series character page. Suffers a complete breakdown in the "Ancient One of the Sun" DLC when he realizes that Ancient of Days seeks to kill off humanity and that Kenji, who he opposed all those years ago, was right. Specifically, he's one of the Big Goods of the backstory. The Protagonist of Shin Megami Tensei Demonic Gene. he's actually half of Satan, rather than the Lucifer from previous titles. Infernal Akira is boisterous, a. Her real name, Lucifer, means much the same. Z. ; Walter (voiced by Katsuyuki Konishi) – Originally a human being, Walter was reborn as Lucifer. Shinji YamamotoKazuyuki Yamai The Lone Marebito, Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner: Shinen no Matou, https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Shin_Megami_Tensei_IV?oldid=395158, Many of the names in the game may be references to the film. That's Burroughs, the Goddess of Tokyo. So my SMT IV game is on loan for a friend. Now Available! Between Walter, Jonathan, and Isabeau, SMT IV has plenty of character work to go around. "Present to me your left arm." As it turns out, this is because those three people are actually three of the four Archangels, and the quest giver, Sister Gabby, is the fourth one, Gabriel. Flynn (voiced by Yuki Kaji) – The protagonist of Shin Megami Tensei IV.He is revered as a messiah who defeated angels and demons one after the other. In the neutral route he's more interested in the opportunity to study Tokyo directly than upset over Mikado's imminent loss. Chooses to wipe out all of Tokyo because it's "unclean", originally controlled the National Defense Divinity Masakado. This inspired Kenji to become a Demonoid. After absorbing Hiruko, it very briefly looks like he still wants to protect her from the Ashura-kai. Very strangely, this seems to be averted in. To protect Tokyo from damage, a great rock dome was created. Japan He responds to Walter's desire to remake the world, and absorbs his body to return to full power. As this was going on, Mastema took Flynn from the future and had him defeat the Archangels. For characters as depicted in Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse and characters that debut in that particular game, see its respective character page. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. Her whole reason for opposing the Ashura-kai is because they tried to force her parents to hand her over to them when she was a child, with her parents sacrificing themselves so that she could escape. The Turn Press battle system returns in SMT4. This is definitely Gabriel's darkest incarnation yet. no matter which version of him you're talking about. During the interim 25 years, Tayama has gradually obtained the mediums for five of the seven deities, and is using them as his special enforcers. embrace the darker sides of the Chaos alignment. (the fact that it's set after an alternate version of one of the endings notwithstanding). Top half of the single page in the official site with enhanced visuals, Bottom half of the single page in the official site with enhanced visuals, Official art of the protagonist, Jonathan, and Walter. Implied by the Neutral ending, where he mentions Cafe Florida feels familiar. The only real signs that he's demonic is his red eyes, which appear suddenly when talking to him later. DLC, however, gives him an expanded role. His attempts to get his sister back vary in each world: In Blasted Tokyo, the cocoon was whisked away by angels to parts unknown due to the lack of a ceiling. Shin Megami Tensei IV North American cover art DeveloperAtlus Publisher JP: Atlus NA: Atlus USA PAL: Deep Silver DirectorKazuyuki Yamai ProgrammerSatoshi Ōyama ArtistEiji Ishida WriterShinji Yamamoto Kazuyuki Yamai ComposerRyota Kozuka Kenichi Tsuchiya Toshiki Konishi SeriesMegami Tensei PlatformNintendo 3DS Release JP: May 23, 2013 NA: July 16, 2013 EU: October 30, 2014 GenreRole-playing ModeSingle-player Shin Megami Tensei IV … We often become attached to the characters … His breakdown after Alraune's destruction makes it perfectly clear he had. Koga Saburo after he's brought back as one of Tayama's minions. A storied franchise with a good amount of games in its catalog along with a healthy amount of spin-offs, the SMT games are known for their engaging narratives and challenging level of difficulty. Infernal Tokyo's Akira realizes very quickly that being a. Became a Demonoid after his friend's death. Hovers in place after revealing her true identity as Lucifer. This is actually the first Akira that is met, and is from Blasted Tokyo. She becomes the next Lady Danu after the original version, now Black Maria, entrusts her with Lady Danu's powers. Each time Flynn discovers a Terminal, he must defeat the Guardian's demons before he can use it. Development "I first started thinking about [SMTIV] once Strange Journey, which came out October 2009, was finished," said SMTIV’s director, Kazuyuki Yamai. General tropes on Lucifer can be found on the Shin Megami Tensei Forces of Chaos character page. File:Artwork of SMT Protagonist for Shin Megami Tensei IV Final DLC.png. and most of its residents get turned into monsters themselves thanks to the Black Samurai spreading books. Descriptions of … His final fate should you side with Walter. For tropes concerning her appearance in Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse, see that character page. It's implied at the ending of the Neutral route that your Burroughs was the Goddess of Tokyo all along. The Nintendo Direct broadcast from February 21st, 2013 included a new trailer for the Shin Megami Tensei IV that detailed various gameplay elements and included some new event scenes. RPG Said woman just so happens to be the Goddess of Tokyo. Jonathan: Gentle nature and of good upbringing, Jonathan acts as an intermediary between friends of individual samurais. The gameplay uses the smirk system which improves the Press Turn system more by allowing insta kill skills to be much more fair rather than getting 1 shot by a mob. He has unfortunately gone insane because the angels of said God tortured him to insanity. The only reason she accepted the mission to kill Xi-Wangmu and reclaim Ikebukuro is because that district was her birthplace and home. She gets a unique portrait and a section dedicated to her in the artbook, but dies minutes after you meet her. In the main timeline Tokyo, Akira climbed the ceiling on his own. absorbed by Lucifer, only to become Lucifer's engorged, pulsating left arm. as he feels that you and even he, having been exposed to Tokyo's "Filth", are unsuitable for the utopia he wishes to create. Akira (Shin Megami Tensei IV) Aquila. Instead, Masayuki Doi designed the characters while various artists related to Tokusatsu media were tasked with the demons. being from an alternate timeline where Nanashi didn't make his contract with Dagda, and where he was busy attempting to gather hope to restore Maskado's power, only to end up dying when Jonathan prematurely activated the Yamato Perpetual Reactor and swallowed Tokyo up in a black hole. Personally, I thought IV's main characters were more or less the usual cookie-cutter Law-Chaos avatars, and appreciated a little variety in the new party. SMT IV Apocalypse is honestly getting by pretty lightly. "Shin Megami Tensei IV" Hits Europe in September for €19.99, New Digital Devil Story: Goddess of Enchainment, Devil Summoner: Kuzunoha Raidou tai Shibito Ekishi, Giten Megami Tensei: Distant Flow ~EXILE~, Devil Survivor 2 The Animation: Cetus's Prequel, Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. Is as horrified as anyone else to by how Tayama. He and a friend sided with the demons after learning about God's scheme, which unleashed the demons upon mankind using the Yamato Reactor. Twenty-five years prior, a devastating war was waged between the angels and the armies of Lucifer. Because he's being persecuted by pretty much everything, you are forced to take the long way through Naraku until you reach the Sky Terminal and jump to Shinjuku to the bar. I never thought I would hear such pessimism from you. Unlike Merkabah, he has been present in Tokyo for some time... as the actually-not-so-average schoolgirl Hikaru. He's afraid that as he ages and weakens that he'll become grasping and covetous of security, which worries him as he believes he'll become like Jonathan. Blasted Akira is polite, well-respected, and seeks to embrace Chaos by living in harmony with demons in order to restore a world ravaged by the forces of Law. The bad? She's not the Black Samurai, but she is her. It's more noticeable in the Japanese version cause he roars at the beginning of the fight. Naturally Yamato-Takeru, one of the National Defense Divinities he enslaved, mocks him for thinking he was ever king as he disappears next to Tayama's corpse on Jonathan's route. One lone Hunter, the game's protagonist, meets an early. Shin Megami Tensei IV is the fourth numbered game of the Shin Megami Tensei series developed by Atlus for the Nintendo 3DS. He later chose to become a Demonoid after his friend died defending him from demons. The books help the Casualries understand just how warped the caste system is, and, When she's captured, it appears her last words before her execution are to taunt Hugo and encourage the forming rebellion...except it turns out she's. A navigation AI installed to the Samurai's Gauntlets that serves as your Mission Control throughout the game. He uses this to devour the Minotaur under the demon's influence. Genre A mysterious man in military gear with a patchwork face, carrying a massive katana with him. Flynn's childhood best friend, the two were close enough to be considered brothers. Programmer(s) May 23, 2013 Later on, Hiruko forcibly opens one of these mouths and crawls down as Amaymon is chewing her to forcibly fuse with Walter. Japanese deities who have pledged loyalty to Tokyo and Japan as a whole. *. First appearing in Shin Megami Tensei I, Steven shows up throughout the game to provide help from time to time. The King of Infernal Tokyo. However, his reply that he would "do his best" instead dispelled them. He's usually hanging out with Hikaru and Fujiwara. has disavowed himself as a Samurai and begged his family to donate a large sum of money to Hugo so he could leave. Is transformed into a demon by books and knowledge he gained. OriginalMay 23, 2013Atlus Best CollectionOctober 8, 2015Double Hero PackApril 19, 2018 Main. For that reason, the way things have been must, Later in the story, he's forced into a hallucinatory experience in which he is forced to relive the attack... and, and as Merkabah works to annihilate Tokyo for the sake of that peace. Demons and humans co-exist, but in this state, the remnants of humankind are just a prize being fought over by the higher deities. The actual ascension, however, was not seen onscreen, but is implied to happen as time goes on. If Flynn in the first question asked by Issachar chooses that he still views himself as a Casualry he'll make him falter about what he's done and lose a turn. Flynn has the option of choosing to finish him and end his suffering or not. Fujiwara and Skins lose all memory of her after the alignment lock since the Hikaru identity is no longer needed. He's the only man in Tokyo who genuinely scares Tayama. In Infernal Toyko, the angels were defeated by Kenji, but by the time the cocoon was forced open, all the occupants have died. After letting the Samurai reach Reverse Hills, he disappears from the plot and never appears outside of a sidequest in which Gabriel asks Flynn to kill him. Hong Kong Despised by the Samurai for his complete lack of sympathy, thoughtfulness, and vision. Previously appearing in Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, Mastema takes on a reduced role in this game. The protagonist of Shin Megami Tensei IV. She is this to Hugo, coming up with many of the things he takes credit for. Gets his hands on a sixth thanks to the Samurai. On the Neutral route Flynn becomes the Champion of Tokyo, acknowledged as the strongest Hunter there is and seen as a symbol of hope by the common people. He seeks to turn Tokyo into his own personal utopia. The fate of mankind rests within your hands! With the Black Samurai. May 23, 2013 before finishing. However, due to, Demonoid Akira. The AI that runs the Cathedral of Shadows app. His main goal is to revive the Goddess of Tokyo by having Flynn reject the all other paths to follow his own. with the caveat that apart from playing book deliverywoman, she's not actually doing anything. Of the Nothingness Ending, due to the following "boss" not putting up any sort of fight. File:Asahi Beach Sprite SMTIVF.png. Keeps doing his job after the destruction of the Ashura-Kai. Writer(s) Of course that's only because Tayama is forcing him too. North America He's usually hanging out with Hikaru and Skins. His demon side killed Hope and released a titanic angel upon the Samurai. Whatever the demon did to him, he's left pretty much hollow, black smoke seeping out of his eye sockets and mouth. Walter goes through Camp Ichigaya by himself and wipes out a good chunk of the Ashura-kai, including Tayama. He represents choosing the "Neutral" route of SMT. In the Law and Chaos paths, she chooses to commit suicide rather than die at Flynn's hands. Wears one after revealing her true identity as Lucifer. when the game is as hard as it is already? A young Samurai from a Casualry family chosen in the same Gauntlet Ritual as Flynn, who wishes to change the corruption he sees in the world with his own two hands. His soul then split off into two Flynns that guide alternate Walter and Jonathan in their mangas. The demon he fused himself with became independent after being torn out by Jonathan, killing Hope and unleashing the. Choose peace or anarchy inShin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse. Her real "name" is Yuriko, and she's the leader of the Ring of Gaea. after Amaymon infects him, making him see Amaymon under Hugo's robes, and once he sees a Tokyo resident as Flynn. He wishes to overthrow Kenji and become King of Tokyo, but since he lacks the power to do so himself, he has Flynn and co. to do it for him. Uriel, Raphael, and Michael were sealed away while Gabriel escaped. Walter and Jonathan are especially … South Korea He's forced to hide in Kiccigiorgi until you can pick him up and take him to the safety of Shinjuku. Their motives are shrouded in mystery until the end, where it is revealed they wish to bring about a permanent end to the war between Law and Chaos by returning all to nothingness. Like any other game, those endings are triggered by what you do in the game - how you respond to people, stuff like that. Gets worse later on; angels start searching for him, unwilling to allow him to leave Mikado, as he technically is among those to be purged. An elitist, ill mannered Samurai from a Luxuror family who works as chamberlains for the king. He and Lucifer burn his home of East Mikado to the ground in the Chaos ending, so he can then rebuild it as the land of pure freedom he and Walter dreamed of. Walter starts hammering at her defenses after she escapes from another Ashura-kai ambush. The most likely candidate is the Minister who appeared in previous games. Or at least he did. Though most of her body is organic instead of robotic. Composer(s) With the filth in question being, Gabriel was decent enough in previous games, particularly, none of the Archangels seen in this game are the genuine articles, as Merkabah is actually part of Satan. Survivor Akira is more directly polite and idealistic, while Demonoid Akira is more friendly and gregarious. However as the one that takes Issachar's form puts it, he's the only one who holds true power when compared to the others. Yamato is already on his last breath when you encounter him. Atlus is known for their strong characters, fantastic settings, and deep stories, and with SMT IV they do not disappoint. Hiruko's last, spiteful attack. In the Chaos route, he is rather surprised when he learns that Flynn, the young Samurai that he mentored, became the impetus behind the destruction of the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado. The fate of mankind rests within your hands! Answering "No, but it must be this way," and Isabeau will instead scold you for your pessimism, dropping your defense instead. For the same reason, the strife of Infernal Tokyo also suits him. A page for the characters of Shin Megami Tensei IV. What this series will allege is that the game would have worked better if it held to more traditions, not fewer, in design and structure, and saved its updating primarily for the depth of the characters and their relationships. Atlus She already remembered Tokyo, Tayama has photos of her as a small child taken in a lab full of slaughtered scientists and. We here at 3DS Pedia will also try to keep this list updated as soon as downloadable content is revealed for the game. 2. Said sword belongs to Masakado, which also functions as his medium. Please... make yourself a magnificent Samurai... And change... this rotten world... After reading books and becoming a demon he shows severe contempt for the Luxurors. His Demonoid form is a head of pure energy. The second Akira is a demonoid from Infernal Tokyo. Developer Choose peace or anarchy as Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse is coming to the Nintendo 3DS™ this summer! A childhood friend of Walter's that appears only in the Shin Megami Tensei IV: Demonic Gene manga. Which is ironic since you revive her as a Goddess in that route. destroys a wall with a punch, enabling him and Stan to escape the prison. File:Artwork of Demi-God for Shin Megami Tensei IV Final DLC.png. Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse takes place in the year 2038, within the same setting as Shin Megami Tensei IV. As such, Ishida noted that the feeling of wandering and surviving in a chaotic world has been improved extremely and the world is said to feel even more "desolate" than before. The worlds of SMT convey a sense that anything and everything is against you, and overcoming the perils it throws at you creates a strong sense of power and growth. A middle-aged man that runs a bar in Shinjuku called Cafe Florida. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. She is the Goddess that is revived in the Neutral ending. 1. how he and Lucifer merge together in the end. Black Maria names her the new Lady Danu and passes on the powers needed for her to fulfill her new role. Notable for changing his appearance every time he is encountered. Demonoid Akira gets used as a punching bag, cleans off filth, and does something using his teeth when he needs to go past demon guards found in Infernal Tokyo. For Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse on the 3DS, a GameFAQs Q&A question titled "Can you get masakado in smt iv apocalypse? Apocalypse reveals her machinations go even deeper than this, as she's the one who influenced, With Lucifer, though he's just trying to counter Gabriel and her brothers in his own way. Defeating Stephen allows him to return to defeat Merkabah and Lucifer to gain the spirits of goodwill and spite, allowing Masakado to remove the firmament above Tokyo. For the first time in the series, character and demon designs were not handled by Kazuma Kaneko, who instead provided story concepts. The music is composed by Ryota Kozuka, who also worked on the opening of the 3DS release of Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers.[3]. If Jonathan's route is of consideration, it's most likely that after you and Walter parted ways with her, he came in and killed her as assigned. Shin Megami Tensei IV for 3DS game reviews & Metacritic score: 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. He becomes a potent symbol of hope to the residents of Blasted Tokyo as well, by quashing both Pluto and the Ancient of Days' genocidal plans, giving the old humanity the chance to survive God's Wrath. On the Law route, Flynn is memorialized after his death and remembered in Mikado as a Messiah who preserved peace. sacrifice himself to restore Lucifer. The protagonist of Shin Megami Tensei IV. All-Loving Hero: Should he choose to obliterate existence, the White hail him as such. his own men go around actively antagonizing demons who don't try to eat humans and give out Reds like they're expendable and easy to produce, when they clearly aren't. What kind of bonuses do you get from the previous game going into this game? Hugo ordering the continued excavation of mystic relics from Tokyo even after the Black Samurai is captured. "Child of Carnage" in Lilith's prophecies. Instead of her usual snake motif from previous entries. He contributes to the Archangels taking over Mikado and turning it into a divine dictatorship without knowing it until they reveal their identities and intentions. With humans who are unaffiliated with him being hunted down, captured, and processed into the red pills to feed demons. he's killed offscreen as Walter defeated him all by himself. He'll tell you that reform invariably brings chaos because the innovations are necessarily unproven and uncertain. 真・女神転生 IV Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne is a post-apocalyptic role-playing video game developed by Atlus for the PlayStation 2.It was published by Atlus in Japan and North America, and by Ghostlight in Europe. In the battle against Lucifer at the end of the Neutral route, she muses how humans can be like gods of both hope and despair. how completely fucked Tokyo will be if you open the gate to the Expanse. Now Available! Tries to get his fellow recruits harmed, only to get caught by Alraune. In the Chaos ending, he accepts the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado being overrun with demons very well and is even thankful the Kingdom met its end in his lifetime. Shin Megami Tensei IV you see a glimpse of her, but she then disappears, leaving it up to you to decide whether that was really her or an illusion.
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