However, instead of affording another turn to the player when they hit a weakness, in Strange Journey, they are instead offered an opportunity to follow up the attack with demons that share the same… let’s say, moral disposition to the player character, which made building a capable team more complex than I originally anticipated. The added CG helps inject a bit more drama to the event scenes.Īs for the combat, it’s the standard SMT fare where characters are often weak or strong against certain types of attacks like fire, ice, wind, holy, dark and more. While it’s a shame we didn’t get an English voice option, the Japanese VA did an admirable job in their roles and I could feel the personalities of the various characters coming through with their performance.Įven though there was already quite a lot of content available in the original release, the Redux adds 3 more endings to the list as well as a slew of new demons to encounter and fuse. The presentation has received a significant bump as well as now that all main event scenes are fully voiced in Japanese and there were newly drawn CGs that were used to accentuate the severity of various events, which was a nice touch. As for the newly constructed dungeon, it’s about as pleasant to explore as its namesake makes it out to be, and while it was decidedly more difficult than the story related areas, the various exclusive rewards made it well worth the effort. The overarching story is renewed in part thanks to the addition of a brand new character named “Alex”, who first seemed bent on my destruction, but as I made my way through the “Womb of Grief”, I began to learn more about her motives and saw her as much more than just a deadly assassin. Delving into ambiguity and the subjective nature of morality has always been a strong suit of SMT, and it’s no different here. Luckily, the similarities end there as once the expedition makes landfall, they’re not greeted by an alien entity but by demons and angels thought only to exist in legends.Īs is the case with with most of the mainline SMT games, there’s a strong focus on the ideals of law and chaos without making one or the other seeming too much of the “right” choice to make. To be fair, Strange Journey was originally released in 2009 while the book that inspired the movie was released in 2014 so there’s a bit of food for thought for those interested. If that sounds strangely familiar to the plot of the movie, “Annihilation”, that’s because it’s basically the same premise. Putting together the best and the brightest humankind can muster, they set out an expedition to explore this strange zone with the hopes to put a stop to its expansion. When a mysterious black hole forms near the South Pole, mankind is put to the test as the slowly expanding menace threatens to cover the entire world. The brand new character, “Alex” is out to make your life more difficult or easier depending on how you approach what she has to offer.
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