

In order to accomplish this, they’ve been ordered to protect two specific people-a Devil Summoner Named Arrow, and a scientist named Yasuhiro Onda. Soul Hackers follows the story of protagonist Ringo and her cohort Figue-two digital entities created and subsequently turned human by a godlike machine known as “Aion”-as they rush to prevent the Phantom Society from enacting a plan which would spell certain doom for the entirety of the world. “Better late than never” probably doesn’t apply, here. It’s been over a decade since the last Devil Summoner game came out, though-surely it finally managed to form some kind of identity with Soul Hackers 2, right? In my personal opinion, no-but that didn’t stop it from me having an absolute blast with it!
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The series made a radical shift after two games-switching from traditional turn-based combat to something more action-oriented-and, because of that, has never had as solid an identity as other spinoffs. It also, however, is unique in terms of gameplay.

For starters, the series has always favored a futuristic sci-fi setting for its games, and was among the first to not do the whole “doomed world” schtick that the series is well-known for. The Devil Summoner series is surprisingly old-with the first DS game being released all the way back in 1995 (it’s also the only one that never left Japan)-and is fairly unique as far as SMT spinoffs go. On the other hand, it feels like we have so many SMT games (not that I’m complaining) that it can be easy to lose track of individual titles, or even entire series-and that’s where Devil Summoner comes in. Personally, I think it’s great-I love , and having as many options as we do has always made me happy. From the long-running, wildly popular Persona, to lesser-known ones like Devil Survivor, ATLUS has a pretty long track record of taking their iconic demon-centric RPG in multiple directions at once.

The Shin Megami Tensei series has produced quite a few spinoff series over the year (with SMT almost falling into spinoff territory itself).
