The map is a little more condensed and designed around room-by-room than the average hallway-skulker, and the characters' focus on rapid-fire ranged attacks pull the tempo away from the likes of Castlevania and a little closer to something like Cave Story. What I can tell you is that the game features all the hallmarks of a modern 2D action-exploration game - backtracking, key-and-lock character actions, an experience system, stamina-based special attacks and that oh-so-comforting rectangular auto-map - alongside a character-switching gimmick that lets you swap between rescued characters in real time in order to chain their unique abilities or take advantage of familiar SMT elemental affinities. okay, I skipped all the text so I can't tell you why he's there (it's in Japanese and the website says it's non-canon, whaddya want from me?).
Last week's trailer for the imminent Shin Megami Tensei: Deep Strange Journey featured footage of a "fake" 2D pixel-art action game starring SMT mainstay Jack Frost that was so conpiscously real that nobody could, even for a second, believe it to be a mere mockup - and rather than labor the joke, they've dropped the charade and released the game as a free download for PC.ĭeveloped by Japanese indie star and SMT fanatic Krobon's new studio Ladybug, the awkwardly-titled Shin Megami Tensei: SYNCHRONICITY PROLOGUE puts the player in control of Jack Frost as he treks through a demon-infested antarctic hellscape in search of.
Full credit to Atlus, they know exactly when to let a good gag go.