Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor

Okay, so I haven't really had the opportunity to indulge my impulse to buy video games in a while, so you can understand why I'm reduced to a giggling virgin when I see a game like Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor. Really, I love those Japanese turn-based tactical RPGs and I especially am hooked on the whole devil-summoning kitsch that Atlus goes through in developing successor titles to this series. It's times like these that I miss having a PS2 and a life outside of the law.

This latest iteration of the series combines both the demon fusion aspects of the SMT series with a strategy RPG for battles. However, when you choose to attack a particular enemy, you go into a first person view, turn-based RPG system, combining both a Dragon Quest/Final Fantasy type system with a Tactics Ogre kind of deal. Of course, I haven't played this game and probably won't until several months after this post, so I can only speculate how it actually plays, but Gamespot gave it a 9.0 out of 10. . . so it has to be good, right?



Also, it's got sweet metal!