by PartridgeSenpai Mon Nov 29, 2021 4:45 am
And just before the end of the month, I managed to finish Megami Tensei: Last Bible! A very interesting game, given the time. So many wild changes made from the jump from console to handheld, most of which seem to be in the service of gearing the game more towards kids. You can save anywhere, do demon fusions anywhere, the game has no true game overs and just kicks you back to the inn (while taking half your money) when you die. Though it is very grindy, it's also just generally quite an easy game compared to the Famicom Megami Tensei games (which are hilariously mean-spirited, even for Famicom RPGs) or SMT 1 that came out a few months before it.
I'll have a longer write up done up about it in the Beaten thread sometime soon, but I'm super glad I gave this a shot for this month's TR! This was actually made by the same folks who'd go on to make Devil Children, so it was a very cool look into what is effectively the history of that series as well. Though both aesthetically and from the conceit of its marketing (down to selling two and then three versions of the game), it's pretty clear that Devil Children was a Pokemon competitor, but it's so wild to see a '92 GB game from the same folks ALSO be around monster collecting and ALSO have a feature to battle your monsters against your friends' monsters!
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