Now that I'm at a point in the demo where I can power-level my classes, this is starting to become a whole lot of fun.  More options to customize my characters with is always a good thing.

So is the demo pretty much all grinding fetch quests and streetpass tags (for rebuilding Norende)?  Or am I missing something plot-related that I'm actively supposed to do?  It's fine either way since it's just a demo and I'm actually enjoying it a lot (it's been a while since I've played something like FFV or Tactics).  I'm just wondering if there is something specific I'm supposed to be doing in order to complete the demo or get whatever bonuses carry over to the main game (if any).

I need a Doctor.  I might've just exploded from the awesome.  Seriously, this had to happen!

w00t!! 

Very happy to see this!

I hadn't thought of that.  Then again, that's a rare and refreshing example of an OT3 without the typical romantic triangle drama. 

Unlike say, Dean x Rebecca x Avril in Wild Arms 5 where they pretty much fit the same roles as the Arcadia threesome (Hero/Childhood Friend/Mysterious Waif).  That probably wouldn't have been so bad if Dean wasn't such an idiot when it came to noticing a girls feelings, or if Rebecca didn't toe the line of becoming a bitchy tsundere so often.  Sad part is, Rebecca was still my favorite of the three main girls in WA5.  :/

Speaking of Wild Arms triangles, Rudy x Cecilia x Jane was actually quite decent if subtle...well, as subtle as one can get when Jane is involved.

Echoing this.  One of my favorite scenes was the dialogue between Lucia and Hiro after the avalanche on Zulan Mountain.

I'm paraphrasing here, by the way:


It's that moment that you begin realizing that ZOMG She really cares!  Even if she isn't fully aware of that yet.

I'm so glad someone else mentioned this.  I swear, take away the humongous mecha and overbearing religious rhetoric and you'd still have one of the best star-crossed love stories I've ever seen.  Hell, I felt for Fei even in the beginning because you knew he and Alice liked each other, but tradition forbade them from ever being together.

I love Vanille's VA.  Then again, I love hearing accents in dubs besides the usual American.  Vanille's accent really helped to zazz up the typical "genki girl" that she was trying to be, while Fang's accent just made her that much more badass. 

Am I a horrible person for wanting to get the the game just so I can hear the battle theme in an actual fight?  Because that and having never given either of the games a fair shake are among my primary reasons for getting this.  *.*

Soul Hackers tomorrow...and I still have yet to get through Strange Journey, Devil Survivor OC or 2, or even Nocturne.  I really need to stop spreading myself so thin!  ~_~

That is probably the coolest victory dance I have ever seen in a JRPG...

I've played both games on my modded PS2, which miraculously still works after all this time.  No problems at all here.

I can understand that.  Then again, I feel as though I've been weaned on "too much story" or "too much drama" lately.  I'm not sure which, but I feel I need a bit of break from that while getting something that still makes you think.  I hear SMT is famous (or perhaps infamous?) for that in a way, though I could be wrong.

And here I haven't even started on DeSu2...

So after many years of searching, failing, and watching the game get snatched before my eyes numerous times, I finally got my hands on SMT: Nocturne.  Now I just need to get Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2 and I can at least start to feel complete.

A question, though : For someone whose only SMT-verse experiences are the Persona series, some bits of Strange Journey and DS:Overclocked (working on both at the moment), and the Imagine MMO, what should I expect from this?

Happy for this.  I had considered hunting down KH1 and Re:Chain of Memories for the PS2, but if these are coming here then I won't worry about that and pick this up instead.

And dat cover...I don't think I've ever seen Sora look that badass.  Ever.

Liking the answers.  I think I'll pick up the 3DS title and try it out.  I only have Devil Survivor Overclocked and LoZ: Ocarina of Time at the moment, so they could use a new friend.  Might try to find Radiant Dawn as well.  There's a couple of Gamestops relatively close by that I can look at.