crdy123: What is this game??? What kind of game is it, what do you do. I've heard a lot of people talking about this game and I have no idea what it is. It'd be awesome if someone would fill me in on this game, thanks guys!

ovoon: It's a game that takes ideas from a JRPG, Pokemon and a visual novel, and shoves it all into one amazing PS2 game. It came out in 2008, so it's not dated at all, and the game is just...amazing on every level. It's my personal favorite game of all time.

Also, I recommend starting with this one over Persona 3. They're much different games, even though they have almost the exact same idea and gameplay.

mrcrispy83: Honestly the difficulty of SMT games tend to get overrated, to make people feel better about themselves for playing a "hard" niche series. You just have to actually use magic and stuff like buffs and debuffs and such instead of just mashing attack. Like in Devil Survivor, it's not really hard, it's just that physical mc/party builds are absolutely terrible (because there's only enough skills to make one good physical attacker, and you already have a physical oriented character in your party for most of the game) and grinding is pretty much pointless so you can't use it to fix your mistakes.

Most of the difficulty is in the final bosses and optional bosses some of which can get pretty cheap, like the Demifiend which basically has only one viable strategy and still kinda sorta heavily luck based. But the difficulty level in say P1 and 2 (at least the first part anyway) is considered to be pretty trivial even if you jack up the difficulty, and the only things that can really kill you can kill you on pretty much any difficulty. P3, most of the game is trivial but the Tartarus bosses have a tendency to be random spikes and ebbs, and pretty much all the difficulty is from being forced to rely on shitty AI that doesn't even work properly and the inability to customize your party members. Thankfully P4 has a more even difficulty throughout.