Isn’t it always the way that the things you’ve been searching for are in the last place you expected to find them? I once found my house keys in a sock drawer years after I’d already replaced them, for instance. I also found one of the year’s best RPGs hanging out at a music festival.
I recently spent the weekend at Download Festival here in the UK, where even near-endless rain and the blokes in the tent next to us playing the same three Limp Bizkit songs on repeat until 4am did little to dampen spirits.
The highlights were many. Fall Out Boy pulled out a career-spanning set. Limp Bizkit attracted the biggest crowd of the weekend for muddy mayhem. Sum 41 delivered a blistering farewell. But among all the carnage SEGA quietly delivered an extra surprise for attendees: a free demo ofShin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance.
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Now, here at GAMINGbible we love a bit ofSMTV. Wegave the original a 9/10, and we’re currently lovingall the new bells and whistlesVengeancebrings to the table.
Seeing a game likeShin Megami Tensei V: Vengeanceat a festival like Download, nestled in amongst some of the biggest rock and metal acts in the world, it just felt right. I daresay the venn diagram of metal fans and enjoyers of Atlus-developed RPGs is a circle, and nothing I saw over the weekend disproved that theory.
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“It feels like there’s levels to it,” Frozemode’s Cho-Hollow told me during a rare break from the rain. “I need to play it a little more and learn the ropes.”
Given this is a band whose current lineup of games includesBaldur’s Gate 3andElden Ring, I think we can safely assume these guys know exactly what they’re talking about when it comes to video games.
Certainly, this was the general feeling I picked up from a lot of the visitors who might not have playedSMTVbefore, but the consensus is clear: it’s a game worth persevering for and, I suspect, Download and SEGA may well have just converted a whole new legion of fans to the world of the brutal RPG series.
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Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance is available now
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