SMT3: Nocturne

[sylf]

I finally got a copy of SMT3: Nocturne. I'm not very far - I just finished the hospital and defeated Forneus. It's fun! But even on hard mode it's pretty easy... I guess it's because I know the Press Turn / 1 More! system back to front from all the Persona games I've been playing.

It's very cyberpunk, though. I really like the style.

Comments

[deckardmagnus]

YES! Great choice!

Best RPG on the PS2 :)

[sylf]

I've been trying FOREVER to get it from Gamestop. I finally said fuck it and got it off Amazon.

[deckardmagnus]

I love Nocturne. Best Megaten game I've played. Great, innovative story and just... fun. I was enthralled the entire way through. The Amala Network side area is worth completing too, but not easy.

And don't worry, it does get harder. I think Nocturne is - by far - the hardest MegaTen game released stateside thusfar. The difficulty is greatest in the middle though; if you train/fuse the right demons along the way, you can make the end really, really, really easy.

[sylf]

Goooooo Debilitate!

For now, I will spam Sukukaja.

[onyxstraten]

Don't worry. It gets much harder. :p Let's see how easy you say it is when you face the Matador.

[sylf]

So far the bosses have been pretty straightforward. Forneus was even easier on Hard than he was on Normal...

Some of the random encounters, though... yikes! I had a random encounter with *7* baddies. And they got to act first. That scared the crap out of me. *laughs*

[onyxstraten]

Yeah, the game starts out fairly easy, then in true Megaten form, the difficulty curve just shoots up.

[sylf]

I went into the network tunnels thing (through the cylinder) and yeah, I pretty much experienced exactly what you described - icky random battles strung together and boss fights where I just had the wrong party to start and couldn't recover after the first turn of exploited weaknesses.

It's fun when I get through it, though!