Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey: Difference between revisions

Cut off from the real world, all you can hope to do is push further into the Schwarzwelt... for some answers, and for a way out.

 

 

 

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* [[100% Completion]]:

* [[Faceless Goons]]: What most members of the Strike Team are reduced to, thanks to their Demonica helmets. You may know their names, and they may sometimes have individual field sprites and battle stances, but you'll only see the faces of a select few. It seems to work against them, as many [[Red Shirt|Strike Team members end up getting killed rather quickly]].

* [[The Fair Folk]]: There's a recurring series of side-missions where you help a Fairy Pixie build a Fairy village. These ones are generally pretty nice to you since you recruited them; enemy fairies, on the other hand, can be very mischevous and cruel.

* [[Five-Man Band]]:

** [[The Hero]]: Protagonist.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|In the Neutral path's ending, and is referred to as such by the surviving crew}}.

* [[Holier Than Thou]]: Even mentioned by Jimenez.

* [[Horny Devils]]:

** A side-quest sequence has a crew member who's got a severe crush on one female demon after another; granted, some of the more humanoid ones ''are'' very pretty, and the dialogue with them can sometimes get very flirty.

** Lampshaded by the game itself as {{spoiler|each and every time the crew member reveals a new crush, even the music stops to show the Protagonist's mute horror}}. [[It Got Worse|It gets worse]] for the crewmate when he tries to invoke tropes such as [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]] and [[Defrosting Ice Queen]], much to his intended's disgust.

* [[Hot Scientist]]: Zelenin is the team brain and is considered extremely attractive, and in fact, it's implied she worries her male colleagues see her as ''just'' "the eye candy".

* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]: Many demons will be quick to point this out, and the Schwartzwelt itself is essentially a hell on Earth, with half of it being a mockery of modern human society and the other half being a tribute to the power of the demons. The more wild/bloodthirsty demons clearly state how awed they are by the bloodshed and destruction humans produce with a grudging respect/obvious distaste, though, of course, demons are just as big as hypocrites as humans are. It's still possible to convince some demons that mankind isn't so bad though. {{spoiler|Jack's Squad plays this trope straight; Negotiation with them in battle will only earn you insults, even though you're a human just like them, and they experiment on demons for profit and personal gain, not to mention how they kidnap and successfully fuse Jimenez with Bugaboo}}.

* [[Humans Are Warriors]]: Quite a few demons will end up being impressed by the strength the humans hold, particularly yours, as the main character. Also, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKhE56vOidI Morale] is a song mostly attributed to the humans, and it's a triumphant military theme.

* [[Humans Through Alien Eyes]]: And like the above, this is particularly evident in the Negotiation sequences.

* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: It's pretty much a given that a fair number of the demons wandering around can't see humans as much more than tasty treats. Hariti ''used'' to be this way, but renounced it quite some time ago (although she ''does'' need human-flavored underworld pomegranates to temper withdrawal every now and again).

** Hariti's story in the game actually parallels her story in Buddhist mythology.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]:

** There's a [[Mascot Mook|Jack Frost]] in a Demonica suit as a special-password demon. Its name? ''Demonee-Ho''.

 

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