Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey: Difference between revisions

[[File:strangejourney.png|frame|<small>[[Super Soldier|"You see before you the state-of-the-art demon fighter of tomorrow.]] [[Dungeon Crawling|This multidirectional, unitized,]] [[Awesome Yet Practical|high-tech fighting machine]] [[Our Monsters Are Weird|is salt-free, tuna-safe]] [[Powers as Programs|and comes complete with 15 megabytes]] [[Applied Phlebotinum|of double-density, wafer-thin alloy]] [[Techno Babble|forming a virtual reality]] [[One-Man Army|of modern demon extermination...]][[Shin Megami Tensei|need I say more?"]]<ref>[[Ernest Scared Stupid|"Do rattlesnakes kiss carefully?"]]</ref>]]

 

 

 

{{quote|''Even so... mankind, desperate for salvation, clung to hope. A brave few begin their mission... To the enigmatic Land of Ruin. Little realizing this harsh '''Journey''' will decide man's fate...''|''Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey'' opening.}}

* [[Barrier Change Boss]]

* [[Berserk Button]]: Some responses to random-encounter demons' questions will simply make them go away (or on rare occasions, the demon will brush it off and forgive you). Some other responses, however...

* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]: Should you choose to do nothing and show mercy during The Holy Dragonslayer EX Mission then {{spoiler|Mother Harlot will have her Dragon devour her so that she will no longer be a tool for the Angels to use}}.

** Which, incidentally, seems like a [[Shout-Out]] to Revelations, 17:16.

* [[Running Gag]]: Anthony falling in love with demons. And causing all sound to stop as a result.

* [[Sarcasm Mode]]: The Compendium profile for the Zhu Tun She:

It is about three feet long, has four legs, is covered in fur, and squeals like a pig. Because there is no animal that remotely fits the description, it is believed to be a completely unknown creature.'' }}

* [[Science Is Bad]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]], [[Subverted Trope|subverted]], [[Inverted Trope|inverted]], and kicked until it runs screaming. With the smörgåsbord of human sins that is the Schwartzwelt, technology is a major exception, and indeed, many demons seem to like it. In less common instances, demons will complain that science allows humans to play god, but such complaints seem to be directed to the [[Humans Are Bastards|humans using the technology]], not technology itself.

* [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form]]: ''All'' demons show up as static in the Demonica's display until you've encountered them, or fused them, at least once, and until then you can't even understand their speech. Taken even further with {{spoiler|Mem Aleph}}, an entity [[Readings Are Off the Scale|so unbelievably powerful that you can't even try to analyze it]] until {{spoiler|a traveler of the Schwarzwelt grants you with the "brilliance" to see it}}.

** Also spoken in so many words by {{spoiler|Yggdrasill}} the first time it hits you with it's time-bending powers.

* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: {{spoiler|The Red Sprite finds the Vanishing Point atop Sector E, and is about to leave the Schwarzwelt, when their plans... hit a snag, so to say.}}