Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey: Difference between revisions

* [[The Messiah]]: {{spoiler|Mastema fancies you and Zelenin as this for Law. In many ways, the restored Gore ''is'' this for Neutrality.}}

* [[Messy Pig]]: Horkos and his cronies. Which he will sometimes [[I'm a Humanitarian|eat.]] This restores his health and [[Puzzle Boss|confers any status ailments his food is currently suffering.]]

* [[Money Spider]]: Minibosses found through "Enemy Search" always drop extremely valuable Forma. You will need to save a few of these to [[Item Crafting|assemble new equipment]], but you'll probably need to build that particular item only once, and random encounters yield so little money that Enemy Search Forma becomes your best, and primary, source of income.

* [[Monster Compendium]]: Two kinds: Demon Analysis lets you review the stats, attributes, and skills of any demons you've encountered on the field. The more traditional Demonic Compendium only keeps track of demons that have joined you, either by negotiation or fusion, and you can register your customized demons for summoning them as many times as you want (for a price.)

* [[Power Limiter]] / [[Power Nullifier]]: {{spoiler|Alilat.}}

* [[Pure Is Not Good]]: As per ''Shin Megami Tensei'' tradition, this is why neither Law nor Chaos classifies as a good guy club. It doesn't help that each faction thinks "pure" and "good" are perfect synonyms.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Invoked by minor character Anthony to cover his attraction to a Moh Shuvuu, a [[Lolicon|"young-looking" female demon]]. Unfortunately, she seems to have the mindset of a child when you speak to her.

* [[Recurring Boss]]: In an interesting variation to the trope, {{spoiler|later in the game you fight "upgraded" versions of previous bosses, who look very different but still have the same elemental weaknesses}}.

* [[Sidequest]]: The EX Missions. They make up a lot of the game's content, and some are necessary to make certain demons-even certain ''types'' of demons-available for fusion. {{spoiler|The toughest [[Bonus Boss]] is also confronted in one of these.}}

* [[Snowy Screen of Death]]: Since you (as the Protagonist) are seeing out through the Demonica's display, death in combat yields this.

* [[Social Darwinist]]: Asura.

* [[Some Kind of Force Field]]: The last wrench the Schwarzwelt tosses in the Protagonist's path, after the Dark Zones, conveyor corridors, dimensional pocket spaces, warp tiles, and {{spoiler|pathways in the air}}, is a single-room maze filled with {{spoiler|invisible walls that become briefly visible when bumping directly into them}}.

* [[Southern-Fried Genius]]: Irving.

* [[Spiritual Successor]]: to ''[[Soul Hackers|Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers]]'' where the "aps" system comes from.

** Not to mention that many of the game's sprites for the demons come from the Devil Summoner games.

* [[Stable Time Loop]]: Happens in one particular Extra Mission. {{spoiler|In an earlier battle requested by the Disir, you'd have been killed by Yggdrasil if it weren't for the intervention of someone more powerful: Yourself from much later on in the game, sent back by the Norns who used to be the Disir who made the request.}}

* [[Super Prototype]]: {{spoiler|The Lightning, rebuilt with technology (and weaponry) far more advanced than the Red Sprite and its brethren}}.

* [[Suspicious Videogame Generosity]]: Uncharacteristically for a mainline ''[[Shin Megami Tensei|Megaten]]'' game, you'll find Terminals (Save Points that can teleport you back to home base) relatively near Sector bosses, and often with a Fountain of Healing nearby. The Demonica is even generous enough to advise you when you're getting near "a powerful demon," even those that {{spoiler|lay hidden in ambush in Sector F, who are nice enough to camp out right ''after'' Terminals and Fountains}}.

* [[Theme Naming]]: The various Schwarzwelt sectors are code-named from A to H as the Red Sprite navigates them. In turn, each initial denotes [[Stellar Name|the name of a constellation]], like '''A'''ntlia, '''B'''oötes, '''C'''arina, '''D'''elphinus, and so on.

** The Red Sprite, the Lightning, Elve, and Blue Jet are all named after atmospheric phenomena.

* [[There Was a Door]]: {{spoiler|The resurrected Tyrants in Sector Fornax}} like to burst into scene by plowing through walls. Which would be quite fearsome and intimidating {{spoiler|if the Demonica hadn't [[Enemy-Detecting Radar|warned you about their presence]] minutes beforehand}}.

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Irving and Chen, your inventors in the laboratory. Well, Chen is technically a woman, but the trope is otherwise played straight.

* [[Tragic Monster]]: {{spoiler|Norris}}

* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: One of the most annoying things that can happen to you in the game - a demon takes your offerings in negotiation when you ask it to join you, looks at you again, and then ''changes its mind'' and leaves! This only happens with Law or Chaos demons that you don't share alignments with, and the "Tea Amity" Sub App will make them reconsider and join you with perfect reliability.

* [[Urban Segregation]] / [[Lust]]: Sector Bootes takes place in a shabby red-lights district inhabited by demons, but the primary landmark of the sector is Mitra's Palace. The palace itself towers over the other buildings in the city, and is full of lavish decor and beautiful feminine figures in the background, though several levels are actually torture chambers where Mitra carries out his experiments. In the game's story, there are a string of sex murders going on in Tokyo as humanity grows more and more depraved.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: Horkos bellows "[[Gratuitous Italian|BUONO]]" whether things are going well for him (gorging himself) or not (getting shot with the Horkos Buster).

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Mitra when you confront him in his palace, and {{spoiler|Mastema}} in the Chaos path.

* [[Villainous Glutton]]: Horkos. Dear god, Horkos.