Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey: Difference between revisions

** *ping* "Warning: Powerful demon detected..."

* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Well, your gun's magic costs you MP, but otherwise, it's got infinite ammo; for its default attack, it requires 0 MP, so you effectively do have an unlimited amount of regular bullets.

** The last question you must answer when you first get the Demonica is: "You have been sent to the Schwarzwelt, where conditions are expected to be harsh. Yet you have advanced equipment, a strong ship, the latest tech, and dependable comrades. Will the Schwarzwelt investigation mission succeed?". The only valid answer is "Yes".

** Played straight at the end of the Neutral path: {{spoiler|"Transfer your power to Arthur?"}} The game doesn't even ''give'' you a "No" option.

* [[Clothes Make the Superman]]: The Demonica suit, which is the ''actual'' thing gaining all the levels and allowing you to speak with demons. In fact, in this game, demons are completely invisible to the naked eye without the Demon Summoning Program! Taking off the suit in the Schwarzwelt is a sure way to die, too; it ''may'' look like an Earthly environment, but the demons forgot to reproduce that pesky thing called "air".

* [[Coincidental Broadcast]]: As the Schwarzwelt Joint Project looks at pictures captured by their probes, the broadcast shows crimes related to the sector they show. [[Earth Is a Battlefield|Antlia]] is shown with a war with Eastern Europe, [[Greed|Carina]] is shown with lootings in Central and South America, [[Lust|Bootes]] is shown with sex crimes in Tokyo, and [[Down in the Dumps|Delphinus]] is shown with pollution in Central Asia.

** In the {{spoiler|Mara's desire}} EX mission, {{spoiler|Mara}} says that she will be patient and wait for the protagonist to beat {{spoiler|Seraph}}, since she {{spoiler|[[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne|doesn't want to be turned into a slime again]]}}.

** Of course, there's also the whole endgame, which has {{spoiler|[[Shin Megami Tensei I|the Chaos Hero turning into a half-demon and the Law Hero transformed into an angel]]}}.

* [[Disc One Final Dungeon]]: {{spoiler|Sector Eridanus}}. Particularly notable in that it does ''not'' cause an [[Interface Spoiler]] since it pretty much fills up the rest of the map, and with the exception of one minor area, the rest of the game takes place on a separate map.

** Not to mention the traps. [[Oh Crap|Oh dear god, the traps]].

** Black Frost and Frost Ace are level 30 and 34 respectively, and both come with Bufudyne (and Black Frost has Agidyne); few other demons around those levels have high-level -dyne spells. In addition, neither one has any weaknesses, and both have several resists and immunities.

** Dominion has Mazionga VERY early (level 14). Nothing else at this point has second-tier spells that hit all enemies. Bootes becomes far easier if you fuse one. Around this time, you can also fuse Morax with a source to cover up his weakness, and the special fusion and source leave the possibilty of him having ''all four elements''.

** The Uber-Pixie you can get through a Password provided by [[Atlus]] themselves starts at Lv 1, but has a magic stat of 10 (normally, Pixies have a 3) and a luck stat of ''99'' (compared to the usual 5). On top of this, it has the spells Megidolaon and Mediarahan for heavy damage on every enemy and full HP Recovery for every ally respectively! Granted, you have to pay a very huge ammount of Macca to summon it from your Demon Compendium, but once you can afford it and level it up accordingly, hooooo boy... {{spoiler|The password itself is: Madoka Ueno}}.

* [[Enemy Scan]]: Another function of the Demonica suit. However, in order to fully analyze a demon, including type, weaknesses, HP, skills, et al, you must encounter them and defeat them several times; if they're already in your party, their actions can also be analyzed by the Demonica and boost the scan rate.

* [[Energy Economy]]: It's not certain if the demons regard Macca as energy, but since you're humans and therefore completely outside the demonic market, energy is almost all it's good for (besides bribing opposing demons to join your side). See [[No Hero Discount]] below.

** It takes a bit of thought to realize it, but {{spoiler|the first four Sectors and their ring connection are what demons see as an inevitable recursion in humanity. Antlia: warfare; subjugation, conquest, and appropriation of something/someone else. Bootes: victors turn their attention to unnecessary luxuries, since nothing can actually imperil their survival. Carina: the luxurious begin extracting luxury ingredients and transforming them at breakneck pace. Delphinus: all you've got ''now'' is worthless, unusable waste... not even necessities. How to ''get'' those necessities? Easy: back to Antlia's warfare, which leads to Bootes again... Given that Eridanus and Fornax aren't so much symbolic as the Schwarzvelt's control center, and Grus is a melange of the ABCD cycle components, we have Horologium as Mem Aleph's idea of a solution to this [[Vicious Cycle]]. Namely, make existence so frenetic and harsh that nothing can even ''slightly'' calm down to begin thinking about luxuries. Basically, an irrevocable [[Death World]] on par with [[Rift|Greenscale's dominion]], crossed with Antlia}}.

*** {{spoiler|Eridanus actually is symbolic in that it represents how some demons like Ouroboros Maia see the new world would be like: a perfect garden where science and nature coexist without humans around to trample it}}.

** {{spoiler|When you fight Zelenin in the Neutral and Chaos routes, one of her attacks is the [[Mind Control]] song that Mastema has [[World of Silence|such big plans for]]. It, naturally, [[Standard Status Effects|inflicts Charm]]}}.

* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: Played straight when {{spoiler|you fight Jack's Squad members}}. The game treats {{spoiler|Soldiers}} as separate demons for combat purposes, meaning that you can still talk to their demons. All of the demons {{spoiler|Jack's Squad}} uses are Dark, so you can't negotiate with them, but "friendly demon" reactions still occur...

** [[Louis Cypher|Louisa Ferre]] (who looks strangely like [[Alice in Wonderland|Alice]])...

** '''[[Gag Penis|Mara]]''', of all things.

* [[Golden Ending]]: Arguably, the Neutral ending is the most sane and optimistic of all three endings, with {{spoiler|the Schwarzwelt being obliterated and Earth returning to normal}}. And this is on top of Neutral being the [[Path of Most Resistance]] (and having a [[That One Boss|bullshit]] [[Final Boss]]), as per ''Shin Megami Tensei'' tradition. See [[Nightmare Fuel]] section to see how the Law and Chaos endings fare in comparison.

** The + endings for the three alignments in ''Redux'' which are all much more optimistic than their vanilla counterparts

** One demon conversation has the demon translate it as its probable intended meaning, "Black Horizon", which the Schwartzwelt certainly is: a zone of blackness enveloping the Earth.

** There's also {{spoiler|Commander Gore, who becomes the "ubergestalt"}}.

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

* [[Improbable Species Compatibility]]: The Myrmecolion is "the result of a lion and ant mating." Wrap your mind around that one.

** There's also the New MegaTen Sub App. Both "true"<ref>''Shin Megami Tensei'' means ''True Reincarnation of the Goddess''.</ref> and "new" can be pronounced ''shin''.

* [[It Got Worse]]: How the Schwarzwelt expedition kicks off. And how it continues afterwards.

* [[It's Personal]]: This is what greets the Protagonist {{spoiler|upon reaching the central chamber of Fornax, and the Tyrants he defeated in the first four sectors proclaim their vengeance towards him}}.