Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse

With power of friendship comes terrible writing. It's so bad and cringey. Final dungeon is a piece of shit too.

like the first one but with a dash of persona. which does not improve things. here the 'law' and 'chaos' routes are bad endings, afterthoughts - the main drive is of the protagonists is to be neutral, to find balance between the bickering angels and demons. there are two so-called neutral routes. one has you destroying the world and every living creature within it to become supreme ruler of the next. seriously. and the other? you and your friends join forces to save the blah from yadayadayada...

This made some solid gameplay improvements over SMT4 but I ended up finding it a little harder to care and keep going than in 4. Combat is close to the best it has ever been in the SMT series, but I feel like a little of the heart in previous games is missing.