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Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army, Episode 1!

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I named him Chowder McBread and it is already magical

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this was a good name choice

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also, i love the narumi detective agency

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i have a crazy idea for a post p5 scenario in which the kuzunohas have taken in goro akechi and he's the consultant for the newest raidou kuzunoha and their partner, so he's basically the narumi of the game, doomed to be confined in the office forever

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how did i ever forget that you can just straight up set someone on fire in this game to "teach them a lesson...devil summoner style"

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I miss Victor




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I forgot there were random encounters on the streets. Which begs the question of how Raidou is fighting them? I know that most people can't see demons, but does that mean most people just see him swinging a sword around willy nilly?

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Or was there some bit of lore about the demons making pocket spirit realms so Raidou doesn't look quite so mad...he just vanishes or something instead?

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best not to think too deeply about it, but dang it, i wanna know

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big mood:


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how'd i forget about rin/kaya

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hee ho



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The Kuzunoha style of negotiation is just beating the tar out of someone until they cry and beg for mercy

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THIS ISN'T CREEPY AT ALL



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I love the unstable demon types so much. Their dialogue is always gold




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Even the battle dialogue is good!




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these guys were hiding in the totally not creepy dolls




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KUZUNOHAS DON'T CARE ABOUT PERSONAL PRIVACY



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oh man, i remember those battle dialogues from when you played it before

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good times

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also the sequence with the Large Tarrasque is killing me sdkj

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: Raidou literally beats him up and then plies him with booze. Bad booze. And then Large Tarrasque is like, "Okay, sure, I'll ferry you on my back"

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i love this stupid series so much

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Ah, yes, shit is going down





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this is wonderful


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It's not an SMT game without body horror :')

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welp

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excuse me, mr. raidou the 14th, but your face



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HMMM. WONDER WHO THIS MYSTERIOUS FIGURE COULD BE.





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Boney M. - Rasputin

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oh boy

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BOSS FIGHT





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Being a normal person wrapped up Devil Summoner bullshit never goes well. That's one of the themes I enjoy seeing in all of the Devil Summoner games.

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Can't summon demons but your best friend/love interest/co-worker/family member can? You're going to have a bad time.

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You are going to have a terrible time

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i mean that makes p good sense

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Oh, it absolutely does. But it's funny, because other civilians either just get scared and mildly inconvenienced or they die. With those close to a Devil Summoner, it's a very different kind of experience in suffering

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ignorance is bliss. and death.

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but knowledge is like...

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drags fingernails down face and leave bleeding wounds

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and then maybe death

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i'm holding two options in my hands

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i dislike both of them

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YEP

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it's funny 'cause mainline SMT is all about killing God. Or Lucifer. Or both

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but Devil Summoner games are kind of...Demons are here! We'll keep an eye on them so they don't destroy the world! But we aren't going to kick God or Lucifer's ass.

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Because Devil Summoners need demons to exist, so there's a kind of fridge horror of

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YOU GUYS (And I'm talking specifically about the Kuzunoha Clan) ARE PROBABLY STRONG ENOUGH TO KICK GOD AND LUCIFER'S ASS AND ELIMINATE DEMONS FROM THE WORLD BUT. YOU. WON'T

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why not

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/sweats

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i'm so sad this subseries isn't more popular because i want to read ALL THE META

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t-there there

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huh, the soulless soldier designs in your first photo kind of look like demonicas

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I guess elements of that design go way back

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Now that you mention it, they do have some design similarities. KANEKO

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man, i miss him. wonder if he's still doing stuff for atlus or if he's followed in the footsteps of his self-insert character in persona 2 and fucked off to the velvet room

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if there's anyone who talks to demons irl, it's kaneko

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episode 2!