You Got Games on Your Phone?: A Look at Shin Megami Tensei D x 2 (Closed Beta!)

Once Again, You Are The Chosen One Shin Megami Tensei finally hit the mobile platform. Of course, your girl is ready for that existential doubt to be released to the inter-webs. First, players choose between a girl or boy character and begin their journey. Players immediately look upward to this tall cybernetic being with an eyeglass, that comes through with the classic video game/anime anecdote “You are the chosen one” (give it on up for affirmation y’all). Then, followed by a classic “What, why me?” (luckily you can’t choose between races because I don’t think this is an accurate depiction of what would have happened if you were a black character). By the end of the whole monologue, the main point I got from that conversation was: “So, we’re in a war that you are now forced to participate in. Here are these demons. Learn how to use them. Protect the world from this politically shifted dilemma about the daily human experience. Now, go!” Nothing different from the usual Shin Megami Tensei games.

What I enjoyed about previous games was that the storyline was a bit deeper before the player gets into the nitty-gritty battle stuff. In D x 2 it feels almost like we were immediately thrown in the middle of something unexpected. They do this often, but in this case it felt like there was no reasoning behind being the chosen one. No story to reflect on. Rather you are given various mini-stories and kind of pushed to do your own searching for purpose. They do continue with the “make…