Topic: SMT Action RPG Spinoff Devil Summoner To Be Remastered In June

[Shaymin]

Wrapping up the first "sickos" block of the Direct.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/70441/smt-action-rpg-spinoff-devil-summoner-to-be-remastered-in-june

Following their appearance in SMT III, the Taisho era's greatest detective is being remastered.

Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army, out June 19, is a remake of a 2006 PlayStation 2 RPG. Starring detective Raidou Kuzunoha, the story takes place in the mythical "Taisho 20" (1932 - the Taisho era spanned 1912 - 1926) and sees Raidou solve mysteries in Tokyo with the aid of traditional SMT demons.

The game is available for preorder now with a charge of US$49.99 or equivalent on June 12, with a digital deluxe version available for an extra $15.

[broodwars]

Of all the PS2-era Atlus games to bring back, this wasn't the one I wanted. I was hoping for Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2 to get the remaster treatment, as I'd tried to play the Raidou games back in the day and they were ROUGH. I'm willing to give this a try, but I remember finding these games kinda dull back then compared to some of the more polished entries like Persona 3.

Also, **** you, Atlus, for having Day 1 Cheat DLC for a remaster.

[Ian Sane]

The main character of this game looks a lot like a boss from SMT V that I had a lot of difficulty with and it gave me a bad flashback when he first appeared in the Direct video.

I'm happy to see this because the PS2 versions of the Raidou games are quite expensive these days.  I was never going to try them unless they got a re-release and now this is actually an option (and ironically these days Atlus games tend to be pretty easy to get physical copies of on sale).  I'm assuming the sequel will show up next year.

Digital Devil Saga would be good to get but those are actually pretty easy to find original copies of.  I found sealed copies for less than the price of a full-priced Switch game.  Of course you need a PS2 so that's not ideal for everyone but if you had to pick one or the other for a re-release I would go with the expensive one.