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Atlus replacing Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey soundtrack CDs

JC Fletcher — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:15:00 EST

The nice thing about launch copies of Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey -- aside from the fact that they allow you to play Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey right now -- is that they include soundtrack CDs. The not-so-nice part is that said CDs don't work.

Atlus acknowledged the manufacturing error responsible for the issue, and has instituted a replacement program for the discs. You can click here to sign up for a replacement CD, and you'll be bobbing your head to the sounds of demonic invasion in two to four weeks. Check here for more detailed instructions.

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Send humans to investigate this Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey trailer

JC Fletcher — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:45:00 EST

For some of us, Final Fantasy XIII over on those big systems will be little but a distraction -- because real role-playing games take place in dungeons. Or, for others, Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey will be the perfect game to play during cutscenes. In any case, Atlus is dropping Shin Megami Tensei on an RPG-crowded market on March 23, and sent out the above trailer to remind us all of that fact.

If you're ready to launch an expedition into a game about an expedition into a mysterious demon-filled vortex in the Antarctic, bundle up and check out the trailer.

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Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey poster with GameStop pre-orders

JC Fletcher — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:00:00 EST

The pile of stuff you can acquire with your copy of Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey is steadily growing. Atlus has already thrown a soundtrack CD in with every copy in the first printing, and now it is offering a "mini-poster" with copies of the DS role-playing game pre-ordered through GameStop.

In the press release announcing the bonus, Atlus's Aram Jabbari extolled the somewhat more tangible nature of the poster than the CD, calling it "a bonus item that you can feel, something you can caress gently and hold against your face, something you can take a big whiff of and enjoy." You are, of course, welcome to just put the poster on your wall and look at it occasionally.

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Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey launch copies to include bonus soundtrack

JC Fletcher — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:05:00 EST

At some point, people are going to get spoiled by Atlus's (coincidentally named) "Atlus Spoils" program, in which the company includes some kind of bonus item with pretty much every game it releases. When the publisher doesn't release a game with an artbook or soundtrack or figurine or something, somebody out there is going to be irritated to buy just a game.

That won't happen with Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, though. Atlus announced today that every launch copy of the first-person RPG will include a soundtrack disc. You'll have to wait a bit longer to get that launch copy: the publisher also announced that the release date has moved from the March 10 date found on Nintendo's Q1 schedule to March 23.

Gallery: Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (DS)

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Shin Megami Tensei password system lets your demons make Strange Journeys

JC Fletcher — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:15:00 EST

Atlus revealed a password system for its upcoming Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, through which players will be able to trade copies of their customized, leveled-up, fused demons. In addition to being able to generate your own passwords to share your awesome demons with others, Atlus will release passwords for some rare creatures.

In addition, the updated box art image shows an M rating. Clearly, demon hunting is serious business, to be left to the big kids! As Siliconera notes, there are only ten DS games with M ratings, out of 1,366 total releases.

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Latest Shin Megami Tensei game taking a Strange Journey to North America

JC Fletcher — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:00:00 EST

Well, okay. Maybe being localized by Atlus isn't that strange for a Shin Megami Tensei game. In fact, we'd say it's pretty normal these days!

Atlus announced today that it will bring over the first-person DS RPG Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey in Spring 2010 (of course). The game features the demon negotiation that SMT fans associate with the series, in a new storyline involving a mysterious black hole opening up at the South Pole.

It looks like the kind of thing that would appeal not only to fans of games like SMT 3: Nocturne, but also to people who enjoy the DS's dungeon RPGs like Etrian Odyssey, to which it bears a strong resemblance. Journey into our gallery for screens and art.

Gallery: Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (DS)

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First videos of Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey

JC Fletcher — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:45:00 EST

Are you done with Devil Survivor, and dying to get your DS Shin Megami Tensei on? Atlus has released a trailer and some gameplay footage of Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey. The first-person RPG combines Etrian Odyssey-style dungeon exploring with classic Shin Megami Tensei creatures and some sci-fi elements.

We've embedded the trailer up here so you can get a look at the totally dramatic setting. After the break, see a couple of gameplay videos that are guaranteed to make you nostalgic for vintage Shin Megami Tensei, unless you never played any of those, in which case we don't really have a guarantee.

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Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey is a first-person RPG for DS

JC Fletcher — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:45:00 EST

As usual, a new game countdown site was beaten by leaked Famitsu scans. We already knew that Atlus's new game was called Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey from information found on the site itself. New scans reveal that Strange Journey is a new first-person RPG (like Etrian Odyssey) for DS.

The game, which uses some demon art from Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor for some of its three hundred plus demons, follows explorers of a new demon-filled dimension that has opened up in the South Pole. Players wear upgradable "Demonica Suits" like the one above, which is kind of awesome.

The new game will be out in Japan on October 8.

[Via NeoGAF]

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Atlus countdown pre-reveals Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey

JC Fletcher — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:55:00 EST

Now this is a countdown site we can deal with. Atlus posted a teaser site for a mysterious new game, to be officially revealed July 24. The kind-of obscured teaser image shows Earth with a big hole in it.

Fans ended the suspense immediately by finding the URL for the logo for the teased game hidden in the site's source code. It's since been removed, but not before a Japanese blogger could save it! The logo for Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey can be seen above, along with what could be a release date.

There's still plenty to be revealed, like platform and, of course, what kind of game it is, but we feel a great sense of relief about not having to wait for the title.

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