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.

Send humans to investigate this Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey trailer originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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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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First videos of Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Most handheld strategy fans probably know about three “Dept. Heaven” games from Sting: Yggdra Union, Riviera, and the recent Knights in the Nightmare. However, there was another game in the series, called Yggdra Unison: Beat Out Our Obstacle, that was only released on phones in Japan. Now, Atlus has announced that it is releasing Yggdra Unison on the DS in Japan this December.

According to 1UP, the spinoff title is a real-time strategy game with a “mixture of Western-style unit deployment and Japan-style RPG tactics,” in which eleven armies fight to claim territory. It features the same card system found in Yggdra Union. Since the thing was just announced just now there’s no word on localization, but Atlus has released all the other the Yggdra games here so far.

Atlus porting Yggdra Union spinoff to DS originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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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]

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey is a first-person RPG for DS originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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