Lets starts this off with the big ones shall we?

Addictiveness. This game is NOT addictive in any way. Its kind of like a dumbed down version of pokemon that looks somehow better and worse then Pok?mon at the same time. You meander through badly translated engrish, and are given NO direction whatsoever. "leveling" your character seems to only add to how high a level monster you can use, and the ONLY way to level your main demon(the only one that CAN level) is by fusing other demons thousands of times with it. This ends up breaking the game because it wont take you long before you realize "hey, I'm only level 20....but I have around 250 attack and 1-hit every enemy I come across". Then there's the b button. every time you hit it outside of battle, you start in on some long winded speech to ask you if you want to talk, and when you say no, to tell you that you can ride your demon by hitting R. every. Single. Time. I honestly cannot be bothered to go through this whole game, as the language is terrible, the game itself looks worse then most games for the NES, the sounds are painfully dull and annoying, and the story itself is clearly something that was just thrown together at the last minute.

Story. There's a story here, but it doesn't matter. Its the generic ATLUS crap. You're some Japanese kid who for some reason is obviously a white European, you're in some special school, and for some odd reason you have special powers. What's your power? Why, you can play beyblade! Seriously. First thing they do is give you some kind of magical bracelet that holds all your demons in it. And then shoots them out. Back to the story, so for some reason your school has a DEMON SUMMONING MANUAL in it. Makes total sense right? Well the "new kid" at school is also a demon from Valhalla where the imperial forces are rebelling against.....you know what I cant do this. This is seriously the story. You can surely see already how this nonsense, coupled with the fact that it was obviously translated by a Chinese man to Russian, and then a Mexican man to English, makes this games story 100% irrelevant.

Sound. The sounds aren't exactly painful in the physical sense, but they are boring, and I'm pretty sure reused from the other 20 identical games atlus put out that year.

graphics. Oh I'm sure this looks good on a game boy, minus the good. This is one of those games(see ATLUS) where the developers decided "meh, lets make a small amount of effort at detail, and then just throw random paint schemes on everything and make the world itself a jumble of crap that is nearly impossible to navigate". That about sums up the graphics.

Depth. gonna be honest, I cant get far in this game because its just so uninteresting, but I imagine the depth is essentially non existent. lemme make a guess here. You go to hell, kill the demons from the LIGHT version of the game, and game over. The entire time you navigate through tiny maps filled with 3 or 4 enemies, all of which who are exactly the same. You get some extra wrist watches and fuse some monsters, but overall you just use the same 2 monsters for the entire game because everything else is crap. Play it and lemme know how close I am.

difficulty. Well seeing as it doesn't bother to tell you ANYTHING about fusing, leveling up, anything at all, it can be a bit difficult in the beginning. Until you find the place with the star of David over it (the Japanese seem to hate Jews, and thus ALWAYS make their holy symbol the symbol for summoning evil spirits), at which point you fuse about 30 monsters into your main, and the rest is history.

overall. id say dont play this game. if id have bought this game as a youngling, id have returned to the store and demand a refund. this game is slow, boring, and being one of the "shin megami" series, its just a bunch of random crap about demons thrown together. the game is essentially the same as every other atlus game ever made, so if you enjoy their other terrible titles, youll surely love this.?

I think this is a pretty Decent Review, But However. At last I would tweak it so it doesn't look like a rant. other besides that You did pretty good. and Also the only thing that annoyed me was the layout you used for the review. The scrolling annoyed me, were I ended up using reply mode and reading it. nice job!

Hey, I do not mind a rant review every once in a while. Some games simply need to be taken down, it is for the good of us all. This sounds like one of those games. I thought you did a good job. I will make sure to avoid this game. Having said that, I would maybe separate some of the paragraphs into two paragraphs to make it as easy as you can to read. Maybe previewing to see how much the paragraphs look like a while of text?

I thought your descriptions were good, the review was good, keep it up. Please do some more.

Greenage3348

First of all, congrats on your tenth post. Tomorrow you should be officially named a member.

As for this review, you had me rolling, man. xD I typically dislike rant reviews, but I loved this one. It was good, and entertaining. I wouldn't recommend doing rant reviews often, but this was good reading. You brought up some points I'd always wondered about myself (Star of David and evil spirits in games), as well as made a game that otherwise would have been a blemish on the GBA (to me), and gave me a good laugh with it. Better that than nothing. Although I am aware that some people probably enjoy this game, so hopefully they don't find it offensive. Anyway, keep on writing!

I think this was great! Good job! Very entertaining and full of detail. Keep up the good work.

TetraDigm : Mmmmh... 'crap'. Is that word allowed on here? Eh, what do I care, this is one of the most hilarious reviews I've read on here. Though still, I take it seriously. Nice going.

I am unaware if "crap" is considered profanity here, but it sounds a lot less offensive them me calling the game fecal matter, so unless told not to use it I think ill still substitute said words. Trust me this was not a rant. If you want a rant from me, ask my opinion on almost any super Nintendo game. If you could all give a bit more information on what's wrong with the spacing id be happy to try and fix it, as this is how a paragraph is supposed to look, not just 3 sentences followed by 2 blank lines as seems to be what you are wishing of me.

NOTE: please forgive any capitalization errors or punctuation errors as the spell check is not working for me, and i do not care about commas or capital letters.

TetraDigm : In my opinion the spacing was just fine, I'm not complaining. It was really nice to read. Not to mention funny. I only have suspicions about the word 'crap'. But I guess it's nothing serious, there are worse things you can say on here. That was really all I have to nag about here, meaning your review is great overall.

No one is going to even touch on the fact that this review seems to be a bit rude towards the Japanese as a whole? 

'(the Japanese hate Jews, and thus ALWAYS make their holy symbol the symbol for summoning evil spirits)'

I'm very positive that the Japanese do not hate Jews, nor do they harbor any ill will towards them, or at the very least, enough to let such blatant hatred seep into a game. I understand that you may heavily dislike the game, but that doesn't make that a qualification for a review. When you review a game, try to remain unbiased and objective as possible. 

Also, I'll bring up the point that most (if not all) Megami Tensei games are not story-driven, thus the reason for the mediocre plot. They are game play driven, focusing more on bringing up your stats and surviving through harsh odds rather than focusing heavily on plot / character development. 

Overall, this isn't a very good review, rife with spelling and grammatical errors, and reads more like a rant than a full fledged analysis of a game. 

- - ARLD 'Richard'.

Edited to say that they SEEM TO hate, instead of that they do. That was a misstatement that I should have caught in my proof read. Thank you for catching that for me Richard. And it cannot be a "full fledged analysis" because as stated in the review itself, I could not play through this entire game due to multiple things that just make everything about this game completely unpalatable.

Many thanks however for the honest feedback, its good to see that people do evaluate a reviews quality properly. Please note however that it is difficult to "remain unbiased" when a game has absolutely nothing to keep one wanting to play it.

   There is no point in you reviewing a game you haven't played through, I bet you played to the first or second city, then quit because you got bored. Just actually play through it. I have played through both the light and dark versions of this game and it is actually pretty good. I will admit it isn't the best game out there, but give time to play the game, there is actually a great story as you get farther into it.
 I rate the game at at least 7.0 to 8.5

~Creed