4/5 ★ – TheRealness408's review of Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse.

We have our third mainline SMT game with a coherent story. In the direct sequel to SMT 4, the main protagonist of the previous game has been kidnapped by the gods, the gods are beefing with each other because thats what they do, and fuck religion. Typical SMT stuff, but with a clear goal of rescuing the main protagonist. The story isn't great, but this is still the 2nd best mainline SMT story so, yeah... The characters are really enjoyable though, which is a second for this series. I'm going to skip the gameplay section since its exactly the same as SMT 4 and reuses the same map. They did drop the alignment system which may annoy some people. I'm not those people. I know I haven't really praised this game in this review but am still giving it 4 stars. The main reason for that is because its the same gameplay as all the previous ones and I dont have anything else to say.