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That old man probably could even remember the old Tokyo... and demons are just a daily occurrence, like rain. I wish Atlus would remake these games and add more worldbuilding and atmosphere.

Very well made and researched!

A designer: So... how many bird demons you want? We only have a few models... NINE's director: *YES. ALL OF THEM. AT ONCE.*

Oh this is just Dark Corners of the Earth in a normal, even *good* day.

16:24 Ogre hits the Griddy

I love your videos on SMT NINE. They're always fun and informative to watch. (Also I really liked your choice of music throughout. Very fitting).

Unrelated (I am halfway through the video) but does anyone know why Virtue’s Devil Summoner design hasn’t reappeared in a modern Megaten game besides Persona 3 Reload?? Why do they cut out one of the nine orders of angels in most 3D games?

Of course you used the Demon Haunt theme for the Unicorn segment, since its return is the most significant addition in Vengeance

Small note on Coatlique - her palleteswap history technically goes even further back, as she was an Echidna palleteswap in Megami Tensei II before her SMT1 appearance. I would assume because of them both being associated with serpents and being viewed as "mother deities" in megaten's context. As for the Furies being split into three separate entities - they are in persona 1, alongside the harpy sisters and, I think, an extra harpy edit (Siren I think?). Giten Megami Tensei bloats the harpy recolors even further, as the Moirae are harpy recolors in that game as well (and part of the raptor race for some reason)

very thoroughly researched and well presented. this kinda thing scratches my brain so hard, having my formative megatens be 4/4a/sj made seeing stuff like thor as titan or ananta as orochi or all the divines so weird but fascinating, and the rabbit hole of art/asset reuse can even exist across the past 3 decades of the series as potential/possibly unintentional comparative mythology really is part of what makes megaten so special as a video game drawing from culture and theology

super interesting! i really like when RPG devs get clever with palette swapping/reusing rigs. of course, something like just changing the color and associated element is pretty lame, but the limitations can make for some creative solutions while still saving resources

This is such a dumb skill. Why did they give this boss this skill? There's literally nothing special about the skill itself, it's a marginally stronger (it has 145 power as opposed to 120 power but even that is nullified by it having negative affinity) but slightly more expensive (p sure if I did my math right it has 35 MP cost as opposed to 30 MP) Mazanma. With no additional effect. _And it reuses the same animation on top of that._ why does this boss have this skill

Deepest Sonic Boom lore.

Imagine giving your boss monster a skill with negative proficiency lol Curious as to why they did that, truth be told.

I hope this means ATLUS realized people actually want a new devil summoner, rather than a new stylish, but generic RPG. Honestly a new raidou style game with an old manga styled menu/end of battle screens would be sick. Maybe make a Geirin Kuzunoha game, since Raidou 2 has multiple endings, but Nagi becomes the next Geirin in all of them.

I really enjoyed this video, I love when people analyze animation details in games

I greatly appreciate this video

This reminds me of the animations of the first two Pokémon Stadium games in just about every aspect... Animal monsters behave like animals and weird monsters pull out cool twists you wouldn't expect from their more modern animations. For example, Decarabia's "shell" reminds me of Jynx' faint animation: two completely unexpected but cool and welcome behaviours that enhance the monsters' designs.

Rare and horrifying video of smt NINE

this is so interesting ,thank you for collating it and getting into why each animation works/doesn't

ayo pokemon got nothin on this

We need more MegaTen content like this. Examining details of any of the games

God I wish NINE came out on the ps2 instead of the Xbox

I love how the confusion animation is just spiiiiiiiiiiiiiin

beautiful

Why would you lie and say NINE isnt a masterpiece

genbu/xuanwu spins as a reference to gamera I think

Really cool video

These animations are so much better than what they do today, and so many demons that aren't on 3d mowadays are here too, what a shame

This animations weren't used for the Kuzunoha series?

This video is great, and showing the credits for the animator at the end was pretty cool. Seeing how much effort was put in these animations only for the game to do badly and barely being playable these days is so sad

2:39 the guy became a Gamera lol. Hey thanks for this video, i wanted to play NINE for a loooong time, it's nice to see videos about SMT NINE,very few people talk about this game (tho there are reasons...such as being somewhat hard to emulate, being an OG XBOX exclusive game and Japanese-only. Hope Atlus brig this game again or some fans do something idk)

This is the coolest video regarding Megaten in a while. I had such a blast seeing these examples you displayed. I want to go through the hassle of somehow being able to play the game just for these animations

>video about a game's animations >shows the credits' section with the animators at the end Neat.

Kodama is a vibe

Baal covering his goblet while running is amazing.

Always nice when youtube recommends me a great vid like this one ❤❤❤❤ i fw u vroh

SMTNINE ANIMATIONS LFGGG

You're goated for this

I hope someone makes a translation of this game someday, it really makes me curious

>Has wings >Flaps arms instead 10/10

Xuanwu spin.... Like

I've always had a slight fascination with NINE and how little there was floating out there about it until Marsh shed a spotlight on it. Fantastic video that just makes we want to check out the game even more.

1:20 This actually breaks my heart, somebody cheer him up!

2:39 driving when a blue shell is approaching be like

LET'S GO!!!! I FOUND THE ONE OTHER SMT NINE FAN!!!!!

Oh man, such a crime that not a single one of these were reused. Remind me of Pokemon Stadium's animations, so annoying but full of personality.

I appreciate your hard work! SMT Nine is such a mysterious game glad there is someone like you to document it! Also, I don't know if you remember me but am the guy that asked for the Nekomata animation on Twitter

Awww, some animations look really cute. Some are absolutely creepy

The best one is ANUBIS GETTING UP FROM THE GROUND TO WALK AND RUN TO THEN SIT BACK ON THE GROUND 😭