I have never played an SMT game in my life. Either way, I was getting bored so I needed a new MMO to waste my life away on, and I found that my friend was playing an SMT MMO. Named "Shin Megami Tensei Online Imagine," which is a really long fucking name, I decided to try it.


The game wasn't made by Koreans, which was a major plus to me. I was excited to download the thing and start clicking away at shit, which I was taught to do by Koreans. However, I learned that GAMES MADE BY KOREANS AND GAMES MADE BY JAPANESE PEOPLE ARE EXTREMELY DIFFERENT AND SHATTER RULES SET FORTH BY KOREANS.

The good shit

• This MMO has a story. holy shit. AND CUTSCENES. By doing the episode quests, which are ACTUALLY INTERESTING and are not half-assed, you actually get sweet rewards which is always a plus. Also, even better is that whenever you get your friends to help you with the dungeon parts, they get assloads of EXP too. On the flip side, this is really the only way to level, which I'll get to later.
  
  
• Instead of simply clicking and using hotkeys, the combat system actually makes you think, with each maneuver having a counter point. So you can't run up to something and click it and hope it dies, otherwise you're going to get killed.
  
  
• There's not really "classes," since you are not restricted to any skills and you can build skills up in whatever way you want. So I could be a melee dude with fire magic, or a gunner with healing spells, and etc, which is actually pretty cool since I can do whatever the hell I want to do.
  
  
• DEMONS. The whole point of this MMO is to catch demons and fuse them and make cooler demons. Fuck everything else, this is the best part. Plus, you can pretty much manipulate demons' genes by choosing their parents, so if you know what you're doing you can make a pretty sweet demon. Of course, there's always some demons out there that are OP by default (Phoenix, who can revive, has the best AOE heal spell, has an AOE buff, and does sweet damage), but merging them with another OP demon means you get an even more badass demon.
  
  
• You can ride a giant fucking starfish as it sucks on your brain.
  
  
• In dungeons, and from quest rewards, you can actually get cash shop items, which is pretty sweet.
  
  

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And the shit that blows
These are reasons why the game stops being fun after level 10, and any game that is no longer fun after 10, you know something is wrong.

• First, every class sucks except gunners. Melee and magic are horrendously underpowered and worthless. 80% of all monsters are weak to guns. I have never, ever seen a monster weak to melee-type weapons, and enemies weak to magic elements are few and far in between. Unless you have an attack demon, you are fucked as a magician. Plus if you get hit by ONE monster combo, you are pretty much dead. Also, you have extremely low MP, moreso than what is normal as a mage in regular MMO's, even if you put points into intelligence, so you have to constantly eat chakra gum/candy. Anyway, melee takes FOREVER to kill anything. Mostly because of the knockbacks of the combat system, which really piss me off and only benefit gunners, actually. Because melee takes forever, you really lose durability on items, which I'll get to next. Also, melee seems to be the only class that has monsters that can reflect melee weapons. Lame.
  

• The durability system sucks so much. You pay OUT OF YOUR ASS to try and fix one item, and even then, 90% OF THE TIME YOU ALWAYS LOSE AT LEAST 1 OR 2 DURABILITY. This forces you to continually be finding/purchasing new items, which is extremely stupid in the case of rare items. Of course, the only way to repair your item 100% without permanent max durability loss is... cash shop!
  

• The so-called "events" held by the GMs are not "events" so much as they are shitty ways to try and make you buy from the cash shop, or waste your time. Seriously, any event that makes me waste my time gathering items that I could sell for good cash and then giving them to a GM in exchange for fucking emotes is not worth my time. Also, for every event, there are always 3 promos for the cash shop. "Spend $500 or more and get 50% more AP!" Who the fuck would spend 500 dollars on this shitty game?
  
  
• As if knowing the promos existed by reading the patcher which I am forced to use every time I start the game, they have the liberty of displaying the promos every five fucking minutes in a marquee across the top of the screen.
  
  
• Leveling in this game is worse than Korean games, WHICH IS SAD. The exp becomes unbearably bad after level 20, at which you wonder why you are still playing this game. By 20, the only way you can pretty much level is by finding people who are doing their episode quests and begging them for you to come with. The only other way you can actually level is by using EXP coins from... the cash shop!
  
  
• Traveling takes FOREVER to get ANYWHERE. The only way you can become faster is learning how to mount a cerberus at level 20. This is good, until you realize 1) The cerberus takes up a slot in your precious demon list 2) The ring you need to equip to mount has 10 durability and loses 1 durability pretty much every 1-2 minutes you're riding your cerberus. Later, you can mount a Feng Huang (bird) and a Decarabia (starfish). However, these drop at a pretty much .01% drop rate, but if you don't want to do that, just buy it at... the cash shop!
  
  
• This entire fucking game depends on the cash shop. Without it, you are pretty much fucked. For fast travel, you need to buy these threads for like three bucks that let you teleport wherever you want. Also, to get ANYTHING cool you have to buy it from the cash shop. The game brags and says that "you can customize your character however you like," which is a big fucking lie because there are extremely limited choices in every town shop, and good/cool clothes can only be purchased with AP.
  
• This game is hosted by Aeria games, no wonder it sucks.
  

CONCLUSION: This game sucks, so don't play it. I am seriously disappointed. The concept is awesome, but god, the execution is terrible.