Shin Megami Tensei IV

Shin Megami Tensei IV is a role-playing game and the seventh entry in the Template:Serieslink. It was developed by Index Corporation and published by Atlus for the Nintendo 3DS on May 23, 2013 in Japan and subsequently on July 16 in North America that same year. In Europe and Australia, the game was released only on the Nintendo eShop on October 30, 2014.

Synopsis

Shin Megami Tensei IV follows Flynn, a Casualry living in the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado who begins having strange dreams of two men coaxing him to join their cause and a young girl begging to be revived. Flynn leaves to take the Gauntlet Rite at Mikado Castle, a coming-of-age ceremony where all participants are tested if they are worthy of becoming Samurai. Having been selected as one of the new prentices, Flynn is whisked away from his former life to now live as a Samurai where he is charged with keeping the kingdom safe from the demons in Naraku, an underground dungeon beneath the kingdom. There he meets and befriends fellow prentices Isabeau, Jonathan, and Walter.

However, growing unrest between the kingdom's impoverished Casualries and affluent Luxurors soon lead to incidents of Casualries transforming into demons by reading books rumored to be distributed by the Black Samurai, a masked individual clad in black. While investigating a village raid and failing to capture the Black Samurai, Flynn and the other Samurai are then tasked with descending down the depths of Naraku to find the culprit. Far below they discover the dystopian city of Tokyo, where citizens are locked in a ceaseless struggle against demons plaguing the city streets. As Flynn and the other Samurai begin their search, conflicts and interwoven secrets between the city and kingdom soon emerge and begin to divide the four friends.

For a complete overview of the game's story, see Plot:Shin Megami Tensei IV

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