Nintendo DS: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Review

The Nintendo DS game version of Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor has a decent story line. Three teens are given specially modified COMPS (Nintendo DS like devices) that can summon demons and control them. They'll come in handy since something big is happening in Tokyo. Demons keep appearing and killing people, and in 7 days the city, and maybe the world, are going to be destroyed. It is up to the main character (whom you name and control) to figure out what is going on before it's too late.

The storyline is really interesting and had me hooked from the beginning. The location is great, Tokyo, and has the same hip feel as The World Ends With You. I just wish the gameplay lived up to it.

On first glance it is very much like any other Shin Megami Tensei Nintendo DS game. You can't really explore areas, but you can move from place to place within a list of the wards in Tokyo (Shinjuku, Shibuya and so on) similar to some of the other Nintendo DS games that are out there such as Pokemon. At each place there are a list of things you can do, and if a location has a clock next to it that means an important event happens there that takes up 30 minutes of time - and time is very important in the Nintendo DS game version of Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor. The Nintendo DS gameplay takes place over a series of days and events that happen at certain times must be paid attention to or tragedy may befall you. This part is actually pretty cool. It's sort of like an adventure game, which I dig.