Atlus updated the official Shin Megami Tensei IV website with loads of new details. Dengeki published a preview of its own as well. For information compiled from both sources, read on below.
Party Growth
– More experience points can allow demons to increase health and power
– Demons can grow by learning new skills
– Will be easier to hit an enemy’s weak point with new skills
– Battles will become easier with better tactics
– Some demons will level up
– Other demons can “Ash Level Up” to turn into a completely different demon
Whisper Events
– Demons can teach you their skills as they grown
– Will become a fully grown up samurai after learning skills from different demons
Burroughs, the fairy
– “Burroughs”: Operating System found in the Gauntlet
– Burroughs is an entity navigating various Samurai activities
– Burroughs also runs the “Demon Summons Program”
– Demon Summons Program is installed in the Gauntlet and manages the Demon’s assignments, etc.
– When a Samurai is chosen after completing the Gauntlet Ritual, they are provided with demon summoning gauntlets
– All Gauntlets come with the Burroughs operating system installed
– Unclear who created Burroughs
– Will help you manage quests by by registering each one you accept
– Quests will include objectives such as retrieving certain items and ingredients for people or defeating demons
Digital Devil Service (DDS)
– Social Network Service
– Demon-users can meet
– Through 3DS StreetPass, DDS can be used to boast about your Demons to other Samurai, Demon training, and indiscriminate fusion
– DDS card will include a visual presentation of your character, along with an attached demon, that shows their level and skills
– The demon that is used in DDS can bring back rare items as gifts and can even gain stats
Samurai Missions
– Requests received by people and various organizations who try to establish monasteries are called “Quests”
– Burrough manages those quests
– Progress by completing quests
Challenge Quests
– “Challenge Quests” can be completed alongside the main story at any time
– These quests are like side stories separate from the main story
– Over 100 Challenge Quests included
Setting/Story
– Convent is Shin Megami Tensei IV’s main setting
– Mikado of the East’s civilization shares similarities to that of Europe’s Middle Age period, where King Ahazuya Mikado rules the lands
– The King is just a symbolic title
– The Convent controls the land in actuality
– With the voice of God on their side, the Convent is an organization that shares knowledge
– They demonstrated their power to the nation with their research division, while providing new doctrines to the citizens. With all that and more, the convent has the power to influence the entire nation
Characters
– Hugo: 40 years-old; shrewd man who is currently the Abbot of the Convent; authoritative and brazen; not very compassionate, so he’s despised by many members of the Samurai; high status lets him give advice to King Ahazuya Mikado
– Gabby: character one day received a key position to support Hugo; Hugo’s right-hand woman; carries out tasks for the abbot; not many people know of her origin
– K: one-eyed bartender from of Mikado Castle; has prosthetic scissor-like left arm; used to be a member of the Samurai; vast experience in the field shows that he used to be quite the skilled Samurai, as not even Hope, the Samurai leader, would dare challenge him
– Most Challenge Quests can be accepted through K, with occasional mission requests from demons
