Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance review: A slick, smart way to grind away the hours of your life

Atlus' latest can't get away from the core conventions of the genre—but it's a good version of a grind-y style of game

What do we want, when we sit down to a full-length, deliberately massive role-playing video game in 2024? The classic examples of the form, when viewed through modern eyes, often feel like elaborate machines for turning hours of human existence into a vague sense of satisfaction: Lazy afternoons holding a controller go in, a story and a series of “You win!” messages, played over exploding monsters, come out, as character abilities steadily rise the longer the player grinds.

The fights are good in the ways Shin Megami Tensei fights have been good for years: Very few enemies, even regular cannon fodder can be dealt with with sheer brute force, instead forcing you to exploit elemental weaknesses and buffs so that your team can dispatch them efficiently.

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