Shin Megami Tensei Digital Devil Saga (PS2)

Simply a fantastic, epic game that has many parallels to Final Fantasy yet still has such a unique spin of its own. The graphics are clean, appealing yet so different; A cell-style hybrid with realistically rendered characters and environments. This is no level-grinding, X bashing game. To defeat your opponents you need sound tactics backed up by the skills (mantras) you learn throughout the game. Like other RPGs you characters become stronger by winning battles, but boosted if you `devour' your enemies in combat. Targeting your enemy's weakness will award your party more turns, attacking in long chains, and by carefully equipping skills you can unlock additional combos. The range of abilities is enormous, and so is the way you can play the game. And with all the optional extra tasks and bosses, it's easy to build up 100 hours of game play. Some might say that having the story line split between DDS and DDS2 is a drawback, but I feel it's quite the opposite. Loading completed game data from DDS1 into DDS2 will unlock extra options, items and even a bonus character. And with both games at £17 or lower, I'm amazed more people haven't discovered this gem of a series.All RPG lovers will be thoroughly impressed by Digital Devil Saga.

Played about 8 hours so far and is quite fun. Might put some people off due to the combat not being too advanced or different to most games but the story is very interesting and the music and graphics are good.

Incredible graphics, incredible story & last but not least, incredible battle system. I love this game, it came next day, was brand new with wrapping (which I didn't think was possible for ps2 games anymore) and plays like a dream. Load times are fantastic, game is absolutely wonderful.

The game itself is wonderful and I *do*recommend it. However, DO NOT buy Ghostlight's absolutely MANGLED version. Their job was to adapt it to PAL\UK from the American NTSC version. This is often done to adhere to cultural standards (removing harmless gestures that are offensive in other places, language adjustment, adherence with then-prevalent television framerates, etc) , but Ghostlight has royallly, ROYALLY ruined this version. Slowdowns, missing, garbled music, cut bits for no reason. Jittery gameplay, long(er) loading times, save problems. If you can get the superior American version and get it to run somehow, do that. *please*. I have never owned the Digital (PSN) edition, and thus can offer you no help or insight on it - although I 'm sure it runs better than this pile of refuse. Reminder : Brilliant game, *AVOID* Ghostlight version.

I got stuck late in the game because it wasn't clear of where to go,I've came back to it and I have absoluteley no idea what to do now,the game lacks coherent direction. I decided to give online walkthroughs a look but they were unclear themselves,either because of the confusing location nature of the game or poorly written. but playing through the majority of the game most of it was tedious puzzles, on a map with no indication of where to go, I have a code disk and disabled the random battles because when you are trying to figure out what to do and those repetitive busy work battles keep breaking out it's hard to keep concentration,and it takes way too long.I could only imagine and cringe how disgustingly bad this game would be had I chosen not to disable them, most of the characters don't seem interesting enough either,I've lost all incentive to play this game anymore...I haven't played persona yet and think I'll give it a go...but I can only hope that it's better directed than this crap

Has a unique story and favourable charectars, arrived on time and was an enjoyable experience to playthrough, overall a worthy purchase.

Came on time and was amazed to see how that the game was brand new and worked perfectly

This game is very similar to Nocturne; not as difficult but grindy nonetheless. Its graphics were good for a ps2 game but not at final fantasy level or shadow hearts. The gameplay: your standard persona and shin megami tensi turn based battle system. The gimmick though was that party members themselves become demons rather than recruited them. Music: Alright but not amazing. No voice acting as in Nocturne. Story: your average SMT which gets emotional towards the end. It's dark but incomplete as this is part one of a two part game. In summary: I can recommend this game to rpg enthusiasts if they have a ps2. It's probably available also on psn (not sure if the UK or US one) if my memory is anything to go by.