DemiKids - Dark Version Review by: TetraDigm - 3.1/10
generic Atlus crap.Lets starts this off with the big ones shall we?
Addictiveness. This game is NOT addictive in any way. Its kind of like a dumbed down version of pokemon that looks somehow better and worse then Pok?mon at the same time. You meander through badly translated engrish, and are given NO direction whatsoever. "leveling" your character seems to only add to how high a level monster you can use, and the ONLY way to level your main demon(the only one that CAN level) is by fusing other demons thousands of times with it. This ends up breaking the game because it wont take you long before you realize "hey, I'm only level 20....but I have around 250 attack and 1-hit every enemy I come across". Then there's the b button. every time you hit it outside of battle, you start in on some long winded speech to ask you if you want to talk, and when you say no, to tell you that you can ride your demon by hitting R. every. Single. Time. I honestly cannot be bothered to go through this whole game, as the language is terrible, the game itself looks worse then most games for the NES, the sounds are painfully dull and annoying, and the story itself is clearly something that was just thrown together at the last minute.
Story. There's a story here, but it doesn't matter. Its the generic ATLUS crap. You're some Japanese kid who for some reason is obviously a white European, you're in some special school, and for some odd reason you have special powers. What's your power? Why, you can play beyblade! Seriously. First thing they do is give you some kind of magical bracelet that holds all your demons in it. And then shoots them out. Back to the story, so for some reason your school has a DEMON SUMMONING MANUAL in it. Makes total sense right? Well the "new kid" at school is also a demon from Valhalla where the imperial forces are rebelling against.....you know what I cant do this. This is seriously the story. You can surely see already how this nonsense, coupled with the fact that it was obviously translated by a Chinese man to Russian, and then a Mexican man to English, makes this games story 100% irrelevant.
Sound. The sounds aren't exactly painful in the physical sense, but they are boring, and I'm pretty sure reused from the other 20 identical games atlus put out that year.
graphics. Oh I'm sure this looks good on a game boy, minus the good. This is one of those games(see ATLUS) where the developers decided "meh, lets make a small amount of effort at detail, and then just throw random paint schemes on everything and make the world itself a jumble of crap that is nearly impossible to navigate". That about sums up the graphics.
Depth. gonna be honest, I cant get far in this game because its just so uninteresting, but I imagine the depth is essentially non existent. lemme make a guess here. You go to hell, kill the demons from the LIGHT version of the game, and game over. The entire time you navigate through tiny maps filled with 3 or 4 enemies, all of which who are exactly the same. You get some extra wrist watches and fuse some monsters, but overall you just use the same 2 monsters for the entire game because everything else is crap. Play it and lemme know how close I am.
difficulty. Well seeing as it doesn't bother to tell you ANYTHING about fusing, leveling up, anything at all, it can be a bit difficult in the beginning. Until you find the place with the star of David over it (the Japanese seem to hate Jews, and thus ALWAYS make their holy symbol the symbol for summoning evil spirits), at which point you fuse about 30 monsters into your main, and the rest is history.
overall. id say dont play this game. if id have bought this game as a youngling, id have returned to the store and demand a refund. this game is slow, boring, and being one of the "shin megami" series, its just a bunch of random crap about demons thrown together. the game is essentially the same as every other atlus game ever made, so if you enjoy their other terrible titles, youll surely love this.?
Graphics
4 Sound
4 Addictive
1 Depth
3 Story
1 Difficulty
6
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