digital devil saga 2 : アバタール・チューナー END

11.01.2005
i really want to review on this game. its a really amazing game, one of the best rpgs i've ever played so far. nobody will fully understand the storyline until they've played both ddsat1 and 2. the game seems so simple and straightfoward yet so deep in storyline.

the smt team comprises of kazuma kaneko who designs the demons and chars. his art is superb. nobody can design demons as good as him and the chars he designs looks demonic but its dds after all. shoji meguro who composes the music, mainly techno/dance and e.guitar, the music of ddsat rox esp the battle music and last boss. DDSAT is MY kind of game! however some ppl may not like the game because i would say its a rather demonic game. its not scary but there are bloody scenes. demons devouring each other and killing.

also, the bosses in ddsat2 (the tough ones) mainly follow an attack pattern. its the same for the bosses in ddsat1 but ddsat1 is not that difficult. i had alot of trouble with a couple of the last few bosses in the game. i did some serious training in the last dungeon and got my party up to lv 60. well only my main char was at lv 69 and the rest were around 61-64. anyway i believe nobody could have defeated the last boss or 2nd last boss at lower levels. the lv is not the main issue i believe the skills are even more important. because i was so unprepared for the whole lot of boss fights at the last dungeon i didn't even have void death at 1 point which caused me some trouble continuing the game. like for the last boss i used a party of seraph, cielo and argilla.

Equipment and skills preparation :

Seraph (SP power ring i upped his STR until max : 99)
phy resist, Life bonuses 10%, 20% and 30% ? (all the life bonuses until his hp was like 800 ++) as argilla and cielo have not very high vitality it would be best if seraph can survive.
Execution, * ice drain, phy drain/void phy

Cielo
*null death, *null panic, *null charm (because no null ailments, lazy train)
*mediarahan, *elec drain, and the 1 that increases phy att was it tarunda?

Argilla (SP vitality ring, she has awfully low hp)
*spell gloom, *dekunda (actually debiliate would be better but lazy train somemore), *mediarahan, *earth drain, *force drain

so the last boss has 5 stages. Brahman fire, force, earth, elec, ice.
Phase 1 : he casts fire spells. this is easy u dun even need fire drain. increase phy att, use spell gloom on him. every turn i used executioner if critical 600-800 damage.
Phase 2 : cast force drain every turn. and the rest same as phase 1.
Phase 3 : cast earth drain every turn. " "
Phase 4 : case elec drain every turn. he'll use a spell that lowers all ur stat and increases all his stats. immediately use dekunda. execute him somemore..
Phase 5 : cast ice drain every turn. "" I didn't have ice drain for this phase and barely survived his atts. i used combo spell "Call Angel" that heals all and increases def. cast spells that make him weaker make u stronger and dekunda when he lowers ur stats. so basically i've only used Seraph to attack and the rest to heal and cast support magic.

1 extra feature of ddsat2 is that other that transforming to demon/human form there is a semi demon form where the chars get out of control. their phy att is very high but def very low and atma/exp gained is higher. also there's a new char Roland whose atma is some lightning atma. he replaces heat for the final dungeon if u didn't ans the questions correctly.

**spoilers ahead


apparently the junkyard in ddsat1 is a world created by sera.. and the embryon tribes and wadever tribes inside the junkyard are just battle AIs used as an experiment by colonel beck. as their performance in the junkyard will be implanted into real soldiers to be used for battle. before this... the real serph, argilla and heat joined the HAARP project. this project is to find or create a person who could "reprogram reality". anyway sera was 1 of the specimens to be experimented on. in real life, serph was a very bad person. but sera loved him. heat on the hand even though is full of anger didn't like the way serph treated sera (as in sacrificing her to achieve his goals). sera was depressed or sth and created a world (the junkyard) in her mind with serph as a very nice guy who loved her and also with the rest of them. anyway heat didn't like the way serph treated sera and tried to kill him. argilla shot heat and heat died. apparently, serph is some kind of woman charmer that managed to make sera fall for him and argilla follow his orders -.-. and gale's data consists of david who died in an explosion. this david is jenna angel's lover and they were trying to find the cure for some disease to do with the black sun. the black sun (in the real world) was caused by sera going mad after hearing wad serph said about achieving his goals and if she died they will just move on to another subject or sth like that. so after that jenna angel was filled with hatred because her bf died and created the demon virus that she sent to be tested in the junkyard. the thing is this demon virus will make a person turn into a demon will make him immune to the disease which turns ppl into stone but they will get hungry and will need to devour each other. later jenna also infected the ppl in the real world with this virus. later sera knowing that jenna was going to release the virus into the junkyard went inside herself to save her friends.

K0towari 15:16