Summary
Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeancehas been rated in South Korea. The leaked classification implies that the unannounced title is a complete edition ofShin Megami Tensei 5with all the DLC and even some extra content.
Rumors of an enhanced version of the latest mainlineShin Megami Tenseientry have been circulating online for years. They are about as old as the RPG itself, and inherently tied to the speculation thatSMT5will eventually be released beyond the Nintendo Switch. The first indication of that happening dates back to thelate 2021 Nvidia GeForce NOW leak, which suggested that a PC port of the RPG is in the works.
SMT5: Vengeance Rating Hints at New Improvements
Almost two years later, the South Korean Game Rating and Administration Committee published an age rating for an unannounced title calledShin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance. The classification, first spotted byGematsu, indicates thatVengeanceis a complete edition of the fifth numberedSMTgame, containing all of its existing DLC and some additional—albeit unspecified—improvements. The rating was originally published on February 16 and pulled from the regulator’s site three days later. Historically, content classifications for Atlus titles have appeared up to six months ahead of their market release.
Complete Edition of SMT5 Has Been Atlus’s Worst-Kept Secret for a While Now
This development is consistent with a number of recent reports from well-established Sega leaker Midori, who’s been insisting thatAtlus is working on a project “connected” toShin Megami Tensei 5as far back as September 2023. A new edition of the critically acclaimed RPG would certainly fit that description, and was also already teased by Chinese leaker Diandong Langke Lu Xun in June 2023.
Nearlyevery big Atlus RPGsince the 2003Shin Megami Tensei 3: Nocturnehas received a complete edition, so the notion ofSMT5getting the same treatment would be par for the course. As for the new content thatSMT5: Vengeancemight introduce, additional demons could be part of the upcoming package. That’s because some recent datamining efforts revealed that the original game contains seemingly finished versions of Dagda, Krishna, and Satan, all of which were left unused.
More SMT Games Are Reportedly on the Horizon
The newly emergedVengeancerating does not contain any specific platform mentions. Butrumors ofShin Megami Tensei 5PC and PlayStation portshave been around for years, with this development inspiring new confidence among the fandom that the game is finally on the verge of expanding beyond the Nintendo Switch. Sega’s strengthening relationship with Microsoft indicates that an Xbox version of the RPG is also not out of the question. Looking at the bigger picture,Vengeanceostensibly won’t be the onlySMTproject to release in the foreseeable future; Midori recently reported that Atlus is also working on a new series spin-off for Netflix, as well as a remaster of a PS2-era franchise entry that’s speculated to beSMT: Digital Devil Saga.
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When a grisly murder scene in modern-day Tokyo blocks our protagonists walk home, an unplanned detour leaves him buried and unconscious. He awakens in a new Tokyo, a wasteland ravaged by apocalypse now called Da’at… but before bloodthirsty demons can claim his life, a savior emerges, and they unite to become a mighty being neither human nor demon: a Nahobino.With newfound power, the protagonist ventures through Da’at, an enigmatic realm filled with mythical deities and demonic tyrants in constant conflict for survival. Searching for answers, the protagonist must forge his own path in a battle between light and dark to dictate the fate of the world.
