SMTV beginner’s guide – Polygon

Shin Megami Tensei 5This brings us back into the Megami Tensei world (including Persona). These spinoffs are SMTV It combines elements from previous games with completely new concepts.

This is how it works Shin Megami Tensei5 beginner’s guide, we’ll help you through your first few hours with the things we wish we understood earlier. We’ll help you understand the game’s fast travel, saving, and various vendor mechanics that you’ll find at Leyline Founts, explain how combat works, and talk a little about Essences and Demon Fusion.

There’s a lot going on at Leyline Founts

No, seriously: There’s a lot going on at Leyline Founts. They’re where you fast travel, go shopping, turn in Miman and Relics, heal your party, learn new Miracles, perform Demon Fusions, etc. Like we said, there’s a lotKeep going.

You will be amazed at the variety of options that are available after your first visit. You will find:

• Chronicle DeedsYou can save by doing this. You can save this way.
• Leyline CrossingYou can also use this site. This allows you to fast travel between Leyline Founts you’ve previously visitedThis is a.
• Cadaver’s Hollow. Gustave’s shop, where you can buy and sell consumable items. This is also where you’ll sell Relics and receive rewards for finding Miman.
• World of Shadows. Sophia’s realm, where you learn Miracles (permanent, passive buffs), manage Essences (a way to learn new Skills and Resistances), and perform Demon FusionsThis is a placeholder page for. Continue reading below.
• RecoveryPay money (Macca) to restore your party’s HP and MP. Pay money (Macca) to restore your party’s HP and MP.

Don’t forget to save at Leyline Founts

Leyline foams should be your sole source of savings. With everything else you do there, it’s easy to forget to save — “Chronicle Deeds” As the game suggests. If your protagonist falls in battle, you’ll be dropped back at your last save, so you can lose a lot of progress. With save points so few and far between, it’s important to save every time you can.

Don’t get distracted by everything else. We’re very distractible, so we’ve made a habit of saving first thing, and then saving again once we’re done at the Leyline Fount, just to make sure.

Macca is a great way to save money on healing

It Recovery option at a Leyline Fount completely heals a party member’s health and magic pools (HP and MP), but it costs you cash. For characters under level 10, you’re looking at about 75 Macca or less each.

As tempting as it is to spend the money on consumables and healing potions (Medicine), the Recovery option at a Leyline Fount also fully restore’s a character’s magic — something no early game item does.

More Macca savings for recruitment

The demons are not just a threat to your protagonist. You’ll fill out your party with up to three other demons by recruiting them.

You can recruit as simple as speaking to the person or as complicated as spending large sums of money on items, HP, Macca and other things. It’s almost always worth it, though, because more allies make fights easier. And those new allies will have new Attacks and Skills, which is important because …

It’s about exploiting weaknesses to get free turns.

Every round of fighting has several sides. The Press To Turn Icons — basically, the number of actions that party can perform per round.

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There are a number of types and weaknesses that each enemy demon can have.AffinitiesThese are the types of skills and attacks. They are displayed as icons below the types of damage. Each enemy has an icon. Line (no change), exclamation point(Weak), Protective shield(Immune) Halb-shield (Resistant). Mallow Feuer Ice Elec Force LightPlease see the following: DarkDamage Affinities

When you perform an attack that the target is weak to — like the Agi (Fire) Skill in the image above — the attack doesn’t consume a press turn icon.

You can receive a free action for each party member you fight per round. Ideally, you’ll string together a series of attacks from each party member that exploit weaknesses so that everyone in your party goes at least twice per round of combat.

Importantly, the same mechanic is true for enemy demons, so if they exploit your party’s weaknesses, they’ll get extra attacks, too. If you’re struggling with a weakness to a specific attack or enemy, you’ll need to use Essence.

Essences are vital

All throughout Shin Megami Tensei 5, you’ll be collecting EssencesYou can. (In fact, you’ll probably pick up one or two before you can even do anything with them.) Essences are like a distilled version of a demon’s attacks, skills, weaknesses, and resistances.

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You can use these Essences in the World of Shadows, located at a Leyline Found. Essence FusionThis is a. Using this, you’ll be able to teach yourself and the demons in your party new Skills and Attacks with new Affinities.

Essence Fusion can be used to transfer the Weaknesses or Resistances of demon Essence from your protagonist. This is a great help when going up against enemies with strong elemental (Affinity) attacks that you’re weak to.

Don’t get too attached to your Demons

All that being said, demons can be thrown out. They’ll fall in battle, or you might just find better ones as you progress. These aren’t members of your party so much as they’re tools that provide extra attacks.

Don’t hesitate to swap them out.

You can also use the World of Shadows to do other things. Demon FusionYou can do this by. It takes two demons you have recruited (or one from your Demon Compendium), and creates a new kind of demon.

This is a fantastic way to make powerful friends. It’s even worth it to constantly recruit low-level demons just to use as Fusion fodder.