Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey

This is really tame compaired to what I usually play. This is basically a teenage version of Pokèmon as you go along battling and collecting demons. The only reason for the M rating is because of partial nudity and sexual refrences in demon descriptions. The language is stuff your child will hear in highschool, with gd and mf being mentioned at the worst, and sh** being the least. Blood is shown in sprite form, no gore whatsoever. Perfect for freshmen who love sci-fi RPGs. Just be ready to die alot, cause its hard, Hard, HARD!

You guys worry about language in a teen's game when your kid is swearing their head off whenever you're not in earshot. In somewhere like a school, your kid is subjected to far worse stuff than this. The game itself was alright, but I thought I should clear this up.

As I love sci fi games and mature rated games,I knew this was a awesome buy and so I got it from GameStop for my DS.It was also a good idea,since there are very few M rated DS games and I was running out of games to play. There is lots of weird,science fiction type bizarre violence and tons of blood.All I can say is,this is sure one f*cked up Shin Megami game.

Yes, this is an M-rated game, but, as with other entries in the Shin Megami Tensei series (look at Persona 3 and 4, as well as Nocturne), the Mature rating is undeserving. The M rating is there simply because some demons are partially nude (and it's not even detailed nudity) or look phallic, and the profiles of demons sometimes include sexual references, but this is nothing a teen couldn't handle. However, the themes in Strange Journey (such as global warming, death in battle, "red light" districts, and so on) are pretty touchy subjects. I wouldn't say "No Kids", though. Anyways, enough about the rating. The story seems pretty basic at first: 100 years in the future, there's a hole in the South Pole called the Schwarzwelt, and your job is to explore it. You soon learn that there are close to 300 types of demon that you must fight. Needless to say, this is an excellent game. Atlus really knows how to make insanely hard (but fun) dungeon crawlers, and Strange Journey really makes up for the short length of Devil Survivor with a (supposed) 100-hour length. I also really like the demon summoning system in this MegaTen much more than the others. Once again, the content is much more on the Teen side than Mature. Violence is simple turn-based RPG combat; not too bad. Blood is shown sometimes, but in sprite form. The strongest word used is "sh*t"; other milder words, such as "godd*mn", "a**hole" and such are used. And, as I said before, the sexual themes, while nothing to worry about, are the reason this game's rated Mature (besides the overall maturity required to appreciate this game). Overall, if you like MegaTen games or dungeon crawlers, this is a Strange Journey you ought to take. And it isn't as bad as other M-rated fare.