So why is smirk the best aspect of SMT4 and apocalypse?

Demon fusion lite means you always get a shitty demon

Why did they make SMT4 so hard at the start?
You can literally die from the first encounter even if the enemy doesn't backstab you.

The thought of staring a demon down with a menacing smirk knowing you're going to kick its ass is pretty cathartic.
It's great that it unlocks an extra effect for a skill upon smirk in Apocalypse and I hope that they don't drop that idea in V.

To weed out the persona shitters

>every game should hold your hand and let you win your first encounter
also backstab in smt? you mean when the enemy has a go first?

Because SMTChads can withstand the onslaught of demons, whereas personafags can only overcome such challenges with waifu bonding.

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Nothing wrong with that
Real question is why did they make it easy after that

Dunno, but it really made it disappointing afterwards with the rest of the game being cake.

>makes things risky, but well rewarded.
What are you even talking about. Smirk is just press turn with more basic rewards.

if you ever grinded then that's entirely your fault. there is nothing worse than being overlevelled in a game with good combat

Nobody had to grind though because the rest of the game was too easy.

who said anything about grinding? the game difficulty is a joke after medusa

>Why did they make SMT4 so hard at the start?
thats pretty much for every smt game.

It's not about grinding, the enemies just can't keep up with the damage you start dealing at that point
4A doesn't have this problem

It's one of the strong parts of IV:A, but it's shitty in IV outside of the fun concept of it.

I don't get it. Maybe its cause I actively avoided enemy encounters that I didn't feel overlevelled

There's not need to grind

With no defense stat and three different attack stats you inevitably put most of your points into one of them with a few going into agility to make sure you hit, and that means that even if you end up putting your points into the broken strength stat, you still end up doing a ton of damage.

I wish VIT and INT would come back

You really don't have to be overleveled in IV

I'm saying maybe you have to be underlevelled which is a problem of course

It has more to do with stats
Did you go DEX or spread your points evenly? When you do minmax your stats then you can shred through every boss by hitting weakness

But it isn't the game has a flat defense formula with no defense stat with a main character that quickly spirals out of control. And bosses can't deal with karns for shit which are easily accessible with how broken fusion skill inheritance.

what are you on about? I've been agreeing with you, I just said you have to impose the challenge unless you play hardmode which is ng+ only