This right here is and always has been my favorite thing about Nocturne. You spend the entire game facing nasty, badass demons that look like they could swallow you whole and what do you do? Punch 'em right in the face. You're a scrawny, shirtless teenager, but some bitches are gonna get socked.

Also have to agree with you that you haven't played the real game without fighting your way through to the True Demon ending. I still remember going into Beelzebub for the first time fully prepared for a big fight. Bam, one attack that instantly kills anyone without Death immunity and it can't miss. Time to completely revamp my party and battle strategy. The Demonic Compendium made it so that swapping out your whole team wasn't even much of a pain since you could buy them back again later if you wanted.

I just remembered I named the mc Jesus "Jew King" Christ on my playthrough. Wish that would have came to mind when writing my post.

Fuck yes SMT:N is the bnest rpg of all time. I spent hundreds of hours playing that. Beating Lucifer is helluva satisfying too, I've actually done it using a few different combinations of team members although getting the pierce skill onto the ones you want can take a while.

Fucking love that game and that's a great review too, Doc.