Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux is exactly what is advertised: a strange, phenomenal journey into the unknown. Players who embark on this supernatural sci-fi tale will find a serious, thought-provoking narrative intermixed with challenging dungeon-crawling gameplay and an addictive demon collecting and demon fusion mechanic.
In the year 20XX, a strange zone of pure blackness appears at the South Pole and gradually begins to expand outwards. Dubbed the "Schwarzwelt", this phenomenon swallows up everything it touches, and all attempts to analyse or explain it end in failure, as do attempts to halt its advance.
Much like the Persona series, Strange Journey is a spin-off of the Shin Megami Tensei series. While Persona focuses on social links and friendships between teenagers, Strange Journey is about the dark underbelly of our world and friendships with demons. It certainly lives up to its name in every way, as Strange Journey will bring you on a bizarre, addictive, but overall pleasantly strange journey.
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux takes place sometime in the near future, and follows the story of a group of soldiers, scientists, and explorers that are tasked with investigating a strange phenomenon over the South Pole. Armed with new tech, including special suits called Demonicas, this group infiltrates the Schwarzwelt, a dark cloud that contains its own mysterious ecosystem, and things go wrong right off the bat. Four ships go in, but only one survives intact.
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux is a perfect opportunity to pick up a game that many may have missed and finally see what the fuss is all about. While other Shin Megami Tensei games take place in Tokyo, or in more modern and urban settings, Strange Journey Redux gives players a whole new world to explore, as well as new mysteries to uncover on their way to completing the mission at all cost. And with a new main character and story to tackle at the completion of the main quest, this is a game that will reside in my Nintendo 3DS for the foreseeable future. Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux is a wonderful adventure that will take gamers on a strange journey indeed.