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This week’s Famitsu has the first formal update on Shin Megami Tensei IV for 3DS.  

The game is set in the country of East Mikado, which has a civilization like Medieval Europe. Tokyo is in ruins and covered by darkness, and demons run rampantly. Samurai are able to control the demons using gauntlets, which have a demon summon program built into them. Their mission is to exterminate demons from the country.

A list of characters is also provided:

• Protagonist (CV: None) – an 18-year-old young man living in Mikado Country. He is a member of the samurais who exterminates demons.
• Jonathan (CV: Hiroshi Kamiya) – a young man who has a gentle nature and good upbringing. He is an intermediary between the friends of individual samurais.
• Izabo (CV: Miyuki Sawashiro) – the lone lady among the samurais, she is a veracious young woman with a strong mind. She seems cold at first, but she seems to have underlying layers.
• Walter (CV: Katsuyuki Konishi) – a young man who seems to have bad behavior. Although he’s rough around the edges, he has a lot of passion.
• Navarre (CV: Shintaro Ohata) – a high-energy young man with a strong sense of elitism. He hates to lose.

And some demons:

• Raphael (Illustration: Keita Amemiya)
• Asmodeus (Illustration: Yasushi Nirasawa)
• Kogasabro (Illustration: Tamotsu Shinohara)
• Omoikane (Illustration: Yoshi Nishimura)
• Kuebiko (Illustration: Aki Kyoma)

Looking good so far, except I prefer the Kaneko characters, these ones doesn't look too good IMO

One more.

Yeah thats a bit of a downer but i hope it will work well with the 3D

wow, shame all these good looking japanese games never get ported into english.

I see, well I may have to put atlus games on my radar haha.

And we already have one Persona 2 remake localized. Atlus absolutely loves the PSP.

I do  not, but now it would appear I have a good reason to get a VITA.

Mind you I am in AUS so we don't get many these type of games.

Just looked up wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atlus_games

looks like I need to shop online to get EU versions. Talk about a back catalgoue of potentially good games I have missed.

This looks great except for the actual battles. Seems like they could have done more with it.