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The first special password demon in this batch is a custom Cabracan. The theme of this version is “tradeoffs”: sure, Sukunda isn’t quite as good an agility debuff as Fog Breath, but wouldn’t you rather have the full-party full-heal Mediarahan in place of Mediarama? Similarly, all of this Cabracan’s agility gets a slight boost at [...]

#secrets Atlus' Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey features a password system that lets players summon special demons via secret codes, like the two they've passed on to Kotaku to share with our readers, including one for password-exclusive Alciel, the Black Sun. More »

* Left hand freeze/Right hand shock = Koppa Tengu, Level 5, Bufu and Zio * Prophecy of Wind = Mothman, Level 5, Garu, Magaru, Dream Needle * Thick red skin = Oni, Level 8, Resists: Fire, Ice, Electricity, and Wind * Soothing [...]

Atlus' first-person dungeon crawler hits the DS.

The nice thing about launch copies of Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey -- aside from the fact that they allow you to play Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey right now -- is that they include soundtrack CDs. The not-so-nice part is that said CDs don't work.

Atlus acknowledged the manufacturing error responsible for the issue, and has instituted a replacement program for the discs. You can click here to sign up for a replacement CD, and you'll be bobbing your head to the sounds of demonic invasion in two to four weeks. Check here for more detailed instructions.

If you CD isn't working get a replacement.

For some of us, Final Fantasy XIII over on those big systems will be little but a distraction -- because real role-playing games take place in dungeons. Or, for others, Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey will be the perfect game to play during cutscenes. In any case, Atlus is dropping Shin Megami Tensei on an RPG-crowded market on March 23, and sent out the above trailer to remind us all of that fact.

If you're ready to launch an expedition into a game about an expedition into a mysterious demon-filled vortex in the Antarctic, bundle up and check out the trailer.

A portion of an RPGamer review… …the final stretch concludes one of the best stories on the DS, complete with multiple paths that shake the foundation of the game world, and Atlus USA wrote some powerful prose to give the game jaw-dropping emotional and philosophical moments. Unfortunately, those who stop playing at the first warp-filled labyrinth [...]

The pile of stuff you can acquire with your copy of Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey is steadily growing. Atlus has already thrown a soundtrack CD in with every copy in the first printing, and now it is offering a "mini-poster" with copies of the DS role-playing game pre-ordered through GameStop. In the press release announcing the bonus, Atlus's Aram Jabbari extolled the somewhat more tangible nature of the poster than the CD, calling it "a bonus item that you can feel, something you can caress gently and hold against your face, something you can take a big whiff of and enjoy." You are, of course, welcome to just put the poster on your wall and look at it occasionally.

Play the game and decorate your living quarters at the same time.

Reserve Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey and a Strange Journey CD Soundtrack, and a GameStop exclusive mini-poster. The mini-poster is large enough to impress your friends, yet small enough to take on trips. Available online and in-store while supplies last.

More screens in our Flickr set Dev blog here You know what would be strange? You not receiving an email from us every day of the week. ZING. What ELSE is strange, however, is SMT: Strange Journey (in name alone, of course), and on that note, we’re sending some new screens out for your viewing and [...]

Get excited for the latest Shin Megami bonanza.

This is a role-playing game in which players assume the role of a soldier who, along with an elite squad, investigates an ever-expanding region called “Schwarzwelt.” This mysterious region is an “other dimension” teeming with demons that want to overtake the world; it is players’ job to stop this by traversing [...]

Enjoy a free gift for getting the game at launch.

At some point, people are going to get spoiled by Atlus's (coincidentally named) "Atlus Spoils" program, in which the company includes some kind of bonus item with pretty much every game it releases. When the publihser doesn't release a game with an artbook or soundtrack or figurine or something, somebody out there is going to be irritated to buy just a game. That won't happen with Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, though. Atlus announced today that every launch copy of the first-person RPG will include a soundtrack disc. You'll have to wait a bit longer to get that launch copy: the publisher also announced that the release date has moved from the March 10 date found on Nintendo's Q1 schedule to March 23.

The Earth is being consumed by darkness. That's your cue.

Atlus revealed a password system for its upcoming Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, through which players will be able to trade copies of their customized, leveled-up, fused demons. In addition to being able to generate your own passwords to share your awesome demons with others, Atlus will release passwords for some rare creatures.In addition, the updated box art image shows an M rating. Clearly, demon hunting is serious business, to be left to the big kids! As Siliconera notes, there are only ten DS games with M ratings, out of 1,366 total releases.

Open, sesame.

The Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey official soundtrack will feature 31 songs, and is due out in Japan on November 18th.

Well, okay. Maybe being localized by Atlus isn't that strange for a Shin Megami Tensei game. In fact, we'd say it's pretty normal these days! Atlus announced today that it will bring over the first-person DS RPG Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey in Spring 2010 (of course). The game features the demon negotiation that SMT fans associate with the series, in a new storyline involving a mysterious black hole opening up at the South Pole. It looks like the kind of thing that would appeal not only to fans of games like SMT 3: Nocturne, but also to people who enjoy the DS's dungeon RPGs like Etrian Odyssey, to which it bears a strong resemblance. Journey into our gallery for screens and art.

Within our own world, a new frontier awaits.

- alliances are called “stances” this time around - stances are basic characteristics of monsters that you’ll need to learn in order to use them properly - the main character has a stance as well, which impacts how he handles monsters - your stance can change depending on choices made while playing - having monsters with the same stance [...]

The Japanese creator’s voice feature for Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey has been posted for all to enjoy. Too bad you need to know Japanese to get the information! What you can do is click through the pages and hunt out the ‘play’ arrows. These will show you 6 different videos for [...]

The official soundtrack for Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey was announced for a November 18th release in Japan. This soundtrack will come with one CD. Still no word on localization of this game for outside of Japan.