Despite how steeped I am in Shin Megami Tensei video games I had no idea that this rule book for a table top game even existed. To be fair, almost all of my table top gaming experiences to this day have been extremely negative so its something I tend to ignore and turn my back on. Anyway, the game is called Shin Megami Tensei: Tokyo Conception and its based on, obviously, SMT 3 Nocturne and was originally released in 2004. It even has a supplementary book called the Amala Labyrinth or something that adds even more shit to it. It seems pretty cool and if I could find a table top group that doesn't make me want to fellate the business end of a shotgun then I'd be extremely down to give it a try.
So in swoops Chase Carter of Dicebreaker.com and to his credit, the majority of his article isn't even that bad. He mentions that there's other SMT table top systems and these things have been around since 1993 which was an interesting fact I didn't know. Pretty much exactly what I wanted that hack at Gamespot to do when talking about Helldivers (http://identitygaming.blogspot.com/2024/03/gamespot-being-embarassing-again.html) although he then does proceed to refer to the game as Tokyo Connection and Tokyo Conception so maybe a lack of reading is how such a fucking awful headline happened.
"Shin Megami Tensei tabletop RPG based on Persona's video game series" is what it reads and if you know anything about Shin Megami Tensei even just in passing you'll know that what is written here is just WILDLY incorrect. Just in case I have to spell it out for you, Shin Megami Tensei is the mainline series and Persona is the spinoff. It's not so much that the information is wrong that gets to me, its that this guy is supposed to be a contributer to this niche interest website and yet can't do even the most basic bit of research to get things correct. One google search is all it would have taken to know that SMT is the main one, Nocturne is the 3rd game and the Conception is the event that happens at the start of the game which kicks of all of its events. Its literally on the fucking Wikipedia page and takes about 4 seconds to look up. Even if you didn't want to look it up you should know that the headline is just wrong because Persona 3 and 4 both had "Shin Megami Tensei" in the fucking title.
If I was willing to be charitable to Mr Carter here I would say that, at best, he's a click harvesting little fuckhead. Persona is undeniably, at this point, the more well known and more popular arm of SMT so using that in the headline is probably more likely to draw traffic to the rag he's writing. However I'm not willing to be charitible so I'm just going to assume he's a lazy piece of shit. You're a niche writer for an enthusiast website. A website where I imagine its members spend all day pretending to be half-elves while jacking off to pornography of bears or whatever the fuck you weirdos are into. You aren't so busy that you can see something like this and not look up the absolute basics of what it is and what is is about.
If you're going to take the trouble of writing for a niche topic or in this case, a niche interest within that niche topic, make sure you do it justice. Instead of just shitting out a crap article to earn a quick couple of bucks why don't you take some time and actually write something helpful to people who may be interested. But let's be honest, Chase Carter doesn't really give a fuck about what he's doing and gives even less of a fuck about SMT. Farm clicks, get money and move on
A fucking sad way to exist
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