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    Shin Megami Tensei V

    Dec 02, 2021 4 minutes

    Developer Atlus

    Publisher Nintendo

    Format Switch

    Release Out now

    JRPG players will be more familiar than most with the ‘attack and dethrone God’ trope, in which a plot culminates in the hero(es) confronting and killing a deity, if not a version of the biblical creator Himself. The series has always been particularly explicit about this theme, which may explain its absence from the western market during the ’90s, when it would have been easy ammunition for conservative religious groups whipping up a moral panic against videogames. It’s a sign of how times have changed, then, that the latest mainline instalment is being and .

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