Persona 5 and SMT 4: Apocalypse | 09/23/2016

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Elliot Gay returns to share his thoughts on the first 40 (!) hours of Persona 5, then sticks around to offer his opinion on Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse and Super Robot Wars OG: The Moon Dwellers. It's a Japanese import extravaganza! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Axe of the Blood God.
0:14.8	Welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God,
0:16.9	US Gamer's official RPG podcast, where we discuss RPGs of all different sizes, big and small, Japanese, Eastern, you name it.
0:27.6	That's because it's the genre that we love the most.
0:30.9	And this week, we have our returning guest, Elliot Gay, our Japanese correspondent, who plays all of the import RPGs,
0:39.3	he is here to talk to us about Persona 5, SMT, Apocalypse, Super Robot Wars, OG, the
0:46.5	moon dwellers, and whatever else we can think about.
0:49.6	Is there anything else you've been playing, Elliot?
0:50.9	I finished Tales of Bersaria before I moved on to Persona 5.
0:55.3	Oh, all right.
0:56.9	So maybe we'll get to that one too.
0:59.2	All right.
0:59.8	But obviously, the big one, Persona 5, it is out in Japan.
1:06.0	Elliot has been playing it.
1:07.9	And from the sound of it, it is doing very well.
1:11.4	I've heard reports that it is number one and number two on Japanese bestseller lists.
1:16.8	Yes, actually, I got the numbers right here.
1:19.9	Between the PS4 version and the PlayStation 3 version, it's opening week, it sold 337,767 copies, which is the highest debut for any game in the series.
1:33.3	Up until that point, I think Persona 4 had been the highest first week at like 200,000, give or take.
1:41.0	So this is combined.
1:42.4	It's combined, yes.
1:46.1	That's still nothing to sneeze at.
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