This game is so stupid sometimes.

[dhoma[FR]]

Walking around, killing random mobs.
Main character level 27, 190HP, 0 weaknesses, focus on vitality for defense.

Then a random red mob spawn, attack before me, one shot me, game over.

Normal difficulty.

What the ♥♥♥♥ ?
I couldnt even do anything.
♥♥♥♥ this game sometimes, its so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ random ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ everywhere because ♥♥♥♥ you.

[Doctrine Dark]

Never had that happen but I've only ever played on hard. Maybe its a bug on normal.

[x1m0n3i9]

truly a Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance moment

[Drodris]

haha funny. I play on normal difficulty and think i only died once and it was a fight with demi-fiend, this game is so easy bro

[Arifufu]

the game warn you about magatsuhi enemy which a lot harder than common mobs, don't fight red enemies if you aren't ready, stay away from them

[aNinjaGuardian]

Lmao you'd hate playing SMT3 Nocturne

[giftedfox]

I had that happen but with a side quest enemy. They used Mudo and my character was weak against that still before I learned I can switch up my weakness/resistance. Got insta-killed. So I loaded up my last save, got myself caught up, learn how to change up my weakness, and killed that side quest wolf. I think the biggest value in deaths is learning from them. If you got one shot from a physical attack, then maybe your vitality is too low. Sure it doesn't increase your damage but might help in the long run since if the main character dies it is game over.

[HRHV87]

Originally posted by dhomaFR:

Walking around, killing random mobs.
Main character level 27, 190HP, 0 weaknesses, focus on vitality for defense.

Then a random red mob spawn, attack before me, one shot me, game over.

Normal difficulty.

What the ♥♥♥♥ ?
I couldnt even do anything.
♥♥♥♥ this game sometimes, its so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ random ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ everywhere because ♥♥♥♥ you.

You just described a regular Nocturne run, walk down a hall, run into random encounter, get ambushed, get 1 shot.

[Elley]

Originally posted by Doctrine Dark:

Never had that happen but I've only ever played on hard. Maybe its a bug on normal.

Stop bullshitting, how can you have never been one shotted on Hard. One mistake and you get one shot half the time.

[Bagg Boy (formerly Smoke)]

That's the MegaTen experience. This ♥♥♥♥ is so prevalent in all of the MegaTen games that it can even happen in all of the Persona titles except 5.

And if you think this is bad, wait until you play Nocturne or Strange Journey, where random encounters can be harder than bosses.

[GorishiDan]

Had that happen to me recently. If you're not paying attention, say you look away from the screen for a few sec, a magatsuhi demon might just see you and approach for a swing. Combat will start, it'll have first turn and one shot your nahobino (or the entire party) with something like Twilight Wave which is the strongest magatsuhi skill far as i know with 700 power. Lost about 5min of progress from my last save

What hurts the most is the fact i couldn't go back and exact revenge cuz i know if i had first turn i would've obliterated that thing. 2 of my demons had null for phys so they took 0 damage from it but since my nahobino had no resistance against it, he died and game over. Otherwise, even my remaining demons alone could've killed it