{"id":1046,"date":"2025-06-18T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2025-06-19T12:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T12:18:18","slug":"review-raidou-remastered-the-mystery-of-the-soulless-army-switch-2-a-unique-action-rpg-take-on-the-smt-formula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/review-raidou-remastered-the-mystery-of-the-soulless-army-switch-2-a-unique-action-rpg-take-on-the-smt-formula\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery Of The Soulless Army (Switch 2) &#8211; A Unique, Action-RPG Take On The SMT Formula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nothing soulless about this one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Never let it be said that Atlus is afraid of finding new ways to capitalise on its flagship <strong>Shin Megami Tensei<\/strong> franchise\u2014for quite a while now, there have been significantly more spinoff \u2018SMT-adjacent\u2019 games than mainline entries. Still, that\u2019s certainly not a bad thing, as the company has clearly come up with a lot of fun and interesting approaches to the tried and true JRPG gameplay, whether through the turn-based SRPG style of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/shin_megami_tensei_devil_survivor_overclocked\">Devil Survivor<\/a> or the action-RPG flavour of <strong>Raidou<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The first Raidou game, <strong>Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army<\/strong>, came out back in 2006 for the PS2 and was itself a spinoff of the Devil Summoner series for the Sega Saturn. Blending action-focused gameplay with an interesting 1930s-inspired alternate universe setting, it stood out to fans of the broader franchise, even if Raidou\u2019s modest sales also ensured that it never caught on in the same way <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/persona_3_portable\">Persona<\/a> did.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch-2\/raidou-remastered-the-mystery-of-the-soulless-army\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing soulless about this one. Never let it be said that Atlus is afraid of finding new ways to capitalise on its flagship Shin Megami Tensei franchise\u2014for quite a while now, there have been significantly more spinoff \u2018SMT-adjacent\u2019 games than mainline entries. Still, that\u2019s certainly not a bad thing, as the company has clearly come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}