Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE is the 265th episode of Fandom Games' comedy series Honest Game Trailers. It was written by Max Song, Andrew Bird and Spencer Gilbert, and narrated by Brad Venable. It parodies the role-playing video game Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE, a crossover between Atlus's Shin Megami Tensei and Nintendo's Fire Emblem. It was published on February 25, 2020. It has been viewed over 100,000 times.
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From the developers of your favorite dating sims, and, I guess, now the Sonic movie (?), comes a game that really pushes the "J" in "JRPG" to the next level; in fact, one could say that it really is just like one of my Japanese animes.
Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE (Fire Emblem)
Two-step into the Shin Megami Tensei series' biggest crossover yet, as they try to sand the sharp edges off the borderline masochistic experience of their usual RPG mechanics and serve up a more palatable mainstream title that isn't Persona, even if it kinda is Persona, combining it with the beloved Fire Emblem series -- from which they basically took the sound effects and a couple character names -- to create something that is completely off for both fanbases, giving you an otaku fever dream full of idols, anime, and music, where your enjoyment of the game is directly proportional to the amount of facts you know about Love Live!, in an experience that caters to fans of Japanese people saying heavily-accented English words all the time.
Heavyset Man: SHUT UP!
What, you thought they would even offer you a dub of this game? You poor, simple fool.
Barry: NO!
Experience the unique battle system of Tokyo Mirage Sessions, as they take the usual system where you have to take an enemy seriously exactly once until you know what it's weak to and add in a dash of Fire Emblem by having things ride horses. Then, watch the battle unfold in the most literal sense, as the Session system basically lets you press one button then watch your characters destroy everything in front of them, occasionally stopping to do an impromptu J-pop number along the way, and the true enemy becomes the amount of times you have to fast-travel back to the office to make new stuff after beating the ass of everything on the floor, in a battle system that's about 90% SMT, 10% Fire Emblem, and 100% Sailor Moon. (Tsubasa completes her transformation sequence)
Jump into the incredibly boilerplate SMT plotline, as otherworldly demons threaten the people of Tokyo by taking away their Performa -- which, I guess, is your J-pop energy or something -- and watch a group of teenage protagonists use their powers of dancing and not being cynical to defeat the shadowy inhabitants of the traditional SMT shadow world, as you help them achieve their dreams by turning basic revelations about their personalities into giant knives or whatever, which in turn contributes to their success as massive pop idols for reasons even the characters seem like they know they're stretching for, and the detailed slice-of-life simulation from Persona is replaced with a handful of fetch quests, in a story that looks shiny on the surface but plays out like the side game it really is, but if you replaced Dante with Hatsune Miku.
So put on your best ascot and get ready to break some legs, for a lightweight RPG that doesn't try to shy away from the anime-ass anime it always wanted to be, and this time, it's on a console you might actually own. I'm just glad it got rescued from its banishment to the shadow realm known as the Wii U catalog.
Starring:
- Boretagonist (Ryohei Kimura as Itsuki Aoi)
- Katy Parry (Inori Minase as Tsubasa Oribe)
- Ed Sheeran (Yuki Ono as Touma Akagi)
- Billie Bylith (sic) (Yoshino Nanjo as Kiria Kurono)
- Hollywood Chie (shut the f!ck up about Hollywood) (Ayane Sakura as Eleanora "Ellie" Yumizuru)
- Kyaru Pamu Pamu (Kaori Fukuhara as Mamori Minamoto)
- Miyavi (Yoshimasa Hosoya as Yashiro Tsurugi)
- Chromic Sleep Apnea (Tomokazu Sugita as Itsuki's Mirage: Lord Chrom)
- Feeling the Spearit (Saori Hayami as Tsubasa's Mirage: Pegasus Knight Caeda)
- The Chicago Bulls (Toshiki Masuda as Touma's Mirage: Cavalier Cain)
- Hexadecimal (Kana Akutsu as Kiria's Mirage: Dark Mage Tharja)
- David Bowies (Hiromichi Kogami as Ellie's Mirage: Archer Virion)
- Dark Souls Glow Up (Ryouta Takeuchi as Mamori's Mirage: Knight Draug)
- Chinese Finger Trap (Takehito Koyasu as Yashiro's Mirage: Myrmidon Navarre)
- Mai Eyes Are Up Here (Ami Koshimizu as Maiko Shimazaki)
- Vocaloli (Sumire Morohoshi as Tiki)
...and...
- Who We All Are Inside (Yūichi Nakamura as Barry Goodman)
Performa 5: #Royalties
The honest title for Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE was 'Performa 5: #Royalties.'
Ahh, I missed the sweet sting of losing hours of progress for not having autosave! We have become feeble in our complacency.
Viewer Comments[]
Please say, "Did that tank have a baby?" - Matthew Steiner
please say : "winnie the flu is coming for you!" - Heno Heno
Say: "Death is a preferable alternative to taxes" - Francisco Franco
Please say : "This entire comment section must be purged!!" - Yarida Vent
"Do you guys not have low standards?" - FodderRev
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Reception[]
Honest Game Trailers - Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE has a 96.4% approval rating from YouTube viewers.
Production Credits[]
Written by Max Song, Andrew Bird and Spencer Gilbert
Edited by Max Song