Atlus Whats the coolest and most unique atlus game/series outside of smt

[Goblino]

Pretty much what it says on the tin. Atlus love to go outside the box and they tend to produce some of the most experimental jrpgs. Name some that you like and why so that I can go and buy them and enjoy them.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Wouldn't call them experimental, but they distributed the best Japanese Wizardry, Tale of the Forsaken Land, for the PS2. It's a very good game.

Etrian Odyssey is a solid dungeon crawler series if you can get past the weeaboo aesthetic.

 

[Duraframe300]

Well: (only listening developed by Atlus)

Radiant Historia (Play this in any case if you haven't already)
The Trauma Center Series
Hellnight
Maken X/Maken Shao
Catherine
Princess Crown (only jp)
Tokyo Mono Hara Shi (same)
Dungeon Explorer

Yeah, that should be everything relevant if I'm not missing something.

 

[Krraloth]

Wouldn't call them experimental, but they distributed the best Japanese Wizardry, Tale of the Forsaken Land, for the PS2. It's a very good game.

Etrian Odyssey is a solid dungeon crawler series if you can get past the weeaboo aesthetic.

I second both of them.

 

[SCO]

You're probably better with another company for 'experimental', like Sting Entertainment (although many games of them are published by Atlus).

 

[Goblino]

Tale of the Forsaken Land

That's that shit I keep forgetting to try. Great suggestions. I guess I'm not super well versed in nip games, but I've always seen atlus games as daringly niche or uncommon, particularly ps2 era things like metal saga and handfuls of ds games that the white man imported but never played. Seems to me that their most common mainstream stuff is Persona and Smt mainline. Both of those games were made with unusually western design until of course p3/p4 (the slickening). Mainline Smt is one of the few jrpgs where you have to actually play the game and know some of what's going on under the hood to win, and is almost completely untainted by shitty filler dialogue and cutscenes to take you out of the game every ten paces.

 

[Monstrous Bat]

Majin Tensei II

 

[Deflowerer]

Hellnight is awesome, my favorite horror game alongside Silent Hill 1. It's basically a dungeon crawler with no combat, with one big motherfucker hunting you down in an abandoned underground military complex. Has a really unique story as well. Definitely recommended.

 

[Abu Antar]

Play Radiant Historia. It's probably one of my favorite handheld games and has a killer soundtrack by the awesome Yoko Shimomura.