Successor to the RPG released 25 years ago on Saturn, but which we had been able to discover better on Nintendo 3DS a little more recently, Soul Hackers 2 takes place in the middle of the 21st century and begins when Ringo and Figue, two emissaries of the great artificial intelligence named Aion, are alerted to the imminence of the end of the world. Taking shape among men, they revive Arrow, an idealistic Devil Summoner shot dead in the course of his dangerous duties. These images allow us to see Ringo, Figue, Arrow but also Milady and Saizo, two other members of the group.
Separated into different organizations, Devil Summoners make deals with demons and use their summoning powers for a wide variety of purposes, including crime. The end of the world would also concern the rivalry between two of these organizations, Yatagarasu and Phantom Society. Soul Hackers 2 being a Shin Megami Tensei who does not say his name, the ritual to merge demons to create other more powerful ones will also be part of it.
As for turn-based combat, Atlus remains faithful to its habits and always encourages aiming where it hurts: a sort of meeting between the press turn of SMT and the one more of Persona, the mechanic of Sabbath consists of hitting an enemy with the element corresponding to his weakness to store demons, which can then let off steam on the enemy at the snap of Ringo’s fingers.
Transmitted to the Game Informer site, these images also suggest the combat interface, the fusion menu or the city map with its automatic movement menu from one district to another. One of these neighborhoods also responds to the name of Mansei Realma place inaccessible to ordinary mortals in which the Devil Summoners evolve alongside the demons and where you will find various services such as fusion, improvement of the COMP (the essential weapon and summoning tool of the Devil Summoners) or just useful information.