New Leak Is Good News for Shin Megami Tensei Fans

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Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance has been rated in South Korea. The leaked classification implies that the unannounced title is a complete edition of Shin Megami Tensei 5 with all the DLC and even some extra content.

Rumors of an enhanced version of the latest mainline Shin Megami Tensei entry have been circulating online for years. They are about as old as the RPG itself, and inherently tied to the speculation that SMT5 will eventually be released beyond the Nintendo Switch. The first indication of that happening dates back to the late 2021 Nvidia GeForce NOW leak, which suggested that a PC port of the RPG is in the works.

Almost two years later, the South Korean Game Rating and Administration Committee published an age rating for an unannounced title called Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance. The classification, first spotted by Gematsu, indicates that Vengeance is a complete edition of the fifth numbered SMT game, containing all of its existing DLC and some additional—albeit unspecified—improvements. The rating was originally published on February 16 and pulled from the regulator's site three days later. Historically, content classifications for Atlus titles have appeared up to six months ahead of their market release.

This development is consistent with a number of recent reports from well-established Sega leaker Midori, who's been insisting that Atlus is working on a project «connected» to Shin Megami Tensei 5 as far back as September 2023. A new edition of the critically acclaimed RPG would certainly fit that description, and was also already teased by Chinese leaker Diandong Langke Lu Xun in June 2023.

Nearly every big Atlus RPG since the 2003 Shin Megami Tensei 3: Nocturne has received a complete edition, so the notion of SMT5 getting the same treatment would be par for the course. As for the new content that SMT5: Vengeance might introduce, additional demons could be part of the upcoming package. That's because some recent datamining efforts revealed that the