The Demon Animations of Shin Megami Tensei NINE

only two people have played shin megami tensei nine and lived to tell the tale, and i am not one of them. this game killed me but in such a way that i was forced to haunt the earth and document the weird animations in it.
if you like looking at this weird shit check out my blog where i posted a bunch of smt nine animations over 2 years, purseowner4thequalityanimation dot tumblr dot com

[@The_Novu]

>Has wings >Flaps arms instead 10/10

[@peropero2208]

Honestly, SMT Nine made most of the demons actually feel like partners, and these animations are so charming

[@d-w-b-c]

>video about a game's animations >shows the credits' section with the animators at the end Neat.

[@danieladamczyk4024]

God tier content! Respect the animatiors or else go watch pictures.

[@mateusgreenwood1096]

Baal covering his goblet while running is amazing.

[@KingCHAWLZ]

I hope the dude who made Nyarlathotep's animations had a fruitful and successful career.

[@banjo304]

If you get a chance, look at how he moves in IMAGINE. It's so goofy and adorable

[@stale_cheeto]

1:14 Preta throws it back

[@poymannyng1845]

shaking it like a bag of macca

[@marioagainsttheworld6248]

The best one is ANUBIS GETTING UP FROM THE GROUND TO WALK AND RUN TO THEN SIT BACK ON THE GROUND 😭

[@zaqareemalcolm]

"mom im tired"

[@Baritocity]

Several of the walking/running animations are gems! Baal's run is an unexpected moment of silliness coming from a usually imposing enemy in the series. Thank you for sharing.

[@lulukomadori9651]

Crazy that this 22 year old game has more unique animation than current smt games. Hope this game get an translation patch, Marsh did an great video and so did this to help bring attention to 9

[@TomatoKorb]

2:39 driving when a blue shell is approaching be like

[@ningyoryu]

wish they would use or rework some of these animations for a future mainline SMT

[@xerontokyo]

I mean SMT Nine and Nocturne have different set of animations and different game engines.

[@matteste]

Honestly, they seriously need to rework many of the animations of the current set that originally were from Persona 5. A lot of them appear very rough, jittery and clumsy. This in contrast with those from Royal and V that were more well animated.

[@banjo304]

Look into IMAGINE. It has a similar cast and just about every demon has a ton of charm and work put into their animations that you don't really see even in the modern games.

[@HammerGeoLarrup]

I've always had a slight fascination with NINE and how little there was floating out there about it until Marsh shed a spotlight on it. Fantastic video that just makes we want to check out the game even more.

[@zaqareemalcolm]

anubis walking

[@ibragimowbekhan0987]

Anubis felt as cursed as those BOI😂🤚 memes

[@concernedfish5574]

1:20 This actually breaks my heart, somebody cheer him up!

[@Jurarigo]

Oh man, such a crime that not a single one of these were reused. Remind me of Pokemon Stadium's animations, so annoying but full of personality.

[@sebastiandelacruz1346]

This is the coolest video regarding Megaten in a while. I had such a blast seeing these examples you displayed. I want to go through the hassle of somehow being able to play the game just for these animations

[@EirikrJS]

10 Decarabia shells /10

[@Megatenman]

Do not sleep on NINE! 🗣🗣

[@walkingglasses6264]

Im still waitin on a translation patch for this lol

[@henryrodrigues1733]

This video is great, and showing the credits for the animator at the end was pretty cool. Seeing how much effort was put in these animations only for the game to do badly and barely being playable these days is so sad

[@Pystoria]

Very fun. Berith and Eligor's death animations are sick

[@nicholas4113]

5:17 LANCER GA SHINDA

[@ibragimowbekhan0987]

Damn you, Gilgamesh! Damn you, Kirei! Damn you, Hassan of the Hand!

[@Fermin-hw5pd]

KONO HITO DE NASHI!!

[@CoraRosinante]

LET'S GO!!!! I FOUND THE ONE OTHER SMT NINE FAN!!!!!

[@Luxocell]

Hello I am also here

[@paisir8009]

I appreciate your hard work! SMT Nine is such a mysterious game glad there is someone like you to document it! Also, I don't know if you remember me but am the guy that asked for the Nekomata animation on Twitter

[@ibragimowbekhan0987]

Ushiwakamaru moving through jumping and MEGATURTLE doing a SpinToWin made me laugh so fucking hard ITS CANNON ITS IN THE LORE AND NO ONE FUCKING BELIEVED ME

[@Fermin-hw5pd]

He's doing that Eight Boat Leap

[@XelchanTheBrave]

This reminds me of the animations of the first two Pokémon Stadium games in just about every aspect... Animal monsters behave like animals and weird monsters pull out cool twists you wouldn't expect from their more modern animations. For example, Decarabia's "shell" reminds me of Jynx' faint animation: two completely unexpected but cool and welcome behaviours that enhance the monsters' designs.

[@magentaface2750]

What a fantastic video!

[@magentaface2750]

Btw, would it be alright if I share this vid on the Megaten subreddit?

[@IspywithmylittlePSI]

@@magentaface2750 go nuts

[@pablohenrique3442]

2:39 the guy became a Gamera lol. Hey thanks for this video, i wanted to play NINE for a loooong time, it's nice to see videos about SMT NINE,very few people talk about this game (tho there are reasons...such as being somewhat hard to emulate, being an OG XBOX exclusive game and Japanese-only. Hope Atlus brig this game again or some fans do something idk)

[@nickname7997]

I really enjoyed this video, I love when people analyze animation details in games

[@BynineStudio]

this is so interesting ,thank you for collating it and getting into why each animation works/doesn't

[@diegomayz8503]

We need more MegaTen content like this. Examining details of any of the games

[@dullsunrise8820]

I love how the confusion animation is just spiiiiiiiiiiiiiin

[@felipemorgado]

Always nice when youtube recommends me a great vid like this one ❤❤❤❤ i fw u vroh

[@Fermin-hw5pd]

These animations are so much better than what they do today, and so many demons that aren't on 3d mowadays are here too, what a shame

[@ganon4688]

You're goated for this

[@derpi3438]

I greatly appreciate this video

[@eternalhyacinth750]

Don't worry, they'll bring back the lively animations when they make SMT TEN! Can't wait. Also, this was a pretty good "video". This technology is outstanding, these have "sound" now?

[@aikawa-kun9871]

Ok, this is epic. 😊

[@moister3727]

Awww, some animations look really cute. Some are absolutely creepy

[@1993StrangeBoy]

I hope someone makes a translation of this game someday, it really makes me curious

[@ils4844]

SMTNINE ANIMATIONS LFGGG

[@SidOmaniax]

beautiful

[@Richter451]

God I wish NINE came out on the ps2 instead of the Xbox

[@rel8106]

genbu/xuanwu spins as a reference to gamera I think

[@rel8106]

Also joker was gonna do a corkscrew animation like hanuman if he got hit with a critical but they scrapped it last minute (tcrf posted the files from royal pc release that includes it)

[@MrEeow01]

Really cool video

[@Luxocell]

Why would you lie and say NINE isnt a masterpiece

[@pugnome]

Rare and horrifying video of smt NINE

[@Rimalogo]

where in the world did you get the full version of the true neutral battle theme? ive looked all over youtube for the full versions of the music but i cant find them

[@IspywithmylittlePSI]

In the OST the track is called "Shin Megami Tensei NINE Concept Music", it consists of 17 seconds of the SMT1 opening theme and the rest is the true neutral battle theme.

[@Rimalogo]

@@IspywithmylittlePSI are there any other full versions of the other eight battle themes?

[@IspywithmylittlePSI]

@@Rimalogo the OST release doesn't have Light Law and Neutral Chaos, the other 7 are there

[@erisabeau]

Xuanwu spin.... Like

[@todd3143]

ayo pokemon got nothin on this