movie review vengeance a love story

5 years ago, Nicolas Cage made his most disturbing movie ever

Cage gets top billing for this film, but this isn't really his story.

When a movie character suggests taking a shortcut, you know nothing good is about to happen – especially when that shortcut is through dark woods at night. So it’s no surprise Teena Maguire and her daughter Bethie end up stumbling into the worst nightmare of their lives.

Trigger warning: The plotlines described in this article, particularly those regarding sexual assault, may make some readers uncomfortable.

Five years ago, Nicolas Cage starred in Vengeance: A Love Story , an adaptation of the Joyce Carol Oates novella Rape: A Love Story . Cage plays John Dromoor, a police officer investigating a case involving the gang rape of single mother Teena Maguire, which occurred in front of her 12-year-old daughter Bethie. After the attackers get off scot-free, John attempts to get justice by any means necessary.

If you recognized this movie as an adaptation of Oates’ novella, you probably know what to expect. But if you weren’t aware (as I initially was not, given the title change), then it might be a shock. But honestly, regardless of whether or not you’re prepared, the graphic rape scene within the first 30 minutes is very upsetting to watch and very difficult to get through. Personally, I had to skip ahead a few minutes — something I rarely do — because it really is that sickening. Another warning for anyone particularly upset by animal cruelty, there is a later scene showing an especially cruel killing of a beloved pet cat.

Despite having first billing and being the sole actor on the movie poster, Vengeance really is not about Nicolas Cage. This is Bethie and Teena Maguire’s story. Detective John Dromoor is here to support the traumatized mother and daughter who are trying to get justice and recover physically and mentally from horrific trauma while enduring unbearable cruelty from the residents of their town. While I haven’t read Oates’ novella, from what I understand, Teena and Bethie are the story's true focus.

Nicolas Cage as Detective John Dromoor.

Cage is not at his peak Nicolas Cage here. There are no over-the-top facial expressions, strange visuals, weird quotes or quirks, or classic-Cage screaming. Granted, given the film’s tone, it would have been inappropriate to have any of that. Instead, Cage is going for stoic yet pained, but most of the time, he just ends up looking vacant and empty.

This is, unfortunately, due to the lack of development his character receives. We’re simply told that Dromoor is a Gulf War veteran, a widower, and an alcoholic. There’s no character exploration beyond what is explicitly stated. That’s not great when this is the character that appears on all the movie posters. He isn’t bad in the role, but you get the feeling that anyone could have played the part, while Cage is at his best when he plays more eccentric and exuberant characters where he can show off his full range.

Don Johnson's Jay Kirkpatrick casts doubt on Teena's character during the hearing.

Bethie and Teena want their day in court and to make sure the four rapists are punished, but it seems like most of the town is against them, despite a mountain of evidence. During the hearing, the defense attorney frames Teena as a promiscuous and unfit mother who consented to sex with these men in front of her young daughter, making the men innocent. The courtroom starts cheering.

Teena's four attackers at the initial hearing.

It’s never made clear why the town is behind these men. They aren’t prominent or respected citizens, nor are they clean-cut college students. They all look and act exactly like the scum of the earth that they are. No one can legitimately make the old (unfortunate) argument that these are upstanding young men who made a mistake and shouldn’t have their bright futures ruined. These guys have no depth. They’re just unadulteratedly evil.

Don Johnson as Jay Kirkpatrick, the smarmy defense attorney.

Also standing in the way is an extremely biased judge. The judge makes absolutely no pretense about how much he favors the smarmy, hot-shot defense attorney played by Don Johnson, who sports fashionable sunglasses, a full head of luxurious salt-and-pepper hair, and rides a motorcycle. The judge is perfectly eager to shake Johnson’s hand and courteously excuse him when he arrives late to the hearing.

Meanwhile, the judge snubs Teena’s attorney — an intelligent young Black woman who wants justice. He demeans Teena by forcing her to remove her sunglasses in court, despite a head injury making her highly sensitive to light (“Can’t she just squint?”). While never explicitly stated, there’s definitely underlying sexism (and likely racism regarding Teena’s attorney) in the judge’s attitude. All in all, it’s incredibly frustrating to watch.

According to both the judge and Don Johnson’s lawyer, the jury is totally willing to believe that Teena is an awful mother who would willingly have sex with multiple men in front of her daughter because she has a flirtatious personality and wears revealing outfits. This is despite DNA evidence, a positive identification by Bethie, hospital reports, and very blatant injuries sustained by Teena.

Cage shoots one of Teena's attackers in the head.

Admittedly, it is satisfying when Cage decides to just straight-up murder all of the perpetrators, sparing the mentally fragile Teena a trial that was not looking favorable for her. These guys are portrayed as absolute monsters, so you can’t help but want to see them die. But the ending isn’t enough to make up for the rest of the movie.

While Vengeance isn’t necessarily a bad film, it just feels underdeveloped as a story, and it seems to boil down to being just another variation on the rape/revenge movie.

This article was originally published on Sep. 15, 2022

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Vengeance doesn't deliver even the fun of a nutty Cage performance, so viewers are stuck with a predictable plot, terrible dialogue and flat acting.

Full Review | Dec 18, 2017

By now, Nicolas Cage can practically sleepwalk through these types of generic vigilante roles.

Full Review | Sep 16, 2017

Any hope of prestige is dashed by the heavy-handed, clich-ridden direction of former stuntman Johnny Martin and his star's detached portrayal of a guy whose mind is permanently elsewhere.

Full Review | Sep 15, 2017

If one is only interested in watching poorly coiffed, dentally challenged fiends receive their just deserts, there are worse options out there, with most of them also starring Nicolas Cage.

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Movie Review – Vengeance: A Love Story (2017)

February 14, 2017 by Tai Freligh

Vengeance: A Love Story , 2017.

Directed by Johnny Martin. Starring Nicolas Cage, Don Johnson, Deborah Kara Unger, Anna Hutchison, and Talitha Bateman.

A gulf war veteran seeks vengeance against those who assaulted a single mother.

Vengeance  opens by showing us the questionable judgement of Detective John Dromoor (Nicolas Cage) as a bust goes terribly wrong.  Drinking away his troubles, Dromoor meets Teena Maguire (Anna Hutchison) in the bar.  She’s introduced as a single mom who is a bit too flirtatious and easy with strangers.  After coming on to the Detective, he is all but smitten with her.  We see more character development with a Fourth of July party where Teena continues to act like a slut, embarrassing her twelve-year-old daughter Bethie Maguire (Talitha Bateman).  We see Teena heading home from the party with her daughter and taking a short cut through the woods (that’s a brilliant idea mom!).  This is where the story takes a turn for the worst.

Teena is gang-raped, beaten and left for dead in front of her daughter by four meth-heads.  Bethie walks back to the road and flags down a car which happens to be driven by Dromoor. After time spent in the hospital, Teena is being nursed back to health by her mother, Agnes (Deborah Kara Unger), who has taken on the responsibility of caring for both of them. Bethie ID’s the perps and a hearing is set for a potential trial. 

Unsurprisingly, the parents of the rapists hire the nationally renowned criminal defense attorney, Jay Kirkpatrick (Don Johnson), who paints a different picture of the whole incident, one that focuses on Teena, her sobriety, parenting, and sexual promiscuity.  When the case looks all but lost, Detective Dromoor embarks on his own course of police vigilante justice.

I had high hopes for this movie, but was quickly let down.  It’s revenge porn of the worst kind.  The first half serves as a setup to what you know is going to be classic Nic Cage ass-kicking.  Unfortunately, the acting is overdramatic, overwrought, and one-dimensional.  There’s the judge who is a little too buddy, buddy with the rapists’ lawyer.  There’s the slimy lawyer with no morals.  There’s the meth heads who act a little too entitled.  It was so over-the-top that I couldn’t get past my suspension of disbelief.

Don’t get me wrong.  I wanted to see justice dealt, but it was wrapped up a little too nicely in a bow, complete with no repercussions for Detective Dromoor’s vengeance tour.  He even had his perfect little moments where he got to tell off the lawyer, give an inspired speech to the daughter and reassure the mother that everything was more than okay now, it was great.  Everybody lives happily ever after. 

I really wanted this movie to convince me that going outside the law was the only reasonable choice to get justice, but instead it made the choice for me and in the end, it was hollow and unfulfilling.

Flickering Myth Rating  – Film: ★ ★ / Movie: ★ ★

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Vengeance: a love story.

Directed by Johnny Martin

Beyond good and evil is Justice

When a new friend is brutally assaulted, Detective John Droomor is put by chance in charge of the investigation. Although the evidence against the perpetrators seems overwhelming, there is nothing definitive in the case that guarantees justice is served, even more so if some people are willing to twist and betray it.

Nicolas Cage Anna Hutchison Talitha Eliana Bateman Deborah Kara Unger Don Johnson Charlene Tilton Joshua Mikel Rocco Nugent Joe Ochterbeck Carter Burch Jimmy Gonzales Dikran Tulaine Kara Flowers Cory Scott Allen Mike Pniewski Kaleigh Rivera Xavier Declie Michael Papajohn Aislin Freya Pax Elijah Marcano Nicole Barré Michelle Davidson Dan Kleckner Jwaundace Candece Elizabeth Hunter Kaitlyn Dillard Carlos Guerrero Marc Coppola Shirley Martin Show All… Alphie Hyorth Dwayne Boyd Bernardo Peña Emily Sandifer Rey Hernandez Keith Arthur Bolden Steve Vernon Elise DuQuette Lorraine Rodriguez-Reyes Elena Sanchez Jenny Martin Deborah Swallow Natalie Shaheen

Director Director

Johnny Martin

Producers Producers

Nicolas Cage Michael Mendelsohn Natalie Perrotta

Writer Writer

John Mankiewicz

Original Writer Original Writer

Joyce Carol Oates

Casting Casting

Valerie McCaffrey Tracy Rose Jen Kelley Rita Harrell

Editor Editor

Howard E. Smith

Cinematography Cinematography

David Stragmeister

Assistant Directors Asst. Directors

Angel Cook Jay Tobias

Executive Producers Exec. Producers

Ernst Etchie Stroh Martin J. Barab Patricia Eberle Michael Nilon Harold Becker Richard Rionda Del Castro Shahar Stroh Dama Claire Randy Mendelsohn

Lighting Lighting

Tim Ryan Schenley Sargusingh

Camera Operator Camera Operator

J. Christopher Campbell

Production Design Production Design

Set decoration set decoration.

Jennifer Benton Ryan Kutch

Stunts Stunts

Ele Bardha Daniel Hargrave Carter Burch R.J. De La Fuente Nick DeKay Victoria Donchess Aby Martin Bret McKee Joshua Mikel Joe Ochterbeck Chester E. Tripp III

Composer Composer

Frederik Wiedmann

Sound Sound

Micaela Cain Benjamin Gieschen Derek McGinley Bryan Parker Michael Schmidt Chris David Joshua Adeniji Vicki O'Reilly Vandegrift

Costume Design Costume Design

Peggy Stamper

Makeup Makeup

Tracy Ewell Micah Laine Lauren Thomas

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Tracie Morrison Heather Morris Lair Paulsen

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Review by 𝓶𝓮𝓵🥀📜 ★½

today my psych teacher was explaining how correlation does not equal causation and the example she used was that apparently the more nicolas cage movies there are per year, the more deaths by drowning there are. she was saying that nicolas cage movies didn’t actually cause the drownings despite the high correlation. now i would like to pursue this research because i am not so sure

Review by maneleeo ★½

How can you do this to me? I mean, why call a film "Vengeance: A Love Story", stick Nic Cage on the poster like it was an action thriller and then there is almost no Nic Cage on the film. Not a problem with the courtroom drama elements, but it's Nicolas freaking Cage!

Review by NotAnnaFaris ★½ 5

"No, not a coincidence. More like, it was meant to be."

Let's Get Cage-d

Oy this 1 was rough. But hey, Deborah Kara Unger is in this 🤷🏼‍♀️ & Don Johnson, too. DJ shows up, playing a Robert Kardashian type of criminal defense lawyer confident in his goal of keeping 4 backwoods rapists ON the streets...or IN the sticks, rather.

King Cage plays Detective John Dromoor...who isn't having any of DJ's courtroom antics. No. Instead, he's having Vengeance: A Love Story. 4 servings of it.

Ughhh I'm trying, but this one was really dull & / or difficult to watch. The film itself looks ok, but is otherwise a mess.

Review by Sofa Sinema ★★★ 1

If you thought the band of rapists in I Spit on Your Grave were bad at concealing their crimes, you haven't met the sadistically idiotic gang-bangers in Vengeance: A Love Story . As a detective states, they left behind DNA, fingerprints, and "everything but name tags." They also left the victim and her twelve-year old daughter alive as witnesses.

Went into this expecting shoddy exploitation, and then noticed that acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates provided the source material. Read several of her stories when I was younger and always thought her gritty slices of American pie were ripe for screen adaptation. More literally, the film's most mentally challenged perpetrator has his shoulder tattooed with one his mom's freshly baked apple "birthday…

Review by Mos Co ★★

Nic Cage is so boring in this. The actual vengeful moments are decent but it was mostly dull.

Review by ELECTRICWIZARDx ★★★

Sentimental Death Wish with Cage as stoic-as-to-imply-PTSD ex purple heart Iraq vet turned cop turned vigilante murderer of 4 rapist backwoods sloppy steakers, defended by a slimey as fuck Don Johnson in the world's shittest courtroom. It is what it is, and what it is is another 3 star 2010s chisel chipping away at the mountain of IRS debt as Cage the Hammer viciously headbutts the fuck outta the handle

Review by DreamScape40 ★★★½

Good story. A powerful cast. Don Johnson still gets to ride his Harley!

Review by Learic Life ½

What an atrocious film.  Horrible directing and writing make this Joyce Carol Oates adaptation almost unwatchable, which is a shame, given the seriousness of the subject matter (a woman is gang-raped by four men in front of her 12-year old daughter).          Nicolas Cage, who is usually a superhero at salvaging otherwise shitty movies with his special brand of over-the-top bravado and entertaining risk-taking, can’t do much here as the emotionally-scarred detective who takes an interest in helping the rape victim, who he met at a bar previously.             Don Johnson plays a slick attorney representing the accused rapists.  Deborah Kara Unger plays the victim’s mother.           The…

Review by 𝙴𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚢 ★ 11

Why is it that Nicolas Cage insists on dying his hair in that totally obvious fake black color? He looks like an ageing goth.

Not nearly enough vengeance in this. Those fucking cat-killing rapists deserved to feel the full wrath of the Cage, not just a simple throwaway head-shot. Cage needs to rage a lot more.

Only 1 Cage left - It’s the final Cagedown!

Review by Nicolas Cage Fan Nr.1 nicolas kim coppola ½

Tf you mean a movie where a woman gets raped and loses a trial about it is called "vengeance:a love story"😭

Review by Lisa ★

Nicholas Cage, my man, has taken on some dubious roles of late, none more so than Detective John Dromoor, out to seek vengeance on a gang of thugs acquitted of charges of brutality attacking and raping Teena ( Kiwi Connection 🥝🇳🇿 Anna Hutchison), a young single mother. At the same time, her 12-year-old daughter Bethie (Talitha Bateman) looks on. Let’s tick off the negatives: awful screenplay, shockingly bad acting from the supporting cast, terrible editing and directing, those attack scenes are BRUTAL😬And as for the positives: Well, there’s Nic, but he doesn’t have much to do, and he gets the worst of the cheesy dialogue! Don Johnson as a Harley-riding, dubious defence attorney, Jay Kirkpatrick, is the highlight in the acting talent pool (I never thought I’d say that!) But seriously, give this one a wide berth.

Side Note : Vengeance: a Love Story was NOT my choice of viewing.

Review by Ben Peterson ★★★

JUNESPLOITATION - DAY 5 - REVENGE!

Aint bad. Cage plays it straight. Has an emotional scene that's really sweet (like "nice" sweet, not "cool" sweet). He's not in every scene, but what he does get to do is worth a watch if you are searching out Cage DTV stuff.

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Hello Again,

I just finished watching this movie and I have thoughts .

It is not a great movie. It is, at its best, an average movie. There are small moments here and there that make it interesting and there are some very large plot arcs that also make it interesting, at least to me.

**** Just as a warning, the movie deals pretty heavily with sexual assault, so I’ll be talking about that as well. ****

Let’s get the synopsis out of the way:

This is not going to be a typical review. I’m not doing a blow-by-blow of the cinematography or the acting or whatever you want. I do want to talk about the rape scene, which is brutal and awful and involves a child actor being present for a fair amount of it, to the point that the daughter covers her own brutalized mother’s nudity with the discarded and torn clothing.

This is…unnecessary. Whenever I see children in this type of movie, I think about Danielle Harris. She’s an actress who played the ten-year-old niece of Michael Meyers in the Halloween movies (IV and V?). Because the production team did such a lousy job of protecting her and screening her from the worst of it, she suffered nightmares and eventually did the Rob Zombie Halloween movies as a form of therapy, which is…the most mindbogglingly sentence I’ve had to type.

So there’s that. Additionally, I’m extremely over scenes of extreme sexual violence in movies because usually they’re just used as a catalyst to propel the male character to do some violence.

However….this movie did something right. Nicolas Cage’s character is the over-the-hill cop who has seen it all and is tired of the system and the revolving door in our criminal justice system….except he’s very low key and he’s not really in the movie that much. He appears here and there and then shows up toward the end in a big way, but for large chunks of the movie, it’s about Teena and Bethie dealing with what happened and the emotional ramifications of that.

There’s an especially affecting scene when Teena is about to swallow a handful of pills in a suicide attempt and then throws them away in an angry fit. In a lot of movies, that would be the end of it. She conquered her suicidal depression in one angry act! But the movie continues to show that she is not okay, that she is still having trouble emotionally processing the attack and what happened to her and that’s she’s still suffering from suicidal ideation.

And Nicolas Cage is Sleepy Cage in this movie. He’s not grandstanding. He’s not taking over the movie when he’s around. He’s mostly silent, mostly in the background and mostly just waiting to act. And when he does act (yes it’s to murder the rapists) it’s thoughtful, careful, planned violence that removes the problem with no collateral damage.

This movie is still problematical in that in robs Teena and Bethie of dealing with the resolution themselves, but it does something right in that it actually highlights  their journey after the assault. It highlights the women that were attacked, the women around them who are trying to help.

This is not a good movie. It has some great moments, Ann Hutchinson and Talitha Batemen work well together and have great chemistry and don’t pull any punches with their performances. And Cage makes the right choice in this movie and minimizes his impact.

I’m not recommending you see this movie, unless you, for some reason, think we need another movie in which a woman is brutally raped and her male whatever needs to avenge her.  Vengeance takes a step in the right direction. Focus on her story. How she deals with it and copes with it.

It’s not his story.

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Review: A remote Nicolas Cage doesn’t help the melodramatic ‘Vengeance: A Love Story’

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Any time you hear a movie character say, “I know a shortcut,” and it involves walking through the woods in the dark of night, there’s a strong likelihood that nothing good can come of it.

Still, one isn’t quite prepared for the melodramatic dross that is “Vengeance: A Love Story,” a ham-handed crime thriller starring Nicolas Cage as a Niagara Falls police detective who moonlights as a mournful vigilante after justice isn’t served for a young woman (Anna Hutchison) who is gang-raped in front of her 12-year-old daughter (Talitha Bateman).

Although there would seem to be sufficient evidence to convict the gang of degenerate scum who carried out the brutal Fourth of July attack, a smarmy defense lawyer (Don Johnson) proceeds to flip the script on the understandably traumatized victim.

Enter Cage, a lone wolf of a Gulf War vet in a perpetual PTSD-laced funk who refuses to wait for the legal system to mete out an appropriate punishment.

Despite Cage’s paycheck-driven output over much of the past decade, expectations for this film (which was not available for advance screening) were still slightly higher than normal since it was based on a Joyce Carol Oates novel (“Rape: A Love Story”) and adapted by “House of Cards” writer-producer John Mankiewicz.

But any hope of prestige is dashed by the heavy-handed, cliché-ridden direction of former stuntman Johnny Martin and his star’s detached portrayal of a guy whose mind is permanently elsewhere.

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Vengeance: A Love Story

On the Fourth of July, single mother Teena is brutally assaulted by a local gang in front of her 12-year-old daughter Bethie. Despite Bethie being able to identify the attackers, the defense hires a local hot-shot defense attorney who manipulates the law to their advantage. When the criminals are set free, Gulf War veteran and detective John Dromoor (Nicolas Cage) is dismayed by the lack of justice and plots revenge against the men on Teena’s behalf.

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Samuel L. Jackson, Maria Bello, Abigail Breslin, Nicolas Cage, Michael Mendelsohn, Mike Nilon, John Mankiewicz

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A mother recovering from a brutal gang rape is stalked by the perpetrators but is protected by a sympathetic cop.

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• Adaptation from the novella by Joyce Carol Oates.

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Vengeance: A Love Story was a Limited release in 2017 on Friday, September 15, 2017 . There were 10 other movies released on the same date, including American Assassin , mother! and Because of Grácia . As a Limited release, Vengeance: A Love Story will only be shown in select movie theaters across major markets. Please check Fandango and Atom Tickets to see if the film is playing in your area.

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In his long career, Dennis Quaid has sometimes played politicians. He’s been former President Bill Clinton (“The Special Relationship”) and was the president in the musical comedy “American Dreamz” with Hugh Grant and Willem Dafoe. Now, in “Reagan,” Quaid portrays former President Ronald Reagan with, if not brilliance, at least evident conviction. Time truly holds surprises for all of us.

The movie, directed by Sean McNamara from a screenplay by Howard Klausner, opens with Quaid as the 40th president leaving a speech site and walking right into an assassination attempt. The picture then moves to present-day Moscow. Jon Voight plays Viktor Petrovich, a retired K.G.B. agent with an accent straight out of “The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show” who narrates the story of Reagan to a younger functionary. And so we shift back to the 1980s, and then back to Reagan’s early years in radio and Hollywood. (Mena Suvari plays Reagan’s first wife, Jane Wyman, and Penelope Ann Miller is Nancy.)

In the first eight minutes, the movie makes as many temporal shifts as a 1960s Alain Resnais work, albeit quite less gracefully.

Why is Reagan’s story relayed by a K.G.B. guy? Because in this unabashed love letter to the former president, Reagan was the force behind the fall of the Soviet Union. The movie implies that this “evil empire” collapsed as a result not just of his presidency, but of his anti-Communist activism during his entertainment career in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s. These eras are depicted in scenes strongly suggesting that before shooting, the cinematographer, Christian Sebaldt, happened upon a fire sale on diffusion filters at the camera store.

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Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance review

Dave aubrey | jun 12, 2024.

Shin Megami Tensei V always needed a PS5 release. Yes, it plays perfectly well on Nintendo Switch, but those large landscapes and detailed demons were always crying out for a more powerful machine. This hasn’t been “remastered” in any way, still looking very similar to the original Switch release, but this port runs more smoothly, and at a higher resolution. What more can you really ask for?

Well, one thing that fans were asking for was more story. The new “Canon of Vengeance” story path complements the original’s Creation path. One of the primary complaints following SMTV’s original release was that it simply didn’t have enough cutscenes or story content to push the game along, and while there’s a whole new story path present here, I want to re-emphasise the fact that it complements the original story. With the two put together, there’s enough story content to please fans, but they’re split into separate playthroughs.

Those playthroughs won’t be easy, either. SMT games are notoriously difficult, and Atlus hasn’t turned down the difficulty to please newer fans of the series that have entered from Persona. If you know a demon’s weakness in Persona, taking out your foes in a single turn is realistic. In SMTV, you’ll be lucky to get that same result – and even then, a single critical hit against your protagonist could net you a game over before you even know what hit you.

Yes, only your protagonist needs to be knocked out in battle for a game over, and those game overs kick you all the way back to your last save from before the battle, no checkpoints. As a result, you’ll be saving before you go pretty much anywhere to do anything. Save points are multi-functional: you can warp between them, use them to access a shop, fuse and manage demons, restore health, upgrade your perks – sorry, Miracles – and more. It’s good that they’re useful, because you’ll be running back to them regularly, and thankfully they’re placed pretty frequently across the world.

The desert-like landscapes of post-apocalyptic Tokyo are barely recognizable save for a few landmarks, and they’re infested with demons in every corner. You can try to follow the waypointed progression path, but the tough difficulty will stop you in your tracks. Leveling up your protagonist and team of demons matters, and going through an area to clear through side quests and demon statues to harvest power from will usually give you enough strength to push on. With that said, there will still be some ridiculously strong demons that will ambush you near some treasure or on a thin path, and they can end your game quickly.

It meant that I had to take my time at every step, clearing out areas fully, and never progressing without a fresh save file and a full health bar. But this overly-cautious approach also makes SMTV feel like a slog to get through. Each time you reach a new save point – which, as mentioned, aren’t too far away from one another – instead of looking for the next, you really have to stop, pick up side quests, and start digging around for anything that’ll help you level up before moving on. If you don’t, you’ll get overwhelmed. 

This is still the same game that launched on Nintendo Switch in 2021, and while the new Vengeance path is very cool, it isn’t enough to warrant a second playthrough unless you’re a big fan of the original game and the larger series. 

It’s been a busy year for lengthy JRPGs, and Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance isn’t the best of the bunch. It’s a solid JRPG adventure with a lot to love, but you’ll be sent back to your last save file pretty regularly, and depending on how long it’s been since your last save, that can suck the energy out of the room instantly. As a result, SMTV feels like stalling a classic car. Someone will tell you you’re an idiot for not understanding the gearbox’s nuances, but a smooth ride will be preferable to juddering down the road.

Score: 7/10

Platform tested: PS5

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Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance Review

by Mohamed Lamine Coulibaly · August 26, 2024

When Vengeance Goes Hand in Hand with Improvements

Although the release of Shin Megami Tensei V in 2021 was largely a success, something felt off. Despite some great elements, the title seemed lacking in some respects. Given Atlus’s history and the unfulfilled potential, an enhanced version seemed to be inevitable and three years later we have the release of Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance . With a centralized theme of vengeance, it greatly improves upon the original release.

As an enhanced version, the premise of Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance is the same as the original release. The story begins in modern day Tokyo and follows a high-school student with a created name, whose personality is determined by players’ choices. Through a series of unexpected events, this student finds himself stranded in a mysterious world called Da’at, which is home to hostile demons. As he is about to meet his end, the young man is rescued by a mysterious individual named Aogami with whom he fuses to form a new being known as Nahobino. These events are consistent through the two storylines featured in the game: the Canon of Creation that follows the (slightly) unaltered plot of the original release and the new Canon of Vengeance added to the enhanced version.

Selecting the desired Canon doesn’t require complex requirements or tedious effort; the game presents the choice of the storyline at the very beginning of a new playthrough. The storylines can be played in any order, though each has exclusive content such as locations, boss fights, and demons, with the Canon of Vengeance granting access to most of what the game has to offer. This makes for a good incentive to play both Canons, which combined together offer a total of six endings: two endings for the Canon of Vengeance adding to the four of the original game. The two Canons, while substantially different in their narrative, see the protagonist and other factions fighting for godhood. This sets players for an adventure of epic proportions, which gives them a sense of accomplishment as they defeat well-known mythological figures, especially on higher difficulty settings that better translate the struggle of the task at hand.

Thanks to clever additions like Yoko, there’s a better cast dynamic to be found.

While both Canons have a storyline based on a race for godhood, the original release failed to flesh out most of the participating characters in a meaningful way. Although their beliefs and motivations were made clear, the dynamic of their relationships with each other rarely passed the status of mere enemies or allies and their screentime was rather short, which left little room to be more acquainted with them. As a result, seeing them meet their end or being witness of their betrayal hardly managed to stir any emotion. Fortunately, the direction of the new storyline makes more emotional impact.

The Canon of Vengeance introduces new characters and new locations to the original game’s narrative, altering many events in the process, especially during the second half of the game. The inclusion of Yoko at the very beginning of the story, and her interactions with the main cast, is one of the triggers for many positive changes. Her inclusion alongside the antagonistic Qadištu — a group of powerful demonesses — and the mysterious archangel Mastema doesn’t feel forced or out of place, offering a fresh experience for those who played the 2021 release and a cohesive narrative for the newcomers. Although most of the locations visited in the Canon of Vengeance are similar to the ones present in the Canon of Creation, the great threat posed by the Qadištu is what drives the narrative as opposed to running errands for a faction or another. This gives a sense of tension and, at the same time, raises many questions considering the ultimate goal of the main antagonists is astutely kept under wrap for a good part of the game.

The characters already introduced in the Canon of Creation see their motivations presented in a new light that reveal more about their real personality. Some of these characters can now fight alongside the protagonist at predetermined parts of the game, in contrast to the original release where only demons with little to no characterization could only be part of the player’s party. This gives to these human partners more time in the spotlight and provides a new dynamic to their relationships. Fortunately, this doesn’t come at the price of the player’s freedom of choosing their own party composition. This new portrayal of the human characters pleasantly allows players to learn more about them, see them grow, and potentially get attached to them.

Fighting together contributes to creating a feeling of camaraderie.

Vengeance inherits the press turn battle system from Shin Megami Tensei V . In this system, the number of actions players can perform per turn is represented by icons that deplete as the commands are chosen. Striking enemies’ weaknesses and scoring critical hits grants more actions, while missing the target or seeing one’s attack nullified loses actions. This prompts the player to be wary of their party’s and enemies’ affinities, and play accordingly. However, there are other factors to consider, like the order in which each party member acts to balance exploiting weaknesses and using support skills. In addition, an Omagatoki gauge fills up as turns pass and specific actions are performed. A full Omagatoki gauge allows player to activate a powerful skill without consuming any press turn icon.

Vengeance improves the formula of the battle system by introducing a new type of skill that, in addition to a full Omagatoki gauge, requires specific demons in the player’s party to be performed. This encourages players to use demons they would otherwise neglect (due to poor stats or low level) and come up with new strategies, which gives even more freedom in how to approach challenging encounters and an incentive to keep some demons one may be fond of. In addition, each demon has now an innate ability, which is a passive skill primarily affecting one or more parameters in battle, adding a new layer of strategy. Toying with these new tools to overcome the arduous encounters in the quest to achieve godhood is a delight.

Vengeance removes a mechanic that caused much consternation in the original version: damage scaling based on the difference between the target and the attacker’s level. Even if they cultured a party with stats matching those of their foes, players saw their damage reduced due to enemies having a higher level. In the enhanced release, this inconvenience is no more, allowing players to take on foes of higher level assuming the gap between the stats aren’t too considerable and the right strategy is used. As a result, the player is rewarded for good party composition rather than having to rely on grinding.

In Vengeance, two demons or more can join together to perform powerful skills.

Despite demi-god status, the Nahobino can hardly prevail alone against the horde of demons he has to face. For this reason, he needs to convince some of the hostile demons to become his allies. This is primarily done through negotiation, during which the desired demon asks questions and makes demands, with the players choosing how to respond in a way that satisfies their interlocutor. This sometimes leads to hilarious interactions, such as a demon asking the protagonist to dig only to reveal him he just dug his own grave, or a bloodthirsty interlocutor electing to not attack after they are reminded cleaning the potential stain of blood isn’t an easy task. Vengeance ‘s addition to this already fun and well-crafted negotiation system are quizzes, where the player must identify a demon while relying on a minor visual element provided. Successfully answering these quizzes wins over the demon without any need to offer anything. This is a welcome addition considering that in other cases choosing the same dialog option while negotiating with the same demon don’t always yield the same result. While frustrating in certain instances, this randomness also contributes to making each negotiation a new venture, where demons feel like beings gifted with a mood prone to change instead of always acting in the same fashion in response to players’ predetermined actions.

The sizeable demonic bestiary of Shin Megami Tensei V grows bigger in Vengeance , adding over 40 new demons from different mythologies to the 230 present in the original release. With this addition comes new skills, new side quests, and the implementation of the demon haunt. Accessible from the various leyline founts located in Da’at, the demon haunt is a place where Nahobino can interact with his teammates, the humans included. Speaking with the demons there allows players to learn more about their party members, receive items from them, or even see them growing stronger.

The mainline Shin Megami Tensei titles are known for being challenging. This holds true for Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance , whose boss fights require planning ahead for their encounters, usually after a failed attempt or two gives players the insights they need to emerge victorious. However, the title is also more accessible than its predecessors thanks to its various difficulty settings, whose lower levels, especially the “Safety” difficulty, drastically reduce the game’s challenge. This allows the game to be enjoyed by players with various proficiencies in turn-based RPGs, satisfying those who crave challenge and those who merely want to experience the story. A helpful addition to Vengeance is the ability to save anywhere compared to the original title, which only allowed it at save points. Despite this lenience, Atlus didn’t forget those looking to put their skills to the test, with Vengeance featuring two secret bosses — one for each of the Canons — and a Godborn mode where even the regular enemies are at level 150, the maximum level players can achieve. It is appreciable to realise all these challenges can be overcome by coming up with a well thought up strategy rather than mindless grinding.

Aogami and the protagonist just spending some quality time in the demon haunt.

A lot of locations return from the original release giving exploration a similar feel. However, a few conveniences have been added to make the experience less tedious. Players can now make use of a bird’s-eye view, a convenient tool for spotting hidden elements, such as the Miman — little beings that act as collectibles — or Mitama who yield precious bonus once defeated. Traveling long distances is also easier thanks to the Magatsu Rails, which are lines of energy the protagonist can ride on to reach farther points instantly. Map layouts have been altered a bit with items and resources shifted around, giving a sense of discovery even to those who played the original release. Vengeance features two new areas: Shinjuku and Shakan. Shinjuku is the biggest region of the game and has a design that makes it distinctive from the other regions. Meanwhile, Shakan is a dungeon featuring a gimmick that involve progressing through two different planes. While Shinjuku offers hours of exploration, Shakan keeps the player on their toes with a singular layout that requires a bit of logic to find the exit and gather all the treasure available.

The impressive visuals in Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance just expand on what was already in the virtually gorgeous 2021 release. In the human characters’ case, the facial expressions accurately convey their feelings, which serve to make them even more expressive in the new narrative packed with emotional moments. While demons don’t always feature the same level of expressiveness as their human counterparts, they are nicely designed and can be freely observed in the compendium or the demon haunt from various angles. On another hand, the NPCs irrelevant to the story are generic and don’t have any face for the most part. Meanwhile, the animations of unique skills during battles are impressive, skillfully displaying their destructive power or dramatic nature.

Vengeance benefits from the already pleasant music of the original version, to which it adds more than 80 new tracks. This huge repertoire easily allows the game to offer a fitting tune for each situation. Going after a supersonic demon through Tokyo with a combination of rock music and motor noises puts one in the right mood for an exciting chase. The tunes played when confronting most of the bosses or major enemies are memorable and translate the urgency of the situations thanks to quick rhythms from various influences. The English voice acting is great, accurately conveying the emotions seen on the screen. The incredible performance of Daman Mills as Aogami, with whom the protagonist interacts the most, is particularly hard to forget. The charisma of characters such as Koshimizu and Yagumo is made even more apparent through their voice actors, while the other voice artists also succeed in giving live to their respective personae.

There are many new skills to use in Vengeance, with some of them featuring impressive animations.

Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance is an overall improvement over the already solid original release. Those who played the 2021 release will find every feature improved, and with the delightful additions, it is the best way to experience Shin Megami Tensei V . The numerous quality-of-life improvements implemented also serve to make this title a fine entry point to those jumping into the franchise, while still providing enough challenge for those who seek it. Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance is the polished result of an already great RPG endowed with an epic tale and well-rounded gameplay.

Disclosure: This review is based on a free copy of the game provided by the publisher.

A great press turn battle system with more tools to play with

Hours of content and great replayability

Human characters are more lovable and relatable

Endearing interactions with the demons

A few flavor texts at the wrong place

More care about the NPCs' faces would be appreciated

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Mohamed Lamine Coulibaly

Fascinated by the screens since I saw them, video games are a sorcery I quickly become obsessed with. This passion culminated with the discovery of the RPGs. At that time, they were likely the sole titles where story and world building mattered as much as gameplay. Now, I am writing about them, especially my favorite ones: the JRPGs!

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