Vapourware Urban Fantasy in Video Games; or lack of them

[CyberWhale]

Title: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
Genre: JRPG
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Megami_Tensei:_Devil_Summoner

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner[a] is a role-playing video game developed and published by Atlus. Forming part of the Megami Tensei series, it is the first title in the Devil Summoner subseries. It was first released for the Sega Saturnin December 1995, and received a port to the PlayStation Portable in December 2005. Despite reports of it being planned for localization, neither version has been released outside Japan.

Set in the city of Hirasaki in modern-day Japan, the story follows a college student whose death at the hands of demons forces his soul into the body of Summoner Kyouji Kuzunoha. Now in Kuzunoha's body, the protagonist must investigate the appearance of demons in the town and the activities of Sid Davis, the Dark Summoner responsible for killing the protagonist and Kuzunoha. The gameplay carries over multiple classic elements from the Megami Tensei series, including first-person dungeon navigation, turn-based battles, and negotiation with demons to recruit them into the player's party.

 

[CyberWhale]

Title: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army
Genre: JRPG
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_...mmoner:_Raidou_Kuzunoha_vs._The_Soulless_Army

The game differs from the two previous Devil Summoner titles in having real-time battles and a named protagonist and is first in the entire franchise to be set in the past – specifically the year 1931, the fictional twentieth year of the Taishō period of Japan, wherein it deals with historical figures such as Grigori Rasputin in addition to the Shin Megami Tensei series' traditional use of real-world mythological figures. Though somewhat criticized for being the shortest of recent games in the franchise, it generally received favorable reception.

 

[CyberWhale]

Title: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon
Genre: JRPG
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Megami_Tensei:_Devil_Summoner_2:_Raidou_Kuzunoha_vs._King_Abaddon

The game is set after its predecessor, with Raidou Kuzunoha the 14th again being summoned by the Yatagarasu to protect the Capital of Japan. The Taishō period in Japanese history has been fictionally extended into its 20th year, placing the events of the game in the early 1930s (but with a setting influenced more so by the 1920s). Raidou and his mentor, the talking cat Gouto, are again called upon to protect the prosperity and peace of the Capital by simultaneously working undercover at the Narumi Detective Agency and battling demonic foes using the powers Raidou carries as a Summoner. The story begins when a young woman enters the detective agency and asks Narumi's and Raidou's help in locating a curious man named Dahn.

 

[Jokzore]

Title: Thief (3) Deadly Shadows
Genre: Stealth
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thief:_Deadly_Shadows

In Thief: Deadly Shadows the player takes the role of Garrett, a master thief. It is set in a fantasy world resembling a cross between the Late Middle Ages and the Victorian era, with more advanced technologies interspersed. One of the game's major new features was the ability to explore the City. While previous games sent Garrett straight from mission to mission, Thief: Deadly Shadows allows him to walk the City streets between missions where he can steal from passersby, spy on the townspeople's daily lives, and search for sidequests in addition to major story missions.

 

[Jokzore]

Title: Pathologic
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Survival
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathologic

The game represents a unique and unforgettable experience as it transports players in a weird town which crouches, ominous, in the far reaches of an ancient steppe. It was once a small drover settlement, huddled around a monstrous abattoir—but something about the butchery it was near has changed it. It has developed an odd social structure over the course of several generations. It could have quietly continued along its weird way, but a sudden outbreak of an unknown and inevitably lethal disease has decimated the citizens. Prayers did not help. Science did not help. So, finally, they have turned to outsiders for help: three of them enter the town in hope of finding a cure or—failing that—an explanation.

 

[Silva]

Urban Fantasy is for faggots.

And Pathologic, just like PS:Torment, is actually New Weird fiction:

fictions, generally urban, that subvert cliches of the fantastic in order to put them to discomforting, rather than consoling ends. Usually breaking down the barriers between science-fiction, fantasy and supernatural horror.

 

[FreeKaner]

RPG "Renaissance" was with garbage IE clones. The RPG Enlightenment will be with Urban Fantasy once it takes off. The true Golden Age is upon us.

 

[deuxhero]

Indigo Prophecy and Wolf Among Us aren't games and therefore can't be urban fantasy video games.

Virtually all Megami Tensei games are Urban Fantasy to a degree. It's easier to list the exceptions: Nocturne is entirely post-apoc, while GB/PS1 Demikids and Last Bible are pure fantasy. DDS1 is murky, though DDS2 is a reasonably solid example (at least the earlier parts). NINE takes place within a computer simulation of a city which leaves things sketchy, but NINE is shit so it doesn't matter either way.

 

[JarlFrank]

Too many people in this thread who don't know what urban fantasy is smh