Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army

Final WeaponSoul Kiwami

Raidou Remastered offers a well-paced narrative with intriguing detective elements, a cast of charming characters with equally great voice actors behind them, robust features and quality of life improvements, and a combat system with the Shin Megami Tensei aspects that fans know and love. This is a nearly perfect remaster that sets the standard for RPG remasters due to its breadth of features and quality of life improvements over its original game.

Impulse GamerGareth Newnham

Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army is an odd game. Technically, it's the second Devil Summoner game, it's an action RPG in a wider series

Checkpoint GamingEdie W-K

8.5/10

With so many developers pushing barely-changed ports on us and calling them remasters — or worse, remasters that actually ruin the game —we need more to follow ATLUS’ example with RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army. It’s an unwieldy title, but no less so than the original game that is its namesake, Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army, which released on PS2 in 2006 as a spin-off to the much more well-known series Shin Megami Tensei. It’s been largel...

TechRadar GamingHarry Padoan

Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army serves as a faithful, yet significantly refined take on its source material. It stays close to its PS2 roots visually, while adding much-needed quality of life improvements like a fresh UI and enhanced 3D environments. Expressive voice acting and a fantastic array of demons also add color to an engaging, mysterious plot. Unfortunately, there are some aspects that don’t quite land – demon investigations feel a little flat and combat, though improved, can feel a tad clunky at times. All in all, though, this is a lovingly crafted remaster that h...

Console CreaturesBobby Pashalidis

8/10

Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army is a standout example of what bringing an older title to modern consoles should be.

WayTooManyGamesLeo Faria

8/10

The last few years were a period of learning for people who started getting into Atlus’ catalog of RPGs. Persona was the gateway drug for most of us, then came Shin Megami Tensei V to showcase a more complex, more challenging, and edgier take on the game we had fallen for over the previous years. But Atlus has way more spinoffs based on the original Shin Megami Tensei formula, one of them being the Devil Summoner subseries. Soul Hackers 2, released a while back, is part of this spinoff vari...

StevivorMatt Gosper

8/10

Atlus is a Japanese studio that is practically bursting at the seams with RPGs, and their lineages are all interwoven. Branching out from the core Megami Tensei series – games like 2024’s Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance – are subseries like the well-known Persona franchise, as well as more underground hits like Devil Survivor or Devil Summoner.

NoobFeedPlacid

80/100

A demon-summoning detective noir returns, reimagined with sharper steel, stranger spirits, and a Tokyo teetering on the edge of occult chaos.

But Why ThoAbdul Saad

7.5/10

Despite some flaws, RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army is one of the most unique Atlus JRPGs in the Devil Summoner series. It might not have the polish of modern SMT titles, but it makes up for that with originality, rich humor, charm, and atmosphere.

Nintendo World ReportMelanie Zawodniak

7.5/10

Raidou Kuzunoha carves out a fun niche in the Megami Tensei franchise by choosing to focus on real time action instead of turn-based combat, but I think the remastered version might have been too overzealous in the very necessary changes it made. Overworld exploration and combat have both had their edges sanded down to the point that they’re a little too frictionless, and I think some of the magic has been lost as a result. It’s a detective game where I never felt like a detective, and an action game where the action felt simple on all but the hardest difficulties. It’s certainly a fun g…

WellPlayedNathan Hennessy

7/10

Raidou Remastered is an enjoyable MegaTen curio that needs a few more ideas to give its real-time combat any lasting appeal.

VGChartzEvan Norris

Unscored

Sympathy for the devil summoner.Atlus has been on a roll lately. By publishing terrific new releases like Metaphor: ReFantazio, Unicorn Overlord, and [...]