Posted on 09/05/2014 at 08:12 AM
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Nope, Both of the games I mention are nothing like Persona or each other for that matter.
There's still demon fusion and a similar demon compendium. SMT IV has 3rd person dungeon crawling with first person turn based battles.
In Devil Survivor the story plays out through talking heads on static backgrounds and has a strategy style combat system played out on a grid with first person turn based battles. Each of your team members is supported by 2 demons chosen from the stable of demons you have created.
SMT IV is the only one that is actually an SMT game. Persona, Devil Summoner, Digital Devil Saga and Devil Survivor only have the SMT tacked on outside of Japan.
Prior to SMT IV the last true SMT game was Nocturne.