- Asura's Asura Roga attack inflicts Rage status on random party members, including your character. It's also one of the more infuriating attacks because it swipes control of the party away from the player, potentially making the player rage at their DS. The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You from Asura's Hate Plague!
- A certain strategy makes it even more brilliant! Try fighting Asura alone when he uses Asura Roga on you. You're basically raging right BACK AT HIM, turning him into a victim of his own Hate Plague!
- One strategy you can use on Horkos is to inflict status ailments on the Katakirauwa demons he occasionally summons and eats for HP recovery. This will cause Horkos to contract whatever the Katakirauwa was infected with. You're punishing him for his gluttony.
- Zelenin comes from Russia, a country where a prominent part of history involved an absolute authority who nobody could question on pain of death. She ends up siding with Law in order to bring humanity under the control of an absolute authority who nobody can question on pain of death. Jimenez comes from America, a country where a prominent part of history involved people overthrowing a tyrannical authority to create a society based on individual freedom. He ends up siding with Chaos in order to overthrow all authority and create a society based on individual freedom where anyone with the power to back them up can do as they wish.
- As mentioned above, Law and Chaos are color coded as Blue and Red. These are also the colors of the Investigation Team and the Strike Team, respectively. Remember which units Zelenin and Jimenez belonged to?
- To go one further with Zelenin, the game's 20 Minutes into the Future setting and her being seemingly in her late twenties mean that, in all likelihood, she wasn't a child of the Communist era at all, but rather The '90s, when Russia had been left economically ruined and politically chaotic following the Soviet Union's collapse. She likely longed for law and order well before she went into the Schwartzwelt - perhaps even idolizing the Soviet era despite never actually living through it.
- As a Scientist, she also believes in cold calculated reason as what drives humanity. There is only logic found in the Law route, but the flaw is that science and intellectuals are often the first to be suppressed by tyrants the moment logic and truth becomes their undoing.
- On Jimenez' end, he's probably roughly the same age as Zelenin. A little too young to remember the Cold War, but old enough to remember the vast differences between the relatively-if-not-entirely stable Bill Clinton era and the oppressive buildup of government power under Dubya. He remembers Team God giving power to someone who probably didn't deserve it, he remembers how the rich got richer and the poor got so much poorer during that time, and because he's a soldier, he might have experienced The War on Terror firsthand if he was old enough. Losing friends to the guns of The Other Team God certainly explains his initial hesitance to get close to anyone on this mission, as well. No wonder he went Chaos: between all the damage he saw done by the will of people acting in God's name, joining the other team just made sense.
- Unlike Gore or the MC who are soldiers, Jimenez is a mercenary first and foremost, fighting for the highest bidder, no matter how strong and weak they were. He would serve under weakling rulers who only has power because he had mercs to do the bidding for them instead of fighting for his own potential. Likewise, as a Merc serving under the strong he would be nothing more than fodder meant to die, much like his realization that under normal circumstances he would be the first to go in a warzone with his possibility and potential thrown aside for raw power.
- Gore, who represents the neutral route have seen much in his life, first serving as a soldier in the US military and then as a member of the United Nations. Unlike Zelenin or Jimenez who are too young to know about the full nature of their countries, he has seen enough of both sides of the conflict that he feels attached to neither. He is responsible for the investigation team but also commands the Red Sprite. He represents the United Nations who despite their personal differences must set aside such things for the sake of humanity. When the MC accepts Gore's desire to save humanity without letting it fall to either absolute law or chaos, his main motivation in the true ending of Redux is to make sure Alex lives in a world where she would get the life she deserved, free from the demons and angels influence much like UN's main vision.
- Gore being a Commander highlights the strength and weakness of the Neutral path. While the most logical and best for humanity's survival. More often than not the myopia and temptation of forbidden fruits of progress can cause unforseen chaos for humanity as seen when Gore perished early into the mission, thus causing both Zelenin and Jiminez to wander off to their own path that leads to them abandoning their humanity. The MC can choose to reign them in as an ally and remind them of their humanity or choose to take direct responsibility for the well being of Earth. Rather than entrusting it to people with no foresight for their actions.
- The MC is a Marine in the NA version. Which makes him...
- On top of that, consider that the United States is well-known for its huge military budget, while Japan's modern armed forces have historically been designed for national self-defense and not much else. Their special forces units have little to zero combat experience, except for occasionally keeping North Korean infiltration in check and participating in any peacekeeping operations with restrictions.
- Making him American adds a touch of closeness to his relationship with Jimenez, who is also American in both versions.
- Why is the "advanced" form "Bites the Dust" the reference for the explosion move, and not the base "Killer Queen"? Well, if you think about it, the most famous and brutal death done by either stand was a delayed explosion set on a person specifically made to target another person done by "Killer Queen Bites the Dust", much like the skill will hurt your teammates massively as well as the one it was set on.
- As noted on the YMMV page, full-demon Soil Jimenez is a much easier boss fight compared to half-demon Awakened Jimenez. Why such a difference? It's as the Loa from Nocturne said, and what was stated by Belial in Devil Survivor; humans are capable of harnessing demonic power to a frightening degree. By surrendering his humanity and becoming a demon completely in the Law Route, Jimenez lost a great amount of his potential strength he could’ve had as a half-demon (especially since he follows the Chaos path, which usually glorifies strength for its own sake).
Fridge Horror
- The computers can't detect the mental parasite. Mitra had some experimental data about them. The parasite's effects grow worse over time. Now look at how Norris behaved in Bootes and how Jimenez acted at times in Carina. Did the parasites really first appear in Delphinus...?
- "Fridge" nothing. The first time you meet Mithras, a Bifrons asks about "the delivery" and Mithras tells him to take it to "the squandered nation". That's the name of Delphinus's theme music. The demons were working on that parasite for a very long time.
- The "A Squandered Nation" theme is that of Sector Carina. The theme for Sector Delphinus is "A Rotten Nation".
- ...Take it to the shopping for shipping?
- "Fridge" nothing. The first time you meet Mithras, a Bifrons asks about "the delivery" and Mithras tells him to take it to "the squandered nation". That's the name of Delphinus's theme music. The demons were working on that parasite for a very long time.
- Ironically enough, Jack's Squad would have been even more ideal candidates for Mem Aleph and Mastema had they found out about them as their lack of morality and conscience makes them more willing to forsake their humanity. Jack would not have fused himself with a weak demon like Bugaboo and instead opted for the strongest demon they had mutated while Ryan was an even more devoted servant for God, lacking Zelenin's desire for harmony and peace and more willing to smite nonbelievers without explaining himself.
Fridge Logic
- Alex wanting to kill the main character to avert the Law and Chaos endings make some form of sense, as it prevents a Bad Future where the world is shaped anew into something detrimental to humanity. But what about her motives on the Neutral Ending? How does killing the main character contribute to stopping the Schwarzwelt, when the cause of her problems in the neutral future is its reappearance?
- She thinks killing him will force mankind to work harder to avert the apocalypse now that they don't have an easy way out, since he's the key to their success. Her plan having holes is a point, showcasing just how little interaction with humans has left her unable to see glaring holes in her own idea.
- Speaking of Alex, successfully convincing the alignment representative to create a better world causes the future to be changed, which deletes her current form from existence. All well and good... but why does her ring remain? It came from her world as well, after all.
- Perhaps Louisa Ferre made Alex's ring, which makes sense that she is Alex's mother.
