While all fans of the Shin Megami Tensei series will likely find something to like about its latest release, Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers — it is, after all, cut much from precisely the same cloth as contemporaries Persona 4 and Devil Survivor — the folks most likely to fully appreciate its unique quirks are gamers of, shall we say, a certain age. Namely, those old enough to remember when Soul Hackers was new, way back in 1997.
I don’t mean to suggest that younger gamers won’t enjoy it, but despite this being the most recent U.S. release in the MegaTen franchise, the content is actually as old as many fans of the series — and it shows at times. Yet that same sense of age gives Soul Hackers a very unique personality that sets it apart from other first-person RPGs. Its story’s tone and style feel heavily inspired by ’90s cyberpunk authors like William Gibson and Neal Stephenson; in fact, the virtual city Paradigm-X seems drawn directly from Snow Crash. At the same time, the presence of demons adds an unconventional element of the supernatural to the plot, and some of the most meaningful plot exposition takes place in the form of vision quests through which the protagonist is guided by a being that appears in the form of a coyote and other animals — a bizarre element of Native American flavor amidst a near-future Japanese urban development.
From: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/16/shin-megami-tensei-devil-summoner-soul-hackers-review