>and since I hadn't really seen any promo material for the game, I wasn't spoiled for the Tokyo reveal or anything else.
I was spoiler free too when I played the game but I still didn't like how slow everything was before getting out of Mikado.
>I was mainly talking about the characters' roles in the story and dialogue etc.
Ah, I see.
The characters are nothing special but I enjoyed them for what they are (and I also enjoyed Navarre's ''character redemption''.)
>It looks like a return to form for SMT with how minimal/abstract the teaser was
It definetely felt like a teaser in the vein of III with all those shadowy demons around...big boy Mara was in the trailer too as usual.