SKILLS command menu: MP costs, Magatsuhi skill and the help bar

About this game

Developer: ATLUS · Publisher: SEGA · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Cel-shaded & anime · Screen type: Battle / Tactics

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What to study

This is the screen the battle is actually played from, and it shows how little SMT V needs to run a turn. The skill list is a plain vertical menu, but every entry carries its MP price in the open, the selected skill's full description sits in a help bar along the bottom, and the Magatsuhi skill is listed last in the same menu rather than hidden behind a mode switch, so the game's most powerful moves are chosen from the same list as a 6 MP buff. The party cards on the right do double duty as the target list, and the Guest tag on Ichiro Dazai marks the Vengeance route's human ally as a party member who does not fuse. The menu is drawn over the live battlefield, enemies and all, so choosing a skill never leaves the fight. Frame at 0:28 in the An Ideal World Trailer (Steam; manual extraction — the menu is only on screen for about a second between a story cut and the skill resolving, so the scene-change pass never catches it settled; found by the dense 1 frame/2s filmstrip scan). Disclosure: the top skill in the list is clipped by the frame's left edge and the list is scrolled; the menu is shown over the live battle scene with enemies visible behind it.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

menu-list cost-list party-status portrait-row top-bar skill-tooltip

Components

Parts on screen.

Menu List Portrait Vitals bar

Screen inventory

• the skill list sits at lower left under a large 'SKILLS' header, six skills with element icons, plus-levels and MP costs: Mirage Shot+3 (12 MP), Zanma+2 (17 MP), Trafuri (6 MP), Cautious Cheer+1 (42 MP, highlighted), Toxic Cloud+3 (21 MP) and the Magatsuhi skill Omagatoki: Critical at the bottom
• the party cards run down the right edge as in the party-status frame: Nahobino Lv45 Protag, Black Frost Lv44 Night, Ichiro Dazai Lv44 Guest Human, Dormarth Lv40 Wilder, each with HP/MP bars and numbers
• the top bar holds the Press Turn orbs, '3 Action / Player Turn', Magatsuhi MAX and the moon phase at '1/8'
• a HELP bar spans the bottom of the screen with the selected skill's description, '(Unique) Raises Defense/Accuracy/Evasion of all allies by 1 rank for 3 turns', and controller prompts for Icon help, Pass, Stats and Auto-Battle sit at lower right

Top 3 colors

#1e1d22 21%#626047 20%#717058 18%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© ATLUS / SEGA, Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance screenshot: Steam trailers (Launch Trailer, An Ideal World Trailer) — ATLUS / SEGA, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by SEGA.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-06. verified 2026-11-06: manual extraction v1_manual_skills_28s.png @ 28.0s in the An Ideal World Trailer, MD5 fc0f9798e2e5885cb8ccdf402677992c, from the verified-clean ffmpeg HLS download (80,083,402 B, MD5 0978dfe799cdb97820f8ab64dcf79d31; full decode to null exit 0, zero error lines); inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080); SKILLS header, all six skill entries with MP costs, the four party cards, the HELP description and the controller prompts all legible

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