SMT IV: Sinking Town Puppet Show | made with ngram

About the video

This video was created by ngram to tell the story of Shin Megami Tensei IV as a theatrical puppet show, using HTML/CSS motion graphics animation in a vertical 9:16 format suited for mobile and social viewing. The video unfolds across eight staged scenes: curtain up on the city of Mikado, the Gauntlet Rite that sends the protagonist into the world below, an encounter with the Black Samurai, a descent through the Naraku, a reveal of Tokyo trapped beneath a stone ceiling, the ideological clash between Law and Chaos, a Neutral path centered on Masakado, and a closing curtain call. Presented like a puppet theater performance rather than straight gameplay footage, the video frames each major story beat as its own scene or act, giving viewers a condensed, dramatized walkthrough of the game's central plot and factional conflict. ngram built the video by structuring the narrative into these eight titled scenes and rendering them with animated HTML/CSS motion graphics, keeping the puppet-show framing and theatrical curtain bookends consistent from open to close. The vertical aspect ratio makes it suited for short-form platforms where viewers watch on phones.