He'd never get through it. SMT games are nortoriously hard and don't handhold the way the Persona series does. I'm actually in the middle of SMT4 and it's a lot like Nocturne. It's hard. At least, unless you have the DLC that allows you to grind to level 100 in an hour. I refuse to do that, but I did grind a few levels so I could beat the boss I kept dying to. I'm not saying I'm awesome at rpgs but in the SMT/Persona series I usually only die to cheap whole party light/dark attacks. I've never died in P3 or P4. I have died so. many. times in SMT4. The only way you can get through is by constantly fusing better and stronger demons.