Megami Ibunroku Persona
While the West got Persona: Revelations, an Americanized port for the Playstation, Japan got its first Persona game under Megami Ibunroku Persona. The West eventually got a more faithful and enhanced remake on…
Megami Ibunroku Persona is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Atlus, released 20 September 1996 on PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Megami Ibunroku Persona is
Megami Ibunroku Persona is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Atlus and released in 1996. It is available on PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game starts with the protagonist, along with schoolmates Hidehiko "Brown" Uesugi, Yuka Ayase and Masao "Mark" Inaba, playing a fortune-telling parlor game called "Persona" while Kei Nanjō and Yukino Mayuzumi watch. After playing the game, the group see a ghostly figure, and the protagonist, Mark, Nanjō, and Yukino are rendered unconscious. The protagonist is then drawn into the realm of Philemon, who grants him the power of Persona and warns him that his new power will soon be needed. After the four recover and at the suggestion of their teacher Saeko, they go to have a check-up and visit classmate Maki Sonomura at the hospital. While visiting, Maki is taken ill, and while they are…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Shin Megami Tensei series
Megami Ibunroku Persona is the sixth of 69 entries we hold in the Shin Megami Tensei series. It arrived 2 years after Shin Megami Tensei if.... The next entry was Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation in 1999.
What it launched against
Megami Ibunroku Persona launched on 20 September 1996, within three weeks of Crash Bandicoot, The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, Wipeout XL and Die Hard Trilogy.
Released around the same time: Crash Bandicoot, The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, Wipeout XL, Die Hard Trilogy.
Official trailer
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