Revelations: Persona (1996) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Revelations: Persona

Revelations: Persona is a role-playing video game developed and published by Atlus. It is the first entry in the Persona series, itself a subseries of the Megami Tensei franchise, and the first role-playing…

1 November 1996

What Revelations: Persona is

Revelations: Persona is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Atlus and released in 1996. It was published by ASCII Corporation. It is available on PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Revelations: Persona is a role-playing video game developed and published by Atlus. It is the first entry in the Persona series, itself a subseries of the Megami Tensei franchise, and the first role-playing entry in the series to be released in the west. The game has been ported to Playstation Portable with the title of Shin Megami Tensei: Persona and featured new cutscenes and a redone localization. The story focuses on a group of high school students as they are confronted by a series of supernatural incidents. After playing a fortune-telling game, the group each gain the ability to summon Personas, the multiple selves within them. Using this power under the guidance of Philemon, a…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Megami Tensei series

Revelations: Persona is the 24th of 151 entries we hold in the Megami Tensei series. The next entry was Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku in 1997.

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What it launched against

Revelations: Persona launched on 1 November 1996, within three weeks of Tomb Raider, Circle of Blood, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! and Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain.

Released around the same time: Tomb Raider, Circle of Blood, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain.

Revelations: Persona — frequently asked questions