Shin Megami Tensei (2001) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Shin Megami Tensei

Shin Megami Tensei is a remaster of the original Super Famicom game with improved graphics and gameplay along with a new difficulty mode. The gameplay uses first-person navigation of dungeons and turn-based…

31 May 2001

What Shin Megami Tensei is

Shin Megami Tensei is an adventure game developed by Atlus and released in 2001. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game begins with the Hero dreaming that he meets the Law Hero, the Chaos Hero, and a woman named Yuriko; she promises that she will become the Hero's partner. He wakes up, and receives an e-mail with a computer program for summoning demons attached. While out on an errand, he learns that a scientist has opened a portal to the Expanse, which allows demons to enter Tokyo. He also meets Yuriko, who says she will fulfill her promise. The next night, the Hero again dreams that he meets the Law Hero and Chaos Hero, and that they save the Heroine from a sacrificial ritual. The next day, he meets the Law Hero and Chaos Hero in reality; they reveal that they had the same dreams. News of the…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Megami Tensei series

Shin Megami Tensei is the 37th of 151 entries we hold in the Megami Tensei series. It arrived 6 months after Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children - Kuro no Sho. The next entry was Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children - Shiro no Sho in 2001.

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