Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 (2011) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2

When a new website that shows the manner of people's deaths in advance makes the rounds amongst Japanese high schoolers, a trio of students is shocked to witness their own deaths in a terrible subway accident…

82 28 July 2011

What Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 is

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Atlus and released in 2011. It is available on Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo DS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 is a tactical role-playing game developed by Atlus for the Nintendo DS. It is a spin-off of the Megami Tensei series, and a standalone sequel to Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor (2009). It was published by Atlus in Japan in 2011, North America in 2012, and in Europe by Ghostlight in 2013. The story follow a group in Tokyo after a series of natural disasters heralds the arrival of divine forces which threaten to destroy humanity in seven days. Gameplay is similar to the first Devil Survivor, combining grid-based combat with turn-based battle sequences, with a character relationship system unlocking new gameplay elements and different endings.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are 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: Devil Survivor 2 is the 96th of 151 entries we hold in the Megami Tensei series. The next entry was Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked in 2011. Its critic score of 82 is almost exactly the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Persona 5 at 94.

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How it was received

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 14 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 launched on 28 July 2011, within three weeks of Bastion, Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues, From Dust and Star Fox 64 3D. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Bastion, Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues, From Dust, Star Fox 64 3D.

Cheats and codes

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