Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 (2005) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2

Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner 2, released outside of Japan as Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2, is a 2005 role-playing game for the PlayStation 2, and the second and final entry in the Digital Devil…

90 27 January 2005

What Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 is

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Atlus and released in 2005. It is available on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Serph, Leader of the Embryon, wanders aimlessly through the lifeless streets before him. In the Junkyard, his tribe fought a gruesome war, hoping the light of Heaven would relieve their suffering. In the end, Serph's world vanished, along with the comrades who stood by him. All that awaited him in Nirvana were endless streets littered with the silent remains of human statues.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Megami Tensei series

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 is the 58th of 151 entries we hold in the Megami Tensei series. The next entry was Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner in 2005. Its critic score of 90 is 10 points above 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: Digital Devil Saga 2 holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 23 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 launched on 27 January 2005, within three weeks of Resident Evil 4 (2005), Resident Evil 4, Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening and Star Wars: Republic Commando. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 4 (2005), Resident Evil 4, Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, Star Wars: Republic Commando.

Cheats and codes

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