Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga (2004) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga follows Serph and his four companions as they set out for Nirvana, a land that can only be reached by the champions of Junkyard. A mysterious object awakens demonic…

77 15 July 2004

What Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga is

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Atlus and released in 2004. It is available on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga is a duology of role-playing video games developed by Atlus for the PlayStation 2. They are a spin-off of the Megami Tensei series. The first Digital Devil Saga was released in Japan in 2004, North America in 2005, and Europe in 2006. Its direct sequel, Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2, released in 2005 in Japan and North America, and 2007 in Europe and Australasia. The games were published in Europe and Australasia by Ghostlight and in other regions by Atlus and its North American subsidiary Atlus USA.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are 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 is the 53rd of 151 entries we hold in the Megami Tensei series. The next entry was Shin Megami Tensei: 20XX in 2004. Its critic score of 77 is 3 points below 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 holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 7 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga launched on 15 July 2004, within three weeks of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Doom 3, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky and ESPN NFL 2K5. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Doom 3, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, ESPN NFL 2K5.

Cheats and codes

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