Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (2009) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey

In the near future, a mysterious, growing, black void appears at the Earth's southern pole. Unable to determine its cause and powerless to stop its deadly encroachment, humanity sends an elite team of…

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What Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey is

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey is an adventure game developed by Atlus and released in 2009. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey is a role-playing video game developed by Atlus and Lancarse for the Nintendo DS. The game is a spin-off in the Shin Megami Tensei series, which forms the core of the Megami Tensei franchise. It was released in Japan in 2009, and in North America in 2010. The story follows a special task force sent by the United Nations to investigate the Schwarzwelt, a spatial distortion that appears in Antarctica and threatens to engulf the world. Players take control of an unnamed protagonist, navigating the environments of the Schwarzwelt in first-person. Combat involves the player and recruited demons fighting against various enemies, with the protagonist having the…

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How it plays

It is played from a first 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: Strange Journey is the 91st of 151 entries we hold in the Megami Tensei series. The next entry was Persona 3 Portable in 2009. Its critic score of 87 is 7 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: Strange Journey holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 20 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey launched on 8 October 2009, within three weeks of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, Bayonetta and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, Bayonetta, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer