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Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue

Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue is a bonus game released to promote Shin Megami Tensei: Deep Strange Journey (AKA Strange Journey Redux). This exploring/platforming 2D action game features Jack…

16 October 2017

Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue is an adventure developed by Team Ladybug, released 16 October 2017 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue is

Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue is an adventure game developed by Team Ladybug and released in 2017. It was published by Atlus. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Clickteam Fusion.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Taking place shortly before the events of Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, Jack Frost is synchronized with the mind of a human in order to traverse and fight demon hordes. He rescues the non-synchronized Jack o' Lantern after he was frozen by Black Frost, who decimated all the Jacks that previously attempted an assault. They meet a small creature who names himself J-kun. The Jacks traverse the different Sectors of the Schwarzwelt to defeat Black Frost, fighting against Bifrons, Decarabia, Alice, and Girimehkala in the way. After defeating the latter, the Jacks meet again with J-kun, who tells him he's remembered he used to be human, until he booted up a synchronicity program sent to…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Megami Tensei series

Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue is the 121st of 151 entries we hold in the Megami Tensei series. It arrived a year after Persona 5. The next entry was Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux in 2017.

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What it launched against

Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue launched on 16 October 2017, within three weeks of Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Cuphead and Assassin's Creed Origins.

Released around the same time: Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Cuphead, Assassin's Creed Origins.

Official trailer

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When did Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue come out?
Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue was released on 16 October 2017 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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