Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei
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| Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Namco |
| Platform(s) | Famicom |
| Release date | September 11, 1987 |
| Genre(s) | RPG |
| Media | 1 Cartridge |
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei (デジタル・デビル物語 女神転生 Dejitaru Debiru Sutorī Megami Tensei?) is the first in the popular Megami Tensei series of RPG games. It was developed by "Wolf Team" (the subsidiary of Nihon Telenet which is now "Namco Tales Studio"), and was released for the Famicom by Namcot in 1987 (there was also a version released for the MSX [1]). It was later enhance-remade along with Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei 2 in a Super Famicom games known as Kyūyaku Megami Tensei.
Commonly known as "Mega-Ten" by fans, this game is based upon Megami Tensei, the first volume of the Japanese horror novel series Digital Devil Story, and dedicates a large part of the game to dungeon crawling. This game also focuses very heavily on demons, which have gone on to become a trademark of the series. This game was later followed by a sequel, and then by the follow up series Shin Megami Tensei, (a name that would be used by most future games in the franchise). There have also been spin offs, including the Last Bible, Majin Tensei and Persona series, with the latest being Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner (Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga in the U.S.). The original Megami Tensei is a 3-D scrolling RPG that has some of the typical Megaten gameplay systems such as the "Auto command" and the use of a computer to store demons.
This game has never been officially released outside Japan in any form. A remake for the mobile phone is currently in development under the title "Digital Devil Saga".
[edit] Synopsis
Akemi Nakajima is a computer programming prodigy who created a program that can summon demons from Makai. He brings his friend Yumiko Shirasagi to combat the malicious demons he unleashed. The game is assumed to take place after the first two Digital Devil Story books where demons Loki and Set have been defeated. The demon Lucifer has revived them in order to prepare to invade the human world once again.
[edit] Characters
- Akemi Nakajima: A high school student attending a prestigious private school. He was motivated to create the demon summoning program as revenge on someone he got in a fight with. Later revealed to be the reincarnation of Izanagi.
- Yumiko Shirasagi: A transfer student who recently arrived at Akemi's school. She became interested in Akemi but had no idea why. Revealed to be the reincarnation of Izanami after she was nearly devoured by Loki.
- Loki: The Norse trickster god who started wreaking havoc after he tricked Akemi into summoning him.
- Cerberus: Akemi's guardian demon who loyally aids him. Later Megami Tensei games hold the tradition of having Cerberus as a primary ally for the hero.
- Isma Feed: A sorcerer from America who became interested in Nakajima's Devil Summoning program.
- Charles Feed: Brother of Isma Feed and professor of MIT. Helps Nakajima in finding a way to prevent demons from being summoned into the human world.
- Set: The Egyptian god summoned by Isma.
- Narukawa: Helps Nakajima and Charles to find a way to prevent demons from being summoned into the human world. Is the reincarnation of Tsukuyomi.
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