Megami Tensei (series)

Megami Tensei (Japanese: 女神転生), often shortened in Megaten , is a Série of video game, mainly of roleplays, initially developed by Namco and Telenet starting from 1987, but taken again by Atlus as of the third play (Shin Megami Tensei), in 1992. It became one of the most popular series of the roleplays to the Japan, but remains ignored in Occident, fault of translations.

First plays of the series (the DIGITAL Devil Monogatari: Megami Tensei) are based on a series of books of Science-fiction written by Aya Nishitani and published in Japan as from 1987. Several companies then proposed to adapt concerned the book, which explains why there are two distinct plays.

The series has existed for soon 20 years and generated many other derived series (of which some, such as that of the Persona , are more known in Occident than the original series). Among the distinctive features of the series, one will note that the plays have often as a framework the contemporary time, even an post-apocalyptic future; one will note also a constant recourse to the Démonologie and the Mythologie, so much in the system of the plays (the engagements often see the confrontation of mythical creatures resulting from the cultures of the whole world) that in the scenarios, and another thême very employed, the Psychologie. Lastly, following the example traditional Dragon Quest, the Megami Tensei often conceal treasures of gameplay, granting for example to the keen players a great freedom to personalize their characters…

List plays

  • DIGITAL Devil Story
    • DIGITAL Devil Story: Megami Tensei by Telenet (MSX, FM/77 and NEC PC-88XX).
    • DIGITAL Devil Story: Megami Tensei by Namco (BORN).
    • DIGITAL Devil Story: Megami Tensei 2 (BORN by Namco).
    • Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei (republication by Atlus of the first two plays on Super Famicom, with the engine 3D of SMT 1).
  • Shin Megami Tensei mark the arrival of the series on console 16-bits Super Famicom and its recovery by the editor Atlus.
    • Shin Megami Tensei (carried on NEC PC Engine, Sega Mega CD, Playstation and Game Boy Advance).
    • Shin Megami Tensei II , direct continuation of the precedent (carried on Playstation and Game Boy Advance).
    • Shin Megami Tensei Yew… (carried on Playstation), a special episode which inspired the saga of Persona (school, special spirits protecting the protagonists). A continuation for mobile phones, entitled Hazama' S Chapter , supplements the history of this title.
    • Shin Megami Tensei III: Night (Playstation 2) which is not dependant scénaristiquement on any preceding episode. It is the first episode of the principal series to be translated. A second version of the title entitled Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne Maniacs then was born in Japan (allowing amongst other things to recruit Dante of Devil May Cry among the demons of the players). It is this version which was translated and distribute to the United States as a Shin Megami Tensei: Night then in Europe under the title Lucifer' S Cal .
  • Shin Megami Tensei NINE (Xbox).
  • Shin Megami Tensei Online: Imagine (announced).

Derived

The principal series generated several under-series:

  • Devil Summoner takes again by complexing it the gameplay SMT 1&2, and is based on different mythologies.

  • Persona , series which exploits the topics of the urban Légendes and of the Inconscient collective.
    • Megami Ibunroku Persona : Be Your True Mind (left in the United States under the name of Revelations: Persona ), Playstation.
    • Persona 2: Tsumi (so known under the title Persona 2: Innocent Sin ), Playstation.
    • Persona 2: Batsu (or Persona 2: Eternal Punishment , name under which it left to the USA), Playstation.
    • Persona 3 , Playstation 2.
  • Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible , which is one of the rare series Megaten to be been held not in a contemporary universe, but in a world of the type Fantasy , more traditional.
    • Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible , Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game GEAR (the remake on Game Boy Color of this episode left to the United States under the name Revelations: The Demon Slayer ).
    • Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible 2 , Game Boy, Game Boy Color.
    • Megami Tensei Gaiden: Special Last Bible , Range GEAR.
    • Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible 3 , Super Famicom.
    • Another Bible , Game Boy.
  • Majin Tensei , series of strategy games per turn borrowing the system of fusion of demons of the original series.
    • Majin Tensei , Super Famicom.
    • Majin Tensei 2: Spiral Nemesis , Super Famicom.
    • Majin Tensei: Round , Saturn.
  • Giten Megami Tensei Mokushiroku
    • Giten Megami Tensei Mokushiroku , PC.
  • Jack Bros No Meiro of HI HO , play comparable to a Dungeon-RPG with like main characters two of the most popular monsters of the plays of the series principal and the derived series: Jack Frost and Jack O' Lantern (and a third small drainage canal, Jack the Ripper).
  • Devil Children , a series of Pokémon - like. It should be known that the idea to collect monsters which fight instead of their Master was not invented by Pokémon, Megami Tensei and Dragon Quest proposed it already front.
    • Devil Children: Kuro No Shou/Aka No Shou (Black Book and Red book), Game Boy Color and Playstation.
    • Devil Children: Shiro No Shou (White paper), Game Boy Color.
    • Devil Children: Hikari No Shou/Yami No Shou (Book of the light and Delivers shade; left in the United States under the name of DemiKids: Light Version/Dark Version), Game Boy Advance.
    • Devil Children: Puzzle of Cal , Game Boy Advance.
    • Devil Children: Koori No Shou/Honoo No Shou (Book of the Ices and Delivers Flames), Game Boy Advance.
    • Devil Children: Messiah Riser , Game Boy Advance.
  • Shin Megami Tensei Trading Card
  • DIGITAL Devil Saga: Misadventure Tuner
    • DIGITAL Devil Saga: Misadventure Tuner (left in the United States under the name of Shin Megami Tensei: DIGITAL Devil Saga), Playstation 2.
    • DIGITAL Devil Saga: Misadventure Tuner 2 , PlayStation 2.
  • Maken

Bonds

  • Baroco : An excellent French site on the series.
  • List of the various titles.
  • Article Megami Tensei on the site of Ki-oon, French editor of the manga Shin Megami Tensei Kahn

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