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Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei

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Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei

Sep 11, 1987

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2.77 average rating based on 31 ratings

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Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei is the first game of the Megami Tensei series of role-playing video games. It is based on the novel Digital Devil Story by Aya Nishitani. Although Atlus has published a majority of the series, the first two games were created by Atlus but published by Namco (known as Namcot at the time), after it bought the video game rights to the Japanese horror novel series by Aya Nishitani, the first named Digital Devil Story. This game is a role-playing video game that features extensive dungeon crawling and focuses heavily on demons, which have gone on … More
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei is the first game of the Megami Tensei series of role-playing video games. It is based on the novel Digital Devil Story by Aya Nishitani. Although Atlus has published a majority of the series, the first two games were created by Atlus but published by Namco (known as Namcot at the time), after it bought the video game rights to the Japanese horror novel series by Aya Nishitani, the first named Digital Devil Story. This game is a role-playing video game that features extensive dungeon crawling and focuses heavily on demons, which have gone on to become a trademark of the series. Less
Developers
Atlus
Publishers
Namcot
Franchises
Megami Tensei
Series
Megami Tensei
Platforms
Family Computer, Sharp X1
Genres
Role-playing (RPG)
Themes
Horror
Release Dates
Sep 11, 1987 Full Release (Japan)
Family Computer, Sharp X1
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User Stats
101
In Collection
31
Wish Listed
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Playing
40
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How Long Is Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei?
Main + extras: 22.0 hours
Total completions: 1
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Orodius
Orodius gave May 20, 2022
Orodius gave May 20, 2022
It requires a lot of patience.
This review is for the Nintendo Entertainment System version

Atlus games are extremely repetitive, so to enjoy them you have to like this formula or at least put up with it.

I would rate these games as a "harder Pokemon" but with a lot more replays of battles. With no description of what the spells do, and as the name is not at all intuitive, you have to find out what each one does with trial and error, along with the difficulty of the game that can frustrate many. The game also has several annoying traps that drain your HP or reset your position on the map.

I really liked the monster designs and the idea of catching new demons, merging them, and creating new strategies is really fun.

In addition, it is a game that requires a mind that can put itself in that time. If you don't have a lot of patience and are very anxious, this might not be the game for you. The same thing goes for Megami tensei 2 and Shin megami tensei 1/2

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scoopings
scoopings updated their status Mar 12, 2024
scoopings updated their status Mar 12, 2024

Preliminay: Phew, there is a fan translation of the orginal Famicom version. Let's get started! Whoa, I never knew what the series was about. I love this idea of a programmer summoning demons! lol. Oh no tho it's first person ah! So far, great music and I'm oddly enjoying this starting "town" as bleak as it is.

Great music, great concept, decent execution. Too Wizardry-esque for me, I guess I will never get over this aversion to first person dungeon crawler RPGs >.< Cuz this did everything right!

I trained up to Level 3, hadn't died once (people said it's super easy to? Just use Med? I suppose if you didn't give enough Wisdom to a character maybe?) and was enjoying it more than I expected but I dunno. Can't quite click with this type of RPG, and with so many exciting games coming up, I can't stick to it. I will say, this is by far the best of the CRPG-style first person dungeon crawlers I've played so far. Sadly, moving on.

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