Category:Megami Tensei

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Megami Tensei
Developer(s)	Atlus
Publisher(s)	Atlus, Namco
Year introduced	1987
Genre(s)	RPG

Megami Tensei (女神転生 ,Goddess Metempsychosis), commonly abbreviated as MegaTen, is a Japanese console role-playing game series which was originally based on the novel series Digital Devil Story by Aya Nishitani (taking its name from the title of the first of those novels) and has become one of the major franchises of the genre in its native country (behind Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest). The games are published by Atlus with the exception of the Famicom games, which were published by Namco.

The Megami Tensei series is unusual among Japanese role-playing games because it generally eschews the pseudo-Medieval settings and sword and sorcery trappings of most games in the genre. MegaTen games typically take place in modern or near-future Japan and mix occult and cyberpunk elements.

The enemies they involve tend to be referred to as akuma (悪魔, "devil" or "demon") rather than the "monster" used in many other RPGs. The player can recruit akuma to their side so that they become nakama (仲魔) – "friendly demon", a homophone for "comrade" (仲間). It is also possible to fuse multiple nakama to create another, more powerful nakama and, similarly, to upgrade weapons by fusing them with akuma.

The player is often asked to make moral or philosophical choices that affect the game's storyline and ending.

MegaTen games are full of mythological references; deities and creatures from Norse, Celtic, Judeo-Christian, Egyptian, Chinese, Hindu and Japanese mythologies are featured, to be battled or recruited by the player.

Sub-series[edit | edit source]

The Megami Tensei series spawned an incredibly large amount of sub-series and spin-offs.

Digital Devil Saga[edit | edit source]

A spin-off of the Megami Tensei series, two games have been released so far in the Digital Devil Saga series (Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga and Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2). The games encompass a complete story, and it may be that there will be no further titles in the series.

Games[edit | edit source]

Where the genre of a game is not specified, it's a role-playing game.

Megami Tensei[edit | edit source]

Title	Year	Genre	Systems
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei	1987		MSX, NES Remake: SNES ("Kyuuyaku"; fan-transl.)
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei (Telenet Japan)	1987	Dungeon crawl	MSX, PC8801, X1, FM7
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II	1990		NES Remake: SNES ("Kyuuyaku"; fan-transl.)
Spin-off
Jack Brothers Hee-Ho at the Labyrinth Jack Bros.	1995	Action	VB
Avatar Tuner
Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga	2004		PS2
Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner 2 Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2	2005		PS2
Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner: A's TEST Server	2006		Mobile phones

Shin Megami Tensei[edit | edit source]

For information about the largest sub-series of the Megami Tensei franchise and its spin-offs, see Category:Shin Megami Tensei.

Majin Tensei[edit | edit source]

"Majin Tensei" can be translated as Demon God Reincarnation.

Title	Year	Genre	Systems
Majin Tensei	1994	Strategy	SNES
Majin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis	1995	Strategy	SNES, MS-Win
Ronde	1997	Strategy	Saturn
Majin Tensei: Blind Thinker	2007	Strategy	Mobile phones
Majin Tensei: Blind Thinker II	2008	Strategy	Mobile phones

Last Bible[edit | edit source]

Spin-off series developed for younger players.

Title	Year	Genre	Systems
Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible Revelations: The Demon Slayer	1992		GB, GG GBC
Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible II	1993		GB, GBC
Last Bible III	1995		SNES
Another Bible	1995	Strategy	GB (fan-transl.), mobile phones
Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible Special	1995		GG