Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei

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Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei refers to two distinct role-playing video games based on the Digital Devil Story trilogy of science fiction novels by Japanese author Aya Nishitani. One version was developed by Atlus and published by Namco in 1987 for the Famicom—Atlus would go on to create further games in the Megami Tensei franchise. A separate version for personal computers was developed and published by Telenet Japan with assistance from Atlus during the same year. The story sees Japanese high school students Akemi Nakajima and Yumiko Shirasagi combat the forces of Lucifer, unleashed by a demon summoning program created by Nakajima. The gameplay features first-person dungeon crawling and turn-based battles or negotiation with demons in the Famicom version, and a journey through a hostile labyrinth as Nakajima featuring real-time combat in the Telenet version. Development on both versions of the video game began as part of a multimedia expansion of Nishitani's book series. Nishitani...

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