Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation

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Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation
Developer(s)	Atlus
Publisher(s)	ASCII
Genre	RPG
Platform(s)	PC-98 Windows
Release	PC-98 Japan April 4, 1997 Windows Japan December 22, 1999

Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation is a 1997 role-playing game for the PC-9800 series of home computers by NEC. The game is a spinoff of the Shin Megami Tensei series and is loosely connected to both the Shin Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation manga and to the original Shin Megami Tensei. It was developed by Atlus, published by ASCII, and released on April 4, 1997. A remaster of the game was released for Windows on December 22, 1999, featuring updated graphics and 3D-rendered dungeons.

To date, Giten Megami Tensei has not seen an official release outside of Japan.

A translation patch for both versions is in development. An unfinished partial translation patch for the PC-98 version has been made available for download.

Synopsis

Background

It is the end of the 20th Century.

Demons, whose sporadic appearances were secretly dealt with by Demon Busters, suddenly began to appear in Tokyo in large numbers.  In no time at all, under the pretext of suppressing the demons, Commander Gotou led the JSDF in a coup d’état.  Then, the US Marine Corps made enemies of both the demons and the JSDF, fighting them before finally withdrawing.

Meanwhile, the American Ambassador Thorman, after transforming into the Deity Thor, had been defeated by a boy who was capable of controlling demons.  No longer believing the suppression of Tokyo’s demons to be possible, Thorman ordered a submarine to fire its nuclear missiles.

Tokyo was directly hit by the missiles, resulting in a Great Cataclysm whose destruction was on a scale not seen since the Pacific War.

This disaster is said to be a part of the Creator’s plan to bring about the fall of man and destroy it altogether, a plan in which many of His angels are complicit.

As Tokyo was engulfed in burning flames, the boy who fought Thorman was transported away by the girl alongside whom he fought, who sacrificed herself to save him.

The World of Giten Megami Tensei

In the Great Cataclysm, Tokyo was destroyed by nuclear missiles.  However, in anticipation of the Cataclysm, its leaders had evacuated many families to underground nuclear shelters beforehand.  As they believed that Japan could be governed from underground, the surface quickly descended into a state of anarchy.

Mutants developed from radiation and runaway guard robots roam the ruined metropolitan area.  Despite this, it overflows with criminals from the region who fight with the demons over control of it.

Demon Busters trained from the shelters fought with strategies for overtaking the demons, but were steadily pushed back, and eventually closed the lids of their shelters and lived quiet lives.  The surviving shelters in the metropolitan area are Hatsudai, Harajuku, Ochanomizu, Ichigaya, and Kanda; others have been abandoned and taken over by demons or had another change in management.

These remaining shelters have been assigned “citizen levels”, giving rise to a strict class system.  Commodities for daily life (especially luxury goods) are limited by the leaders to ensure safety and sustenance.  Thanks to advancements in magic technology, the shelters’ safety has been dramatically improved by protective barriers.  Fighting with demons ceased, and people have gradually become more accustomed to peaceful life.

By the time children born in the shelters could fight, each shelter was nearly isolated from one another, relying on the transmission of information through computer networks.

Chaos on the Surface

The demons, such as Abaddon of Ikebukuro, Ipos of Roppongi, Asherah of Shinagawa, and others occupy their own spheres of power, each competing for supremacy.

Nevertheless, humans can be found all over, living sternly.

In eastern Tokyo, the Baal and Ishtar Cults appeared, which worshipped and were protected by demons.  The militant Baal Cult in particular focused on conquering weaker demons and expanding its areas of influence.  Under these circumstances, the mutants and indigenous demons of Japan (the Kunitsukami) were pushed into the surrounding areas.

In Shibuya, the Messians gathered under a spiritual barrier, worshipping the Creator God and befriending the angels.  However, they are still unable to maintain power, and the angels seem content with quietly observing the demons in Tokyo.

In addition, in Yamanashi, Yokohama, and Tama, a resistance opposing the demons is arising; now, an armed organization known as the Pentagramma is advancing through Tokyo.

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Gameplay

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Version Differences

PC-98

• Movement is done with the keypad.
• Some skills work differently that on Windows.
• Some skills that are cast on the user or party members can be instead cast onto enemies, skills such as Dia and Mahorogi.
• The game has a resolution of 640×400.
• Music options are FM music and MIDI music.

PC-98 (Revision ASCII 003-A)

• Many bugs were fixed.

Windows

• The game has a resolution of 640×480 pixels instead of 640×400 pixels.
• Dungeons use true 3D graphics.
• Character and demon sprites are blurred.
• Some spells that could be cast to enemies are now only locked to be able to cast them on the party members, skills such as Dia, Mahorogi and such.
• CG art was entirely redone.
• Some music tracks had instruments changed, most notably the tracks Millennium After the Fall and Misty.
• Some skills were tweaked.
• Many bugs were fixed and also introduced, most require previous knowledge to activate them.
• Movement is now done with the arrows rather than the keypad.
• To do side steps one must hold the shift key and move unlike in PC-98 where one had to use the buttons 4, 2 and 6 on the keypad to do side steps.
• Debug Room (Conversation Check as labelled in the game) is broken now as many of the options crash the game.
• FM music is now not available due to hardware differences.

Development

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A novelized version of the introduction was published in TRPG’s LOGOUT December 1995 issue. Some of the character names were altered from the novelization to the final release of the game.

Gallery

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  Back cover of the PC-98 version.

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  Spine of the PC-98 version.

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  Title screen of the PC-98 version.

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  Interface in the PC-98 version.

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  Screenshot of the 2D Field in the PC-98 version.

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  Screenshot of the title screen in the Windows version.

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  Screenshot of the 2D Field in the Windows version.

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  Screenshot of a battle in the 2D Field in the Windows version.

Trivia

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• A fan remake of the game was in development between the year 2003 and 2012. Their goal was to get the rights to the game for a limited partnership, but it was cancelled for unknown reasons. However, the group did publish a patch for the Windows release of the game that fixes the Active Time Battle system to be compatible with the high CPU clock speeds of modern hardware.

Nomenclature

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	偽典・女神転生　東京黙示録 Giten Megami Tensei Tōkyō Mokushiroku	Pseudepigrapha Goddess Reincarnation: Tokyo Revelation