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

In the year 19XX, the city of Tokyo was devastated by ICBMs launched by Ambassador Thorman. The city was almost destroyed, but the people of Tokyo quickly took refuge in underground shelters spread throughout the city. The city's surface, now infested with Demons, was ravaged by chaos, while the people in the shelters lived peacefully, as they were protected from demon attacks by the Devil Busters organization.

Ayato Katsuragi, a resident of Hatsudai Shelter, strives to become a Devil Buster alongside his friend Yuuka Tachibana. His other friends, including Emi Kirishima, her dog Newton, Tatsuya Hayasaka and Isamu Yamase are also Devil Busters. They are part of the 2nd Unit led by Yoshio Nishino, who acts as a father figure to Ayato. After enlisting to the Devil Busters, Ayato strives to protect the shelter alongside his friends.

One day, the shelter is suddenly attacked by Murmur, a Demon previously responsible for attacks on Harajuku Shelter and other shelters throughout Tokyo. Isamu is asked with evacuating citizens out of the shelter to safety by Yoshio, while he, Ayato and the others try to defeat Murmur. After cornering them inside of the shelter's control room, Ayato and the others try to fight Murmur, but fail to defeat them. After some time, more demons arrive to overwhelm the group, including Ipos, Lamashtu, Asherah, Astarte, Abaddon, Leraje and Decarabia. The horde of demons proceeds to brutally kill and dismember one of Ayato’s friends and devour his body, leaving only his head.

Soon after Ayato and his allies flee the shelter, the group is approached by a truck driven by two men, Tetsuya Sonoda and Kouki Kamikawa. The two men are part of a resistance group named Pentagramma, and ask Ayato and his allies to join their group and help defeat the demon Bael, who has been ruling over Tokyo since the bombs fell. After accepting their offer and joining Pentagramma, Ayato’s journey to save Tokyo and revive his lost friend begins.

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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 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