Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation

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Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation
偽典・女神転生　東京黙示録Pseudepigrapha Goddess Reincarnation: Tokyo Revelation
PC‐98Windows Front cover of the PC‐98 version Front cover of the Windows version
Developer(s)	Yū-Kikaku
Publisher(s)	ASCII
Genre	RPG
Platform(s)	PC-98 Windows
Release	PC-98 Japan April 4, 1997 Windows 95 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 Yū-Kikaku, 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.

Blurb

PC-98Windows

大破壊後の東京で、悪魔に運命をもてあそばれた少年がいた！ 強い仲魔をより強く！仲魔の装備を変更することが可能。高い能力値・強力な技を持つ仲魔には良い武器を装備させ、防御力の低い仲魔には防具を装備させる。「偽典」では、プレイヤーの裁量の及ぶ範が広くなっています。 力押しでは生き残れない？オリジナルの戦闘システム採用！オリジナルの戦闘システムで、「敵悪魔の後背に回り強襲」「敵悪魔の攻撃範囲外から銃撃・呪文攻撃」といったことが可能になっています。 あの女神転生が、新戦闘システムを載せて、ついに98で登場！ 最初から最後まで同じ仲魔が使える？主人公と一緒に成長していく仲魔。「偽典」では、仲魔にもレベルアップがあります。行動次第では最初の頃一緒に行動していた仲魔でも、最終パーティに組み入られるかも知れません。 壮大なスケールのシナリオ。ボリュームのあるシナリオを、98版ならではの演出が盛り上げ、世界観をかなりハードなものに仕上げています。 世紀末の東京は、悪魔が溢れる混沌の都だった！

Dai Hakai-go no Tōkyō de, akuma ni unmei o moteasobareta shōnen ga ita! Tsuyoi nakama o yori tsuyoku! Nakama no sōbi o henkō suru koto ga kanō. Takai nōryokuchi/kyōryoku na waza o motsu nakama ni wa yoi buki o sōbi sase, bōgyoryoku no hikui nakama ni wa bōgu o sōbi saseru. "Giten" de wa, pureiyā no sairyō no oyobu han ga hiroku natte imasu. Chikaraoshi de wa ikinokorenai? Orijinaru no sentō shisutemu saiyō! Orijinaru no sentō shisutemu de, "teki akuma no kōhai ni mawari kyōshū" "teki akuma no kōgeki han'igai kara jūgeki/jumon kōgeki" to itta koto ga kanō ni natte imasu. Ano Megami Tensei ga, shin sentō shisutemu o nosete, tsui ni Kyūhachi de tōjō! Saisho kara saigo made onaji nakama ga tsukaeru? Shujinkō to issho ni seichō shite iku nakama. "Giten" de wa, nakama ni mo reberu appu ga arimasu. Kōdō shidai de wa saisho no koro issho ni kōdō shite ita nakama de mo, saishū pāti ni kumiirareru ka mo shiremasen. Sōdai sukēru no shinario. Boryūmo no aru shinario o kyūhachi-ban narade wa no enshutsu ga moriage, sekaikan o kanari hādo na mono ni shiagete imasu. Seikimatsu no Tōkyō wa, akuma ga afureru konton no miyako datta!

After the Great Destruction in Tokyo, there was a boy whose fate was toyed with by devils! Make your strong allied demons stronger still! It is possible to change allied demons' equipment. Equip allied demons who possess high attribute values/powerful skills with good weapons, and equip allied demons of low defense power with armor. In "Pseudepigrapha", the player's discretion range has widened. Can't survive with a brute force approach? Use the original combat system! With the original combat system, things such as "going around the enemy demons' backs and storming them" or "shooting/spell attacks from outside the enemy demons' attack range" are possible. Goddess Reincarnation, bearing a new combat system, finally makes an appearance on the 98! Will you use the same allied demons from beginning to end? Allied demons that continually grow alongside the protagonist. In "Pseudepigrapha", allied demons can also level up. Depending on your actions, the demons you acted alongside near the beginning may even be involved in your final party. A scenario of epic proportions. The voluminous scenario is enhanced by the 98 version's distinctive production, making for a setting of intense substance. End-of-century Tokyo was a city of chaos overflowing with demons!

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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. Yamase is asked with evacuating citizens out of the shelter to safety by Nishino, while he, Katsuragi 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, Athirat, Astarte, Abaddon, Leraje and Decarabia. The horde of demons proceeds to brutally kill and dismember one of Katsuragi’s friends and devour their body, leaving only their head.

Soon after Katsuragi and his allies flee the shelter, the group is approached by a truck driven by two men, Tetsuya Sonoda and Koki Kamikawa. The two men are part of a resistance group named Pentagramma, and ask Katsuragi 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, Katsuragi’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 numeric 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.

• A save point in the first floor of Harajuku Shelter was a Terminal in the original retail release.

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 arrow keys rather than the numpad.
• 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 numpad 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.

Windows Version

According to Kazunari Suzuki himself, the main programmer of the Windows version of the game left the development without finishing the game, which caused a lot of chaos at ASCII.

Gallery

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Trivia

• 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.
• This game wasn't developed by Atlus; it was developed by Kazunari Suzuki's company. Also, according to MegaTen Maniacs, Giten Megami Tensei is not considered part of the Megami Tensei series.
• Kazunari Suzuki claimed that the world line of Giten Megami Tensei is different from Shin Megami Tensei and is the same as Shin Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation manga.

Nomenclature

偽典 giten refers to Jewish and Christian religious writings not accepted as scripture by mainstream groups. Such works are usually called apocrypha or pseudepigrapha in English; apocrypha (sg. apocryphon) literally means "hidden or obscure thing" (i.e. a book that should not be read in the liturgy), while pseudepigrapha (sg. pseudepigraphon) literally means a work which claims to be written by an author different from the true author. Giten, however, has neither of these literal meanings and instead literally translates to "false scripture".

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