Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
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| 真・女神転生 STRANGE JOURNEYTrue Goddess Reincarnation: Strange Journey | |
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| Developer(s) | Atlus Lancarse |
| Publisher(s) | Atlus (JP) Atlus U.S.A. (NA) |
| Genre | RPG |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo DS |
| Release |  Japan October 8, 2009 United States of America March 23, 2010 |
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey is a 2009 role-playing game for the Nintendo DS, and the sixth entry in the Shin Megami Tensei series. It was co-developed by Atlus and Lancarse, published by Atlus, and released on October 8, 2009 in Japan, and on March 23, 2010 in North America.
After a scientific research team at the south pole reports the appearance of a giant black void and then goes missing, an Intergovernmental Body sends a team to enter the void, dubbed the Schwarzwelt. The Schwarzwelt is predicted to expand continously and consume the whole world, unless the protagonist and their team can successfully infiltrate it and discover how to neutralize it.[1] After a blast crashes their ship into the void, they find the Schwarzwelt to be a setting infested with demons.
Strange Journey is a "side-story" in the Shin Megami Tensei series,[a] but is still officially considered to be part of the mainline series as it shared the same developmental staff.[2][3]
A remake of the game containing additional content and story changes, titled Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux, was released for the Nintendo 3DS.
Blurb
| A mysterious, growing void has appeared at the South Pole. Fearing it will eventually engulf Earth, you and your team of elite explorers are sent inside, where you discover a previously unknown world of demons... |
| 人類の存亡をかけたミッションを遂行せよ！ 全てを飲み込む滅びの地"シュバルツバース"を舞台に、人類の希望を託された人々の、壮絶にして奇妙な旅が描かれる。 "悪魔"を使役し、滅びの運命を退けろ！ "会話"で仲魔にした悪魔同士を合体させ、より強力なユニットを創り出す"悪魔合体"や、スタンスの同じ仲魔が追加攻撃を行う"デビルCO-OP"を駆使して、空間内の脅威に対抗してゆく。 史上最強のスーツ"デモニカ"を進化させろ！ 戦闘経験やアプリケーションの開発で、デモンカスーツをあらゆる状況に対応できる究極のスーツにカスタマイズしてゆく。 |
Jinrui no sonbō o kaketa misshon o suikō seyo! Subete o nomikomu horobi no ji "Shubarutsubāsu" o butai ni, jinrui no kibō o takusareta hitobito no, sōzetsu ni shite kimyōna tabi ga egakareru. "Akuma" o shieki shi, horobi no unmei o dokero! "Kaiwa" de naka ma ni shita akuma dōshi o gattaisase, yori kyōryokuna yunitto o tsukuridasu "Akuma Gattai" ya, sutansu no onaji nakama ga tsuika kōgeki o okonau "Debiru CO-OP" o kushishite, kūkan-nai no kyōi ni taikōshite yuku. Shijō saikyō no sūtsu "Demonika" o shinkasasero! Sentō keiken ya apurikēshon no kaihatsu de, Demonka Sūtsu o arayuru jōkyō ni taiō dekiru kyūkyoku no sūtsu ni kasutamaizushite yuku. |
Carry out a mission for the fate of humanity! Set in the "Schwarzverse", a land of ruination that swallows everything, this story depicts the bizarre and strange journey of the people entrusted with humanity's hopes. Call upon "demons" to defy the fate of destruction! Counter threats from this space by making full use of "Demon Fusion", wherein demons made into allies via "Talking" are combined to make a more powerful unit, and "Devil Co-Op", in which demons with the same alignment perform additional attacks. Enhance your "Demonica", the toughest suit in history! Through combat experience and application development, your Demonica Suit can be customized into a suit for every situation. |
Synopsis
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Gameplay
The gameplay of Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey continues the gameplay traditions of the previous entries such as first-person dungeon crawling and turn-based combat. Battles also take place in a first-person perspective and is similar to the older Shin Megami Tensei titles, this time incorporating the weakness exploitation system that the series is known for. The dungeon crawling sections include large areas with puzzles, secrets and demons. The player is able to recruit these demons through negotiation which is the main source of team building. These large maps include materials known as Forma which can be used to craft items and equipment. Strange Journey also introduces the App System through which the player can develop various apps that alter their experience.
Version Differences
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Strange Journey Redux
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux is an enhanced remaster of Strange Journey on the Nintendo 3DS.
- Main article: Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux
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Characters
Bosses
Demons
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Equipment
Locations
Play Records
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Development
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Strange Journey was co-developed by Lancarse, who also co-developed the first two Etrian Odyssey titles.[4] The game was built based on the Etrian Odyssey engine.[5] The development started around late 2007, the goal was to create a hardcore RPG specifically targeting the core fans of the Shin Megami Tensei series.[6] The game's setting was inspired by an sci-fi survival drama.[7]
Trivia
- The earliest draft for this game was a plan for a battle royale between human, demon, and Manikin in the world of Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne.[8]
- Kazuma Kaneko claimed that this game is the fourth main entry in the Shin Megami Tensei series.[9] He also claimed that it was not planned as a numbered title from the beginning.[10] Later, he stated on his Twitter that it is a spin-off.[11]
- Eiji Ishida claimed that Kaneko suggested making this into Shin Megami Tensei IV,[12] but he refused to do so due to the pressure of delivering a numbered title.[13]
- MegaTen Maniacs claimed that the developers sees this as practically identical to a mainline game, even though it is classified as a Gaiden.[2][14]
Nomenclature
The subtitle was initially Strange Horizon, inspired by the film Event Horizon. However, it was ultimately changed to Strange Journey, inspired by the rock band Journey, the documentary film Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who, and the novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne.[15][16]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
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真・女神転生 STRANGE JOURNEY Shin Megami Tensei Sutorenji Jānī | True Goddess Reincarnation: Strange Journey |
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Notes
- ↑ The specific word used in Japanese is "gaiden" (外伝), which can also translate to "spin-off."
References
- ↑ "Zelenin: The Schwarzwelt is a natural phenomenon that arose in the South Pole some months ago. But this phenomenon is one of a kind. We have nothing of it's like to compare it to. You may have heard false reports that it is a blizzard, but in truth...It is an unknown spatial anomaly that destroys and absorbs it's surroundings as it enlarges. When it first appeared, it was a cylinder only one meter in diameter that stretched to the sky. Since then, it has spread radially, swallowing surrounding observation bases and any investigators whole. Today, it occupies a sizable footprint with a radius of several hundred kilometers. As we speak the Schwarzwelt continues to expand...If we cannot engineer a reversal of the process, then it will inevitably swallow the Earth." Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (Nintendo DS). English.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "『真SJ』は『真if』と同じように「シリーズ外伝」と区分けされていますが、 例えば低年齢層向けに作られた『真・女神転生デビルチルドレン』ほど離れた世界観ではありません。 悪魔と人間の関係性などを見ていけば、《ペルソナ》 シリーズの各作品と比べても明らかに本編に近い世界観の下制作されていることがわかります。 外伝とはいってもナンバリング作と共通するスタッフによって作られているのだからそれも当然と言えますが、 『真SJ』は表面的な違いが目立って見えたとしても、実際に遊んでみれば本流に含まれる作品と変わらないことが感覚的にわかることから「シリーズ25周年」の歴史に含まれる作品と位置づけられています。" Translation: "Although 'Shin SJ' is classified as a 'Gaiden,' like 'Shin if,' it is not as far removed from the world as, for example, 'Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children,' which was created for a younger audience. The relationship between demons and humans is clearly more similar to that of the main series than the other works in the 'Persona' series. Although 'Shin SJ' is a gaiden, it was created by the same staff as the numbered series, so it is not surprising that it is a gaiden. It is therefore positioned as a work included in the history of the '25th anniversary' of the series." MegaTen Maniacs, Nobuyuki Shioda. Published by Atlus. Japanese. p. 122.
- ↑ Page description: A chart showing all Megami Tensei franchise games released as of 2017, divided by series. The games Shin Megami Tensei if..., Shin Megami Tensei: Nine, and Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey are all listed under the mainline Shin Megami Tensei line, indicating they are part of the mainline series of games. MegaTen Maniacs, Nobuyuki Shioda. Published by Atlus. p. 180.
- ↑ Our Works. Retrieved August 26, 2024. Lancarse.
- ↑ Nintendo Power. Published by Future US. English. No. 251 Cover date February 2010. Translation by Megatengaku.
- ↑ "確か世界樹の迷宮２の開発が終わった後の、2007年の末に女神SJのプロジェクトに参加しました（と言っても立ち上がったばかりのプロジェクトだったので、ほぼ最初から参加しています）。ディレクターの石田さんからいただいた企画書のテーマの一つに「女神転生のコアユーザーに向けた本格的RPG」というのがあって、" Sawao Kato, [1]. Archived: [2]. Retrieved October 31, 2025. atlus.net.
- ↑ "当時、SFっぽい世界観でSFらしからぬサバイバルがくり広げられるような海外のテレビドラマが僕たちの中で流行っていて、こういう雰囲気をゲームで体験できたらいいなと思ったんです。" Weekly Famitsu. Published by Kadokawa. Japanese. No. 1508 Page 143. Cover date November 9, 2017.
- ↑ "石田: 『真・III』の世界観を継承してて、 人間と悪魔とマネカタのバトルロワイヤル って内容だった(笑)" 真・女神転生 STRANGE JOURNEY シュバルツバース回顧録. Published by エンターブレイン. Japanese. Page 80.
- ↑ "本作は、『真・女神転生』シリーズの本編として４作目になります。" [3]. Archived: [4]. Retrieved December 31, 2025. touch-ds.jp.
- ↑ "『SJ』は『真・女神転生』シリーズではあるけれど外伝扱いになっています。正編のナンバリングタイトルではないことについて、プロデューサーとしてはどのようにお考えだったのでしょう。
そりゃもう『真・4」として立てた企画じゃなかったからですよ。石田が出してきた最初のタイトルは『真・女神転生 (仮)』なんだけど、これは 「メガテンの要素を使って、 探検したり合体させたりして遊べるゲームを作ろう」ってことですから。" Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey: Schwarzwelt Reminiscences. Published by Enterbrain. Page 16-17. - ↑ "ストレンジジャーニーは僕がコンセプトやストーリーを考えてますが、スピンオフです。" Kazuma Kaneko, Kazuma Kaneko. Published July 17, 2026. Retrieved July 17, 2026. . x.com.
- ↑ "石田 そもそも、シリーズを立ち上げた金子さんは、「『SJ』を『真4』と名付けてもいいんだよ?」と言っていたくらい、「メガテンはこうじゃなきゃいけないんだ」という考え方を持っていないんです。" Shin Megami Tensei IV Official Artworks. Published by Enterbrain. Japanese. Page 182.
- ↑ [5]. Retrieved December 5, 2025. retronauts.
- ↑ "正式なシリーズナンバーの振られていない『真SJ』は外伝的扱いとなりますが、制作側のスタンスとしてはナンバリングタイトルと大きな違いはありません。" Shin Megami Tensei Series 25th Anniversary Memorial Book: MegaTen Maniacs. Page 130.
- ↑ "できれば他にない単語で何かないかなと思って。ジャーニーって旅じゃないですか。MTVとか見てても意外に使われてるんですよね。プラス80年代のロックバンドのジャーニーとか。ザ・フーのドキュメント映画がアメイジング・ジャーニーっていうタイトルだったり。それも頭にあって、ジャーニーっていうのにしたらって、ストレンジ・ジャーニーにしたらって。そんな感じだったよね。" [6]. Archived: [7]. Retrieved December 5, 2025. atlusnet.
- ↑ "単純にタイトルを考えるのが面倒だっただけだと思います。タイトルを決める時はアイデアを出すのは簡単なんですけど、アイデアも出さないのに人のアイデアにケチつけるヤツがいっぱいいて、そいつらを納得させなきゃいけないので大変なんですよ。ペルソナとかの時も無茶苦茶アウェイでした。ちなみにSJは『ジューヌ・ベルヌ』の小説「Journey to the Center of the Earth」からいただきました。" Kazuma Kaneko, [8]. Published July 17, 2026. Retrieved July 17, 2026. Twitter.