Draken wrote:
These games (as well as Persona) are ones that I've considered getting into, but there just seems to be so many different versions and strange numbering that it's always confusing.. Nothing really to add to the thread except that I hope someone can answer your questions because I'd like to know, too!
Okay, I did some digging around on the net.. apparently the nes and snes series goes like this...
Nes - "Megami Tensei 1" (1987) and "Megami Tensei 2" (1990).. are really called... "Digital Devil: Megami Tensei 1 and 2" the translators
messed up the naming system there. Megami Tensei 1 game's stories used from the Digital Devil Story Novels. Whilst Megami
Tensei 2 game's story was just set in a made up post-apocalyptic world.
Then the spin off series began with the Snes two games..
Snes - "Shin Megami Tensei 1" (1992) and "Shin Megami Tensei 2" (1994). SMT2 is set 30 years after the first game.
After the release of Shin Megami Tensei II, Atlus began focusing work on building spin-offs and subseries that would form
part of the Megami Tensei franchise and worlds.. these were... "Persona" Series, "Devil Summoner" Series, "Devil Survivor" Series,
"Last Bible" Series, "Devil Children" Series, "Majin Tensei" Series.
Snes - "Shin Megami Tensei IF" (1994) is a side story to the main "Shin Megami Tensei" story.
Snes - "Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei" (1995) was a remake of the NES two "Megami Tensei" games with better graphics, music, and a more
indepth story to the original story used in the NES games.
Two notable stand-alone spin-offs are.. "Jack Brothers" AND "Gene Ibun Roku X FE", a cross-over with the "Fire Emblem" Series.
SO! the two on the Nes and "Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei" on the Snes are the Original series of games, and the other three on the Snes are spin-off games in the "Shin Megami Tensei" series.
MAN! that was a heavy read to get all that information.. LOL! hope that makes it more understandable Draken.
So to play them in Snes order, i'd most likely play them like this...
Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei (the original NES two games remade)
Shin Megami Tensei 1 (snes original spin-off game)
Shin Megami Tensei 2 (Snes original spin-off game set 30 years after the 1st one)
Shin Megami Tensei IF (Snes original spin-off game, side story to the two games above)