Megami Tensei

Are Japanese players ever confused by the number of spinoffs and spinoff sequels present? Or do they memorize them all?

    * Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei
    * Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei 2
    * Shin Megami Tensei
    * Shin Megami Tensei II
    * Shin Megami Tensei if...
    * Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
    * Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne Maniacs (Director's Cut)
    * Shin Megami Tensei: NINE
    * Shin Megami Tensei Online: IMAGINE
    * Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga (Avatar Tuner)
    * Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 (Avatar Tuner 2)
    * Devil Summoner
    * Devil Summoner II : Soul Hackers
    * Devil Summoner III : Kuzunoha Raidou
    * Megami Ibunroku Persona
    * Persona 2 Tsumi (Innocent Sin)
    * Persona 2 Batsu (Eternal Punishment)
    * Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible
    * Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible 2
    * Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible 3
    * Majin Tensei
    * Majin Tensei 2: Spiral Nemesis
    * Majin Tensei: Ronde
Giten Megami Tensei Mokushiroku
    * Devil Children: Kuro no Ka / Aka no Ka (Black Book and Red Book)
    * Devil Children: Shiro no Ka (White Book)
    * Devil Children: Hikari no Ka / Yami no Ka (DemiKids: Light and Dark Version)
    * Devil Children: Puzzle de Call
    * Devil Children: Honoo no Ka / Hi no Ka (Ice Book and Fire Book)
    * Devil Children: Messiah-lyzer

I'd be happy if even half of those made it there

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I'd be happy if even half of those made it HERE

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You mean like the first Persona?  ouch.

>>4
SECOND Persona.

>>1
Shin Megami Tensei: Nine had bar-none, THE worst production values I have ever seen on an Xbox game.  Seriously, who let that shit out the door?  Ugly fonts, barebones utilitarian GUI, and blobby, poorly rendered character models do not a good game make.  I was looking forward to it too, after enjoying the solid gameplay of the old games and the smooth, glossy finish of Nocturne.  Bleh.

>>6
well, not to sound like a fanboy (i love my xbox because i can play outrun 2 and spikeout on it), but how high-priority do you suppose an xbox game was for the typical japanese developer during that generation? especially consider that SMT was a series that ONLY sold in Japan when they were working on Nine. even if they made it excellent, it didn't really stand a snowball's chance in hell, sales-wise. considering all that it's really no wonder they'd halfass the game.

how many got into it because of the art? I like Kazuma Kaneko.

I mean, sure there's other reasons, but that's definitely a stand out feature of the SMT games. Sorta like Amano and FF in the SNES era.