Editing Shin Megami Tensei (section)

====Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II====
Whilst officially a sequel to the original DDS: Megami Tensei, this game has very little connections two it in terms of lore (supposedly this takes place long after the events of Megami Tensei I). In fact, this is where the major identity of the Shin Megami Tensei games, with their post-apocalyptic Urban Fantasy Order vs. Chaos motif, was established. That said, there are some oddities - Order is presented as a straight Bad Ending this time around, and Evil demons can't be recruited at all, putting a big emphasis on fusion if you wand a decent team.

Plot-wise, the story takes place 35 years after "199X", when Tokyo was both hit by a missile during a nuclear war ''and'' subsequently invaded by armies of demons. The player is a resident in one of the underground bomb shelters where most of Tokyo's survivors dwell, until he releases a demon called [[Pazuzu]] from a game called "Devil Busters". Pazuzu claims to be an agent of God, and that the player is now a messiah who must free the world from its demonic threat.

Which ultimately leads to the now-iconic Megami Tensei reveal: God is actually evil, Pazuzu is genuinely working for God and so that makes him evil too, and the demons are actually good guys (relatively speaking). So, to prevent the annihilation of all humanity, the player is going to have amass an army of demons and take down God. And yes, we do mean God as in YHVH, so of course God is evil because this is a Japanese game and God is a filthy gaijin.