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# Atlus’s surreal sleeper masterpiece is coming to PSN this week
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/persona-creators-surreal-sleeper-masterpiece-coming-psn-week/
- Published: 2014-06-23T17:05:17.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:52:30.000Z
- Description: Now that Atlus is re-releasing Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon on PSN later this week, I can finally put my PS2 to bed. A sequel to a mediocre game which sported a super-long, unwieldy name, Devil Summoner 2 was overlooked by nearly everyone when it released for the PS2 well into
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: News, Atlus, Devil Summoner 2, Persona, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Now that Atlus is re-releasing *Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon* on PSN later this week, I can finally put my PS2 to bed.

A sequel to a mediocre game which sported a super-long, unwieldy name, *Devil Summoner 2* was overlooked by nearly everyone when it released for the PS2 well into the PS3’s lifecycle. But this sleeper from the creators of *Persona* is tops in my book, as you can glean from my writer’s bio.

So allow me to wax for a moment about how outstanding it is. For one, the systems were pitch-perfect. The action-oriented battling was so varied—with all the pagan demons and goddesses you summoned to fight alongside you—that I never grew bored in whatever ludicrous number of hours I dumped into it. Also, the game utilizes Atlus’s bread-and-butter fusion system, also found in the *Persona* games, which allows you to trade two unhelpful sidekicks for one awesome one.

But what really surprised and impressed me was the storytelling—a period piece set in a rapidly Westernizing Tokyo about how modernization was causing a brooding, toxic depression among the people of Japan. The game’s surreality brought to mind Alejandro Jodorowsky’s *El Topo*, diverging into the story of a tribe of freaks who had been exiled to a cave in a mountainside for their hideous appearance.

There is one negative with buying this digitally though: you don’t get the detective-pixie plushie that came bundled with each retail copy. But that will forever be immortalized in my closet.