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# Shin Megami Tensei comes to iOS March 18th, makes waiting for Persona 5 almost bearable
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/shin-megami-tensei-ios-persona-5/
- Published: 2014-03-04T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:28:03.000Z
- Description: Persona 5 may seem like an eternity or two away, but Atlus feels your pain. So they’re bringing a port of the original Shin Megami Tensei to iOS on March 18th, which kinda makes up for things. You can think of SMT as Persona’s cigarette-smoking older sister. The difference between the two franchises
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: News, Atlus, JRPG, Persona 5, RPG, Shin Megami Tensei, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

*Persona 5* may seem like an eternity or two away, but Atlus feels your pain. So they’re bringing a port of the original *Shin Megami Tensei* to iOS on March 18th, which kinda makes up for things.

You can think of *SMT* as *Persona*’s cigarette-smoking older sister. The difference between the two franchises is that, while *Persona* has went down the dating sim route with positive messages for depressed youth, *SMT* is just plain nihilistic, with game systems that encourage greed and betrayal and making friends with demons. Digital demons. Not real ones. An important distinction.

Even though it’s a translation of a twenty-year-old game, it’s worth paying attention to, because the ‘90s were the heyday of Japanese RPGs, and because the early *SMT*s have never officially been released over here.