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SMT: Devil Survivor 2

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Title: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2

Media: Video Game (there is an anime but do not watch it.) There is also a game called "Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor" and it is unconnected with this game apart from sharing game mechanics.

Approx length: How Long to Beat clocks it at about 60 to get most things and about 100 to get all endings. It's a pretty narrative heavy game, so watching the scenes would work as well.

Where to find it: The game is on the 3DS and I think you can buy it electronically. Alternatively, here's a compilation of every scene.

What is it, in summary? You and two of your school friends are going home after an mock exam, and are sent a video of your impending demise ... just prior to the events depicted in the video occuring. You manage to avert your death by forming a pact with demons, only to learn that the world is slowly being consumed by nothingness to be reshaped into something else, while also being attacked by interdimensional invaders. Fortunately, there's a secret organisation who knew all about it and has stepped forward to save the day! Over the next several days, you decide who lives, who dies, and whose proposal about what should be done about this situation you plan to follow.

The 3DS remake has an additional campaign set after the first campaign, where you learn that all you really did was defeat one set of alien invaders intent on erasing the world we know, except this batch just want to make us all dead because of what happened in the previous campaign. To make matters worse, one of your allies is missing, you keep flickering in and out of existence, and the rest of your allies are haunted by strange memories they don't understand. You can finally win a happy ending for humanity, but it takes a lot to get there.

What do you love about it? The above description sounds pretty grim, and the game is pretty dark! The apocalypse is here, there are widescale and personal tragedies, and while there is a happy ending for the world it's hard work getting there. The game also leans very firmly on the idea that humanity is capable of miracles as well as terrible life choices, and that a cast full of ordinary people will step up and fight gods with nothing more than grit and demonic pokemon. The characters are likeable and interesting, with great writing and voice acting. It's darker than Persona, but a lot more character driven than the SMT games.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it? Stuff about Miyako and Yamato, who are kind of AU twins to one another but aren't.

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests? Not really! The anime is shorter, but the anime is its own thing that makes drastic changes to characters, especially Yamato. Further, Miyako is not in the anime.

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence) Devil Survivor 2 contains a lot of death (some of it depicted on screen), some body horror, and a mad scientist who doesn't seem familiar with ethics.