Have you ever played shin megami tensei imagine? A personal question, how do you discovered megaten?
I did for about an hour. I didn’t find it very interesting.
Discovering Megaten though, that’s thanks to Hardcore Gaming 101′s original franchise article from 2004. It came out at just the right time with Nocturne’s original release looming/just past (honestly can’t remember) and was apparently effective enough to act like a flint and strike the first sparks for the fledgling English-speaking Megaten community. I’m happy I’ve been able to contribute to the upcoming book, essentially a complete overhaul of the original article.
But the very first place I encountered anything Megami Tensei related was certainly at The Gaming Intelligence Agency (GIA), the Japanese-games-focused site that launched a million (or fewer) 1up.com careers. Their second to last real article before the site was abruptly shut down (on April 1, 2002) was in fact about the PS1 Devil Children game. See, Devil Children is cursed! But just a few days before that they covered the PS1 port of SMT2. It didn’t mean a whole lot to me then but it did familiarize me with the name, so that’s something. Dig around the GIA’ archive’s coverage for SMT and Persona for some interesting odds and ends:
This Rangda image is from January 1, 1999! That’s older than... my first computer!