Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku

Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku (・　 lit. False Goddess Reincarnation: Tokyo Revelations) is a RPG/Adventure video game released for the PC-98 in April 4,1997 and later Microsoft Windows in December 22,1999 by Atlus (logo isn't shown though their copyright however is shown) and published by ASCII. It is a spin-off game and is non-canon to any game in the franchise.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The movement system. While innovative for its time which had a 180 turn around mechanic in a first-person RPG, can get clunky and having to use it can get frustrating as most times you'll have to enter and explore a lot in dungeons.
 * 2) The map system the same for the movement while had potential and innovation. It's way too large to the point where locations are too hard to find at times and you must be precise to where you click as there are random encounters everywhere.
 * 3) The mature content while very fitting for the Megami Tensei franchise and meant for story purposes. Can feel closed even for some Megami Tensei fans as there are high amounts of nudity and one infamous scene where the female protagonist Yuuka Tachibana gets separated apart and her body parts are devoured by demons.
 * 4) Also because of what happens to Yuuka early in the game. You don't get to play as her as much in the beginning of the game though later you start to have her as your party member when you revive her and retrieve her heart which she reincarnates.
 * 5) The RNG is very high as bosses can kill you very cheaply and there'll be many times where you'll get a game over. Though this can be forgiven considering it's part of the Megami Tensei franchise.
 * 6) The music That plays called "Misty" in the PC-98 version without Microsoft GS Wavatable Synth can get irritating and annoying as it seems to almost loop in high pitched notes. Thankfully if you have Microsoft GS Wavatable Synth or the Windows PC version, it'll lower the pitch of "Misty" and make it sound less annoying.
 * 7) The Windows version has a lot of glitches and an infamous bug that the game won't run on modern computers without a patch. Though the PC-98 version is also guilty of this too.
 * 8) It's very overpriced as the PC-98 version initially costed ¥12,800 which the equivalent of US dollars is $115. Thankfully the Windows version while still expensive it's not as bad and costs around ¥9,800 (equivalent to $88 in the US).
 * 9) The reason for the bugs and glitches are because Atlus wasn't fully experienced in coding PC developed games and were more interested and skilled in developing their games for consoles. Contrary to popular belief this could be one of the reasons why they decided after releasing the port to Megami Ibunroku Persona, this game's Windows version and Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine (supporting developers are Cave) to reject ideas for PC developed Atlus games and ports until 2020 with the help of Sega to release their games such as Persona 4 Golden, Persona 5 Strikers, Catherine and Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne.

Good Qualities

 * 1) It introduced many things for the franchise such as leveling-up demons, question and exams which the post-PS1 Persona games use, less restricted number of demons you can carry and equipping items for demons.
 * 2) The story is very well-written as it's about Ayato Katsuragi, a devil hunter who'll surpass his parents legacy of devil busters, will one day learn trust, love and justice for his friends and will protect the innocent and defeat the opposing demons who'll stop at nothing for their goals to reincarnate Yuuka to Ishtar and have Baal become her lover to conquer the ruins of Tokyo and the world.
 * 3) Very great graphics for its time and even better in the Windows PC version.
 * 4) Framerate is improved in the Windows PC version and there's smooth scrolling as well to improve the movement system.
 * 5) Very likable characters especially Ayato who plans to revive Yuuka no matter how dire and tough the situation is and acts calm even in the worse times.
 * 6) The music except "Misty" is very well-done and fits with the tone and atmosphere of what's happening in the event and part of the story.
 * 7) There are 9 endings in the game which is very large even for a Megami Tensei game for its time.

Trivia

 * Due to the graphic scene mentioned in BQ#3 fans misinterpret the scene as "ero-guro" which it really isn't since it wasn't for sexual purposes and it was a plot point for the demons to consume and absorb her power to achieve immortality and use her parts to reincarnate her into Ishtar for Baal's plans to dominate the world.
 * Its given nickname is "Gigaten"
 * If you have the Windows version and the patch of the game and if you want to play it on Windows 8.1 and 10. use dgvoodoo 2 (safe to use) and copy the files in the 2 x64 and x86 folders located in the MS folder (located in Dgvoodoo 2's directory) and paste them in the game's "ddswin" directory where the "dds.exe" file is located in. Also switch to Japanese locale so the text is in Japanese and is not unreadable.