History VideoGame / DevilSurvivor

** In [[spoiler:Atsuro]] and [[spoiler:Gin]]'s endings, the final battle starts off by having you escort Atsuro and an NPC (in the former case, you [[spoiler:Naoya, who can at least defend himself if necessary]]; in the latter case, you get [[spoiler:Haru, who is completely helpless, but clears the field when the FinalBoss goes OneWingedAngel]]) to a control console in the center of the arena so they can upload their mojo to the demon server.

** The Main Character [[VideoGame/{{Persona3}} suspiciously looks like someone from a previous MegaTen game]].

-->God's Righteousness Upheld
-->3:1 Then what advantage has the Jew?
-->Or what is the value of circumcision?
-->2 Much in every way.
-->To begin with.
-->the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.
-->3 What if some were unfaithful?
-->Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?
-->4 By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar.
-->as it is written.
-->
-->"That you may be justified in your words,
-->and prevail when you are judged."
-->
-->5 But if our unrighteousness serves to show
-->the righteousness of God, what shall we say?
-->That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us?
-->(I speak in a human way.)
-->6 By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
-->7 But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory,
-->why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
-->8 And why not do evil that good may come?- as some people
-->slanderously charge us with saying,
-->Their condemnation is just.
-->
-->No one is Righteous.
-->9 What then?
-->Are we Jews [1] any better off? [2]
-->No. Not at all. For we have already charged that all,
-->both Jews and Greeks, are under sin.
-->10 As it is written:

** In Yuzu's 8th Day, [[spoiler:Take-Mikazuchi]], the demon [[spoiler:Gin / Eiji]] made a contract with, can become Jikoku's (the Deva Amane defeated with Jezebel's power) replacement as Guardian of the East. It opens up an EscortMission to protect Gin until the ritual to restore the Tokyo Barrier is complete, so, even if not for long, [[spoiler:Gin / Eiji]] ''himself'' kind-of becomes one too.

* LuckBasedMission: You know the last fight is rigged when every enemy team is equipped with Diarahan and Samarecarm, there's not one but ''two'' powerful enemies with a full-field, [[SecretAIMoves uncrackable]] skill that drains your MP, and after a couple of turns [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere two of the last people you'd expect to show up]] arrive with insanely strong demons, and are all equipped with outrageously broken skills that, again, [[SecretAIMoves are uncrackable]]. And that's the final battle of the ''easiest route.''

* MagiTek and/or MagicFromTechnology: Demon summoning and casting of magic spells is handled through portable electronic devices, which automate the rituals involved (somehow) and draw on the willpower of the human race through the Internet itself.

** The opening of ''Overclocked'' shows a screenshot of Gin as an enemy, but picking a fight with him is rather difficult to intuit: you need to [[spoiler:avoid starting his sidequest and pick Naoya's route. He will fight alongside Remiel-Amane in exchange for information from Azuma about Aya.]]

* BossBonanza: On the 7th day, [[spoiler:unless you choose to escape with Yuzu, you have to fight your way through successive boss battles against Amane (only on Naoya's route), Jezebel (or Naoya on Atsuro's route), Bishamon, Zouchou and Koumoku, Belzaboul, Belberith, Naoya (only on Amane's route), and finally Babel.]]

* InSpiteOfANail: [[spoiler:The four versions of Day 7, Yuzu excluded, have the same basic structure. First you go into Amane's soul to kill Jezebel and take her power, then you kill Bishamon and then Zouchou and Koumoku to bring down the wall between the demon and human worlds, then you fight your way through Belzaboul to get into the Roppongi Hills building, then you battle Belberith at the top of the Hills, then you battle Babel to save the world on the Hills rooftop. The only major differences are that Atsuro's route replaces Jezebel's battle with a battle against Naoya in order to convince him to aid you in your plan, Amane's route has you fight Naoya between Belberith and Babel because he's pissed off that you chose to side with God, and Naoya's route has you fight Amane before Jezebel in order to force her to cooperate with your plans in claiming Jezebel's head.]]

-->'''Keisuke:''' As of now, no one within the Yamanote circle has more than 6 days to live.

-->'''Gigolo:''' I admire that resolve. It suits Naoya's younger brother well.

** Law and Chaos are two of the darker endings in the main game, but in Overclocked, you have the ability to make them into happier endings. The only time Chaos remains a BittersweetEnding is when [[spoiler:you decide to kill humans instead of helping them on the eighth day.]]

* BossBonanza: On the 7th day, [[spoiler:unless you choose to escape with Yuzu, you have to fight your way through successive boss battles against Jezebel (or Naoya on Atsuro's route), Bishamon, Zouchou and Koumoku, Belzaboul, Belberith, Naoya (only on Amane's route), and finally Babel.]]

* InSpiteOfANail: [[spoiler:The four versions of Day 7, Yuzu excluded, have the same basic structure. First you go into Amane's soul to kill Jezebel and take her power, then you kill Bishamon and then Zouchou and Koumoku to bring down the wall between the demon and human worlds, then you fight your way through Belzaboul to get into the Roppongi Hills building, then you battle Belberith at the top of the Hills, then you battle Babel to save the world on the Hills rooftop. The only differences are that Atsuro's route replaces Jezebel's battle with a battle against Naoya in order to convince him to aid you in your plan, while Amane's route has you fight Naoya between Belberith and Babel because he's pissed off that you chose to side with God.]]

* MultipleEndings: Though the endings play out somewhat differently from the mainline ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games, in keeping with the slightly less [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism cynical]] nature of the game. The Kingdom of Saints directly corresponds to the classic Law, but the SocialDarwinist Chaos from the main games is represented by [[spoiler:the Bad Ending]], [[spoiler:the King of Demons ending plays like Nocturne's [[RageAgainstTheHeavens True Demon ending]]]], and the Neutral endings are unique to Devil Survivor. There's also an early bad ending that functions as a NonStandardGameOver. They are as follows:

*** Yuzu's Route: [[spoiler:Rather than fight for the Throne of Bel, you go with Yuzu's plan and break through the JSDF blockade, even steamrolling over Amane and Izumi to do it. You succeed, but as you quickly learn from Honda, both demons and demon tamers have escaped the lockdown and chaos is about to envelop the world. While Metatron tells you in an e-mail that not all hope is lost, he makes it blatantly clear [[NiceJobBreakingItHero you are responsible and will never be forgiven]]. Worse still, Belberith has killed Jezebel and is now the King of Bel, absorbing God's Thunder and plans to begin his war against god.]]

** Try doing [[spoiler:[[LawfulGood Amane]]'s]] route, then on your next playthrough do [[spoiler:[[ChaoticNeutral Naoya]]'s]] route. Seeing your allies from your previous playthrough [[spoiler:leave or oppose you]] is quite jarring.

* SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains: In Amane's case at least. What better way to show that her clones, created by [[spoiler:Jezebel]], are evil than giving them a naughty grin and zipping open the robe Amane wears, revealing some [[AbsoluteCleavage impressive cleavage]].

* EleventhHourRanger: Out of the 12 playable characters in the game, 7 of them don't join you until the 7th and ([[UpdatedRerelease in the initial release]]) final day. Justified because you don't seriously begin efforts to solve the lockdown crisis until then, and spend most of your time just trying to survive with a handful of your close friends. Taken UpToEleven (heh) in Naoya's route, where just about your ''entire party'' is made of Eleventh Hour Rangers... because most of your regular party (except Atsuro) [[WhatTheHellHero has decided that your plan is too extreme]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere and ditched you]].

** One of the main levels on which the game works is as an absolutely ''horrific'' deconstruction of the entire concept of {{Mons}} ([[UpToEleven far beyond even what other titles in the SMT franchise do]]; we're talking ''Manga/ShadowStar'' levels of disturbing) in that it demonstrates exactly how people running around with monsters capable of lethal force in an urban setting would ''actually'' work. This is most obvious in the [[spoiler:event where Kaido and Keisuke confront one another, which is almost [[{{Narm}} narmy]] in how it's set up ''exactly'' like some twisted demonic Franchise/{{Pokemon}} battle (facing each other across a street with the two "mons" in between, shouting commands, etc)... and then one side loses and the other's demon ''graphically murders'' the opponent at its master's urging. Enjoy your Pikachus now, kids!]]

* NiceHat: Atsuro's hat, giving him the effect of PeekABangs without actually using hair. Also, Amane's... feather-hairpiece thing.

** God finally takes this position in the Overlord 8th Day, after the player character forces His hand. The Lockdown during the main game was understandable: the demons spread like wildfire, and containment was paramount. In the Overlord 8th Day, [[spoiler:God has pretty much taken all of Tokyo hostage, and has made it quite plain he'll [[TheTokyoFireball wipe it off the face of the earth]] with everyone inside it unless the people bring him the MC's head. What follows is the people trapped inside going nuts, begging you to die so that they can be free. As Naoya said, God is playing on your human weakness.]]

* GuideDangIt: Have fun getting some of the endings without a guide!

* HeroAntagonist: ...where do we ''start''? Even ignoring Naoya's route, the big example on all routes (excepting the obvious) are [[spoiler:the Devas]], who are doing their jobs to keep Tokyo safe, and who are well aware that [[IDidWhatIHadToDo you're doing what you have to do]], but they're still going to go down fighting.

* WhamLine: You get this bombshell midway through day 1.

* AdultFear:
** You are shown what happens when a block of a major metropolitan area is sealed off by military forces and forced to tough it out with no electricity or means of communicating with the outside world and food and other vital supplies arriving at a very limited basis. People go mad and fight over food rations, and some of the police [[PoliceBrutality show themselves for who they really are]]; granted, they use demons, but using guns wouldn't have made their cruelty any less worse.
** For a more specific example, salaryman Honda wants to see his critically-wounded son undergo surgery, but said son is on the other side of the Yamanote loop, leaving Honda unable to stand by his son's side for the operation. In almost every ending, [[spoiler:Honda's son dies]], plunging him past the DespairEventHorizon. It gets even worse if you consider that a simple Dia or Amrita spell might well have actually prevented that...

* {{Meganekko}}: Midori.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Blue hair, orangey red, blue grayish, crimson, various shades of purple, various shades of green... ''Devil Survivor'' has it all.

** Yuzu's 8th Day Good Ending: [[spoiler:With Gin's help, the barrier is restored thanks to the Devas and Take-Mikazuchi. The party goes on to defeat Belberith, thus ending the demonic threat in the Lockdown. While God has abandoned humanity, all that's left for them is to wipe out the remaining demons infesting the world.]]
** Naoya/Kaido's 8th Day Evil Route: [[spoiler:The protagonist chooses to slaughter any human who gets in his way, and Kaido forces Mari out of the party so she won't have blood on her hands. Yuzu and Midori stand in opposition against the protagonist, with the former even gaining Metatron's help. It does no good, and the heavenly voice is driven back. The protagonist and Naoya continue their plans to defeat God and his angels, while the protagonist's bond with Yuzu has been effectively broken.]]
** Naoya/Kaido's 8th Day Good Route: [[spoiler:You refuse to kill any humans and instead focus on fighting the angels, as well as protecting any human who is being attacked by them. Yuzu and Izumi eventually rally the people of Tokyo to your side and go on for a final confrontation with Metatron. After the fact, you and Naoya take the fight to the demon world rather than involve humanity any further.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:''Peaceful days are over.[[labelnote:*]][[InconsistentDub Or maybe they've died]].[[/labelnote]] Let's survive.'']]