History VideoGame / MegamiTenseiII

* WhiteMagicianGirl: The Partner comes close. She fits the personality type but is more of a [[TheRedMage Red Mage]]. However, she will be your most reliable healer throughout the game [[spoiler: until you obtain Baal]], despite her offensive abilities.

''Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II'' is, as the name suggests, the sequel to ''[[VideoGame/MegamiTensei Megami Tensei]]'' for the {{UsefulNotes/Famicom}}. Despite being a direct sequel to the events of the first game, it has little to nothing to do with the original ''Literature/DigitalDevilStory'' plotline, and in fact closer resembles, and likely inspired, the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games that followed it.

The game follows three primary human characters. None of the characters are given official names, and [[{{HelloInsertNameHere}} must be named by the player]].

* Friend: [[{{ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin}} The hero's friend.]] Proud, pushy, and selfish, he easily buys into Pazuzu's claims and the praise of the Messians. When the hero sides with the heroine against Pazuzu, the friend will leave. The friend will eventually transform into the Dark Hero, the game's primary rival character.

During the era of the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' sequels, the game was remade alongside the first game as ''Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei'' for the UsefulNotes/SuperFamicom. Aside from graphical updating, the remake introduced several new demons.

* AfterTheEnd

* ApocalypseHow: Class 2.

* CampGay: The guys running the Men's Armor stores. All of them. Even the ones in Makai!

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Mr. Suzuki, who is actually [[spoiler:Satan in disguise]].
* CrapsackWorld

* DiscOneFinalDungeon: Bael's Cathedral and, later on, Lucifer's Temple.

** More of a [[{{DiscOneNuke}} Disc Two Nuke]] but if you're at level 52 (a diligent player can reach level 44 before Bael's Castle which is a good spot to level grind) and you have Undine (fuse two fairy types to get), Slyph (fuse two youma types to get) and Salamander (fuse two beast types to get), you can triple fuse them to summon the Angel Michael, who can be obtained right before you travel to Makai and remains useful until the end of the game.

* TheDragon: Satan to YHVH. Lucifer also implies that Satan used to be his dragon.

* HandicappedBadass: The Hero, post-cybernetic arm.

* NostalgiaLevel: The Devil Busters game is a recreation of the Daedelus Tower from the first game, all from a top down perspective reminiscent of [[VideoGame/DragonQuest other]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI RPGs]] of the time. After defeating the Minotaur, Pazuzu awakens and the real game starts.
* NukeEm: As part of the back story.
* OhMyGods: Averted by [[spoiler: YHVH of all people. Upon being defeated, YHVH cries out なんてことだ！nante koto da!) While the phrase indicates shock, it's also considered the Japanese equivalent of taking the Lord's name in vain. May double as a StealthPun.]]
** Changed to a stock ThisCannotBe in the English translation.
* OldSaveBonus: In the ''Kyuuyaku'' version, continuing on from a completed ''Megami Tensei'' file with certain side quests done will add several events to this game.
** These events include encounters with Mama and Papa Jack Frost, access to one of four secret demons based on Myth/ClassicalMythology, Izanami weaving you an item to block trap and swamp damage, and a new area in Ginza known as the Trash Mountain.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Some demons will join your side -- for a steep price with some even asking for triple donations!

* RandomEncounters
* TheRival: The hero's friend after his transformation into the Dark Hero.

* SealedEvilInACan: Lucifer is trapped in ice under Ginza, until he's let out by the Dark Hero. [[spoiler: The evil part is debatable though, since he helps stop YHVH.]]

* TakenForGranite:
** Atlas, but he gets better.
** Some demons, such as the (in)famous Medusa, can cause this to you.

* TropeMaker: Pretty much every trope of the SMT series, from the post-apocalyptic setting to the alignment hero archetype to the finale involving climbing a tower to confront God, begins here.

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: [[spoiler:Suzuki Company, Ltd.]]

* NostalgiaLevel: The Devil Busters game is a recreation of the Daedelus Tower from the first game, all from a top down perspective reminiscent of [[VideoGame/DragonQuest other]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasy1 RPGs]] of the time. After defeating the Minotaur, Pazuzu awakens and the real game starts.

** The best armor and weapon in the game for the Hero, Lucifer's Armor and Lucifer's Sword, require you to have certain stats in Strength, Vitality, and Intelligence to use. If you've been leveling up normally, you likely will have at enough points in Vitality and Strength by the time you can get the armor and sword. However, having the 20 points in Intelligence even late in the game is much less likely, especially if you figured out the attribute primarily influences magic, which the Hero does not have, making it an otherwise virtually useless attribute.

* GuideDangIt: In order to advance the plot, you will need the elementals Undine and Gnome to recover sunken treasure in Makai and unlock a dungeon, respectively. The game doesn't suggest that Undine or Gnome would be useful in these situations at all.

* StandardStatusEffects: You've got classics like Poison, Paralyze, Sleep, Bind, Confuse and Seal (which works like Silence), but also Cursed (which works more like a traditional Poison effect), Happy (which causes the afflicted member to randomly ignore commands) and Panic (prevents a party member from acting for a while, then becomes Happy.).

* FusionDance: Aside from the regular method of fusing demons, if you spared Bael earlier in the game, he will fuse with Beelzebub and form Baal. Recruiting Baal is required in order to recruit [[spoiler: Lucifer]] and get the game's "good" ending.

* TakenForGranite: Atlas, but he gets better.

Like its predecessor and successors, ''Megami Tensei II'' is a first person dungeon crawler using a turn based battle system, and the bulk of the player's party will be made of demons who they recruited. However, demons cannot level up on their own, and must be fused together to form stronger demons. Unlike the map and cursor overworld used by later games, there is a full overworld between dungeons, complete with overworld sprites for the three human party members. Like most main ''Shin Megami Tensei'' games, the game ends if both human party members are killed.

* WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou: Just like [[VideoGame/MegamiTensei the first game]], it's Game Over when both human characters die, presumably because no one will be left to work the COMP and control the demons.

* DamselInDistress: The Partner is kidnapped before entering Astaroth's Castle, which is located during the second half of your explorations in Makai. She rejoins your team after you take out Astaroth.

* CosyCatastrophe: While the nuclear strike in 199X wrecked the overworld and submerged a good chunk of Tokyo, those who made it to Shelter #3 don't have it all that bad (ignoring the fact that except for the main characters, they can't go outside). They're stocked with weapons, they have access to a working bar and some kind of regular food source. There's also a security force [[spoiler: although Nebiros makes quick work of them.]]

* DiscOneFinalDungeon: Bael's Cathedral.
* {{DiscOneFinalDungeon}}: Lucifer's Temple.

* EvilLaugh: Some demons that can't be communicated with simply reply "kururururu," if you try to talk to them. Eerily, some humans will too.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu} If you go for the Good ending, you'll have to defeat YHVH.

* CrystalDragonJesus: Like later games, the Messians are Judeo-Christan in everything but name.

* BiggerBad: [[spoiler: The Great Will and the other potential YHVH-level beings from other universes if YHVH is to be believed.]]

* EternalEngine: The Intelligence Building in Shibuya. What its used for is unknown, but it contains lots of machines. With enemies being under Machines race.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The Dainty Dinner for Mora. It's the only way to get him to ferry you around Makai.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Dark Hero is the one who [[spoiler: frees Lucifer from his ice prison below Ginza, allowing him to potentially join you and stop YHVH.]]

* OnlyInItForTheMoney / PunchClockHero: Some demons will join your side -- for a steep price with some even asking for triple donations!

* {{DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu}}: If you go for the Good ending, you'll have to defeat YHVH.

* DiscOneNuke: The Nihil Blade can be obtained from Ueno somewhat early on. It saps your HP, but it does enough damage that as soon as you get it, you can defeat [[{{ThatOneBoss}} Tiamat.]] However, you may want to keep the Nihil Blade in your inventory instead of using it (see EvolvingWeapon).

* [[{{ShowWithinAShow}} Game Within A Game]]: Devil Busters.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Zaratan Island, despite not being the final boss, just pops out of nowhere to give the player [[{{ThatOneLevel}} an extra random obstacle]] in trying to get to Bael's Castle.

* TakeThatUs: The game opens with the leads playing a computer game that is essentially the first dungeon of ''VideoGame/MegamiTenseiI'' with the top down perspective of traditional [=RPGs=]. If the player decides to quit playing (or beats it), they realize that the game world is [[AfterTheEnd VERY DIFFERENT]] then the traditional medieval fantasy worlds of those games.

* AvengingTheVillain: [[spoiler: Before dying, YHVH claims that He is part of the Great Will, an entity that oversees ''multiple universes'' and boasts that He will be avenged by an even higher power than Himself.]]
** The English translation on the other hand, has Him boasting that He will soon be revived by the Great Will, at which point [[AllForNothing He will merely re-undo humanity's progress.]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler: YHVH.]]
** BiggerBad: [[spoiler: The Great Will and the other potential YHVH-level beings from other universes if YHVH is to be believed.]]
* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: The Good Ending, where the Hero and the Partner return to the ruined world with the demons gone after defeating YHVH. However, with his last breaths, YHVH claims that the Great Will will avenge Him.]]

* [[{{DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu}} Did You Just Punch Out YHVH?]]: If you go for the Good ending, you'll be given this opportunity.

* [[{{DiscOneFinalDungeon}} Disc Two Final Dungeon]]: Lucifer's Temple.

** RivalTurnedEvil: Though he technically never changed sides.

* TakeThat: The game opens with the leads playing a computer game with the top down perspective of traditional [=RPGs=]. If the player decides to quit playing (or beats it), they realize that the game world is [[AfterTheEnd VERY DIFFERENT]] then the traditional medieval fantasy worlds of those games.
** TakeThatUs: The scenario, Defeat the Minotaur, is identical to ''VideoGame/MegamiTensei''.

** [[WildMassGuessing Maybe]] [[FridgeHorror they were destroyed.]]

** TakeThatUs: The scenario, Defeat the Minotaur, is identical to [[VideoGame/MegamiTenseiI]].

In the year 199X, the world thrown into nuclear war and Tokyo was hit by a missile strike. During the resulting chaos, a horde of demons from Makai managed to launch an invasion of the human world, pretty much conquering it. Cut 35 years later, where various demon lords fight it out for control of Tokyo, and humanity struggles to survive in the ruins of the city and the bomb shelters where they fled years before. In one such bomb shelter, a young man and his friend come across the sealed demon Pazuzu while playing a mysterious game known as "Devil Busters". Pazuzu, claiming to be a servant of God, declares the two as the Messiahs who will save humanity from the demons and grants one with the Demon Summoning Program that will allow him to talk to, and recruit, the demons, and teaches the other magic. Shortly afterwards, however, the bomb shelter is attacked by demons and the two are thrust out into the ruined, demon infested world.

* GuideDangIt: In order to advance the plot, you will need the elementals Undine and Gnome to to recover sunken treasure in Makai and unlock a dungeon, respectively. The game doesn't suggest that Undine or Gnome would be useful in these situations at all.

During the era of the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' sequels, the game was remade alongside the first game as ''Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei'' for the [[{{SuperNintendo}} Super Famicom]]. Aside from graphical updating, the remake introduced several new demons.