Trivia / Megami Tensei II

• Creator Backlash: Kaneko has gone on record stating that he really didn't like how his design for Zeus turned out.
• No Export for You: It's a pre-Nocturne mainline MegaTen game, so this is a given. However, there is a fan translation for the Super Famicom remake available here. There's also a fan translation for the NES original.
• Urban Legend of Zelda: Normally, you can only create Good and Neutral demons through fusion, but rumor had it that there was a way to create Evil demons too. The guy in the first town even mentions that he's working on a way to fuse demons that can't normally be fused. Unfortunately, it can't be done without a cheat device, leaving potential Game Breakers like Tiamat and Girimekhala unusable.
  • There was also a rumor that you could finish the game without siding with the Partner and abandoning the Friend, either in the original or in the remake. This, again, is impossible without cheating: you can't finish the game without the Water Seal, and you can't get that without the Partner in your party.
• What Could Have Been: Unused data reveals that The Dark Hero alone was supposed boss fought during the player's trip to the Suzuki Company instead of fighting demons he summoned, explaining that he was revived by Satan. As opposed to the final game, where he dies fighting Bael and dies but not before admitting to the player he was wrong and just wanted to be a hero and giving them back Solomon's Ring. Yumiko Shirasagi from the original game (now an old woman) was supposed to make an appearance in an unknown capacity according to a magazine preview.

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