Belief as practice, institution and inheritance, not only conviction.
Shin Megami Tensei is a 1992 first-person, turn-based RPG developed by Atlus’s Creative Department 1st Production (Team Maniax). It is a mainline title in the Megami Tensei series. Players navigate dungeons, negotiate with demons, fuse allied demons at Cathedrals of Shadows, manage magnetite, and make moral choices that shape alignment and narrative outcomes.
Shin Megami Tensei II is a first-person, post-apocalyptic RPG for the Super Famicom, developed by Atlus’s Creative Department 1st Production (Team Maniax). It uses lunar phase to gate demon negotiation, law/chaos/neutrality alignment to shape story and recruitment, and fusion with inheritance and accident mechanics to build party composition. It demands system literacy, tolerates opacity, and rewards consistent alignment play.
A post-apocalyptic third-person action-adventure game set in a United States overrun by humans infected with a Cordyceps-like disease. It follows the plight of Ellie and Joel—and later Abby—as they navigate trauma, vengeance, and survival.
Total War: Shogun 2 is a systemic strategy game that demands sustained attention across long sessions. It gives players deep control over settlement, economy, religion, diplomacy, and battlefield tactics—but offers no hand-holding for their interplay. Its strength lies in enforced trade-offs: ashigaru versus samurai, stealth versus siege, faith versus expansion. It assumes competence, not curiosity.