7 Video Game Franchises That You Didn’t Know Are Spin-Offs
2. The Persona Series Is A Shin Megami Tensei Spin-Off
Megami Tensei is an adaptation of the Digital Devil Story trilogy of books. After adapting these books, the Megami Tensei games quickly became their own thing with the Shin Megami Tensei series.
This series had multiple games and multiple spin-offs such as the Devil Children games, the Last Bible games, and the Devil Summoner games.
Yeah, if you want to play all of the Shin Megami Tensei games including the spin-offs then make sure you have nothing planned for around two years or so.
For some reason, people loved that the game "Shin Megami Tensei If..." was set in a high school so an entire series was created with this premise, the Persona series. Yep, that's genuinely why Persona exists, because Japan can't get enough high schools for some peculiar reason.
Whilst Shin Megami Tensei is undoubtedly popular, especially in Japan, Persona is so much more popular and many people know of Persona but have no idea what a Shin Megami Tensei even is.