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Majin Tensei is a 1994 Super Nintendo Entertainment System release from Atlus, a tactical role playing game that arrived during the SNES era when developers were experimenting with complex, grid based strategy. It stands as an early, and somewhat obscure, entry in the larger Megami Tensei franchise, offering a different kind of challenge from the more common action or turn based RPGs of the time.

You control a party of human characters and their recruited demons across isometric battle maps, engaging in turn based combat where positioning and elemental affinities are crucial. The main objective is to survive lengthy, difficult battles to progress a dark story of warring factions. Signature mechanics include negotiating with demons to add them to your army and a moon phase system that dynamically alters demon strengths and weaknesses each turn. The pacing is deliberate, often punishing, requiring careful planning for every move. It feels like solving a brutal, demon filled puzzle where a single misstep can lead to a complete party wipe.