Shin Megami Tensei spawned plenty of spinoffs besides its popular Persona series, but not all of them reached critical acclaim like their high school-based sibling. Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga, also known as Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner, is one of the cult classics confined to the PlayStation 2 era without a modern port to endear it to new players. It followed Shin Megami Tensei 3: Nocturne, the game that introduced demon negotiation and skill inheritance to SMT games. Funnily enough, Digital Devil Saga did away with this novel point: It didn’t include demon recruitment or negotiations at all. The demons were the characters themselves.
