Shin Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku

This one is not scary, in fact it was a pretty sweet story, closest thing to a good boy love story I can stand to see . One of the main character Kobayashi is gay. When he was small, he was bullied for that and his friend Kojiro helped him. Now Kobayashi comes back in the same high school to show his friend Kobayashi how much awesome he turned now he knows occult and can summon demons. However, Kobayashi gets jealous of Kojiro's other friend Yosuke. I like this one more because it was emotional cause it tries to care about the characters. They got ... soul, they try to survive. The character you feel are important aren't thrown away. Many times I thought oh he gonna be slaughtered for some nice gory scene, then we can move on from him like bye. The alternative setting was just like that, more scary, incoherent story but is just a good Halloween spook on Halloween.

Although the OVA aren't related to the games released at the time, they still hold the themes of the games (cults, demons, etc). The story itself was not the greatest, although it felt decent enough to follow. The characters were decent enough to move along. Art & Sound were decent for the time (dub).

I believe that without knowing the origins of the Shin Megami Tensei story, many people may be thrown off by this OVA. For anyone coming in blind, I would recommend to read up prior to learn some history to understand more than what is being shown.
These episodes feel more of ... a little treat for the hardcore SMT fans who enjoy the games.

tl;dr: Play the games, then watch the OVA

I have memories from watching this late at years about, it almost threw me off watching anime altogether. That's how bad it was. Thankfully Spriggan came on after that, it cleared away my desire to throw up at least.

I admit, this is an impression from watching it more then half a dozen years ago...but I have no intention of watching this again just to confirm that impression.