Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei

I like old school anime a lot. Since I hadn't seen this one I decided to watch it.

The RPG was great fun, so I wanted to check out the OVA. I shouldn't have done that >_<

It's one VERY cheesy OVA even if you consider how old it is.
Still it's entertaining in a quaint and WTF kinda way. Has loads of action and hack and slash, BUT the story is filled with so many inconsistencies that it's both confusing and annoying.

The plot is pretty bad, and the horror effects are medicore.

Sad sad adaptation. If you want to get some cheap laughs, or your really bored, go ... watch it. If not, stay far away from this one.

This anime is...decent. I am trying hard to see how this book was able to produce not only more sequels, but was able to spawn a whole franchise that created such games like Persona 3 and Cathrine. Maybe there was more to the book, but everything here just felt dull and average.

The art was ok, sound ok, the end song was typical 80s cheese, and there was a lot of blood. But after the beginning where we see Loki summoned? That was when it just felt dull and lifeless, like the anime wanted to get to certain points as fast as it can ... with little care for the characters and stories.

Far from being a good entertainment, this OVA is for MegaTen die-hard fans, mostly because it was where everything begun, not only for the SMT series, but for the whole JRPG niche. It is said that Dragon Quest V started with the whole catching monsters, befriending them, but in reality in 1987, 5 years before DQ5, the very first megaten game was released based on a trilogy of japanese books. The plot? Summoning demons through OG computers.
Can't really say its bad adapted since the first book which is the whole ground for this OVA has more than 450 pages, so if there isn't any prior ... knowledge of MegaTen it might get confusing.
What's best about is the darkness of it, megaten always had this feeling, this vibe of something obscure, but it kinda lost that throughout the years, don't get me wrong, it still is, hell yeah. but when you watch this you kinda realize how heavy the stuff in it is, i read that since it was made in the late 80s, it was aimed for the adult audience so they didn't easy any of the stuff from the books.
Will recommend DDS to someone who played the games and fell in love like I did 1 year ago, most likely through Persona, which is way lighter than this one. Won't recommend to anyone who found this randomly, is isn't a masterpiece, it isn't good, is a well-written MegaTen OVA poorly done made for fans.