Nintendo Director Wanted To Adapt 'Megami Tensei' Series, Says Novel's Author

SMT was almost a Nintendo franchise.

Japanese author Aya Nishitani — most well-known for writing Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei, the first of a trilogy of novels that the whole Megami Tensei series from Atlus spawned from — has revealed that the director of Nintendo himself once approached the novelist about adapting his novel.

In a detailed thread on Twitter, the author shared how he came up with the first novel in the trilogy and how he struggled to write a novel about a hero. Then, once he settled that the premise of the book — "A high school student who summons demons because he is dissatisfied with the status quo" — meant that the lead character shouldn't be written as a hero, Nishitani submitted the manuscript to the editors. His friend, then, matched Nishitani with the director of Nintendo. As you do!

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