Shin Megami Tensei If...

Title

 * 真・女神転生　if... (JP)
 * Shin Megami Tensei if...

Systems & Dates

 * Super Famicom - 1994.10.28 (JP)
 * PSX - 2002.12.26 (JP)
 * PSX - 2002.12.26 - 50th Anniversary Pack (JP)

About
A gaiden to Shin Megami Tensei where you play with a group of high school students taken to the netherworld. It seems to have been inspired by an old 1968 film If...,which is about hazing in a British public school that turns surreal by the end of the movie.

In Shin Megami Tensei if the story is about Hazama, a poor and abused boy who goes to a normal, every day, high school. In order to get vengeance on his peers he performs a ceremony in the gym (most likely referencing the original Megami Tensei) that transports his high school into the netherworld, where he has somehow become powerful enough to become Majinnou (Demon Emperor). Back at the school, everyone freaks out and is scared except for a select few.

Character

 * Main - A normal high school student. You can choose whether they are a girl or a boy.
 * Yumi - A high school student who is frightened by what happened but wants to save everyone.
 * Reiko - A blood relative and the only person who ever cared about Hazama.
 * Charlie - A very arrogant boy.
 * Akira - Special secret character
 * Hazama

And so, after picking your partner you go off and try to save everyone. Eventually you can pick up guardians, and etc. There are also different endings depending on whom you pick to take with you giving the game some replay value.

Trivia

 * Despite the fact that the player can decide the gender of the protagonist, according to the Persona, the main character is a girl named Tamaki Uchida.
 * Its evident that the Persona series is heavily based off of this game. The Snow Queen Quest in Megami Ibunroku Persona is structured very similarly to this game, and Charlie acts as a Proto-Eikichi, while Hazama seems to be a Proto-Jun from Persona 2.
 * The main characters of Shin Megami Tensei will show up as Majin (Fiend clan), and some can even become your Guardians.
 * Megidola and the -dyne level of magic first show up in this game

Extra
The 50th Anniversary Pack (in celebration of the School in the game) was a deluxe edition of the game that included things like a pen and a school handbook.