CCRB RECORD No. 0037
Shin Megami Tensei IV
Determination: Explicit — Deicide 3, Denial 2
You end the game by killing an archangel, Lucifer, or both, depending on the route.
Shin Megami Tensei IV puts the player in Mikado, a medieval kingdom under angelic authority, and reveals the kingdom's faith as an engineered arrangement: its caste system, its suppression of knowledge and its isolation from the ruined Tokyo below are all maintained by the angels the population venerates. The endgame forces the Law–Chaos choice the series is built on. Siding with Law means killing Lucifer; siding with Chaos means killing Merkabah, the angelic chariot drawn from Ezekiel's vision, rendered here as a boss with a health bar. The Neutral route kills both. There is no route that leaves the heavenly hierarchy intact and unopposed.