CCRB RECORD No. 0036
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
Determination: Explicit — Denial 3, Occult 3
The most rewarded ending has the player enlist as Lucifer's general in a war on God.
Nocturne opens after the end of the world. Tokyo has been folded into the Vortex World and the player, remade as a half-demon, is to decide which Reason the next world will be rebuilt on. The monotheistic God is present throughout as the Great Will, acting through angels and never appearing directly, and the game's structure treats its order as one candidate among several rather than as the truth. The route the game most rewards is the True Demon ending, reached by completing the optional Labyrinth of Amala: the player rejects every Reason, takes on the Demi-fiend's full demonic power, and accepts a commission from Lucifer as his general in the coming war against God. The game does not frame this as damnation. It frames it as the hardest and most complete outcome.