>>1608261Atlus released a game called Shin Megami Tensei If, which was a "What If?" story that altered the setting so that demon summoning had always been a part of human subcultures, and the cataclysmic events of Shin Megami Tensei I didn't happen. Devil Summoner and, technically, the Persona games were spun off from this timeline.
When they released Devil Summoner, many of the demons were redesigned. Their looks seem to reflect the idea that the demons themselves had become more modern and cyberpunk-y to reflect the new futuristic setting, though many of them were just weird for the sake of weird. Many of the designs introduced in Devil Summoner and Soul Hackers have stuck and superseded the original designs.
