![]() ![]() Should any of that make you bail on Persona 3 Portable? No. This game was already a few years old, and these handicaps make it feel its age. It works and gets you around, but you lose some of that immersion that came from wandering Japan. The same can be said for the new navigation scheme. Losing the anime cutscenes is a bummer because they looked so good, but the story is easy enough to follow and I found myself connecting with the characters almost as much this way. You no longer walk your character through the halls of Gekkoukan.īoth of these losses hurt the experience - but they don't come near crippling it. ![]() You can still choose where you want to go after most classes, but now you just move a circle to interactable objects on the screen. Similarly, there's no more third-person free-roaming. Instead, the story is told through static screenshots and voiceovers. The beautiful anime cutscenes from the original game are gone. What's good and bad about the PSP version of this award winner? Well, most of it's good, so let's get the bad out of the way first. Your social network is completely made up of your personal decisions.Īll of that is nifty, but you could've gathered that by reading the two previous Persona 3 reviews. That's all kinds of awesome - especially because you're choosing what you're saying and whom your spending time with. To kick ass on the battlefield, you need to pay as much attention to your social life as you do to what type of equipment you've armed yourself with for a night in Tartarus. Oh, Junpei will never learn.Īs you make acquaintances, you're establishing "social links." You strengthen these social links by hanging out and interacting with the people you've met, and in turn, those relationships make your Personas stronger. All of these decisions play into your character's stats - charm, academics and courage - and influence the way the world sees you, but the bigger deal is making time for your friends. You'll need to answer questions in lectures and remember your work schedule while balancing time with your buddies. You take your character to school, go to classes, join clubs and basically live like a high schooler. During the day, Persona 3 plays like a simulation game. ![]() However, this battling is just going on at night. They're nifty, and as you play, you'll be able to combine Personas to create super-powerful allies.Īs you progress, your character and his or her Personas are leveling up off of the experience points you're earning, you're climbing to higher and higher levels of Tartarus, and the foes you face are getting tougher and tougher. These are massive creatures that pack special attacks such as fire moves and lasers and all sorts of crazy crap. You'll fight them with swords and arrows, but your main avenue of vengeance are Personas, representations of the SEES members' personalities. At night, you'll head to Tartarus with members of the SEES and battle all sorts of Shadows - blobs of black, flying monsters, and so on. The rad story spills over into some rad gameplay. Yup, it's like Buffy the Vampire Slayer got into a head-on collision with the JRPG genre. This group is the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad (SEES) they're all students, and you're one of them. A select group of people has the ability to stay lucid during this "Dark Hour" and fight the Shadows. Every night at midnight, the citizens around you turn into coffins and a tower packed with evil beings known as "Shadows" appears. You're a transfer student in modern day Japan and upon arriving at your new home, you discover that this isn't just another boarding school. If this is a turn off to you, a friend told me about a guide posted on Giantbomb here that will link you to the correct cutscenes at the correct time from P3FES that you miss in P3P.The thing that's always made me a Persona 3 fan is the story, and that remains largely untouched here. One of these drawbacks is that there are no animated cutscenes and the game is done in much more of a virtual novel style. There is a version of Persona 3 known as Persona 3 Portable that is playable on the Vita TV as well! This game was originally for PSP I believe, and as such there are some minor drawbacks. I know a lot of people bought the Vita TV almost exclusively as a Persona4G box (like myself), and if you don't have friends who are into Persona maybe you haven't heard of this but the Persona adventure doesn't have to stop at P4G. If any of you are like me (and I know a few are), you had never heard of the Persona prior to the the incessant goings-on of the zaibatsu. Tl dr guide to mix P3FES cutscenes with P3P Marc Ecko's Getting Up - Contents Under Pressure.Friday Night Fisticuffs / Saturday Morning Scrublords.CSB 231 Discussion | WWFIO 012 discussion | Free Talk Friday 439 ![]()
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