Their creepy distortions make climbing the hellish structure less dull, even when I get caught up in comical games of tag trying to sneak up on them. The Shadows inhabiting the massive dungeon come in all matter of unnatural shapes and movements. Grungy layers of green, blue, and yellow coat the world in shades of anxiety, while the way Tartarus towers over everything establishes its horrifying scale. Everything feels haunted, and when the clock ticks over to the Dark Hour, Persona 3 taps into cosmic unease with style. I miss those sequences, but the world's discomfort and struggles with mortality come through in the writing and art. There's not much animation in the original, but this is one of the few moments where the absence hurts.īy selecting the female route, I found several friendships and day-to-day interactions change for the better The moment's tension, once highlighted with an anime cutscene, doesn't come through with just the in-game models. Those highs and lows start early, when the main character summons their Persona for the first time with the gun-like Evoker pressed to their temple. Portable's PSP origins have grown obvious with age-some scenes work just fine without their original animations, while others fall a bit flat-but the setting remains just as eerie as it was years ago. It's better in some ways and questionable in others. The PC debut is a port of the 2009 PSP retelling, which is divisive for its changes to the sort of "director's cut" version of the game, the PlayStation 2's Persona 3 FES. You'll do the usual persona collecting and Shadow slaying along the way, desperately searching for the omnipotent big bad torturing the city during its nightly Dark Hour. At night, the focus shifts to dungeon crawling through the mysterious labyrinth Tartarus. There's the day-to-day studying, flirting, exams, and other school-life woes. Persona 3 shares most of the social RPG hallmarks I adored in Persona 4 and Persona 5. You've got a year to figure out who, or what, the race is against. This RPG blend of high school and gothic apocalypse welcomes you with a litany of reminders that time is always running out, and before you even know what it's counting down to, Persona 3 starts the clock. Overall though Persona 3 Portable is worth it for the female route that sadly won't be in the remake coming next year, and with this on-game pass this is hard not to recommend to try.Persona 3 Portable's fretful cast must share that midnight dread with me, though they have more supernatural terrors to blame. The main dungeon is very podcast time or audiobook time (at least it was worth it due to the music not getting too boring). And then there was the elephant in the room the main dungeon in the game was such a slog that around 100+ hours of gameplay it just got tiring, and every time I went into it I had to groan by just how much time I was in there for. Especially with sliders (which the new releases of this and P4G had) made it so that this game if known right then it could be very easy. In this version, we were given the choice to control the party members so this game is not very balanced to that (because FES had uncontrollable members). The only con I give this game is combat can be easy (and even Tartuas is a slog). The other thing to praise is the story, even though this is all in a vn form (due to this being originally for PSP) this is one of the better stories out of the 3 modern personas. With this game, though both characters have their own soundtrack, and all of it is worth listening to because persona soundtracks are addicting to listen to. I have seen the male side to this game but I will probably not play that side myself due to Reload coming out next year so a lot of my views are playing from the female route (which is one of the reasons to play this version).įirst off I want to address the music which is always A+ for these games. I was happy that they did pick this version mainly due to being able to play the female protagonist. When Atlus announced this last year to bring back Persona 3 to the modern generation.
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