Ultimately, your goal is to get to the top of Tartarus but it’s so easy to get lost in someone’s bond story or your own personal goals such as leveling a social stat. It puts a lot of weight on what you should be focusing on during your downtime to make battles against shadows easier. How this game combines its life simulation and its combat in conjunction with a limited timeframe is just so good. Spend too long on a floor and you’ll run into a freaky boss that’ll have you scrambling out in no time. Spend too long in Tartarus and you’ll get tired or sick which will impact your future ventures into the dungeons. Said time is limited as each full moon brings about a boss that you need to prepare for and that’s done by going to Tartarus and grinding away at floors. Getting some of these bonds to occur may require you to improve your social stats and improving those takes time. As someone who is able to wield multiple Personas (your ‘power’), some bonds will offer bonuses to Personas of different types. Who you meet up with after school to increase your bond level, whether to study for exams, and especially when you want to explore that hideous tower. Tartarus is this giant and hideous tower that replaces the school building during the dark hour, and at night your entourage explores this place in hopes of finding answers to this mystery.Īs a student, you have a lot of free time, but it needs to be spent wisely. The player character awakens to their powers and, overtime, strengthens their bonds with friends, partners, and strangers alike which will be key in exploring Tartarus. In this world, there is an extra hour known as the ‘dark hour’, where ordinary people become coffins and anyone outside of them become food for Shadows-dark entities that wander about and your primary enemies throughout the game. Persona 3 is all about its moment-to-moment interactions with the main cast of characters, side interactions and social links, and its main story. Entering the building, you sign a contract by a strange little boy rambling on about the end of the world and not a moment later a girl with light-brown hair runs right into you, a gun in her hand. But like most normal people, you shrug it off and continue to your dorm. As the player makes their way off the late-night train and to their new dorms, they notice that their world is just a bit weird-the moon has turned mucus green and coffins float without reason. The story of P3P has the player assuming the role of either a male or female protagonist, enrolling in Gekkoukan High in the fictional city of Iwatodai. I love Persona 3 and that’s why this Portable release leaves me middled. Its storytelling left its mark on me in ways future Persona entries never did. A mash up of dungeon crawling, social/life simulation, and demon (monster) management, Persona 3 blends these experiences into this perfect and unique JRPG that I can recommend to just about anyone. ![]() What Portable gives console players frustrates me, but that doesn’t change my opinion on the game. Now don’t get cold feet-Persona 3 is a fantastic game and is, in my opinion, one of the best in the series. Not because of what Persona 3 is, but because of what’s missing and how that impacts the original experience of the game. So, to see this version of the game coming to consoles, and particularly Xbox platforms, for the first time is bittersweet. Developed by ATLUS’ P-Studio and now published by SEGA, this version of one of the PlayStation 2’s highlights was developed for the PlayStation Portable and does exactly what it set out to do-try to fit the original Persona 3 experience onto the handheld’s 1.6GB proprietary UMD format, while also offering a new experience by implementing a new female protagonist option to convince returning players to pick up the game.Īlthough I picked up P3P first, I had actually stopped playing it to play the game’s ‘definitive’ edition, Persona 3 FES, and would later come back to P3P during my commutes. ![]() It was a little over ten years ago when I first picked up a Persona game, Persona 3 Portable (“P3P”) to be exact.
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