On the other hand, the 3D dungeons and UI look amazing with maxed-out settings on PC, with some very clean texture work and low-poly assets. The pre-rendered backgrounds remain somewhat blurry, and while the pre-renders of the characters here are much improved they still look kinda ugly. The visuals are somewhat of a mixed bag here, especially in the overworld. Tartarus (and a few other locations) remains fully 3D allowing you to explore each randomly generated floor and battle shadows. While I do miss actually walking around town, this does streamline the experience making it better suited for portable play. You essentially move a cursor around the screen and click to interact with people or objects. It’s an interesting dichotomy, but I consider the female route to be superior so that’s mostly what I played here.ĭue to the limitations of the PSP, P3P adopts a visual novel style for navigating the city. Conversely, the female protagonist begins energetic but reveals her inner sadness as the story becomes darker and darker. One of the more subtle changes is your character’s personality, dialogue choices for the male will start off more depressing and shy eventually becoming kind and confident as the game progresses. The female route allows you to choose between Theo and Elizabeth, while the male only has access to Elizabeth. In addition, the female protagonist also has access to another Velvet Room attendant, Theo, with his own social link and quests. While in the female route you can choose to remain friends with male characters near the end of their social link, the male character is forced to date every girl to max their social links. It was the 2000’s.) You’ll still get to know them over the course of the story, but I much prefer actually being able to hang out with them and it became the series standard. (The male route feels weirdly afraid of the MC being feminine or, gasp, gay in any way aside from his appearance. Both are certainly worth your time, but the female route allows you to actually form Social Links with male party members like Junpei and Akihiko. The male protagonist is essentially base Persona 3, while the female counterpart changes quite a lot and, in my opinion, for the better. Starting up a new game, you’re asked if you want your character to be male or female, which has a much bigger effect on the game than you would think. I also hate The Answer, the epilogue, with a passion, so I’m glad this was the version Atlus chose to remaster. I played it at the perfect time in my life, just between middle and high school, and in all honesty, it helped me discover a lot about myself. The latter is the version we’re discussing here, as Atlus has remastered P3P for all platforms including PC.Īll cards on the table, Persona 3 Portable was my first and remains my favorite Persona game. Meanwhile, Persona 3 Portable removed 3D exploration and the epilogue but added a female protagonist option with all new Social Links. That’s the gist of P3, 4, and 5, but P3 has had several versions over the years, with the expanded FES release on PS2 adding an epilogue. Leveling up Social Links in turn grants any new Personas you fuse to become stronger so you can fight stronger shadows. Social stats allow you to more easily bond with your friends, called Social Links. In short, the player must balance building social stats like academics and charm, making friends, and battling supernatural foes over the course of a year. They’re great in their own right, with some fantastic characters and mind-Hitler, but P3 added in social and time management mechanics. The first three games on the PlayStation, with Persona 2 being a duology, were dungeon-crawling RPGs. Persona 3, originally released for the PlayStation 2 in 2006, essentially reinvented the Persona series into what we know and love today. So if you’re sensitive to that, come back later, this review will still be here when you’re in a better place. Persona 3 contains themes and imagery of death and suicide. Gekkoukan High has formed the Special Extracurricular Execution Squad (S.E.E.S.) for those with the potential to explore the tower, Tartarus, and put an end to the Dark Hour.īefore we start, a short content warning. While most people turn into coffins during the Dark Hour, a select few are able to enter with the power of Persona. Just as the clock strikes midnight, the city of Tatsumi Port Island freezes, the electricity turns off, the water turns to blood, and the local high school transforms into a gigantic tower filled with monsters called Shadows. There’s a hidden hour between each day: the Dark Hour.
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