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No words can really explain exactly how this game plays. I was turned off by many gaming websites describing this as a dating sim crossed with a traditional dungeon crawler... this description is selling the game infinitely short! Here we see a game where the whole is truly much greater than the sum of its parts. The story is engaging - the characters are believable (or as believable as any crazy Japanese RPG on the market) - and the whole package comes together spectacularly. I have had the game only two days and have already sunk 8-ish hours into it... a lot for me.
The challenge level is acceptable so far - I just unlocked the second teer of the main dungeon and I have not died or "game-overed" yet. For those of you who like aggravatingly difficult RPGs... FES has a "Hard" mode which you can play... although in this mode, I fear gameplay may truly crawl.
See... the one tiny problem so far is that the game just moves too slowly... and I'm playing on easy! Perhaps if there were a way to plan your schedule out in advance for a week and then simulate the whole week at once... this might help to dull the monotony of day-to-day management. This flaw is not a large one however, and truth be told, detracts very little from the allure of the game
This game comes highly recommended.
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Is an excellent game, it adds a bunch of good playing hours to the original shin megami tensei:persona 3, is a must buy if you really liked the original
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Fantastic, especially if you go for the offbeat and slightly disturbing (but not that disturbing, really, just kinda gothy).
My only complaint is that the fighting system is typical and a little simplistic (FFX-esque). I needed to start over on "hard" for it to be challenging at all, and even then the battling is just not that interesting. But the story line, graphics, and other elements make up for that issue and keep the game exciting.
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This game is simply amazing. It's psycological nature forces you to think and feel the game, and even 70+ hours through, I was still having tons of fun (and still amazed by the story).
Thank You, Atlus.
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Persona 3 has been touted as the undisputed pinnacle of games in the Shin Megami Tensei series, and rightfully so: the narrative combines thought-provoking dialogue with emotionally engaging voice-overs; characters are fleshed out with peculiar (and oftentimes conflicting) personalities; the universe is rich with mythological allusions; the musical score is top-notch and surprisingly catchy, changing according to the mood; bonus content breathes new life into an already time-consuming soul-eater, and the battle system is excellent to boot! From a technical standpoint, Persona 3 is mediocre at best--it doesn't quite strain PS2 hardware to its limit. However, it compensates for what it lacks graphically in virtually every other aspect, which feels remarkably polished for a third-party game. Reviewers claim that the story is not nearly as 'dark' as previous games in the series, but I find such a statement to be truly ironic. After all, the plot revolves around extinction--can it get much more serious then that? Exploring Tartarus can be tedious at times, but the ability to issue party commands gets rid of this minor inconvenience. Dungeon-crawling is not necessarily a bad thing, especially when the gameplay is as deep as this. (Besides, a true RPG fan should have extraordinary patience!) I recommend Persona 3 to everyone who is not claustrophobic.
Overall evaluation: 9/10
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