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A railway station can tell you a lot about a city, and Port Island railway station in it Persona 3 it’s no different. Minutes into the launch of this Japanese role-playing game (JRPG), developer Atlus captures that little spark of adventure in a way that’s more disturbing than even the noisiest stray deer.
After moving to the port island of Tatsumi to a new school, your nameless character – you can choose a male or female character – gets a gothic introduction to his new digs. As the clock strikes midnight, the moon pales a sickly green and the streets of Tatsumi’s harbor island are littered with standing coffins.
Welcome to The Dark Hour, the gothic mystery behind Persona 3: During the day, you act like a decent student, stay on top of your classes, get to know your classmates, and work on your social skills. By night, you are a member of the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad (SEES), a small group of students who secretly spend half the night saving the city from monstrous shadows.
Your presentation of SEES is dark: these teenage vigilantes are fighting Shadows using their Persona, innate abilities that are triggered by the user putting a gun to their head and pulling the trigger. It’s dark stuff – especially when your main character’s Persona first shows up to pick bloody chunks out of the Shadows with its hands and teeth – but it sets the tone for what’s to come. Although Persona 3 is similar to its descendants Persona 4 and 5, it is noticeably different not only because of its older atmosphere.
The biggest difference that will throw off many newcomers is that Persona 3 Portable’s daily activities take place in a visual novel format. While your midnight adventures remain 3D dungeon crawls with encounters and turn-based battles, everything else is a point-and-click adventure. It’s annoying at first, especially if you leave Persona 5 finally coming out on more consoles than just PlayStation, but as soon as the shock of not being able to explore the port island of Tatsumi wears off, the same charm awaits us, albeit in a different format. Ironically, you can get to this point faster by taking your foot off the pedal and going slower — after spending a Sunday in the game, shop-hopping and shop-diving, you can find all sorts of gems.
For example, getting to know a kind old couple who run a cozy bookstore on the harbor will turn into a tragic but touching story; watching a genie who doesn’t understand the concept of fountains make an “initial bet” to grant a wish by pouring 1 million yen into its waters is very funny. You’re interested in pursuing these relationships because they enhance your ability to create stronger personalities, but it takes a backseat to social attraction when you just want to eat ramen with a classmate because… it’s fun.
However, the more traditional JRPG aspects of Persona 3 seem to be an earlier and worse prototype of the series we know now. At midnight you have the option to go to Tartarus, a winding maze of blood-soaked halls and wandering Shadows. Your goal is to find the stairs on each floor and climb up, facing a random boss and an insurmountable barrier if you’ve explored as much as you should at this point in the game.
However, Tartarus is randomly generated, which means finding the next floor can be a chore. Corridors will stretch for several minutes only to reach a dead end, and there are too few shadow options on each floor to make combat seem interesting. While you unlock new characters by getting their cards from defeated enemies and combining them together in the Velvet Room series staple, it happens very slowly because Persona 3 is very slow at serving cards during runtime. While it’s nice to revisit 3 from a fan’s perspective and see where the Persona series really started to take shape, the reality is that developer Atlus left out certain elements for a reason.
At the same time, it actually just crawls through the dungeons of Persona 3 (okay, and a hell of a terrible English dub) takes a step back. As for other areas of the game, how many clicks will depend on personal taste. While 3’s darker plot quickly took hold, the game’s soundtrack – a mix of hip-hop and pop jingles that play as you explore – kind of missed the mark, as all the songs I liked still suffered from it , that there are very short, repeating cycles left. Also, can you really top Signs of Love?
“Person”. Combat remains a turn-based battle where you and your party mercilessly beat down your opponents using a combination of characters and real weapons. Longer encounters involve using Persona attacks to sniff out an enemy’s weakness—be it fire, lightning, or a headshot—and then taking full advantage of their vulnerabilities, though as you start to level up, most of the more weak Tartarus encounters can be solved by using the pull feature to beat the Shadow to death at double speed.
How much do you get from Persona 3 it will depend on your experience in the series. Oddly enough, the most experienced players may find the 3 point-and-click elements and the outdated dungeon tours the most unpleasant. On the other hand, many of the 3’s weaknesses are not as noticeable without this experience, which means that a fresh-faced beginner will be able to fully enjoy the charm of the slice-of-life-meets-real-cut personality. Whichever side of the fence you’re on, Persona 3 is a wonderful gothic game to while away the last months of winter.
Persona 3 Portable releases January 19 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. We played it on the Xbox Series S.
The post Persona 3 Portable Review: Charmed Relic appeared first on Somag News.
A railway station can tell you a lot about a city, and Port Island railway station in it Persona 3 it’s no different. Minutes into the launch of this Japanese role-playing game (JRPG), developer Atlus captures that little spark of adventure in a way that’s more disturbing than even the noisiest stray deer.
After moving to the port island of Tatsumi to a new school, your nameless character – you can choose a male or female character – gets a gothic introduction to his new digs. As the clock strikes midnight, the moon pales a sickly green and the streets of Tatsumi’s harbor island are littered with standing coffins.
Welcome to The Dark Hour, the gothic mystery behind Persona 3: During the day, you act like a decent student, stay on top of your classes, get to know your classmates, and work on your social skills. By night, you are a member of the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad (SEES), a small group of students who secretly spend half the night saving the city from monstrous shadows.
Your presentation of SEES is dark: these teenage vigilantes are fighting Shadows using their Persona, innate abilities that are triggered by the user putting a gun to their head and pulling the trigger. It’s dark stuff – especially when your main character’s Persona first shows up to pick bloody chunks out of the Shadows with its hands and teeth – but it sets the tone for what’s to come. Although Persona 3 is similar to its descendants Persona 4 and 5, it is noticeably different not only because of its older atmosphere.
The biggest difference that will throw off many newcomers is that Persona 3 Portable’s daily activities take place in a visual novel format. While your midnight adventures remain 3D dungeon crawls with encounters and turn-based battles, everything else is a point-and-click adventure. It’s annoying at first, especially if you leave Persona 5 finally coming out on more consoles than just PlayStation, but as soon as the shock of not being able to explore the port island of Tatsumi wears off, the same charm awaits us, albeit in a different format. Ironically, you can get to this point faster by taking your foot off the pedal and going slower — after spending a Sunday in the game, shop-hopping and shop-diving, you can find all sorts of gems.
For example, getting to know a kind old couple who run a cozy bookstore on the harbor will turn into a tragic but touching story; watching a genie who doesn’t understand the concept of fountains make an “initial bet” to grant a wish by pouring 1 million yen into its waters is very funny. You’re interested in pursuing these relationships because they enhance your ability to create stronger personalities, but it takes a backseat to social attraction when you just want to eat ramen with a classmate because… it’s fun.
However, the more traditional JRPG aspects of Persona 3 seem to be an earlier and worse prototype of the series we know now. At midnight you have the option to go to Tartarus, a winding maze of blood-soaked halls and wandering Shadows. Your goal is to find the stairs on each floor and climb up, facing a random boss and an insurmountable barrier if you’ve explored as much as you should at this point in the game.
However, Tartarus is randomly generated, which means finding the next floor can be a chore. Corridors will stretch for several minutes only to reach a dead end, and there are too few shadow options on each floor to make combat seem interesting. While you unlock new characters by getting their cards from defeated enemies and combining them together in the Velvet Room series staple, it happens very slowly because Persona 3 is very slow at serving cards during runtime. While it’s nice to revisit 3 from a fan’s perspective and see where the Persona series really started to take shape, the reality is that developer Atlus left out certain elements for a reason.
At the same time, it actually just crawls through the dungeons of Persona 3 (okay, and a hell of a terrible English dub) takes a step back. As for other areas of the game, how many clicks will depend on personal taste. While 3’s darker plot quickly took hold, the game’s soundtrack – a mix of hip-hop and pop jingles that play as you explore – kind of missed the mark, as all the songs I liked still suffered from it , that there are very short, repeating cycles left. Also, can you really top Signs of Love?
“Person”. Combat remains a turn-based battle where you and your party mercilessly beat down your opponents using a combination of characters and real weapons. Longer encounters involve using Persona attacks to sniff out an enemy’s weakness—be it fire, lightning, or a headshot—and then taking full advantage of their vulnerabilities, though as you start to level up, most of the more weak Tartarus encounters can be solved by using the pull feature to beat the Shadow to death at double speed.
How much do you get from Persona 3 it will depend on your experience in the series. Oddly enough, the most experienced players may find the 3 point-and-click elements and the outdated dungeon tours the most unpleasant. On the other hand, many of the 3’s weaknesses are not as noticeable without this experience, which means that a fresh-faced beginner will be able to fully enjoy the charm of the slice-of-life-meets-real-cut personality. Whichever side of the fence you’re on, Persona 3 is a wonderful gothic game to while away the last months of winter.
Persona 3 Portable releases January 19 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. We played it on the Xbox Series S.
The post Persona 3 Portable Review: Charmed Relic appeared first on Somag News.
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