WHAT IF

ETRIAN ODYSSEY

BUT BAD

This is a weird one to rate because on the one hand, 3/4s of the game is repetitive dungeon crawling with mid battling and little to no story. However, I played the P3 route, in this route the P3 gang get way more development as a group, not only this but the last 1/4 of the game actually has a mindblowing twist and hits very hard personally. Also the voice acting, music and graphics (for the 3DS) is pretty superb, and Zen and Rei are some of my favourite Persona characters. So despite these issues, I'm still really happy I played this to be honest, it's inconsistency reminds me of Persona 3 giving it a lob sided feel to the game, but like Persona 3 the last bit of the game does justify the game for me.

Excellent crossover title for Persona 3 and 4, characters act as you would expect them to, in a less serious environment. Loses social link feature of 3 and 4 but gains more interesting dungeon exploring elements, and "strolls" allow characters to interact outside of dungeons. Changes made to the battles fit very well with the kind of game this is, giving you more time to explore the dungeons and ways to customize your characters. It's annoying that full XP isn't given to unused characters. Happy Naoto is the most powerful character instead of mostly useless like she was in 4.

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Empecé este juego en Junio de 2018. Me ha acompañado en distintos puntos importantes de mi vida, como mi viaje por europa, mis noches y días de trabajo, mi vuelta a clases en la facultad y en los días en los que reencaminé mi vida.

Me ha dolido despedirme de él, porque aunque quería terminarlo, ha significado mucho para mi; y me ha influenciado mucho a nivel artístico y simbólico.

Creo que además, me ha apelado mucho en su aprte final...y creo que es la mezcla perfecta entre los temas de Persona 3 y Persona 4.

Aún con todos sus defectos, a nivel de guión, humor, repetición, niveles tediosos y ser innecesariamente largo, creo que es esto precisamente lo que ha hecho posible que me acompañe estos últimos 4 años.

Años en los que he evolucionado, he cambiado, he crecido, me he equivocado y me he redireccionado. Amo que al final Elizabeth me recuerde esto. Al final, es un juego hecho para llegar al jugador de manera personal. Y lo he adorado.

Zen y Rei serán de mis personajes favoritos de Persona para siempre, porque de hecho fueron los primeros personajes que me atraparon de la saga. Son muy especiales para mi. í w ì. <3

Y no sé qué más decir... me duele el corazón.

Pretty good for a spin-off title. Dungeon design has some fun and difficult puzzles, but has some incredibly frustrating moments. The combat system is great, better than mainline Persona IMO due to the amount of different options there are and having the ability to equip sub personas on every character. There isn’t much of a story until the very end, but the character interactions are fun for the most part, but the characters lost most of their depth and I feel like they could’ve done more with the interactions. Chie and Akihiko in particular became really annoying and one note in this game.