korone no te acerques a esa guarderia
my first shin megami tensei
the storyline is great
multiple different character personalities
game gives you many options
the storyline is great
multiple different character personalities
game gives you many options
This review contains spoilers
9/10
(Little fact about me before this review, this was my first persona game, I heard about the P3P port sucking ass, so I decided to play portable on PPSSPP instead.)
It's pretty good, I really like Kotone, her social links are pretty good here, Junpei's social link is really damn good, I love how we learn about his more vulnerable side and about his father, how he finds out about the weird photos about you and tries his best to find who it is so that you can be safe really shows how he does care about you, I like how he rejects you if you confesses to you and how he only saw as just a friend and nothing more, Akihiko's social link is also pretty good too, we don't get to learn much about him in it but I loved talking to him all the time and seeing how much of a dork he is was pretty adorable tbh, yes i romanced him for all my playthroughs leave me alone, I love shinjiro's social link, i love how we learn about how under the tough exterior, he's a really nice guy and how he cooks for the entire group and seeing him care for Kotone was nice as well, the choice for saving him by giving him the watch I'm fine with, I do prefer him dying since Akihiko's and Ken's resolutions hit a lot more for me, Rio's social link is nice, I'm fine with her having feelings with Kenji since there's always someone who has that strange romantic interest, I feel so bad for Saori, she keeps getting kicked down so much in her social link and she has to live somewhere else really hurts too, seeing that she's growing in her final interaction in march really sets the mood a lot too. Ryoji's social link I wasn't able to complete due to me missing the deadline before it locked, Ken's social link is fine, I wish they just went for how Ken saw Kotone as a mother figure, what the fuck were they thinking by adding a romance? that's fucking weird, why did they have to ruin a good character and a good social link with the writers barley disguised fetish? what the hell were they on to think adding a romance option to an 11 year old, I wished they chose Hidetoshi or Bebe instead. That piece of shit romance is the worst part of the FEMC route. Koromaru's social link is cool, you can hang out with the dog. the linked episodes with the male protag in reload (Akihiko, Shinji, Ken) are better than the social links with Kotone but I like the social links too, Ken's social link would've been an A tier social link if they didn't force some dogshit romance into it, if they do Kotone in p3 reload, get rid of it, I don't want that garbage romance in the social link.
Moving on now, the changes to the story are nice, the new changes with conversations with other characters, how you hang out with the girls instead of the guys here, Junpei being more hostile with you than with Makoto with his inferiority complex, and a few more. I'm glad they didn't change the story too much here. The gameplay is good here, I enjoy that they take a lot of stuff from persona 4 and implement it into persona 3, I enjoy the combat here a lot more than than FES but Reload did a lot better with the combat and with Tartarus, Portable Tartarus is better than FES but I still don't like it that much, it's a complete slog, everywhere barley has any space and you can't sneak up on enemies here. Reload Tartarus is a lot better. Let's talk about the visuals now.
The visuals suck ass though, I don't like them. I don't like that it went with a visual novel style for this game since it really doesn't fit since persona 3 shows off a lot of stuff for it's story. The lack of hub worlds and cutscenes really put salt into the wound too, the emotional scenes fall really short from Reload and FES since it's just text that's describing stuff for you. The scenes that I nearly cried to in Reload lack the punch in portable a ton.
This being the only way to play as Kotone is a complete bummer, it''s 100% fine if you don't like her but people should be able to play it and gain their opinion on Kotone, everytime I was playing portable, I was just thinking to myself "man, I wish femc was in reload"
I do enjoy portable but a lot of my positives and negatives are done a lot more better or fixed in reload. My opinion on the game has heavily decreased but I still do enjoy the game a lot.
Play this game for Kotone since Makoto's route is the second worst way to play as Makoto (the first is Vanilla persona 3 imo).
(Little fact about me before this review, this was my first persona game, I heard about the P3P port sucking ass, so I decided to play portable on PPSSPP instead.)
It's pretty good, I really like Kotone, her social links are pretty good here, Junpei's social link is really damn good, I love how we learn about his more vulnerable side and about his father, how he finds out about the weird photos about you and tries his best to find who it is so that you can be safe really shows how he does care about you, I like how he rejects you if you confesses to you and how he only saw as just a friend and nothing more, Akihiko's social link is also pretty good too, we don't get to learn much about him in it but I loved talking to him all the time and seeing how much of a dork he is was pretty adorable tbh, yes i romanced him for all my playthroughs leave me alone, I love shinjiro's social link, i love how we learn about how under the tough exterior, he's a really nice guy and how he cooks for the entire group and seeing him care for Kotone was nice as well, the choice for saving him by giving him the watch I'm fine with, I do prefer him dying since Akihiko's and Ken's resolutions hit a lot more for me, Rio's social link is nice, I'm fine with her having feelings with Kenji since there's always someone who has that strange romantic interest, I feel so bad for Saori, she keeps getting kicked down so much in her social link and she has to live somewhere else really hurts too, seeing that she's growing in her final interaction in march really sets the mood a lot too. Ryoji's social link I wasn't able to complete due to me missing the deadline before it locked, Ken's social link is fine, I wish they just went for how Ken saw Kotone as a mother figure, what the fuck were they thinking by adding a romance? that's fucking weird, why did they have to ruin a good character and a good social link with the writers barley disguised fetish? what the hell were they on to think adding a romance option to an 11 year old, I wished they chose Hidetoshi or Bebe instead. That piece of shit romance is the worst part of the FEMC route. Koromaru's social link is cool, you can hang out with the dog. the linked episodes with the male protag in reload (Akihiko, Shinji, Ken) are better than the social links with Kotone but I like the social links too, Ken's social link would've been an A tier social link if they didn't force some dogshit romance into it, if they do Kotone in p3 reload, get rid of it, I don't want that garbage romance in the social link.
Moving on now, the changes to the story are nice, the new changes with conversations with other characters, how you hang out with the girls instead of the guys here, Junpei being more hostile with you than with Makoto with his inferiority complex, and a few more. I'm glad they didn't change the story too much here. The gameplay is good here, I enjoy that they take a lot of stuff from persona 4 and implement it into persona 3, I enjoy the combat here a lot more than than FES but Reload did a lot better with the combat and with Tartarus, Portable Tartarus is better than FES but I still don't like it that much, it's a complete slog, everywhere barley has any space and you can't sneak up on enemies here. Reload Tartarus is a lot better. Let's talk about the visuals now.
The visuals suck ass though, I don't like them. I don't like that it went with a visual novel style for this game since it really doesn't fit since persona 3 shows off a lot of stuff for it's story. The lack of hub worlds and cutscenes really put salt into the wound too, the emotional scenes fall really short from Reload and FES since it's just text that's describing stuff for you. The scenes that I nearly cried to in Reload lack the punch in portable a ton.
This being the only way to play as Kotone is a complete bummer, it''s 100% fine if you don't like her but people should be able to play it and gain their opinion on Kotone, everytime I was playing portable, I was just thinking to myself "man, I wish femc was in reload"
I do enjoy portable but a lot of my positives and negatives are done a lot more better or fixed in reload. My opinion on the game has heavily decreased but I still do enjoy the game a lot.
Play this game for Kotone since Makoto's route is the second worst way to play as Makoto (the first is Vanilla persona 3 imo).
good and long
This review contains spoilers
Spoilers ahead
Persona 3, this was my first Persona game and it still holds a special place in my heart. Is Tartarus dogshit? Yes. Are the Villains forgettable and boring? Yes (Not you Nyx). Does it have the worst characters? Arguably yes. Why do I love it then?
The story this game manages to tell, even though it has ass villains, even if some moments were contrived as fuck, the way this game portrays depression in 2 different ways (depending on the MC you chose), the heartbreaking moments like Junpei losing Chidori (you can save her, but that really takes impact from the scene), Akihiko mourning Shinjiro and evolving his Persona, Yukari finding out her father's secret and the Protagonist's fate at the end of the game are all very well executed and had way more impact on me than I would have expected. The music is awesome, but that's expected from Persona, the boss fights (especially Nyx) are amazing, I still remember the first time that I was fighting through Tartarus and I had to go AFK for like 10 minutes, When I had returned, to my absolute horror I was face to face with the fucking REAPER, now that was a core fucking memory, that was only made possible because the friend that recommended the game to me "forgot" to tell me about the REAPER.
Final thoughts
Overall, I think that if the Remake of this game changes a few awkward moments in the story and improves the gameplay and graphics, Persona 3 could become my favourite Purse Owner game. 8/10
Persona 3, this was my first Persona game and it still holds a special place in my heart. Is Tartarus dogshit? Yes. Are the Villains forgettable and boring? Yes (Not you Nyx). Does it have the worst characters? Arguably yes. Why do I love it then?
The story this game manages to tell, even though it has ass villains, even if some moments were contrived as fuck, the way this game portrays depression in 2 different ways (depending on the MC you chose), the heartbreaking moments like Junpei losing Chidori (you can save her, but that really takes impact from the scene), Akihiko mourning Shinjiro and evolving his Persona, Yukari finding out her father's secret and the Protagonist's fate at the end of the game are all very well executed and had way more impact on me than I would have expected. The music is awesome, but that's expected from Persona, the boss fights (especially Nyx) are amazing, I still remember the first time that I was fighting through Tartarus and I had to go AFK for like 10 minutes, When I had returned, to my absolute horror I was face to face with the fucking REAPER, now that was a core fucking memory, that was only made possible because the friend that recommended the game to me "forgot" to tell me about the REAPER.
Final thoughts
Overall, I think that if the Remake of this game changes a few awkward moments in the story and improves the gameplay and graphics, Persona 3 could become my favourite Purse Owner game. 8/10
It's a solid alternative to FES and the FEMC is a hell of a lot better than The Answer
- Fun SMT game, enjoyed the gameplay element of it the most.
- Anime plot with alright writing and voice acting when its there.
- While the gameplay, the combat is very fun, this being Tartarus felt very repetitive and just boring by the end of the game.
- Anime plot with alright writing and voice acting when its there.
- While the gameplay, the combat is very fun, this being Tartarus felt very repetitive and just boring by the end of the game.
It's good. Quality of life features from P4 are a welcome change. liked the game's themes and aesthetic. some social links may not have aged well. Tartarus may not have aged well. memorable soundtrack. FemC route reads like a fanfiction but is overall pretty solid and adds replayability to the game. good times
God I wish Atlus made a clear definite edition of Persona 3, maybe the inevitable Persona 3 Re-Reload will be it. In narrative and atmosphere, P3 is much stronger than 4 or 5 as the last Persona game to maintain some of the dark tones of the parent SMT series, and this version brings some of the QoL features from P4 to make the game a little less punishing (the later games, especially P5R are mechanically more interesting games I'll grant). The original route is still there, and the FeMC route is even better. Given the limitations of the PSP disc, it moves to a visual novel style for the daytime exploration, which didn't bother me, but is a downgrade from the PS2 versions, and loses the animated cutscenes, which is a unfortunate loss. Still a must-play JRPG and one of the best games Atlus has made.
best game i have played on psp
not a fan of this format of persona 3 at all, one of the biggest reasons i love it so much is due to its atmosphere and whilst some of it does remain i feel the non 3d format and lack of animated cutscenes hinders it too much for me to recommend this version of the game to anyone . its also just kinda not engaging at all watching these cutscenes in vn format.
A compromised port of FES with slightly easier gameplay, but FeMC’s additions push Persona’s social aspects to new heights with massively improved social links, some of which have yet to be matched. Akinari is also in both routes so it’s automatically good on that fact alone.
Meu primeiro Persona, amei a mecânica de Social Link, combate super divertido, temática super envolvente e um dos melhores finais que já vi na vida. Estou apaixonado.
downgraded p3 but atleast it has FeMC
FeMC fans I understand the struggle now
kotone likes children
Atlus made the best Otome game ever and acts like it didn’t fucking happen
Took long cause I played both Makoto and Kotone routes
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Actually my first ever persona game and the only one i played
This one was truly one of the best experiences i ever had
Enjoyed most of the game even though some times it had me bored to death i won't lie
and yet the characters themselves actually act like they are a person and not just a "idea"
Their development throughout the game is beautiful
Side note : i fucking love junpei
Also fuck nyx
This one was truly one of the best experiences i ever had
Enjoyed most of the game even though some times it had me bored to death i won't lie
and yet the characters themselves actually act like they are a person and not just a "idea"
Their development throughout the game is beautiful
Side note : i fucking love junpei
Also fuck nyx
A adição do party controlável é boa, mas o formato visual novel e point-in-click não me agradou nem um pouco, a personagem feminina foi a melhor adição, com novos social links e diferentes escolhas de falas.
eu sou tão grato por esse jogo existir pqp
I ended up loving this game so much that I decided that I’m gonna go for the platinum. Successfully got all trophies in Male character playthrough, still need to get the Female character trophies.
Fun story but dear lord this was not fun how did i have fun when i played this
Kimi wa ne tashika ni ano toki watashi no soba ni ita Itsudatte itsudatte itsudatte sugu yoko de waratteita nakushitemo Torimodosu kimi wo I will never leave you
Malgré le point and click qui peut en rebuter certains (a juste titre), je le considère comme étant un titre a jouer, surtout pour la route féminine, qui est un véritable ajout intéressant, et pas uniquement un copié collé d'un autre genre du personnage principal masculin.
Undisputed best version of p3 before Reload was a thing. But anyway, same thing i said for reload, peak story, peak characters, just worse graphics and gameplay
Playing as a bisexual queen was sadly not enough for this one
deep inside my mind
the first j-rpg games i finished,and it make me addicted with rpg genre
if i hear one more ken amada joke i swear to god