Yeah, I know P3P is kinda lackluster in terms of story and presentation when compared to vanilla P3 and P3: FES but I'm actually glad this is the way I got to experience Persona 3 for the first time, not because of the exclusive female story or the convenience of this being the only version available at the time in modern consoles but rather, because there is absolutely NO FUCKING WAY I'm heading against the final boss of this game and having to rely on my party members being controlled by the game's AI.

This game is such an oddity, it had a couple of things that were setting it up to be a disaster: having it to be based on a shitty movie adaptation of the original game, having a really short development cycle and getting delayed because the movie was also delayed, yet, the game came out to be surprisingly...fine?

Don't get me wrong, there are things in here that show the rough development of this title, for example, how short this game is (may take you around 5-6 hours to finish the main story), the incohesive story that is build up of poorly stitched gameplay cutscenes and cutscenes taken directly from the movie and the lack of beloved gameplay sections from the series, the arena battles in particular but at its core, we still have that addictive R&C gameplay that made me fell in love with the series, the run and gun, the over the top weapons, the leveling up of said weapons, the platforming, etc. I mean, I still bothered to get the Platinum Trophy.

If you're a fan of the original 2002 title, I advise against playing this one, it completely misses the personality and edge of that game, though I'm not sure if we can blame Insomniac for that, if not Rainmaker, the animation studio in charge of developing the movie.

One may call this a lazy tie-in game for the Ratchet & Clank movie but what it's ironic is that the game is a much more pleasant experience than the movie.