Persona 2: Innocent Sin is overall a really great game, most of the story is amazing and I love the main cast. Sadly the gameplay is just, barely gameplay. Dungeons were fine mostly, some annoying some good, and from my experience of watching my buddy David play other SMT games that's a miracle. Overworld and utility stuff was good, I found the way of contacting and summoning Personas via cards interesting. Unfortunately you don't really need to do any of that due to the combat never feeling like you need anything other than the plot Personas, so there's no rewarding feeling of experimenting with different Personas. Boss fights aren't anything of note, they're mostly just long more than difficult. Barring the penultimate boss. Their presentation is pretty good for the limited environments and visuals they had.
Rumor system was pretty cool, I liked the idea and the gameplay and story integrate well with it.
But enough about gameplay, the story was amazing. Mostly. I know why the Nazis and Alien stuff was in the story, it fits and is used pretty well. I just didn't find any of it engaging. I liked the boss fight with the aliens though, that was pretty cool. But the actual good story content, that being developing the stories of each main cast member was excellent. I loved learning more about them as they learned about themselves. I always feel putting both the player and character on the same side of the mystery, both discovering at the same time is a great way to go about it. I also absolutely love how this game ends.
The cast's interactions with each other are also fantastic. Ranging from great funny bits to great emotional beats. Maya is definitely my favorite character, her story is a big focus and her role feels unique among the cast, she's a fun character that attributes a lot of the funny scenes to her. But the rest of the characters I love as well, very closely below her. An almost imperceptible difference.
I am excited to see where the story goes in Eternal Punishment. Thanks to all my Persona Pals for helping me on my journey.
Rumor system was pretty cool, I liked the idea and the gameplay and story integrate well with it.
But enough about gameplay, the story was amazing. Mostly. I know why the Nazis and Alien stuff was in the story, it fits and is used pretty well. I just didn't find any of it engaging. I liked the boss fight with the aliens though, that was pretty cool. But the actual good story content, that being developing the stories of each main cast member was excellent. I loved learning more about them as they learned about themselves. I always feel putting both the player and character on the same side of the mystery, both discovering at the same time is a great way to go about it. I also absolutely love how this game ends.
The cast's interactions with each other are also fantastic. Ranging from great funny bits to great emotional beats. Maya is definitely my favorite character, her story is a big focus and her role feels unique among the cast, she's a fun character that attributes a lot of the funny scenes to her. But the rest of the characters I love as well, very closely below her. An almost imperceptible difference.
I am excited to see where the story goes in Eternal Punishment. Thanks to all my Persona Pals for helping me on my journey.