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It's June 8th 2017 and the American school year just ended. I had just finished playing Fate/Extra for the PSP, and had been looking for something else to play. I'd known Persona since 2012 due to some long time friends being fans of Persona 4, and I'd remembered a couple illustrators I knew had drawn for Persona 5 earlier that year or earlier (2016). So I thought, why not?
I gave Persona 3 Portable (as FeMC) a try, without knowing what I got myself into.
Six and a half years, a partially unfinished Persona 4 vanilla playthrough, a Persona 5 vanilla playthrough, and a Persona 5 Royal playthrough later, I never imagined that this day would come. While there were moments of the characters that I remember differently due to the passage of time and FeMC's point of view, this retained the same magic of playing the game for the first time and perhaps more.
Perhaps I'm being too hyperbolic, but having sat through the end of the game, I think this was one of the most lifechanging games I'd played in a while in spite of having already known the story. My personal experiences in this past couple months have led me to contemplate the finiteness of time with people, where conversations would often lead to bitterness and anger due to the nature and history of the topic (which I don't really want to discuss here). But this game and its similar finiteness gave me the same feeling of contemplation, but with a different answer. One that left me both vindicated on the topic and determined with renewed vigor to live in the present and cherish every moment.
At the same time, revisiting this game as a remake also gave me a refreshed perspective on the Persona formula, as someone who's been a fan of the modern series for a while. Edogawa might've been a shady nurse who only appears every so often, but in the greater context of the game, his lectures on tarot were interesting to think about. You start the game knowing no one and perhaps care about no one and grow on your journey to make a sacrifice for the "no ones" that became "someones to you". In the last stretch of the game, having known what happens at the end, it hit me all at once that the game was about to end and I thought to myself "I don't want to go yet". Something I hadn't felt for a game in a really long time.
I wholeheartedly recommend this game.
I gave Persona 3 Portable (as FeMC) a try, without knowing what I got myself into.
Six and a half years, a partially unfinished Persona 4 vanilla playthrough, a Persona 5 vanilla playthrough, and a Persona 5 Royal playthrough later, I never imagined that this day would come. While there were moments of the characters that I remember differently due to the passage of time and FeMC's point of view, this retained the same magic of playing the game for the first time and perhaps more.
Perhaps I'm being too hyperbolic, but having sat through the end of the game, I think this was one of the most lifechanging games I'd played in a while in spite of having already known the story. My personal experiences in this past couple months have led me to contemplate the finiteness of time with people, where conversations would often lead to bitterness and anger due to the nature and history of the topic (which I don't really want to discuss here). But this game and its similar finiteness gave me the same feeling of contemplation, but with a different answer. One that left me both vindicated on the topic and determined with renewed vigor to live in the present and cherish every moment.
At the same time, revisiting this game as a remake also gave me a refreshed perspective on the Persona formula, as someone who's been a fan of the modern series for a while. Edogawa might've been a shady nurse who only appears every so often, but in the greater context of the game, his lectures on tarot were interesting to think about. You start the game knowing no one and perhaps care about no one and grow on your journey to make a sacrifice for the "no ones" that became "someones to you". In the last stretch of the game, having known what happens at the end, it hit me all at once that the game was about to end and I thought to myself "I don't want to go yet". Something I hadn't felt for a game in a really long time.
I wholeheartedly recommend this game.