Damn, as a from the ground up Remake of the first modern Persona game, this is the best version of the game by a country mile.
The story is massively enhanced by strong acting, way more opportunity to get to know the cast, and stellar Presentation for the whole game. They perfectly captured the use of colour and style and gave it a modern makeover, with a UI that itself gives the game points.
The gameplay is modernised to be more similar to P5, and throughout battles or the social Sim, I felt the whole experience was balanced better, less frustration and more to do in the games evening which was originally pretty empty. This includes side quests with the male characters, who outside of P3P, never got as much development as the girls. Such an effective way of making these guys feel like real friends and not just co-workers.
The main thing I wanted to see changed was the 200+ floor dungeon, Tartarus. A randomly generated dungeon where the games RPG elements take place. This was ultimately tedious to climb in the original by the end, but here it is much improved. It’s still repetitive no doubt, but there’s so much added to not only make it less predictable, but also, it’s just all a lot faster. The game moves a lot faster due to quality updates, there’s fast travel over the whole city, and within Tartarus you can warp to the next floor as long as you’ve found the stairs.
This being said, I still think Tartarus is something that may turn people away. It’s the main source of gameplay as the areas you explore during Full Moon’s are normally pretty small, if not completely linear. If you can’t get down with Tartarus, honestly I doubt you’d get through this.
At least the grinding had been all but removed, I never once felt like I had to run up and down Tartarus just to level up, and the game cleverly nudges you to return to Tartarus to complete missing person requests which will naturally increase your level, not to mention the great clock which will catch up party memebers to your level in a single battle.
Even with all of the added content, it took me about the same 70-80 hours to beat, I just couldn’t put it down…
The music is phenomenally updated, such as a great new mix of “Mass Destruction” or new tracks such as “Colour your Night” or the incredible new battle theme “It’s going down now”
This game has left a massive imprint on me, I’ve found a new appreciation for Persona 3, and it’s no doubt one of my favourite games of all time - 9.5/10
The story is massively enhanced by strong acting, way more opportunity to get to know the cast, and stellar Presentation for the whole game. They perfectly captured the use of colour and style and gave it a modern makeover, with a UI that itself gives the game points.
The gameplay is modernised to be more similar to P5, and throughout battles or the social Sim, I felt the whole experience was balanced better, less frustration and more to do in the games evening which was originally pretty empty. This includes side quests with the male characters, who outside of P3P, never got as much development as the girls. Such an effective way of making these guys feel like real friends and not just co-workers.
The main thing I wanted to see changed was the 200+ floor dungeon, Tartarus. A randomly generated dungeon where the games RPG elements take place. This was ultimately tedious to climb in the original by the end, but here it is much improved. It’s still repetitive no doubt, but there’s so much added to not only make it less predictable, but also, it’s just all a lot faster. The game moves a lot faster due to quality updates, there’s fast travel over the whole city, and within Tartarus you can warp to the next floor as long as you’ve found the stairs.
This being said, I still think Tartarus is something that may turn people away. It’s the main source of gameplay as the areas you explore during Full Moon’s are normally pretty small, if not completely linear. If you can’t get down with Tartarus, honestly I doubt you’d get through this.
At least the grinding had been all but removed, I never once felt like I had to run up and down Tartarus just to level up, and the game cleverly nudges you to return to Tartarus to complete missing person requests which will naturally increase your level, not to mention the great clock which will catch up party memebers to your level in a single battle.
Even with all of the added content, it took me about the same 70-80 hours to beat, I just couldn’t put it down…
The music is phenomenally updated, such as a great new mix of “Mass Destruction” or new tracks such as “Colour your Night” or the incredible new battle theme “It’s going down now”
This game has left a massive imprint on me, I’ve found a new appreciation for Persona 3, and it’s no doubt one of my favourite games of all time - 9.5/10