I actually despise this game so fucking much holy shit what a slog, its crazy how these TROGLODYTES will tell you this shitstain is somehow an improvement on the original and FES because they took inspiration from Persona 4's garbage ass mechanics because they can't deal with the ai you can remove with a pnach file, literally all of the atmosphere and cinematic flare is drained from a game in which those aspects are some of its greatest strengths because all of the ways in which P3 achieved those highs such as its wonderfully moody cutscenes are reduced to blurry images and descriptions; all that's being done is the story being communicated, and that's where it ends. The emotional moments don't hit at all because they're replaced with these ugly fucking sprites and the gravitas is erased, the gameplay is actively less fun than FES, the point and click overworld fucking sucks and drastically worsens the experience, don't get me fucking started on the female protagonist who gets a "SHE'S BETTER THAN THE MALE ROUTE!" because again they tried to steamroll the game with persona fucking 4's ideas, her party links don't add shit and the fact that you can revive a dead character, removing the impact of their death and ruining multiple others arcs is a disgrace, actively ruins any reference to the event after the fact and any impact it could have - this is what i consider one of the biggest issues with Portable, it has no respect for the identity or themes of Persona 3. All of the ""improvements"" to make it more like P4 just make the game worse, it just blindly adds things like social links for the party because ooo P4 did it without considering it properly, they don't even work with the fucking story - Junpei feels far more emotionally mature far earlier than he should for example. Akihiko's adds nothing, Ken's is centred around pedophilia for some reason, why does Koromaru have a social link. Also the remaster is bad, the backgrounds look smeared in Vaseline and the fact that some of the basic UI is very clearly AI upscaled to smudge detail is funny as fuck. This game being the most accessible way to play Persona 3 pisses me off to no end and i hope we get a remake to make it truly irrelevant. Any points I will give it are because it has some of P3's good elements like the characters and the music, but make no mistake FES is the only way you should be playing Persona 3

I'll write stuff later but tldr this is the quintessential trails game that hammers home everything there is to love about the series and more, as well as being an amazing game in its own right it somehow managed to not only a introduction game for the arc but taking a lot of ideas from the previous games, lore, characters and paint with their own style just like the spriggans would.

From Beyond The Dawn episodes to this, it only enforces that this series is truly special and will never be replicated. It's been a year since starting the series and finishing Sky FC, and still has been rent free for that time period.

Took me 6 months, some burn out, some bumming around and sm issues with remote play to warrant me swapping to the pc version but yeah, its as good as people make it out to be.

Good job kondo and falcom, and here's hoping Kuro 2 will also be just as good.

This was pretty fucking ass, I'll be honest that I didn't like it but it has Atlus on its name so I'm obligated give it 5 stars because of that alone. A game can be the worst fucking creation in all the universes that ever existed and will ever exist, it can be the cause for the tiniest wars to the fucking Holocaust & the most horrific carnage recorded in human history, but if it has the name ''Atlus'' on it I simply have to act like it saved my life and gave me an everlasting feeling of solace. This isn't even dickriding, it's how my brain is wired. Dickriding is a choice of freedom, this is intinct & a part of my construct. If you make fun of this then you're ableist. I dont make the rules

This was pretty fucking ass, I'll be honest that I didn't like it but it has Falcom on its name so I'm obligated give it 5 stars because of that alone. A game can be the worst fucking creation in all the universes that ever existed and will ever exist, it can be the cause for the tiniest wars to the fucking Holocaust & the most horrific carnage recorded in human history, but if it has the name ''Falcom'' on it I simply have to act like it saved my life and gave me an everlasting feeling of solace. This isn't even dickriding, it's how my brain is wired. Dickriding is a choice of freedom, this is intinct & a part of my construct. If you make fun of this then you're ableist. I dont make the rules

Kuro no Kiseki was one of the things that i was really hyped to play especially when they give the first teaser, at the moment i was trying to catch up with the series and i didnt had a proper console but my god it was worth of the wait and the grind to the into this game.

The game manages to be the strongest starting point of Arc and have a consistent character moments for each in the Cast, i was scared that seeing how many character in it especially going through Cold Steel that it had too many characters to give a proper moment to shine and not feel like some of the characters are just there for the sake of it.

I was interested how would handle the second half of the series and the aclaimed Calvard arc. It adds a new a battle system, improves the field battle even more and the shard system. It can feel overwhelming at first but my god it feels satisfying as hell when you get it right. In my playthrough of Hajimari i really was feeling burnout of battle system not because its boring but it feels like a shore to get through the post game. I feel happy that they changed the estructure but still feeling like trails.

For me Van stole the spotlight for me, being someone that's not a usual MC at his first glance but he really started to grow on me by the time you continue playing the game, him being a character that accept request for almost everyone is compelling as hell because it gives a new point of view.

Overally i'm really hyped for what Kondo is cooking with Kuro 2 and i'm hyped for this direction that this arc is going.