This is game is really awesome. I still haven't finished Persona 5 Royal, but i found this more enjoyable. And i exactly don't know why. But i've totally fallen in love with this game, his soundtracks, his characters and their lives. This game talks about death and depression, and the main quotes is "memento mori". The gameplay loop it's not that bad:
Basically you need to fight in the Tartarus this big tower that you can find in this "otherworld". In the portable version you can control the other party's member and it's a really cool and useful feature. But what i love most of this game are the dialogue, they feel so real. Thank to that you can enphatize so much with all the character, really all memorable. Except maybe one npc, that will become friend of the protagonist a little bit too randomly. But in this game like in the real life, you need to work (so with the money you can buy upgrades), go to school and hangout with friends to level up your social link (it's a very cool system that permise you to level up the friendships). The atmosphere it's absurd, in the hall of the dormitory you will find all your friends there, doing their things and feeling real. The soundtracks has become easily one of my favourite of all time, all the tracks are memorable from the opening to the small soundtrack that you can hear for 30sec in a selection screen. The story it's really interesting, the main character is Makoto Yuki (or you can choose the female mc) transferred from another school. And he'll find himself in a really strange situation, that will change his life forever. It isn't the classic "sad boy", i would say it's more apathetic and trying to understand the value of the life. I don't wanna say anything more, 'cause i wanna avoid any kind of spoiler.
Even if this is the worst version, with visual novel classic dialogue and no animated cutscenes, no explorable location, i've instantly fallen in love with this game.
But if you can wait, i would recommend to wait for the remake version Persona 3 Reload!
Basically you need to fight in the Tartarus this big tower that you can find in this "otherworld". In the portable version you can control the other party's member and it's a really cool and useful feature. But what i love most of this game are the dialogue, they feel so real. Thank to that you can enphatize so much with all the character, really all memorable. Except maybe one npc, that will become friend of the protagonist a little bit too randomly. But in this game like in the real life, you need to work (so with the money you can buy upgrades), go to school and hangout with friends to level up your social link (it's a very cool system that permise you to level up the friendships). The atmosphere it's absurd, in the hall of the dormitory you will find all your friends there, doing their things and feeling real. The soundtracks has become easily one of my favourite of all time, all the tracks are memorable from the opening to the small soundtrack that you can hear for 30sec in a selection screen. The story it's really interesting, the main character is Makoto Yuki (or you can choose the female mc) transferred from another school. And he'll find himself in a really strange situation, that will change his life forever. It isn't the classic "sad boy", i would say it's more apathetic and trying to understand the value of the life. I don't wanna say anything more, 'cause i wanna avoid any kind of spoiler.
Even if this is the worst version, with visual novel classic dialogue and no animated cutscenes, no explorable location, i've instantly fallen in love with this game.
But if you can wait, i would recommend to wait for the remake version Persona 3 Reload!