After months of Ethan and Gavin begging me to play Persona 3 FES on my hastily-set-up PCSX2 emulator, ATLUS released this wonder of a game. Having just played Persona 5 Royal (which was way too easy according to Gavin), I was excited to play a remastered version of the game I intended to play (intended in this context means, "play a couple of times and let it rot in my library").
At first glance, this game is beautiful, and continued to bedazzle me the more I played. I was already a couple of hours into the game when I pressed the pause button for the first time and was greeted with one of the most awe-inducing pause menu animation Ethan and I had ever laid eyes on in our lives. Personally, I'm a motion-blur-truther, and my god is this game so smooth. The animations of the many different Theurgy moves scratch an itch in my brain that I never even knew I needed. Not to mention the soundtrack, which I knew I was going to love, given the series' track record with their extremely catchy soundtracks.
I was expecting a storyline more akin to Persona 4 Golden and P5R, and was given something much different. Away with the murder mystery of 4, the timeline jumping of 5, and the overall (relative to P3R) grounded storylines both 4 and 5 have, and instead arrives a plot line that almost immediately introduces its sense of gravitas. Oh, and that ending! I feel like I could talk to someone for hours about my thoughts about it, much like my reaction to P5R's ending, albeit more positively.
Anyway, to the only two people likely reading this, sorry for endlessly taunting you about the ease of my playthrough (Maybe I'll try P3FES one day.), I will proudly admit that you were right about this game being the best of the (current) modern Persona games. I eagerly await the release of the DLC, and Persona 6 :)
At first glance, this game is beautiful, and continued to bedazzle me the more I played. I was already a couple of hours into the game when I pressed the pause button for the first time and was greeted with one of the most awe-inducing pause menu animation Ethan and I had ever laid eyes on in our lives. Personally, I'm a motion-blur-truther, and my god is this game so smooth. The animations of the many different Theurgy moves scratch an itch in my brain that I never even knew I needed. Not to mention the soundtrack, which I knew I was going to love, given the series' track record with their extremely catchy soundtracks.
I was expecting a storyline more akin to Persona 4 Golden and P5R, and was given something much different. Away with the murder mystery of 4, the timeline jumping of 5, and the overall (relative to P3R) grounded storylines both 4 and 5 have, and instead arrives a plot line that almost immediately introduces its sense of gravitas. Oh, and that ending! I feel like I could talk to someone for hours about my thoughts about it, much like my reaction to P5R's ending, albeit more positively.
Anyway, to the only two people likely reading this, sorry for endlessly taunting you about the ease of my playthrough (Maybe I'll try P3FES one day.), I will proudly admit that you were right about this game being the best of the (current) modern Persona games. I eagerly await the release of the DLC, and Persona 6 :)