i love persona 3 so incredibly much.
it's absolutely amazing seeing this game finally getting the real love it deserves with the upcoming remake and this re release.
while it is in some ways limited than other or more inportantly later entries of the series, it did never get boring for me even once. while people are disgusted by this games.. ahem.. "dungeons" i feel like this is one of the best persona ever had. tartarus feels like your own little champions road that gets more and more.. corrupted. it gets the point across for this game and a regular dungeon system wouldnt be fitting here at all. i love the small changed you get by every higher area you enter, the small things like colors changing on the floors, decoration that wasnt there before, the absolutely AMAZING track changing just a tiny bit every time you get an area higher. its has depth to it rather than later games giving you huge ass dungeons with the kind of same moral to it like the first one in the end (looking at you, p5)
the characters however are some of the best in this entire series and really make up for anything missing in this portable port. this visual novel style made me somehow get even closer to them in my mind.
the soundtrack my guys, is absolute peak. none of the versions of this game missed out on that and after seeing the opening of reload i am 100% sure not even that version will.
HOOOOWEVER.
portable is still the more trimmed down version of this game. while og and fes are shining through with amazing anime cutscenes and fes having a really, lets say, explaining post content episode, portable lacks on that. the port of this could have been handled a lot better by implementing the anime cutscenes the psp couldnt handle back in the day. by cleaning off some of these voicefiles because these are hella frisky at times. also the portraits of the characters are sometimes just a pixelated bunch. this could have been fixed but sadly, this seemed to be too much effort.
persona 3 is a game. a game that makes you not think into it too much, a confusing one at first. but after one playthrough this is a meaningful and maybe even life changing experience that really leaves you speechless in the end.
it's absolutely amazing seeing this game finally getting the real love it deserves with the upcoming remake and this re release.
while it is in some ways limited than other or more inportantly later entries of the series, it did never get boring for me even once. while people are disgusted by this games.. ahem.. "dungeons" i feel like this is one of the best persona ever had. tartarus feels like your own little champions road that gets more and more.. corrupted. it gets the point across for this game and a regular dungeon system wouldnt be fitting here at all. i love the small changed you get by every higher area you enter, the small things like colors changing on the floors, decoration that wasnt there before, the absolutely AMAZING track changing just a tiny bit every time you get an area higher. its has depth to it rather than later games giving you huge ass dungeons with the kind of same moral to it like the first one in the end (looking at you, p5)
the characters however are some of the best in this entire series and really make up for anything missing in this portable port. this visual novel style made me somehow get even closer to them in my mind.
the soundtrack my guys, is absolute peak. none of the versions of this game missed out on that and after seeing the opening of reload i am 100% sure not even that version will.
HOOOOWEVER.
portable is still the more trimmed down version of this game. while og and fes are shining through with amazing anime cutscenes and fes having a really, lets say, explaining post content episode, portable lacks on that. the port of this could have been handled a lot better by implementing the anime cutscenes the psp couldnt handle back in the day. by cleaning off some of these voicefiles because these are hella frisky at times. also the portraits of the characters are sometimes just a pixelated bunch. this could have been fixed but sadly, this seemed to be too much effort.
persona 3 is a game. a game that makes you not think into it too much, a confusing one at first. but after one playthrough this is a meaningful and maybe even life changing experience that really leaves you speechless in the end.