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Persona 3 (PS2)

by Koei
Platform:   PlayStation2
4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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  • Platform:   PlayStation2
  • PEGI Rating: Ages 12 and Over
  • Media: Video Game

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  • ASIN: B000SZ9RNI
  • Release Date: 29 Feb 2008
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,797 in PC & Video Games (See Bestsellers in PC & Video Games)

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It's gonna take a lot more than a fountain pen and a compass to survive a full year in Persona 3. Not only will players have to contend with the day to day challenges of life in a Japanese high school but there's also the matter of the demons who lurk within the hidden hour that lies between one day and the next.

Although part of the Shin Megami Tensei series, Persona 3 is a standalone entry in the series requiring no previous knowledge of Shin Megami Tensei games and has no connection to previous scenarios or characters. Set in a completely new fictitious city Persona 3 recreates an authentic Japanese school setting right down to the relationships that the player can make and break throughout an entire school year.

During the day players get to experience high school life whilst also getting the chance to enhance their character's abilities with the choices they make throughout the school day. By spending their time wisely during the day players will get the opportunity to enhance their abilities in battle and expand the variety of Personas which they can summon.

Personas come into play during the night when they can be summoned to fight the demons and protect you from an untimely death. As your relationships with fellow students grow so will your mastery over your Personas. Different Personas can even be combined to produce even more powerful creations that await your command.

Commenting on the release of Persona 3 on PS2, Naoki Katashima, Executive Vice President of KOEI Europe and KOEI US, said, "Persona 3 is one of the most highly regarded RPGs of recent times and we are delighted to be able to bring this renowned title to European gamers. We look forward to continuing to work with Atlus to bring the very best Japanese RPGs to Europe."

Having already received widespread critical acclaim for releases such as Disgaea Afternoon of Darkness, Atelier Iris and Phantom Brave, KOEI have now bolstered their line up of RPGs even further with this latest release and are fast becoming one of the foremost European publishers of quality Japanese RPGs. Already renowned as the leading name in the tactical action arena with their Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors series having sold over 15 million worldwide, KOEI continues to look for opportunities to bring many more diverse titles to European gamers and add to the success of titles such as Colosseum: Road to Freedom, Devil Summoner and the hugely popular G1 Jockey series.

Persona 3 is the latest installment from Atlus in the Megami Tensei series that has entertained gamers in Japan for many years. The previous three Persona games have sold over 1 million units in Japan. The various games throughout the series have taken gamers from present day Japan to unique periods in history, and have given players incredible abilities and remarkable moments of excitement, shock and breathtaking entertainment.


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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent turn based RPG for hours of demon fun, 22 Jan 2008
By A. Wilson (Derby, UK) - See all my reviews
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Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 
I've got the US version of this game and it is one of the best RPGs I have ever played. I have also played the previous Persona games as well as Digital Devil Saga games. You are a teenage hero, with no name and silent, like a lot of other Japanese style RPGs. Upon your transfer to a new school your Persona or demon power awakes and the quest to explore tower of Tarturus and solve the riddle of the Dark Hour begins.
You can have up to 4 characters in your party, including a dog, and this is a turn-based RPG, very much like the other Persona games. You can fight as your character or summon demons to fight for you. This is where magic comes into the game. You can win demon cards at the end of battle and fuse them (in the Velvet Room) to make more powerful demons for your character to summon in battle.
The game uses the Tarot cards as the basis for 'Social Links' which you can improve by talking to and spending time with various characters in your school and the various areas you can explore. Such as Maiko, the Hanged Man social link, who is a young girl in primary school who's parents are getting divorced. The more time you spend with her the more you learn about the family life. I loved this aspect of the game. It's entertaining and fun to do, and you really find yourself torn between who to spend time with. You can date girls too.
As you are a teenager you have to go to school. You spent Monday to Saturday at school where you can interact with other students. In you free time you can visit the mall, shrine, stations and your dorm. You even have to pass exams (no that difficult). Also you can join a sport team and a club. All of this helps you discover new social links and increase you existing links.
Unlike the previous Persona games where you could explore large areas of Tokyo and places such as schools and shopping malls become monster filled dungeons, in this game the only monster dungeon is the tower of Tarturus which appears every night at midnight for an hour, called the Dark Hour. Evey month the full moon causes more powerful demons to appear and you have to defeat them.
This game is great. The fusing of demons is addictive as you can see which ones you can get before you at the level to get them. The social link part of the game will take up a lot of your spare in the game, and then you have to fight in Tarturus to keep your levels high so you can defeat bosses. This game has over 30 hours of gameplay, and more like 50 plus if you want higher level demons. It's quirky, unique and great fun. For £24.99 this will keep you entertained for a very long time..
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A Fine Fusion JRPG, 13 April 2008
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 
Despite the advent of the next gen consoles over the last couple of years there's none the less been spate of quality games brought out for the king of the older generation of games stations the PS2. While the likes of God of War II have been highly lauded others, such as Rogue Galaxy have failed to garner recognition which they deserve. Of the later maybe both the oddest in inception and the most enjoyable to play has been Persona 3. It is one of a series of strange demonic CRPGs created by Japanese developer Koei.

Now anyone who's had anything to do with the genre will tell you that demons in a JRPG are common as a cold in spring time. What makes Persona 3 peculiar is that it isn't a pure RPG, nor yet an action RPG (such as Kingdom Hearts) or a tactical RPG (such as Disgea, one of Koei's earlier and highly amusing games) rather it fuses a classic turn based JRPG, with elements of tactical team building, and a school life simulation game.

An odd mixture? Without a doubt

Does it work? Definitely.

It's not a perfect game, there are minor flaws which I will discuss below, but it a very fine one.

The strengths of the game are beautiful cell shaded graphics, an interesting plot, combat mechanics which are (for the majority of the game ) nicely challenging and well thought out, interesting and diverse characters and the freshness of the continual changing of pace between demonic combat and school life. It is the way that the last of these is integrated into the mechanics of the rest which is the most interesting thing about Persona 3. The more you develop your contacts through you daily life the more options open up to you with in the combat scenarios.

I've not included the soundtrack amongst the strengths of the game, not because i think it bad, so much as because i'm left uncertain how to think of it at all. It comprises of a selection of specially written Jpop numbers which are mostly either upbeat, or manic depending on what's happening, for much of the time they seem pretty much in keeping with the overall feel of the game, but, I'm just not sure i liked them. Call me curmudgeonly but there were times i felt like simply turning the sound to mute so as not to have them chasing through my head for the next few hours or days.

Games flaws are few, but sufficient for me to dock it a star in rating it, despite how much pleasure i derived over all from playing Persona 3. The first is that towards the end, the combat can become seriously unbalanced in favour of the player by the use of one of the special options open to you. The trouble is it's difficult not to use it once you've found it, because it's quite likely by this point you want to get to the end and see how it all comes out. Which brings me to the more serious problem. This is a long game, a very long game, you can easily spend more than 100 hours on a single play through it. For most of the time this is by no means a problem, but there is a period between the final revelation in the plot and the actual finale of the game which seriously drags. If you've been at all conscientious about fulfilling the quests with which the game presents you, you'll find there maybe as much of 10 hours of play where there's really very little of substance for you to do. These two things along with a couple of minor issue about certain plot elements not being fleshed out to their fullest potential are enough for me to knock off that last star.

So a four star rather than a five star game? Well yes, very reluctantly yes, as I know a great time playing it for the most part. It is fun, it is pretty, it is fresh and different, even to a fairly jaded old games player, yes i got a bit irritated with the music, but at the end of the day i still played it for over 100 hours and now several weeks afterwards am thinking about going back and playing through again from the start.
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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Another wonderful game from ATLUS, 22 Jan 2008
By Ciaran Roberts "Zalia Chimera" (Sheffield, UK) - See all my reviews
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Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 
I picked this up in the US last year and have been playing it since then and loving every moment. In some ways, it's like playing 2 games; 1 half social simulator where you have to go to school, make friends, pass exams and build up your 'social links' with other people. The other half follows a more traditional RPG style, as you and your team travel throught Tartarus, fighting shadows using your Persona; parts of a person's psyche which can be manifested to fight the shadows.

The characters in this are wonderful, it's difficult to choose which part I like best; the social side or the fighting side, and I quickly became very attached to some characters. It also contains some poignant moments, and the mystery of the storyline is revealed just slowly enough to keep you wanting more. I would highly recommend this game!
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