- Each copy comes with 52-page Color Art Book, Soundtrack CD featuring 18 songs and outer Collector’s Box
- Engaging Social Link system – build intimate relationships with friends and love interests alike
- Never the same game twice, with over 20 Social Links and a complex storyline encompassing a full school year
- Intense, strategic battle system – Find and exploit enemy weaknesses with the help of your allies
- Highly stylized designs with beautiful 2D character portraits, detailed 3D animations, and heart-pounding cut scenes
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Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 is a strange and wonderful trip into an anime adventure. You’re an orphaned high school student, transferred to Gekkoukan High School on Port Island. After arriving, he’s attacked by creatures known as Shadows. The assault awakens his Persona, Orpheus, from the depths of his subconscious, enabling him to defeat the terrifying foes. He soon discovers that he shares this special ability with other students at his new school. From them, he learns of the Dark Hour, a hidden time that exists between one day and the next, swarming with Shadows. Under the supervision of school chairman Shuji Ikutsuki, he joins his new companions in confronting this threat to humanity. With your school as the primary battlefield, you’ll be forced to juggle two lives: Student by day, defender by night. And your greatest challenges await you on the eve of each full moon…. More >>
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I really wanted to enjoy this game,as I have the first two Persona games as well as Nocturne and Devil Summoner;but Persona 3 goes way past the line of good taste.
To summon your Persona (other self or ego) players will put a gun (called
an Evoker) to their head and pull the trigger.Atlus,this is %110 BULL***T!!
The fact that these characters are teenagers and also that adolescents are among the highest rate of suicide victims,makes me want to vomit,when I think that YOU ARE MAKING MONEY OFF THIS!
There was absolutely no reason to put something so careless,idiotic and in such bad taste in a a game.This was all done in the name of the almighty dollar.Who needs any form of integrity when we can make a quick buck?
It’s also not as if this is displayed once in the game,but everytime a character wants to transform into a Persona,we get to see a nice scene of kids blowing their brains out.What class Atlus;I hope you sleep well at night.What a wonderful thing for the youth to be exposed to.No doubt this game will also be played by those under 17.Even those who are of age and older,this is an unhealthy thing to be desensitized with.
To ALL the developers at Atlus and ALL the people that say there is nothing wrong with that aspect of the game;why don’t you show this to some families WHO HAVE LOST LOVED ONES TO SUICIDE?Specifically by using a gun!See how “creative”,”artistic” or “FUN” they think it is.
This game should be recalled and that ignorant,insensitive and immature aspect be removed.I hope these jokers get sued,and whatever money they made from this game gets donated to teen suicide prevention.
GROW UP AMERICA!
I don’t have a PS2, though there are several games pushing me toward buying one. This game was one at the top of my list though so I thought I would try it with emulation. On my system the game is unplayable, an there seem to be some bugs in pcsx2 that render it less playable even on a high-end system.
Tested on a Lenovo Thinkpad, dual-core 1.6Ghz, ATI video chipset, Gig of ram, etc.
Well picked this game up after hearing a lot about it. It really sounded great. It was very different from some of the other RPG’s I’d played. It started out pretty good, loved the whole school part of it and the dungeon crawling at night was fun as well. But it really started getting tedious to me. The story was ok, but it really just didnt hook me as much. I just wasnt able to finish it, I just started to get kind of bored playing the game and moved on to something else.
This game is great! It has plenty of mini-quest,if you don’t finish them all you can play the game again and try to do them all.
I’m going to rate this game by the major aspects of most games.
Story- while interesting, its slightly generic and when I saw the opening to the game, I expected a dark, enigmatic, and abstract story. But besides the swearing it seems like a childs game, the only time for a while that pulled me into the story was the very beginnning. But the game has its reasons, since you play out every day of school, its not like you can fit a major plot advance or interesting aspect of the story into every school day. But eventually you’ll be more pulled into the plot. 7.5/10
Gameplay- they managed to make school as boring and uninteresting as it is in real life. Even though you can develope links between characters and after school activities; it seems like thats all you can do. And raising your characters stats is useful for only understanding another boring aspect of the school life in this game. For instance your academics has to be high enough to read a message next to a classroom, that ends up just being completely useless. You’ll find yourself skipping through the schooldays as fast as you can but tartarus is a nice break from school. The combat is turn-based like many of atlus’ games, and easy to understand, but is still relatively fast paced. Combat is fairly entertaining when fighting a boss or a hard group of enemies, but not so much when facing weaker ones. So you might end up skipping a lot of battles so that you can advance to the next floor. What happened with me was there might have been a hard battle somewhere, and my party was weakened so I ended up skipping all the battles until the boss so I could get out of there. The use of persona is cool and interesting, especially trying to exploit your enemies weakness with special attacks so that you can knock them down to gain an extra turn or a cartoon style animation in which your party runs in and engages the enemy in a cloud of smoke which usually ends up dealign a lot of damage. The AI is pretty good, but it can let you down sometimes,for instance, I ended up dying on a boss fight because the only person who could heal and had an effective attack kept skipping their turn even though they had plenty of SP to spare. As far as customizing your persona goes, its pretty deep, you can combine persona to create new ones, but if you have the social link that relates to that type of persona it will get stronger depending on what level that link is. All of you persona are automatically registered, and if you feel like you want one back after using it in a fusion, you can buy it. You can gain new persona when you defeat a group of enemies, some cards will show up and you choose one of them, and if your lucky you might get a new persona.
8.5/10
Sound- the voic acting is pretty good, and the soundtrack is ok, if you like japanese music. The opening song is especially good. 7/10
Presentation- the anime cut scenes are always amazing and very entertaining, but there is a serious lack of anime cut scenes in the beginning to middle of the game. The character designs are good, but non characters are very generic. The demons and persona look really cool though. The in-game graphics could use some improvement. 9/10 (because of the anime)
Areas- you probably won’t venture anywhere but your dorm, the mall, and the school. Because the backgrounds are also generic. The areas in Tartarus are also very generic and only change when you get to the next block, which could be up to 20 or so floors. And even when you get to a new block it hardly changes except for color. 6.5/10
Replayability- moderate, but the story isn’t great enough to keep you playing through the whole game since its 70+ hours long.
THE GOOD- original story, combat is intense and at times challenging. The persona are interesting, the anime is very entertaining and the soundtrack is passable.
THE BAD- almost everything you do at school is unimportant, it takes a while for something interesting to happen plot-wise, it can be hard to evade enemies sometimes and the backgrounds are boring.
BOTTOM LINE: 8/10, a good game and a good addition to the Shin Megami Tensei series, I definetly reccomend it to people familiar to the RPG genre.