11/25/2023 0 Comments Persona 3 portable tower social link![]() If you’re looking for a great JRPG to play and you haven’t played a Persona game, this is a good entry point. It plays exceedingly well, and I am very happy to be able to play it again since I hadn’t spent any time with it since my PSP died a few years ago. However, I wasn’t expecting just how good it looks thanks to the polish and enhancements that were made for the new release. The character designs are all unique, and what voice acting is present is very well done.Ĭonsidering Persona 3 Portable was created for the PSP, playing it on the Nintendo Switch is a no-brainer. The art style is intriguing, and uses the color blue to vivid effect, just like Persona 4 uses yellow, and Persona 5 uses red. You can also pick up weapons and armor for your party, but persona fusion is a highly valuable method of progression.Īs far as gameplay outside of combat and dungeon exploration goes, Persona 3 Portable has a very vivid visual identity, just like later games in the series. These personas are important since you’ll need to fuse personas in order to unlock more powerful ones and expand your combat capabilities. Sometimes at the end of a battle you’ll trigger “shuffle time” which lets you draw cards that provide various effects and can even give you new personas to use. This ability should be familiar to Persona fans and allows you to do large amounts of damage. If you knock down all enemies in a battle you can unleash an All-Out-Attack. This is vital for certain bosses where careful timing and usage of abilities can make or break your strategy. You can either take advantage of the game’s AI and let your party act on their own or set them to a direct command setting which allows you to control what each character does. ![]() By utilizing attacks that take advantage of enemy weaknesses, you can knock enemies down and gain extra turns for your characters. If you’ve played (or read my review of) Soul Hackers 2, you’ll remember the Press Turn system being a combat system that encourages the exploitation of enemy weaknesses. The level design is also the most simple of the recent Persona titles, but that is to be expected due to the fact that Persona 3 was the foundation of what the series would eventually become.Ĭombat takes advantage of the Press Turn system. ![]() However, in this you can send your party members out to attack Shadows on sight, investigate the floor, and do other actions. Tartarus itself is similar to other dungeon environments in the Persona franchise. It should also be noted that Persona 3 was the first Persona game to make use of the Social Link (or Confidant in Persona 5) system, so what you wind up seeing is a very early version of it. While there are moments of humor and characters that are meant as comic relief, a lot of the Social Links and the themes of the game are more serious. Personally, I find that Persona 3 Portable’s story is excellent, but it is also darker than Persona 4 Golden and Persona 5 Royal. The tower is inhabited by Shadows, and thus as a Persona user, you must fight them and solve the mystery of the Dark Hour. The Kirijo Group (its owners) discovered a phenomenon called The Dark Hour, an hour that exists between one day and the next that most people cannot perceive.Īs a student at Gekkoukan, you join SEES (the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad) a group that goes out during the Dark Hour to explore Tartarus, a labyrinthine tower in the same space as the high school. Regardless of whether you play as the male or female protagonist, you are a student at Gekkoukan High School, a school in the fictional Japanese town of Iwatodai. This is one of the minor complaints I have with later games, having female protagonist options in those games would be fantastic. While the overarching storyline for the female main character remains the same, it was refreshing (and still is) to enjoy seeing the entire game from a new perspective. ![]() Persona 3 Portable, however, stripped away some of the exploration elements due to the PSP’s lower hardware specs compared to the PS2, but added a whole new way to play, offering a female protagonist option that changed social links and all manner of other things.Īs someone who has done extensive research, I’m not the only one who believes that technically speaking, much like Persona 4 Golden and Persona 5 Royal that follow in the years after, Persona 3 Portable is the definitive way to play Persona 3. Persona 3 FES, which was released in 2008 in the west, had an extra epilogue segment and changed up some mechanics to be more user-friendly based on the original’s critical reception. ![]()
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