![]() In this world, there is an extra hour known as the ‘dark hour’, where ordinary people become coffins and anyone outside of them become food for Shadows-dark entities that wander about and your primary enemies throughout the game. Persona 3 is all about its moment-to-moment interactions with the main cast of characters, side interactions and social links, and its main story. Entering the building, you sign a contract by a strange little boy rambling on about the end of the world and not a moment later a girl with light-brown hair runs right into you, a gun in her hand. But like most normal people, you shrug it off and continue to your dorm. As the player makes their way off the late-night train and to their new dorms, they notice that their world is just a bit weird-the moon has turned mucus green and coffins float without reason. The story of P3P has the player assuming the role of either a male or female protagonist, enrolling in Gekkoukan High in the fictional city of Iwatodai. I love Persona 3 and that’s why this Portable release leaves me middled. Its storytelling left its mark on me in ways future Persona entries never did. A mash up of dungeon crawling, social/life simulation, and demon (monster) management, Persona 3 blends these experiences into this perfect and unique JRPG that I can recommend to just about anyone. What Portable gives console players frustrates me, but that doesn’t change my opinion on the game. Now don’t get cold feet-Persona 3 is a fantastic game and is, in my opinion, one of the best in the series. Not because of what Persona 3 is, but because of what’s missing and how that impacts the original experience of the game. So, to see this version of the game coming to consoles, and particularly Xbox platforms, for the first time is bittersweet. Developed by ATLUS’ P-Studio and now published by SEGA, this version of one of the PlayStation 2’s highlights was developed for the PlayStation Portable and does exactly what it set out to do-try to fit the original Persona 3 experience onto the handheld’s 1.6GB proprietary UMD format, while also offering a new experience by implementing a new female protagonist option to convince returning players to pick up the game.Īlthough I picked up P3P first, I had actually stopped playing it to play the game’s ‘definitive’ edition, Persona 3 FES, and would later come back to P3P during my commutes. It was a little over ten years ago when I first picked up a Persona game, Persona 3 Portable (“P3P”) to be exact.
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