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| From: Atlus
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $27.68
You Save: $2.31 (8%)
New (33) Used (7) from $23.40
Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 261
Format: Cd
Platform: Playstation2
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: PlayStation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 53026
Model: 53026
UPC: 730865530267
EAN: 0730865530267
ASIN: B0014CN2H6
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Excellent game May 30, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Is an excellent game, it adds a bunch of good playing hours to the original shin megami tensei:persona 3, is a must buy if you really liked the original
Holy cow, what a game! May 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fantastic, especially if you go for the offbeat and slightly disturbing (but not that disturbing, really, just kinda gothy).
My only complaint is that the fighting system is typical and a little simplistic (FFX-esque). I needed to start over on "hard" for it to be challenging at all, and even then the battling is just not that interesting. But the story line, graphics, and other elements make up for that issue and keep the game exciting.
P3F review May 27, 2008
This game is simply amazing. It's psycological nature forces you to think and feel the game, and even 70+ hours through, I was still having tons of fun (and still amazed by the story).
Thank You, Atlus.
JRPG of the highest calibur May 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Persona 3 has been touted as the undisputed pinnacle of games in the Shin Megami Tensei series, and rightfully so: the narrative combines thought-provoking dialogue with emotionally engaging voice-overs; characters are fleshed out with peculiar (and oftentimes conflicting) personalities; the universe is rich with mythological allusions; the musical score is top-notch and surprisingly catchy, changing according to the mood; bonus content breathes new life into an already time-consuming soul-eater, and the battle system is excellent to boot! From a technical standpoint, Persona 3 is mediocre at best--it doesn't quite strain PS2 hardware to its limit. However, it compensates for what it lacks graphically in virtually every other aspect, which feels remarkably polished for a third-party game. Reviewers claim that the story is not nearly as 'dark' as previous games in the series, but I find such a statement to be truly ironic. After all, the plot revolves around extinction--can it get much more serious then that? Exploring Tartarus can be tedious at times, but the ability to issue party commands gets rid of this minor inconvenience. Dungeon-crawling is not necessarily a bad thing, especially when the gameplay is as deep as this. (Besides, a true RPG fan should have extraordinary patience!) I recommend Persona 3 to everyone who is not claustrophobic.
Overall evaluation: 9/10
Amazing and slightly different RPG May 24, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I come from the perspective that this is the first Persona or SHin Megami Tensei game that I have ever looked at, intrigued by previous reviews for Persona 3 and the $30 starting price. I will say that I have gotten my money's worth of entertainment in the last month.
In brief, without giving too much of the plot away, Persona 3 is about a group of Japanese high school students with special powers who are out to save the world from monsters. Yeah, that sounds really cheesy, but I found myself sucked into the complexity of the plot. Characters that originally seemed one dimensional, due to the length of the game, become very multidimensional (and there are a good number of characters, both to command and to charm). You advance in the game basically two ways - Sim dating/friendship style interactions, and dungeon (in this case, tower) crawling. Although the game is fairly linear, there is quite a bit of strategy in maxing your social interactions and creating new personas (the things you summon to fight, which apparently there are 170-ish of).
FES is the current updated edition of the game, which includes the answer, a straight dungeon crawl coda to the end of the main part, the journey.
Here are some things to keep in mind:
This game is loooooooong, and there are not a lot of shortcuts that I can see. Long as approximately 70 hours of game time, possibly 100, depending on what you do. And this game is not donkey kong- it is not satisfying in little time bites. So it's a time commitment, be aware before you start and get hooked.
The whole using the fake gun to your head to summon the personas some may find objectionable, though you basically do not notice it after a few hours of playing.
In addition, many of the personas use religious imagery from most of the major world religions, living and dead - so some may find that objectionable as well.
I will have to say that the sex and violence is kept to a minimum in general - there is teen dating and suggestive dialogue, but not overt teen sex, and minimum blood and gore.
It is a combo of dungeon crawl and heavy social RPG interaction, so if you don't like that...
I personally loved this game, and look forward to the US release of persona 4.
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