Persona 3: FES - YAY!

[epmode]

Hay look, a Persona 3 (not FES) review: http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=93308

Each Persona has a certain "type", and that type is connected to a Social Link you've made in the game - a connection with a person or group of people. The stronger the Social Link, the stronger the Persona you can create of that type. So, yes, what we've just described is a system where you go through a bright, happy school environment making friends and relationships - purely so that you can then feed on the strength of those relationships when you need to summon up demons from your own subconscious.

This is the other key link between Persona 3's two distinct games, and the element which lifts it from greatness to magnificence. Persona 3 is a little bit wrong. It knows it's wrong, and it revels in it. Summoning those Personas we mentioned? That's accomplished by taking out a gun and shooting yourself in the head. Oh, it's dressed up - it's not a gun, it's an "Evoker" - but ultimately the animation, each time you invoke a Persona, is of a young teenager placing a gun to their skull and blowing their own brains out. Some of the earlier (beautifully animated and stylised) cut-scenes show extended, harrowing scenes of kids summoning up the courage to do just that.

[Thief Silver]

http://www.got-next.com/reviews_read.php?id=654

[mollipen]

So we're just suddenly linking to old P3 reviews now?

http://playmagazine.com/index.php?fu...ge&Game_ID=634

[g0zen]

It really baffles me how Frog could play this for 80 hours and not become infuriated with the ridiculously bland dungeons and repetitive social link activities. Don't get me wrong, I do like the game, but there are a lot of parts where I felt like I was on a treadmill rather than part of a story.

[Frogacuda]

I think it helps a lot that the game gives you so much freedom to do what you want to do when you want to do it. If you were forced to do each activity for X amount of time it would definitely have gotten under my skin.

[Brand]

I enjoyed the game, but it wasn't my favorite SMT game. I personally thought, it was to easy. Still I enjoyed it, when I get FES I'll try it on hard.

[epmode]

So we're just suddenly linking to old P3 reviews now?

The Eurogamer one is new (since it's being released there very shortly). But I like yours too!

[Thief Silver]

I think it helps a lot that the game gives you so much freedom to do what you want to do when you want to do it. If you were forced to do each activity for X amount of time it would definitely have gotten under my skin.

This.

[Mikhal]

I'm afraid to play P3 now. I logged in over 118 hours in FF12 and never even beat the game due to that freedom.

[AaronChance]

I missed the original P3, since by the time I had cleared my plate for it, it could only be found on ebay. So I'll get the FES on the first day, even though I'll probably only break the seal months down the line.