First of all, for those of you who know what Persona is...
WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE!? GET YOUR ASS OVER TO PLAYSTATION STORE AND BUY THIS SHIT.
Ahem.
For those of you that don't know what Persona is...
It's basically what crystal meth would be if you could turn it into a video game.
Seriously, though, it's a lot of things. It's a dungeon-crawling RPG. It's a really good Pokemon clone. It's a visual novel. It's a dating sim. It's a time management game.
It's an Experience.
I won't spoil anything here, but the premise is that you're living a year in the life of a typical Japanese high-schooler who just had to transfer from his hometown school to one in Tokyo because of... reasons (which are explained in detail, but like I said, no spoilers).
So during the day, you go to school, hang out around town, boost your stats and get to know the myriad (and very well-written) characters around town better, forging friendships and possibly more (like I said, dating sim- Japan's gotta... uh... Japan, after all- no gay options, though, so if that's up your particular alley, sorry to disappoint).
And during the evenings, you go into alternate universes and beat the shit out of the manifestations of evil people's twisted desires to force them into pulling moral heel-face turns.
Yeah. Like I said, it's Japan.
The actual gameplay boils down to typical crawler fare, if said fare got drunk and had a steaming romp with Metal Gear Solid- ambushing enemies in the overworld is encouraged, and if you get detected too many times before you start a fight, you get booted from the dungeon for the day due to the place's security going into overdrive. And in a game with a finite amount of time available, even wasting one time slot of a day can bite you later.
Let me put it this way- you're not expected to 100% this game until AT LEAST a couple of NG+ runs in.
Deadlines are a big part of gameplay here; you're expected to beat your first dungeon within two weeks of it opening, or bad shit will happen- and not cute "oh, funny alt ending" shit, I mean "My life is legitimately ruined and I cannot come back from this" shit. But on the other hand, rushing right in is an excellent way to find out just how easy it is for the enemies in this game to garotte cocky idiots with their own trachea.
The trick is to strike a balance between improving yourself in the real world and probing further into the dungeon of the day ( you're expected to beat them over the course of several days, so don't leave it all until the last day before the bad ending smacks you in the face with a sack of dead babies).
Technically speaking, the art style is pretty typical anime style, with well-polished cutscenes and classy character portraits. The UI is... well, more inspired than I think anyone was expecting- I don't think anyone thought that Atlus could make your MC's goddamned SILHOUETTE do all the work of a standard turn-based RPG combat menu.
As for the soundtrack, it's a nice balance between Jazz and J-Pop- have a sample so you get the idea (this is the song that plays in the prologue. THE PROLOGUE. And it gets BETTER from here).
Anyways, enough of me getting gamer jizz all over this thread. Give it a look if you own a PS4, and thank me later.
WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE!? GET YOUR ASS OVER TO PLAYSTATION STORE AND BUY THIS SHIT.
Ahem.
For those of you that don't know what Persona is...
It's basically what crystal meth would be if you could turn it into a video game.
Seriously, though, it's a lot of things. It's a dungeon-crawling RPG. It's a really good Pokemon clone. It's a visual novel. It's a dating sim. It's a time management game.
It's an Experience.
I won't spoil anything here, but the premise is that you're living a year in the life of a typical Japanese high-schooler who just had to transfer from his hometown school to one in Tokyo because of... reasons (which are explained in detail, but like I said, no spoilers).
So during the day, you go to school, hang out around town, boost your stats and get to know the myriad (and very well-written) characters around town better, forging friendships and possibly more (like I said, dating sim- Japan's gotta... uh... Japan, after all- no gay options, though, so if that's up your particular alley, sorry to disappoint).
And during the evenings, you go into alternate universes and beat the shit out of the manifestations of evil people's twisted desires to force them into pulling moral heel-face turns.
Yeah. Like I said, it's Japan.
The actual gameplay boils down to typical crawler fare, if said fare got drunk and had a steaming romp with Metal Gear Solid- ambushing enemies in the overworld is encouraged, and if you get detected too many times before you start a fight, you get booted from the dungeon for the day due to the place's security going into overdrive. And in a game with a finite amount of time available, even wasting one time slot of a day can bite you later.
Let me put it this way- you're not expected to 100% this game until AT LEAST a couple of NG+ runs in.
Deadlines are a big part of gameplay here; you're expected to beat your first dungeon within two weeks of it opening, or bad shit will happen- and not cute "oh, funny alt ending" shit, I mean "My life is legitimately ruined and I cannot come back from this" shit. But on the other hand, rushing right in is an excellent way to find out just how easy it is for the enemies in this game to garotte cocky idiots with their own trachea.
The trick is to strike a balance between improving yourself in the real world and probing further into the dungeon of the day ( you're expected to beat them over the course of several days, so don't leave it all until the last day before the bad ending smacks you in the face with a sack of dead babies).
Technically speaking, the art style is pretty typical anime style, with well-polished cutscenes and classy character portraits. The UI is... well, more inspired than I think anyone was expecting- I don't think anyone thought that Atlus could make your MC's goddamned SILHOUETTE do all the work of a standard turn-based RPG combat menu.
As for the soundtrack, it's a nice balance between Jazz and J-Pop- have a sample so you get the idea (this is the song that plays in the prologue. THE PROLOGUE. And it gets BETTER from here).
Anyways, enough of me getting gamer jizz all over this thread. Give it a look if you own a PS4, and thank me later.
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