There are even a number of changes in the game world during the story and the story can diverge dependent on your choices earlier in the game. The amount of interaction you can have with characters (lots of text to read!) and the number of events that happen during your play through is very impressive. Still it’s very well done and I was genuinely curious to see how it would all play out. Also, no one in the world seems to be doing anything about the problems except for the main characters. For instance the instant acceptance of pretty much everyone that they have to shoot themselves to summon a Persona. Some of the things happening are somewhat immersion breaking though. It’s not just about you, but it’s about the growth of all the people you meet and there are very few completely one-dimensional characters in the game. What’s also nice is that it’s more of a tapestry of story lines all woven together. Instead it switches between light and dark regularly and the story can get pretty abstract / philosophical at times. The story is not a simple you are the hero and you will save the world story line. However, I can highly recommend using an emulator as I doubt I would have finished it without being able to save / load at will (mainly due to getting bored with the amount of battles necessary to progress). Also as a note, I didn’t play it on a real PSP but emulated it on my Android Nexus 5 using an emulator ( PPSSPP) so this will not be an exact review of how it plays on its original device. It has an expansion ( The Answer) which I did not play (nor would I recommend doing so from what I’ve read). It is the fourth entry of the Persona series by Atlus, all of which feature pretty similar game-play to this title. Persona 3 is an enhanced port of the original Persona 3 for the Playstation 2 (which is why I chose this one to play). My total play time was 74 hours (in game time, so probably 80 hours real-time due to reloading). Apparently I was quite under leveled (I was level 70 at the end). I played the game at hard difficulty which was not too hard, except for the final fight. The hero (you) is either a male or female high school student (and that choice actually makes a difference in the game). It’s unique because it has a very strange, dark setting / vibe and because it combines several very different game mechanics pretty successfully.
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