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If it was just the Persona 4 style combat with the visual novel style storytelling, FES would probably win out. The female protag is the best protag in the series, fact.ĭefinitely want to throw in my lot with Persona 3 Portable, also. They should have made it so the male protag could do something other than serially date all of the female party members and ignore the guys in the first place, but it humanized characters that were cardboard cut-outs in the original game.
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Junpei, specifically, has one of the best S.Links in the series so they did a good thing by making the changes that they did. That's what P3 did with Junpei, Akihiko, and Shinjiro. Or that Teddie was just a side character and him wondering about his identity was only ever mentioned once or twice because eh who cares.

Or that Kanji stopped obsessing over what he thought masculinity was and trying to shove himself into a definition that never fit him. Instead they just hung around reacting to story beats, but you never learned about how Yosuke felt ostracized by the people in the shopping district or genuinely forgave Saki for what her shadow said about him. Imagine that you were playing P4, but you couldn't have a social link with Yosuke, Kanji, or Teddie. To me, the female protag is the definitive thing that made me come back around on P3 as a whole.
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It makes it easier to pick up and play or play over a long period of time, instead of playing the game on a PS2 (if anybody still has one hooked up) or through emulation on an old PS3 or through a copy from PSN. The bonus aspect of the Vita in particular is you can suspend the game if you have other things to do. (This may only apply to the female protagonist.
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Plus there are some new Social Links, including a few from party members who didn't have one originally. It ties in with the narrative of what P3 and P4 are, but let's face it, it's just more fun to make your party do what you want them to do. In P3/PE:FES, you have direct controls, but your party members only attack based on stuff like "Attack" "Act Freely" "Support" type commands. The other big improvement is it took some of the battle improvements from P4, such as Direct Commands over party members. So on the plus side, they replaced a lot of things through an overhead view sort of menu, so you can get around some places faster. However, the graphics are such you honestly aren't missing out that much anyways. Graphically it isn't as good as the PS2 version. From a historical perspective, those games are interesting, but that's about it.įor Persona 3, the best way I would say to play it is Persona 3 Portable. Just from playing it, I would say it's not really worth going back to it.

Persona 2 is interesting to see for fans of P3 and P4/P4G. You're basically just left choosing which one is more important.īut again, P3P is the only one you can play on Vita. Persona 3 Portable allows you to directly control all of the characters and re-balanced the game's dungeons and bosses to match, making it the one that actually plays way better.ĮDIT: I'd really like to see Atlus release another version of the game, one with FES's content and P3P's dungeon rebalances (and maybe the female protagonist!) but I don't think that will happen. You know how in Persona 4, you had to set every character to direct control after getting them? You can't do that in Persona 3 and FES. You can only set them to certain predefined commands. In Persona 3 and FES, you cannot directly control other characters. So why would anyone prefer Portable? Because the dungeons and combat are way better balanced in Portable. It's also the only one you can play on Vita. This isn't a bad way to play the game - hell, it will probably cut your playtime by at least a dozen hours - but sometimes it can feel a little stripped down. Instead, you basically have an isometric view of a still layout of each area around which you move a cursor and click on things to interact. I note that because in Persona 3 Portable, you can't do all that. Persona 3 FES also includes more scenes and social links than the original game and "The Answer", basically an expansion to the original game that is one long dungeon. Like Persona 4, you've got the "real world" in which you can see your character and other characters move and react, you can see your character running around the world, etc. Persona 3 FES is an updated re-release of the game for the PS2.
