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One last thing, both me and my brother love rpgs. We usually play the same things. From trailers and gameplay I've seen they don't seem too mature or anything, yet they have M rating. Do you think the game would be good for a 14 year old? I mean, what's so mature about it

Many of the persona's have nudity. Some coarse language (Kanji's got quite the potty mouth). Penis Demon.
 
Heeeey...

I've never played a Persona game, and I don't really like anime high school stuff. But I loved Catherine and Trauma Center. Should I look out for this game? :0

If you have the consoles to do so, I'd recommend playing 3 and/or 4. Even people normally put off by anime high school shenanigans like these games.
 
P4G before P3 is the way to go, much smoother introduction to the mechanics and the pacing is so much better. P3 is excellent for playing afterwards.

Usually people who start with P4 (especially P4G, not the original) have difficulty going back to Persona 3 because of the gameplay differences.
 
Like what kind of themes? The Persona/demons I'm guessing?

Better yet, here's what ESRB had to say on Persona 3 Portable, as an example.

ESRB said:
This is a role-playing game in which players control either a male or female student who teams up with other high-school students to unravel the mystery behind a tower called Tartarus. Players interact with classmates, teachers, and various town characters on their way to solving the mystery. Players can summon 'Personas,' which are creatures that can perform special offensive and defensive moves to aid during battles against monsters. Combat is turn-based with numeric values and light effects indicating damage. Some sequences depict characters summoning Personas by shooting themselves in the head with a gun-like device (an Evoker); however, glass shards materialize through the exit wound. Bloodstains are sometimes depicted on walls, the ground, and on the sides of Tartarus. Female creatures (female Personas) occasionally are depicted topless or with revealing costumes; male creatures have phallic-shaped heads and torsos. Story elements contain references to 'Rampant Sexuality' and characters that make 'sexual advances.' The words 'sh*t,' 'a*s,' and 'b*tch' appear in the dialogue.
 
Usually people who start with P4 (especially P4G, not the original) have difficulty going back to Persona 3 because of the gameplay differences.
Yup. Play in order of release, because it's hard to go back after gameplay improvements made. Persona 3 FES for ideal story experience (Portable cuts out animated cutscenes but adds direct party control in exchange) and then Persona 4 Golden if you have a Vita or Vita TV.
 
Like what kind of themes? The Persona/demons I'm guessing?

Here is what I found according to ESRB for Persona 4 Golden: http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsis.jsp?Certificate=32562&Title=

Content Descriptors: Alcohol Reference, Animated Blood, Language, Partial Nudity, Sexual Themes, Violence

Rating Summary: This is a role-playing game in which players control high school students who must fight monsters in a fantasy world to solve a murder mystery. In addition to swords, pistols, and magical attacks, players use various “Personas” (i.e., creatures that can perform special offensive/defensive moves) to fight monsters in turn-based combat; damage is indicated by battle cries, impact effects, and a loss of hit points. Colorful blood splashes may occur during battle, and some environments depict blood stains on the floor/walls. A number of female monsters are depicted with exposed breasts, while other monsters have phallic-shaped heads and torsos. Various Personas (e.g., Succubus, Incubus) have sexual characteristics that are described in text (e.g., “They visit sleeping men/women and have sexual intercourse with them.”); one female Persona is depicted as a gyrating pole dancer. Alcohol is occasionally referenced in the dialogue, including a long scene in which the main characters play “drinking games” at a club; although alcohol is never consumed, characters exhibit common signs of intoxication (e.g., slurred speech, erratic gestures, red faces). The words “sh*t” and “a*shole” can be heard in dialogue.

It's pretty safe for a mature rating game I would say...at least I think. Although there is a Persona called Mara who is shaped like a penis but other than that you're fine. XD
 
Persona started at 3.

Honestly, Persona 1 and 2 are such different experiences that they might as well be a different series. And although my personal experience with them is fairly minimal, I haven't heard much positive stuff about 1 (I've heard great things about 2, but it felt so dated that I couldn't really get into it)
 
Like what kind of themes? The Persona/demons I'm guessing?

Also murders (nothing too explicit though, they are just a major point in the stories).

And I guess the language used by some (like the shadows in P4).


I was playing stuff like this when I was 14... But I was also a weird kid, so idk.
 
Why did I sell my PS3? -__-

Ahh well, I might just watch playthroughs of P3 and P4 on YouTube.

You don't need a PS3...just use your PS2 if you have one or get one. Much cheaper alternative and you can play P3 FES and P4.

If you haven't played any other SMT games either, you have a lot to catch up on on the PS2.

I could make some other PS2 recommendations too...well worth the investment.
 
I'm pretty sure I was around 14 when I first played persona 3, it really isn't that bad.I feel like the main reason it's M and not T is a small number of persona that are very suggestive in nature. And even then, it's almost more comical than anything IMO

Also, Rise's shadow in persona 4 LOL
 
I can't help but think this is exactly the kind of game Square-Enix should've went into with The World Ends With You franchise. >_>
 
Okay, follow me down the rabbit hole a minute...

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So Citroën seems to be the car logo that inspired the school logo this time around. Interestingly, Lupin (which the Persona team said was a stylistic influence) drove a Citroën 2CV in The Castle of Cagliostro. Citroën was also very innovative in the late 1960's, ahead of its time in features, during the same time the original Lupin III manga was written. And just like the Persona team seems to be trying to innovate with P5.

This changes everything
nothing
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Their statements about the velvet room potentially being against you (ie: its trying to persuade you from doing something, rather that guide you through a good route) are... something I'm all for.

if you have to handle the velvet room from behind bars and have to talk to igor from the other side (i imagine the assistants being a bit cheeky), i'd be pretty happy with that.



also: yay at guns and melee returning :D
 
That's a fucking terrible way of experiencing Persona.
Tell me about it...

You don't need a PS3...just use your PS2 if you have one or get one. Much cheaper alternative and you can play P3 FES and P4.

If you haven't played any other SMT games either, you have a lot to catch up on on the PS2.

I could make some other PS2 recommendations too...well worth the investment.

Hmm, didn't consider that option. There are definitely a ton of games on the PS2 I would like to go back and play; especially JRPGs.
 
How old is he?

14, I believe he said.

Man... it's been a long time. I got into this series when I was 15, back in 2009 after learning of it through Giant Bomb's Endurance Run.

I can't help but think this is exactly the kind of game Square-Enix should've went into with The World Ends With You franchise. >_>

Pretty much, yeah. The World Ends With You could have been more, but whatever. It had a fantastic first game, I guess that's a good way to remember it by... if it weren't for that stupid tease.
 
3 is a much darker game then 4. I mean, they shoot themselves in the head to bring out their Persona. lol

Also, Akanari's social link is some depressing shit. And that bad ending...

I'm part of the minority, then. I started with P4G and played P3 after. I still really enjoyed P3.

Same here. I will say though 3 took a much longer time for me to get into it, but once it picked up, it was amazing.
 
14 turning 15.

I searched up Mara. And got an idea lol. Any other name of a female persona so I can look it and get an idea?

Satan.

So Citroën seems to be the car logo that inspired the school logo this time around. Interestingly, Lupin (which the Persona team said was a stylistic influence) drove a Citroën 2CV in The Castle of Cagliostro. Citroën was also very innovative in the late 1960's, ahead of its time in features, during the same time the original Lupin III manga was written. And just like the Persona team seems to be trying to innovate with P5.

This changes everything
nothing
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Heh, nice tidbit of info.
 
14 turning 15.

I searched up Mara. And got an idea lol. Any other name of a female persona so I can look it and get an idea?

Eh he'll be fine. If he's interested in the game, then that's all that's needed.

It's not like you're letting the kid watch A Serbian Film or something.
 
I honestly didn't expect Persona 5 to garner this much attention. The reception is much bigger than I expected and the reactions are unanimously positive.
 
I can't help but think this is exactly the kind of game Square-Enix should've went into with The World Ends With You franchise. >_>

SE really should capitalize on Persona's popularity and release another TWEWY game. But alas...

Yikes. I'm not too sure about letting my brother play it now lol

I played P4 when I was like 15. 14 is fine.

Demon nudity is generally not too explicit, and you can go through the whole game without ever reaching the dick demon.

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14 turning 15.

I searched up Mara. And got an idea lol. Any other name of a female persona so I can look it and get an idea?

Why don't you say what kind of games he play? That would help.

Anyway, Mara is the most "popular" one, the rest are mostly offensive because of the name (Beelzebub, Satan, etc).
 
While I generally don't disagree, it should be noted that the past year marked the rise of some previously-thought unlikely ports with console-focused developers like Idea Factory, Compile Heart and Acquire bringing their games to PC.

Like I said, with the rumor of SCE helping funding and making (and possibly marketing the game with Atlus),I don't really see the game being on PC happening.

Second, the developers you named in that post just happened to make most of the super niche games, with Compile Hearts being a studio under Idea Factory and Acquire being under GungHo (which happens to make most of its money from mobile and MMO games, which happens to have PC as a main platform). The problems with their games from being super niche is they are too weird for the regular market of gamers and JRPG fans in general. Despite the popularity of the systems they release their games on (DS, PSP, PS3, etc), they don't and will never have a bigger market than what they already have. After reviewing their financial situation, you could easily figure that releasing some of their games on PC (via Steam) could cope a bit for that publishing cost affiliated with Japanese games.

Furthermore, if you also take into account that, despite looking like "niche" games, the Persona franchise (and to some extent the Shin Megami Tensei franchise) are "hardcore" JRPGs at heart, which has a much much larger market available to them and that already makes them way more appealing to the regular market and JRPG fans alike. The main attraction with the Persona franchise is the idea of Murder/Mystery/Cult/Demons fused to a JRPG, which already makes it more appealing than the Final Fantasy franchise for a lot of people. The only advantage Square used to have for their games is the marketing power they bring for their big titles, but based on the impressions and reactions to the latest Persona 5 trailer, more people seem to be hyped for this game than FF XV.
 
I also feel like the Persona series has no reason to be in any discussion about being censored for teenagers.

Hell, I think P4 is a game any kid in their formative years should play.
 
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