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Persona 5 Review Thread

Tigress

Member
this year holy shit!!!
i wish i was able to play this on a portable tho... so manu great times with 4 golden on vita and 3p on psp..

this has been the best playstation year in a while, western PS ip's suck balls... they should go full japanese from now and i wouldn't complain.

Yeah. I prefer JRPGs on my vita. Oh well.
 

Thorn

Member
I was skeptical of this game (and the series in general), but I just started playing P3 after seeing these crazy high reviews and man is it dope.
 

MSMrRound

Member
Is there any way to play any of the older Persona games on the PS4? I've never played one.

I don't think so. So far they are available as PS2 classics on PS3, or some gamers go for Persona 4 Golden on the PSVita.

Feel free to jump in with Persona 5 though, it's fine as a standalone title and knowledge of previous games isn't really required all that much.
 

Majmun

Member
Persona 5's probably a pretty cheap game to make comparatively. It's developed in Japan, where people work for nothing.

Yeah, that's why it also takes so long before a game gets released. If they would earn money, they would work faster!
 

preta

Member
Nah not at the moment. If you have a vita you can play P4 (best version) on it but other than that you gotta own a ps2 to play all the other games.

Persona 3's also on PSP. It's got some content (most notably the option to play as a female protagonist and the ability to control all of your party members) that the PS2 version doesn't, but it also doesn't have the extended epilogue (The Answer) that that version has. (well, FES anyway)
 

Saya

Member
I don't think so. So far they are available as PS2 classics on PS3, or some gamers go for Persona 4 Golden on the PSVita.

Feel free to jump in with Persona 5 though, it's fine as a standalone title and knowledge of previous games isn't really required all that much.

Nah not at the moment. If you have a vita you can play P4 (best version) on it but other than that you gotta own a ps2 to play all the other games.

Sadly not. But Persona 1 through 4 are playable on Vita and PlayStation TV.

Although P3 is a bit different there.

Ah, I see. Thanks guys. I think I'll just jump in with Persona 5 and if I like it I'll go back and play some of the older ones.
 

Sophia

Member
Persona 1 is available on the PS1 (Original), PSP and Vita (Remake)
Persona 2: Innocent Sin is available on the PS1 (Original, JP only), PSP and Vita (PSP Port)
Persona 2: Eternal Punishment is available on the PS3, PSP, and Vita. (Original via PS1 Classics)
Persona 3 FES is available on the PS2 and PS3
Persona 3 Portable is on the PSP and Vita.
Persona 4 is available on the PS2 and PS3
Persona 4 Golden is on the Vita.

Vita can basically play every installment, assuming you are willing to accept the compromises of Persona 3 Portable.

With exception of the two halves of Persona 2, every installment is standalone.
 

Bad7667

Member
This game looks so damn stylish. I have it preordered but I'm still playing Persona 4 Golden since its release.

I'm in October, 60 hours and it feels like I have probably 20-30 more hours to go. 4 was my first game in the series and it's the only JRPG I enjoy so I am definitely buying 5 but I doubt I can start playing it for awhile.
 

ULTROS!

People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
Will I get separation anxiety with the characters like how I felt towards the Persona 4 cast during the ending?
 

Kiro

Member
Are there any important tips I should know as a first-timer to persona games? Wondering if anything isn't explained in the game and I will be like 'wtf how does this mechanic work?"
 

213372bu

Banned
Are there any important tips I should know as a first-timer to persona games? Wondering if anything isn't explained in the game and I will be like 'wtf how does this mechanic work?"

Apparently the tutorial is pretty extensive.
Not a PS3 port up but a PS4 game ported to PS3?

It's basically a PS3 port, the only difference is 720->1080p and some IQ changes.
 

duckroll

Member
To my knowledge it is a PS3 game ported to PS4, not the other way round. The game looks gorgeous due to its style, but textures, models and effects are clearly just PS3 quality.

Honestly it's not worth debating over. Regardless of it being a PS3 or PS4 game at the original base, it wouldn't have made much of a difference. Atlus is not a developer that pushes hardware to the limits and they have to work around practical resource limitations. Persona 5 doesn't look the way it is because it is a PS3 game. It looks the way it is because that's about as big an improvement over the previous titles that Atlus could afford, in terms of trying their best to satisfy expectations of fans.

I think that's the most realistic way to look at it.
 

Guess Who

Banned
Honestly it's not worth debating over. Regardless of it being a PS3 or PS4 game at the original base, it wouldn't have made much of a difference. Atlus is not a developer that pushes hardware to the limits and they have to work around practical resource limitations. Persona 5 doesn't look the way it is because it is a PS3 game. It looks the way it is because that's about as big an improvement over the previous titles that Atlus could afford, in terms of trying their best to satisfy expectations of fans.

I think that's the most realistic way to look at it.

And I mean, let's be clear. Going from P4 to P5 is night and fucking day.
 

Bad7667

Member
And I mean, let's be clear. Going from P4 to P5 is night and fucking day.

Yeah, I'm still playing P4 and P5 looks a lot better. To me, though, the transition to and from combat is the real eye candy. Those transitions and the way the menus look and move, the cover to cover animation, I just LOVE IT.

This is another one of those games that instead of going for the impressive tech graphics, like what Naughty Dog does, they use art and visual style. Nintendo does this a lot and honestly, I wish more games would as well.
 

mingo

Member
Great scores! Woke up this morning to a dispatch email from Zavvi for my Take Your Heart edition. Won't play it till Zelda is finished tho....
 

Zojirushi

Member
I wonder if I should play this or just wait for the GB endurance run. No way I would've had that much fun if I had played P4 myself.
 

Karak

Gold Member
Yep fuck that Gamespot review. Idk wth they were thinking. They legit spoil ridiculous amounts of the game. I haven't even played the game but it's blatantly obvious to piece together what's going on. The ACG and IGN review were so good at avoiding spoilers then fucking Gamespot had to fuck it all up.

Thanks man I tried.
 

HMD

Member
Never played a persona game before....this is gonna be my first one.

Don't watch trailers or stuff like that, I did that with my first Persona (P4G) and the game was even better because of it, I never knew what was going to happen and I was slowly figuring everything out along with the characters.
 

Wanderer5

Member
Or you can accept that P3P is the best version and not have to compromise at all :p

I ended up putting much more hours and actually beating it than P4 lol. Maybe I would have gotten into P4 more with Golden if portable works better for me with this series.XD

(I kind of liked the more visual novel like feel P3P had too for compromise)
 
P3P is nice but adding P4 mechanics on P3 wrecked the game's balance somewhat. P3 was designed with the AI controls in mind.

And I mean, let's be clear. Going from P4 to P5 is night and fucking day.

Yeah. P4 didn't even look as good as Nocturne or the DDS games with its low fi models and small locations. P5 looks like a revelation next to it. And what P5 lacks in technical proficiency, it more than makes up for in style. It's a lovely game to look at.
 
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