Well I just played and finished Persona 2 Innocent Sin over the past week. It was pretty good, much better than Persona 1 (which I thought was pretty shit). The story was a bit dumb in a lot of places, but I really enjoyed the characters and the character drama. It felt more like something in P3 and P4, whereas in comparison P1 had really boring and forgettable characters, something I wouldn't expect from a Persona game. That said, the gameplay was a big improvement. Better battle system, better level system (hated that your characters had separate level and Persona level, also they gained different EXP depending on involvement, so most of my characters just got nothing) and just generally a lot less annoying and tedious. The fusing was a bit disappointing. I usually enjoy SMT because you can just get a bunch of demons and whatever and just fuse them up and see what combinations you can get, whereas P2 doesn't really allow for this at all. You kinda just have to look at the list, see what's there, decide what you want, then go out and grind cards for it. The amount of cards you got was fine, but it still took a lot away from what I enjoy about collecting demons in an SMT game. That said, it was a fun game, did it in about 20 hours entirely on normal, fusion spells were pretty strong when you got the good combos. Lisa is my P2 waifu, but no one has topped Chie yet. Might play Eternal Punishment some day.
