In P4G you crawl through a television and enter another dimension called The TV World. In P3P there is a phenomenon that occurs called where a labyrinth brimming with shadows that appears at the school late every night called the Dark Hour. ![]() The meat of the gameplay is when you travel to the “dungeon” aspects of the game. Often times these activities will be to boost your relationships with friends or romantic interests. They take place during a calendar year, where you’ll be going to school in the mornings, and random activities in the afternoon. Like any Persona game, they mostly take place in a high school in a town in Japan. I know this isn’t a remaster or a remake or anything, but a few more quality of life improvements would have been nice, especially for P3P. There may also be more language options here too. The only new changes I noticed were quick save being added, as well as being able to change the difficulty at any point you desired. These rereleases are exact ports of what players have played before, with very few new additions. ![]() These games can take a minimum of forty hours to finish, so I unfortunately didn’t get to finish replaying either of them just before this rerelease, but I did go back into each for a good refresher and was surprised at how similar they are to my original experiences. This dual review of both “Persona 3 Portable” and “Persona 4 Golden” will generally be of me doing my best to convince you to buy them with simple, straightforward thoughts on what I loved and didn’t love (but mostly loved). With these titles being over a decade old, there is little to be said about these games over the years that hasn’t been said already. While there are other differences besides just that, I won’t get into specifics, but having said all that, P3P is still a solid experience in its own right. A 2008 release titled “Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES” (rolls right off your tongue, doesn’t it?) had an extended epilogue of the original game that is unfortunately omitted from P3P. I say controversial, only because P3P is arguably not the definitive version of “Persona 3,” this title was originally made for the PSP back in 2010. The added bonus and slightly controversial choice of “Persona 3 Portable” coming out at the same time was a pleasant surprise, I’m all for classic games being made easily obtainable for modern gamers. With the massive success of “Persona 4 Golden” being brought back from the PS Vita grave and playable on Steam back in 2020, it was a no-brainer to further the games reach to consoles we play today. ![]() Fast forward to the present, where I have gone back to play every game in the franchise including its fighting and dancing spin-off titles, and like many others, while the latest title “Persona 5 Royal” is my favorite, it’s nice to see these classics be made available on modern hardware. I somehow overlooked the Persona games for quite a while, it wasn’t until I got the PS Vita and “Persona 4 Golden” came out that I was finally exposed to this universe, and I’ve been in love with it ever since. ![]() I grew a love for the JRPG genre at a young age, primarily with the Final Fantasy franchise.
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