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Persona 3 eventually has up to ten playable characters, the way your character goes about his school year, the friends he makes and such are more or less or your choosing. Each friendship in the game has its own storyarch and a connection to the types or Personas you can create and how stronge they can be when you create them.
There's a customizable weapon system, personas are customizable, you have skills you must improve to gain more social connections.
There are a series of randomized dungeons you can enter almost every day, with lots of loot and personas to find. The battle system is pretty dynamic, more or less the goal of many fights is to find an enemy's weakness to a type of magic or weapon to achieve a series of knock downs so your party can perform an "All-Out Attack" (basically a group attack) that does heavy damage to all enemies.
Not all of the battles take place in a dungeon, you'll see other locales in the game and battle in them, giving a nice break from the dungeons. They real fun of it all is the weapon and persona fusions, as well as seeing the "social link" storylines play out.
So, its kinda like you have this big, epic quest in which you must save the world from the forces of evil, but also hang out with friends, go out on dates, study and dread exams. There are little classroom sequences that play into exams later on, but its mostly just trivia and some of the classes can be amusing. If you find them boring, you can opt to fall asleep in class.
One of the better elements of the battle system is that while your allies are totally AI controlled, they're not a bunch of goddamn retards like in other RPGs. If they see that a fire spell is absorbed by an enemy, they learn and never do it again on that type of enemy. Same thing if they find the weakness - they'll exploit it. If an enemy's HP is low enough, they'll do a physical attack instead of using thier magic points. And they won't blow through healing items if they have magic points to use first. There are also AI commands you can set them in during battle. Better still is you can actually trust the ones capable of healing to do so to you and other allies.
And as they get stronger, you can split up the team to explore the floor of a dungeon, find items, the stairs to the next floor and such. If they encounter an enemy, they'll fight it and ou can go help them or if you're alone and attacked, you can call for them and they'll eventually join the fight.
Overall, its just a really tight and well-crafted game. The main quest is very long, too. You'll get a lot out of the $30 you spent on Persona 3 FES.
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There's a customizable weapon system, personas are customizable, you have skills you must improve to gain more social connections.
There are a series of randomized dungeons you can enter almost every day, with lots of loot and personas to find. The battle system is pretty dynamic, more or less the goal of many fights is to find an enemy's weakness to a type of magic or weapon to achieve a series of knock downs so your party can perform an "All-Out Attack" (basically a group attack) that does heavy damage to all enemies.
Not all of the battles take place in a dungeon, you'll see other locales in the game and battle in them, giving a nice break from the dungeons. They real fun of it all is the weapon and persona fusions, as well as seeing the "social link" storylines play out.
So, its kinda like you have this big, epic quest in which you must save the world from the forces of evil, but also hang out with friends, go out on dates, study and dread exams. There are little classroom sequences that play into exams later on, but its mostly just trivia and some of the classes can be amusing. If you find them boring, you can opt to fall asleep in class.
One of the better elements of the battle system is that while your allies are totally AI controlled, they're not a bunch of goddamn retards like in other RPGs. If they see that a fire spell is absorbed by an enemy, they learn and never do it again on that type of enemy. Same thing if they find the weakness - they'll exploit it. If an enemy's HP is low enough, they'll do a physical attack instead of using thier magic points. And they won't blow through healing items if they have magic points to use first. There are also AI commands you can set them in during battle. Better still is you can actually trust the ones capable of healing to do so to you and other allies.
And as they get stronger, you can split up the team to explore the floor of a dungeon, find items, the stairs to the next floor and such. If they encounter an enemy, they'll fight it and ou can go help them or if you're alone and attacked, you can call for them and they'll eventually join the fight.
Overall, its just a really tight and well-crafted game. The main quest is very long, too. You'll get a lot out of the $30 you spent on Persona 3 FES.
Constant access to the save function is not always necessary.
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