Ugh. I said I'd keep it short but I can't. I have to gush. I've been waiting for this for so long and it delivers so hard right now. I have to gush. I've earned this dammit.
Persona 3 is my favorite rpg probably ever. I've played a lot of RPGs. I don't think P3 is the best one I've played, but I think that, for my tastes, it just checked all of my personal boxes. At the time of release, other Megaten fans were lamenting the game for the changes: the more approachable game difficulty, the sim elements, but I embraced them and really fell in love despite all of that. For me, what does it is the formula. In Civilization, you have "one more turn", right? But in Persona 3 it was "one more day" for me. Any time I played the game I couldn't just leave it at one day, or two days. Each play session had to be two hours minimum. Persona 3 was my addiction when it came out.
I love P4 but let's be honest, it's just more P3. P3's formula wasn't as fresh and in a way, the social links in 4 were far less poignant and interesting. I was worried that with P5, all those years ago, that the the formula would stagnate.
I'm here to report that it hasn't. As said, I'm at work and itching to scratch my itch. The love for P3 formula, one more day, has never left. I haven't seen any big improvements to the formula because, again, in tutorial, but it just feels so right being back doing that one more day thing. Like a wound twisted with a rose thorn.
This game takes me back. Not only in a wistful nostalgic way, but it just feels RIGHT.
What's even better? All the attention and praise. Back in the day, you had to pre order Atlus games or you would not get your copy. The games were rare, low print, hard as balls, didn't hold your hand, extremely niche dungeon crawlers. We had our audience and fan base but it was really small. Even after P3 it still felt small. But P5 finally my series is getting the love, adulation, and attention it deserves and it feels so vindictive and good. People who wouldn't try these games out because they perceived them to be as inferior to Final Fantasy or had low budgets are playing P5 and while that made me bitter at first, the more I think about it makes me so happy.
For years we jrpg niche fans had to deal with our genre being called for pedophiles, archaic, non-games. To see so many people eat crow and their words and finally get out of it what I and so many others have, is just an amazing feeling and makes me happy to be into games again.
I literally saw SMT go from niche series no one gave a fuck about to it going mainstream. This is how old FF fans must have felt when FF7 came out and it feels amazing.
Can't wait to get home. "One more day."
Oh. Found my old thread. Should be of use when the next SMT drops.
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=44908Thank you OL for keeping it alive all these years.