Persona3Portable Review: A Series Rebirth Worth Revisiting Persona P3P JRPG
Persona 3 Portable comes to modern consoles courtesy of Atlus and Sega. Persona 3 was a milestone release for the sub-franchise, being the first game in the series helmed by director/producer Katsura Hashino, the first with Shigenori Soejima as lead artist, and the first scored by Shoji Meguro, marking a seismic stylistic shift that led to a surge in the series' popularity.
Persona 3, like the other Persona games, splits its time between two gameplay forms. Players explore Tartarus as a turn-based dungeon crawl and get to know NPCs around the school and city through social sim-style conversational gameplay, though leveling up social links only allows players to fuse more powerful Personas and does not confer additional bonuses as in later games.
This NPC individuality matters in combat and exploration, combined with Persona 3 sticking more closely to the first-person dungeon-crawling roots of Shin Megami Tensei, its parent franchise. Shin Megami Tensei is known for grind and exploration, and players can expect to spend more time dungeon-crawling here than they did in Persona 4 and Persona 5.
But to make the game playable on a portable device, Persona 3 Portable had to excise the anime cutscenes that accompanied significant story moments in the original release. They're replaced by still images from those cutscenes over which dialogue plays. Additionally, players cannot move around environments other than Tartarus. Instead, they navigate areas with menus and a cursor.
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