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Title: SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI®: PERSONA 3™ DELUXE EDITION (ペルソナ3)
Platform: PlayStation 2
Publisher: Atlus Co.
Developer: Atlus Co.
Genre: Role-Playing
Release Date: Summer 2007 (US)
July 13th, 2006 (JP)
April 19th, 2007 (JP) Fes
Official Website: ペルソナ3　公式サイト (http://p3.atlus.co.jp/) (Japanese)

In Persona 3, you’ll assume the role of a high school student, orphaned as a young boy, who’s recently transferred to Gekkoukan High School on Port Island. Shortly after his arrival, he is attacked by creatures of the night known as Shadows. The assault awakens his Persona, Orpheus, from the depths of his subconscious, enabling him to defeat the terrifying foes. He soon discovers that he shares this special ability with other students at his new school. From them, he learns of the Dark Hour, a hidden time that exists between one day and the next, swarming with Shadows. These monsters have been steadily claiming victims aptly nicknamed “The Lost”—people who’ve inexplicably become mindl-5(ess zombies. Under the supervision of school chairman Shuji Ikutsuki, he joins his new companions in confronting this threat to humanity…

With your school as the primary battlefield, you’ll be forced to jugg-2(le between two lives: student by day, defender against evil by night. And your greatest challenges await you on the eve of each full moon.

Key Features:

•  Engaging Social Link system lets you build intimate relationships with friends and love interests alike!
•  Unforgettable characters and professionally-acted dialogue bring the story to life!
•  Massive replay value with over 20 Social Links and a complex storyline encompassing a full school year.
•  Highly stylized designs grace the beautiful 2D character portraits, detailed 3D animations, and heart-pounding cut scenes!
•  Intense, strategic battle system; find and exploit enemy weaknesses with the help of your allies!

Bonus Materials:

•  A full-color, 52-page art book packed with character art, concept sketches, and more!
•  Soundtrack CD featuring the hip urban-techno music of Shoji Meguro, composer of the haunting and unforgettable scores for Nocturne and Digital Devil Saga!
•  A striking collector’s box to store your game and all the extra goodies!

Press release: http://www.atlus.com/prpdf/P3.pdf

So, wait, they're going to include the absolutely atrocious Persona 3 OST, but they refused to include an OST with Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner, which had, arguably, superior music?

Also, they shouldn't have included "Shin Megami Tensei" in the title. Long, unnecessary titles do not equal sales unless "Final Fantasy" is in it.

Thanks for the information! Now I can´t wait to buy Persona 3, with both the artbook and the OST. I guess this will be a good reason to save my money.

And about that sorry Heat! But like I say P3 is a good game, and with the Best comes the best!!!

Sadly they have been doing that with every game related to SMT,that comes over here.With Nocturne,I can understand...but adding SMT to Digital Devil Saga,Devil Summoner and now Persona 3.

...it is just getting annoying.But it can't be helped,they will probably continue to do this,regardless if it's annoying to us or not.

That doesn't even make any sense.

This was brought to Atlus NA's attention during the release of DDS, but they are just going to keep going with it.

Atlus USA is content with people feeling like complete fools when trying to buy their products. I don't know about you, but I find it embarrassing having to say "Shin Megami Tensei: [Insert Title]" 3 times before I'm asked to spell it out.

"What? Could you spell that... Is that all one word? We don't sell imports here.".

This is why I only buy their games online now.

I've had that done to me from before,when I was buying Nocturne for the first time,I think.

But I think most of the workers at Gamestop know what I'm talking about as of now,atleast I hope.I already preordered P3,and the only problem they had was just looking for the words "Persona 3",since Shin Megami Tensei was all they could find.

I didn't mind it with Shin Megami Tensei 3, since that's the actual title, but Atlus USA thinks they're creating some brand recognition by adding "Shin Megami Tensei" to every damn game they release, so you wind up with titles like "Shin Megami Tensei Digital Devil Saga" and "Shin Megami Tensei: Kuzunoha Raidou vs the Soulless Army". It's ridiculous.

It is a bit much, but from a marketing perspective it works. Unfortunately for them, the phrase isn't exactly English friendly.

I completely disagree about the soundtrack by the way, but to each their own. At the same time, it's obviously going to be truncated...

It's funny that they took this long to announce all of this. Someone brought to my attention a short time before I took the main site down (and I posted it) that EBGames and Gamestop have listed all of these items for weeks.

I agree, it's a nuisance. I understand the marketing perspective, but being such niche titles (in the US) to begin with, I doubt it has a huge factor in sales. For the sake of being official I added it to the post, but will never refer to DDS or Persona as SMT. If anything, I wouldn't have minded seeing Revelations: Persona 3, but that was dropped by the second title.

As for the soundtrack, what is it comparable to? P2's trance-like soundtrack was among my favorites.

I suppose I'd call it "experimental". It has techno moments, but it also has hip hop and other genres mixed in. People are probably going to love it or hate it. I'm in the former camp.

Yes it does have a type of hip-hop theme to it.
Even in the Reincarnation OST adds more words in the lyrics to the remixed songs from P3,that remind me of some rap songs.

I'm not really a fan of rap or hip-hop myself.

I thought the soundtrack was fine, though I'm partial to 'Blues in Velvet room' and 'Kimi no Kioku.'

Yes they´re good ones, but another good one in my opinion is "Mass Desctruction" anyway! Does anyone of you here, have the lyrics for this song?

...So, is the bonus soundtrack the remixed version, the original, or a totally new one? o.O
 
But I suppose the better question would be: Does the world really need that many P3 soundtracks?
 
I don't... >.>

The former is just a mediocre arrange of the original Velvet Room theme, and the latter is just Memories of the City [the only decent song on the OST] with terrible vocals added in.



No. Hell, it's of my opinion that we didn't even need one.

Does anyone knows in what date will be arriving?

EBgames and Gamestop have it listed it coming out near the end of July, they were right about the artbook and soundtrack so the date might be accurate.

Officially it's Summer 2007

D: Sucks that we can't get the FES edition, but at least we're getting P3.

Still, why does it feel like buying this version of P3 won't be worth it anymore when there's an extended version?

Are you serious about the FES edition? And anyway I guess it will be worth buying this version of Persona 3, because in what other way we can play it? You need to see the positive side of the case!!!  

And I will save some extra money to buy FES, even if I can only buy it in Japanese and can´t play it!!

Atlus USA has not had one official statement on FES, that's all I need to know.
It's sucks, but based on the impressions I've read FES is not really substantial piece of the Persona 3 experience.

I'm glad Atlus is going all out on the P3 goodies, I'm a bit fan of the tunes.

"All out on the P3 goodies"? Compared to all the extra/special crap Japan got for its release, we got boned. Hard.

And you were seriously expecting stuff from the Konami special edition?'

Music CD, Art book? That's damn good for an NA release.

We never get any of the goodies Japan gets, which really sucks. But the artbook makes me happy.

I am just wondering how long Altus USA will wait till they finally reveal whether FES is coming or not.  

I am sure they might be worried that announcing that FES won't be released will adversely effect P3's sales.

But if they wait to long then they could be adversely effecting Atlus' image as a whole.  

I mean, if NISA can release 10 or 11 shitty games a year, why can't atlus bite the bullet on one expansion?  Atlus isn't huge, but its not like Atlus is anywhere near as small as it was 4 or 5 years ago.

I'm pretty sure they already stated Fes would not be released, at least not for the initial release.

Atlus USA hasn't officially said anything about FES being released in NA, but it should be blatantly obvious at this point that we are not getting it packaged with P3.

Yes, officially it's still undecided, but if anyone around here reads NeoGAF there is an Atlus employee who has given a lot of insight into the problem with localizing FES. He hasn't blatantly said it, but it doesn't sound like they have done anything with FES so it won't be in the initial release that's for sure.

I posted a news article on the subject, but perhaps it wasn't very clear that it was only in reference to it not being with the initial release.. I wouldn't say it will never come out, but sales of Persona 3 are clearly going to have to make it worth their time. It's not like DDS2 in that it's necessary to finish the story.

I was of some hope that it might be included (there has, after all, been an increase in announced games for the US from Atlus that are still in development in Japan), but it was a bit much. We're talking an add on that's almost as large as the original game. To localize both at once and put it out for $50 would certainly not be very lucrative for Atlus USA. Frankly, from a business perspective, it would be stupid to do.

I'm still going to ask them about it whenever I bother to get around to an interview.

If you ever interview Atlus USA, ask them why they hired such a mediocre "graphics" designer. Atlus USA localized games have some of the most terribly designed box designs and logos -- like something done by some 14-year-old who just learned how to use Photoshop, the only thing missing is the abuse of lens flare. A good example is the terrible Kuzunoha Raidou logo.

And why dont you propose something better then!!!

Jesus Christ, are you ever going to come up with some decent arguments, or are you going to retort every post with some goddamn school yard logic?

Meh, I don't mind the boxes so much.

LOL This is great.

How come your the first person who has brought this up? I think a lot of people appreciate how use the original box art for the most part instead of butchering with the inclusion of CG models and such (see Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, Valkyrie Profile 2).

The current Persona 3 box art logo just SUCKS though. I better be just a placeholder.

EDIT: On second thought, I do remember the Devil Summoner logo really sucking. They changed it up on the final box art though I believe.

They did change the Devil Summoner text, it was something else previously. That old text is actually still on their press site. What they wound up with is much better.

Persona 3's, at least what's on EBGames, right now, certainly isn't that spectacular. The background artwork itself is absolutely fine, but essentially they took the logo and added a red glow to it. That pentagram logo is totally superfluous and, if anything, should be made FAR smaller and stuck in the corner (if not ditched entirely). On a whole, it's all just too big.

I'm really not of the opinion that there are gamers out there that will see that pentagram logo and instantly want to buy Persona 3. These people mostly know about it already.

Honestly, though, in general (excluding this box art, in particular) their box arts haven't really been any worse than any other company out there.  I can spot the Photoshop filters too, but you can spot them (and other free fonts sometimes) on covers from many, many companies. I personally have no real problem with them most of the time, but again, this one is particularly bad lol. I don't personally agree that Devil Summoner's sucked (compared to what else is out there, especially), although you could argue that it's way too cluttered at the bottom due to all the branding attached.

In any case, EBGames and Gamestop are quick to label: "All images are Temporary and are not considered final artwork." Personally, I think there's a strong chance that these are going to change and are up there just to be up. People are more likely to pay attention to an item with an image attached. As little as some may like Atlus's previous artwork, I think it's pretty clear that this was a five minute edit.

Yeah, I'm not buying it for the box. It could be worse. I'm buying it to support the brand, so that hopefully we'll see more.

I may be the only person who brought it up here, but I'm not the only person who thinks this. I know several people who think Atlus USA games have shitty box designs. The fonts they use are terrible -- they're these really mediocre freeware fonts that the guy probably pulled off of DaFont.com after spending only 5 minutes looking. Look at the Shin Megami Tensei 3 box design and the Digital Devil Saga box designs, both have "SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI" stretched on top of the logo, and it looks like shit. I don't even think the guy is a graphics designer, but rather, probably some random Atlus USA staff member who happened to have Photoshop, so he volunteered. He's an amateur who doesn't know what the hell he's doing. Boxes should look good, because they're a representation of the game. It's like clothes. Most people want to wear things that look good -- it should be the same thing with box designs.

I agree with Heat and fearing more for the P3 box art after I saw the front page for the US version of the P3 website today:

http://www.atlus.com/persona3/

Oh dear god, I hope they're not seriously going to use the pink.

One thing I noticed was that the Disgaea box art's title actually used a free version of a font that was designed for the film Dark Crystal lol.

This pink is hideous, though. Like I said, I don't think Atlus's boxes in general are any worse than most of what's out there... but if they go this route, it's going to look just plain awful.

I mean, as it stands, they have at least three pretty damn nice pieces of artwork to use, the logo is available... this glow just isn't necessary.

Forgive me if this has been asked before, but is there an official release date for Persona 3?

I'm sorry, I don't mean to go off topic.

I guess is somewhere around July, that´s what other people say, but I heard that the date was July 27, but I´m not sure.

Makes you wonder,what moron gave the OK to use a pink glow around the logo... ....when it doesn't even fit the other colors around it.

But I would have to agree,the outer glow is just...not necessary.

I've heard July 27th, as well.

Also, I'm glad to see that the 'goodies' won't just be available through pre-order. I pre-ordered Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin just one day late and missed out on all the awesome stuff that came with it.

Also, I can't wait to get my hand on the OST. I loved Nocturne's and the DDS games' to death, up until they were stolen. I really need to replace them from Atlus.com one of these days, but I keep procrastinating.:frown:

And what does the Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin bring?

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I didn't have a DS, but I was really tempted to pre-order that game, just for all of this stuff.

Wow! Sure is a good gift!! The two things that I look that are worth, are the Timeline and the artbook. I guess my favorite Castlevania game was, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and in the portables Circle of the Moon.

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Final box art of Persona 3? I put down my preorder for this game along with Riviera PSP already, so I won't have to hunt around for them. Just two more months, I can't wait.

I hope it isn't...that's just messed up they changed the box art.
I mean,they left it alone for Nocturne and Raidou,I can't remember if they did with DDS.

So why Persona?

As I stated on the Haven, that's terrible. It's like Atlus USA is trying to make their covers look as amateur as possible.

What a good box art, have Persona 3, now I can't wait. But I guess I will buy both Persona 3 and Persona 3 FES, even if I can't play it and is in Japanese.

^I hate reading your posts.

What's the weather like up there in Atlus' ass?

I agree with heat on this one, that boxart is pretty really bad.

That does look pretty hideous.  I guess all we can hope for now is a reversible cover.

My guess is that this box art is for the deluxe box that holds the actual game case (with the original art we saw earlier minus the pink shadowing hopefully), the artbook and CD. Or like Jones said, the cover is reversible.

It's not that bad. You're over reacting.

Dont read them then!! (of course if you're talking to me!)

I have new found respect for Heat's opinions.

That boxart is just terrible.

I can't. They're like driving past a bad car crash. You just HAVE to look.

Okay I will give you a little hint... When you see my name on the board, why dont you skip what I say. What do you think?

I don't think he want like idea that. Have do not all ok at!!?!!

WHAT?? I dont understand you!! First rearrange your words and then talk.

Now you know how I feel.

I´m not interested in how you feel anyway!!

LOL Holy shit. This is great.

Emilio, it's probably the language barrier at work here, but you're dumb as dirt. Then again, considering that you're from Guatemala, it probably isn't.

Ha ha!! Let me tell you that even I, dont like my country, but hey I guess I´m the only one in my country that knows about Megaten games, there are few people that really knows about this stuff. And if sometimes, I can´t use the right words, I dont care, at least some of you understand me.

That's fine if you don't like your country, I wouldn't either, but please don't come here like the rest of your people seem to be doing.

Sure you are.


I LOL'ed.

You two look like girlfriends (Stack Bundles and Heat) or maybe boyfriends... Who knows? And Heat, come on you better change that name, you dont diserve it, dont ruin a good character like "Heat". Because what I look, is that you dont like Megaten games.

I would suggest you keep your creepy forum-yaoi-slash fantasies to yourself.

And also, I can't think of any other pseudonyms to use, despite my trying numerous times over the past 3 years. Heat is the only thing that's stuck. So, unfortunately for you, I most likely won't be changing it anytime soon.

As for your comment about my not liking Megami Tensei games (I think the term "Megaten" is ridiculous); I like some. Not all. I'm not a blind follower of the series, I don't think every damn game that falls under the Megami Tensei umbrella is perfect.

Weak.

.....

Dude, calm down. You don't need to go on the offensive everytime someone disagrees with you.

Okay, that's all for me!! But why dont you say that to the other two? I guess from now on, I'm going to ignore them.

Because you're the one that gets all antsy?

Okay, whatever!!

Yeah, dude. You're the only one getting heated around here.

BTW, you couldn't ignore me if you tried.

So you are that proud of your country?
Oh U.S.A. enemy of humanity, you destroy earth with your pollution, you speak of freedom when you're oppressing other countries to obtain their oil (such hypocrites), you meddlesome country appearing where you are not invited. Oh and you fill our planet with nukes.
Foul yankees don't start saying things about other countries as your short minds can't expand to know anything else but yourselves.


Just for the record Heat your Fiancée started the conflict.

It's funny how you're all pissed off about Stack Bundle's remarks towards... whatever the hell country it is you're from, but then you go on some Anti-USA tangent. Nice going. You even used the term "hypocrite", yet you're obviously one yourself.

Also, I believe Stack Bundles is a male, so it would be "fiance". Unless, you're trying to insult him by referring to him as a woman, but then wouldn't that be considered sexist? Edit: Unless you're referring to me. Your terrible English is quite confusing. I, too, am a male. So, it would still be "fiance".

I'm also inclined to believe that you're either Emilio Morales, or one of his friends he decided to sic on us because he can't defend himself.

Wow I learned something new today.  I didn't know that it was Fiance for guys and Fiancee for girls.  Are they pronounced the same?

As far as I know. They may be pronounced different in French, but in English, they're both pronounced the same.

Ok maybe I went to far in the last quote, so it goes like this:
Just for the record Heat, Stack Bundles started the conflict. Because it's the truth, it was yourself who stated that this is a public forum and everyone has the right to write their opinion, Stack Bundles is just flaming.

Now, how would I be a "hypocrite"?

Seems like you're doing the same thing, though.

Totally owned haha!:xd:
Anyway I'll stand onto that.

Let's get back to Persona 3 now...

Ign has released some new English videos of the game, the voice acting sounds pretty good in my opinion.

I have always found this strange as well. It seems that the first avenue of recourse for a foreigner is to spew anti-usa sentiment.  If we were to do the same towards their country, we are considered close minded and naive.



We also happen to be the first country that is hounded for aid or help, either humanitarian or military, when something serious goes down. I can't say I agree with everything (or the majority of decisions currently) we do foreign policy wise, but I get tired of the image you and many others are projecting.

Junpei sounds like a Ninja Turtle -- but a Ninja Turtle is better than bland Japanese voice acting, so, whatever.

I'm not sure if I've already mentioned this in this thread but: Why the hell are they using goddamned Japanese suffixes in the English version? It sounds ridiculous, it looks ridiculous, and there's absolutely no reason for them to be in the English version of the game.



Yeah, it pisses me off. Why should we show them any respect if they're not going to show us any?

Come on, what a pathetic excuse... He totally screw stack bundles, and you come to me with this? And look who's the one that keep with the fight! I already put "whatever" but you keep going.

And about the voice acting in P3, I guess is good, they find good voice actors for this, and this reminds me about Persona 2 Eternal Punishment, they also find good cuality voice actors. Let me add to this, "IN MY OPINION" before anyone (Heat and Stack Bundles) began bothering me.

To repeat what Stack Bundles already said: You're dumb as dirt. That's really all there is to it.

Yea, yeah, whatever. You better go talk with someone else.

Junpei sounded like someone from Full Metal Alchemist to me :\ I thought Yukari sounded like Fay from Cowboy Bebop, but I'm not really sure, after watching it again she sounds like some other character from some other show.

From what I have read about the localization via interviews and people playing partially localized review copies it seems like much of the games Japanese themed content is going to be left intact.  

I guess the use of honorifics is just an extension of that policy.  Seems like a pointless decision, but if they think it will help sales I guess they should just roll with it.  Hopefully it isn't used every time a character says someones name, cause that would get old extremely fast.

I was going to reply to the guats, but everyone already said anything that I would have, minus all the vulgarities.

Anyway, if I have to read "chan" and "san" and whatever other honorific over and over again in P3(assuming I bother with this game), I'm going to be pissed off.

Respect? How can you ask for respect when it was us who were disrespected at first?



Mmm... If many others speak ill of you as well, there must be a reason for it, don't you think?
We didn't create that image, it had its origins with you.

But lets stop with this arguing since it won't lead us anywhere.

I believe it was Francis Bacon who said, "In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior." -- what exactly do you get out of retaliating with your own generalizations? You expect people to change their way because you decided to flame back?



I enjoy arguing.

Okay, lets get back to Persona 3.

Let's not. This game will suck just like Megami Tensei has for a while now.

But I a from guatemala and i think in my opinon that it willbe best game ever for ps2 and any rpg any console so what!

No persona 3 best game alredy!! I no this but, never even yet played!! Okay, it is just!!

PS: Want to make comic of Persona with me?

You guys turned this topic into a:

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lol I've been wanting to post that picture :xd:

Yes you are right it IS best game ever NOW!!!!

PS: i am from Guatemala you have problem!!!!//?

PS PS 2+: no we should make MOVIE and VIDEOGAME instead! we guatamala can be in it n my pearsona will be dante!1 no wait, sefirof! he is best villain ever!!!11

PS PS PS3 3+1: PERSONA 3 BEST GAME EVER MADE EVER!!! NO WILL COMPEAR!

I'm not even anticipating this game like I did in the past with previous Megaten titles.

The last Megami Tensei game I anticipated was Shin Megami Tensei 3. Seems like Atlus games are dipping in quality.

lol I'm completely hyped about this game coming over to the US. :\ I wish they were releasing this game sooner.

And now tell me what kind of games to do you like? Harvest Moon? Come on what a looser!!! Hey! are you out of friends? Ha ha ha ha!! or maybe why dont you go to play with your barbies. I will say this again: WHAT A LOOSER!! Harvest Moon? Ha ha ha ha!!!

ahem! ahem! Going back to P3 have you seen the english videos at ign yet? I have, in major changes no, the guns werent removed Whoho! Also i dont know why but the tartaros was changed to the "Thabel", Whats that!!! Also i think but just think that thanatos name was changed to zarathos, just look the videos.What do you think?

Pd: Can anyone please PM me Megaten heavens web?

I'm sorry, was I supposed to be insulted or offended at your cliché, and pathetic excuse for a flame? Word to your mother: "looser" and "loser" are two completely different words. Learn English before you post on English forums.


No. The last thing any forum needs is more idiots like you -- people who can't even form coherent sentences.

All right, please stop arguing. It's pointless... move it to IMs or PMs or something if you just absolutely have to say something personal. It has nothing to do with Persona 3.

Thanks.

Yes, that's a good one! But another change that I look, are the shadows they're fighting, If I'm right, they have a green rounded mask and not a red butterfly shape mask in their head. Or maybe they're other demons? I guess they did pretty good for what I have seen.

And sorry about that Tony!!

There are a few of those shadow enemies and different types have different masks.

i can't wait for this game... it's probably the last great rpg for ps2...

Oh really? Thanks for clearing me this out. Then I guess is alright, they're making a good effort in this one. I guess they need it, because if this is going to be the one of the last rpg for the PS2, then probably they need to put 110% in the game.

This and possibly the Star Ocean 4 that's supposed to be coming out. I say possibly because IMO SO3 was a bit of a flop.

I have Star Ocean: Till the end of Time, and for me was a good cuality game, but in some cases, it was very hard to complete, and the game was packed with many extra things like other character costumes and the vs. mode.

http://high-scoreonline.com/2007/06/20/persona-3-footage/

New footage and voice acting! Just a month left until it's finally out!

They totally should've dubbed the theme song over using an English vocalist. You know, a vocalist that doesn't sound like nails on a chalkboard.

Man, I can't wait to have the game! But when is the release date?

Atlus hasn't announced anything official, but the Gamestop date is 7/24/07 for North America, hopefully they won't delay it any further.

Shit. One of the Atlus guys told me when it was coming but I forget the date.

Atlus's press site lists the same date as Gamestop. July 24, 2007. Obviously it can change, but it is the official date as well.

What'd you delete Sayck? C'mon... heh heh.

I personally can't wait for this game since I saw the new trailer with some actual gameplay footage. I like the comic book styling and so far all the VA seems spot-on. Hope the same goes for the rest of the game. My first Persona! Gah.. -_-

So it begins...the countdown to my first Persona as well. :)

I can't wait!

Noob!

.....

Kind of odd if you think about it. You are excited, yet this Persona is radically different from the others. You can't really base your excitement on the previous installments.

Yes. I'm sure Persona 3 will be the first game of it's kind for many people. There are some fundamentals from the previous games though... setting is quiet reminiscent of the first game (and IS I imagine). Story is heavily focused around character development... Commu system seems like a really refined contact system... Yeah, I just hope it's not as half-baked as Devil Summoner.

Uh, no. Have you even played the first Persona game, or Innocent Sin? I'm guessing not.

I started the one of them because I tried to play it on my computer with a download but my sound card didn't support it so that's as far as I went. I mean, I've read the game scripts but yeah, I can't find the time or the game outside of amazon and eBay to actually play it. The games look fantastic but I've never got to them. I'm young, what can I say? One of these days, soon, I mean it. I guess I have to buy off the net.
 
I don't know how different Persona 3 will be from the others but I still think it looks like a fun game regardless of it's predecessors.
 
And I am a bit of a noob to some Atlus stuff but at least I'm willing to learn, just too busy at the moment. This summer I'll have all the time in the world. I like older games. *shrugs*

I've played all the stateside Persona games. Last time I checked, Persona only had one town and it did revolve around the life of highschool kids. City layout seem a bit similar too. I haven't played Innocent Sin, that's why I mentioned I "imagine" that it has some similarities.

For what I have seen, Innocent Sin, es very similar to Eternal Punishment, of course with some changes, but the battle system is the same. The only change I see in the battle system is the "contact system" because, you choose the topic you want the character to talk.

Same here.

Does P# have a lot in the way of relationships with the other characters compared to the main? I mean, I'm sure it's nothing like SO2's ending and relationship system, but doesn't that have some merit in the Persona games?

The game practically revolves around your relationships with the other main characters from what I've understood about it.

Does Persona 3 have more then one ending or just one?

I'm personally not sure about that... If someone else is, feel free to say so, but otherwise assuming our interview comes to fruition I can ask that.

In any case, I'm looking for questions for Atlus from users here. If you have anything you'd like to know about Persona 3 feel free to post it at http://www.digitaldevildb.com/bbs/showthread.php?p=3351#post3351

Thanks.

I think there are two endings, just some minor (but significant story wise I guess) differences I believe...

edit: I can't access that link Tony, it says I don't have enough access privileges or something.

Same,of course my question would have to be about FES.

Also..I'm wondering about the japanese culture they kept in P3,like with how you address someone,with the whole,-chan,-san,etc.Just curious as to what the point of that is? Not saying,I dislike it or it's a stupid idea,but I would like to hear from them.Are they trying to bring in new fans to understand the japanese culture a little more? Is this targeted for those anime sub watching viewers?

I also remember in that article by Rpgamer,that they did have to edit out certain japanese jokes that the americans wouldn't understand...and that is understandable.

That's pretty much all I can think of,whether this does get answered or not,is alright by me.

Ha, no wonder no one ever posts in there!

Give it a try and let me know if it works this time. http://www.digitaldevildb.com/bbs/sh...=3351#post3351 (http://www.digitaldevildb.com/bbs/showthread.php?p=3351#post3351)

It works now, if I think of some good questions, I'll post. All I got right now is "Will we ever see FES?". :P

Would you like me to repost my question in there,or is it ok where it is now?

What you guys did so far is fine, don't bother to repost. That was my mistake, I just thought it would be easier to keep it together that way... but honestly, it's not like we're going to see 50 posts lol.

I have it on good word that if P3 sells well enough FES has a chance at coming here. As it stands now, it isn't coming at all.

Hi guys, I'm new here, but I'm a long time fan of the Persona series...

I just finished the North American release of the game(review copy) and I have to say it was a great experience!

There are 2 endings, one good, one bad.  Hope you guys enjoy the game as much as I have!

Also I put some gameplay footage up on my blog:

www.high-scoreonline.com/blogs/markman

Check it out!

MarkMan, you're one hell of a lucky man! ;)

I would make a pact with the devil to play P3 sonner - I just can't stand it anymore... ;(

I agree....I'm getting impatient each day.

Glad to see the usual demons again,which of course we all expected them to be.Are Raja Nagas in this one too? I've always liked those guys,ever since Nocturne.

Raja Nagas do make an appearance in this game...

Glad to hear it,can't wait to get one in the game.

The wait is getting unbearable for me as well, I'm picking up Riviera on the 10th (there are two dates actually, I'm being optimistic right now) to help pass by the time.

Thanks for the videos Mark.

Yes thank you for the videos, their're just too cool!!! I can't wait...

http://www.siliconera.com/2007/07/06/summer-school-is-in-session-a-look-at-persona-3/#more-5287%20is%20a - preview by Spencer from siliconera. I was positively surprised by this fragment:

I love cameos, even though I've never played the game.

Yeah, I've not honestly even heard of that before. That's a pretty cool touch.

It's nice to read a preview that actually goes somewhat beyond the surface for once. So far a lot of these I could have gotten from reading the back of the box lol

Hey ardent MegaTen fans Spencer from Siliconera here. Thanks for the link back to the post also I just want to clarify that you don't "play" Innocent Sin. You watch as your character talks to Maya and build the Hermit Social Link. Still a neat addition and there were references to the Jokers and such. Also Maya helps gives the main character "Tatsuya" as his online name. I'm sure most of you get that reference!

That's a shame, it would've been a cool mini game...

But I guess is just wonderful that Persona 3 connects in some way with the other Persona games, so that means the relation is never losed. In other words Persona 3 is not a different story, and in this way it has some connection with the character from prevoius persona games. For me is just cool.

And of course it would be a cool mini game!

Just in case you guys didn't notice - http://www.atlus.com/persona3/ is up! :)

EDIT: Second part of siliconera preview is also up: http://www.siliconera.com/2007/07/10/the-dark-hour-is-here-combat-in-persona-3/.

That's cool they kept the same design as the japanese site...I still like the shadow figures with the guns to their heads,but that's just me.

Orpheus sounds cooler in Japanese :\

Only 2 more weeks!

Yeah, two more weeks...

Heh, I wish they released it sooner - I know it's impossible but I really can't stand the wait. I've tried to play DDS in order to kill time but this game is shit compared to P3. ;/

I would have to agree about Orpheus' english voice...but it's not all that bad.

I'm playing Persona: Revelations and Riviera to pass the time, both are really fun games.

How lucky you are, I guess I'll need to wait a lot more, until I got money, for the game. But since I waited like a year I can wait a little more.

I know it's nothing special but gamealmighty has a review up: http://www.gamealmighty.com/game-review/review/Shin_Megami_Tensei_Persona_3_Review/

Pretty average review, but nice score.

Yeah, average at best (the funny thing is, the review contains no more information then the preview, lol).

Whoa. Deja vu.

EDIT: Hi, Avalon.

Avalon posts here? He's good people.

Pre-ordered it and Imported it from GameStop, I hope they do a nice job mailing the game over to here...

Something odd I noticed about this review... You can click the scores to see little paragraphs on why the writer gave it why he/she did. I was surprised to see a comment saying that they "...really should have changed the names to suit an American audience...".

No thanks. :yarr:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

It's been delayed T_T

http://www.atlus.com/atlus_forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=116&sid=e1bb43ee4fa445d0980d1e8f53f56d45

Ouch.

I'll put it on the front page, thanks for posting it. Glad I got my copy in today. :king:

I can't believe this..! I was really looking forward to it this week...

Gah...nothing else to do but to wait..thanks for letting us know,aero.

Lets just hope they didnt mess up the complimentary stickers.

Tony, I wanted to ask, did you also get the Artbook and the OST of Persona 3 ?
EDIT: Ah never mind, you got the review copy as I read in the other topic, which are usually given out to people who review magazines, correct ?