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Do you think there are all the creatures from the Shin Megaten series or just a few?

There are demons from Nocturne, the SMTI and II remakes for the PS1, and SMT NINE.

Ever actually picked up and played Bully?

Yes, I have. It's a fairly fun sandbox-ish game but comparing it to Persona 3 is like comparing Shin Megami Tensei to Snatcher.

Kahn, of course. If... isn't released in the US.

*not exactly on topic*
But how is Persona like Bully?

School life is pretty much the only connection. It's a pretty crap comparison.

Yeah,why I never cared for what xplay has to say.I only listen to Play magazine or gametrailers.com.

Basically with xplay,and I quote my friend on this,with them they see it this way:

"It's not from Microsoft so we don't care".

To be fair the vast majority of VG review sources have become increasingly biased over the years, possibly for pseudo-political reasons.

I've gotten and read the first volume. It isn't great, but it's better than I expected. It seems to be following the general story of SMTI with the cast of If...

I wonder what the deal is with Hazama though, has he reincarnated or something crappy like that?

I've noticed that the project has started to really pick up. Either that or the blog updates make it seem so. It's nice to see that it's still going, for a while I thought progress had reached a dead end.

I really don't think it's fair to compare Persona 3+ with the earlier Persona games as the original Megaten director/producer, Cozy Okada, left after Nocturne, not to mention Kaneko's artwork was only recycled for personas. With a different man at the helm, you can't expect to remain on the same course after all. While I loved the intricate plots of Persona 1 and 2, you have to admit they were pretty damn ugly games for their times and had rather clunky gameplay, especially Persona 1. The simplified story and streamlined battlesystem in Persona 3 bothered me at first, but I found it to be an acquired taste...in fact, very much like most other Megaten games I played. Persona 3 looks like utter crap on paper, it's one of those games that only playing can justify enjoying. Perhaps Persona 4 will be the same.

I'm thinking, fuck these games, just give me something in a new style. Apparently everything Atlus does anymore is the same tired song and dance (including every other series it juggles)

P3 looked like a promising strain, but P4 looks like rehash with a poor budget.

Hasn't Atlus always been like that? I mean, the primitive SMT battlesystem was rehashed constantly up to Soul Hackers, If... looked exactly the same as SMTII, etc.

I just got this at the dealer's room of a convention. It's fairly good, but nothing spectacular or anything.

It's more than possible, but nobody has ever really confirmed it. A possible argument against it is that whenever Hijiri is reincarnated in the Nocturne timeline, he is the same age and has exactly the same appearance.

I'm getting some major Katsuya vibes from the older brother.

I sorta like how its been starting off quite ambiguous, there are quite a few questions that can be answered.

-PERSONA 3 SPOILERS BELOW-

For example, not only do you know that the anime takes place 10 years after Persona 3, but the characters constantly reference that time, as if something very important happened in their lives. Perhaps there is some connection to the comatose state of P3's protagonist and/or the demise of Nyx.

You aren't really taking into account how popular the PS3 is in Japan, which is the country SMT is initially developed for. It outsold the Wii in November, and with Final Fantasy XIII coming up you know PS3 sales will skyrocket even if the game is complete crap. Whether or not the game will be localized might be an issue, but I don't think Atlus will have any problems releasing SMT4 for the PS3.

Those are the masks of the two Masquerades in Persona 2: Innocent Sin.

The ones that look like power rangers are from the "Innocent" Masquerade, while the ones that are zodiac-themed are from the "Corrupt" Masquerade led by Joker-sama.

Do you mean stat points?

You get a few each time you level up. The number you get increases with your level, but the required points to raise stats increase the more points you put into them.

If you mean max skill points, I seem to get 1000 extra every 10 levels. Not sure if that continues.