. . . Okay, if this doesn't get an export, I'm gonna be super pissed. That's almost enough to be considered a whole new game.

I'm gonna need to find a good emulator by the time this gets translated. (Since I have essentially no money to buy a PSP and game)

Theoneknownasme: I agree. They probably will translate it, given that P3 was a big seller over here. Anyone know how the sales of P 1 PSP are? I mean, I bought it, and Game Stop has a rack shelf devoted to it, so...

edited 4th Nov '09 7:15:52 AM by Dracomicron

The dialogue interface seems more like a Visual Novel style than the usual running-around RPG style. For story/talking scenes, there's a static background, over which the dialogue boxes and character portraits are shown. For the exploration parts, it's basically a map with the other character sprites there, and you move a cursor around.

Almost everything in the menu that was blue in the male route is now pink. It's actually quite surprising how pink everything is... except for the store interface, which is still blue.

They took some stuff from Persona 4, like the Social Link Level Up.

There's some reshuffling of the early story events. Comparing the LP and a walkthrough of Persona 3 FES, apparently the social links start one day later in P 3 P.

I actually quite like this L Per's run through the game so far. He's not obnoxious, doesn't have an annoying voice, and he has a few snarky comebacks, particularly to Ikutsuki and Junpei.

If you have a Nico account, the playlist is here.

I wonder if they've taken out the Armageddon/Victory Cry combination.

edited 4th Nov '09 7:53:59 AM by dkellis

I seem to be one of the only people to feel this way, but thank god for that. Being forced to run literally everywhere without the oh-so-wonderful Square button was so tedious.

I hope not. That broken combination of awesomeness was the only thing that kept me going to Tartarus in the endgame.

I actually liked the sprites in the PS 2 version entirely because of the way they turned their heads to face you. I thought it looked really cute. (I admit that I'm weird.)

All the little chibi sprites with their sweatdrops and exclamation marks... so cute.

The static sprites here are kind of disappointing.

Whew, I just beat the game the night before last. Very very long...thank goodness the triangle button skips text so quickly. I've started a new game plus, playing as the girl this time, but I burnt myself out in the whole-game-in-one-day marathon...

The guy's side didn't add anything, really, it's more or less the exact same thing, just with the new interface, and the improvments from Persona 4.

...Is it shorter or something now? It took me 67 hours to beat the original P3. Am I just really slow? 0_0

edited 4th Nov '09 12:43:10 PM by LizardBite

I figure between being able to directly go to places in the menu instead of having to walk and already knowing the finer strategic aspects of the battles, it should go faster even if it has the same content.

No, Lizard Bite, you are not slow. I finished at 91 hours and know some people who finished it at 105 and 112 hours.

Dammit, PSP! Stop getting awesome games! I can't afford you!

Here's hoping someone figures out, if not a half-decent emulator, and then at least a way to play PSP games without the PSP. Who here remembers the Super Game Boy? We need something like that!

PSP? Expensive? Here in NZ it's cheaper than the D Si as it's trying to compete with it for sales. :U

I can't remember how much mine was... $279NZ? So about $140-170US?

maybe i'm just rich or something

It's not shorter, it's practically the exact same game. I just blazed through it so quickly because I had played it aaall day and night (yay, no life), and since I can't read Japanese, I just skipped through all the text. Holding down the triangle button makes it go very very fast.

But yes, the menu navigation and square button DO make getting from place to place much quicker.

So I just watched the opening again, and I was definitely right in saying the music was gonna grow on me. It's very catchy.

Also, I swear to god, it gave me chills just watching it. I'm still trying to pinpoint exactly why.

Also also, because I have no life, I went through the intro and pulled out every bit of text I could catch. That is posted below, with links to the Other Wiki to explain a few things, and quotes attributed wherever possible. I've also made notes in hottips after a lot of the phrases.

Statements and words separated by slashes indicate that they either appear simultaneously or one right after the other. ??? means I have no idea what the hell the word was supposed to be.

Also note: Possibly unintentional spoilers in my musings. Proceed with caution.




(00:39)"He who has a 'why' to live can bear almost any 'how'." / "What does not kill me, makes me stronger." / Ressentiment.  ^*

^{both of these quotes are attributed to Nietzsche}

(00:43)Dissocciated state / dissociated fugue  ^*

^{As noted in the article, a Dissociative Fugue is a type of amnesia, sometimes accompanied by an adoption of a new identity. This could have some interesting implications.}

(00:51)Lyapunov exponent / topological space  ^*

^{Wikipedia goes into hardcore mathspeak here. The them, though, is deviation and convergence. Might be implying that no matter how different things are in the middle, the end will be the same?}

(00:56)Anima/Animus

(01:03)Memento Mori  ^*

^{Chances are good you know this already; it's basically Persona 3's tagline. Latin, translated roughly to "remember that you are mortal", or "remember that you will die".}

(01:08)Ego, Complex, Arousal(?)

(01:10)Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains - Jean Jacques Rousseau / L'obeissance au seul appetit est esclavage et l'obeissance a la loi qu'on s'est prescrite est liberte.  ^*

^{I have no experience with French, and it's not exact. If anyone wants to take a crack at it (or knows from some other source), be my guest.}

(01:11) Living is not breathing but doing. - Jean Jacques Rousseau / The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. - Carl Jung

(01:12) Man believes what he wants to believe in the way he wants. / Forgetting pain provides relief but only leads to repetition. / Life is the law, death merely sleep.

(01:12 - 01:13) Butterfly effect  ^*

^{Small changes leading way to large changes down the line. Probably pretty common knowledge at this point.}

(01:13) Chaos Theory / Aufheben / a ??? / Engagement

(01:14) Understanding / Sorge / Consciousness / ??? / Idiologie / Generalization

(01:15-01:16) Concept/Dependency / Semblance / Hypothesis / Sensation / feeling / Spirit

(01:16) Mechanism / function / induction(?) / object / experience / language / quality

(01:17) Aufheben / ??? / ??? / degeneration / ??? / ???  ^*

^{there's a ton of words that I just couldn't read through this part}

(01:18) Whole and parts / ??? / Imagination(?)  ^*

^{At this point I just said "screw it" to getting every word in the rapid-fire sequence. I then proceeded to still try to write down all of them.}

(01:20) Abstraction / Intuition / cognition / hierarchy / necessity / chance / agnosticism

(01:21) fetishism / change/essence

(01:22 - 1:24 - character sequence) Representation / Impression Formation / Pleasure Principle / Catharsis / m??? / Projection / Discrimination / defense mechanism / frustration / superstitious behavior / Role Playing / induced movement / Abilities / Antisocial Personality / Causation / ??? / Depersonalization / Deprivation  ^*

^{beyond this point, I couldn't read any of them again. Note that all of these came from three seconds of video}

(01:28) butterfly effect

(01:33) To Live is. . . (to change) ((To choose something new)) / To lose whatever has not been chosen (to gain by loss) ((Life is precisely "the finite"))  ^*

^{words in parentheses appear under the main statements. Double parens appear after the substatements.}

And there you have it. make of it what you will.

edited 4th Nov '09 9:41:28 PM by Theoneknownasme

Man, your entire party as S-links on the girl's side? That was what I loved the most about Persona 4- that the combination of story events and S-links meant that you really felt like a tight member of a group. Dammit, I'm too poor for a PSP!

I like Wiping All Out more than Mass Destruction. IMO, battler themes in persona go:

Wiping All Out > Mass Destruction > Reach out the Truth

Wiping All Out is indeed full of win. The intro kinda throws of the song a bit, but I like how it makes it seem similar to the Male's Mass Destruction.

Thought i prefer Mass Destruction, they both trump Reach out to the truth

Which one is which? I don't know them by name.

Mass Destruction: P3 battle theme

Wiping All Out: P 3 P Female Route battle theme

Reach Out To The Truth: P4 battle theme

I really like Danger Zone (P 3 P Female Route Tartarus boss theme) because it calls back on Soul Phase (P 3 P Opening theme). Then again, I like P4's I'll Face Myself even better, so...

edited 7th Nov '09 12:55:45 AM by dkellis

Wiping All Out seems to have stuff from Soul Phase. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say that Soul Phase uses the chorus of Wiping All Out in the opening.

...Am I only the person who likes Reach Out To The Truth the best? It was so much nicer than that annoying babybabybabybabybaby  ^*

^{For the record, I have not heard Wiping All Out yet, so I have no opinion on it}

The best part of mass destruction was the babybabybabybabybaby!

You just boggled my mind.

I do not remember Mass Destruction being all about "babybabybabybabybaby"