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Persona 3 Portable Walkthrough

Prepare to have your mind... blown.

Apr. 16 2010

Posted by: Ryan

156 Comments

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Horrible voice-over. Either he needs to work on his pronunciation, or they need better equipment. Probably getting a popscreen would be useful too.
 
He might have a slight lisp too. Anyone else have an opinion on this?

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Edited By Trilogy

boom!

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I can't believe that I am going to buy Persona 3 for a third freaking time.  Looks pretty sweet.

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I'm gonna buy a PSP because of this!

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Summoning personas by shooting himself in the head, I might just be tempted to purchase this.

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I will endure.

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Woo! Buying PSP for this, VC2, and MGS: PW

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first persona game i'm going to buy, mainly because i want to dust off my psp

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Something about the voice-over seemed off...

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Oh man you can control your teammates now? 
 
Looks like that's another 150 hours spent playing Persona 3.

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Edited By raviolisumo

That is a great sub-head.

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@Du2andal said:
"I can't believe that I am going to buy Persona 3 for a third freaking time.  Looks pretty sweet. "

I'm in the same damn boat. Still looking forward to this.
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Ha mind blow just got that

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@RE_Player92 said:
" first persona game i'm going to buy, mainly because i want to dust off my psp "
Same thing here. Looking forward too it ... for another 3 months.
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Hm... Looks rough compared to the PS2 version. But then again I guess it's not meant to be stretched out into a big screen.
 
Too bad they took out the roaming aspects and just have people as icons or illustrations. Kinda takes out of the experience if you ask me.
 
Also, I don't understand who you'd hook up if you play a chick. There's that one senpai, but Junpei shouldn't be selectable due to story, and that elementary kid is too young. Playing the dude seems like the right way to go (Yukari and Mitsuru are awesome anyways).
 
I guess the fixes and updates to the P3 and P4 systems might be worth while for those who didn't play it before.

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The commentator needs to learn to enunciate better. Shows like he's chewing his gums...

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This should be an endurance run. Though it might get kind of annoying watching the insanely low resolution screen for possibly 100 hours.
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But i don't wanna cast bufu on stuff anymore

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Edited By ch3burashka

Mind still snugly in skull.
 
Personally, I dumped 120 hours into the main campaign, and another 30 into "The Answer". For me, the shortcomings became too much of a hindrance. Persona 4 was much better, IMO.
 
And why is P3 getting 3 releases (original, FES, PSP), and P4 is all but forgotten?

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This is going to be my first shin megami tensei game, sweet.

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This will be the next game I get for my never in use PSP.
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Now I can hear P3's story narrated fa♥bu♥los♥ly.

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This is too little and too soon. Seriously, I was ready to evoker myself by hour 90 in FES. Some people are going to play through the same campaign for the third time now and that's just baffling to me.

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This reminds me.  I still need to finish up FES.  Both the Journey so I can actually see the Aeon S.Link, as well as the Answer.

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Definitely picking this up just to give the new highest difficulty a shot. Cool to see the P4 battle system improvements rolled in.

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@Rapid said:
" The commentator needs to learn to enunciate better. Shows like he's chewing his gums... "
He was too close to the microphone
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I've bought P3: FES but man I really want this, it may never be released here in Europe so I'm gonna import from America

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 @ryanwho said:
" This is too little and too soon. Seriously, I was ready to evoker myself by hour 90 in FES. Some people are going to play through the same campaign for the third time now and that's just baffling to me. "
But this time I get to be a chick!  I mean, thats something right?
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Why's it 2D? That's the one aspect I find a bit off-putting. That, and the fact that the battle parts came later in the video, but that one's not directly related to the game.

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@CH3BURASHKA said:
"Mind still snugly in skull.  Personally, I dumped 120 hours into the main campaign, and another 30 into "The Answer". For me, the shortcomings became too much of a hindrance. Persona 4 was much better, IMO.  And why is P3 getting 3 releases (original, FES, PSP), and P4 is all but forgotten?"

The only reason FES was released was because the developers believed P3 was an unfinished game. They explicitly stated that P4 is the finished product, containing everything they ever want to be in there. No need for a rerelease.
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@Ariketh said:
" Horrible voice-over. Either he needs to work on his pronunciation, or they need better equipment. Probably getting a popscreen would be useful too.  He might have a slight lisp too. Anyone else have an opinion on this? "
Yea.. if they are going to release a video like this maybe they should have someone from PR do the voice over
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God I can't wait for this game.

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Edited By metalsnakezero

This was all fine and good but what I want to see is the changes where you are playing as the girl. That is the reason why I'm getting this.

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Is that the same dude with a lisp that was showing off Persona 1 psp to Vinny and Jeff? I think it was at E3

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Well, this certainly reveals why RPGamer picked PES 3 over 4 as a genre defining title.  Like any great sequel should, 4 improved on the foundation.

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@Venatio said:
" I've bought P3: FES but man I really want this, it may never be released here in Europe so I'm gonna import from America "
The release of Demon Souls in Europe really has gotten my hopes up for more releases here.
 
@CH3BURASHKA said:
" Mind still snugly in skull.  Personally, I dumped 120 hours into the main campaign, and another 30 into "The Answer". For me, the shortcomings became too much of a hindrance. Persona 4 was much better, IMO.  And why is P3 getting 3 releases (original, FES, PSP), and P4 is all but forgotten? "
Cause it's older? Still I do wonder why they choose to release P3 again instead of making P2 suitable for release here. 
Also you said it yourself, P3 is flawed in some ways where as P4 is pretty much perfect. 
 
 
Two things I noted where;
1: The custom bikini outfits are still in the game.
2: The fatigue system is as well, I would rather have seen that they had removed it.
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@Ariketh said:
" Horrible voice-over. Either he needs to work on his pronunciation, or they need better equipment. Probably getting a popscreen would be useful too.  He might have a slight lisp too. Anyone else have an opinion on this? "
He does have a lisp.  Anybody remember this
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mind=blown.

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Argh. Fuck I can't wait for this.

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@Video_Game_King said:
" Why's it 2D? That's the one aspect I find a bit off-putting. That, and the fact that the battle parts came later in the video, but that one's not directly related to the game. "
They wanted 2D to make it load faster on the UMD and cut out space.  It also made it easier (read cheaper) to put in the female protagonist.  Tartarus is still all 3D.
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Hell yes, July can't arrive soon enough.

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@Ariketh said:

" Horrible voice-over. Either he needs to work on his pronunciation, or they need better equipment. Probably getting a popscreen would be useful too.  He might have a slight lisp too. Anyone else have an opinion on this? "

He has a lisp.  I'm pretty sure the narrator is Nich Maragos. 
 
It looks like the animated cutscenes are gone...
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is there a save anywhere function?
 i put down P3 twice now, both times 60+ hrs in, because i lost 2 hrs worth of progress without trekking back to save it. yea i know, i just suck. now with this on the PSP, i can already see myself repeating this awful cycle. 
 

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I'm assuming they cut all the anime cutscenes out which is a bummer. And the 3d models seem terribly 'blocky'.
 
dammit, if only they had added all these new features to FES, this game would have been as good as P4

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2D exploration outside of Tartarus is an excellent idea. There's nothing more annoying than having to run around from store to store or character to character.

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i am interested in this game, maybe i will get it! the idea of the tower though just sounds ok...

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You can control your teammates?
 
That would almost be a selling point in itself if I had a PSP.

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Come on Vinny and Jeff, a Persona 3 Endurance Run would be great

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MUST. BUY. NOW.

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I'm bummed about the lack of the cutscenes (both in engine and anime style) in this but the battle improvements from P4 have me excited to go through it again espcially with the new Social Links the female main character will have.