Persona 3 Portable Walkthrough

Neat.. Does anyone know when this will be released in Europe?

I want this sooooo bad. Lately been playing P3 on PS2 and I'm already over 20h into it and I love it. Definetly one of the best games I've ever played.

Social Linking on the go?  I don't care if I have beaten this game like 20 times I'm getting it.

I'm pretty pumped about this.  P3 and 4 are hard for me to play because, like pokemon, the only way I would play this is in bed getting like 30 min in before I pass out.  I just cant seem to take the time out of my day or regular gaming to play these.

I cant wait for this, i wont bother waiting for a UK version due to the subject matter, hopefully the US game will come in a nice special edition box like the last few Atlus games.

" 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. "

Interesting streamlining to the interface! I might have to pick this up...after I pick up a PSP... 

they should've just ported P4.  Also it's been a while since I played this but I remember it being much more like P4 than it appears to be in this video.  It's like they changed everything down to just walking around.

Not getting a PSP, I'll just wait for Persona 5.

 @mutha3: Look.  I never said you couldn't make better choices, but this is an AI party, I am only arguing the fact that the AI isn't stupid. It did what it could, I had no issues, apparently you did. I'm sorry you had those issues, but there is no reason to sign it off as crap AI. Sometimes a little wonky yes, but not crap.
 
And yes A  can happen. 90% of the time it was the AI taking care of the status effects for me. I'm sorry it didn't work that way for you. Mine were not trying to heal people when they had a little over half their life left.
 
Comparing P3 to FF12 is apples and oranges. ATLUS did it the way they wanted too, stop complaining. We got P3P now, you can control the party at full be happy. S'pose to say the argument is over, sense it's just running in circles.

I'm still saying A and I was on normal. 

 
You can't do anything about the AI in Persona 3, they are there. Will be there, if you want to control them do P3P. Otherwise, if you want them to perform at 100% just SCAN, it's not that hard. You just didn't want to scan,  

 yes thee AI prioritized the main MC over the others, me and Junpei would have the exact same low health and you could guarentee that Yukari healed me first. 
 

 
 
And yes I've played FF12 and I do enjoy the combat for it's MMO style, but that isn't persona, it's now an older game, and it's been improved upon with persona 4 and now P3P. There is no point in saying the AI sucks and it won't do the right thing when you haven't scanned an enemy for it to make intelligent choices, it's a computer, you can't expect it to be flawless.  

" @Catolf said:

Actually, that would be A. 

Um. The AI takes priority over allies with decreased health and that's a  fact. The AI also doesn't prioritize the MC over the others when it comes to status effects and that's a fact too. These are their patterns.
 
Try again(hint: its B)
 
 

The AI does not suck, there are reasons they give you ways to scan the enemy. You do so, you never have too again. You lose one turn, but the AI has the information needed, so the other three can fight at 100% 
 

 If I was in control I could fight at 100% WITHOUT  the need to waste a turn. 
 
Me>AI
 
You still haven't given counter arguments to the other 9 points I brought up.
 

I let my AI do what it wanted, be it healing people or whooping ass, and guess what? THEY KEPT ME HEALED. I never died once to AI error. Not one time. They always had my back, more so in boss battles. I don't see how you had all these problems. 
 

On what difficulty did you play it? I've already said I played it on expert. The list of problems  I just posted has nothing to with personal opinion(except for the Enemy descriptions I suppose). They are all a result of the AI sucking, and if you were in control those problems would never occur.   Want an example of a good AI ? Try FF12. Despite the combat system being dull as dirt and inferior to Persona, at least the AI functioned properly and could be manipulated to all sorts of situations. "

Actually, that would be A. 

The AI does not suck, there are reasons they give you ways to scan the enemy. You do so, you never have too again. You lose one turn, but the AI has the information needed, so the other three can fight at 100% 
 

I let my AI do what it wanted, be it healing people or whooping ass, and guess what? THEY KEPT ME HEALED. I never died once to AI error. Not one time. They always had my back, more so in boss battles. I don't see how you had all these problems. 
 

" @Catolf said:

" @mutha3 said:

" @Catolf said:

" @mutha3 said:

Well now that there is P3P and you have party control you have no excuse. Personally i've only died about four times, all of which were my  mistake. (i'm on the last day) because I figured I could survive another assult and I over estimated. My party always did what they could to keep me alive, which I liked.  I think the AI control was fine, they DID make a few mistakes here and there but it was too few to worry about.

 
 
 I'm glad they added party control for P3P. If only they had replaced Tartarus:(
 
The stuff I described happened way too often for it to be considerd ''a few mistakes here and there''. As I said: maybe it isn't much of an issue in normal/easy(never played this) but in expert the AI will fuck things up for you  by doing stupid shit like not curing a status effect when they're set  to heal/support.
 

Just SCAN the enemy and don't be cheap about it. It takes one turn, and everyone else will attack once they know. They give you a way to scan enemies for a reason, and the AI remember after just once cause it's logged in, whats the point in not scanning an enemy just to have frustration later? "
 

But that's silly. WHY should I have to waste a turn analyzing the enemy when I clearly know its weakness? Especially if its a tough enemy where every turn counts.   Regardless of the difficulty-level, an AI  that forces the player to do arbitrary stuff when a much more efficient result can be achieved  by the player controlling himself, is a shitty AI.  If you're gonna take control away from me: Do it right. "

Then just SCAN.. good lord. YOU know the weakness already, that's fine and dandy, but without putting it in (scanning) the AI does not, so you have them flying blindly. You can't expect them to know everything, they are AI, put int he proper information and all will be fine.  That's like complaining about FFXIII's computer controlled party and that they aren't giving you the right buff's or hitting the enemy with the right attacks. You use LIBRA so they are informed and things go easier/ faster. This is why these things are in place, if your not going to use them don't complain that your sucking. "

If you concede that, then we can both agree that AI control sucks and never makes better decisions then a player would, no?  Which is what I responded to in the first place. Because what your describing now is me wasting turns so that the AI doesn't do something stupid, which I wouldn't need to if I was in control. Therefore: me>AI. Analyzing puts me at a disadvantage, which wouldn't be there if I was in control, therefore, AI is dumb idea in the first place. As to why P3's AI is dumb, specifically.....you haven't made any counterarguments to all the examples I gave of the P3 AI effin me in the ass. Let give an example of what the AI does:  When everyone except Yukari is afflicted with charm, and Yukari has Charmdi and she's set to HEAL/SUPPORT what does she do?  A. Cure the MC, so that I can use some dis-charm to get the others back in the fray B. Cast Diarama on Mitsuru who has over half her HP left C. Cure Ken( his turn is next) so that he can cast Mediarama and have her cure the MC next turn.  If you anwsered B, HOORAY! that's what the AI will do 99% of the time, five turns in a row.  The AI doesn't prioritize the MC. It doens't priotize healers. It just picks the person with the least HP and heals him. "

" @mutha3 said:

" @Catolf said:

" @mutha3 said:

Well now that there is P3P and you have party control you have no excuse. Personally i've only died about four times, all of which were my  mistake. (i'm on the last day) because I figured I could survive another assult and I over estimated. My party always did what they could to keep me alive, which I liked.  I think the AI control was fine, they DID make a few mistakes here and there but it was too few to worry about.

 
 
 I'm glad they added party control for P3P. If only they had replaced Tartarus:(
 
The stuff I described happened way too often for it to be considerd ''a few mistakes here and there''. As I said: maybe it isn't much of an issue in normal/easy(never played this) but in expert the AI will fuck things up for you  by doing stupid shit like not curing a status effect when they're set  to heal/support.
 

Just SCAN the enemy and don't be cheap about it. It takes one turn, and everyone else will attack once they know. They give you a way to scan enemies for a reason, and the AI remember after just once cause it's logged in, whats the point in not scanning an enemy just to have frustration later? "
 

But that's silly. WHY should I have to waste a turn analyzing the enemy when I clearly know its weakness? Especially if its a tough enemy where every turn counts.   Regardless of the difficulty-level, an AI  that forces the player to do arbitrary stuff when a much more efficient result can be achieved  by the player controlling himself, is a shitty AI.  If you're gonna take control away from me: Do it right. "

Then just SCAN.. good lord. YOU know the weakness already, that's fine and dandy, but without putting it in (scanning) the AI does not, so you have them flying blindly. You can't expect them to know everything, they are AI, put int he proper information and all will be fine.  That's like complaining about FFXIII's computer controlled party and that they aren't giving you the right buff's or hitting the enemy with the right attacks. You use LIBRA so they are informed and things go easier/ faster. This is why these things are in place, if your not going to use them don't complain that your sucking. "

Persona 3 is so awesome. I'm tempted to buy a PSP to play this.

" @Catolf said:

" @mutha3 said:

Well now that there is P3P and you have party control you have no excuse. Personally i've only died about four times, all of which were my  mistake. (i'm on the last day) because I figured I could survive another assult and I over estimated. My party always did what they could to keep me alive, which I liked.  I think the AI control was fine, they DID make a few mistakes here and there but it was too few to worry about.

 
 
 I'm glad they added party control for P3P. If only they had replaced Tartarus:(
 
The stuff I described happened way too often for it to be considerd ''a few mistakes here and there''. As I said: maybe it isn't much of an issue in normal/easy(never played this) but in expert the AI will fuck things up for you  by doing stupid shit like not curing a status effect when they're set  to heal/support.
 

Just SCAN the enemy and don't be cheap about it. It takes one turn, and everyone else will attack once they know. They give you a way to scan enemies for a reason, and the AI remember after just once cause it's logged in, whats the point in not scanning an enemy just to have frustration later? "
 

But that's silly. WHY should I have to waste a turn analyzing the enemy when I clearly know its weakness? Especially if its a tough enemy where every turn counts.   Regardless of the difficulty-level, an AI  that forces the player to do arbitrary stuff when a much more efficient result can be achieved  by the player controlling himself, is a shitty AI.  If you're gonna take control away from me: Do it right. "

" @mutha3 said:

Well now that there is P3P and you have party control you have no excuse. Personally i've only died about four times, all of which were my  mistake. (i'm on the last day) because I figured I could survive another assult and I over estimated. My party always did what they could to keep me alive, which I liked.  I think the AI control was fine, they DID make a few mistakes here and there but it was too few to worry about.

Just SCAN the enemy and don't be cheap about it. It takes one turn, and everyone else will attack once they know. They give you a way to scan enemies for a reason, and the AI remember after just once cause it's logged in, whats the point in not scanning an enemy just to have frustraition later? "
 

" @Karkarov said:

" Personally I am not getting this version because other than the addition of a female MC option there isn't anything here.  Also much of the game was dumbed down, many cuts scenes were removed, many scenes were changed to just be still screens with text, you have less control over what you can do when you aren't actually in tartarus.  So yeah I will stick with FES.  Also only a moron would not scan enemies in this game.  While the NPC's under auto control did weird things they never, ever, just stood there doing nothing unless you set them to a bad tactic or all of their attacks were literally useless against the remaining mobs.  I have beaten this particular game from start to finish twice and I can tell you I only ever died due to the AI once so it is hardly "broken" or unplayable as a result. "

Nonsense. I've had  it happen plenty with me  and particulary with Junpei.  I had set him on full-assault and he stil did nothing.
 
Also scanning takes a entire turn of the MC its not moronic at all to choose not to scan an enemy called ''Burning Firewheel''  and just use bufu. Sadly the retarded AI will ignore this and make waste an entire turn.
 
The AI is rock dumb, the scenarios I just described have all happened to me.  Maybe its not an issue on easy or normal, but, I died so many times on expert when I could have easily save my self if I was in control. Besides, you don't need to die in order to be able to see the AI's failure. They often do completely retarded shit which wastes HP, SP and time. On P4 expert though, I died like twice. "

" Personally I am not getting this version because other than the addition of a female MC option there isn't anything here.  Also much of the game was dumbed down, many cuts scenes were removed, many scenes were changed to just be still screens with text, you have less control over what you can do when you aren't actually in tartarus.  So yeah I will stick with FES.  Also only a moron would not scan enemies in this game.  While the NPC's under auto control did weird things they never, ever, just stood there doing nothing unless you set them to a bad tactic or all of their attacks were literally useless against the remaining mobs.  I have beaten this particular game from start to finish twice and I can tell you I only ever died due to the AI once so it is hardly "broken" or unplayable as a result. "

I am stoked about this. I cannot get enough Persona. P3 is probably my favorite rpg of all time - though I am a little hesitant about the portable version's presentation. Still a day one purchase no question.

Not that I have any inclination of replaying this exceedingly long JRPG, but I buy everything Megaten-related these days so Atlus can expect to get my money this time too. At the very least, me financing this remake should make a Persona 2 PSP (which would be absolutely totally awesome) a little more likely...

Guy's got a voice for the newspaper.

I loooooooooooooooooove them P3 tracks (and Junpei).

After this video I am now completely pumped for P3P!

This guy's lisp bothers the fuck out of me....

Well to be fair, direct control would've been nice in the original. The lack of it in the first game made things slower/more difficult than they should have been, with the poor AI-controlled healing/buffing and it using regular spells 3 times to knock down enemies over using one "Ma" spell. 
 
@endaround:

No anime cutscenes, scenes without 3D sprites, simplified navigation. I guess it was all for the sake of portability. Battle system does seem better, though.
 
@Erkenbrand:
 
Hm yeah, it was used in P3 quite a bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnGy7UT-bDo

Man, Persona 3 was awesome. Totally different vibe than P4.

" Personally I am not getting this version because other than the addition of a female MC option there isn't anything here.  Also much of the game was dumbed down, many cuts scenes were removed, many scenes were changed to just be still screens with text, you have less control over what you can do when you aren't actually in tartarus.  So yeah I will stick with FES.  Also only a moron would not scan enemies in this game.  While the NPC's under auto control did weird things they never, ever, just stood there doing nothing unless you set them to a bad tactic or all of their attacks were literally useless against the remaining mobs.  I have beaten this particular game from start to finish twice and I can tell you I only ever died due to the AI once so it is hardly "broken" or unplayable as a result. "

I didn't think the AI was too dumb, for the most part it did what was needed once weakness and stuff was known. The problem was those steps were worthless facing specific situations. In a messed up way you end up planning not only for your enemies actions but for your allies as well. This being a SMT game everyday encounters can end with a hama to the face so I can completely understand some peoples frustrations with the lack of party control.

jesus my pants just got a little wet after that not gonna lie 
 
SOLD

I want this game and it will be my 2nd Persona 3 game.

Oh yes! 
I'll be importing the fuck out of this!

Might need to buy a PSP for this, damn :P

" @RockmanBionics said:

" I have Persona 3 but have held off on it to play this version, cause I wasn't too into the idea of not having full party control, I wished the game looked a little better but I'll live. "

and to be honest the AI often makes smarter decisions than the player would.

 It never forgets a monster's weaknesses once they are known and it never accidentally hits a monster that has a reflect or absorb spell up. " 

Only if you analyze the enemy. If you do not the AI forgets it next battle.What the AI really does? 
 
-Cast Tarunda  while  you need to be healed (Fuck you Akihiko)
-Inexplicbly pass turns(Fuck you Junpei)
-Refuse to cure my charmed status even though they are set at HEAL/SUPPORT and everyone is affected(Fuck you Yukari)

-Cast Mind charge even though the enemy has three HP left (Fuck you Mitsuru) 
-Cast Sukukaja when the enemy has 3 hp left(Fuck you Aigis) 
-Cast Mudoon on an enemy called Dark Mage(Fuck you KoroMaru) 
-Cast Hamaon on a enemy with angelic appearences(Fuck you Ken0 
-Waste Hp using PHYS skills when the enemy is not strong enough to merit it(Fuck you Shinji) 
-Gain the ability to knock down all enemies(znd only on command) with one skill 40% through the game.(Fuck you SEES°) 
 
Calling the AI anything but retarted is an insult to human intelligence.

This looks good enough to buy a PSP for.

Wish this was coming to the DS.

" I have Persona 3 but have held off on it to play this version, cause I wasn't too into the idea of not having full party control, I wished the game looked a little better but I'll live. "

"Was the original version of persona 3 look this much like persona 4? "

"Love the trailer music; anyone know if it was used in the original Persona 3? "

I would totally get this if i had a PSP.. & hadnt already played through P3 ;p the improvements they've made seem to steamline the game, which isnt a bad thing. Wondering through the school in search of people to SL/w was never entertaining. (although you could use the restroom that'd have a chance at giving you more energy, or making you sick somehow..) Those of you shruging this off because it doesnt have "The Answer" dont; The Answer sucks.. The improvements in FES seem to be intact along with a whole bunch of other new features, If you hadnt played this and own a PSP (and dont care about playing a 60hr game on a small screen) get it & enjoy ;)

Love the trailer music; anyone know if it was used in the original Persona 3?

Was the original version of persona 3 look this much like persona 4?