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Quick Look: Persona

This isn't your father's Persona! Well, maybe it's more like your older brother's Persona.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Aug. 15 2009

Cast: Jeff, Vinny

Posted by: Vinny

In This Episode:

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona

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Edited By Vorbis

Chucked you into the story very quickly, lots of names to remember!
 
Will have to pick it up some day, soundtrack is already stuck in my head.

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I now love Vinny more due to Dark City references

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how many people here got the Sewer Shark reference? 

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The series has definitely evolved over the years.

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The art of this looks so ugly compared to the great characters in P3/4

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OMG, Vinny is like Hughes!!!! 
 
My love for Vinny has grown!!!

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This just isn't a very interesting game, I just don't know if I can get into it.  Heck, I'm not even sure if I can finish this one Quick Look. :/
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Seems cool. I might pick it up when it comes out

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@stinky said:

" how many people here got the Sewer Shark reference?  "

Me, but just because of James Rolfe (aka "Angry Video Game Nerd") and Noah Antwiler (aka "Spoony").
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Nice Dark City references out of the blue.

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I dig the music, Doom mode was really weird though. I guess that just shows how far the series has come.

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Edited By coffeesash

There's a playable character in Persona 4 that has a spell that does nuclear damage but it's called 'almighty' instead of nuclear. Still has the nuclear symbol next to it though.
 
I'm not sure about this game being on PSP, it seems like it'll be long and involved, something that as usual would more suit a home console. PSN perhaps?

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@atomic_dumpling said:
" @stinky said:
" how many people here got the Sewer Shark reference?  "
Me, but just because of James Rolfe (aka the "angry video game nerd"). "
Dude, I loved Sewer Shark. One of the very few SegaCD games I played and liked.
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@LaszloKovacs said:
" @atomic_dumpling said:
" @stinky said:
" how many people here got the Sewer Shark reference?  "
Me, but just because of James Rolfe (aka the "angry video game nerd"). "
Dude, I loved Sewer Shark. One of the very few SegaCD games I played and liked. "
Well that's forgivable since when your a kid you normally can't tell the difference between good and bad games.
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@PlasmaBeam44: Sewer Shark was amazing, leave this planet at once.
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Maybe if the people in the hospital did there job right then they wouldnt have so many dead people
But i cant stand Rpgs with Random Encounter battles, one of the biggest reasons i can play Persona 4 and Enjoy it is cause of the Fact that there are no random battles :3
 
@stinky: Well only cause of SpoonyOne

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@Earthborn said:
" @Dethfish77 said:
"

Vinny already is in anime form  
 

 
 



 

"
"Take me to the meat dimension!" "
That's totally Vinny.
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I´ll surely pick this up because it´s Persona and A FRICKIN SOUNDTRACK.

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This did not age well. 
Still though, contacting>>>>>>social linking. S linking is so fucking boring and devoid of skill.

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I've been told the story in the first two games isn't as good as the 3 and 4.
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Looks pretty good, may be the first PSP game I'll have bought in two years.

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Master of Puppets + Persona = Win. 

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@buzz_killington:
 Persona 2 Innocent Sin and Person 2  Eternal Punishment where by far some of the best RPG I have ever played and is by far better in many ways than Persona 3 and 4.
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jeez this looks pretty complex. and the presentation sucks. i still can't wait though.

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I'll probably be getting this.

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@ryanwho:
 I disagree I feel the Social Linking is fun and entertaining and makes dungeon crawling not as annoying. 
 
 I do still hope they bring back the negotiantion/contact system and bring Demons and shadows this time together in a interesting way.  The Social Linking just needs to be refined into a more story changing option depending who you link with, date, etc.  
 
I would love to see combine attacks to come back in play and be effected on how well they play by party members Social Link status.
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@TripMasterMunky said:
" @Earthborn said:
" @Dethfish77 said:
"

Vinny already is in anime form  
 

 
 



 

"
"Take me to the meat dimension!" "
That's totally Vinny. "

 Agree and even though I did not get into the FMA series that character was dam cool and stinks that he was killed....
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Chuck Tuna. The best alias since Happy Doodle.

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 Oh Philemon should also return in full in Persona 5 instead of being the butterfly always in P3/P4. 
 
 He is Egors boss and he should have been in P3 as atleast one confrontation with the MC at the end of the game.
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I think the new Persona should offer you an option to walk around in the first person perspective, seeing that there's been many times in which Vinny has accidentally run into camera problems which pretty much put him in first person view.
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That was probably the most boring Quick Look to date. The only thing more boring than playing a traditional JRPG is watching someone play a traditional JRPG.

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Huh ... interesting to see how the Persona series has moved on and evolved and what is was like for that iteration.

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Lol, Vinny was SO ignorant about the game.  
 
@buzz_killington:  I think you heard wrong, most fans actually consider P1 and P2 to have the better stories. P1 is debatable IMO (it's interesting, but I didn't get into it as much as I could have), but P2 (especially the first half, Innocent Sin) easily has the best plot of the Persona games. P3 and P4 I found more fun to play though, so it's a toss-up.

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"Chav lookin' mofos" That made my night!
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Is anyone else getting an error when trying to view is on the iphone app?

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Do you think they'll change the PSP setpiece when the PSP Go comes out?
 
Whatever, great QL.

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@Zeik: I disagree, I think the first Persona game is by far the weakest in the series, both gameplay and story-wise. The Persona 2 games are great, but very different from 3 and 4. I wouldn't necessarily classify either one as 'better'.
 
Still, considering that Innocent Sin came out in 1999, the Persona 2 games were definitely ambitious in their storytelling, if nothing else.
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@I_am_Lono said:
" "Chav lookin' mofos" That made my night! "
Indeed.
 
I don't like the look of this game and if it doesn't have anything in it that has an effect on the Persona 4 storyline I'll probably just leave it.
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Those corridors make me queasy

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@Lilarcor:  Actually I personally agree, however I'm just saying that there are a lot of people out there who do consider Persona 1 one of the better ones. Though to be honest there are aspects to P1's plot that are superior to P3 and P4. As much as I love P3 and P4, their plots are actually kind of weak, especially considering how sporadically they are told. (Those games are more reliant on their exceptional characters than the plot itself.)
 
As for P2 vs. P3/P4, as an overall experience I agree that neither are clearly "better", as they each have strengths and weaknesses. But if we're purely discussing the plot itself then P2 definitely has the advantage.
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More anime vinny  
 

Vinny in 10 years....maybe
Vinny in 10 years....maybe

Vinny how he looks now, without glasses. Seriously Vinny...put the glasses back on.
Vinny how he looks now, without glasses. Seriously Vinny...put the glasses back on.

 

This is the real Vinny, in case you couldn't tell.
This is the real Vinny, in case you couldn't tell.

 


 

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Hell Yeah level one Doom MIDI music!
 
Oh and yeah, that is totally Vinny.

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Anime Vinny FTW! Fuck yeah, Doom music.

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Chuck Tuna, hell yeah.

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Ugh, game looks interesting, it's just...random battles, I dont enjoy them. If I do pick this up I'll be rolling on easy for sure. Also.. anime Vinny! That actually looks kind of accurate.
 
>You are reminded that you have vol.16 of the FMA manga still unread in your room.
>Read it?

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The way the citymap is displayed in the remake is definatly an improvement over the original.
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@SinGulaR said:
" The way the citymap is displayed in the remake is definatly an improvement over the original. "
Definitely. That's easily one of the best improvements in the game. The map in the original was one of the most godawful overworld maps I've ever seen.
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i wish P4 could be ported to the PSP....now that would be cool

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@kassatsu said:
" Is anyone else getting an error when trying to view is on the iphone app? "
Yep!
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Quick Look, so good it went 40 minutes long.