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Kyougar

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I literally have no idea what it is and how it plays. What do you do in this game? Seriously, I have zero knowledge of the franchise.
It is 10%-20% dungeon crawler and 80%-90% visual novel with social time management. Most days you go to school, hang out with friends, make new friends, raise your social and academic skills which lets you experience more social events that are skill-locked. Raising your friendship level also raises your battle and Exp bonus in the dungeons.
 

Arsene

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I literally have no idea what it is and how it plays. What do you do in this game? Seriously, I have zero knowledge of the franchise.
you beat up monsters using magical demons and spend time with high schoolers as you try to (depends on the game here) find out why your school turns into a giant tower at midnight every night (persona 3), find a serial killer (persona 4) and save christmas (persona 5)
 
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Hektor

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I literally have no idea what it is and how it plays. What do you do in this game? Seriously, I have zero knowledge of the franchise.
It's a turn based JRPG/Dungeon Crawler as classic as they come, but on top you have a calendar based time management system to raise stats and such things. that's presentet in the form of you being a student in school.

There's also a pokemon style system where you collect monsters you use for fighting, but it's much more complex than pokemon, and technically it's wrong to say pokemon style, because Persona/SMT was the inspiration for pokemon, not the other way around
 

Knurek

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I literally have no idea what it is and how it plays. What do you do in this game? Seriously, I have zero knowledge of the franchise.
It's a spin off of Shin Megami Tensei (a bunch of dungeon crawlers with pokemon replaced by deities) that plays more like a Japanese redneck country Scooby Doo caper.
Has great style going for it, that's for sure.
 

MJunioR

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It's a spin off of Shin Megami Tensei (a bunch of dungeon crawlers with pokemon replaced by deities) that plays more like a Japanese redneck country Scooby Doo caper.
Has great style going for it, that's for sure.
I loved this
 

Alexandros

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I believe it's an JRPG :D
I think you are in a school and fight monsters
It is 10%-20% dungeon crawler and 80%-90% visual novel with social time management. Most days you go to school, hang out with friends, make new friends, raise your social and academic skills which lets you experience more social events that are skill-locked. Raising your friendship level also raises your battle and Exp bonus in the dungeons.
you beat up monsters using magical demons and spend time with high schoolers as you try to (depends on the game here) find out why your school turns into a giant tower at midnight every night (persona 3), find a serial killer (persona 4) and save christmas (persona 5)
It's a turn based JRPG/Dungeon Crawler as classic as they come, but on top you have a calendar based time management system to raise stats and such things. that's presentet in the form of you being a student in school.

There's also a pokemon style system where you collect monsters you use for fighting, but it's much more complex than pokemon, and technically it's wrong to say pokemon style, because Persona/SMT was the inspiration for pokemon, not the other way around
It's a spin off of Shin Megami Tensei (a bunch of dungeon crawlers with pokemon replaced by deities) that plays more like a Japanese redneck country Scooby Doo caper.
Has great style going for it, that's for sure.
Thanks everyone!
 
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The Kingdom of Beer and Porn
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made a thread for it
 

Durante

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I literally have no idea what it is and how it plays. What do you do in this game? Seriously, I have zero knowledge of the franchise.
Persona 1 and 2 were pretty different, the inflection point in the franchise is 3 (also when it exploded in popularity). So when I say "Persona" in this post I mean "Persona 3+".

Persona basically combines JRPGs, a bit of rougelike, a bit of Pokemon, a bit of "raising sims" (like Princess Maker), and a bit of VNs.
Let's unpack each of these:
  1. JRPGs -- this part should be obvious. The turn-based battle system, character leveling, equipment, and dungeon exploration are pretty vanilla JRPG.
  2. Roguelike -- the dungeons have randomly generated floors and change each time you visit. You also have rare encounters and drops and things like that.
  3. Pokemon -- your character can use the titular "Personas". You can aquire them in-game, improve them, and fuse them in a pretty neat system to create new ones. Much of the strategic interest is in preparing Personas well suited for particular battles. (Note, in terms of influence, this should really be "SMT", but a lot more people know Pokemon)
  4. Raising Sims -- the entire game is based around a calendar. On each day (and sometimes time slot), you can decide what to do. This can be anything from studying or working various side jobs over hanging out with other characters or eating out to actually going to a dungeon. All of these activities can influence, and are in turn influenced by, your non-battle skills (like knowledge, courage or diligence).
  5. VNs -- over the course of the activities I just described there are a lot of character stories you get to participate in, and you have quite a bit of choice in them (though ultimately the most meaningful choices you make are how you spend your time).
So, take all that, combine it with a modern-day Japanese highschool + supernatural setting and extremely confident, consistent and unique overall graphical styling and music, and you get Persona.

Sadly, it doesn't always work out perfectly, and there are pacing issues especially with 5 and dungeon and battle "design" issues particularly with 3, but it's also clear that there are reasons for its rather unique popularity/appeal.
 

TioChuck

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I played a bit of Persona 3, if I remeber correct, on a PSP, almost fell at sleep, but I will play on Steam, if the price is right.
 

Alexandros

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Persona 1 and 2 were pretty different, the inflection point in the franchise is 3 (also when it exploded in popularity). So when I say "Persona" in this post I mean "Persona 3+".

Persona basically combines JRPGs, a bit of rougelike, a bit of Pokemon, a bit of "raising sims" (like Princess Maker), and a bit of VNs.
Let's unpack each of these:
  1. JRPGs -- this part should be obvious. The turn-based battle system, character leveling, equipment, and dungeon exploration are pretty vanilla JRPG.
  2. Roguelike -- the dungeons have randomly generated floors and change each time you visit. You also have rare encounters and drops and things like that.
  3. Pokemon -- your character can use the titular "Personas". You can aquire them in-game, improve them, and fuse them in a pretty neat system to create new ones. Much of the strategic interest is in preparing Personas well suited for particular battles. (Note, in terms of influence, this should really be "SMT", but a lot more people know Pokemon)
  4. Raising Sims -- the entire game is based around a calendar. On each day (and sometimes time slot), you can decide what to do. This can be anything from studying or working various side jobs over hanging out with other characters or eating out to actually going to a dungeon. All of these activities can influence, and are in turn influenced by, your non-battle skills (like knowledge, courage or diligence).
  5. VNs -- over the course of the activities I just described there are a lot of character stories you get to participate in, and you have quite a bit of choice in them (though ultimately the most meaningful choices you make are how you spend your time).
So, take all that, combine it with a modern-day Japanese highschool + supernatural setting and extremely confident, consistent and unique overall graphical styling and music, and you get Persona.

Sadly, it doesn't always work out perfectly, and there are pacing issues especially with 5 and dungeon and battle "design" issues particularly with 3, but it's also clear that there are reasons for its rather unique popularity/appeal.
Thank you very much for the detailed breakdown. It does sound pretty interesting and it being turn-based is perfect for me. You guys are actually selling me on this game.

Steam in 2020 be like

We need a picture of Tim Sweeney looking in through a rainy window.
 

PC-tan

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I played a bit of Persona 3, if I remeber correct, on a PSP, almost fell at sleep, but I will play on Steam, if the price is right.
There is some difference in P3/P3FES and P3P because of the hardware limitations but overall the story is rather similar except for the ending part.
 
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Ex-User (119)

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just saying some stuff may not be fully shown in the next few days what we have heard but alot of it is real, and there is also a few on the current and previous page that are correct too,

the next few months are very exciting for any pc gaming fan and you wont be dissapointed and dont let some epic store stuff get you down because theres alot thats also coming to steam
 

Alexandros

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just saying some stuff may not be fully shown in the next few days what we have heard but alot of it is real, and there is also a few on the current and previous page that are correct too,

the next few months are very exciting for any pc gaming fan and you wont be dissapointed and dont let some epic store stuff get you down because theres alot thats also coming to steam
That is good advice.

TLOU 2 shadow drop day and date
Think bigger. Fortnite on Steam.
 

fantomena

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just saying some stuff may not be fully shown in the next few days what we have heard but alot of it is real, and there is also a few on the current and previous page that are correct too,

the next few months are very exciting for any pc gaming fan and you wont be dissapointed and dont let some epic store stuff get you down because theres alot thats also coming to steam
Do you know something regarding Bloodborne/Playstation?
 
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Swenhir

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the next few months are very exciting for any pc gaming fan and you wont be dissapointed and dont let some epic store stuff get you down because theres alot thats also coming to steam
You mean all of it, eventually[UWSL][UWSL]* [/UWSL][UWSL]:p[/UWSL][UWSL][/UWSL][/UWSL]

[UWSL][UWSL]*[/UWSL][/UWSL][UWSL][UWSL]In a month[/UWSL][/UWSL]
 
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Stone Ocean

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just saying some stuff may not be fully shown in the next few days what we have heard but alot of it is real, and there is also a few on the current and previous page that are correct too,

the next few months are very exciting for any pc gaming fan and you wont be dissapointed and dont let some epic store stuff get you down because theres alot thats also coming to steam
 
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