Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Persona 3 Dancing in Moonlight / Persona 4 Dancing All-Night
I haven’t played much of P3D before so now that I have some fresh experience with both it and P4D I can safely say the latter is a better game - whether in terms of gameplay, beatmaps or soundtrack, P3D feels a bit less “inspired”, I guess. It’s kinda unfortunate as P3 is my favourite game in the series (I haven’t played 1 or 2 yet) but whatever, the important part is to have fun. I’m slowly getting back in the groove. No full perfects yet but full combos are back on the menu and that’s exactly what I aim for.
Persona 3 Portable
Playing both dancing games made me go back to my unfinished pink playthrough of P3P. I haven’t touched it since… last year (I think?) due to mind goblins messing with my focus when playing RPGs at the time but I still want to see how things play out from the alternative perspective. I don’t have much to write about this one at the moment as I’m still in the early parts (just got Akihiko a few in-game days prior) but I have to drop a hot take nonetheless - I really wish these games had no time limit. I understand why it’s there and that it’s important from the narrative perspective but it’s a mechanic I never really enjoyed in games (Persona or otherwise). Now that I got to experience a Persona title without one (P5X gacha), it made these feelings even stronger. At least I’m playing on the easy mode (NG+) so I can skip most of the grind and focus on what I’m interested in (social elements). I’m really curious about the new stuff.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Since it’s been a week, I thought I’d ask: how’re you enjoying your FemC run of P3?
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m progressing pretty slowly at the moment but I really like Kotone. I enjoy her cheerful front mixed with less happy emotions bubbling beneath and expect (or at least hope) for this to progress with the story. I also like that she can be played as a weirdo.
Her new events are pretty fun though they suffer from the same issue as the original route, i.e. you have to agree with people make the most of social links. I’m used to it from the first playthrough so it’s not a huge deal.
The biggest surprise so far was Saori’s (health committee) social link as that’s not something I expected to see in the game and I’m really curious where it goes.
As mentioned in my previous post, I’m really glad I’m playing this as NG+ since it allows me to focus on the differences which are mostly present in writing. I like it.
That’s pretty much all I have for now. I’ll be making more posts as I progress with the game with possible longer write up at the end if I have some time (and enough thoughts for that). Playing this route makes me even more annoyed Atlus for not bothering with including it in P3 Reload but they famously hate money so it’s not like one can expect much from them on that front.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I really like Kotone’s SLs (ignoring Ken), especially the fact that we get an actual Ryoji SL. I think Reload not having FemC was a huge miss.
But I’m glad you’re enjoying it! I really wish Atlus kept the dual protagonists in tbh, it makes NG+ a lot more fun to go through.
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If they keep insisting that having two protagonists is too expensive despite having multiple successful franchises behind their belt then I wish they just went all in and made a Persona game with female protag instead - it’s been 25 years since P2!
At the same time I kinda dread what they would do with her to be honest. Atlus still has some issues with how they use their female characters so we could end up with some… let’s call them “problematic” events. They would also have to rethink some of their social links (can you imagine the reception of gendebent Kawakami scenario?). I’d still take that chance at this point though.