Any console of the current generation blows anything from that time period out of the water tenfold. However, none of that is there in P3P, as it has been stripped to its bare essentials (while also adding some nifty, neat goodies to justify purchasing it in the first place) to properly run on a handheld console. This is the same nostalgia that is also felt when playing Persona 4 Golden. (The anime cutscenes have been cut entirely.)ĭespite the game being over 16 years old at this point, there is a sort of rustic charm in revisiting Persona 3’s rough animations. The visual novel aspect mentioned earlier pervades every aspect of the game’s presentation, replacing 3D animation sequences with sprites and stills. Limited Presentation (Lack of cutscene s)Īdding to the previously mentioned reason, P3P also does away with almost all in-game cutscenes and presentation flair compared to Persona 3 and FES. Joking aside, Persona 3 FES’s exploration is archaic by modern standards, but what P3P offers is a step down from even that. The cute character tic the P3 protagonist does, where he puts his hands in his pockets as he runs around like a lunatic for social links, is gutted from P3P and that’s unforgivable. Before we were able to see the protagonist move around, interacting with the world of Tatsumi Port Island, Iwatodai Dorm, and Gekkoukan High. However, it takes away a lot of the charm the game had. This streamlining was obviously done because of the PSP’s technical limitations compared to PS2. Ditching explorable 3D environments entirely, P3P simplifies its JRPG elements by turning Persona 3 into something akin to a visual novel, where 2D character sprites and background stills are favored over moving around and exploring three-dimensional space outside of combat in Tartarus. Overly Simple (Map Exploration and Interaction)Ī major key difference P3P has with base Persona 3 and Persona 3 FES is the throttled nature of P3P’s presentation. It does boast enough uniqueness to stand on its own merits but it pales in comparison to Persona 3 FES, which is, in my opinion, the version players should have got instead. Because of its portable status, P3P is a trimmed-down version of its predecessor due to the PSP system’s hardware limitations, resulting in lost and/or abridged content. ![]() The version arriving on consoles is P3P, the portable port of Persona for the PSP released in 2009. Persona 3 exists in two “upgraded” versions, FES and P3P. The same can’t really be said for Persona 3.
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