![]() Persona 3 brings with it a pop/hip-hop style while Persona 4 is more a rock infused pop vibe. That personality is expressed musically as well. Each game has it’s own core colour that defines it’s personality. It turns out this was the case with both 3 and 4 from years ago. RELATED: A New Persona 5 Tactica Trailer Is Out Along With A Heap Of New Info Effortless styleįrom music to menu animations Persona 5 exudes style. Persona 3 involves a so-called ‘Dark Hour’, an hour that occurs at exactly midnight but is only consciously experienced by a select few, and a mysterious dungeon called Tartarus that holds shadows to fight and secrets to uncover. If you enjoyed the idea of a bunch of high school kids gaining supernatural powers and having to balance regular teenage life with the fate of the world, you’ll be happy to know you’ll get much more of that in the earlier games too. The same Persona formula is here for the story too. It’s an exciting cycle to knock down enemies with weaknesses or critical hits, then finish them off with a Co-op or All-out Attack. The same system exists in both P3 and P4 and keeps things exciting. ![]() It’s not ultra deep, but straightforward enough to pick up quickly and exciting enough to keep from getting boring. The battles in Persona 5 were exciting thanks to the battle system that let you really apply pressure to enemies when exploiting their weaknesses, while trying to avoid the same happening to your party. A whole set of different social options will open up if you do so, giving the game a big boost to replayability. Persona 3 Portable is particularly noteworthy as you can choose between the original male protagonist and a female protagonist who was added in this revision. Building your relationships in the regular world to explore interesting character stories and have bonuses on the dungeon side of things is as enjoyable as ever. The core gameplay loop of balancing school life, social life and supernatural dungeon crawling is here in each of these earlier games. ![]() Balancing high school life with dungeon crawling ![]() I’ve spent a decent chunk of time with both games on PS5 and they’re each great for a lot of the same reasons Persona 5 was so good. If you liked Persona 5, I think you should absolutely give Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden a chance. Until now, you needed a PC or an older PlayStation console if you wanted to go back and play the earlier titles in the series, but no longer! Versions of Persona 3 and Persona 4 are hitting current platforms and in doing so bringing these games to a whole new audience. Heaps of people jumped into the series for the first time and loved what they found in Atlus’ stylish and somewhat dark JRPG/visual novel hybrid. Persona 5 was a huge success for the series. ![]()
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