Logging completion of the Additional Scenario that the PSP remake added.

Really cool stuff. Was super fun to jump back into this world after so long and feel all those feelings I loved again. Halfway through it I realized I really just want to replay the whole game again but I think I'm gonna have to save that for another time. Not sure I'm going to have the time to sink into this before Reload comes out in a few weeks lol.

Anyway, this was a joy. Running around as Tatsuya smoking bad guys was fun, and I liked the kind of visual-novel thing they had going on with describing every scene.

Fighting Kandori and Nyarlathotep in this game was fucking amazing, two of my favorite characters in Eternal Punishment, fucking cool as shit.
Also interesting you fight Izanami who is the main antagonist of Persona 4? So that's cool ??

Overall a fun time, rather short, but that's quite alright with me. Maybe one day I'll replay the whole game, who knows.

Fantastic. Beautiful story, engaging cast, and an insightful look at the meaning and value of relationships, consensus reality, responsibility, and persevering even when the end seems written in stone, among many other things. The gameplay and dungeon crawling were still a test of my patience at times, but there but other times I vibed with it so perhaps it's just a matter of taste. In any case, still worth it to experience this beautiful story. One of those games where it may be a good idea to keep paper and a pencil handy.

Man both I love persona 2 innocent sin and eternal punishment they gotta be my favorite genders ever man like I remember looking up this game just to found out it's Japanese only no subtitles and that the ps1 version has shit dubbing and since I didn't have a ps1 emulator at the time since i was retarded i was like fuck it I heard this game hella underrated and that it has a adult cast like fuck me Im actually missing out then one day randomly i see on my now banned twitter account that the entire game has been subbed and translated like I had an actual will to live put in front of me man I was so excited then I started the game and the pixels looked hella smugded and hella ugly and I couldn't get out of the office and my gane would random just completely freeze and I would have to make a save state and close the app so I decided to go eepy sleepy since it was 1 am anyway wake up find out I accidentally turned on and upscale setting that made the pixel smudged and made it run on like 8 fps and actually payed attention to the dialogue so I can actually do what I had to do and left the office and man what a fucking game man like I this isn't the best ever I know but like goddamn I wished persona games used adult shit more like this game justs hits even hsrder now that I'm actually an adult and a 16 year old who only played the first persona 2 since the main character like men its just a whole different experience like baofus whole lil comment in the train about adult life being horrible n shit just hit like crazy such a good scene and like damn being older he was so right man I love all the characters to man like baofus my 2nd fav persona character and my 2nd favorite character from like Japanese media right behind tatsuya which says alot about both of them since i fw baofu heavy man like I wish I was like him fr but yeah back to it I genuinely don't dislike a single thing about this game at that's are this and re4 are the only games I can really say that about like this game is actually perfect balance of too hard and too easy more on the hard side but I like that I love the plot I love the returning charcters from the first game and innocent sin like tatsuya man I love baufo like I said but like tatsuya might be in my top 5 main characters in video games ever man like hes tough just his design alone like that shot in the lil mini side novel story thing (favorite part of the game but ill get to it) where he's just laying there with all this inky hands covering him just like clicked in my brain it's so hard to explain like It was so cool and I love his whole character in general man he's so cool and I wish maya just spoke like you think they woulda just did that like we already know Maya's personality and character but like still it's so lame and the whole way they basically made her tatsuyas love interest is weird like let that man be gay and he's like 17 also half your age but like persona am I right lame ass shit but yeah it's whatever back to the game I love the end fight and his theme like holy shit ion know if I like the og music or the PSP more but either way that shit was just insane man I love that they based alot shit around lovecraft like thats based AF the music felt more lovecraft than that shitty call of Cthulhu game I tried to play but yeah I remember like finally getting to the boss and I already knew this game Is like the second or number one hardest game in the series but like goddamn man I spent deadass 3-4 hours just fighting him and having to resort to save states so I didn't have to restart every time died but still couldn't beat him so I gave up and realized I'm not built for this and left the game alone for a while 2 months later I'm like oh shit I still needa beat him had to do the same thing as before and use hella save states and like strategize to the point that my head got pounding headache since I'm retarded and dont like actually thinking just scraping by with just baofu and katsuya(goated character btw) reviving Maya so they can be bait so they didn't die and dead runing out of like three 99 stacks of heals and sp heals and all my fucking somas and when that fucking bitch died I've never felt more relieve and satisfaction for anything video game related ever man like deadass prob my 2nd boss fight right there next to maruki ad my fav persona boss and def top 10 or 5 for boss fights In general for me man like goddamn man and after allat I found out randomly talking to igor i think that this game comes with a multiple chapter side gameplay with way WAY more text that makes it feel like a short novel revolving entirely around tatsuya and what he was doing while was missing in the main story like genuinely i can't word my fucking enjoyment and excitement when I found this out man like holy shit my 16-17 year old self was giggling and kicking my feet in the air like a fucking girl man I love that shit so much like I know people would hate it but I wish the whole game was like written like that man like I love books shits so fun man but yeah imma stop before I keep going I love this game if their was a top 20 for my fav games its would be there for sure 10/10| psp opening a 7/10 just vibes og openings a 7/10 also vibes

This game is exactly why I really hope Atlus takes one last swing at a fully adult cast. Picking up right where innocent sin left off, I already knew the stakes were high. Our cast, who went through so much, just lost right at the finish line and only person remembers and has all that weight on his shoulders.

Focusing more on that adult cast Maya, Ulala, Katsuya, and Baofu are the most enjoyable persona cast besides the cast from 4. All of thier struggles and conflicts are done so well and realistically the game even tell you in the contact menu at time how bad thier dynamic is but the way the story pushing them was really great from Ulala's envy of Maya's success and looks to Katsuya struggling to connect to his little brother and how to be involved in the police case.

Baofu being a realist almost but heads with everyone and him harboring the loss of his wife all game long for a revenge ploy. There so much going on with all there's characters and its all explored and talked about so well and even how they grow closer.

Tatsuya being the sole reason this game is happening and just seeing his tone and body language being so different from innocent sin conveys so much. This games conclusion alone is probably in my top 3 of all the games in the series and I've played every persona game.

My only problems which are fairly big is still the gameplay and grindy aspect of the cards and pact system and how they converted Maya into a silent protag. Even after Innocent sin I still wanted her character to be explored more.

This game is gonna be in some serious talks if it ever gets a remake which I hope it does and ditches some of the old mechanics

Yep, this is the one. This is what I've been wanting from Persona.

Truly special story and a cast that I absolutely fell in love with.

Pretty much at a loss for words but this is undeniably one of my favourite pieces of media. Gonna treasure this one so long as my mortality permits.

An enhanced port of what was already the best Persona game, this is definitely the version to play if you haven't played before. Unlike the Innocent Sin PSP port, this version actually made sure to kept atmospheric elements like the UI sounds from the PS1 version of the game. There's numerous other quality of life improvements, including not hiding the nature of the combat being based on repetition. One of the biggest QoL improvements is actually being able to view each characters Persona compatibility without having to either do it by trial and error or looking it up on the internet.

Most of all, the game includes the new Tatsuya scenario. I personally think the scenario was quite good. The only issue I really had with it was the third part being a new dungeon, but that dungeon was really just a reskin of a dungeon already in the game, and a lot of the explanation for navigating it wasn't really necessary. However I liked that the bosses were cool, and many of them even involved a philosophical question that didn't have "OBVIOUS RIGHT ANSWER" and "OBVIOUS WRONG ANSWER", you were supposed to think about it and think about what mythological figure you were talking to. If you could answer correctly, you could potentially skip the boss entirely.

Eternal Punishment was already the best Persona, and this version served only to make it better. If you're going to play it, I recommend this version for sure. I will say some minor atmospheric things from the PSX version are missing from this version, but that pales in comparison to what it gained.

The game has a fan translated English patch out there on the internet, so be sure to use that if you can't read Japanese.

Out of the Persona 2 duology I've always heard more praise for Eternal Punishment, but after how much I loved Innocent Sin it honestly kinda fell short of my expectations. The difficulty is definitely a bit higher compared to Innocent Sin (both the PSX and PSP versions) which is neither inherently positive or negative for me, but I did find myself growing increasingly frustrated towards the last 10 or so hours due to that portion of the game being more densely packed with maze-like and annoying to navigate dungeons as well as two especially grindy boss battles. While I really like the party members on an individual level and they personally resonate with me a lot more, collectively they lack the chemistry that Innocent Sin's party had. Maya unfortunately becomes a lot less interesting as a silent protagonist, but in exchange Tatsuya is no longer silent and shines more, and I think Eternal Punishment definitely cemented my fondness of him. Nanjo and Elly aren't as well integrated into the story as Yukki previously was in Innocent Sin. Their routes feel tacked on and the game dedicates an unnecessarily large chunk of the overall playtime to following up storylines from Persona 1 that not everyone going into Persona 2 will necessarily have played. To add insult to injury depending on whose route you pick there's a 50% chance you will be locked out of proceeding with Tatsuya's additional scenario like I was, which I certainly didn't appreciate.

After so many years of listening about how apparently great classic persona was, I went ahead and played it... 7 years after initially playing P3F.
It's been a long grind, but it feels bad to excessively hate on P2 like I did P1 due to the story just being really well done, both the main one across IS and EP as well as an extra scenario in EP's PSP port. But the gameplay is still really bad, and considering that you need to endure about 60 hours of it across both games I can't seriously bump the score up any higher and go around recommending those games to people. The best praise I can get is that it's not as stupid and annoying as P1, and there's at least some semblence of logic present here.
I can only hope that Atlus decides to remake these games already, but right now? Proceed with caution, and play PS1 version of P2IS and PSP version of P2EP for the best experience.

Ser adulto es jodido, aunque algunas veces nos pasan cosas buenas.

Eternal Punishment da un giro mostrándonos ahora a una party de personajes adultos, lo que genera unas interacciones únicas, cada uno de sus personajes tienen sus metas, su pasado sus fracasos y pecados, de hecho, también se busca plantear el cómo afrontamos las consecuencias de nuestra inmadurez.

Una conclusión más que digna a la primera trilogía, Ningún personaje te puede caer mal, todos están perfectamente escritos, el mayor defecto que veo es hacer a Maya muda, pero del resto, una maravilla, ahora los combates son más difíciles y si te piden algo de estrategia los bosses para derrotarlos. En este caso si recomiendo la versión de PSP ya que arreglaron el problema de la interfaz.

Sin duda el peak de Persona, toda una experiencia sobre la madurez y responsabilidad.

"There is no way it's that good."

It's that good.

Eternal Punishment in my opinion, is Persona, perfected. Turns the core concept on its head, and still manages to tug the heartstrings while being a perfect end to the Classic Persona trilogy.

Imaginate Persona pero con personajes adultos, un deleite. Es una continuación obligatoria de jugar si ya jugaste el Innocent Sin. Eso si, acarrea los mismos problemas que su antecesor, y ahora hay que agregarle que la dificultad se fue a la mierda, es el polo opuesto a lo que pasaba en Innocent Sin (encima tengo la sensación de que aumentó mucho el encounter rate, haciendo que tengas el doble de combates que antes (ojo esto puede deberse a mi esquizofrenia)). Por suerte agilizaron un poco mas el combate, se pueden saltar las animaciones y la navegacion en los menus es un tanto mas rapida.
Fuera de eso, si sos capaz de aguantarte las mierditas que menciono, te vas a llevar una historia hermosa con unos personajes que vas a amar para siempre.
Ojala que Atlus se ponga la 10 y haga un remake tanto del Innocent Sin como de este juego (me encantaría que los fusione en uno solo). No hace falta ponerle el sistema de calendario o social links como los modernos, de hecho quedaría bastante para el orto, con tal de que funcione como cualquiera de los últimos Shin Megami Tensei estaría más que bien.

Nota final: 60/100.