A 2019-era me rambling review:
More of a “Persona 0” than Shin Megami Tensei If….
What do I mean by this? Well for starters alignments are replaced with a Dragon Quest/Final Fantasy-esc straightforward story and set specifically within a location focusing on multiple characters changing over the course of the plot. SMT if… was interesting because it brought the school premise but Soul Hackers from a writing perspective was the refinement of the formula (boy isn’t it weird how Shadows appear in this one).
The only real difference between this and Persona is that the gameplay here is more fun than you’ll ever get in Persona 1-4 (I have not played 5 at the time of me writing this).
More of a “Persona 0” than Shin Megami Tensei If….
What do I mean by this? Well for starters alignments are replaced with a Dragon Quest/Final Fantasy-esc straightforward story and set specifically within a location focusing on multiple characters changing over the course of the plot. SMT if… was interesting because it brought the school premise but Soul Hackers from a writing perspective was the refinement of the formula (boy isn’t it weird how Shadows appear in this one).
The only real difference between this and Persona is that the gameplay here is more fun than you’ll ever get in Persona 1-4 (I have not played 5 at the time of me writing this).