Explaining what is me-core with games
This isn't just games I think are 10/10. These games that for various reasons are what I find appealing.
Basically this going to me explaining how/why these things appeal to me
Basically this going to me explaining how/why these things appeal to me
18 Games
I will also use this to talk about Persona 3 and 5, and why I put 4 above both of them.
Persona 4 is the smallest scale of the three modern persona games. Persona 3 has you dealing with a global disease called Apathy Syndrome while you climb a seemingly never-ending tower. Persona 5 you are trying to reform society as gentlemen thieves and slowly uncovering a greater conspiracy. In Persona 4, you’re just trying to solve a serial killing while preventing more victims, that’s it, and I like that.
You’re in a small town in the countryside; everything that happens here will barely be felt outside, so it becomes more personal. There is no grand cause, no villainous group, just a single target and people who are personally affected wanting justice. The most advanced thing that you get is Naoto, a detective from out of town. I like insignificant things, things that only matter to a small group or are relevant to them. Obviously, by the end, it becomes something greater, but I feel like it never lost that small-scale feeling.
I understand some of the step-downs from P3 party members to P4. P4 lacks any inter-team conflict outside of comedic events, but I don’t know if P4 would work with it as well as P3 did. Since P4 is more of a group coming together for a common goal, while P3 is more of a group of people with varying beliefs and motivations kind of having no choice but to put aside issues and come together.
Also this may sound strange but in P5 I feel things are too in your favour. The fact that you get into palaces with a phone app feels kind of lame. Also how you get weapons and outfit just from getting a persona, like everything is too convenient in P5 despite how dire it tries to paint things. I’ll admit it’s weird how I feel like this about P5 and not P3, where you are backed by a fucking Japanese mega-corp and get a robot built to fight shadows.
Also I’m sorry but I’m a Marie liker, I understand the vision of a bad tsundere that writes shitty poems.
Persona 4 is the smallest scale of the three modern persona games. Persona 3 has you dealing with a global disease called Apathy Syndrome while you climb a seemingly never-ending tower. Persona 5 you are trying to reform society as gentlemen thieves and slowly uncovering a greater conspiracy. In Persona 4, you’re just trying to solve a serial killing while preventing more victims, that’s it, and I like that.
You’re in a small town in the countryside; everything that happens here will barely be felt outside, so it becomes more personal. There is no grand cause, no villainous group, just a single target and people who are personally affected wanting justice. The most advanced thing that you get is Naoto, a detective from out of town. I like insignificant things, things that only matter to a small group or are relevant to them. Obviously, by the end, it becomes something greater, but I feel like it never lost that small-scale feeling.
I understand some of the step-downs from P3 party members to P4. P4 lacks any inter-team conflict outside of comedic events, but I don’t know if P4 would work with it as well as P3 did. Since P4 is more of a group coming together for a common goal, while P3 is more of a group of people with varying beliefs and motivations kind of having no choice but to put aside issues and come together.
Also this may sound strange but in P5 I feel things are too in your favour. The fact that you get into palaces with a phone app feels kind of lame. Also how you get weapons and outfit just from getting a persona, like everything is too convenient in P5 despite how dire it tries to paint things. I’ll admit it’s weird how I feel like this about P5 and not P3, where you are backed by a fucking Japanese mega-corp and get a robot built to fight shadows.
Also I’m sorry but I’m a Marie liker, I understand the vision of a bad tsundere that writes shitty poems.
Now the important question that needs to be answered first is: why is FF8 here over FF7 when it has a better story, characters, and lacks a strange combat system? I don’t fucking know!
It’s hard to explain why I like FF8 over FF7 but I can think of some reasons. I like how the game looks over FF7 and I don’t mean just graphically. The setting is cool; it’s a fun mix of modern and futuristic. It lacks the problem FF7 has, where it peaks visually early on with Midgar; nothing in FF7 is that cool again.
Design-wise, Squall is cooler than Cloud, and he has the cooler weapon, the Gunblade. I was never bothered by Squall’s personality like other people seem to be. I think he plays well off of Rinoa.
FF8’s story is borderline nonsense at some points and shows signs of being unfinished, but I still found myself having fun. Ultimately, FF8 is a bunch of cool moments. When I think about FF8, I think about when Seifer bisects Odin, or when you hear the start of The Extreme as Ultimecia slowly descends.
Also The Extreme is better than One-Winged Angel.
It’s hard to explain why I like FF8 over FF7 but I can think of some reasons. I like how the game looks over FF7 and I don’t mean just graphically. The setting is cool; it’s a fun mix of modern and futuristic. It lacks the problem FF7 has, where it peaks visually early on with Midgar; nothing in FF7 is that cool again.
Design-wise, Squall is cooler than Cloud, and he has the cooler weapon, the Gunblade. I was never bothered by Squall’s personality like other people seem to be. I think he plays well off of Rinoa.
FF8’s story is borderline nonsense at some points and shows signs of being unfinished, but I still found myself having fun. Ultimately, FF8 is a bunch of cool moments. When I think about FF8, I think about when Seifer bisects Odin, or when you hear the start of The Extreme as Ultimecia slowly descends.
Also The Extreme is better than One-Winged Angel.
BlazingWaters
1 year ago