Emulated. A pretty okay game that gets overshadowed a lot by its more popular sequels. It hasn't aged that well in some ways, particularly the dungeons which are a slog to get through, especially the final one, which was pure agony to finish. The random encounter rate is way too high and the dungeons are deliberately filled with long corridors that are dead ends, so you have to go back and waste time on fights. Still, I played on normal and it never was hard. Annoying at times, yes, but excluding the final boss I died and had to load a save maybe twice in the whole game. I had more trouble finishing Persona 5, which really surprised me. I really liked the characters, your party is memorable and its fun to see them interact. Story is simple, but works well enough. Visually it looks okay, I like the first person dungeons and the sprites were cool. I really enjoy the music though, I know this remake has a different soundtrack than the original ps1 release, but they really hit it out of the park with this one. The songs here are legitimately on par with the ones on Persona 5, though they repeat a whole lot. P5 had the same problem though, so I don't hold it against this game that much. Except for the battle theme, that one started to grate despite the game's short duration, about 30 or so hours. Overall I'd recommend it to everyone that would like to see how the Persona series started, if you can deal with the repetition.