This game narrates one of my favourite stories.
Persona 3 is very meaningful to me as a person, and as such I am quite biased and I may not be able to accurately rate this videogame.
Prior to Persona 3 Relad's release, P3P is the most "legal" and convinient way to experience this story. However, despite adding some QoL changes to Persona 3's gameplay, P3P still falls short due to its presentation.
The graphics are quite dated and the visual-novel aspect of the game may be even more offputting to newer players, and may hinder the impact of some story beats on the player.
This game presents the player with a great story where the characters face issues such as their own mortality, the pain of grieving the death of a loved one or even finding their path in life.
The average play-through of this game is around 80 to 100 hours, but, in order to get all the Steam archievements, I had to do 3 full play-throughs of P3P.
During that time, I found out that the gameplay-cicle of P3 and - especially - Tartarus is VERY repetitive.
In conclusion, this JRPG / Visual novel set the standard for the Persona franchise, and even if it looks and feels dated, it is certainly an amazing experience.
In my opinion, if you are on the fence about buying this game, I recomend that you wait for Persona 3 Reload, the re-release of Persona 3 where we will be able to experience this story in a modern way with some of the Persona 5's quality of life changes.
Persona 3 is very meaningful to me as a person, and as such I am quite biased and I may not be able to accurately rate this videogame.
Prior to Persona 3 Relad's release, P3P is the most "legal" and convinient way to experience this story. However, despite adding some QoL changes to Persona 3's gameplay, P3P still falls short due to its presentation.
The graphics are quite dated and the visual-novel aspect of the game may be even more offputting to newer players, and may hinder the impact of some story beats on the player.
This game presents the player with a great story where the characters face issues such as their own mortality, the pain of grieving the death of a loved one or even finding their path in life.
The average play-through of this game is around 80 to 100 hours, but, in order to get all the Steam archievements, I had to do 3 full play-throughs of P3P.
During that time, I found out that the gameplay-cicle of P3 and - especially - Tartarus is VERY repetitive.
In conclusion, this JRPG / Visual novel set the standard for the Persona franchise, and even if it looks and feels dated, it is certainly an amazing experience.
In my opinion, if you are on the fence about buying this game, I recomend that you wait for Persona 3 Reload, the re-release of Persona 3 where we will be able to experience this story in a modern way with some of the Persona 5's quality of life changes.