What's the overarching structure, outside of battles? Is it like FFT where you have a worldmap thing? FE where you're just sort of scuttled along?

When your party members are seperated, how are individual battle wins/losses calculated? Do they take into account elemental strengths and weaknesses at all

What is it that makes Suik 2 so special? I played a fairly big part of 1 (Ten hours or so?) but it seemed like pretty much generic late 16-bit era RPG.

If I actually had an attention span, I'd be learning Russian and writing novels.

Sure, but the intro was still too long.

It's a videogame. Barely-interactive, half-hour long opening sequences sort of go against the whole 'game' concept.

Sticking a half-hour long non-interactive bit towards the middle or end is alright, but *not* at the beginning. That does *not* hook the player.

Anyway, Iori sort of looks like US Mark, sans for the whole 'being black' thing. Outfit's almost the same, only grey, and the attitude is similar.

This game sort of has a Nintendo-game feel to it in the sense that it seems like there's more stuff to do as you go along, which I rather like.

anyway, gamespot's review mentioned it can get a bit tedious to trek through the dungeons repeatedly. Something I've noticed, though, is that using the 'split up' option can greatly reduce the time you need, in addition to leading to some interesting one-on-three situations and the like.

---yeditye---

Also, I keep seeing little parallels to devil summoner, gameplay wise (though, isn't the cop in P3 named Kuzunoha? Or aren't pretty much all of the cops in the SMT games named that or something?) The ability to split up is sort of like how you could control a single demon in DS, as is the AI control in battles (Though, Persona 3's guys are thankfully a lot better working, although it seemed inDS that some demons just had better AI than others. Was there some stat behind this?)

I'm sort of worried people migth, say, play the first two hours of Persona 3 and give up because nothing really happens till past that. I mean, hell, I almost gave up on it.

Anyway, I definitely feel the battle system is more balanced than Persona 2's.

BTW, are there any story/setting connections to the first three games?

The hollywood video in town didn't have it cause fed ex hadn't come by at that point. Feel bad cause my friend works there :[

Anyway, fatigue doesn't worry me. Just saying, food having an extra use would be neat.

Anywy though, the sort of 'survival' nature the dungeon introduces is definitely cool. I'm GUESSING there's a larger emphasis on long-term strategy than short-term strategies here.

also, the idea of a linear tower is something i like -- same for a dungeon that goes deeper constantly only, you know, in reverse. why I liked ffl1 so much, or nethack.

I think they mention in the artbook that he's supposed to be awkward and always tells really unfunny jokes.

Anyway, I think I like this more than persona 2 so far. Kenji's sort of a dick. I need to get involved with the kendo club more.

I wish food restored fatigue in the dungen :<

Also:

http://www.rpgamer.com/games/persona/persona3/screens/persona316.jpg

What the hell?

http://www.rpgamer.com/games/persona/persona3/screens/persona394.jpg

Many lols at using the same cast for different clubs.

My gamestop also only got one copy.



You can't explore in the first hour and a half anyway. It's like, entirely non-interactive till you get to Tartarus, save for some really, really pointless wandering you can do in your dorm.



Isn't he supposed to?

Anyway, I don't know how I feel about the lack of party control. The battle system seems sort of 'Stun! Stun! Stun! COMBO!' now. I'm hoping it get more strategic later.

I don't reallyl ike how you apparently have to talk to your other party members to equip them.

Also I kinda wish you still had demon conversations, and that they, say, related back to your academic/charm/athletic rating.

I liked the Aeris romance because it never really *happens*. It's all build up for most of the disc, and really subtle at that. Even the golden saucer is still mostly 'good friends,' maybe LEANING to being in love, but not all the way there. And right when it LOOKS like it's going to turn into this big thing -- Aeris is off on her own, Sephiroth is following here, and you sort of predict cloud'll rush in, save her, and be her knight in shining armor... instead she just dies. I thought it worked really well.

Mooooooooore importantly though, FFVII is, in comparison to, say, VI, VIII, X, and twelve sort of whimsical. Not in the way FFIX was -- which is something i also like a lot -- but more in... hrm... some other sense. I mean, a fort with a giant condor on it, or the golden saucer. That sort of crazy excess that you'd see more of in the early PSX and N64 days.



What was the effect of that supposed to be?

It'd be nice if the ship date was, say, a few days ahead, and the release date was when they could actually sell it, like with books and music :(

In any case, here's hoping my gamestop gets it. I wouldn't be surprised if they've stopped ordering  PS2 games.

I don't really trust HM reviews for various reasons.

Anyone able to find out if the shipping went okay? Cause Nocturne got pushed back a week on release day.

Isn't fanservice when the devs put in a bunch of big 'ol boobies and panty shots to get the male games aer jangly? Given that there were three womn characters in FFIX, one of which was hydrocephalic on a massive level, one of which was Gogo, and one of which was 8, I'm going on on a limb and saying that SOMEBODY here is a massive pervert of some sort.