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Only played Persona 3, but I hear 4 is just a refinement of it.
If you hate anime teen dialog you will despise it. Half of the game is like an anime version of a Bioware game where you hang out with your needy co-dependent party members to hand hold them through their ridiculous personal problems.
The other half is an anachronistic dungeon crawler and combat. You can only directly control the main character and your party AI is retarded. If the main character is disabled by a status ailment you lose complete control of party commands; they will continue to be retarded instead of help you. If the main character is reduced to 0 hitpoints at any point you are booted to the main menu. Attacks that take off one-half to two-thirds your health are common. Group effect instant death attacks have a fairly high success chance and the main character is not immune. There hasn't been this amount of crazy grinding and harshly unforgiving combat since the late 90s.
There's supposed to be strategy with disabling enemies with their elemental weakness, but like recent shitty Final Fantasy games scanning is disabled for boss fights when it would matter most. Try to guess their weakness by randomly throwing spells at them and hope they don't reflect one back that kills the main character and sets you back 45 minutes.
The only good points is an amusing meta plot about apathetic teens dealing with angst over not imagining a life beyond high school by blowing their brains out with a gun (the only fun part of combat is a character cheerily proclaiming "I can do it!" before swallowing a gun and pulling the trigger), and there's some funny dialog with the two best friends.
This is canceled out by the actual plot which is boilerplate anime idealists vs nihilists (as soon as the goth kids show up it all goes to shit). They must have had a different writer doing the two best friends, because every other character is the same generic shit horrible writers come up with: trying to have characters sound smarter than they are by simply making them overly articulate. Also late-90s is the horrible level of voice acting for the non-best friend characters (you WILL shut the voices off).
Like Disgaea, it starts off promising with an original dark tone, some amusing dialog, and a combat system that promises strategic depth. Pretty soon the plot turns anime, new characters with grating speeches show up, and the combat system ends up being monotonous frustration. |
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Review Request: Shin Megami Tensai series in general by Mischief Maker 03/20/2010, 11:42am PDT 
Hated Devil Survivor, I mean. NT by Mischief Maker 03/20/2010, 11:43am PDT
Spoony sort of reviewed them in some vlog entries. O_O NT by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 03/20/2010, 12:04pm PDT
Ask Wromg NT by Fortinbras 03/20/2010, 12:05pm PDT
this review covers everything atlas has ever released by irony 03/20/2010, 12:07pm PDT
It was just a review in the forum by Worm 03/20/2010, 12:57pm PDT
Re: It was just a review in the forum by Fortinbras 03/20/2010, 10:50pm PDT
You will hate them by FABIO 03/20/2010, 3:33pm PDT
Re: You will hate them by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/20/2010, 3:43pm PDT
You haven't gotten to the soul-crushing grinding yet by FABIO 03/20/2010, 3:56pm PDT
I didn't even know people could be bad at RPGs ... stunning. NT by Worm 03/20/2010, 4:03pm PDT
Well, what is your reaction to that?You're saying you didn't see the same thing? NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/20/2010, 4:40pm PDT
I didn't, that's for sure by Lizard_King 03/20/2010, 9:10pm PDT
Mischief Maker would hate it by FABIO 03/21/2010, 12:56am PDT
Re: Mischief Maker would hate it by Lizard_King 03/21/2010, 8:12am PDT
Re: Mischief Maker would hate it by FABIO 03/21/2010, 8:28pm PDT
Re: Mischief Maker would hate it by Lizard_King 03/22/2010, 9:18pm PDT
Re: Mischief Maker would hate it by FABIO 03/23/2010, 8:18am PDT
Re: Mischief Maker would hate it by Mischief Maker 03/23/2010, 12:33pm PDT
thanks jsoh NT by FABIO 03/20/2010, 5:29pm PDT
What? The bosses are pretty easy. by Worm 03/21/2010, 5:07am PDT
Re: What? The bosses are pretty easy. by FABIO 03/21/2010, 8:40pm PDT
re: plot by FABIO 03/21/2010, 8:56pm PDT
That isn't what I said anyway. :( NT by laudablepuss 03/22/2010, 11:34am PDT
Oh man two replies, how can I fucking contain myself? by Worm 03/22/2010, 2:00pm PDT
John was right. You do eat up shit =( NT by FABIO 03/23/2010, 8:20am PDT
Well it was no Bloodlines ~_~ NT by Worm 03/23/2010, 8:24am PDT
Re: You haven't gotten to the soul-crushing grinding yet by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/20/2010, 4:38pm PDT
As to why it's hugely popular... by FABIO 03/20/2010, 3:45pm PDT
Oh bitch you did not just by Nomura Dau Don 03/20/2010, 4:48pm PDT
Re: Oh bitch you did not just by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/20/2010, 5:03pm PDT
Re: Oh bitch you did not just by Nomura Dau Don 03/20/2010, 6:13pm PDT
In FF6 you learned magic from equipped Espers NT by Nou Doof Dong Ching Chong Wing Wong 03/20/2010, 7:16pm PDT
I played most of FF12 on autopilot gambits. by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 03/21/2010, 12:08am PDT
FF2j and FF5 had job systems. by Worm 03/21/2010, 5:11am PDT
it counts as a review, and a comic strip about fursona 4 by irony 03/21/2010, 7:33pm PDT
ha ha, yup by FABIO 03/21/2010, 8:04pm PDT
DIDDLING YOUR SOUL CLIT by Entropy Stew 03/21/2010, 11:59pm PDT
It's certainly no Bloodlines, you got that right. NT by Charles Edwards 03/22/2010, 3:07pm PDT
Now I know how the Cables feel. Shattering sanities with one sentence. NT by FABIO 03/22/2010, 8:16pm PDT
or getting trolled by an ICJ ator ... same difference, right? NT by Worm 03/22/2010, 8:44pm PDT
Re: it counts as a review, and a comic strip about fursona 4 by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/21/2010, 11:37pm PDT
it's already a worse game than gtavc NT by irony 03/22/2010, 4:28am PDT
Yes, but does it destroy lives like GTAVC? by Jerry Whorebach 03/22/2010, 6:35am PDT
thanks for your insight fatso NT by nobody 03/22/2010, 10:30am PDT
When nobody calls you a fatso, that means your diet is working 8) NT by Jerry Whorebach 03/22/2010, 11:03am PDT
If you ain't fat and we're skinnier than you then we are also skinny. :3 by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 03/22/2010, 2:32pm PDT
How? Does falling in water in P4 kill you and delete your save game? NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/22/2010, 9:01am PDT
p4 doesn't even have water because weeaboos suck at video games NT by irony 03/22/2010, 5:16pm PDT
In other words, yes. 8) NT by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 03/22/2010, 5:24pm PDT
it wasn't a yes or no question but that's because we have vision the rest of the NT by irony 03/22/2010, 5:27pm PDT
Well the second part was yes or no, but it also answers the other question. O_O NT by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 03/22/2010, 5:59pm PDT
Well the second part was yes or no, but it also answers the other question. O_O by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/23/2010, 10:36am PDT
Yeah, but that guy loved the game :( NT by Worm 03/22/2010, 2:02pm PDT
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