Saturday, July 25, 2009

Game: Persona 4

Just realized that my last post was written on 7th July, which is Tanabata, a certain day in Japan. I am not gonna say more about it so wikipedia if you're interested. Wahahaha...

So, one of my best friends told me that she played Persona 4, and she played it twice. And said that she loved it. And the main character is handsome and blah blah blah. So my first reaction was: "See? Told you it is fun."

Indeed, Persona 4 is a late ps2 game. And it is certainly the game that will make you regret that you got rid of your ps2. To me my favourite RPG were the Shadow Hearts series. Which is then taken over by the Ar Tonelico series. But now the Most Favourite RPG throne belongs to Persona 4.

I am always in a state of fantasizing things. In this fantasy of mine, I am a student, but at the same time I am also in an adventure of some sort. Like, day time student, night time super hero, kind of stuff. And Persona 4 actually fits that category. Kind of a very free game.
You play as silent protagonist with a name that you gave him. In the manga he is called Seto Souji(瀬多 総司). Due to his father's work, he has to live with his uncle in Inaba. There he attends school and made some friends. But then there is this strange occurence in town, and he and his friends are pulled into this mess. With their new found powers, the Persona, Souji set out to find out the mastermind behind these mysteries, while attending school in the morning.

Other than typical RPG play styles, this game also have the Social Link system, which is the raised by socializing with people corresponding to a certain arcana. As the social link levels up, persona that belongs to that arcana with become stronger. Through this system, Souji can date certain female characters through answering the right choices. This system makes Persona 4 an RPG that is also a dating sim.

Making new persona is the fun part of the game. Each persona has their own abilities, strengths and weaknesses. In the Persona series, the main character is always the one that is able to change to different persona, while the other characters can only have one persona, which compensates for the fact that if the main character dies, its instant game over.

This game has events that a school normally has, such as trips, festivals, so on. These events are fun to watch and often cracks me up. Makes me think that our school should set up more of something like this.


I really like this game, I think that everyone should play it if they have a chance. Personally i think the english version ruined the characters due to the voice acting. Mine is the japanese version, and hearing the voices that i know makes me happy as well.
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6 comments:

Gin@m.Bo0tH$ said...

indeed, ur close hv been crazily playin this game lol..

~FeniX~ said...

she played twice but the time is still shorter than my first playthrough lol.
my first playthrough is 104 hours. and i didnt finish the side quests.

Gin@m.Bo0tH$ said...

she really crazy loh lol..i think her dad forcin her to go work at his shop is a good idea, if not whole day just ps2 lol. hope she doesn c dis hahaha

Mizu Hime ミズ姫 said...

i just read this lol wuakakakaka... dun treat i am invisible ler... well, play p3 for once and dun feel like playin...p4 real nice...but can find chinese manga of that?

~FeniX~ said...

english manga got la.

Mizu Hime ミズ姫 said...

then good keke

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