#Persona 3 portable full#
#Persona 3 portable portable#

#Persona 3 portable full#

No, you don't have full control over your characters, but I played on the normal difficulty and didn't really have much trouble with it. Actually, I think that great Elizabeth stuff may be exclusive to the FES version, anyway. The majority of time you spend outside of battle (and trust me, it's a lot of time), you're running around town talking to people, building social links, doing quests for Elizabeth etc, and I feel like without the polygonal models on screen, a lot of the magic falls flat. After playing FES, and watching some P3P footage on YouTube, I'm extremely glad I played FES. I closed the book Persona 3 yesterday, here's my two cents. If you're really into the story to the point where you want to play Persona 4 Arena, I'd say you're the type of person that should definitely buy FES and slog through The Answer just for the story bits, but I'd honestly suggest Youtubing it like I did after about an hour. There are exactly 2 story changes that make playing as a female interesting for someone like me who's already played through as the male lead.

Maybe wait until P3P goes on sale again on PSN and pick it up then if you really want to see the female MC portions. Given the choice, I'd play FES and skip The Answer portion of it. well, I feel like it is, because it ruins some of that game's best moments. It's just portraits on static backgrounds. The downside is that the day-to-day stuff is 'visual novel'-ized and removes a lot of the character that comes from the game's goofy animations. P3P adds full party control, some minor stuff like costumes/etc, and some drastically different S-Link options for the female main character (also, lots of pink!). There really is no definitive 'better' game because both have their downsides and upsides. They've got even more content, new persona, new content, new characters, and new Social Links. And have fun dealing with dumb healers.ДЄlso, I don't see who would start such a silly 'rumor' saying the P4G versions are nothign special. But if you REALLY REALLY need to run around or see the like 3 cutscenes that got cut then play the PS2. Once again Youtube can help sate your desire to see these cut cutscenes and not being able to run around really isn't that big of a thing seeing as how a ton of your time is spent wasting time running between screens. The improvements over P3 FES, aka making it more like P4 in the combat way of things, is just too much of an improvement to really care about the cutscenes or even losing the ability to run around. If you really need to know about The Answer then just Youtube the story scenes, as they're spread out a lot and don't even last that long for the 20 is hours you'll be doing that dirty addon. The Answer is a worthless 'expansion' to the game that only exists to make people hate certain characters even more and to waste their time. The lack of those cutscenes is a huge loss. It's still an exceptional version of the game, and since P3P is missing basically all of its in-engine cutscenes, at least in how it presents them to you, I would go with that version. I would just go ahead and play FES since you already own it. It's just a lot quicker and more enjoyable to move from location to location. You basically just control a cursor on a screen and move it around to all of the interactable places in town/school. Since you don't control a model of your character, running from area to area, it's much easier to navigate around. P3P adds in full party controls, just like with P4. Instead, you have to set AI rules for how you want them to behave in battle. Unlike Persona 4, P3 does not allow you to control your teammates directly.

Direct control of party members in combat.

In Persona 3 Portable, there is no cutscene, just the character's heads talking to each other. Basically, whenever you're interacting with other characters in the game, a cutscene is playing in the background in the game engine. This is the biggest problem with that version for me. Instead, some are done in-engine and some just don't really exist at all except in the form of dialogue. Throughout P3, like with Persona 4, there are a handful of fully animated cutscenes. Ultimately, which version is superior will depend on which features you're able to live without.

#Persona 3 portable portable#

Persona 3 Portable is a really weird game it's superior to Persona 3/ Persona 3 FES in some ways, but inferior in others.