This is my first in what I am hoping will be many installments of what I am calling, Going Back which is pretty much just me going back to games that are older and considered to be great, but I either never got around to beating them or just couldn't get into them when I initially purchased them. I am just going to talk about my experience and really whether or not I enjoyed my time with the game. My 1st installment is Persona 3 a very beloved game and franchise especially by the community here. Before I begin I just want to say for this particular game I bought it when it first came out and just couldn't get into it and granted that was about 4 years ago which to some people may not seem like very long, but being born in 92 that is a 14 year old trying to play vs now an 18 year old playing through it. I think I was just interested in it back then because it was rated M and these characters summon crazy creature by shooting themselves. It can go without saying that I appreciated it much more now than I ever could back then.
When I first played persona back in 2007 I didn't really have any interest in a game like Persona 3 and although i had liked many RPGs and JRPGS at the time the way this game had presented itself to me, the pre-teen that I was made me almost lose interest immediately. My clearest memory of playing back then was seeing that when I was in tartarus and doing a bit of grinding my companions got tired, not being able to hang out in a dungeon and grind for as long as I felt like was pretty much the final straw to me back then and I never touched the game again, and I didn't really even see any of the story or social link aspects of it.
It is scary to think about how much I have changed over the past 4 years not just in how I play games, but just everything about me. With this change along with a craving for a long deep RPG, Persona 3 seemed like a great choice, and I was right. It is hard for me to put in words just how much I enjoyed this game, in fact I don't think I have ever felt so attached to a game besides my nostalgic views of games like Ocarina of Time. In the beginning the game is tough to understand because the social links are the best part of the day and to do a lot of them you must get your 3 attributes up: courage, academics, and charm. The only way to get these attributes up in quick manner is to do things at night like karaoke, but night is also the time to go to tartarus and grind. For a while I had put more focus on the grinding then the attributes and this was my one big with regret with my play-through, although, I eventually learned you only need to go a couple days a week i had already missed many months of time that could have been spent improving my attributes and what not. This is regretful since I did not get everyone to the
Just a recap of what I finished with in the game:
Playtime: 92 hours
Attrtibutes Maxed
Level 99
Highest Persona: Lucifer level 99
Max Social Links: Fool, Magician, Empress, Lovers, Chariot, Hermit, Hanged Man, Death, Devil, Star, Sun, and Judgement
Main Party: Akihiko, Mitsuru, and Junpei
I hope this was something worth reading and as far what the next game I will play is, all I am going to say is that I think I am going to back to the N64 for it. If you're interested in looking at some other possible games that I may play I do have list of backlog games, although, it needs to be updated quite a bit still. If you want to suggest an obscure game feel free to do so in the comments or PM me, either is fine.
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