Shoji Meguro, the SMT veteran returns and delivers us a remixed OST of the original, with an assortment of new tunes out and out replacing some of the darker ambiences with J-Pop sounding vocals.

Although, that’s not actually a bad thing in this case. It does eventually become easier to manage after a while, but what doesn’t is the exceedingly high encounter rate.Īs encounters are random, expect to be hearing the main battle theme being played over and over. Instead you’ll traverse tight, narrow pathways that’ll start to look a little samey on occasion, especially in the dungeons. There’s no large areas to walk around in, like the Shibuya crossing of Persona 5. Notice I used the words “hallways” and “corridors”, as that’s how this game is consistently presented. There’s even a strafe button you can use when you’ve mastered the navigation controls though, so you don’t have to turn and face to begin moving every time.

There’s even a run button which has Naoya careening down corridors at break-neck speed, with hilariously loud footsteps that sound like a muffled jack-hammer in motion. The controls do feel a touch over-responsive, as the protagonist (I titled him his ‘canon’ name, Naoya Toudou) zooms down hallways with the slightest twitch of directional input. The Protagonist in one of the new FMV cutscenesĪkin to classic Shin Megami Tensei games, going back to a first-person perspective from the later entries can be a little jarring. Hermelin High School is rather a hub for key story scenes to occur, and to catch up on all the gossip from other college students – all that ‘real life simulator’ and ‘social links’ stuff comes later in the series. But don’t expect to be doing pop-quizzes or eating giant hamburgers in restaurants a la Persona 5. Right out of the gate, Persona introduces that high-school setting the franchise is renowned for. So I was curious as to how the original separated itself from other competing titles of the time, in an overly saturated JRPG genre, even back then… Since the whole TBN crew are massive fans of the Persona series, (there’s an ongoing debate about whether 4 or 5 is superior haha) I thought it’d be a fun idea to start from the beginning and see what the fuss is all about.īeing a huge Final Fantasy nerd myself, I’ve only ever dabbled in Persona 5 here and there. The PSP remake keeps the plot settings of the original Japanese version, having a more accurate translation, containing fully voiced FMV cutscenes and cosmetically changes some of the UI interface from it’s PS1 counterpart. For this review, I’ll be analysing the PSP Version of Revelations: Persona on the PlayStation 1 titled, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona.

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