FES's the answer? Yeah, its pretty much the hardest core grinding I've ever had to do. And it tells you little if you played persona 4, which explains enough of the persona lore to cover what happens at the end of 3. And persona 3 portable's female story will feel more fresh since it changes a lot. Junpei social link anyone?

Though portable does take out all the rendered scenes to the point where the only animations are in the battle sequences. Oh and the MC can only use 1 type of weapon, the battle system is persona 4's battle system, as is the healing system. And its still not as fun as replaying persona 4.

But laura bailey is the voice actor for the female MC, so thats worth it enough for me.

PSP version.

FES isn't worth it, that extra story is pretty annoying with what they do with Yukari, and she was bad enough already.

Yeah, listen to them, they're saying what I said, only in pithier, easier to understand statements.

By the way, NISA is so cool, they were having trouble with my credit card (since it had expired) so I had to reply and so they sent me a personalized message really soon after confirming everything. Now I can get ar tonelico so it can monopolize my time more than pokemon and that other thing I need to get done!
And oh yeah, school.

Are you ever going to play 3 and 4? I'll eventually get to 1 and 2 whenever I get my hands on a cheap psp.

Nope.

P2: Innocent Sin is an important part of the two 2 games. Eternal Punishment deals directly from the events of that game and even some of the first Persona. I hear it can be enjoyed on it's own, though.

3 and 4 have absolutely nothing to do with the other games except:

- Igor and the Velvet Room is there
- Personas are still taken from normal SMT enemies
- The 1 and 2 characters get mentioned on the TV if you watch on the right day, but not by name and just vague description.

3 is it's own beast with it's own villains and monsters that have nothing to do with the first games, and 4 has nothing at all to do with any of them but:

- The town in the game, Inaba, is named after a P1 or 2 character as an injoke
- You visit the P3 school at one point and meet one social link character from that game and the creepy doctor, along with a few locals from that game with references to STREGA and playing the opening song of P3 FES

You won't be lost at all, I say play 3 since 2 has very different gameplay from both 3 and 4, then play 4 if 2 isn't out yet because it's fantastic.

A sequel with barely any of the cast from that game.

Haven't seen it nor do I plan to. There's only one character from that game who actually has a role and it's support. I don't care for series that promise a sequel and don't even have the characters you want to see for said sequel.

Trinity souls was one of the worst anime series I've ever seen speaking simply from the narrative. It's has some gorgeous looking style though. Watching it depreciated my personal value for the entire franchise.

Both, more confusing as shit then mired in continuity. The series to me had a lot of real potential. It has some great art and it was a spin off to my favorite modern day game franchise, but it all seemed to fall apart for me. The story is confusing, some of the continuity from the games to the series gets lost in translation, there are a few really senseless underdeveloped generic anime twists, and alot of the characters seemed pretty hollow to me in contrast to the characters in game. Overall I'd say it's a pretty average anime according to my sense of value. I'd put it slightly just above a FOX KIDS anime. It's worth watching though if you're a fan. I don't know if you'll stick through it to the end. I did, and I didn't think it was worth it.

Re-Playing Persona 4.

Still incredibly addicting. I also still seem to misread situations on Yumi's social link. Thankfully Chie's is easy to figure out. On Kanji's dungeon right now.

I'm starting to remember why I hate fighting Mitsuo's shadow.