Persona PSP

[Perversion]

Didn't see an existing topic for this, and just picked it up today. Might give this a shot tonight if Demon's Souls gets frustrating enough.


So I've yet to play more than a half hour into P3 and have yet to unwrap P4. Do you think it would be a good idea as such to play this before the other two? I mean, I know they are seperate things, not a continuing storyline, and I know some (a lot) of the features/gameplay mechanisms are probably different. Wait, who am I kidding? Being in portable form, I'd be more apt to get into this on the bus as opposed to the console ones at home.



Also, unwrapped and perused the manual on the bus on the way home (PSP battery was dead, and was at home charging), and come to find that the 22 Personas (Personae?) have the exact names that the tarot cards did in the first Ogre Battle. I mean, Heirophant, Lovers, Chariot, Tower, Fool, Hermit, etc. Unless these are common in a lot of JRPGs that I was not aware of, these seems like a blatant rip from (homage to) Ogre Battle.

Any theories on this? Atlus DID release Ogre Battle 64 in America, and MAY have released Tactics Ogre here, but I forget.

[marcus]

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Also, unwrapped and perused the manual on the bus on the way home (PSP battery was dead, and was at home charging), and come to find that the 22 Personas (Personae?) have the exact names that the tarot cards did in the first Ogre Battle. I mean, Heirophant, Lovers, Chariot, Tower, Fool, Hermit, etc. Unless these are common in a lot of JRPGs that I was not aware of, these seems like a blatant rip from (homage to) Ogre Battle.

Yes, Ogre Battle invented the Major Arcana.

[Toaster]

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My copy is OTW. I pre-ordered off Amazon a few months back, and forgot to cancel it because I'm broke. So, yay? It's going to end up sitting on the shelf because I don't have the time to play it. :I

Reccomended playing order:

P3:FES (or wait for the portable incarnation seeming as it's going to bring all the polish from 4 into it)
P4
P1
P2

I think that knowledge of the mechanics, and an appreciation of the SMT universe and series will allow someone to appreciate this game more, because as I understand it, it has a ton of polish but it really shows its age.

[Perversion]

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Sorry...I only rarely dabble in the occult.


It's funny, though, as tarot and Arcana seem to be a Western, not Eastern tradition. Then again, RPGs in general draw their roots from Western mythology. The first RPGs tended to be "swords and sorcery" fantasy stuff, and these were based, of course, on D&D, which in turn seems to have been based on the LotR trilogy of books.

[John Mora]

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Sorry...I only rarely dabble in the occult.


It's funny, though, as tarot and Arcana seem to be a Western, not Eastern tradition. Then again, RPGs in general draw their roots from Western mythology. The first RPGs tended to be "swords and sorcery" fantasy stuff, and these were based, of course, on D&D, which in turn seems to have been based on the LotR trilogy of books.

SMT incorporated occult aspects from all over the world, and if Escaflowne is any indication, fortune-telling with tarot is popular over there.

[marcus]

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Sorry...I only rarely dabble in the occult.


It's funny, though, as tarot and Arcana seem to be a Western, not Eastern tradition. Then again, RPGs in general draw their roots from Western mythology. The first RPGs tended to be "swords and sorcery" fantasy stuff, and these were based, of course, on D&D, which in turn seems to have been based on the LotR trilogy of books.

As Mora said, MegaTen as a series draws from a plethora of religions. In the original Megami Tensei games one of your party members was Jesus and another the anti-christ.

[Vonwert]

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I have heard good things about it. I defintally want to pick it up. I just wish I wasn't swamped with games I still need to play.