In today’s mainstream gaming culture centered around trends and cash grabs, there’s one series which dared to venture for greatness in its personality and difference: Persona 5, a Playstation 3 and 4 video game that was released in 2016. While a great addition to a great series, it was only the gateway into mainstream media for Persona.
Persona 5 has garnered a lot of attention after its release, quickly reaching critical acclaim among reviewers. While it is undoubtedly an amazing addition to the Persona series, the best modern Persona game is arguably Persona 3 FES for the Playstation 2. Persona 3 FES (P3FES) is a Japanese Role Playing Game (JRPG) that features a blue-haired Japanese highschool transfer student as the main protagonist. The protagonist brings relevance to P3FES due to his nature of being a teenager getting through high school.
P3FES seems at first like some weird, edgy, weeb game, but the experience you get from playing every last feature out of it is incredible. The atmosphere P3FES creates is perfectly dark with the unnatural situations the characters are put in, but with a sense of wonder and comfort through your group of friends.
The story the game tells is beautiful once the pieces fall into place. It’s a real masterpiece that deserves more attention than it currently has. The graphics of the game are a little dated, but good graphics has never meant good gameplay. It’s also a little slow in the beginning, but it really starts picking up speed once you play for a bit. Persona 3 FES is a really enjoyable and emotional game, and shouldn’t be something to miss out on.
It can be purchased on the Playstation Store for the Playstation 3 for $9.99 which is a great price for the quality of the game compared to triple A titles of today. Do yourself a favor, and check out this game. I think you’ll relate to a few of these characters.