Persona 3 strikes a very particular cord with me. I find that with a lot 2000's media that it manages to have this very weird, nostalgia-induced grip on me that I can't quite shake, but nothing other than P3 really resonates with me as strongly. Like I swear to god, everything about this game reminds me of my childhood and the city I grew up in. The architecture, the music, the dated ass technology (you remember flip-phones everybody?). Like the dorm itself could've just existed in my city irl and it wouldn't feel out of place in the slightest. It should be such a small, subjective thing, but it hits me so goddamn hard that I can't help but love this game in spite of all its' flaws. Even if it's just my neanderthal brain associating all my pleasant and simple childhood memories with that particular era, it feels so nice getting to immerse myself in that point in time. so yeah pretty cool game 10/10 :^)
It truly is a time capsule. The whole emo aura also comes to mind, too, alongside with the gothic quality of some of the art design (the Death Note manga came out barely 2 years prior - guess there was something in the air, huh). Something that I find a bit bittersweet nowadays though is how hopeful the game seemed about the ability of the internet and the then-emergent social media (and technology in general) to connect people. How naive we were back then.
A rarely mentioned aspect of P3 that I really like besides the things everyone talks about is that it's pretty much the swan song of the "dark urban fantasy" genre of weeb media that was born in the latter half of the 90s with Persona 1, Boogiepop, both Devil Summoner games, and Kara no Kyoukai, developed further with Persona 2, Tsukihime, and Fate/Stay Night (+Hollow Ataraxia) and for all intents and purposes fizzled out after P3. The Boogiepop influences are super apparent (and Boogiepop itself references Persona 1 or ...if, it's not made clear but it's there) just looking at the directing of the cutscenes when compared with Boogiepop Phantom or how the first Boogiepop novel ends with a very similar message of affirmation of life in the face of unavoidable death, when the characters sing "Gondola no Uta" (probably inspired by Kurosawa's "Ikiru"). "life is brief fall in love, maidens before the raven tresses begin to fade before the flame in your hearts flicker and die for today, once passed, is never to come again"
This is exactly what drew me in the first time I played it. I grew up watching a lot of dark 2000s anime and due to that, it took no time for me to get invested in what P3 was doing. And watching Tatsumi Port Island get even more twisted by each month and seeing characters discovering their resolve while facing their own 'deaths' was an unforgettable experience in its own rights. It's also a major part of why I just don't vibe with P4 and P5 nearly as much. They feel too... sanitised for my liking. They're urban fantasies but they lack the edge that made P3 so captivating for me. Man now I'm feeling nostalgic for that era...
I know I've said this on this channel before but I'll say it again. The first time I played this game in 2009, it was 10 years since I lost my family in a car accident. Playing this game helped me through; as I was 4 when I lost them. Just replayed it last year and it opened up old wounds. Can't wait to replay it again on steam.
I'll always be thankful to persona 3, regardless of anyone's opinion on it, be it good or bad in some cases, because it's actually the game that got me into smt/persona, and it's become a series that's one of my favorites of all time, and I will forever burn bread to celebrate it
For me P3 is one of the very few pieces of media that I can legit say changed my life. Around 2015 is had saved up money to go to college and started taking some advance classes that lasted 8 weeks but went by really quick. And between going to classes 4 days a week and working the other 3 I got burnt out and fell into a bad depression, ultimately ending with me dropping out, which only made the depression worse. And in the weeks that followed I replayed P3P on the Vita and suddenly a lot of the themes and character arcs hit a cord with me, and legit helped me rationalize my feelings and led to me getting out of that headspace. I love P3 so much, because of and outside of that event.
that was me with p5. if i hadnt played it, i dont know where i'd be. playing p5 butterfly effected me into so many things that i wouldn't have discovered otherwise. i played it at a pivotal point in my life. its my 2nd favorite game of all time, only seconded to the world ends with you. but i wouldnt have discovered twewy if i hadnt played p5.
Been close to ten years for me too. I feel like we in the P3 generation (people who started with P3) were all so profoundly affected in a positive way. I can’t really seem to say the same for those who started with P4 or P5 though… Knowing nothing before playing P3 makes it such a special experience. Everything was so new and the game focused more on world building, really giving meaning to the game mechanics. P4 and P5 don’t really tell the player anything about whats going on. P4 and P5 use the gameplay mechanics more as a medium for telling stories that could have been adapted for games with different mechanics. P3 really is about Persona itself and that’s something I really miss.
Really disagree, I started playing Persona with P3 and absolutely loved the experience, still it didn't speak to much to the issues I was passing at the time, however then I played P4 and the game totally clicked with me, It was really the right game at the right time, and I'm pretty sure for a whole lot of other people that game was P5(just by seeing how much the popularity of the series grow in so little time).
@@Gallaniel Yep, it Really Comes down to the Individual and what Point they're at their Lives! Personally, the Themes of Rebellion stuck with me in Persona 5. I Played it at the Exact Time in my Life when I could Relate & Resonate with It!
Honestly none of the Persona games really affected or changed me. I so desperately wish they did though, namely persona 3. My whole life, I've been depressed, nihilistic and isolated, this game was perfect for me. And after playing it, it was definitely my favorite game of all time, but I didn't watch the credits and feel changed. Maybe I dumb, maybe I'm stubborn in my beliefs, maybe I'm hurt beyond repair, or maybe it changed me without even realizing it.
yeah. it took a little while for it to sink in after i first finished Persona 3, but then i kinda realized i love the game and replayed it a few times over the past few years. it's honestly the one i have the easiest/best time coming back to of the persona bunch and one of my most played games. i don't revisit games that often unless i REALLY like them and Persona 3 is one of the few that made the cut.
to me it's that feeling was with divinity original sin 2, like, i always fondly remember this line that's repeated every single time in driftwood square: ''smells worse over here, then a dozen rotten eggs dropped in a vat of vinegar''
The characters and story of persona 3 are really good. As much as love persona 5 I feel like like P3’s narrative had more weight to it. I also like some of the other smaller details like how they shook themselves to summon their personas and the atmosphere of the dark hour. I’m glad that it’s getting released on Xbox but I wish they would make a definitive edition
I think one of the main reasons why Persona 3's characters really resonate well is they have agency and do their own thing. Not to say 4 or 5's are bad though
@@insertnamehere658 You're comparing a modern game to an old one of course the gameplay is improved duh besides P3 is the og that remade the formula that made persona what is it today
Hell of a video to put out today. I'm feeling absolutely filled with despair and hopeless so hearing you talk about how life is worth living is pretty surreal. Persona 3 also had a really big impact on me when I was a senior in high school and it inspired me to become a better person in college. Sadly all that effort hasn't amounted to much as of yet.
For me it was around 5ish years ago I played Persona 4 arena because I thought the gameplay and characters looked cool, I had a ps3 and didn't know the mainline games were on the store. Then I decided to play 5 and fell in love with the series. And after I got 3 and 4, I couldn't put down 3. It's themes hit me so hard as a depressed high schooler who felt like everything was pointless and death was inevitable and demoralizing. It didn't exactly change my life or really...fix me in any way. But it will always be my favorite game for those themes, that optimism I wish I could emulate. I wish this game changed my life, but perhaps me still being here is proof of that. Not long after I beat the game my dad passed away ironically enough, and I still struggle with death and my willingness to keep going to this day. But Persona 3 represents that ideal way to see life, the way I want to see it.
it’s only been a few months since i finished persona 3 fes but im already sort of nostalgic over it. spending 10 months in a fictional world kind of does that
Same here! P3 FES altered the trajectory of my life for the better. I started it in college though but it was the same year iirc!! it's one of those games that you don't find, it finds you at the exact moment it needs to. It got me into tarot, Jung, various religions, the esoteric, and very well has saved my life.
I think I can relate to this video a lot with the fact that "your first experience with a persona game is always special" is pretty much true. My two year anniversary with P5R happened two weeks ago, and its insane to think that two years have already passed. I would say my introduction to this series wasn't really special, because it was basically just from the hype that p5 had combined with the sort of "persona phase" that this discord server I was in went through, but I would say that the push I got to play these games was massive; makes me glad it happened though. Wouldn't say that p5 made a major positive impact in my life; if anything, it kinda made a negative one (which i ain't gonna explain bc venting over personal stuff in public isn't my thing) but after I gotten over it, I would still end up enjoying the game regardless. With p3 though: like a previous comment mentioned, knowing nothing about p3 is the best way to experience it. Because while I still liked it, I was heavily spoiled by a lot of the things said online, and I basically ruined the ending for myself. Can at least say that whole situation didn't happen with The Answer, which I actually ended up enjoying a lot.
I have that same thing you have with 2012 but I have it with 2013, yes to me time stopped in that September when GTA V launch and I can't believe it's been almost 9 years since then
something similar happened to me recently but with persona 5 before playing it i was pretty depressed and felt alone i was nihilistic to all hell but slowly over my playthrough of persona 5 that game changed how i think about shit and how i act and now i’m the happiest i’ve been in years this series really is something special also 2012 was so long ago that gta 5 wasn’t out lol
I can also kinda relate to you with that The only games I played were p5 p5r p5s and it’s weird because I don’t really remember why I decided to one day pull the trigger and finally bye p5 because I don’t even think I would name of too much information because at the time atlas didn’t really want people streaming or doing let’s plays of the game so I went and super blind but I ended up getting stuck in the game and I decided to eventually quit because I was in high school at the time and I couldn’t devote the intention and the time and effort that the game deserved in order for me to play it so I didn’t play it for years and never even finished p5 but then p5r came out at the time and I decided to give it another chance and try to play it again with the knowledge that I had prior from playing the original and this time I finished it and I also felt like that it changed my life and inspired me do you look at things differently and I’m glad I played it and it was time well spent but I also feel like it came in at the right time in my life it’s weird feeling like that but that’s art for you
I’m a pretty new Persona fan, last year a friend convinced me to play P5 and the only version I had access to was the PS3 version so that’s what I played while streaming to a friend, I got burnt out at Shido’s Palace and stopped for several months but picked it back up in July and beat it, I liked it enough to go “Huh, guess I’ll try another Persona game” So I went looking for Persona on the PS3 Store since I heard some stuff was on it, only original P4 was on it so I decided to look around and noticed P3FES I went and beat it in just over a month, this game quickly took over my life and I’ll never forget my experience with it, playing the game daily for that month was a lifestyle full of bliss and I kinda wish time just stopped for that one moment, it’s my favourite game of all time, I love everything about it, it has my favourite Persona story, characters, music and gameplay by miles (I did play P4G not too long after since I got a reliable PC, not too much to say it’s a good game just barely impacted me after the sheer experience that was P3FES) Also I played P5R a month after P3FES, it’s sick I now have 100+ hours on P4U2 bc I already liked fighting games and now it’s my favourite fighting game (Atlus hurry with the rollback we well into Summer wtf is going on) Aigis is my favourite fictional character of all time I waited well over half a year to actually confirm that P3FES was my favourite game of all time and now that the recency bias is gone, I think I can safely confirm it The worst part of becoming a Persona fan has been accepting that Atlus is a stupid company that does stuff that makes no sense or the fact they DON’T do stuff (Not releasing games that people don’t have access to yet making things related to it e.g: P1 and P2 merch) If you read all that, I’m shocked but cheers
I think 5's gameplay is the best by far though. Soundtrack too, but that's more subjective. P3FES was my favorite at some point, but after a while, I'd say it's Royal. Golden is great too, just the one that least resonated with me.
I got a PSVita in 2014 but I hadn’t played anything on it so in 2016 I decided to search for the best games on the system and that’s how I found P4 and as a high school kid with no friends at the same school I fell in love with the characters and story, and later played P3 and P5. In 2020 I got my best friend into the series when P4 released on Steam and he also fell in love with it, indeed it became his favorite video game franchise (His favorite game in the series being P3). We would always send Persona memes to each other and talk about the games and such. Sadly he passed away in October and I can’t even make some crappy Persona memes without breaking into tears, although I am planning to replay P4 soon which will be the first time I play a SMT game since he passed… A little fun fact is that when I last replayed P4, the day I finished the game was the day they announced the PC version lol.
I played P3 a couple years ago and it's also one of my favourite games. It wasn't as fresh of an experience to me since I had watched a lot of P4 gameplays before I could check out any of the games. But it ispired me to excercise more, check out sports workshops at my university and go out more. My favourite game is Devil Survivor, though.
I just started persona 3 FES after playing P4G and P5R, I started with P5 but I just love the older games, the story and characters, plus the fun and interesting gameplay kept my attention and now I love all of it
I played persona 3 (my first persona too) in 2007 (ish) on ps2 and yeah, that hit big for me, one of my favourite game of all time, it’s in the top 5 for sure! Great video, made me reminisce of those days… the good ol’ days 😄
My Persona journey began back in the fall of 2011, when Persona 4 The Animation came about. Up to that point, I had been aware that Persona was a thing, but dismissed it as just one of those “anime games.” However, after watching the pilot episode, I was hooked. I searched for let’s plays of Persona 4, which eventually led me to find let’s plays of Persona 3. And after Persona 5 came out, I soon realized that watching other people play these games wasn’t going to be enough for me, and I’ve been playing the games myself ever since.
Been doing another re-play of Portable, and while I still love 3 and consider it one of my all-time favorites (as someone who got it when it first came out here in 2007), I'm starting to see more of the rough edges. Like boy, a lot of character dialogue early on is very rough tutorializing that they got much better about in later games.
I saw my bother in law play Persona 3 FES on my PS2 Slim back in 2008 when he and my sister were living with us since they were in the market for a new house and to move to a different location. It wasn't until like 2014 or so that first played Persona 3 FES and after that I was hooked. I played the OG P4 and completed it on Normal Difficulty and man that was a huge pain in the ass. Then I got a PSTV and Got a copy of Persona 4 Golden and put like 230hrs into it. Yeah I know how you feel man I got COVID as well and it sucked. You are so right that there is no reliving your first time playing a game. When I was going through Persona 4 I was trying to figure out for the life of me if Naoto was in fact a girl hiding as a guy or was a guy the whole time. It drove me nuts until I finished Naoto's palace but that was the fun aspect of the game though.
Good. Playing and loving p3. It's what you should do. What we should all do. It's my second most favorite game of all time. It introduced me to the series. And yes, it's been 10 years as well. 10 years of this game, I still haven't beaten Elizabeth. It'll come.
Was almost about to correct you on the release date of persona 3 lol. Persona 3 is a very special game to me and is probably one of the most uniquely flawed but amazingly written story's I've ever experienced. Edit: Also hope your feeling well. I had covid for like 2 days a few weeks ago and it sucked.
Persona 3 is probably the single piece of media I’ve felt the strongest feeling towards. Not all of them were good but I think overall I still had fun. I really enjoyed Some of the parties arc S-links and any track in the game that doesn’t have lotus juice rapping is at the very least solid. Honestly fithers feelings towards goro kinda reflects how I feel about persona 3 I had a hell of a time thinking playing and discussing the game even if it wasn’t always positive
Playing p3 fes for the very first time right now and it is very good so far! I am in november right now right after kyoto. Tartarus started out really fun but is starting to get old. The story bosses are fun. The story itself is really good and I might like the part member cast the most. Akihiko is probably my favorite megami tensei character at the moment, my second favorite being raidou.
A certain Persona 3 LP actually helped me out of a rough spot. So yeah this game means quite a bit to me, more than P4 and P5 (though both are good as well)
It took me 2 years to realize Danganronpa V3 is my favorite game, so i completely understand that point about needing time. Persona 4G is still my 2nd favorite (i always find peoples first persona is usually their favorite), but i think P3 FES is in my top 20
I was pretty similar with P5R when i had to take a gap year from university. I had nothing to do in life than P5R happened and i fell in love with ATLUS
Have you even thought about making a video explaining the stuff from the persona 3 clubbook similar to your video on the axiom and Steven from way back when? ( I found out about that book today when browsing the megaten wiki and was floored about the stuff it revealed about nyx and the collective unconscious)
Fucking love this game, I wouldn't have had the guts to pursue college without Akihiko's mandatory character development convincing me to get my shit together
I just got into persona this year after finishing persona 5 royal and now currently playing persona 3 fes using pcsx2 emulator and so far it is good but it lags too much for me too fully enjoy it.
I tried P3Fes because a friend recommended P4 and I couldn't find a copy of P4 at the time. I'm honestly glad too since I do not care for P4 like the mainstream do. P3Fes forever~
I got into Persona from Persona 5 back in 2017. I grew up playing pc and Nintendo, and once I was an adult with money, I asked some friends if I should get a playstation or xbox. I got a PS4 Pro, and got a few games along with Persona 5. I played SMT 4 after, followed by SMT 3, Persona 4, Soul Hackers, Devil Survivor, Persona 4, SMT 5, and finally Persona 3. The gameplay in my opinion was the easiest in the Megaten games, but I loved the story. I think the Answer sucks, and I don't consider it canon. I still think Persona 5 is the best game, since it spoke the most to me. I was a social butterfly, and lived in the city
I started persona 3 literally the day after persona 5 came out and met a friend through it that same day he asked if I'm getting persona 5 and I look to him and say there's a persona 5?
Ah yes... the "joined for the waifus,stayed for everything else" reason is why you ended up playing and loving Persona 3,same thing happened with me with Nier Automata
I recently played P3 for the first time recently, I’m not as huge about it as some people because of how much so many of the gameplay aspects piss me off, but I still think it’s a really cool game overall. The atmosphere, music, cast, and story are all really great for the most part
I've been talking about persona 3 with a friend ever since we heard that P3P, persona 4 golden and persona 5 Royal were gonna be in everything....... So obviously we both decided we're just gonna get persona 3 portable lol. Like yeah 4 and 5 are the most well known and the most popular and the ones that people won't stop talking about but speaking with my friend made me realize I like 3 more than 4 and 5. I like the cast more I like the stakes more I like the fact that the main characters got their persona evolutions without the main character butting in and it happened with the actual story and and I liked the theme that the game was trying to go for. Only thing I didn't like about it was the gameplay which thankfully portable takes 4's improvement and will not include answer so it is a plus. While yes 5 did have some great moments as well, including giving me Makoto, Sae and Kawakami and again i do enjoy the game, I still would rather go back to play 3 again which is why I'm glad that they decided to finally remember that persona 3 existed. That and I screwed up in trying to get with Mitsuru originally so this will make up for it lol. Also persona 3 should have gotten the Warriors treatment that 5 did but that's an argument for another day.
Fither did you unlist your Yugioh Dude and Unpopular opinions fithcast/podcast videos? I can't seem to find them anymore and I really liked listening to them.
Thank god u got into P3 first instead of p4. ( dont feel like seeing another cringe P4 " ohhh I found a way to accept my self after fighting my shadow" shit video)
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Persona 3 strikes a very particular cord with me. I find that with a lot 2000's media that it manages to have this very weird, nostalgia-induced grip on me that I can't quite shake, but nothing other than P3 really resonates with me as strongly. Like I swear to god, everything about this game reminds me of my childhood and the city I grew up in. The architecture, the music, the dated ass technology (you remember flip-phones everybody?). Like the dorm itself could've just existed in my city irl and it wouldn't feel out of place in the slightest. It should be such a small, subjective thing, but it hits me so goddamn hard that I can't help but love this game in spite of all its' flaws. Even if it's just my neanderthal brain associating all my pleasant and simple childhood memories with that particular era, it feels so nice getting to immerse myself in that point in time.
so yeah pretty cool game 10/10 :^)
You basically put my thought into words lol
It truly is a time capsule. The whole emo aura also comes to mind, too, alongside with the gothic quality of some of the art design (the Death Note manga came out barely 2 years prior - guess there was something in the air, huh). Something that I find a bit bittersweet nowadays though is how hopeful the game seemed about the ability of the internet and the then-emergent social media (and technology in general) to connect people. How naive we were back then.
P3's anti-nihilist message is still as relevant as ever. It's my favorite game too.
A rarely mentioned aspect of P3 that I really like besides the things everyone talks about is that it's pretty much the swan song of the "dark urban fantasy" genre of weeb media that was born in the latter half of the 90s with Persona 1, Boogiepop, both Devil Summoner games, and Kara no Kyoukai, developed further with Persona 2, Tsukihime, and Fate/Stay Night (+Hollow Ataraxia) and for all intents and purposes fizzled out after P3. The Boogiepop influences are super apparent (and Boogiepop itself references Persona 1 or ...if, it's not made clear but it's there) just looking at the directing of the cutscenes when compared with Boogiepop Phantom or how the first Boogiepop novel ends with a very similar message of affirmation of life in the face of unavoidable death, when the characters sing "Gondola no Uta" (probably inspired by Kurosawa's "Ikiru").
"life is brief
fall in love, maidens
before the raven tresses
begin to fade
before the flame in your hearts
flicker and die
for today, once passed,
is never to come again"
This is exactly what drew me in the first time I played it. I grew up watching a lot of dark 2000s anime and due to that, it took no time for me to get invested in what P3 was doing. And watching Tatsumi Port Island get even more twisted by each month and seeing characters discovering their resolve while facing their own 'deaths' was an unforgettable experience in its own rights.
It's also a major part of why I just don't vibe with P4 and P5 nearly as much. They feel too... sanitised for my liking. They're urban fantasies but they lack the edge that made P3 so captivating for me.
Man now I'm feeling nostalgic for that era...
P4 may have Adachy-baby and P5 might have Akechi, but P3 and Junpei will always be my sweethearts
I know I've said this on this channel before but I'll say it again. The first time I played this game in 2009, it was 10 years since I lost my family in a car accident. Playing this game helped me through; as I was 4 when I lost them. Just replayed it last year and it opened up old wounds. Can't wait to replay it again on steam.
I'll always be thankful to persona 3, regardless of anyone's opinion on it, be it good or bad in some cases, because it's actually the game that got me into smt/persona, and it's become a series that's one of my favorites of all time, and I will forever burn bread to celebrate it
Awakening being 10 years old.
I get nostalgia goosebumps whenever I hear the overworld map theme
For me P3 is one of the very few pieces of media that I can legit say changed my life.
Around 2015 is had saved up money to go to college and started taking some advance classes that lasted 8 weeks but went by really quick.
And between going to classes 4 days a week and working the other 3 I got burnt out and fell into a bad depression, ultimately ending with me dropping out, which only made the depression worse.
And in the weeks that followed I replayed P3P on the Vita and suddenly a lot of the themes and character arcs hit a cord with me, and legit helped me rationalize my feelings and led to me getting out of that headspace.
I love P3 so much, because of and outside of that event.
that was me with p5.
if i hadnt played it, i dont know where i'd be. playing p5 butterfly effected me into so many things that i wouldn't have discovered otherwise. i played it at a pivotal point in my life. its my 2nd favorite game of all time, only seconded to the world ends with you. but i wouldnt have discovered twewy if i hadnt played p5.
Been close to ten years for me too. I feel like we in the P3 generation (people who started with P3) were all so profoundly affected in a positive way. I can’t really seem to say the same for those who started with P4 or P5 though… Knowing nothing before playing P3 makes it such a special experience. Everything was so new and the game focused more on world building, really giving meaning to the game mechanics. P4 and P5 don’t really tell the player anything about whats going on. P4 and P5 use the gameplay mechanics more as a medium for telling stories that could have been adapted for games with different mechanics. P3 really is about Persona itself and that’s something I really miss.
Really disagree, I started playing Persona with P3 and absolutely loved the experience, still it didn't speak to much to the issues I was passing at the time, however then I played P4 and the game totally clicked with me, It was really the right game at the right time, and I'm pretty sure for a whole lot of other people that game was P5(just by seeing how much the popularity of the series grow in so little time).
@@Gallaniel Yep, it Really Comes down to the Individual and what Point they're at their Lives!
Personally, the Themes of Rebellion stuck with me in Persona 5. I Played it at the Exact Time in my Life when I could Relate & Resonate with It!
Honestly none of the Persona games really affected or changed me. I so desperately wish they did though, namely persona 3. My whole life, I've been depressed, nihilistic and isolated, this game was perfect for me. And after playing it, it was definitely my favorite game of all time, but I didn't watch the credits and feel changed. Maybe I dumb, maybe I'm stubborn in my beliefs, maybe I'm hurt beyond repair, or maybe it changed me without even realizing it.
yeah. it took a little while for it to sink in after i first finished Persona 3, but then i kinda realized i love the game and replayed it a few times over the past few years. it's honestly the one i have the easiest/best time coming back to of the persona bunch and one of my most played games. i don't revisit games that often unless i REALLY like them and Persona 3 is one of the few that made the cut.
Even after my 6th playthrough after 4 releases, i still find myself enchanted by this game and what it wanted to do and what it had to say.
to me it's that feeling was with divinity original sin 2, like, i always fondly remember this line that's repeated every single time in driftwood square: ''smells worse over here, then a dozen rotten eggs dropped in a vat of vinegar''
The characters and story of persona 3 are really good. As much as love persona 5 I feel like like P3’s narrative had more weight to it. I also like some of the other smaller details like how they shook themselves to summon their personas and the atmosphere of the dark hour. I’m glad that it’s getting released on Xbox but I wish they would make a definitive edition
Gameplay persona 5 stomps though. Atmosphere is debatable, but I prefer tokyo's bustling crowds.
I think one of the main reasons why Persona 3's characters really resonate well is they have agency and do their own thing. Not to say 4 or 5's are bad though
@@insertnamehere658 You're comparing a modern game to an old one of course the gameplay is improved duh besides P3 is the og that remade the formula that made persona what is it today
Hell of a video to put out today. I'm feeling absolutely filled with despair and hopeless so hearing you talk about how life is worth living is pretty surreal. Persona 3 also had a really big impact on me when I was a senior in high school and it inspired me to become a better person in college. Sadly all that effort hasn't amounted to much as of yet.
Persona 5 Royal hit me hard with its message with finding meaning in suffering so I am eternally greatful for this series
For me it was around 5ish years ago I played Persona 4 arena because I thought the gameplay and characters looked cool, I had a ps3 and didn't know the mainline games were on the store. Then I decided to play 5 and fell in love with the series. And after I got 3 and 4, I couldn't put down 3. It's themes hit me so hard as a depressed high schooler who felt like everything was pointless and death was inevitable and demoralizing. It didn't exactly change my life or really...fix me in any way. But it will always be my favorite game for those themes, that optimism I wish I could emulate. I wish this game changed my life, but perhaps me still being here is proof of that. Not long after I beat the game my dad passed away ironically enough, and I still struggle with death and my willingness to keep going to this day. But Persona 3 represents that ideal way to see life, the way I want to see it.
it’s only been a few months since i finished persona 3 fes but im already sort of nostalgic over it. spending 10 months in a fictional world kind of does that
Same here! P3 FES altered the trajectory of my life for the better. I started it in college though but it was the same year iirc!! it's one of those games that you don't find, it finds you at the exact moment it needs to. It got me into tarot, Jung, various religions, the esoteric, and very well has saved my life.
P3 is definitely a fantastic game, cant believe it was 10 yrs lol
Yeah that was back when I was 9 years old and had known nothing about Persona.
I think I can relate to this video a lot with the fact that "your first experience with a persona game is always special" is pretty much true. My two year anniversary with P5R happened two weeks ago, and its insane to think that two years have already passed. I would say my introduction to this series wasn't really special, because it was basically just from the hype that p5 had combined with the sort of "persona phase" that this discord server I was in went through, but I would say that the push I got to play these games was massive; makes me glad it happened though.
Wouldn't say that p5 made a major positive impact in my life; if anything, it kinda made a negative one (which i ain't gonna explain bc venting over personal stuff in public isn't my thing) but after I gotten over it, I would still end up enjoying the game regardless.
With p3 though: like a previous comment mentioned, knowing nothing about p3 is the best way to experience it. Because while I still liked it, I was heavily spoiled by a lot of the things said online, and I basically ruined the ending for myself. Can at least say that whole situation didn't happen with The Answer, which I actually ended up enjoying a lot.
I have that same thing you have with 2012 but I have it with 2013, yes to me time stopped in that September when GTA V launch and I can't believe it's been almost 9 years since then
something similar happened to me recently but with persona 5 before playing it i was pretty depressed and felt alone i was nihilistic to all hell but slowly over my playthrough of persona 5 that game changed how i think about shit and how i act and now i’m the happiest i’ve been in years this series really is something special
also 2012 was so long ago that gta 5 wasn’t out lol
Persona 3 is my first Persona game too around Jan 2020 and I'm still shocked that it was 2 years ago since it impacted my life
Truly one of the video games of all time (also my favorite and the game that got me into Persona).
I can also kinda relate to you with that The only games I played were p5 p5r p5s and it’s weird because I don’t really remember why I decided to one day pull the trigger and finally bye p5 because I don’t even think I would name of too much information because at the time atlas didn’t really want people streaming or doing let’s plays of the game so I went and super blind but I ended up getting stuck in the game and I decided to eventually quit because I was in high school at the time and I couldn’t devote the intention and the time and effort that the game deserved in order for me to play it so I didn’t play it for years and never even finished p5 but then p5r came out at the time and I decided to give it another chance and try to play it again with the knowledge that I had prior from playing the original and this time I finished it and I also felt like that it changed my life and inspired me do you look at things differently and I’m glad I played it and it was time well spent but I also feel like it came in at the right time in my life it’s weird feeling like that but that’s art for you
9:10
- Kouetsu Kirijo, probably
You know, before the whole “lets bring about the end of the world thing”
I’m a pretty new Persona fan, last year a friend convinced me to play P5 and the only version I had access to was the PS3 version so that’s what I played while streaming to a friend, I got burnt out at Shido’s Palace and stopped for several months but picked it back up in July and beat it, I liked it enough to go “Huh, guess I’ll try another Persona game”
So I went looking for Persona on the PS3 Store since I heard some stuff was on it, only original P4 was on it so I decided to look around and noticed P3FES
I went and beat it in just over a month, this game quickly took over my life and I’ll never forget my experience with it, playing the game daily for that month was a lifestyle full of bliss and I kinda wish time just stopped for that one moment, it’s my favourite game of all time, I love everything about it, it has my favourite Persona story, characters, music and gameplay by miles
(I did play P4G not too long after since I got a reliable PC, not too much to say it’s a good game just barely impacted me after the sheer experience that was P3FES)
Also I played P5R a month after P3FES, it’s sick
I now have 100+ hours on P4U2 bc I already liked fighting games and now it’s my favourite fighting game (Atlus hurry with the rollback we well into Summer wtf is going on)
Aigis is my favourite fictional character of all time
I waited well over half a year to actually confirm that P3FES was my favourite game of all time and now that the recency bias is gone, I think I can safely confirm it
The worst part of becoming a Persona fan has been accepting that Atlus is a stupid company that does stuff that makes no sense or the fact they DON’T do stuff (Not releasing games that people don’t have access to yet making things related to it e.g: P1 and P2 merch)
If you read all that, I’m shocked but cheers
I think 5's gameplay is the best by far though. Soundtrack too, but that's more subjective. P3FES was my favorite at some point, but after a while, I'd say it's Royal. Golden is great too, just the one that least resonated with me.
I discovered Persona 4 in 2011 on old PS2 and after playing that I play Persona 3 in 2012. I still have those 2 games in physical box.
I got a PSVita in 2014 but I hadn’t played anything on it so in 2016 I decided to search for the best games on the system and that’s how I found P4 and as a high school kid with no friends at the same school I fell in love with the characters and story, and later played P3 and P5. In 2020 I got my best friend into the series when P4 released on Steam and he also fell in love with it, indeed it became his favorite video game franchise (His favorite game in the series being P3). We would always send Persona memes to each other and talk about the games and such. Sadly he passed away in October and I can’t even make some crappy Persona memes without breaking into tears, although I am planning to replay P4 soon which will be the first time I play a SMT game since he passed…
A little fun fact is that when I last replayed P4, the day I finished the game was the day they announced the PC version lol.
what a great video game. also i forgot its 2022 and not 2021 already honestly so thanks for the reminder at the end
I played P3 a couple years ago and it's also one of my favourite games. It wasn't as fresh of an experience to me since I had watched a lot of P4 gameplays before I could check out any of the games. But it ispired me to excercise more, check out sports workshops at my university and go out more. My favourite game is Devil Survivor, though.
I just started persona 3 FES after playing P4G and P5R, I started with P5 but I just love the older games, the story and characters, plus the fun and interesting gameplay kept my attention and now I love all of it
Banger of a game to this day
I fckin love Persona 3
I played persona 3 (my first persona too) in 2007 (ish) on ps2 and yeah, that hit big for me, one of my favourite game of all time, it’s in the top 5 for sure!
Great video, made me reminisce of those days… the good ol’ days 😄
I first played P3 after covid shut down all the schools so it was also like a replacement of that structure for me too
i feel the same way about time as you!
edit: and about this game of course
wait bro for this entire time I thought you around my age (im 16) and I just played my first persona game (persona 4) around a few months ago😭
persona 3 is finally getting the love and recognition it deserves
It always has
My Persona journey began back in the fall of 2011, when Persona 4 The Animation came about. Up to that point, I had been aware that Persona was a thing, but dismissed it as just one of those “anime games.” However, after watching the pilot episode, I was hooked. I searched for let’s plays of Persona 4, which eventually led me to find let’s plays of Persona 3. And after Persona 5 came out, I soon realized that watching other people play these games wasn’t going to be enough for me, and I’ve been playing the games myself ever since.
Conveniently this was uploaded when I was fighting the grim reaper in p3p. Overall I love persona 3
Been doing another re-play of Portable, and while I still love 3 and consider it one of my all-time favorites (as someone who got it when it first came out here in 2007), I'm starting to see more of the rough edges. Like boy, a lot of character dialogue early on is very rough tutorializing that they got much better about in later games.
I saw my bother in law play Persona 3 FES on my PS2 Slim back in 2008 when he and my sister were living with us since they were in the market for a new house and to move to a different location. It wasn't until like 2014 or so that first played Persona 3 FES and after that I was hooked. I played the OG P4 and completed it on Normal Difficulty and man that was a huge pain in the ass. Then I got a PSTV and Got a copy of Persona 4 Golden and put like 230hrs into it. Yeah I know how you feel man I got COVID as well and it sucked. You are so right that there is no reliving your first time playing a game. When I was going through Persona 4 I was trying to figure out for the life of me if Naoto was in fact a girl hiding as a guy or was a guy the whole time. It drove me nuts until I finished Naoto's palace but that was the fun aspect of the game though.
Really glad you kicked COVID’s ass dawg. Here’s to ten more years of Persona 3 memories :D
Good. Playing and loving p3. It's what you should do. What we should all do. It's my second most favorite game of all time. It introduced me to the series. And yes, it's been 10 years as well. 10 years of this game, I still haven't beaten Elizabeth. It'll come.
The way you found persona 3 fes is similar to Nyarly.
Was almost about to correct you on the release date of persona 3 lol. Persona 3 is a very special game to me and is probably one of the most uniquely flawed but amazingly written story's I've ever experienced.
Edit: Also hope your feeling well. I had covid for like 2 days a few weeks ago and it sucked.
Persona 3 is probably the single piece of media I’ve felt the strongest feeling towards. Not all of them were good but I think overall I still had fun. I really enjoyed Some of the parties arc S-links and any track in the game that doesn’t have lotus juice rapping is at the very least solid. Honestly fithers feelings towards goro kinda reflects how I feel about persona 3 I had a hell of a time thinking playing and discussing the game even if it wasn’t always positive
Playing p3 fes for the very first time right now and it is very good so far! I am in november right now right after kyoto. Tartarus started out really fun but is starting to get old. The story bosses are fun. The story itself is really good and I might like the part member cast the most. Akihiko is probably my favorite megami tensei character at the moment, my second favorite being raidou.
Ps3 also the best console
A certain Persona 3 LP actually helped me out of a rough spot. So yeah this game means quite a bit to me, more than P4 and P5 (though both are good as well)
It took me 2 years to realize Danganronpa V3 is my favorite game, so i completely understand that point about needing time. Persona 4G is still my 2nd favorite (i always find peoples first persona is usually their favorite), but i think P3 FES is in my top 20
I was pretty similar with P5R when i had to take a gap year from university. I had nothing to do in life than P5R happened and i fell in love with ATLUS
I started playing P3 at 2014 so it's a strange feeling for me too.
Have you even thought about making a video explaining the stuff from the persona 3 clubbook similar to your video on the axiom and Steven from way back when? ( I found out about that book today when browsing the megaten wiki and was floored about the stuff it revealed about nyx and the collective unconscious)
Fucking love this game, I wouldn't have had the guts to pursue college without Akihiko's mandatory character development convincing me to get my shit together
I just got into persona this year after finishing persona 5 royal and now currently playing persona 3 fes using pcsx2 emulator and so far it is good but it lags too much for me too fully enjoy it.
Persona 3 is also MY. fave!!!!!
My favourite game ever too.
I tried P3Fes because a friend recommended P4 and I couldn't find a copy of P4 at the time. I'm honestly glad too since I do not care for P4 like the mainstream do. P3Fes forever~
I got into Persona from Persona 5 back in 2017. I grew up playing pc and Nintendo, and once I was an adult with money, I asked some friends if I should get a playstation or xbox. I got a PS4 Pro, and got a few games along with Persona 5. I played SMT 4 after, followed by SMT 3, Persona 4, Soul Hackers, Devil Survivor, Persona 4, SMT 5, and finally Persona 3. The gameplay in my opinion was the easiest in the Megaten games, but I loved the story. I think the Answer sucks, and I don't consider it canon. I still think Persona 5 is the best game, since it spoke the most to me. I was a social butterfly, and lived in the city
Persona 4 has waifu wars but persona 3 has version wars.
I started persona 3 literally the day after persona 5 came out and met a friend through it that same day he asked if I'm getting persona 5 and I look to him and say there's a persona 5?
have you ever heard of pathfinder wrath of the righteous?
Bangin game
I got into persona with p3p in 2010!!!
I feel the same way towards P5.
Ah yes... the "joined for the waifus,stayed for everything else" reason is why you ended up playing and loving Persona 3,same thing happened with me with Nier Automata
Same dude
@@phantomnite I see a fellow man of culture here👍
@@therookieshaker7795 lol. Neir Automata is definitely my all time favourite game
I recently played P3 for the first time recently, I’m not as huge about it as some people because of how much so many of the gameplay aspects piss me off, but I still think it’s a really cool game overall. The atmosphere, music, cast, and story are all really great for the most part
I've been talking about persona 3 with a friend ever since we heard that P3P, persona 4 golden and persona 5 Royal were gonna be in everything....... So obviously we both decided we're just gonna get persona 3 portable lol. Like yeah 4 and 5 are the most well known and the most popular and the ones that people won't stop talking about but speaking with my friend made me realize I like 3 more than 4 and 5. I like the cast more I like the stakes more I like the fact that the main characters got their persona evolutions without the main character butting in and it happened with the actual story and and I liked the theme that the game was trying to go for. Only thing I didn't like about it was the gameplay which thankfully portable takes 4's improvement and will not include answer so it is a plus. While yes 5 did have some great moments as well, including giving me Makoto, Sae and Kawakami and again i do enjoy the game, I still would rather go back to play 3 again which is why I'm glad that they decided to finally remember that persona 3 existed. That and I screwed up in trying to get with Mitsuru originally so this will make up for it lol. Also persona 3 should have gotten the Warriors treatment that 5 did but that's an argument for another day.
Now our world is permanently stuck in the dark hour lol, or is Persona 4's fog and people collapsing a more accurate description of the current world?
3D Persona 3 is weird to watch after only playing P3Portable. I gotta play FES. I've got it ready to go on my PS3, but I just need the time.
Fither did you unlist your Yugioh Dude and Unpopular opinions fithcast/podcast videos? I can't seem to find them anymore and I really liked listening to them.
I noticed that Persona characters as moms/dads videos are also unavailable to watch
@@victorhundred8621 That's weird as hell. Thanks for pointing this out.
Yugioh dudes videos are still up
@@phantomnite I'm not talking about the card videos, I'm talking about him explaining growing up with Yugioh with Flair.
@@polyman6859 oh ok
I hope they eventually resolve the plot with makoto. He doesn't deserve to be stuck holding back death forever.
why not
I hope they won't. It would ruin the message of P3.
I really can’t relate with P3 but I definitely relate with other games and definitely is a magical feeling
based
Thank god u got into P3 first instead of p4. ( dont feel like seeing another cringe P4 " ohhh I found a way to accept my self after fighting my shadow" shit video)
U old af wtf