While there is a wide variety of Personas one can grind for, the amount of grinding necessary for later personas may put off some players.
Every Persona comes with a different arcana and each of the playable characters have different affinities with certain arcana, thus it is important to make sure that the Persona you’re equipping to a character is someone they have a high affinity with, otherwise they’ll perform comparatively worse. While every character starts with a specific Persona, more personas can be obtained by collecting tarot cards which can be presented to the velvet room for fusion. Personas, the main recurring element in the games, are the character’s psyche manifested physically to do combat with. Fusion spells are powerful and can be accessed fairly early in the game, so it’s quite common to get through most of the game by using them. Fusion spells are activated when two or more party members cast certain spells together which have them summoning their personas together to cast a more powerful combined spell. One new feature added to the game that adds another dimension to combat are the inclusion of fusion spells. The system of summoning Personas to cast physical and magical skills also make a comeback in this game. While this simplifies combat a bit, physical attacks now come in five different types to compensate. Units are also limited to just one kind of physical attack instead of the previous game’s system of having both a main weapon and a secondary firearm. Unlike the first game, positioning and range of a unit are no longer factors that contribute to combat which give players one less thing to worry about. The player selects what actions the members of his party will do and then proceed to watch the combat unfold. Persona 2’s isometric dungeon view is a nice change of scenery compared to the first game’s almost claustrophobic dungeon crawling.Ĭombat in the game is done similarly to the first game. While the over world is still navigated using a map of the city, unlike the previous games from the Shin Megami Tensei franchise that have dungeon crawling be done in a first person perspective, Persona 2 has 2D characters traversing through 3D dungeons with an adjustable isometric view. This departure from its roots help make the flow between exploration, combat, and cutscenes a more fluid experience. Because of that, this review will only be focusing on the first half of the duology as both games remain functionally identical gameplay-wise.Ī simple turn based JRPG at it’s core, Persona 2 brings a slew of familiar video game conventions from the previous game while introducing new mechanics of it’s own that helps make it stand out on its own more when compared to other games of the same genre.
#P2 SUMARU CITY PSP#
Both games later got ported to the PSP in 2011, but only Innocent Sin was released in the west and to compensate, the original PlayStation version of Eternal Punishment was released for digital download on the PlayStation Network. The first half being Innocent Sin which was originally released in 1999 and was then shortly followed by the second half, Eternal Punishment, one year later. Persona 2 is divided into two games in the duology.
#P2 SUMARU CITY SERIES#
This time, we will be continuing the series of Persona game reviews with the second game in the series. In a previous review, we managed to tackle the first game in the Persona series, the aptly titled Shin Megami Tensei: Persona.
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