So this version is basically a visual novel with obscene amount of dialogue?

[Drakensson]

So yeah, I take it this is a super Japanese game in the sense that it has
an obscene amount of text and reading instead of actual gameplay?
I read that the animated cutscenes are not present in this version

[yeehaw]

tbf, its not just this version. the animated cutscenes in the original only cut an extremely small fraction of the text out of text boxes, if you wanna like this series in any capacity you have to be prepared to read a lot (or ig rely solely on auto text dub for the voiced stuff)

[K JAM]

Read a book zoomie.

[Drakensson]

I liked Persona 4

And no, I don't like books. I hate them.
The only literature I read are facts and educational texts

[Andre]

P4 has the same amount of text and the dungeons are pretty basic in both of them. When you click on a character or run to them and press "a" to get the text there is little difference.

[Danielle]

It has almost exactly as much text as the original did.
Persona 3-5 have ALWAYS been visual novels with JRPGs attached, P3P just makes that more obvious by making the characters 2d sprites.

[toughnails]

Persona 5 has WAY more text, 3 is pretty low on exposition actually, it's just this particular version looks like ass so it feels bad.

[qazimod]

The original and Portable both have a bunch of text, so the version doesn't make much of a difference - however, the dungeon-crawling gameplay is still there in both versions. People just use the "visual novel" line because of how the dialogue scenes are presented in Portable.

[Wolfherz]

JRPGs have typically always had an large amount of text. That's part of the allure, and why many older ones have remained popular to this day. I don't understand what you were expecting.

[Drakensson]

Alrighty

[Cutlass Jack]

Well its voiced if reading is really that much of an issue for you.

[Peelsepuuppi]

Originally posted by Drakensson:

So yeah, I take it this is a super Japanese game in the sense that it has
an obscene amount of text and reading instead of actual gameplay?
I read that the animated cutscenes are not present in this version

This is descriptive of all Persona 3+ games and many other JRPGs.

But I don't see how having to read a lot is a japanese feature. Try playing some of those western Isometric CRPGs, Now those require an immense amount of reading not including the few fully voice acted ones.

[Drakensson]

Originally posted by ToveriJuri:

Try playing some of those western Isometric CRPGs, Now those require an immense amount of reading not including the few fully voice acted ones.

Oh yeah. I used to love story-driven games. Neverwinter Nights 2 was great.
But as I got older I started to value gameplay before story.
I want instant gratification and results.
I recently played Diablo 3, that's how you do an action-role playing game imo

[Peelsepuuppi]

Originally posted by Drakensson:

Originally posted by ToveriJuri:

Try playing some of those western Isometric CRPGs, Now those require an immense amount of reading not including the few fully voice acted ones.

Oh yeah. I used to love story-driven games. Neverwinter Nights 2 was great.
But as I got older I started to value gameplay before story.
I want instant gratification and results.
I recently played Diablo 3, that's how you do an action-role playing game imo

Respectable. I think full genre games tend to be better. Full blown RPGs are better at being RPGs and a dedicated action games generally tends to have better combat than ARGPS.

There are some exceptions of course.

[rhony2]

I did play P3 FES back in the day and I will have to say so far I like that better than this portable version. I did buy this for my PSP as well but I never got around to actually playing it and since I had finished FES. I don't believe the US version of FES came with the Japanese soundtrack so I bought this on Steam to play with the original soundtrack. The only thing I did not like about FES was the inability to control the non-MC actions which I believe they changed for the Portable version. But I do miss moving the MC around the school and his dorm - kinda makes this game not really feel like a Persona game. Since I still have a working PS3 and I bought FES on it, I think I will play on that for a while.

[Narmy]

Originally posted by rhony2:

I don't believe the US version of FES came with the Japanese soundtrack

The soundtrack is the same in both versions.