So to pick up where we left off from lets dive into Persona 3. Persona 3 was originally released back in 2006, with an expansion that was released one year later and a rerelease made back in 2009. It's clear this game is liked.

Persona 3 in my mind has one of the more interesting story when compared to Persona 4. But baring that in mind there are some things I find to be bad about the game. But that's not because it's a bad game, it's merely because of the time which it was made. The voice acting at times is so bad it feels like you're getting a good punch to the stomach. The music also in my opinion is also a flaw, a good quarter of it is Japanese rap which I don't even like hearing to American rap so you can see why I could live with out it.

But getting back to the story, the story is you are a new transfer student to Gekkoukan High school. But in the train station on your way to your dorm, suddenly the power goes out. All electronics seem to stop working. But if that wasn't weird enough all the people on the street are suddenly gone too and coffins litter the street. The sky is now green and the ground is covered in puddles of blood. But you make your way to your dorm anyway and soon run into a girl who has a gun. She seems on edge but another girl calms her down and the electricity returns.

The two girls introduce themselves. The girl on edge is Yukari Takeba, a junior just like you. There's Mitsuru Kirijo a senior.
Mitsuru ask Yukari to take you to your room and she does. But once there Yukari begs you not to tell anyone about what you saw or about her gun. With that you go into your room and go to sleep.

But over the next few days things seem normal. When in actuality Yukari, Mitsuru, and the Chairmen of your school secretly watch you as sleep. On one of these nights they get a call from another senior named Akihiko Sanada who warns them about "A big one" coming for the dorm you all live in.

Mitsuru is quick and orders Yukari to wake you and escape the building while she and Akihiko hold the creature off. Yukari and you make your escape to the roof only to find out the one Akihiko was talking about isn't the one Mitsuru and Akihiko are fighting. A large black creature made out of arms climbs over onto the roof and Yukari tells you to stay behind her as she fight. She pulls out her gun and points it at her head but she can't pull the trigger so the monster hits her aside and the gun slides to you.

You pick it up and feel a calling inside and point the gun at your head and pull the trigger, and summon your persona. After defeating the monster and blacking out for three days you learn from Mitsuru and the others the monster you fought was called a "Shadow" and that the reason why all the electronics turn off and all the people disappear after midnight is because there's a secret time between this day and the next called "The dark hour". Only people with "The potential" can operate in the dark hour and summon their person through the use of an evoker; the gun Yukari cares around.

They ask you to join in their operation of protecting the people of the shadows and join S.E.E.S, or Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad. You join and now it's up to you and your new friends to now fight the shadows and uncover where the shadows come from and where does the dark hour come from? It's up to you how to spend your days, you can go to your school clubs or go train by fighting shadows either way it makes you stronger.

Persona 3 is much darker their it's counterpart Persona 4, but that's what I like about it. Persona 3 while at times can be clunky but at others it's so damn heart warming I can't stand it.

There's a few mechanics that they removed from Persona 2 and left out in Persona 4. In Persona 3 you can fuse a persona into a weapon which I rather like and wish they did in Persona 4. They also removed the option to talk to the monsters and make contracts with them which I'm SOOO happy they got rid off. Now we have the Social Link system where the more you hang out with someone the stronger your bond is, stronger the bond the more persona's you can summon of that arcana.

Lastly, with the 2009 rerelease of the game for PSP(Now available on the PlayStation store for the PSVita) you can play as a male or female. I've played as both and there are slight changes but nothing ground breaking different. To end this I just have to say Persona 3 is just one of those games you have to play, so if you like JRPG's and a good story then this is the game for you. Bye now!