Thread 718430730

People have clowned endlessly on the "The Dark Souls of JRPGs" article but honestly I kind of get it. The minimal story, dark atmosphere and difficulty is a big part of the appeal of this game, and Souls is somewhat the same way

the dark souls of persona

>>718431935
>The Dark Souls of JRPGs
That's just Dark Souls.

>>718432104
That's IF...

>>718432185
if what

>>718432464
if it was a good game

>>718432104
No, that's Apocalypse because its got power of friendship nonsense. Even if I really like Gaston as a character

>>718432107
no thats smt 3

>>718430730 (OP)
It's carried by its music.

>very little story getting in the way
>can fuse different teams
>10/10 music and atmosphere
>only one ending is worth playing
if it wasnt for the last point this would he the king of replayability in jrpgs, probably is anyway

>>718432775
Not even the most replayable JRPG on the PS2.

>>718430730 (OP)
all i know about this franchise is the music is pretty decent

>>718432638
4 is when SMT took a turn towards Persona. 4A made it worse. They should of learned from 3 to always have the protagonist be alone. Walter, Jonathon and Isabeau talked too much and followed you around at parts. Ruined atmosphere greatly. SMT 1 and 2 worked fine because they barely spoke unless it was a crucial story segment. SJ gets a pass because it was a refreshing change and a different type of story. 5 tried to copy 3 but followed the same path as 4 and 4a.

>>718432775
Freedom is a good ending. It just doesn't really get appreciated in the western community because we never got a version of the game that didn't include True Demon Ending. In fact I think TDE is very weird thematically speaking. It just totally sidesteps all of the other themes of the game. We like it though because you get to fight a bunch of cool bosses and get a super cool final boss.

>>718432851
name it, fag

>>718433018
Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BktkqrD1azo
the smt 3 battle remix on smtv is banging

>>718432897
drop your favorites

>>718433012
Imo
Freedom fits perfectly for the narrative and its themes with Demifiend choosing to give mankind another chance to build their own future after being forced to kill his friends(or best friend and crush if you go by the Drama CD), has interesting implication with Demifiend keeping his powers and it's cool to see Lucifer respect someone for basically telling him to fuck off.

TDE however fits the "Aesthetic" of the game the best, and it gives Demfiend a good contrast with the SMT1 Hero who is canonically Neutral, and Aleph, who is quite literally Jesus and jis whole world is basically LawLand.

>>718432539
kek

>>718432970
I agree, I really like JRPGs where you feel "alone", and that's also critical to a good atmosphere

>>718430730 (OP)
this is one of my favorite games but it kinda is bad

>>718433018
can't argue with that at all

>>718430730 (OP)
I think II did a great job with the alignments, Law, Chaos, and Neutral are all pretty cool endings (the Neutral shit with Masakado is kinda lame but I guess they blew their load with all the Neutral wanking in the first game). Not sure why they backed off of that for this game to do this weird Reason system that they never tried again. Feels like when Pokemon got rid of Gyms to try to make it "new" and it was retarded.

>>718431935
>putting all points into strength and spamming freikugel is difficulty

So this is the power of redditsona....

>>718437085
Well if you actually played the game you'd know that the start of the game is the hardest part which is why you put points exclusively into Vitality for the first several levels.

>>718437085
>implying you can’t just do this in dark souls too
Easiest path through the game is pumping strength and using a German named weapon (zweihander)

>>718432775
VV is no different from every point you listed.

>>718439241
False, VV has 3/6 endings worth doing as opposed to Nocturne's 1/5 endings worth doing.

>>718439504
VV still has only one canon ending and that's true neutral.