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Love it. My favorite console. Also another great thread!

I'm happy I have 6 of those lol.



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3DS is not great.
Is amazing. :D



Nice list, I've yet to play most of the games there. 

 

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Another great thread. :)



Good job on this thread too. : ) Nice to see the 3DS getting some attention too.



 

              

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Another nice thread. Keep it up! :)



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I love the 3DS, it is my favorite system ever! I happily own 9 games on that list!

Do you want to add New Super Mario Bros. 2?



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Hiku said:

Beautifully done.
How about adding Zero Escape to the list for some variation?
It got 88 on Metacritic, and is a fantastic game: http://www.metacritic.com/game/3ds/zero-escape-virtues-last-reward

Though it's not an exclusive, as it's on the Vita as well, I just realized...

Anyway, I have 5 of those games, and planning to pick of two more soon.

Mario Kart 7
Fire Emblem: Awakening
Pokemon X
Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
Bravely Default

Will get:
Shin Megami Tensei IV
Zelda: Majora's Mask

I just realized. Are you ever planning on picking up Persona Q?



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Hiku said:
Well at first it was on my list of games to get, seeing as I love both P3 and P4, and want more rpg's in general.

Then I read this article: http://www.siliconera.com/2014/11/24/persona-q-persona-game-name/

"What is it that made Persona 3 and Persona 4 so good?  Was it the social links that tied characterization to role-playing stats?  Was it the way the games incorporated the passage of time and schedule management to invest the player in the virtual worlds?  Was it that the games largely focused on normal people dealing with relatable problems?  Was it the seductive illusion of returning to high school to be the coolest person in the class that everybody likes?

The reason I found myself asking this question is that Persona Q may have the Persona brand and characters attached to it, but it does absolutely none of those things listed above.  There are a lot of reasons to like Persona 3 and Persona 4, and there are a lot of reasons to like Persona Q, but they aren’t the same reasons at all."

Basically, it's an Etrian Odyssey game, with Persona characters and story, which I wasn't aware of before.
This isn't neccisarily a bad thing. I haven't played Etrian Odyssey so I wouldn't know if I like it or not. So I'm going to put more research into this later on, and see if it's something I would like. For now it's lower down on my priority list due to other games I plan on playing this year.
There were some other things mentioned in the article that made my interest dwindle as well though.

"Changing the focus away from the narrative to a more mechanics-driven RPG might not be so alienating if the story that exists is good though.  Unfortunately that isn’t the case.  It’s the curse of the crossover that nothing much can happen since all the major character arcs are reserved for the original works that characters come from..  In Persona Q, this means that Yukiko’s struggle with defining herself independently of her family’s expectations is out, being oblivious and having giggle fits is in.  Teddie struggling with his humanity/identity is out, Teddie hitting on girls is in.  Junpei’s dichotomy between disliking the bad guys but relishing the opportunity to be a hero is out, Junpei being a gigantic doofus is in.

It’s like that all around.  The characters aren’t misrepresented exactly, the traits they have in this game are indeed drawn from the original works, but most of the interesting growth and nuance to them was lost in the transition to the crossover.  The game is set in an alternate dimension where time is slowed to a crawl, and that unfortunately reflects the storytelling overall.  The story didn’t even begin to grab my attention until almost 40 hours in."


There's also that you can't exactly chose your team freely, as your favorite characters may all be front line fighters for example, and you can only have a set number of each type.

Did you play it? And if so, what did you think of it?

Yeah, it's definitely meant to be a spinoff and not a main entry, so that's why the gameplay is so different. I kinda wonder if Atlus was testing the waters by putting it on 3DS and they might consider porting P3/P4 later. Otherwise, why port the spinoff of those games but not the main games? Seems weird to me.

I haven't played it, but the only reason I haven't pulled the trigger is because I haven't played any Persona games so all of its fanservice would be lost on me. Once I play those games, I'll probably get it though.



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