I'm playing Persona 3 Portable at the moment.
It's presented more as a visual novel, in that you don't really run around the school/town, you simply choose from a location and go it then enter shops/talk to people or whatever you need to do.
Dungeon crawling is exactly the same as in FES as far I can tell, third person exploring and battles.
Persona 3 Portable doesn't have the anime cutscenes that FES has.
S'up to you what you prefer, I guess. I feel like the pace is a lot quicker in Portable though since you don't really spend as much time running around.







