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sc94597 said:
spemanig said:


Honestly, it's not additional; it's different. It's completely different in setting, tone, and theming. There isn't a large overlap. There are important, core, and obvious overlaps since it is still a spin off and there's always going to be some, but the games are so far from being alike.

Says someone who hasn't played them.... The setting might be different, but the actual game's core and themes are similar. You have two opposing forces pulling the strings behind the scenes (Philemon vs. Nyarlothotep - implied in Persona 3 and 4, characters in Persona 1 and 2 - or YHVH vs. Lucifer.) You have dungeon-crawling (albeit it is a little bit different in 3 and 4.) In most games the characters are teenagers/young adults, yes even in SMT. Shadows and demons are practically the same thing. The magic and attacks are the same. Combat is somewhat different, but even in the SMT series combat is different (SMT I & II don't have press-turn.) And when I spoke of overlap I was talking about the overlap of consumers. The majority of SMT fans like Persona and vice-verse. 

The differences are literally superficial, as Outlawauron said. It is the equivalent of Windwaker vs. Twilight Princess. 

I wasn't going to continue the argument, but yeah. Persona 3 is just dark/mature or darker than just about every SMT game.



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