[PS2] Shin Megami Tensei Series/Persona 3

My first step in to SMT was Nocturne and I loved it. The amosphere just made the game for me and I loved the subtlity of the story and it was really just about how you handled it not how the characters developed. I'm now at the final dungeon and I just beat the first boss there but I've kinda put it down for now. One interesting point was that I had more trouble with the Matador than Thor.

I picked up DDS1 about when it came out and it was ok at first but then it just felt like I was grinding through it. I just didn't like how the battles were so black and white compared to nocturnes. I like Noctunes battles because you didn't have to fight all of them and get items etc, but after finally beating it I'm now about halfway through DDS2. I'm now at

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Going back to the EGG for sera to talk to God and now I'm dealing with the corupted Heat

and I'm enjoying it a lot more than DDS1 because the characters seem a bit more balanced and the Ring system makes for a nice buffer.

My only other SMT experience is a translated ROM of SMT1 and I'm only about an hour in where you got captured and you team up with the other two heros. My only problem with it is you can't control some demons special moves and negotiating is nerve racking compared to Nocturne. I hope that the upcoming SMT DS game might be a compiliation of the first two games like I heard a rumor some where.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Ceilo is actually one of my favorite characters and I found his voice acting to be pretty entertainingly good. I just wish we could have had a little more exposition on

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his real world self

other than a random scientist giving you two sentinces.

Originally Posted by Enkidu

Zeroslash: That battle is one of the hardest in the goddamn game. I had to train and get quite a lot of high level skills for that one (get Ziodyne, it's a lifesaviour). The scene you get afterwards kicks ass though.

Do you happen to have a link to the translated rom?

That battle was actually not that hard and I only had a set up of Ceilo using Zionga and Mediarama when needed, Gale using MaZionga to get rid of the arms and Sera using Fire Drain. It was pretty much rinse, lather repeat with that set up.

On the Scene afterward:

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Yeah that scene answered a lot of questions but made a lot more. I still don't quite understand the whole Real and Fake Varna thing. From what I understand it was the good and bad sides of the Real Serph, and I'm getting almost the same vibe from this game as I did from Star Ocean when you find out they're just digital characters to the 4d Beings. Knowing that the main characters are only recreations by Sera only makes it feel like they're insignificant.

Now to just wrap it all up and see how it goes



http://agtp.romhack.net/
This website contains rom patches that translate rom from games they've translated but you still need to find a compatible rom but I don't know how to use patches so I went googling and found this library of roms that had an already patched rom.

http://www.rom-world.com/dl.php?name...o&emulator=yes
It's in there some where. You can search and look for it.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Your more than welcome and thank you for the patched version of SMTII.

Off topic: You either need to teach me how to do that or show me a website that can because thier were a lot of other games there I want to play, mainly Super Robot Taisen, that gundam SRPG and Fire Emblem 3 that they were working on.

Edit:

While I'm handing out links, I think this makes for a very good read on how it all started and where it went. I find it very interesting that SMT all started with a Japanese Novel and a Gaunlent rip off.

http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.c...en/megaten.htm

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Now, that's some interesting news. I'm now really tempted to pick up that copy of Persona 2 I saw at the mall last week.

(Before you call me an idiot for not picking it up, that's because the mall is a 30-40 min drive away and that was the day I got DDS2)

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I have yet to see the trailer but I have faith in Atlus USA. I mean, the didn't edit the bath scenes in Riviera, DDS had a fare share of goriness and Nocturne's story was untouched from what I know.

None the less, I know have a real reason to go find a copy of Persona 2 now.

I was speaking idiomatically.