Its unique modern-day setting along with terrific characters and a dark story make Persona 2 an engaging game from start to finish. It's truly a must for serious RPG fans.
There's more than 50 hours of continually branching narrative and vicious freeform combat awaiting those brave enough to enter its dark and twisted world.
Persona 2 Batsu is a great game imo. It's story and characters just really interest me a lot and I love how the characters are more fleshed out in this game.
The gameplay is a massive improvement as well, Persona 2 Innocent Sin was a braindead trashfire with a boring story and mediocre characters, Eternal Punishment fixes the difficulty issue by giving the bosses higher stats so that the game is actually difficult.
The art, music and menus have that 2000's ooze that I just cant get enough of, Kazuma Kaneko's pieces are works of art, Kenichi Tsuchiya is a musical genius, rhe menus are customizable (you can have Jack Frost that why I gave it a 10 and not a 9).
Overall, P2 EP is one of my favorite JRPG's of all time.
Persona 2 is a large game. With a lengthy main quest, plenty of side quests, replay incentives, and even a bonus dungeon available from cleared data, there's no shortage of things to do and discover.
It may not have the flashy summons of the "Final Fantasy" series or an innovating attack system like "Vagrant Story," but what it lacks in other fields it makes up for in real character and originality.
The aspect of contacting and interacting with demons was also an element that I fully embraced. It broke the monotony of simply killing and killing in order to gain experience points.
I cannot stress how much I love Persona 2 Eternal Punishment and it's a shame considering how much newer Persona fans overlook it.
- The best story in the franchise
- Gameplay that seems "Dated" but actually is still extremely good but grindy
- Just amazing soundtrack altogether
- Second part of the duology with characters appearing from past games
- Best character cast available in the Persona franchise.
Now I will say the only thing really bad about the game was some the dungeons. Specifically speaking areas with pitfalls. Those are the worst and those dungeons tend to become frustrating but everything else is just perfect.
Outside of pitfalls? Masterpiece. One of my top experiences and games of ALL TIME. I love Persona 2 EP with a passion and with the PS1. I played and beat this game way too many times to count.
Eternal Punishment isn't necessarily worse than Innocent Sin, but I can't say it's better either. I'm sure this duology would have been an 8/9 back in the day, but right now I can't give it more than a 6.
Eternal Punishment serves as the sequel for Innocent Sin, giving the (in my opinion) 2nd best ending in all of the franchise, and finishing what I consider to be one of Atlus' best storylines. However, this game suffers from the same as it's prequel: age.
Every mechanic in Eternal Punishment has aged like milk: the dungeons are long and tedious, often being more **** rather than a challenge. The city map just exists, there are some NPCs but the world feels soulless. Props to the shops and detective agency for being really interesting (Kuzunoha DA has one of my favourite tracks).
Overall, I think both of the Persona 2 games would benefit A LOT from a remake, maybe bringing some more social aspects to the game like more modern entries of the franchise have. I'd prefer for them not to change the story though; it is seriously good.
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