I’ve made it through the whole modern Persona series (besides dancing games) and the whole 3DS library. Also Nocturne and SH2.

I don’t play to play the really obscure games like Majin Tensei or Demikids, but something like SMT1,2 or Devil Summoner (is that one translated?) sounds like something I’d still play. So, I’m barely halfway there, and these games were my main focus for a few years now.

  • a_mac_and_con@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    I’d recommend both Raidou Kuzunohas, all of Digital Devil Saga, and both Devil Survivors.

    I think the only Devil Summoner which wasn’t translated officially is the first one. There is a 3DS version of Soul Hackers and apparently Soul Hackers 2 came out last year? I’ll have to look into that one, I missed it completely.

  • PurpleGreenCat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    You’ve play more than me, OP!

    I still need to play the second P2 game and all the the Raido Kuzunoha games. Actually, I need to replay some ps2 Atlus classics, since it’s been so long! I’m not into Majin Tensei or Demikids either. I jumped over some of the Persona spin-offs as well.

    I haven’t bought SH2 yet, does it feel like a Megaten game? I heard mixed opinions…

    • toxicdevil@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      I haven’t bought SH2 yet, does it feel like a Megaten game? I heard mixed opinions…

      feels like a megaten game with a severe lack of polish. lots of repeated dungeon. on launch the combat was slow as FUCK but they’ve patched in run buttons and animation skips. my biggest gripe beyond that though was the fact that the characters were absolutely fucking terrible. maybe one member of the only cast had any semblance of a personality

      • PurpleGreenCat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I had a feeling something like this happened. I’ll still probably buy it on discount tho. Thanks for the answers.

    • DutczarOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      SH2 was slow in both dungeons and combat at launch, which was my main gripe, but the first and especially the second were sped up in a patch, so it should be great now.

      I really liked the combat, it’s one of the best ones in the series. The main thing that makes Persona a bit less appealing for me its that the preset party members feel like they drag down this series’ potential, and SH2 making everyone a “wild card” makes it more like the main series. Maybe even more so, since you have not 3, but at least 4 demons to keep up-to-speed. And you can actually switch out without losing buffs, which I used a lot.

      That, and the bosses are generally designed to be dps races, which I thought was actually good and challenging since you couldn’t stack buffs or abuse Press Turns. Even if lazily implemented in the optional bosses (it’s just a party wipe after X turns the game doesn’t tell you about)

      The main problem of speed though means I didn’t feel like doing random battles, which means I didn’t have resources for cool upgrades, and also meant spending relatively more time in the boring dungeons. I hope the patch brought it at least to Nocturne-like standards.

          • DutczarOPEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            See, Nine is on the very brink of “Do I want to play this?”, so this discussion here has more consequences than you think.

            (Probably will at least try it out of curiosity)

            • catgode@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 years ago

              NINE has different battle themes for different alignments, that alone makes it worthwhile experience in my opinion lol

  • Edes@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    For not I’m focusing on mainline post 3 and the personas post 3, not sure if I’ll move on to the older games lol

  • DutczarOPEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    So lemmy won’t let me reply to @a_mac_and_con after like 4 tries. For clarity, anything PS2, or probably even PS1 and above is an obvious play for me (which, I guess includes NINE too)

    This topic was more about the obscure\unpopular titles and “How much megaten is enough?” because there’s like, 5-10 “must-play games” in this series to recommend, and then like double that for “games to play once you’re a fan”. How many of us here and back at r\megaten actually played all this? Like, I’m enjoying it, but it’s been multiple years (and I didn’t even see all the endings, I’m replaying DeSu now to see more paths since I’m done with the 3DS library of SMT and I’m considering just pulling up a YT video), and I’m still a student without a full time job lol

    Also, I didn’t directly think about this while posting, but a friend of mine has literally been playing Persona 4 for like a year, and the others seemed to stop after P3-5. Yeah, I know we meme about Persona fans not knowing SMT, but one of them does have SMT Nocturne and IV ready to play. It’s just he has other series to play like Yakuza or Dark Souls, and won’t start them. And I’ve been trying to cram those between my Megaten games too, so, for him I played Yakuza 0-Kiwami 2 and just dipped as I was about to play Y3.

    I imagine it loses impact when I tell him “you must really play Strange Journey, and the Devil Survivor games, and I heard DDS is also top tier, and…”