I finally finished P3:FES a few days ago and I must say that I hated it.I spent the first hour watching poorly animated cut scenes and then, when the game finally gives you control you spend hours upon hours in the Sim portion of the game.All of the NPCs are cliched stereotypes of characters in every animu series ever.The game (and the dating sim in general) pretends to be non-linear by giving you a lot choices, but most of them lead to a "But Thou Must" moment.Most of the time you can max out the s.links by blindly choosing any option.The dating sim is tedious, shallow and contrived.
 
Persona 3 also dumbed the battles down even further.Giving full turns for hitting an opponent's weakness means almost every regular random encounter can be won before the enemy attacks.It doesn't help that it's extremely easy to surprise attack the enemies.The majority of the bosses can be defeated easily, since most of them aren't immune to status ailments.Heck, I went through the entire game by myself, except when the game forces you to use your retarded party members.This is definitely the easiest Persona game ever.
 
The easiest of battles makes climbing up the Copypasta dungeon even more of a chore.Tartar sauce is the most bland and boring randomly-generated dungeon I've ever played through.You climb fifteen, twenty, thirty stories of the same floors and the same enemies to finally reach a boss and a transition to the semi-harder enemies beyond, thinking you'll be able to press your skills and see how far you can go...and then you'll run into a wall. Literally.To prevent you from continuing on in the dungeon, the developers decided to place barriers and only open those barriers after you advance the story.
 
The melodramatic story has a super slow pacing due to plot events happening every full moon.The translation uses honorifics with English sentences and words, it's too funny. Atlus is basically appealing to idiot Wapanese kids.The music is a melange of the most atrocious J-Pop garbage that my ears have ever been assaulted with and a grab bag of terrible and decent voice over work.To summon their Personas these kids commit pseudo-suicide using toy guns.It's like Deathnote's "what do you mean its not symbolic?!" moments.
 
This game is thrash and I am glad that was able to sell it to friend for most of the cost.

There's actually a great topic on Gamefaqs about how hard it is to get people to hate you.

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That is one of the funnier aspects of the game.  Of course, an unexpected hug can upset just about anyone it seems.

Quote from RMarques on 06/10/08 at 19:34:46:

 
Agreed. I agree with just about everything everyone said, but I still think it was a good game and in the end I guess I would take any Persona over no Persona. Should it have been dark and serious like the originals? Yes. Did Tartarus and the S-links get boring and redundant? Absolutely. Yet, like I said, I think I would take anything over nothing(and I'm sure I'm probably alone in that sentiment). Hopefully they'll improve all those aspects, and I'm sure they will. But let me tell you I'm gonna buy the next one no matter what. Just like I buy all SMT games, 'cause they're the best damn games around. Sometimes there's Hits and Sometimes there's misses, just because this might have been a SMT miss doesn't mean it's the worst thing ever.

I definitely prefer the story and gameplay of P2 over P3.  
Fusion spells > Mix Raids.  
Tartarus was boring, and the city map was repetitive. There were just so many more things to do in P2.  
I liked the contact system and Nyar is just more awesome than Nyx. When I was playing P3 and found out Nyx was the boss and some ultimate baddie that couldn't be defeated, I was like "really...huh?" She was pretty high ranking in the SMT games, but boss worthy? I guess it made sense plotwise.  
I do really like P3's characters, but Tatsuya and Maya were better MCs. And Guido...come on...Guido the Japanese Italian Persona wielding zombie.
 
Now, does anyone have any idea what Nameless is talking about in these pictures? +bonus pics!

THANK YOU.
 
Screw this Nyx bullshit.
 
All everyone needs is more Nyarlathotep.
 
They managed to sneak him into the role of P1 villain without naming him explicitly, I have no idea why they couldn't do it again.

I'm surprised nobody has bitched about the absence of Philemon yet... or did we all just read into those stupid butterflies as his "presence?"

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I know I did, but that was obviously wishful thinking. I've read that after the ultimate battle in P2 they left this world or decided to take a step back, but I don't know where anybody got that idea!? I mean, where the hell were they? Really, how do you make a Persona game without at least Philemon?