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Persona 5 - Personas Artworks Revealed (Captain Kidd, Carmen, Zorro & Goemon)

Atlus has updated Persona 5's official website showing new artworks from the game.

Persona 5 is due out for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 in summer 2016.

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DarXyde3517d ago

Artwork looks to be taking a more Final Fantasy VI-era style combine with Persona 2's creepy style.

Wonder what that means for the tone of the game.

S2Killinit3517d ago

What is Persona about?

I recently tried out Disegea's demo and i enjoyed it. Now im curious what other games ive been missing out on.

elarcadia3517d ago

Persona is very hard to describe. It is sort of like Final Fantasy meets a dungeon crawler meets Yu-Gi-Oh meets the Sims meets Pokemon. More or less, you play as a high school student who goes to school at day and traverses a dark tower at night. The dark tower runs like a dungeon crawler; you have to get as high as you can while onyl using the items you brought with you. While climbing, you collect new items and cars, which give you access to more Personas. The Personas are the creatures you battle with. During the day, all the connections you make and places you visit alter what will happen at night.

I could go into even more detail, but if I did this comment would turn into an article itself. If you have a PS3, the store has the dnl versions of Persona 3 and 4 on sale all the time...I got them for $2.50 each earlier this year. I would definitely recommend trying them! They truly are amazing games.

S2Killinit3517d ago

@elarcadia
Thanks bubble for you.

MatthewFace3517d ago

It is also heavily based upon the concepts of Jungian psychology, that is, the theories and methods of psychotherapy made famous by Carl Jung. The very name of the series - 'Persona' - is a pysch terminology. Persona means mask. Our personas are the people we project out into the world for others to see and interact with, but we also have our shadows, those feelings, urges, and thoughts that are just as much a part of us, but that we don't want to reveal to the world. When those energies get bottled up and suppressed, they find their own way to find expression, and can cause serious mental issues, or psychosis.

All of this, and the theories of archetypes, dream analysis, and the collective unconscious play a HUGE role in the persona games for the initiated. It'd be worth it to brush up on the basics of Jungian psychology before you jump in; the game's will mean a lot more to you.

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Best Persona Battle Themes, Ranked

"Last Surprise" and "Mass Destruction" are two of the best Persona battle themes, no doubt.

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50 Best PS3 Games of All Time

The PlayStation 3 is Sony’s most interesting home console ever, but what’s most interesting of all is trying to nail down the very best games on a console with hundreds of incredible games. Let’s give it a shot.

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darthv7278d ago

Personally, I'd rank Pacific Rift in my top 10. It's the best of the series.

badz14977d ago

We desperately need Motorstorm back. Evolution is no more though and this makes me sad

Cacabunga77d ago

Sly Thieves in Time
Stay the Party
Portal 2
Dj Hero
Demon’s Souls
God of war Ascension

rudero77d ago

2 of those games got railed through the “gaming media” during release.
Sly and god of war.
Both of which were fantastic games.

Cacabunga76d ago

Ascension is VERY underrated. Remake please!

Venoxn4g77d ago

Decent list.. I would put the Castle Crashers as well..

1Victor77d ago

Yes it’s a decent list of popular games with a heavy hand on FPS and no Warhawk or Starhawk 2 of the best games (not sale wise) on ps3.
I would buy a Starhawk again even if it didn’t have a graphics upgrade hell I would even take a new one with micro transactions 😱🤯

Profchaos77d ago

I've noticed a recent nostalgia for the PS3 and I don't get it for me it's been my least favourite generation to date and I've been gaming since the NES I just feel like the ambition of the developers outweighed the capabilities of the consoles so I remember lots of games running in the lower end of 20fps range and I remember for the first time ever actually disliking the duelshock 3 and it's curved triggers

Sure there were some standouts and great games but that's the only gen I switched entirely to PC gaming

darthv7277d ago

Maybe the recent nostalgia is because pretty much all of its games are trapped on that console. People want to play them on more modern hardware. hell... if XB can do it then so can Sony. there are competent emulators out there that can run on PS4/5 hardware but Sony just wont let them become official... why is that?

If we are talking least favorite generations (personally) then this one is certainly mine. i had more fun playing 8th, 7th and 6th gen stuff than 9th. And it isnt like i dont have access to do so... the heavy hitters just havent shown up anywhere close to those previous gens. The few here and there just doesnt cut it compared to the likes of constant good games that showed up in 6th, 7th and 8th gen. hell.... I'll even throw in 5th gen has been better than this one.

Profchaos77d ago

I tend to agree there's lots of amazing games locked to the PS3 like GTA IV or mgs 4 but then again my issue was never with the content the PS3 had but rather it's performance many other people have said the PS3 felt like it couldn't walk and chew bubblegum at the same time using PSN and downloading a game could take a few minutes to just start a download.

I typically don't worry all that much about performance I've never had a problem with games that run at 30 but games like crysis 2, Skyrim are good examples where the performance was so unstable you would never even touch the top of the frame cap and the hitching was worse than say Goldeneye on the n64

I think emulation is more than possible on the ps5 though it's just that Sony has no incentive to rush it's development it will likely be a ps6 feature if it ever happens at all.

But yeah the 9th gen has been so bad from a content perspective thats a given I see constant articles where people are frequently expressing their disappointment around the industry as a whole right now to much live service competition that sinks longstanding studios and consumes Devs time less ambition and games cost so much to make they have to play it safe.

The 5th gen was easily better than the 9th we had some all time greats crash, Spyro, Tony hawk, mgs, Mario,64, Goldeneye, Mario kart 64 the list goes on. The 5th gave us a new dimension and I remember being blown away by how much more open gaming had become the 4th gen with the mega drive and SNES was great and very easy to still revisit some of the greatest games of all time came out like earthbound, secret of mana, sonic , Mario world etc but saving our games was still not a standard function or a given so gaming was still evolving but it was very impressive to see some of the tricks Devs used like dithering to give us new experiences those earlier gens limitations bred innovation.

Michiel198977d ago

if XB can do it so can sony? I didn't know xbox had a cell processor in their older consoles, that's the reason why ps3 was so cool, but also the reason why games are hostage there and no, xbox did nothing similar even though their backward compatbility is good, they always had a similar architecture to their consoles.

darthv7276d ago

Sorry Michael... I guess you missed the obvious part where i said there are already emulators out that do this. and that is what XB is doing... emulators for OG and 360 games. Its why the full slate is not BC on XBO/Series.

coolbeans77d ago (Edited 77d ago )

The list is missing Folklore.

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FanimeCon 2024 | Persona / Shin Megami Tensei Cosplay Gathering

The Persona / Shin Megami Tensei cosplay gathering allowed fans of the acclaimed JRPG series to meet up during FanimeCon 2024.

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