SMT: Persona

With only a week left until SMT: Persona is released I'm curious how many people are actually looking forward to this game. I've been awaiting this game ever since it was announced. I never got a chance to play the PS1 verison of Persona so I can't wait for this.For those of you who don't know, this is a remake of the PS1 game Revelations: Persona with added features. These include (taken from Wikipedia):

• A different name in Japan, Persona is now branded without the title ''Megami Ibunroku'' in Japan and is now Shin Megami Tensei: Persona in North America branded without the title ''Revelations'' and replaced with ''Shin Megami Tensei''.
• A new opening which includes an entirely new opening song which was unveiled by Atlus before the game's launch.
• All the original FMVs will be remade by Kamikaze Douga, and there will be many brand new FMVs as well to enhance the storytelling. In the North American version, the FMVs will be fully dubbed.
• Shoji Meguro, who will also be serving as the game's director will be arranging all the original BGM and the vocal tracks will feature Yumi Kawamura, the vocalist for the Persona 3 tracks.
• The interface has been fully revamped to take advantage of the full widescreen view for the benefit of all users.
• Both the original scenario and the Snow Queen scenario will contain additional dungeon floors not found in the original. The new dungeon elements will also contain tricky puzzles and extra content for the player to unravel.
• The game has been fully rebalanced to enhance the playing experience from the original version. The encounter rate and dungeon designs have been tweaked as well. There will also be multiple difficulty settings to more player choice.
• Battle animations can now be skipped entirely, and the battle load times have been decreased to 2/3 the time of the original game.
• There will be many more save points available throughout the game, and for portable fans the game will also feature a quicksave feature.
• A new pre-rendered aerial view town map similar to the later Persona franchises will replace the original real-time 3D town map.

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I'm quite excited. I keep hearing great things about these games, so the first one should be a great place to start!SMT: Persona
Yes, though I'm little disheartened that it doesn't have an EU release date set yet. I'm enjoying Persona 3 so far.
Darn no EU release playing P4 atm such a great game
It's a shame. Europe always seems to get shafted, especially from smaller publishers such as Atlus. Hopefully it gets an EU release soon. It's good to see that other people are anticipating this game as much as I am though.
[QUOTE=''sam_nintendo'']I'm quite excited. I keep hearing great things about these games, so the first one should be a great place to start![/QUOTE]

The games are amazing. After this you should definitely check out Persona 3 and 4. IIRC the 2nd one is a sequel to the 1st Persona, but the stories of the first 2 aren't connect to the 3rd or 4th so you shouldn't miss anything by not playing the 2nd one. I'm really hoping that also gets a remake on PSP though as I never got to play that either.
Ive never played these games before but I do plan on picking this one up. I love RPGs and this should be one I cant miss.
I'm wildly looking forward to it, but I'll probably have to buy the digital version of the game. Not a huge deal I guess, but I was kind of hoping to get the soundtrack as well.
[QUOTE=''yokofox33'']I'm wildly looking forward to it, but I'll probably have to buy the digital version of the game. Not a huge deal I guess, but I was kind of hoping to get the soundtrack as well.[/QUOTE]

Luckily they're releasing this on PSN day 1 so you won't have to wait until after the Go is released to get it, unlike Dissidia or SoulCalibur.
[QUOTE=''Texas2089''][QUOTE=''yokofox33'']I'm wildly looking forward to it, but I'll probably have to buy the digital version of the game. Not a huge deal I guess, but I was kind of hoping to get the soundtrack as well.[/QUOTE] Luckily they're releasing this on PSN day 1 so you won't have to wait until after the Go is released to get it, unlike Dissidia or SoulCalibur.[/QUOTE]Actually Atlus sent out an email to its members that the digital release was delayed until October 1st. Not a huge wait, but it still means I have to wait even longer. I guess I could still order the hard copy if I wanted, but I'd just have to wait an extra month or so before I get it. It's all about the soundtrack really.
[QUOTE=''yokofox33''][QUOTE=''Texas2089''][QUOTE=''yokofox33'']I'm wildly looking forward to it, but I'll probably have to buy the digital version of the game. Not a huge deal I guess, but I was kind of hoping to get the soundtrack as well.[/QUOTE] Luckily they're releasing this on PSN day 1 so you won't have to wait until after the Go is released to get it, unlike Dissidia or SoulCalibur.[/QUOTE]Actually Atlus sent out an email to its members that the digital release was delayed until October 1st. Not a huge wait, but it still means I have to wait even longer. I guess I could still order the hard copy if I wanted, but I'd just have to wait an extra month or so before I get it. It's all about the soundtrack really.[/QUOTE]

That sucks. I read before that the digital version would be releasing side by side with the UMD version but I guess this has changed since then. A month is long time to wait for it though just for the soundtrack. You're probably better off buying the digital version and looking for the soundtrack on ebay. Chances are that some people that buy this game won't want the soundtrack and will probably put it up there for a relatively cheap price.