Persona 3 Fes

Sorry I've been missing posts left and right I'll be getting back on track today or yesterday lol

So this weeks random game is Persona 3 Fes for the PS2! Persona has to be my favorite RPG series of all time and it all started with the original Persona 3. The funny thing is I just randomly picked it up at Best Buy one day after reading a review on it, it seemed interesting so I picked it up I must have been 13 at the time and it was my first hardcore RPG. I think it took me well over a year to beat the game and then I learned about Persona 3 Fes about to be released that would explain the rather vague ending.

Persona 3 Fes is a add-on to the original adding new content such as the answer story where you play as Aigis, Which takes place after the main story. Also adding in new social links, personas, events, and a new difficulty setting making an already challenging game even harder.

Persona's gameplay is a very unique hybrid of RPGs and Dating Simulators and they mix really well surprisingly. You take control of the Main Character who you get to name and is silent for the whole game asides from the battle grunts. Your just an average high school student until strange things happen at your dormitory and at midnight monsters called shadows appear and one attacks you. This sets up the mix of RPG and Dating Sim as during the day your just an average student but at night your the field tactician.

The graphics are good for the PS2 but what carries the game is the art style, impressive personas and attacks, and the anime stills for the characters. And the gameplay is unique and fresh enough that it doesn't get old because once you get bored of the action you can go check out social links for a while. And speaking of social links, social links are the dating sim aspect. Social links power up your personas so they're essential to beating the game it's basically you hanging out with friends and wooing girls but its much deeper then that as I actually cared about the characters i was talking to.

Now the Persona's get there own section,. Persona are your other self and they let you fight the shadows every party member you meet has one persona with strengths and weaknesses. But the main character is different he can use multiple persona allowing you to fight in any situation given you have the right persona for the job.

Now the meat of the game the battle system. The battle system is very fast paced and on higher difficulties will just outright destroy you if you go into the fight wrong. fights are turn-based and the main goal of fights are to exploit your enemies weaknesses while covering your own, There are multiple benefits of exploiting the weaknesses. First you deal more damage, Second it knocks down the enemy skipping his turn, Third you get to go again, and Fourth if you knock down all the enemies you get to use the All Out Attack which is a devastating attack to all your enemies. This also applies to you so be careful and if your character dies it's instant game over.

And last but not least the story. The story is very atmospheric and dark and the setting is very modern which is good. Its a relatable story full of drama and the occasional comedic moment. But here is the first and possibly only downside to the game the pace of the story can be a little slow especially in the beginning but it picks up and gets really serious about halfway through the game.

So this is probably one of my favorite games and because it is I give it a 10...but I'll be professional. I give it a 9.5 if you like RPGs you have to try this game out. You can download it off of PSN for 30-40$ I can't remember and for those who don't know Persona 3 is getting a full length movie that I hope the U.S. gets.

You've read one of my tales so come back for more Tales of Gaming!!

Missed posts

Sorry about the last couple of days of not posting I've been busy and didn't have the time to post I will be back on schedule tomorrow starting with the new releases as usual.

Gaming News

I'm back with some news for the week

We officially saw some gameplay with Chief Thunder in Killer Instinct with and the actual design of the character he seems to be a grappler which fits how he looks he's also the only character that would fit the archtype of a grappler so Killer Instinct officially has a grappler awesome. Here's a link to IGN http://www.ign.com/videos/2013/08/15/killer-instinct-chief-thunder-revealed

In older news Luigi was announced for SSB4 not much is known about if they changed his moveset or not but its not too surprising he made it in considering he's been in every smash bros to date but who knows if some series vets will return considering the rumor from brawl that Ness was supposed to be replaced with Lucas. and a link to the official smash site http://www.smashbros.com/us/characters/luigi.html

That's all the gaming news for today see you next time on Tales of Gaming!

New Releases

These are the new releases for the week

Starting up we have Mario and Luigi: Dream Team
System: 3DS
Developer: Alpha Dream
Genre: RPG
Date: 8/11/13
Price: $39.99

Hammerwatch
System: PC
Publisher: Crackshell
Genre: Indie, Action, Co-op
Date: 8/12/13
Price: $9.99

Then we have Payday 2
System: PC, Xbox 360, and PS3
Developer: Overkill Software
Genre: Shooter, Co-op
Date: 8/13/13
Price: PC $29.99, Console $39.99

We also got Ducktales: Remastered
System: PC,Nintendo Eshop, PSN, and Xbox Arcades
Developer: Wayforward Games
Genre: Platformer
Date: 8/13/13
Price $14.99

Europa Universalis 4
System: PC
Developer: Paradox Development
Genre: Strategy
Date: 8/13/13
Price: $39.99

Dream early access
System: PC
Developer: Hypersloth
Genre: Indie, Casual, Adventure
Date: 8/13/13
Price: $14.99

Worms Clan Wars
System: PC
Developer: Team 17
Genre: Strategy
Date: 8/15/13
Price: $24.99

And Space Hulk
System: PC
Developer: Full Control
Genre: Indie, Strategy
Date: 8/15/13
Price: $29.99

You've heard about the new releases so stop by Thursday to hear news from Tales of Gaming!

Random Game

Today I'll be talking about Rune Factory Frontier on the Wii by Marvelous Entertainment.

Rune Factory is a Farming Simulation RPG hybrid and is a spin-off of the Harvest Moon series. Rune Factory Frontier takes place in a town called Trampoli a pretty normal town...that is until you notice the giant whale swimming in the sky. The story is unique but kind of loses steam as the story progresses and the RPG aspects are fun but really grindy especially at the end of the game. But the farming and dating aspects are pretty fun throughout though meeting the conditions to have the people join the village are very vague and I was forced to use a wiki to meet everyone, which is not the way you want to do things, especially when meeting certain people open up new game mechanics that are essential to the farming like the Runey's. The Runey's are probably the hardest part about the game learning about them and managing them are essential to farming, but the problem for me was it was hard to find the time to go wandering around and start the events that introduce the characters, this is in pretty much EVERY Harvest Moon and Rune Factory, while this is a complaint I had with the game its not really a big deal it just makes the beginning a bit more confusing then it should be especially for beginners.

I personally give the game a 7.5 to 8 its a very good game and I like the farming and the dating aspects, the beginning could be a bit more streamlined and unless you like grinding the endgame and especially the bosses are brutal. I recommend this game to anyone who likes the Harvest Moon series or enjoyed the dating simulation from the Persona series. I've told you one of my tales so come back for more Tales of Gaming!

P.S. My favorite was Melody lol

Random Day

Random day I just talk about my week randomly its the whatever day...

So I got Tales of Xillia been playing it whenever my friend or girlfriend are around it's fun and I'll be writing a review for the game soon!

I've also been volunteering at my local Petco taking care of cats, its been about 6 months and I recently adopted a 5 month old kitten. He is awesome but kinda painfully playful...best way I can describe it lol.

But I haven't been doing a lot this week so i'll end it here, I'll be back tomorrow with my random game day.

Gaming News

This week we have new details on Guilty Gear Xrd, and the Tales of Series.

Guilty Gear Xrd has officially gone into the public testing phase over in japan and some say its somewhat more simplistic then previous games. I honestly don't know if this is good for the series or not but we will see. Also 4 veteran characters will be returning this includes Chipp Zanuff, May, Venom, and a newly redesigned Potemkin. I think its a bit odd how Potemkin is the only character to receive a redesign out of the 8 characters that have been announced but there will be more characters to be announced shortly.

Tales of Xillia sold well enough that we will officially be getting the sequel Tales of Xillia 2 next year. I for one am pretty excited because so far I am enjoying Xillia, though I haven't gotten all that far into the game due to my play buddies being unavailable I'll soon be giving my review on the game whenever I beat both the stories.

Check back on Saturday for my whatever day!