Every once in a while, you should do something you don’t usually do, just to remind yourself why you don’t usually do it. I started Persona 2: Innocent Sin
I’m sure P1 and P2 will have very different stories, but at the beginning it’s the same high school setting, same “demons from out of nowhere” thing, same-ish kind of city and many of the same stores. I fought the first boss (Principal Hanya) right before stopping, and at about two hours in P2 is just P1 with more annoying party members and much, much easier battles. I seriously can’t believe how easy, I’m thinking of switching to the Hard setting, which I have never done in an Atlus game before.
Well, I guess it’s not the whole party that’s annoying. Just this ditzy reporter girl named Maya and this American girl with a kung fu fetish in my party named Lisa. Oh gawd, Lisa. And she keeps spouting out this bad Cantonese. Like “Kaumenna” instead of “Gaau meng a” or “Holeen” instead of “Ho lin”, it is so painful to read. It’s probably meant to be, and it’s working like a charm. Do I have a fixed party in this game or can I get rid of her? *fingers crossed*
P2 has also brought back the crazy number of options for contacting demons so I’m going to need a FAQ again before too long. =_= It’s much funnier this time round though, because when it says “Sing” or “Dance”, they actually do sing and dance. Even when “Sing” doesn’t work I keep picking that option just to see Michel’s act. Man, I thought it would be bad, but this is just incredible. If there’s one video game character who cannot afford to drop out of school, it’s him.
Dang, talking about this made me want to continue the game. But I know I’d just end up frustrated and bored so I’m going to wait at least another month.
Besides, you know how in Persona the town just went crazy out of the blue through no fault of yours? In Innocent Sin the main character Tatsuya seems like a bit of twat. I wouldn’t be surprised if he really did do something bad, with that attitude. I won’t be amused if I put in all that effort just to find out he was asking for it </understatement>.
What I’m even more worried about is that the “Sin” will turn out to be some ambiguous bullshit that doesn’t make any sense at all. I haven’t had that problem with the other Persona games so far, but I can’t say that of some of the SMT games. Nocturne for example, all I know is the world went kablooey, then I went around killing lots of demons as well as some of my friends, then at some point Dante from Devil May Cry joined me because of my ravishing shirtless torso (there can be no other reason), and then the last thing I remember was sinking down into some depths Terminator 2-style. Awesome game, but I still don’t know what it was all about. Digital Devil Saga wasn’t much better. The first game was good, the second game was doing well until suddenly, fwoop, we flew into the sun. And then Serph was a hermaphrodite.
So I’ll play something else and come back later. Prepare myself mentally, and all that. For better or for worse, Persona 2 isn’t going anywhere.
Wow, interesting blog.
Persona 2 is amazing! I preordered mine already (in europe in a few days!) and I’m a huge fan of it. At the beginning it can be a little boring if you compare it to other SMT. BUT the story and characters are so great… I mean, by what I read it seems you ended P1. P2 is SO much better, in many ways, the “sin” part is amazing and yes, it has an explanation. Hope to see something else about it here in the future :D, see ya!
The “sin” makes sense in the end? Awesome, thanks for letting me know! People say Persona 2 has the best story in the entire Persona series. I thought P1, P3 and P4 all had simple but great stories, so if P2 is the best then I’m really in for a treat! I’ll write more about it when I finally finish it. Thanks for reading!
Yes, I also think P2 is the best of the entire series but consider acquiring Eternal Punishment (I hope they make a PSP remake too please T_T) because it’s the second part of Innocent Sin, something like Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2: completely necessary.
My old PS1 still works, so if Innocent Sin turns out to be good (which I’m sure it will), I’ll pick up a copy on Amazon…….is what I was going to say, but then I checked the prices and $199 new? $55 used? Well, I’ll think about it.