Actually finished it last week but been busy with other stuff to post this. After 3 months, 70 hours of long and grueling gameplay, and multiple fake endings, I finally completed it with the True Ending! Just in time for Persona 1 for the PSP to come out. Already got it pre-ordered, along with Demon Soul for PS3.
So now I've finished Persona 3 and 4, going to work on SMT: Nocturne until Persona 1 arrives. If you have even the slightest interest in JRPGs or RPGs in general, give the Persona games a try. Evenif you hate RPGs try it. I despised RPGs, the only one I ever really got into was Fallout 3 and KOTOR.The Persona gamesare long but easily some of the best games I've played, right behind Metal Gear Solid series. It even surpasses MGS in some ways I feel. Not going to write a review on it as I don't feel I could without spoiling a lot of key things.
For those of you who have no idea what Persona is, Giant Bomb has been running a Persona 4 Edurance Run for the past couple of months and are almost finished. If you are bored watch a few episodes (watch as early as possible to avoid lots of spoilers), it shows the gameplay and is pretty funny.
- Final Playtime for Persona 4 - 68 hours 47 minutes
- Final Playtime for Persona 3 - 87 hours 26 minutes