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Quick Review: Shin Megami Tensei Persona 3 Portable

We're adding a new feature to Aggrogate. Many games are very time-consuming to completely play through, and it's not fair to offer a concrete verdict on a game without giving it the full run-through. Unfortunately, we're a bit short-handed and there are only so many hours in the day. If we waited to finish every single game before offering an opinion, we'd never get a review done.

Because of that, we're going to start offering Quick Reviews. Quick Reviews aren't full playthrough-and-write-up evaluations of games, but instead shorter reviews of whatever part of the game we can get through in a reasonable time. Any Quick Review will get at least five hours' worth of gameplay before even starting the write-up, and we'll be sure to note exactly where we stand in the game and how much we played by the time we publish the piece here.

Don't consider Quick Reviews to be full, comprehensive reviews, because they're not based on the full and total experience of the game. Instead, look at them as a general evaluation of what you can expect from a game from putting enough time into it to get a feel for the mechanics, design, and overall quality.

[At the time of publication, I played over 22 hours of the game and beat the fifth full moon event. Yeah, this game is long.]

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 is the RPG that just won't die. After great success on the PS2, it got re-released with extra content as Persona 3: FES. Now Atlus has ported the original game to the PSP as Persona 3 Portable, and it offers the same great experience it offered 3 years ago. What the game loses in flashiness from the original version, it makes up for in convenience and polish.