All of my worst thoughts strike in the ungodly hours after midnight. It’s quiet, noises I wouldn’t usually notice grow louder and I’m painfully aware of every shadowy figure in an unlit room. Sometimes my anxieties spiral out of control thanks to a weird pile of clothes or a blanketless foot. Sometimes it’s just a little too dark, and the blank eerie abyss of a dark bedroom goes full-on existential horror.
Persona 3 Portable’s fretful cast must share that midnight dread with me, though they have more supernatural terrors to blame. This RPG blend of high school and gothic apocalypse welcomes you with a litany of reminders that time is always running out, and before you even know what it’s counting down to, Persona 3 starts the clock. You’ve got a year to figure out who, or what, the race is actually against.
shares most of the social RPG hallmarks I adored in and . There’s the day-to-day studying, flirting, exams and other school-life woes.. It’s better in some ways and questionable in others.
