Is persona 1 psp worth playing?

is persona 1 psp worth playing?

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Combat is shitty but story is okay and it's the only one with classic MegaTen first person dungeon crawlan.

Emulate it and just speed up battles.

Is there reason not to play this over the PS1 version?

Music got changed for the worse. Substantially so.
But the PS1 version has absolutely butchered "localization" that even LITERALLY removed half of the game because they were too lazy to localize all of it.
As such, if you don't know Japanese your only option is the PSP version.
If you do know Japanese and don't mind ridiculous encounter rate, go with the JPN PS1 version for vastly superior soundtrack.

The j-pop

Just get the mod to fix the music and play.
It's literally the best persona game.
Do not let P3 and P4 babies stray your path.

Is there a fanpatch for the music out there somewhere (like with FFT WOTL)?

Why does the "altenative speed" doesn't work in ppsspp?

It's the only game that nothing happen when i press the key.

I am using ppsspp 1.4

No because it's impossible to restore the music.
PS1 version has like 90+ tracks.
PSP version has only ~30 or so.
And PSP version has a very drastic Sony LBA DRM on it where you can't replace the files on the ISO with bigger ones than the originals, so replacing the music is also out of the question for the most part even if you were to compress it super hard.

tl;dr no

check on the /pg/ op, theres a dl in one of the links.

I'm the author of said """patch""" and I can tell you it's shit, because of the reasons I mentioned here Not only could I bring only some of the tracks back, but the ones I did are super compressed and in many cases also much shorter than their PS1 originals due to filesize limitations I had to work with.

That's why I never released that patch outside of /pg/ and /smtg/ and why I called it beta.
Because it's literally shit.

>sony, drastic DRM, psp
somehow I doubt that since every attempt they made at patching firmware got broken in a day but ok.

It's a DRM within the game, google what LBA Protection is.
It's not anti-piracy protection, it's anti-modification protection.

Poorly written story and barebones combat. Personally I don't mind a story that's retarded. But I hate over-exposition. It just implies you're not the target audience despite the rating on the box.
Do whatever you want OP. I don't consider Persona 3 and 4 worth playing either but I played both.

Is there a fan translation of an unbutchered PS1 Persona 1? Or are EOPs just fucked?

EOPs are fucked.

And this is bait.

How does P2 compare to it? I've played and loved P1, but haven't tried 2 yet.

One day you'll grow beyond just calling everything you don't agree with bait

2 is the best written and most MegaTen of Persona games.
The only bad thing about that duology is the combat, which is still better than P1.

P2 is vastly superior in, literally, every single way. Grab the portable version for Innocent Sin and the PSX version for Eternal Punishment (unless you can read nip, then go PSP version as well)

2 is more of the same.
The story is much better and party members from P1 come back in P2.
Play it.

ignore muh soundtrack faggots, there's nothing wrong with the new music.

I'd say he should go with PS1 version for both purely for consistency.
Going from PSP version of IS to PS1 version of EP feels like a substantial downgrade in terms of comfort.

Its the best written in the series
The combat is pretty boring though, you can literally autobattle through the entire game with the personas the story gives you, with the exception of a couple bosses

Honestly if you liked the music in the later Persona games and don't know what you're missing the PSP verson is fine, just play it.
Persona 2 is the best written Persona game. Innocent Sin Portable is mind-numbingly easy though, you never have to fuse and can auto through most battles, but it's worth it.

The new soundtrack is ABHORRENT
Original: youtube.com/watch?v=OAfbXuMDTSc

New: youtube.com/watch?v=cjbk2Xd1vYo

>The combat is pretty boring though, you can literally autobattle through the entire game with the personas the story gives you, with the exception of a couple bosses
Only applies to Innocent Sin and ONLY to the PSP version.
Impossible to beat the game with only handout Personas in PS1 version of Innocent Sin and both PS1 and PSP versions of Eternal Punishment.

Its way better than 2, if you arent a fan of ye old dungeon crawlers you arent gonna like it

M-maybe the popularity of P5 could cause a fan group to start up on a patch? fuck

Yeah I forgot the upgrade's pretty significant. Honestly, I usually don't hate Atlus, but I'm really pissed they haven't brought over EP. I don't even care if it's digital only, what the fuck were they thinking?

Mate the new music is extremely unfitting and pretty bad.

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It is, I've done it

I'd like a full 3d game with the artstyle used in the psp cutscenes.

I recently played it, and I decided to watch that Persona History video gamespot vid.

I think the guy had it right, the game is...it's alright. It's nothing amazing, but it's the only Persona game aside from 5 that has the Gun function and it has elements that are retained through the entire series (like how everyone has a side of themself that they hide from others). But the main story is basically just "ok"

Both those tracks are great though.

Innocent Sin is a fantastic game, easily my favorite game in the Persona series. Eternal Punishment is also amazing but imo not as good as IS or P5.

kill urself

EP blows them the fuck out the water just because Katsuya's the fucking best.

I just don't think EP was as well written. The writing is really what elevated IS to the top of the rankings.

do I need to know anything about P1 to fully understand the story of P2?

Probably gonna try to play through P2 on my phone, let's see how that goes...

Sorry mate but it's not gonna happen. Nobody is going to bother when the PSP version's translation is perfect and the game is serviceable just fine. But lack of PS1's music is really a big bummer. It's even more retarded if you consider the fact that the PSP remasters of both Persona 2 games have new music AND old music, you can switch between them. But they didn't do that for P1 which is so fucking dumb.

No.

Also remember, Innocent Sin first, then Eternal Punishment.

>do I need to know anything about P1 to fully understand the story of P2?

No not really. You just won't know who is a cameo.

I would recommend playing P1 first.
Merely because a ton of characters will be "literally who's" if you don't.
If SMT IF... was translated I would recommend playing that before P1.

>but it's the only Persona game aside from 5 that has the Gun function
That's a fucking lie though.
Persona 2 has guns as well.
P3 is the one that removed guns.

No but it will certainly enhance the experience

alright thanks guys, I think I will play P1 first then

No, but there are returning characters (one of whom is a party member in Eternal Punishment) and you won't understand the callbacks.
Kind of like playing Witcher games without reading the books, or starting with Witcher 3 without playing 1 and 2.
That kind of deal.

You MUST however play both Persona 2 games since they are not re-releases, but actual two halves of one full story.
Innocent Sin -> Eternal Punishment
You know, like Crime and Punishment.

Did P2 have a Gun option in combat that was completely separate from attack? Because it's been years, but I could've sworn it was removed after 1.

>If SMT IF... was translated I would recommend playing that before P1.
That's not really important like P1 -> P2 connections since the only connection P1 has to If... is Tamaki's cameo and that's literally it. She has no story importance or anything, she's just a cameo.
P1 is actually important to play before P2 because of Nanjo and Kandori alone, for starters.

No, just some people used guns some used melee.

Technically P3 didn't remove guns because you shoot yourself with one

Best Revelations Persona track coming through
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Oh, you mean Gun being a separate combat option like in SMT1/2 and Devil Summoner.
Yeah, that got removed from P2.
But guns themselves are still used and function like they always did in the series, they simply split characters by giving them exclusive weapon styles.
So some are only Melee while others are only Gun.
But mechanically that works the same like in old MegaTen, you just can't use both on 1 character.

Some characters used guns as their sole weapon and there were some gun skills, not really sure if t was considered its own damage type though

Evokers aren't guns

So, like Ys I and II?

Evokers aren't guns, they literally even tell you that the second you get it. They're literally just toys that emit a gunshot sound to trigger a fear response.
Koromaru doesn't even have a gun Evoker, just a collar with headphones.

Yeah

That's just different equippable weapons, not a separate combat type. I mean in the former's case they never went away as Aigis had wrist-mounted autocannons and Naoto used a pistol.

I know nothing about Ys, sorry.
Just know that Persona 2 Duology are not separate games, it's one game split into two halves. Eternal Punishment makes no sense without playing Innocent Sin first basically.
You'd be completely lost.

Evokers aside didn't the robot use guns

>Evokers aren't guns
they are in Japan

>they are in Japan
Factually false, stop pretending you know Japanese in order to troll people.

That was my bad for not adding a !
I meant it as a joke

I get that it was a joke, but evokers aren't even technically guns so it just doesn't work. It would kinda have worked as a joke if they were, but as it is, you've got nothing.

Like FC and SC

>Aigis had wrist-mounted autocannons and Naoto used a pistol.
Oh, right.

>Best written Persona game
Is this a meme?

I finished Innocent sin, but the game was just ok in every regard, redpill me hard on this one, i don't even want to play eternal punishement because i don't care about anything in this game.

Spoil me if necessary

>Aigis
She is such a wierd anomaly in the series. I mean this is a fully-functioning gynoid that has true AI and her own soul. This is a level of technology that feels way too advanced for the rest of the Persona series, like Aigis shouldn't be possible for decades.

Is there a translation patch for the Win 98 release?

It's because she has a Plume of Dusk.

>wearing shoes without socks

this is my fetish

You just have shit taste if you didn't like the story, what's there to explain.

Though some characters were flanderized to a pretty disgusting degree, damn if I didn't love every moment of PQ

Aigis was literally built using a piece of Nyx (Plume of Dusk). That's also why she can sense Shadows (and Death).

But that only explains how they can have a persona.

Kandori had a machine that created an alternate reality through a sick girl's mind and managed to wall of the entire city from the rest of the world which everyone eventually forgot that it happened

>pick Naoto for wedding
>she spills enough spaghetti to feed an Italian family reunion

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>But that only explains how they can have a persona.
Post above yours.

>redpill me

Okay. You're a dumbass.

>Rumor coming true like every single game
>The game is better written than other persona game because no one played it.

That doesn't explain the machinery and AI tech.

As expected very clear and detailed answers.

the amount of random counters is fucking obnoxious. And it's pretty grindy near the end. But to make it easier, you regain mana if you walk around so you can go to a safe zone and power walk for a few minutes to be up to full again.

>AI
Aigis has no AI. Her personality comes from the soul and ego which comes directly from the Plume of Dusk. Without those she's literally just a machine.
As for technology, SMT is more technologically advanced in the 90s than IRL was.

>like every single game
Oh so you're a braindead retard that started with P3 or P4 and are actually judging P2 taking those into account instead of P2's contribution and how much P3 and P4 stole from it conceptually and then flanderized to braindead retard level that you posses.
Okay, get cancer and die in this case.

Tech is just advanced in this universe. Nobody questions the computers that can physically summon satan

Seriously though. What's the deal with it. I like the plot in 90's games and the modern ones but can't get into IS plot beyond rumours come true, also Hitler and mild character development. Should I play EP to get the gist of it?

>hurr durr I only read the first half of Crime and Punishment and I think it's shit, why do people like it?
That's literally, unironically, you.

News flash, EP isn't a sequel. It's CD2 part of the same game.

Okay then. DDS1 and SMT4 were fine on their own though they got sequels, I thought it was the same deal with P2.

>sequels
Wrong.
Apocalypse is the only one that's a sequel.
DDS1/2 are also CD1 and CD2 of the same game.

>But the PS1 version has absolutely butchered "localization" that even LITERALLY removed half of the game because they were too lazy to localize all of it.
I like how they turned one of the characters into a dindu.

Not them but don't worry about it. If you played IS and didn't like it you won't like EP either

>I like how they turned one of the characters into a dindu.
And completely changed his personality too and made him speak ebonics, seriously that was Treehouse tier localization.

Treehouse is pretty bad but at least black Mark is so bad its good

>Treehouse is pretty bad but at least black Mark is so bad its good
>bbbbut it's intentionally shit so that makes it good
No, don't defend cancer.

Nope. The Plume is literally what gives her a psyche and self-awareness.

I'm not defending it, I'm just saying it brings its own brand of entertainment, like the Zelda CDis