Persona 4: Just two ordinary kids who like weapons
Started playing Persona 4 yesterday. Great fun. Well-written dialogue which is quite serious when it needs to be, and quite funny when it doesn’t; found myself bursting into laughter quite a bit, especially at the few bits of absurd humor in it, although the un-bear-able puns are a little much. Kudos to the original writers, and the translators/editors too. The voice acting is a bit on the lackluster side, though the lack of subtitles will probably make playing an undub pointless.
How enjoyable the game would be came as a complete surprise to me, since I absolutely hated Persona 3/FES. The story, scenario, characters and dialogue I found much to be much more interesting and much improved over p3. The story which is a basic supernatural murder mystery is actually intriguing and compelling, with “solving the mystery” as an actual game-driver, rather then whatever non-memorable crap it was in p3. The dialogue-pathing and subquests are mostly the same as in p3, so expect to need a FAQ (or the excellent doublejump guide) if you want to get 100%.
Oh, and the combat system has been revamped so that you can take direct control of the other characters in combat now, which makes combat much more tolerable now, too. Haven’t really played enough to say whether or not the actual gameplay has improved much, but, if the first couple bosses are any indication, the game will probably not disappoint me.