Persona 3 FES

It is about last month that i happen to meet this game @ a mall..And later, it's responsible for my 103.45 hours that I spent for this game..(^_^v). But it's a worthed traying I must say...It's Gameplay, Storyline, Persona (Summon), Weapons, etc are very deep in thought. U can combine any persona to get new persona..So what is Exactly persona? u can read more below...Shin Megami Tensei 3 (that's what this game called in Japan) in overall i give 9 out of ten..Read my posting below..

The game takes place in a modern Japanese city, built and funded by the Kirijo Corporation. Due to events in the past, there is a "Dark Hour", a period of time that exists at midnight between one day and the next that only few people are aware of and remain conscious for; those that aren't appear as coffins. The Dark Hour bends reality; Gekkoukan High School, where most of the characters attend school during the day, becomes a huge labyrinthine tower called "Tartarus", and beasts call Shadows roam the area, preying on the minds of those still conscious during that time, leaving their victims in near catatonic states outside of the Dark Hour. To learn about these aspects, a group called the "Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad" (SEES) was created, its members both having awareness of the Dark Hour and possessing the ability to call forth a Persona to assist them in battling Shadows. In order to call their Persona, each member aims and fires a gun-like object called an "Evoker" at their head, which does no physical damage but causes significant emotional stress to bring forth their Persona.

Persona 3 focuses around the day to day life of the Main Character. Unlike most RPGs, there is no default name for him--though this is the standard for MegaTen games in general so as to spread the Silent Character Archetype, in the official manga release he is called Minato Arisato. He is unique from the rest of the SEES members in that he has the ability to change Personas during battle.

Apart from the Main Character, there are nine other playable characters. Each of these people have only one Persona and are each assigned a member of the arcanum. These characters are slowly introduced as the game progresses. It is not until later that other antagonists are revealed, and they also possess the ability to summon Personas. These people, under the group name Strega, have artificially-induced Personas and require drugs to keep their Personas from killing them.

---STORY---

Persona 3 begins with the Main Character returning to the city after ten years. He is quickly brought into SEES when his awareness of the Dark Hour is revealed and that he can summon multiple Personas into battle. With their help, they are able to explore Tartarus further and defeat Greater Shadows that appear every full moon, believing that by killing all twelve of them, they will be able to end the appearance of the Dark Hour. However, SEES learns they have been misled; by destroying the Greater Shadows, they have freed parts of being called Nyx who will bring about the end of the world if it is fully restored. It is revealed that the Kirijo Corporation was attempting to do this ten years ago, but Nyx was released prematurely in a laboratory accident that also created the Dark Hour and Tartarus. Aegis, a robot designed to fight Nyx, battled the being but was unable to fully defeat it, instead dispersing parts of it into the Greater Shadows, and installing the last part into that of a young boy nearby, revealed to be the Main Character.

SEES encounters Ryoji, a teenage boy who tells him he is Death incarnate and that if they do not kill him by January 31, he unwilling will usher in Nyx and the end of the world. The player is given the option to kill Ryoji at this point; if taken, the game explains that members of SEES lose memories of the last year, and show them leading normal lives until inevitably the end of the world occurs. If Rjoyi is spared, then the game continues, and on January 31, SEES climbs to the top of Tartarus to face Ryoji, now in his true form of the avatar of Nyx. Though they defeat it, the avatar is able to still call forth Nyx; the moon splits open revealing a strange device that begins to kill people across the Earth. The Main Character uses all of his Social Links gained from SEES and other friends to create a seal to lock Nyx away forever, though sacrificing himself to do so.

The world returns to normal, though the memories of the past year are lost to the SEES members. As they finish school, they come to realize that they each promised to gather on the school's roof should they make it to graduation day. There, they find the Main Character lying in Aegis' lap, smiling at the brief reunion with the other SEES members before he slips into a coma.

The events in FES take play on March 31, shortly after the end of the original game; the Main Character has died in his coma, and with the end of school, the SEES dorm is to be closed down. However, they find that while midnight has past, the rest of the world still believes it to be March 31. Resigned to determine the reason later, the group departs to bed, but they are awakened when Metis appears in the dorm and attacks Aegis. Aegis fights back, her Persona becoming that of Orpheus, the Main Character's original Persona. Aegis is able to subdue Metis, and SEES learns that she is trying to end the time skip by killing all the SEES members save for Aegis, who she claims is her sister. Metis reveals that below the dorm is the Abyss of Time, at the bottom which exist doors that can lead to the past, present, or future. SEES work their way through the Abyss, reaching the doors, and though there is some internal strife as to which door to open, they ultimately select the past to learn why the Main Character fell into a coma and died.

They confront Metis on this, and she reveals that the seal created by the Main Character was not to seal Nyx from humanity, but to prevent humanity from calling out to Nyx. However, due to the buildup over humanities' history, the wishes of humans that want to end their life has manifested in the being Erebus, who has been able to break through the seal, thus causing the time skip. SEES is able to fight and defeat Erebus, and return to the doors at the bottom of the Abyss to return everything to normal. They learn that Metis is actually Aegis' desire to be human, and with the threat over, the two fuse together, rendering Aegis into a brief unconscious state as had occurred to the Main Character. However, she shortly recovers, and with the rest of SEES, leave the dorm one last time as they begin to go on with their normal lives.

Developer(s)	Atlus
Publisher(s)	Atlus (Japan/Asia and North America) Koei (Europe) THQ (Germany)
Platform(s)	PlayStation 2
Genre(s)	Role-playing game
Mode(s)	Single player