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I enjoyed FF-12 but I accept people are divided about that game. I liked the new battle system.license system, and the depature from angsty love sick teens, spikey haired guys with amnesia,mother obcessed villians,and the usual  "it is either completly good or completly evil!" approach. I'm not trashing FF 7 and FF 10. They were great rpgs but they didn't really hold my interest as long as FF4,FF6,FF tactics, and FF 12.

FF 13? Would it get me points docked if I said I'm not even remotely excited? I like girls in skimpy clothing doing somersaults sure but my interest of where FF is going as  a franchise has died out. Shiva turning into a motorcycle? WTF?! As if being a hot scantily clad ice woman summoned to do someone else's bidding isn't degrading enough...

Well it's obivous the game is not for kids. I think the evoker style symbolic suicide is alot neater then say holding up a card. I just worry something dumb is going to happen and a parent going to scream "Billy did it after playing Persona 3!" That got GTA San Andreas in trouble awhile even though the woman was a guardian that got the game for her child fully knowing it had a "mature" rating. But at the very least I doubt Persona 3 has a hot coffee mod...hmmm...then again it is part dating sim.

I got into Shin Megami Tensei by picking up Revelations Persona years ago Neao. Likely it wasn't the best first impression but I enjoyed it because the story telling was so different. I was lucky to get DDS saga 1 and 2 but Nocturne evaded me because it was seen as "contraversial" for awhile after its release. This time I played it smart and ordered Persona  3 online to avoid Game-store politics.

It's true MegaTen games get weird so I can't fault Penny Arcade for parodying that aspect. lol. The way it looks "evokers" are not even real guns that actually splatter brains. Maybe when the trigger is pulled they expel magic energy that helps people concentrate of their inner forms more clearly. Or they let out psychadelic acid smoke that makes people trip.

Persona 3 has already been labeled as an "emo rpg". Can't say  if I'm tickled by that diagnosis but I still think it'll be  a great game  + I pre-ordered it.

I don't need too much inspiration to sit  down with MegaTen. It is a good rpg gaming universe that is easy to get  engrossed in. Since I'm Buddhist and have an interest in Hindu and Pagan myths my spiritual curiousity likely drew me to the series. Also White Wolf's serious take on table-top rpgs helped. Like the Megaten universe it burrowed alot from real religion and mythology. Of course now White Wolf has become a bit coperate and simply bucks popular trends.

Well I'm glad the game actually got enough positive attention to have an overhaul remake done. So many of my FF biased friends were like "Anything suxxorz next to the glory of FF-7!" . Personally FF 12 is my favorite in the series or at the very least tied with FF 6.

However as much as I admire Vossler I'd doubt I'd drop another  $40.00 for a few new perks.

Btw I'm nighty! Sorry for the lack of introduction but I still haven't found that topic thread.