Fynn
is an EoFF Hero and/or Heroine
Radical Dreamer

They were kinda low-budget, but I still thought they were enjoyable. I don't know that any anime cutscenes particularly stood out to me in any game of that era though.

If I remember right, you will be able to work on social links then. I did play Golden, but only once, and I think I got all the social links that I really cared about by then anyways. I know you get more time for social links at least. Assuming you've played P4 before, I'll have to get your opinion on the added content when you've finished. I've only played Golden so don't really have a reference to what things were like pre-Marie and whatnot.

Also, out of curiosity, do you prefer P3 or P4 in terms of story and characters?

It's kind of hard to pick a favorite, but I have always liked Junpei. I've read up elsewhere and he seems to not be very well liked, but he's probably the most "real" character to me. I liked his whole story. He was also always with me in battle.

I feel like the game would still be fantastic in P3P, but I'm a sucker CG/animated cutscenes. I quite liked them. It's not as big a deal in a second playthrough, but I'd still be playing for the story and character interactions moreso than the gameplay probably.

I saw mention of P3 and Junpei as I was going over to send Kanno a VM. Man that's such a good game.

Edit: I still can't decide if I want to one day get/try out P3P. I feel like it would be good to do the social links and whatnot. I just actually really like the cutscenes in FES.

Editra: Also, I decided to go with Bravely Default next in the end. I forgot just how good the music was.

Glad you've come to really enjoy the themes of P3. I will admit that P3 is easily my favorite of the Persona games with P2 in close second. I absolutely love how they tackled it's themes and I find it may be why I'm just so damn judgmental about FFXIII because it tried to do the same thing and missed the mark at every opportunity.

Yukari is simply nagging and stand-offish which makes her unlikable to most people expecting spunky. Again, I actually really grew to appreciate Yukari because I felt she was also pretty realistic about the whole situation and I felt her faults made her, like Junpei, a more relatable character. I like Mitsuru and Fuuka but neither stray far from their stock character as Yuakri and Junpei do so I find that while they are enjoyable, they are less relatable as people. With that said Akihiko and Mitsuru were still my favorites of the cast.

I really enjoyed the ending to P3, originally it was pretty ambiguous but I always found it to be uplifting as well. Yeah, seriously I feel it was probably the last really well done JRPG until Xenoblade.

I always preferred Junpei over Yosuke, largely because he always felt more real to me. His jealous streak is annoying but it was also a very human response and I liked how he really seemed to have a pretty realistic take on the whole story. I think the art book mentioned that Junpei was the most human character in the story and most relatable to the production team and I can really see that.

And what I meant to say in that last message is I really wish this game had a system like Bravely Default so I could turn off random encounters right now.

All I know is that the encounter rate is killing me right now. I've had battles every two steps. Sometimes every 1 step. Don't know why it got so much worse at this particular moment, heh.

What? I get you just fine. You wear white, you're a wizard, and you're from Fynn.

I have a reputation bigger than Tifa's bust? Yes, I already knew that.

I can't decide if I want to move to Eternal Punishment first or go to something like Radiant Historia when I'm done.