This is a hilarious claim, considering the amount of non-canon material in that game.Originally Posted by Bright Shield
Girl mode is non canon, and thus adds nothing to the story.
Like I said, it's all non canon though since Persona 4: Arena confirms the protagonist to be male. Thus all of this extra character development amounts to nothing in the end.
FES is the ideal version since it includes The Answer, which Arena also confirms to be canon. So basically you're trading canon plot and major story details, for a non canon fantasy scenario. Not an equal trade off in my book.
There is very little canon in the series when it comes to aspects of player choice. Which Social Links do you claim are canon (since it was never intended to be possible to do them all, the story wasn't built that way, as the girlfriend Social Links all show)?
What's more, what does the official story canon, if one even exists, have to do with anything? Do you really shackle yourself to the story the way it is "supposed" to go? You must hate the Shin Megami Tensei series then, as the entire chaos/order/neutrality choice aspect is suddenly removed and you have to play it for the "true" events. If you're sticking to admittedly worse writing just because it's the "official" story, I feel sad for you. Games are interactive, and the allow the telling of interactive stories. ATLUS has always been huge on this. They might take a position to follow forward with in future games, but they never try to dictate to their gamers how to role play.
In the canon of the Persona games I am playing, the male Main Character from Persona 3 has a different name, and has gone through many of the female Main Character's Social Links. He's also beaten Margaret, which you can't do in FES, but would probably be canon if the subject ever came up, as would any of the new Personas added in P3P.
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