Description
A group of high-school students decides to visit their sick friend Mary. But once they exit the girl's room in the hospital, they see their home town has changed. They can't leave it, and it is infested by demons. At first, it seems that the giant Sebec corporation and its manager Guido are the ones responsible for the terrible accident. But Guido is not the only one the young heroes have to confront - they must look deep into their hearts, and perhaps find the truth there...
"Persona" is the beginning of a sub-series to Megaten universe, and one of the few Megaten games that were released outside of Japan. Like all Megaten games, "Persona" makes it possible to contact demons during random battles. In this game, demons can award you with a spell card. If you combine spell cards from different demons, you can fuse more powerful creatures (
personae), which you can then attach to your characters, changing their parameters, strengths and weaknesses, and learning new spells. While important locations are isometric, dungeons are explored from first-person perspective.
Alternate Titles
- "女神異聞録ペルソナ" -- Japanese Title
- "女神异闻录" -- Chinese Title (Simplified)
- "Persona: Revelations " -- Common title
- "Megami Ibunroku Persona: Be Your True Mind" -- Japanese Title
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Trivia
The American incarnation of Persona had some interesting and often major changes:
*Mark was originally Caucasian, the American artists changed him to African-American. His hat was also changed.
*Beer logos for two major American breweries were in the window of Yin & Yan corner stores. In the American version they were removed.
*Encounter rates were dropped down to about three to five times less than that of the Japanese version. The monsters caused less damage and took more. They also gave much more experience in the American version.
*An entire dungeon (the Snow Queen quest) was removed near the end of the game. This included an entire alternate path in the story, a new ending, several CG cutscenes, a new playable character, and a very sexually explicit demon. Reason cited by the company was time constraints. That would've gone double for players; the dungeon had a sixteen hour stretch between two save points! The Japanese version was also buggy in this "lost dungeon," rearranging party order and making members vanish during combat.
*The game was originally based in Japan, but the translators made an attempt to pass the setting as America. Certain cultural signs (the high school numbering system, standees in the drug stores) mark the setting as distinctly Japanese, however.
This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by
Vance (97) on Jun 30, 2001.
