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It took me like a month and a half, but I finally finished both parts of Persona 3: FES - the main story ended up clocking in at just under 100 hours of gameplay, and The Answer/Episode Aegis - the part that I just finished - ended at 30 hours. Now I understand why this game got nominated for some “most bang for your buck” award, considering it retails for $30 brand new. I think it also won “best RPG of the year” from a few magazines or something, too, but I may be hallucinating that.

Anyhow, point being, I’m finally done. So yeah, on the off chance that anyone cares to see some of what’s ate up a huge chunk of my life these past two months (and gave me something to do while my sites were being moved), here you go:

This was the opening that would pop up if you reloaded after you died in-game, you know, just to rub it in a bit. Memento mori, indeed.

The normal opening sequence, showing some actual gameplay interspersed with the cutscenes.

Opening sequence of the second portion of the game, “The Answer” (also called Episode Aegis/Aigis, as you control her character instead of Minato during this part). If you have any plans to play this game at all, you probably shouldn’t watch past 2:30 or so. You’ll still get to see the opening cutscene that features Aigis - my favorite of the playable characters and the girl featured in this current layout - and Akihiko (the strangely gray-haired boxer guy), probably the only character that never left my battle party throughout both portions of the game (I rotated the other two spots between Mitsuru, Junpei, Shinjiro, and Aigis). He ruled.

And lastly, one of the “secret recordings” of the different S.E.E.S. members that you can access in the FES version. This one features my overall favorite character of the game, Shinjiro Aragaki. And those of you who have played this game, before you ask, yes, I did end up holding a grudge against Ken for the entire rest of the game. Stupid kid.

…But yeah, even though this was my first foray into not only the Persona games, but ANY of the Shin Megami Tensei games, I’m totally ready for December, when Persona 4 is supposed to be released in North America. It looks like it might manage to be even stranger than the one I just finished, heh.