Is the difficulty of this game overrated? Other than the Matador fight, nothing has come close. And ...

Is the difficulty of this game overrated? Other than the Matador fight, nothing has come close. And even then all you need for the fight is Sakukaja. Still a great game, but it feels like Persona 3 is harder right now.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's a meme. Back then people were used to debuffs being fricking useless against bosses, where in SMT they are king.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This is really the basic gist.
      I'm a huge fan but SMT ain't hard, people just wanna go full attack like most other JRPGs and don't realize buffs and debuffs are super useful in the series.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's overrated, yes. It's plain kiddy shit compared to EO, SaGa, Uncharted Waters, Lunatic Dawn, GoS, Labyrinth of Touhou, Elminage, etc.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The number of people who have played anything beyond EO and SaGa on that list is in the double digits.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I got BTFO by Mot and Ongyo-Ki as wel

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Ongyo-Ki
      What, the guy who duplicates himself? He literally does nothing but buffs himself while you wail on him. Strange fight really.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It's easy once you notice only the real one casts a shadow.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I think you had to fight him on a full moon to see his shadow. I didn’t so I could never tell who was the real one.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Ah! I had no idea. I think I waited for full moon because I had Bright Might. Guess I made it super easy for myself unknowingly.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Does the game ever hint that? I had to look it up cause he was kicking my ass.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Gotta understand that during its time it was played by children with no access to guides

    I got stuck on Pokemon Mystery Dungeon as a kid and used magazines to walkthrough it. Kids are shit at games.
    If you're an adult with access to the internet, yeah, it's gonna be easy.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Gotta understand that during its time it was played by children with no access to guides

      I beat Morrowind without guides or internet and did fine. P1 as well. I think most people are just b***hes in general.

      Bitch

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Gotta understand that during its time it was played by children with no access to guides
      Motherfricker GAMEFAQs was a thing for nearly a decade before SMT3 game out.
      Frick off.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Told you

    The game is broken, sluggish and not nealy as fun. It's the gateway to SMT so a lot of absolute homosexuals that only played 3 think it's the best thing ever when it's almost as bad as 1-2, hell i'd say it's worse cause at least 1-2 have good music

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >at least 1-2 have good music
      what? 3 is atmospherically kino

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Dss have better atmosphere and I said music not background noises

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I hate Persona hard difficulty
    >you are always out of SP (not a real problem in 3)
    >random enemies can easily defeat if you screwed up encounter and their turn is first

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's less that it's punishingly difficult and more that it actively tries to casual filter you every few moments so you know the games mechanics. A lot of games you can get through without actually knowing how to play because the hard stuff is saved for post game.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Is remaster good way to play this?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      i've heard it's practically a mod of the PS2 version so not really

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      There are no real improvements over the PS2 version besides having a functional Raidou option

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Fusing shit lets you choose skills now.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          oh yeah, there is that
          backing out and scrolling back into your desired fusion to reroll skills lost its novelty very quickly

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Voice acting is also good but other than that it was a lazy port.

            Don't care
            It's for casuals.

            Nobody cares if you care. It is an improvement and only autists want to reroll.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Don't care
          It's for casuals.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            It really doesn't make that much of a difference. As long as you get a few key skills when fusing, the rest of them don't matter much.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah it gives you manual skill inheritance. Also the voice acting is nice.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Is the difficulty of this game overrated?
    Yes it's astroturfed by meme youtube videos

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Yea as you said, if you have hit/evade buffs its pretty easy. So much so it's been nerfed in every mainline game afterward.

    Did Nocturne have the Level affecting hit/avoid thing like SMT4 and 4A?

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Idk man, i got filtered by naraka in SMT IV compared to matador. It wasnt until much later that I wanted to go back to IV. Maybe it was because IV was my first SMT but ill never know.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    3 is wrong way to start SMT series.
    You should start with first game on NES

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the real "difficulty" is your MC getting bingo'd by some stupid bullshit in random encounters and losing a bunch of progress. this was fixed in later SMTs with field saves

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    letting you change the difficulty at any time killed discussion of this game.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's not the hardest JRPG ever, but it's still pretty decently challenging throughout. There are several battles that will frick you up if you're not understanding the mechanics, and you always have to take care to cover your weaknesses or randos can totally wipe you out.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >you miss once, you die
    >enemy crits once, you die
    >difficult bosses
    >no real options to grind
    It's hardest jrpg out there, but if you read guides and get a good comp it's not hard, although you will still die to rng.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      only ppl that die to "rng" are people with shit teams

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Not true since enemies will outspeed you sometimes and kill you in one turn irrelevant of your team.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          A balanced team will either repel or shrug off enemy attacks. Git gud.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Too bad if MC dies it's gg

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    None of the SMT games are hard, unless you count stupid random bullshit like BEHOLD MY DEMONS as "difficulty".

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's absolutely overrated, but that's only because it's often the first SMT entry people play when getting into the series. Which, if you have never played an SMT game, the idea of loading up on buffs and properly managing weaknesses/strengths is often only something you worry about in JRPGs during final bosses/optional fights. Add to it that Nocturne can be pretty cryptic in what you should be doing or how fights work (see Ongyo-ki) where most JRPGs at the time, and these days, are pretty linear.

    I'd say Persona 3 is only trickier at times due to the inability to directly command your party members or change their overall resistances/weaknesses/abilities. That and there's often a pretty solid cap on how strong you can get before fights. Nocturne has way harder areas to navigate, general fight mechanics, and party management. But since it gives you plenty of freedom to build the ultimate team/grind as much as you want, it can be mitigated much more than P3's difficulty.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      P3 isn't even in the same universe, it's like comparing Pokemon yellow to Nocturne.

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