Posted on 01/19/2015 at 09:03 PM
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Definitely a cross between Etrian Odyssey and Persona 3/4. You get the first person dungeon crawling, map drawing, FOEs and random encounters of EO with the characters, demon compendium, fusions, music and high school theme of Persona.
Battles are turn based and exploiting enemy weaknesses results in bonuses. Each character has a main fixed Persona and an interchangeable sub Persona that gives the character extra magic and physical capabilities. Taking the right sub Personas into battle can mean the difference between winning your battles and getting wiped.
Throughout the games you fuse Personas to make more powerful ones.
Playing 3 and 4 is definitely a benefit because you get to start with the cast from either game and a lot of what the characters say relates back to original stories.
For instance the P4 cast I'm playing with talk about going into the TV to save people. There are lots of inside conversations that unless you've played P4 you're likely to be thinking WTF!