P3P Fever

It took me roughly 3 weeks (almost all while playing in the bus and in bed before sleep -_-) to complete my first playthrough of Persona 3 Portable - the first of maybe a few more playthrough, probably. Playing as Female main Character (FemMC in short), indeed it gave me a rather new perspective and experience as the game claimed. I mentioned "first" playthrough because I planned to replay the game again somewhere near the future - as MaleMC. Although MaleMC are pretty much similar to the storyline back then in Persona 3 FES, there's a few reason for me to replay the game as MaleMC though.

1) I only play as FemMC on Hard mode (for the sake of item carrying over to New Game+), so next time I want to play the MaleMC route on Maniac (item can't be carried over to next playthrough).

2) I only got 99% Persona compendium completion in my FemMC playthrough, and the remaining 1% cannot be gained in any way from that playthrough, because that 1% persona can only be obtained in MaleMC route (Susano-O MaleMC version). Hence why the MaleMC route I decided to play next.

3) I still haven't finished a few quests in my FemMC playthrough; namely some of the front doors in Vision Quests (Power and Speed door I believe), as well as defeating the "Ultimate" boss, T******e at the top of Monad. Although I managed to fuse the ultimate persona Orpheus Telos, I still haven't trade item for Armageddon, which is totally needed to defeat him. Hence I just decided to do these unfinished task in my next playthrough.

4) My Orpheus Telos and Messiah skill kinda sucks...I don't mind Orpheus since it won't be carried over to NG+, but I definitely want to try fusing Messiah later because he didn't inherit any of the "final 4 spells" - Thunder Reign/Ragnarok/Nilfheim/Panta Rei, which I want badly...

My rating for each Social Link in P3P, FemMC:

• Fool (everyone in SEES) - 5/10 -Auto-rank up, storyline and nothing really memorable

• Magician (Junpei) - 9/10 - although Junpei's character is kinda meh, but I have to say his Social Link is one of the best in P3P, even without Lovers route (though we can still become Lovers later in the game)

• Priestess (Fuuko) - 6/10 - Nothing really changed compared to P3FES afaic. Cooking, cooking and cooking.

• Empress (Mitsuru) - 7/10 - I didn't fully complete my Empress SL in FES, but it doesn't look any different in P3P FemMC either. her responsibility as Kirijo next head, arranged marriage etc...

• Emperor (Hideyoshi)- 8/10 - For some reason I like this SL. Hideyoshi as a person can be a pain in the ass at the beginning, but later I really like the way he changed.
• Hierophant (the old couple)- 6/10 - Again, little to no change from FES.

• Lovers (Yukari)- 6/10 - So...why Yukari remained as Lovers even after we play as FemMC? The story of her SL also didn't changed much compared with FES, minus the obvious lover's route (duh yuri)

• Chariot (Rio)- 9/10 - Nice to see new character. Rio ♥♥♥ I like the final 3, 4 ranks of this SL, when Rio admitted his love for Kenji and thereafter scenes :3

• Justice (Ken)- 2/10 - FFFFFF the SL that I didn't favor the most. Seriously what's with this lovers relationship between a 16-years old high school student with some 12 years old boy? In the end I'd rather stick with friend relationship... WHERE'S MY CHIHIRO щ(ﾟДﾟщ)

• Hermit (Saori) - 6/10 - New character, but not much in this SL that interest me.

• Fortune (Ryouji) - 4/10 - Now we can form lovers route with Ryouji, but I personally don't like Ryouji as a character, so I just stick with being friend. Well at least better than Ken's SL.

• Strength (Koromaru) - 7/10 - spending time with dog, huh. Well at least the SL brought back the memories of Koro's deceased owner.

• Hanged (Maiko) - 6/10 - Nothing changed from FES. Some little girl getting frustrated at her parent's argument and feel like running away. p/s I heard that we can form lovers with her in MaleMC...ZOMG

• Death (Pharos) - 5/10 - Same as Fool, automatic events and nothing significantly interesting.

• Temperance (Bebe) 6/10 - Same as in FES, except some options I remembered the first time when he asked how to say "farewell" in Japanese.

• Devil (Tanaka) - 6/10- Same as FES, again.

• Tower (Mutatsu) - 6/10 - Same as FES, again.

• Star (Akihiko) - 9/10 - Better than FES, now with Lover's route available. Kinda funny to see Akihiko getting embarrassed everytime they went to eat ramen, while the FemMC getting some vicious glare from those girls who always chase Aki :3

• Moon (Shinjiro) - 10/10 - Probably my favorite SL in P3P. The best part if when he cook for everyone at the dorm, and during the extra scene, we even have the option to become lovers...how nice. Too bad he...he... ;_;

• Sun (Akinari) - 7/10 - Same as FES. Sad fate for this young man...

• Judgement (everyone in SEES) - 3/10 - there's not even a story for this. Reach tartarus top floor and tadaaa, your Sl is maxed.

• Aeon (Aigis) - 5/10 - FFFF Yuri in my game 屮ﾟДﾟ)屮 Actually it was perfectly fine when it was MaleMC, but the dialogue really didn't change much for FemMC and made it look like Aigis is being Les to the FemMC. Her attachment to the main character is just too strong -_-

Overall, I find myself really enjoying P3P over the course of these 3 weeks. The addition of Skill Cards made Persona fusion to fight the ultimate boss much easier than FES, and the addition of extra quests in Vision Quests adds some more challenges to the game. The only drawback of the game, at least for me is the lame ending (really, "you die and we'll still remember you, you revive and we forget everything, but somehow we still remember because of a certain event").

Now gimme P4P, or the next Atlus's project on PS3/360!