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Persona 2: Eternal Punishment

Persona 2: Eternal Punishment is a 2000 role-playing video game by Atlus for the PlayStation. It is chronologically the third installment in the Persona series, a subseries of the Megami Tensei franchise. The…

17 May 2012

Persona 2: Eternal Punishment is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Atlus, released 17 May 2012 on PlayStation Portable.

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What Persona 2: Eternal Punishment is

Persona 2: Eternal Punishment is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Atlus and released in 2012. It is available on PlayStation Portable only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Persona 2: Eternal Punishment is a 2000 role-playing video game by Atlus for the PlayStation. It is chronologically the third installment in the Persona series, a subseries of the Megami Tensei franchise. The game was later remade by Atlus for the PlayStation Portable. This version, released in Japan in 2012, did not receive an overseas release. In response to this, the PlayStation version was released on PlayStation Network in 2013. Eternal Punishment takes place in the fictional Japanese city of Sumaru, and is a direct sequel to Persona 2: Innocent Sin. Taking place a few months after Innocent Sin, the game follows reporter Maya Amano as she investigates the Joker Curse, a malign…
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How it plays

Its themes are drama. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Shin Megami Tensei series

Persona 2: Eternal Punishment is the 39th of 69 entries we hold in the Shin Megami Tensei series. It arrived 9 months after Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked. The next entry was Persona 4 Golden in 2012.

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What it launched against

Persona 2: Eternal Punishment launched on 17 May 2012, within three weeks of Max Payne 3, Diablo III, Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition and Plague Inc..

Released around the same time: Max Payne 3, Diablo III, Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Plague Inc..

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When did Persona 2: Eternal Punishment come out?
Persona 2: Eternal Punishment was released on 17 May 2012 for PlayStation Portable.

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