Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth

Persona Q is a crossover video game, containing characters from both Persona 3 and Persona 4 in a game based on Etrian Odyssey, with its perspective, play-style, and systems. Persona Q's gameplay focuses…

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Role-playing (RPG) Fantasy

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Atlus, released 5 June 2014 on Nintendo 3DS. The main story takes about 93.5 hrs to finish.

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What Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth is

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Atlus and released in 2014. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

At Yasogami High School in Inaba, where a culture festival is being held, a strange bell rings, trapping the Investigation Team inside the school. Meanwhile, the members of the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad (SEES), find themselves transported to the Velvet Room elevator, which suddenly winds up at Yasogami as well. Discovering a labyrinth hidden below the school, the two groups meet up and explore the area, fighting "shadows" along the way, in order to regain the memories of new characters Zen and Rei, which the characters believe will lead them to freedom. The dialogue and events vary depending on the player's choice to follow either the team of characters from Persona 3 or…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Megami Tensei series

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth is the 108th of 151 entries we hold in the Megami Tensei series. It arrived 10 months after Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Collection. The next entry was Persona 4 Arena Ultimax: P4A Story in 2014. Its critic score of 82 is almost exactly the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Persona 5 at 94.

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How it was received

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 13 points above the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 93.5 hrs.

What it launched against

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth launched on 5 June 2014, within three weeks of Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8, Wolfenstein: The New Order and Shovel Knight. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Shovel Knight.

Cheats and codes

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