Shin Megami Tensei: Persona
Persona is a philosophical game that takes place in a world close to our own. It is a departure from the typical swords and sorcery, and it delivers a tale of dreams, the purpose of life, and who we are as…
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Atlus, released 29 April 2009 on PlayStation Portable.
What Shin Megami Tensei: Persona is
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Atlus and released in 2009. It is available on PlayStation Portable only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Revelations: Persona is a 1996 role-playing video game developed and published by Atlus. It is the first entry in the Persona series, itself a subseries of the Megami Tensei franchise, and the first role-playing entry in the series to be released in the West. Originally released for the PlayStation in 1996 in Japan and North America, the title was ported to Microsoft Windows in 1999. A port to the PlayStation Portable, retitled Shin Megami Tensei: Persona, was released in North America and Japan in 2009, and the following year in Europe. This port featured new cutscenes and a reworked English localization that was more faithful to the original Japanese release, as the original 1996 North…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are mystery and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Megami Tensei series
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona is the 90th of 151 entries we hold in the Megami Tensei series. The next entry was Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey in 2009. Its critic score of 90 is 10 points above the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Persona 5 at 94.
How it was received
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 23 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona launched on 29 April 2009, within three weeks of Minecraft, Plants vs. Zombies, Punch-Out!! and Muramasa: The Demon Blade. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Minecraft, Plants vs. Zombies, Punch-Out!!, Muramasa: The Demon Blade.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Shin Megami Tensei: Persona yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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