Rumor: Persona 3: FES Coming To North America?
When Persona 3 landed in North America last summer, gamers who had followed its development went "Yay!" followed quickly by "Where's FES?" No, not the wacky foreign exchange student from That 70's Show or the adorable hat Shriners wear (which are both f-e-z), but an expansion for the game that shipped this past April in Japan. The FES disk added content to the regular campaign, but also continued the storyline beyond the original game's ending. Gamers everywhere complained, signed petitions, wrote their congressmen, but Atlas USA didn't have much to say about the matter.
And they still don't, but a few sharp eyed fans caught mention of the game in voice actor Steve Prince's resume. Under the section "GAMES TO WATCH OUT FOR," Prince had listed the role of Takeharu, a Vice Police Detective in the expansion, as well as a couple of characters in the as yet unannounced localization of Sting's PS2 RPG Baroque. The two are currently missing from the list, taken down shortly after the news was posted on the NeoGAF and official Atlas USA forums, but you can still read about the four characters he'll be playing in the upcoming Trauma Center: New Blood for the Wii, also from Atlas (apparently, he does "a spot on Hispanic accent").
So make up your own mind if this is a glimmer of hope or a grain of salt. Personally, I love the idea of the Persona games, but I've never been able to find time for them. Number three's been sitting under my television since August, and I'm sure I'll get to it when I have a spare 80 hours. If the expansion really adds 30+ hours of content, to play it I'd probably need catch some debilitating disease that leaves me unable to leave my bed for 20 hours a day. *Crossing fingers!*
Persona 3 Fes Special Edition [Atlas U.S.A. Forums]
[via: Siliconera]
Dawdle
Posted to Hot Stuff, Video Games on 21 October 2007
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YAY !
The irony is this: Persona 3 was attacked by the media for "promoting teen suicide" instead of being the first game to actively prevent it. I'd wager the sad teen who plays P3 will find enough consolation, high school coping tips and imaginary troubled friends to make suicide less and less likely. Authorities who really want to cut down on suicide risk should try muffling a few inescapable Christmas carols during the holidays. Happy ditties that haunt and exclude the depressed are more lethal than sad ones that bother to acknowledge them.
(And yes, I do realize the pistol is for demon summoning, not ending it all. I've actually played through this game, embarrassing free time notwithsitting.)
Persona FES will be important not for the hours it adds but the features. Aegis is important.
Another excellent side-effect of P3: the game seems to have influenced the art direction and cut-scenes style in Atlus/Sting's remake of Baroque, which looks to be another excellent semi-dark RPG.