Monday, February 2, 2009

Persona 4 - Reaching Out To The Truth


Yatta! I've finally finished playing Persona 4 after clocking a game time of about 90 hours and 6 minutes.

Premise:
The protagonist(that's you) arrives in the small countryside town of Inaba for a year long stay at a relative's house. Soon, a terrible incident shakes the peace of the entire town when a body of a young woman was found hung upside-down from an antenna! Also, there is a local rumor that when you stare at a turned-off TV during a rainy night at Midnight a strange program called the Midnight Channel can be seen and the person on screen is your soul-mate.

Thoughts:
A central theme that is prevalent throughout the game is the idea of seeking out the truth as you and your friends work together to find the identity of the true culprit in the murder and finding out the true nature of the Midnight Channel. Along the way, you may soon find that there may be more questions than answers surrounding the entire case. The game rewards players that pay attention to the various clues scattered through out the game and in figuring out the true culprit. It is up to you in obtaining the true ending to the mysteries surrounding Inaba.

One aspect that separates this game from the many different RPGs out there is the inclusion of Social Links whereby you can interact with the people in town to help them overcome their problems and in the process allows you to create powerful personas.

Personas are various aspects of your personality that you can summon to defeat your enemies known as Shadows which are the suppressed side of the human mind. Strong Personas are the key to winning many of the major boss fights later in the game. So, it is advisable to spend some time to fuse these powerful Personas.

Overall, I enjoyed this game very much due to its solid game play and engaging storyline. And the soundtrack for the game is simply awesome with tracks like "I'll face myself", "The fog", "The Almighty", "Heaven" etc which I can't stop looping daily.

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