The follow-up to 1996's Revelations Series: Persona, Persona 2 is a role-playing game pitting high-school teenagers against demons. While investigating the rumor of a curse at the Seven Sister's High School, magazine editor Mary Amano comes face-to-face with a murderer. A mysterious man by the name of Tatsuya Suou saves her, but from this moment on her life is irrevocably changed.
As with many RPGs, players can gather a party of characters with distinct personalities and attacks. When a random battle begins, the player must first decide upon specific attacks and character turn-order before the fighting begins. Battles will continue until one side is eliminated, although there is also an option to partake in more traditional turn-based battles. Personas, the characters' powerful alter egos, can be used in battle to perform some of the more devastating attacks in the game. That said, not all encounters in the game need to be solved through fisticuffs.
By using the game's Contact system, players can negotiate with demons and ask them questions. Each character in the party has a different way of negotiating and using the correct negotiator can mean the difference between a successful or failed negotiation. Success will sometimes result in the player receiving money, information, or Tarot Cards -- powerful items that can be used to summon new Personas.
Although this game picks up a few months after its predecessor, it is set in a parallel world where the events of the Innocent Sin did not happen. All of the characters from Innocent Sin are present, but they do not know each other.The central character this time is Maya, who reverts to a silent protagonist much like Tatsuya in the previous game. There are a total of seven playable characters, although two of them can not be recruited at the same time. They are Nate Nanjou and Ellen Kirishima, two returning playable characters from Revelations: Persona.
New faces include Katsuya Suou, a by-the-book homicide investigator and older brother to Tatsuya; Ulala Serizawa (seen in Innocent Sin), Maya's lonely roommate who has a checkered history with men; and Baofu, a seedy criminal with veiled motives. The final character is Tatsuya, the sole person left who remembers what happened during the previous storyline. The plot of Eternal Punishment provides scattered flashbacks and references to both Revelations and Innocent Sin.
Maya, an editor for fictional teen magazine Coolest, is caught up in the investigation of a bizarre series of murders committed by a serial killer known as the "JOKER". Victims reportedly receive a note stating "You're next!" from the JOKER before they die. While covering an assignment at Seven Sisters High School, a grisly murder brings Maya, her roommate, and a Police Detective together to solve the mystery of the JOKER murders.
Rumors can be spread throughout the city, and in Sumara City these rumors have a habit of coming true. If a player is in need of new items for instance, it's possible to start a rumor about the existence of an underground item shop. And if the rumor manages to spread around town, that item shop will actually appear. Persona 2: Eternal Punishment requires three memory card blocks to save.
Notes:
Despite the case saying there is only 1 disc, there are in fact 2 discs. A complete copy of Persona 2 comes with the bonus disc including an anime trailer and an interview.
Manufacturer's description:
WELCOME BACK TO THE TWISTED WORLD OF PERSONA™ WHERE NIGHTMARES BECOME REALITY AND REALITY BECOMES A NIGHTMARE...
* Over 50 hours of dark twisted game play, plus stunning anime cinematics that absorb you into the intriguing world of Persona!
* Enlist the help of the nightmarish denizens of Persona through the use of the unique "Contact System!"
* Unleash total devastation by combining over 80 Persona to defeat the minions of evil.
* Change the fate of your characters by employing the revolutionary "Rumor System."
* Non-interactive bonus disc includes an Anime Trailer and interview with the creators of the Persona series!
Features:
- Third person perspective.
- 2D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- Horror & Mystery themes.
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