PERSONA 3 PORTABLE an all-time great on Metacritic.
Hi,
For those of you who’ve been trapped in a cave for the last several years, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable (or SMT: P3P, or just P3P to its friends) is not only a landmark J-RPG, but it’s also one of the all-time great games on any format.
But don’t take my word for it! This is borne out by the mighty, industry-encompassing Metacritic. To save you digging, here’s some relevant data for all you stats fans out there (and hey, if you’re reading a post about a Shin Megami Tensei game, you’re invariably a stats fan of some kind!).
Ready? Here goes:
With a metarating of 91 per cent, P3P shares 1st place as the best PSP game of all time with fellow #1 place holder, God of War: Chains of Olympus. When you consider the far broader market for GoW: CoO, this is no mean feat!
P3P is listed on Metacritic inside the top 3 per cent of games on all formats ever, ever, ever. Kind of puts things in perspective... :D When you consider that Metacritic lists around 7800 games in total, that’s pretty impressive.
Finally, to put that 91% metarating in perspective, here’s a list of other notable ‘91ers’ from recent months across all formats (in alphabetical order):
- Assassin's Creed 2
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Crysis
- Dead Space 2
- Dragon Age: Origins
- Halo: Reach
- Little Big Planet 2
- Mario Kart DS
- Metroid Prime Trilogy
- Peggle
- Shadow of the Colossus
- Super Meat Boy
- Super Streetfighter IV
Now that’s not a bad list of alumni to share critical space with! Indeed, some of my personal all-time favourites are among them (I <3 U Super Street Fighter IV, get over here Super Meat Boy!)
So, if you haven’t got the message yet, P3P is AWESOME!!!, and soon you’ll be able to buy it right here, courtesy of your friendly neighbourhood Ghostlight.
On that note, there should be more news on pre-ordering and Collector’s Edition stuff soon.
Byeeeee! :)
Al
Comments:
Hopefully we'll get some exclusive content for the European release. I said it before, but if it's possible, could you guys please add a "Metis costume" for Aigis in the game as a bonus? Just a skin that alters her appearance just like any other costume? I'm not sure what rights you have to add or change stuff in the game but Aigis always had the least costumes in the game. But I wonder if adding a costume like wouldn't be to much trouble? But PLEASE bring us something extra in the game, it'll make it worth the wait and hopefully make owners of other regions get a bit jealous! ;) I doubt the japanese voice track will fit into the UMD and I'm definitely sure The Answer won't fit, so please consider including a treat like a "Metis costume" for the fans!
If you can't actually get a Metis model in the game for an alternate costume, I guess a palette swap of some sort would be enough. That's how they did with most of the costumes anyway. Aigis' christmas outfit was just an edit of her beach outfit and same goes for Mitsuru, her christmas costume was just her beach outfit too. Simply add Metis' color scheme to Aigis. Make Aigis black with red eyes and red hair. Haha, I'm just excited about this finally releasing here. If we have the chance to include some extra exclusive inclusions for the European release I guess this. But I'm still trying to be realstic what you could do with the limited space you've got left. I really hope for some neat exclusive content if it's possible. A Metis costume that swaps out Aigis original 3D model with Metis is only my idea of content like that. For either version, limited or not. I'm getting both for my collection anyway! :D
Hi ghostlight i got 2 questions for you. Firstly have you got a solid release date for P3P yet. Secondly if atlus does P4P will you release it here in the same way as P3P
Hey guys, Thanks for the posts. Unfortunately we're unable to add any extra content to P3P for its SCEE release - much as we like your suggestions Alex! :D We hope to make up for this with some unique stuff in the collector's edition - again no firm details as yet but we're working on it! Regarding the release we're still fine tuning the packaging, and the game has yet to pass SCEE's QA process, but both things are being worked on apace and we should have firmer news for you in the next few weeks. Watch this space! Thanks again for your interest and keep watching the site for more info. Bye for now. :)
Hi ghostlight. Can you tell me what exclusive content we get for P3P collectors edition please. Or do we have to wait. Or can you tell me a little bit of what we get plz guys. Thanks for releasing it GL team.
Please for the release jap audio only please!
Ive gotta say that i am very impressed with your work Ghostlight. first with Nocturne, then DDS, then the Agarest games, and now P3P. Thankyou :D you're one of the few companies that makes being an english gamer worthwhile again
Two hands up for Japanese audio! It would be a shame to keep the dubbed version... I haven't heard it, but I like my Anime-look alike games in the original audio
Keitaro, the English voice-acting in Persona 3 is excellent. Certainly, it would be ideal to have both voice tracks in the game, but it would be a tragic shame not to include the Enlgish track at all.
Guys, much, much, MUCH appreciated! I've been waiting for this for so long, I can't thank you enough! Just 1 quick question: Will this be released just in the UK or the entire EU?
VO English subtitles, no need for English dubbing
Hey guys, Thanks for all your positive feedback - it's always great to hear. :D Regarding Japanese audio, this isn't something we're in a position to include - ideally we'd have both - we're stuck with English audio only. But, as Ben rightly says, the English audio is incredibly well done. Regarding the latest questions, we're in the position of finalising collector's content now - so no firm news yet, but we'll announce the goodies via the blog when we're sure of what's happening. Regarding the release, it's gonna be EU-wide release for both the UMD and DLG versions. Yay! :)
Are you guys planning on doing an Australian release as well?
You release persona 1 and the futur persona 2 remake on psp too? (Sorry for my english I'm a french)
Have you guys got a release date for P3P yet
I wish there would be at least something new in it to make up for the long wait. I'm still excited over buying it, thanks again for carrying it over!
@Fred Sorry to take so long to get back to you. To answer your question, we haven't finalized all territories yet, but we are doing what we can to cover all PAL countries available to us. Release in Australia will depend entirely on retail support for the product, so fingers crossed they are keen on the game. :)
@mano Persona 1 is already available for PSP in Europe via PSN so it's very unlikely that we would consider releasing it as a boxed product - although not impossible if there was enough demand for it. We would consider Persona 2 but this will rely heavily on the success of Persona 3, not to mention of course Atlus' agreement to license the product to us, which hasn't yet been discussed. :)
@Dean We don't have a 100% confirmed release date as yet, but I am not giving away too much to say that we're currently aiming at a mid-April 2011 street date. There are still a few things with the printwork to resolve and code is still in submission, but that looks very likely. An exact date will be put up on the blog as soon as we have it for you.
@Alex Thanks for your kind words. We can't wait for the game to come out in SCEE territories either!! :D
I've never played a persona game, but i've heard so many good things about this one.. can't wait to play it! Thanks for bringing it to europe! Day 1 purchase! (even if it was realeased in japan like 2 years ago ;)
Cheers Andy, glad you're excited for it! ;D
Thank you for bringing P3P to Europe. Seriously, you are awesome. ^^
Thanks you for bringing P3P to Europe . This game will trad in french too?
@Stevie and Minami-kun: Thanks to you both for your support. :) Unfortunately, the game is English only, although we'll be doing a French manual. Hope that helps!