The protagonist discovers that he can summon multiple Personas into battle. Persona 3 FES The Journey Full Moon Magician Shadows are also causing many people to become victims of Apathy Syndrome, a mysterious condition that puts them into a vegetative trance-like state in which they lose the will to live victims are referred to as 'the Lost.' The Dark Hour is a secret hour which only a select few with the 'potential' are aware of the rest 'transmogrify' into coffins. He is quickly brought into SEES (Special Extracurricular Execution Squad), a club at Gekkoukan High School which disguises itself as a completely normal after school club, when his awareness of the Shadows and the Dark Hour is revealed. A mysterious boy, calling himself Pharos, introduces himself to the protagonist and asks him to sign a contract that states he will accept full responsibility for his own actions.

He is introduced as a transfer student that has just moved into the Iwatodai Dormitory, but arrives late. Set in 2009, Persona 3 begins with the protagonist returning to the city of Tatsumi Port Island ten years after his parents died from an accident. The protagonist experiencing the Dark Hour. This version is available on the PlayStation Store for PlayStation 3.Ī portable version of the original Persona 3, adding an optional female protagonist and visual novel type cutscenes was released as Persona 3 Portable for PlayStation Portable. To fight the Shadows, each member of SEES is able to summon a Persona, a manifestation of their inner self.Īn enhanced version of the game containing an epilogue called The Answer was released as Persona 3 FES, also for the PlayStation 2. During the Dark Hour, SEES explores Tartarus, a large tower containing Shadows, creatures that feed on the minds of humans. They form a group called SEES in order to investigate the Dark Hour, a mysterious time period between one day and the next that few people are aware of. Persona 3 follows a group of high school students trying to cope with, understand and accept death in a world surrounded by it, as well as find their own reasons for living. The game was developed by Atlus for the PlayStation 2. Persona 3, localized in the West as Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3, is the fourth game in the Persona series.

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