Why, despite lacking the QOL and general gameplay improvements of its two successors...

Why, despite lacking the QOL and general gameplay improvements of its two successors, was it so much more of a memorable experience than 4 and 5?

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The story was pretty cool. It reminded me of Evangelion and Madoka

Soul

3 for story
4 for characters
5 for gameplay

It's much better than 5. About equal than 4.

Persona 3 and 4 shared mostly the same writers, it's funny so many people think there is a massive disparity between the writing quality of those entries.

it wasnt
4 and 5 are better

It had great music, good characters, alright story, and a fucking fantastic atmosphere
Gameplay was shit though.

the absolutely oppressive atmosphere as you crawl toward the end of the game and everything is going to shit is top notch.

Literally nothing happens during the middle

actual writing

Same with Persona 4 and 5 though.

And that's good
Because then you can spend time with characters you like (Fuuka

spbp

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P2 for characters.

Haven't played the others.

>Literally nothing happens during the middle

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portashit would never

atmosphere is more important than gameplay when telling a story. obviously, the gameplay needs to be enjoyable since it's still a game, but that's the actual answer for your question

it's part of the reason xenogears aged so well. the story is still ambitious and overall good, but the atmosphere is probably the best a jrpg ever had. the graphics aged relatively decently but the music and overall the setting make a great atmosphere, which enables the storytelling. and while the gameplay does get in the way somewhat (slow dialogue, high random encounter rate, people not knowing to get into a fight before a jump), it doesn't break the game and can be fixed with cheats etc

Based fuuka chad

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>xenoshit
stopped reading there lol

P5 has the same issue while having an infinitely worse story

Aeigis?

Dangerously filtered

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retard

The worst written character in the game, whose appearance marks its sharp downturn in quality until the last two floors of Tartarus?

How is she badly written?

>worst written character in the game
That's mai waifu you're talking about faggot.
EXPLAIN THYSELF

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>Aegis is the worst written character in the game, because... BECAUSE SHE JUST IS!
Kill yourself, P5 tranny

Trannies hate P5