Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Persona 3 Portable, Persona 4 Golden?

Persona 5 Royal 9/10
Persona 4 Golden 8/10
Persona 3 portable 6/10

It is a good port am in shock. Well done.

I thought about it while the article was loading and had the same numbers! Persona 4 is just about perfect, but the dungeons can definitely become repetitive. Persona 5 got that one right. And then not being able to walk around outside of dungeons in P3 Portable brought that one down for me, but still a great game overall. (If only they'd have done a "Golden" version of Persona 3 FES instead.)

I don’t like change in the Shuffle Time mechanic in P4 Golden, but that’s my only complaint

P5R - 10/10
P4G - 8/10
P3P - 7/10

10 for both although a stronger 10 for P4G

Person 3 should really include the FES content and be a complete collection. Persona 4 Golden is a wonderful game with a great soundtrack. In many ways, both games show their age through dated gameplay, but are full serviceable if for no other reason than nostalgia.

Too busy playing FE Engage, I'll yet ya know. XD
Persona 5R is a 9/10 for me though, enough for me to buy the older games, which speaks volumes on it's own.

Persona 5 Royal 9.5/10 (okay 9 if 0.5 not allowed)
Persona 4 G 9/10
Persona 3 P 8/10

5 Royal deserves a 10/10, enough said!
4 Golden is an easy 9/10
3 Portable sounds like a 6/10 based on the fact that it's not FES. FemC is the saving grace.

I always liked Persona 3 far more than 4.

I found the entire cast of P4 a little too childish for my taste, and disliking the main characters in a game with this much emphasis on dialogue and story means that you don't really enjoy it.

Persona 3 is a bit TOO edgy at times, but overall the darker tone really hooked me.

Persona 3 is a time sink that's just not worthwhile imo. Especially when the sequel does everything much better, life is too short

No physical copy- both games get a 1- Abysmal

I'm sorry, but the person who gave 1 in the voting is a poor person. He/She made such an absurd and unexplained move just for attention. Oh looks like we found that kid.You give 1 for every game without physical copy then? I feel sorry for you.

I read many bad things about p3p, but i decided to buy it and i am having a great time with it so far. Switch being also a portable system means that p3p suits the platform a lot. People tend to forget that p3p came after fes and it has many qol features. It doesn't feel dated and the visual novel presentation has some pros, since it makes navigation a lot faster. It's a great title and I totally recommend it for people who haven't played it. Definitely pick it up before 4 golden.

since their not in physical form i wont give them a score at all because how lazy these devs are getting.

Last night, I gave in and downloaded the double pack of P3 & P4 for Switch after playing some of P3 on my Series X thru Game Pass. I haven't played P4 yet, but Persona 3 looks great in portable mode on my Switch OLED. These games are perfect for portable play, and I might be able to finish them vs. being tethered to a TV.

Hopefully, a physical version will be available soon. But at least the digital copy only costs $20, which isn't bad.

So far, I'd give Persona 3 an 8/10
Persona 5 Royal 9/10

I am barely into P4G, will play P3P later. So far, I'm pleased that P4G doesn't feel as dated as I thought it would.

I skipped any Persona games until I bought P4G on Vita. So, for me, although I can see and appreciate how much P5 (especially Royal) is a better game, I am totally biased toward 4 and enjoy it the most. I will buy it on anything it comes out. 😅 I am not a huge fan of 3.

PS3 Portable I would give it a solid 7. I was never a big fan of any of the characters to be honest and going back to Tarturus multiple times became a chore after a while. It hasn't aged well in my opinion.

I still need to play P4 later on, I've had terrible luck going through that game, twice my save file corrupted back on my PS3 then I gave up. Will probably pick it up once I get through Fire Emblem Engage.

For me it would be as follows:
Persona 3 Portable 7/10
Persona 4 Golden 9/10
Persona 5 Royal 10/10

Persona 4 golden is an amazing game and I love it (and the Golden version really is the complete uncompromised package),
P3P was awesome on the PSP, but all the sacrifices that they had to make in order for it to work on that machine (that were completely justifiable at the time) don't work on a modern release. They should at least add the cutscenes from the originals. Seems just a lazy port. I expected more. On the other hand, If you didn.t bought the original PSP release back in the day nowadays is really expensive, so making it available on modern hardware (lazy port aside) is always a good thing.
It goes without saying, if you never played them, you should definitely grab them, they are both amazing games, and the persona fusion is as addictive as always.
My score?
P5R: 10
P4G: 10
P3P: 7 (it was a 9 on the PSP, but... the above)
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One more thing, the lack of a physical release is really inexcusable.

Persona 4 Golden 10
Persona 5 Royal 9

Have not played Persona 3 yet

P4G is still my favourite game ever so that's a 10 from me. P3P would be something similar on its original intended platform but here feels pretty lazy. Still a great game but it needed a bit more done or restructure FES. Would have gladly paid more for something like that.

I don’t think I’ll play Persona 3…not being able to explore during daily life is honestly a pretty big turn off seeing how much I enjoy that aspect in 5. If the rumours of a full 3 remake are true then I’ll play that, though I question why they would release a port of Portable if they’re doing a remake too. I guess plenty of people will buy both regardless.

I have 4 Golden on Vita but never played more than 10 hours of it. Enjoyed it but not being able to change the difficulty at any time made me put it down, I didn’t care much for the battles and just wanted to see the story but couldn’t be bothered restarting the game and going through everything again. I’ll get it again on Switch eventually, but for now I need to get through 5

Persona 3 6/10
Persona 4 7/10

Insufferable kids and stupid adults 1/10

Persona 5 Royal 10/10
Persona 4 Golden 9/10

Not played 3 Portable.

Perspectives: Exist

Differences of Opinions: Exist

People who whine and criticize these things: Also Exist

Getting over it: All Possible

I am happy that these Persona games are now on the Switch, I feel they play best as portable games. I loved Persona 4 Golden on Vita.

When you take into account how old and cheap these games are I’d go the full 10/10 for both! 3 portable is a bit rough but it’s more than playable.

Is there same problem in design in P4G and P3P as in P5R with no autosave? I understand this in dungeons but it doesn't make sense during social parts. And complicated access via menus doesn't make it easier. Such simple thing as quicksave in XC3 made it quite more user friendly.

Persona 5 Strikers = 6/10
Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight = 2/10
Persona 5 Royal = 9.5/10
Persona 5 = 9/10
Persona 4: Dancing All Night = 4/10
Persona 4: Card Game = 1/10
Persona 4 Golden = 8/10
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax = 9/10
Persona 4 Arena = 10/10
Persona 4 = 6/10
Persona 3 Em = 1/10
Persona 3 Escape = 1/10
Persona 3 FES = 8/10
Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight = 3/10
Persona 3 Portable = 7/10
Persona 3 = 7/10
Persona 2 Innocent Sin = 7/10
Persona 2 Eternal Punishment = 6/10
Persona 2 = 6/10
Persona 1 = 2/10
Revelations: Persona = 5/10
Persona Q = 7/10
Persona Q2 = 9/10
Persona Mobile Online = 0/10

Anyone that rates P5R a 9 will get it from 😍... You all better rate it a 10. Then give p4g a 9. I do not need to mention how bad I feel about them going with p3 from PSP than FES...

Persona 4 Golden is a 9.5/10 fantastic game, Persona 3 Portable however is a 6/10 is has not aged well at all

Both are 7.5s to me. I suppose if you're near high school age, living high school life in games might be more enjoyable? I don't know but games with daily routines and class related stuff just bores the life from me.

I still don't know if I can silence the music. Without that option they are unplayable to me.

@theModestMouse exactly.

P4G was a 10/10 effort. Nevermind the initial Vita release which was an actual definitive edition unlike P3P, but the P4G PC port added QoL enhancements that this release also has which really makes it a great playing experience. I only got up to finishing the Yukiko dungeon so far, but it feels amazing on my OLED Switch just like it did when I first played P4G on my OLED Vita.

P3P…normally that would be a 7/10 from me. I played it on PSP and I have no intention to play this “move the dot” port again for many reasons. It’s a mixed bag port right out the gate that gutted a lot of stuff [words from the developers themselves when they described trying to make a PSP port work] while adding a couple QoL features + the female route as compensation. The fandom is split down the middle on whether they prefer FES or P3P to this day. Personally I feel Atlus should have actually released a true definitive edition for P3 so people can move on and make it easy for which P3 to buy like how it is for P4 and P5.

However I noticed some things…people who DID get this P3P port were making noise that it felt WORSE then even the PSP release [which btw you can still buy for same price]

Then I looked online and other people posted videos about how the audio compression and video presentation is worse to confirm it wasn’t some strange outlier. That is no excuse so to me this port warrants a 6/10 and glad I didn’t touch it.

Whenever you take something as complex as a video game and ask people to collapse all their thoughts and feelings to a single numeric score, well, there is no “right way” to do that. anything goes.

I have just started P3P on Switch. So far it’s a great port. If you want to rank that, rank that high. I also like the game. And I think it’s a decent rerelease at a reasonable price. It’s more like a Pixel Remaster than anything like a remake or legendary edition. Do I want some kind of ultimate release that combines the best of P3P and FES? Maybe. But that’s not what I am judging here.

Funny, when the reviews came out, a lot of people on this site were complaining about how 3 was better than 4, seems that’s not a popular opinion

@BabyYoda71 yeah hilarious. So many people threw a fit at seeing “7/10” yet a good chunk I see are giving similar scores if not worse.

@Herna I think we were comparing it to 4. Both games are good (7 is a good score), but 4 is rated better by everyone. Plus, 7 is still the most common score for P3.

I’m abstaining till hopefully someday there’s a physical release.
I’d love a A P3 / P4 double pack but would gladly take separate releases.

So Happy we now have Persona 3/4/5 on Switch. Many people said ‘Nintendo will never get mainline Persona’ and boom they were wrong. 5R is the best close to a 10 and P4G really hoods up as this game is getting close to a decade old, so a strong 9. P3P is showing its age and was a marvel on PSP but if you played it before pass on a replay IMO. Now we need an updated Devil Survivor 1/2 and Persona Q 1/2 (especially 2)….Those might take a little more work as they would need a remaster coming off of DS/3DS.

@Herna makes perfect sense if you actually read the reaction of the NL article. Here is a hint since you didn’t read it: People acted like the review for P3P was blasphemy [7/10] and definitely should not have been worse then the P4G one yet the graph here shows how mixed it is [especially compared to P4G] so put your P3 fanboy bias to the side please

Don’t see how you saying P3P is 10/10 [or it’s “absolute minimum” 8/10 which is not true and just your subjective take so don’t try to parade it as fact lol] relevant at all to my initial comment, but cool like whatever you like I don’t really care lol.

@Serpenterror genuine question, why did you rate Arena higher than Arena Ultimax? Never played the original version so did something get lost is it story reasons.....?

Been emulating Persona 3 FES and will probably play P3P on my switch for the Femc experience, since I do have a soft spot for P3’s atmosphere, where P4 and P5 look like better games but the atmosphere didn’t grab onto me as much. I’ll just play 3, then 4, then 5, and then I can finally play Q and Q2 without feeling like I’m missing all the context : P

@RiasGremory devs have absolute zero relation to distribution decisions (whether a game is digital only or gets a physical release as well)

P3P is deeply flawed but still some parts of the story and concept are 9/10 so i would put 7/10 but still better than most 7/10

Persona 3 7/10
Persona 4 6/ 10
Persona 5 6/10

4 Golden & 5 Royal are perfect.
Only things always bugging me:

• the RNG events to get social stats
• wrong confidant answers giving less points for the confidant

I think they should leave these behind....

I tried 5 finally after hearing all the hullabaloo and although I could see the quality, I just knew I wasn’t going to have the time to see it through: when I saw first hand that when you leave an area and come back (literally just walking through a door and then coming back through) all the enemies respawn, I knew the game wasn’t for me.
I put in a good 6-7 hours in 5 but I know myself enough to know I wasn’t going to finish 5, never mind 3 and 4 in addition.

I have nothing bad to say about 5, it’s just my late 30’s preference with what time I have for games. The game was bleeding quality and I’m so happy that these games are finally “home” on Switch.

I’m playing P4G on GamePass and it’s definitely a 9 at the least. 24 hrs in

After reading the eurogamer article how it is by today's standards quite homophobic an mysogenic I lost all my appetite for playing this game...

https://www.eurogamer.net/persona-4-golden-has-not-aged-well

not sure what it says about the score, but thought I should mention it here

As a game? P3P is a solid 8. It's port doesn't deserve more than a 6 however. Compressed audio that is somehow worse than on PSP, and the backgrounds were cheaply AI upscaled with 0 touch ups, and clearly suffer from the smearing problem common with basic AI upscaling.

I don't expect them to improve the backgrounds but they should at least fix the sound quality. It's very poor form for them to market this as a remaster when the audio is worse. It's sad that this issue will probably go unnoticed for most (Push Square's review only mentions "audio balance issues" as a vague bullet point with no elaboration, and there's nothing for this site), assuming it's a holdover from the PSP version when it isn't, and even if it was that doesn't make it okay for a remaster to not improve it - at least the background upscaling was an attempt to improve the presentation.

P4G is still a 9 and it's port is about the same score.

P3, and P5, both suffer, in my mind, because they aren't P4. I just love every aspect of the darn game, so much.

@Herna Yeah actually I sort of agree with you about Arawn lol.

@romanista I just read that article, and personally didn’t really think most of that was homophobic? I don’t really understand why having a character that’s afraid to come out (like most people in real life) would be homophobic.
The only part I’d say is homophobic is that they never mentioned it again afterwards, but I’m sure that’s not the only storyline that doesn’t get brought up again.

@romanista @BabyYoda71 The Naoto aspect is also not exactly correct. The character isn't trans, she posed as a man because she believed that society would not respect her as a female detective due to the massive gender disparity and sexism in the field. Her arc is about coming to terms and embracing her femininity, rejecting the societal expectation that women can't or shouldn't be detectives.

Her shadow side exaggerated this insecurity and made her think she maybe had to actually become a man to be respected, but her motivation was never about wanting to undergo reassignment surgery.

It's a bit backwards to say that everyone that feels emotions like this MUST be trans or gay, but things are more complex than this. It is the same with Kanji, he's a guy that likes typically feminine hobbies, but the social expectations would say that men aren't allowed to like girly things, and if they do, they're gay. So he lashes out and becomes a stereotypical delinquent punk.

I recommend giving this video a watch, it's about 7 minutes and elaborates on what I'm saying, and explains it a little better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSxHQksBTAo

@Orpheus79V @babyYoda71 Thanks for your nuanced replies. I was sort of afraid i would start a comment section war (saw that the eurogame article had it's comments disabled) , but good we can have a discussion about it. I'll give the youtube movie a watch..

@romanista I will be fair and say that perhaps the game's writing on these sensitive subject isn't the best, but the intention is not to be bigoted or anything. The character who is responsible for the most dialogue in the game that comes off as sexist and homophobic was actually intented to be a closet bisexual, and even a romance option, though it was cut. The lines were even voiced in both English and Japanese, showing how last minute of a change it was. Unfortunate, but I think it shows a lot about the mindset of the writers, and it's a shame that the publisher probably got cold feet about including an optional gay romance.

Persona 3 Portable - 8/10
Persona 4 Golden - 10/10
Persona 5 Royal - 10/10
Persona 5 Strikers - 10/10

@Orpheus79V Yeah it’s not the best, but it’s definitely better than some of the things released around the same time

@JokerCK They're allowed their opinion. I find not having a physical is a bit of a bummer as well.

@larryisaman you can totally change the difficulty on p4g at any time. Also you can explore during your daily life in 3. Are you sure you actually played these games? I've played p4g 3 times all the way and got the platinum trophy, it's one of my favorite games.

@TheFrag You absolutely can’t change the difficulty on the Vita version whenever you want. You can on the Steam and new console versions but not on Vita which is where I played it.

Also I never played 3 and never said I had but from what I can tell you’re not exploring a 3D world during daily life in the Portable version and just selecting where you go on 2D images. That’s not as appealing to me. Cheers 👍