Whoops, I’ve been falling a bit behind on updates, so these are going to be quick ones…

I finally got around to starting Persona 4, and I think it’ll be my main RPG for now (Drakensang just hasn’t really hooked me enough). It’s a lot like Persona 3, except that you enter the shadow realm through a TV and use cards to summon your personae instead of shooting yourself in the head. Once inside, there are multiple dungeons instead of one large tower, you can control the other party members directly, and they don’t end your run by getting fatigued. Instead, you’re limited by your spell points running out, since they no longer fill up when you return to the entrance.

The random card game at the end of fights is also different, and I think it’s a lot more annoying now, and it’s much harder to get the card you really want. It’s also much harder to sneak up on shadows and get in a first strike.

I’m not too far into the story yet — people are getting sucked into the TV world and then dying on foggy days, and the first few bosses I’ve faced have been the shadow halves of people I then recruited into my group. I’ve fused a few personae, including a Lilim with three elemental attacks, but there’s still a lot of experimenting to go.