I've never played a Persona or SMT game before. Is Persona 3 a good place to start? The answer to that question seems pretty crucial to my chance of getting it. I am interested though. Epic RPG for $9.99 seems like good deal.

God Hand feels like some sort of trick. Like a full forum conspiracy or something. Are you sure it isn't horrible?

I have thirty bucks left, so the decisions are becoming more and more pulse pounding!

It's the best action game on the PS2.

Well I'm currently balls-deep in P3P (I think it's basically P3 FES for the PSP) and I'm loving it. And I'm the guy that is more cynical than I should be about RPG games.

It's one of the best action games on the PS2...it would be the best if the camera wasn't wonky

Two probably silly questions.

1. Can you play PSX games on that bad boy?

2. If so, can you find LSD Dream Emulator? If you can get it cheap, I recommend that you take it for a spin because it's marvelous, and trippy as balls.

I have no idea what games are available there, but if you have the opportunity to play Beyond Good and Evil, go for it. It's a great stealth-game-plus-Legend-of-Zelda-game-in-space with a fun, open-ish world, great storyline, fun characters and pretty decent controls.

This, God Hand is pretty damn fun though the casino mini games are totally rigged against you. The camara's alright from my experience.

Edit: Satan he should be able to. Nearly all model PS3s can play PSX/PSONE discs

It's only 10 bucks? HO SHIT, GET ON THAT SON. Quick before they change their minds!

To answer your question though, Persona 3 has absolutely nothing to do with Persona 1 and 2, minus some shout outs.

Warnings: The game is rather on the difficult side. Some of that is genuine difficulty, some of that is artificial. Especially, the fact that you cannot control your party members UGHI AM LOOKING AT YOU MITSURU AND YOUR GODDAMN MARIN KARIN. WHY WON'T YOU HEAL ME? DO YOU HATE ME? FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! Also, if the main character croaks, its GAME OVER. This becomes... troublesome... when you consider the way Light and Dark attacks work in the game. (Hint: They kill you. Forever.)

I will say there is nothing quite like that feeling of momentary panic in a SMT game when your enemy casts Hama or Mudo and you are all like "SHIT!" and then it fails and you let out a sigh, then another enemy casts it and you die and then there is nothing but rage.

If you ever get a PSP, then this is a good version of the game to pick up. It has a genderbend option where the protag is a female and all the social links change accordingly. Also, you can control your party members, which makes shit almost laughably easy.

On the downside, they use cutouts instead of showing what is happening and ditched almost all of the anime cutscenes.

God Hand is a completely balls insane action kung fu game with the sensibilities of a Bruce Lee x Blaxploitation x Jackie Chan crossover movie on LSD.

If this finely craft fact doesn't push you over into wanting the game, then go look up the end credits on Youtube. Be warned though, the game is a little frustrating and completely fucking insane, you will go cross eyed if you try to understand God Hand.

For one doesn't understand God Hand, he merely punches dudes int he nuts with the Ball Buster.

For me it was "YOU FUCKING DUMBASS, MITSURU! USE FUCKING MABUFU ON THEM SO WE CAN AoA THEM ALREADY!". It's kinda gotten to the point where I almost never have anyone off of manual control.

Yeah, the PS2 selection on PS3 is pretty good. God Hand, Maximo, Persona...there are only like ten games available so presumably if they went to the trouble to make them work as downloadables they must be pretty good.

I plan on buying Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath sometime, I never got a chance to play it on XBOX and now that they finally made a port and it's only 15 bucks I think I'll be getting that posthaste.