I know nothing of DDS, because I haven't played. I really don't want to pay $60 for DDS1 if I can help it, and I've been told it's necessary to play DDS2.
Persona is a weird game series to rec. I'd personally pass on the first one because the localization is infamously awful (oh, Atlus, what crack were you smoking), and the vast majority of the characters renamed into more English-sounding names. Oh, and an entire side-plot of the game was somehow not coded into the NA game. Don't ask me how Atlus managed that one.
Persona 2 is actually two games, only one of which was ever released in English (the other one was too full of Nazis and gay schoolboys, I guess). I'm personally really enjoying the one that did get released in English, even if a lot of the side NPCs and seemingly random story points are more important than I realized (I eventually caved and read a translated game script of the other so I'd get the story behind the references I was missing). Atlus' people did go through rehab before translating this one, though, so if you like old-school dungeon crawler RPGs with absolutely batshit characters and have the patience for a combat mechanic that often involves a much heavier version of the demon conversations in Nocturne, I'd recommend it.
Persona 2 is artificially cheap right now because it was given a limited re-release awhile back.
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Date: 2006-11-03 05:02 am (UTC)From:Persona is a weird game series to rec. I'd personally pass on the first one because the localization is infamously awful (oh, Atlus, what crack were you smoking), and the vast majority of the characters renamed into more English-sounding names. Oh, and an entire side-plot of the game was somehow not coded into the NA game. Don't ask me how Atlus managed that one.
Persona 2 is actually two games, only one of which was ever released in English (the other one was too full of Nazis and gay schoolboys, I guess). I'm personally really enjoying the one that did get released in English, even if a lot of the side NPCs and seemingly random story points are more important than I realized (I eventually caved and read a translated game script of the other so I'd get the story behind the references I was missing). Atlus' people did go through rehab before translating this one, though, so if you like old-school dungeon crawler RPGs with absolutely batshit characters and have the patience for a combat mechanic that often involves a much heavier version of the demon conversations in Nocturne, I'd recommend it.
Persona 2 is artificially cheap right now because it was given a limited re-release awhile back.