Koei confirms Persona 3 for Europe

The latest game in the Shin Megami Tensei series is officially set for a February release date.

It looks as if 2008 is going to be a good year for role-playing game fans. Not only are Fable 2, Lost Odyssey, and Final Fantasy XIII supposedly due, but Japanese PlayStation 2 game Persona 3 has just been confirmed for European release.

Due for release on February 29, Persona 3 is a unique role-playing experience: a combination of a Japanese dating sim and a standard RPG with some odd touches.

During the day, players must work on relationships and make choices at their school, and these decisions will strengthen and expand the variety of Personas that they can call on during the "hidden hour." The hidden hour is the time between one school day and the next, and it's when the demons come out to play.

Personas are summoned in battle by shooting oneself in the head, which is just one of the strange twists in this PS2 title. The Persona series has so far sold over one million copies in Japan, and this is the first to make it to Europe.

For more information on Persona 3, read GameSpot's full review.

57 Comments

  • romeyo4ever

    Posted Jan 31, 2008 5:02 am PT

    that cool but i want to know it will be in US again i look every where and i didnt found it

  • ParamedicFoetus

    Posted Jan 30, 2008 4:17 pm PT

    yeah!!! i was beginning to worry 'bout this one

  • superbeast1370

    Posted Jan 30, 2008 4:11 pm PT

    @ rumor_persona...I know what you mean. I had to pre-order Odin Sphere(I'm glad I did) so I wouldn't pay $100 on ebay.

  • Bloodflowers

    Posted Jan 30, 2008 4:00 pm PT

    This is great news!!! I have played half the game and its very amazing. Ive played all the Shin Megami Tensei games and P3 is one of the best.

    These cult-ish RPG titles usually do suprisingly well in the UK.

    And I can play it on my PS3 as well, great!

  • rumor_persona

    Posted Jan 30, 2008 1:58 pm PT

    I live in Brazil and I'm really happy because I've got P3 at launch from Play-Asia and latter discovered that the game is now hard to find. I've missed Nocturne and Digital Devil Saga 1. Now I know that I have to buy Atlus games A.S.A.P., pre-order them, if possible. Fortunately I've already got DDS 2 and SMT: Devil Summoner too.

  • huskerman34

    Posted Jan 30, 2008 12:03 pm PT

    damn it really never came out in the us. I cannot find it anywhere i guess shen megami games are really hard to find! must be worth a lot of money.

  • Weapon_Master87

    Posted Jan 30, 2008 11:22 am PT

    oh right I forgot about this but Official PlayStation 2 magazine in their current issue gave Persona 3 10/10

  • Skull_Fire

    Posted Jan 30, 2008 11:04 am PT

    Im still waiting for Gamespot to finally announce the fact that the game is also coming to Australia at the end of March... and review Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 which came out months ago.

  • Weapon_Master87

    Posted Jan 30, 2008 10:41 am PT

    Koei's only the publisher of the game they didn't make it it was made like 2 years ago

  • sirkibble2

    Posted Jan 30, 2008 10:24 am PT

    When will developers focus on the PS3? My goodness...

  • Weapon_Master87

    Posted Jan 30, 2008 9:28 am PT

    to diablobasher we're only getting the art book and that's only if you pre order it from game.co.uk

  • ordinateur

    Posted Jan 30, 2008 4:55 am PT

    Now I want FES. FES FES FES FES FES FES FES FRS FES FES FES!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Good news for euros though

  • Jokul

    Posted Jan 30, 2008 1:51 am PT

    I think I'll be happier with Fable 2

  • diablobasher

    Posted Jan 30, 2008 1:00 am PT

    Godspoison:

    When the entire world falls under the same licensing laws, main spoken language and other legal jurisdictions. That's when we will all get it at the same time, with the same stuff.

    I hope this comes with the cd/book! If not that sucks balls. We got the art cards and cd for Digital Devil Saga 2.

  • GodsPoison

    Posted Jan 30, 2008 12:30 am PT

    You get P3, we get FES, You get FES, We get P4/newSMT. its an endless cycle of waiting for releases. when are we going to have simultanious releases for all games?

  • HuxleyHobbes

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 8:20 pm PT

    A bit late. I imported this some time ago.

    It is great though, worth getting. And no, you don't need to have played the earlier ones, as far as I can gather. I'm doing just fine without.

    And yes FES wanted ;_;

  • LongShot42

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 8:17 pm PT

    wow thats great but uh.....i couldnt help but wonder.....hows fes coming?

  • Pazy160

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 4:44 pm PT

    Sounds fantastic, ill definately pick this up with my birthday cash. Fingers crossed it dosent require previous knowledge of Persona 1/2.

  • Kirbysuperstar

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 4:17 pm PT

    Sigh, so far away.. And I bet we don't get the artbook/CD, either.

  • rynmls

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 3:43 pm PT

    good for your europe gamers...

  • 7-ate-9

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 3:24 pm PT

    Trading in my PS2 was a bad move

  • WizzyKid

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 3:08 pm PT

    It's about time!

  • fantasyfacade

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 12:23 pm PT

    Februrary is going to be a great month for Eurpean gamers. I can see me being broke but very happy in the near future.

  • Shadow-Eagle

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 12:10 pm PT

    Now where's the Persona 3: FES annoucement...

  • OfficialBed

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 11:56 am PT

    i heard it's awesome

  • Gaara79

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 11:16 am PT

    Feb o8 is like Nov o7 o.O DMC4, Lost Odessey and Pesrona 3

    *faits* I can't get them all in the same month darn it. -_- I thought this was suposed to be the slow time?

  • NetPedro21

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 10:57 am PT

    Lol, i got so impatient that i bought the game from Ebay. Oh well... at least i will get it a month earlier

  • Bdking57

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 10:49 am PT

    Atlus makes the greatest JRPGs eva.. I sold my digital devil saga 1 for $100... name one other game you can make $50 on selling 2 years after buying it. These are the games that people that dont like JRPGs havent played, non kiddy characters...cant wait till the new xbox 360 atlus game makes its release stateside.

  • jknight5422

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 10:46 am PT

    Why hasn't this game made it to the 360? It doesn't have to have great graphics for me to play it. I guess I'll have to hunt down an old PS2 console...d@mmit.

  • diablobasher

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 10:42 am PT

    CamisadoBlue:

    Anything can happen. Until it's out then it may never come out. Anything could happen.

  • CamisadoBlue

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 10:27 am PT

    @Gamespot "Not only are Fable 2, Lost Odyssey, and Final Fantasy XIII supposedly due," I'm sorry but while Fable 2 and Final Fantasy XIII could easily be put in the 'supposedly' category, Lost odyssey is out in like, 3 weeks!? lol, hardly 'supposedly'

    and yeah... it's about time we got some Persona action going down.

  • VagrantChild24

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 10:25 am PT

    It is a great game, highly recommend to anyone who enjoys RPGs or a great dark story. Now if only we can get some more news on FES and not just a sentence out of EGM's Rumor Mill...

  • forcesofhabit

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 10:16 am PT

    Awesome. You guys were seriously missing out.

  • diablobasher

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 9:56 am PT

    Oh and not to mention that we never got any of the previous Persona games, not even the awefull US version of the first game.

    I really hope they rerelease them for PSP at some point, i would love to be able to play it and not have to boot up an illegal emulator, and have a printed script at hand.

  • diablobasher

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 9:53 am PT

    Uuuhhh.... OLD news!? I've had this preordered with this exact date confirmed for 3 months now. And yes, we europeans do get the shaft, we are still waiting on a confirmed date for Rock Band, and a lot of games we just dont get at all (Manhunt 2, Rule of Rose, others)

  • Bodboy466

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 9:50 am PT

    They've had to wait THIS long?? Jesus, Europe really does get some bad raps.

  • titus124

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 9:48 am PT

    Finally!

  • BenderUnit22

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 9:45 am PT

    Super pumped for this

  • TrueIori

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 9:39 am PT

    Have fun it a great Rpg

  • Sim_genius

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 9:17 am PT

    Yay for Europe. They had to wait so much to play awesome P3

  • Ross0_JE

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 9:08 am PT

    I hope this SMT game will sell well over here, awesome news

  • shaggyaz

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 9:04 am PT

    You guys will enjoy this,Im playin through it right now and its an excellent rpg

  • pastro243

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 9:02 am PT

    This is good, it will get good sales

  • megamanzero32

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 8:43 am PT

    Have fun with it over there! Everyone derserves to play this great RPG!

  • spatan11711

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 8:38 am PT

    ok now i regret getting rid of my ps2 for a 40 gig ps3

  • general_bison

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 7:48 am PT

    Cannot wait!

  • RockmanSRD

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 7:46 am PT

    It's interesting that Koei is helping take it there, another great publisher in their own right.

  • RidleyTJN

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 7:43 am PT

    Atlus needs to bring the FES expansion to the US Pronto.

  • hayato_

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 7:32 am PT

    People in Europe will finally get one of the best RPGs out their, just be prepared to spend alot of time on it.

  • zoe256

    Posted Jan 29, 2008 7:24 am PT

    I've never heard of this game before...but it sounds nuts! You have relation ships, and go to school but then shoot yourself in the head in 'battles', wtf?

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