The March 2020 NPD report is in, and it was a huge month for sales as Animal Crossing and social-distancing led to more interest in gaming.
While some video games overwhelm you with sheer scale, titles like Asura's Wrath and Doom Eternal make you the boss player right upfront.
Atlus wins over gamers yet again.
Same here. Not only is it one of my favourite RPGs, it's also one of my favourite ever games. I keep coming back to it time and time again.
4.8? This game is literally one of the best modern JRPGs. I’d give it the perfect score.
"Newer Persona games dive into the simulation of a high school student at the cost of RPG mechanics compared to Shin Megami Tensei." - Najam from eXputer.
Persona (particularly 3,4 and 5) is the best thing to come out of Atlus, by far. The only way other games get ruined is by paling in comparison.
thats a hot take if ive ever seen one.
atlus aint just persona.
they have plenty of games that are fantastic that are not persona.
maybe in sales sure but not in quality.
I enjoy the SMT core series much more vs the Persona series. I like how it is much darker and more hardcore as an RPG. I've played all of them through and they never disappoint.
That's a bad take.
SMT had a niche following. So did persona. They redid persona starting with three to reach an wider audience. Nothing happened with the original SMT and have stayed the way they were. If they were to revamp that main series you could get what happened with soul hackers lol. You want that?
A spin off is a spin off. Why would they ruin the original? If you like the original then that's great, you can carry on enjoying it. If the spin off is crap it has no impact on the original at all.
I love Persona 5 and P5R but I have zero interest in Strikers or Tactica but even if I played them and didn't like them they wouldn't ruin the original games for me.
Same goes for if you like the SMT games but don't like Persona, why would that suddenly make SMT bad?
I'm surprised to see Persona 5 Royal beating Resident Evil 3 in the PS4 list.
With that NPD disclaimer about not having all the real and relevant information, I shouldn't use this as a real picture of the market. I wish there was a place with all the data.
Anyway I am glad for Animal Crossing. Nintendo keeps proving this is not about how powerful is the hardware, is about exclusive games.
Next month will be FF7 Remake, another exclusive game riding high in the cloud.
Persona 5 Royal, FFVIIR, Animal Crossing and RE3 Remake...finally some decent food.
“Animel gaem for kid”.