We (the royal we, not I) just posted a great review of Twilight Princess. I, as a humble editor, read this review, and it got the old brain a working. The subject of my thoughts: the verbatim sequel. The sequel that doesn’t change anything, and churns out the same game. This is, naturally, an approach usually used on successful games: Ocarina of Time being one of the most successful games ever made. This review got me thinking, though, about my favorite verbatim sequel, to a game that is intimately close to my heart: Persona 3.
If all the chips were down, Persona 3 (the FES expansion, to be exact) would be my favorite game of all time. It clicks with me in a very personal way. It captures that perfect feeling of desolation that I so often look for in video games. The odds are impossible. The stakes are raised as high as possible. You get to the final month of the game, and this becomes the background music. It just kills me. The whole last two months of the game just destroy me. And when it’s over …
