Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Official Strategy Guide

by Double Jump

It's up to you and the Specialized Extracirricular Execution Squad (SEES) to defend Gekkoukan High against the threat of the Shadows. Every night, between 12:00 and 12:01 AM, the Dark Hour comes and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974170097
• ISBN13: 9780974170091
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Double Jump
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Exactly what i needed

I didn't expect it to be so tiny. The guide is about the size of the game case. But it came with everything i was looking for, answers to some of the obscure pop quiz questions, the correct responses when building social links. Worth the buy.

Like EVERY Shin Megami Tensei

It's always nice to see a different approach to guide-making. This small booklet detail's nigh every nook and cranny of the game and gives informative(though not varied) approached to all form's of the game. All-In-All SMT guides are always well worth any amount of money spent.

Persona 3 Strategy Guide

This guide was for my daughter who plays the game. She has found the guide to be quite useful in the playing of the game and getting to know the different characters.

A great Guide

This book was a great find. it showed me everything i needed to know step by step and had a great beastary.

Remember: Google is your friend.

This guide is great for helping you get through the day to day basics of the game, from detailed social link quests, to quiz and test answers. It includes a complete list for items, personas, beastiary, and skills. However, even with 3 authors and 2 editors, this guide is not without its flaws. You will still find yourself scavenging internet forums and blogs for more answers 10% of the time. First of all, rather than a detailed persona fusion guide, they provide you with a chart that reads like a spreadsheet, which merely lists arcana types. Its design is not its downfall. Rather, it's the specific data (or lack thereof) that makes this chart unappealing. Basically, it shows you what the resulting arcana type of your perona will be when fusing this type of arcana with that type of arcana. (eg., If you fuse a persona of the moon arcana with that of an empress arcana, the end result will be a persona of the lovers arcana). This is a minor help at best. A better chart would tell you the exact persona you would create when fusing other specific personas togeather. Sure, you are provided with a complete list of personas in this book. There's just no specifics on how to create them. With as much detail that went into the rest of this guide, I really feel Double Jump sort of "double jumped" over this one. Ironic, no? Speaking of specific details, this brings me to my second point: Requests! Most of these are accurate. Most meaning less than 100%, which I find odd due to the fact I had to pay 100% of the sticker price for this thing. It's not like I found it in the discount bin or anything of the sort. Some of the requests require you to create certain personas with a specific ability. These can be rather difficult to create. While this guide does provide in great detail the steps required to do so, I have found one request so far that this guide is entirely incorrect on. And that is quest #23, Create Orthrus with Dodge Slash. Their fusion recipe was wrong. Completing this quest opens up quest #29. So, off to the internet I went, searching for an answer the guide should have provided. It's a sad day when you have to resort to using white-out in a strategy guide to make a correction. Did I mention that I paid full price for this guide? Last and least, this guide still contains its share of typos and misspellings. Considering the things I mentioned above, this should come as no surprise. Nor does it impede you from using and understanding what they are telling you. Hell, if you can read through the horrible grammar on internet forums and understand what people are saying, then this book should be no trouble at all. Overall, this guide was worth the $19.99 I spent on it. But, the $19.99 plus tax was pushing it. Get the guide. It will help. While it's quicker to find most of your answers in the book, it will not prevent you from digging around the internet for more. They should have slapped the "Mature" rating on this guide as it will "create adult lang