the best game i have ever played, by far, is shin megami tensai: persona 3 for thee playstation 2. first, the story is fantastic, i played through the game at least 20 times and can safely say that the story takes up at least 20 hours of the 80 hour game with dialog alone. second, the combat system. do you want to know how you attack in the game? you SHOOT YOURSELF IN THE HEAD WITH A FREAKING PISTOL! doing this summons your persona, a second soul, that then uses an epic attack. using an attack that the enemy is weak against not only knocks them down, but it also gives you an extra turn. but your enemies not only have weaknesses, but strengths. they can reduce, reflect and absorb damage from certain types of attacks and, depending on your equiped persona, you have different strengths and weaknesses too. third, the attacks themselves. attacks go as follows.
fire attacks:
agi: small fire damage to 1 enemy
maragi: small fire damage to all enemies
agilao: medium fire damage to one enemy
maragion: medium fire damage to all enemies
agidyne: high fire damage to one
maragidyne: high fire damage to all
ragnorok: severe fire damage to one
maralagidyne: servere fire damage to all
lightning:
zio: same as agi w/ lightning
mazio: same as maragi
ect
ultimate attacks
megido: medium unblockable damage to all
megidola: high unblockable damage to all
megidolaon: severe unblockable damage to all
black viper: BEAST damage to one enemy.
armageddon: the equivelant to final fantasy's ultima.
the same thing goes for wind (garu) and ice (name escapes me)
finally, the fact that you can learn from it. the game takes place in japan and is culturaly accurate. i can safely say that after i finished the game, i knew three times as much about japan as i did before. and i STUDY japan.
