Persona 3

Fused calendar life-sim scheduling with dungeon crawling, defining the modern Persona structure.

Released 2006 Developer Atlus Platform PlayStation 2 Genre JRPG Era Broadband & the console shooter Website persona.atlus.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Persona 3 inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Procedurally Generated Levels ~~1980~~Branching Dialogue Trees ~~1985~~NPC Daily Schedules ~~1992~~Companion Approval ~~2000~~

The Persona series in this dataset

2006

Persona 3 ~~this page~~

2008

Persona 4 ~~2008~~

2016

Persona 5 ~~2016~~

2019

Persona 5 Royal ~~2019~~

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