Persona for PSP Reviews by Gamers

I am an avid RPG player and have been playing RPGs since Final Fantasy on the NES. My bias maybe that I am not really into futuristic RPGs, unless they have a medieval feel to them. I have read that some folks have played the later versions and this was a great addition to a classic. Probably the same sentiments when I'm paying Final Fantasy I, because I've played all the other games.

Pros:
It gave me a new experience with the battle mechanics, this was not a simple select attack on any enemy. There was a high value on positioning your teams in a pattern to correctly and effectively attack the enemy.
There was a nice combination of various attack types. Melee, Guns and Persona.
For the time it was originally released the story line was acceptable.
Moving around in various maps, such as the city or building was not your normal views for moving as you'd expect playing other RPGs. This was a nice deviation after I got use to it.

Cons:
Seemed repetitive with fights once you got your formations set up.
Hard time understanding which Personas were elements of what and knowing which enemy to attack with which ones.
A lot of traveling via the city map and building going between floors.
When you are looking for items to assist in the quest, you can have a tough time looking for them as it's not always apparent.
The genre of the game was directed more at middle or high school students with the story.
Sometimes the formations were difficult to get right to ensure optimal attack spreads.
Using multiple characters made it diffult as they had certain attack patterns, so they had to be in particular formations to be effective and if you had multiple characters of the same attack type it made one generally useless.