Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 2 - Innocent Sin

 PSP
  • Publisher: Atlus
  • Release Date: Sep 20, 2011
User Score
5.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 342 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 155 out of 342
  2. Mixed: 33 out of 342
  3. Negative: 154 out of 342
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  1. ZeldaKid64
    Feb 23, 2022
    1
    Persona 2 Tsumi is a trashfire of a game that I am ashamed to have played.

    I only give it a one cuz its characters are kinda okay and the music bangs but (almost every) song in Persona slaps (besides P1 PSP and P5 OST) The story fails to give me any motivation to actually get invested, I'm apparently supposed to just take the **** insane **** that happens in this game seriously? I'm    Persona 2 Tsumi is a trashfire of a game that I am ashamed to have played.

    I only give it a one cuz its characters are kinda okay and the music bangs but (almost every) song in Persona slaps (besides P1 PSP and P5 OST)

    The story fails to give me any motivation to actually get invested, I'm apparently supposed to just take the **** insane **** that happens in this game seriously? I'm supposed to like the fact that Hitler's in this? Haha no.

    The gameplay is braindead easy, all you do is spam fusion spells and you win the game, thats it.

    To top it all off, the absolutely diabolical remaster makes every problem with this game worse.
    Worse dungeon traveling
    Worse battles
    Worse translation
    ****ty side quests
    And the dumbest **** slowdown (its a **** PS1 game for crying out loud)

    I truly hate Persona 2 Innocent Sin, it is genuinely a trashfire in my eyes. Truly a horrible experience.    … Expand
  2. that1kirby
    Aug 13, 2023
    3
    my playtime: ~9 hours.

    pros: -The soundtrack is pretty good. -unique and interesting mechanics, like persona mutations, contacts, rumors, etc. -unique but not so memorable characters. -Realism. a lot of it. cons: -The story makes little to no sense. but screw me for not playing persona 2 eternal punishment before playing this i guess. -The game doesn't tell you where to    my playtime: ~9 hours.

    pros:
    -The soundtrack is pretty good.

    -unique and interesting mechanics, like persona mutations, contacts, rumors, etc.

    -unique but not so memorable characters.

    -Realism. a lot of it.

    cons:
    -The story makes little to no sense. but screw me for not playing persona 2 eternal punishment before playing this i guess.

    -The game doesn't tell you where to go or what to do most of the time, which makes it easy for you to get lost.

    -I have a lot to say about the contact mechanic, its an interesting concept but executed very horribly... it gets repetitive very quickly, dialogues also get repetitive quickly and aren't very interesting, and the persona personalities don't help when one persona species always has the same personalities, and it's necessary to do this multiple times so you can get new personas, and the pacts don't even have that much of a benefit sometimes.

    -And the worst of all... the battles, they are super easy on hard mode, they don't need any thinking, they happen way too many times, and they make the game boring as hell

    in short: games okay but the battles kill the game    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#13 Best PSP Game of 2011
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#3 Most Discussed PSP Game of 2011
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#6 Most Shared PSP Game of 2011

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Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. Play UK
    Jan 25, 2012
    65
    A rather tame experience. [Feb 2012, p.82]
  2. Games Master UK
    Dec 17, 2011
    76
    Old school JRPG with a few unique twists, strictly for genre fans. [Jan 2012, p.94]
  3. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Dec 5, 2011
    80
    Persona 2 isn't for everyone. The esoteric style and ageing looks will see off many a curious gamer, but persevere through the niggles and you'll uncover a stylish, incredibly written, charismatic experience.
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