[quote name='Megaten']Starting an entire team of the Pokemon-like creatures is a lot more fun than combat in P3 in my opinion, but at the same time the actual recruitment of said demons is total crap. If you're basing it off their personalities, good luck - there's no set structure to what demon types like/respond to...so it's just a guess. And bribery and other methods are equally shallow...a capture system like an actual Pokemon game would've been preferred IMO.
I like the P3 setting more, and it feels like the beginning of Nocturne had such a strong opening to the story...but ultimately lets down and you don't really get into it much more beyond the basic premise of the 'world reconstruction' bit.
Absolutely love the difficulty though, especially on Hard. Well, except for the Matador...that fight really shouldn't have been so overwhelming at the time it occurs...considering everything thereafter is a joke.
Hama skills are still annoying ^.^[/QUOTE]
You forgot to mention that you fuse demons just link in Persona. Verbal recruitment is a guessing game sometimes. Even worse when they keep asking for stuff, then run away.
Nocturne is more of a straight up JRPG than Persona 3 and 4 Instead of cut scenes, the story really comes from NPC dialogue. The days aren't structured. Instead, you wander around post-apocalyptic Tokyo.