cool! this along "Persona 5" and the Golden version of "Persona 4" are the only ones i haven't played from the "Persona" franchise
to this day it was kinda hard to play Persona 2, the problem is that is actually two games initially only released for the Playstation 1
Persona 2 innocent sin (first part)
Persona 2 eternal punishment (second part)
they share the same "universe" (kinda) and part of the plot line, the thing is that "innocent sin" was never released outside Japan
i myself only discovered Persona 2 after playing Persona 3, one of the social links in the later (the one of Maya and Tatsuya in the MMO game) is a reference to innocent sin
i recall reading that "Eternal Punishment" was the first game of the SMT franchise to come to the west, the problem with "Innocent Sin" was that they weren't sure how the international audiences would react to the game, the main reasons were that
1) a chapter of the game revolves around the Nazis invading Japan
2) there is a major character that is openly gay
so they skipped part 1, for like a decade it would had been impossible to play the whole Persona 2 without knowing Japanese, although some fans released a fan patch for innocent sin
later Atlus released a psp remake of both games with improved graphics and gameplay, this time they actually released "innocent Sin" in the west... but they didn't release Eternal Punishment, the psp versions are considered superior so it would have been awkward playing the remake and then the old ps1 version
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anyway that wall of text was just to tell you that i'm going to play Eternal Punishment,
if one doesn't wants to bother patching a rom they can download a pre patched version from CDROMANCE and the PPSSPP emulator
