Persona 2: Innocent Sin 1999

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Tatsuya Suou and his friends from Seven Sisters High School confront the Joker, who is making rumors come true in the city of Sumaru, in this 1999 role playing game for the PlayStation. The story starts with a rumor that calling your own cell phone number summons a demon. The group is granted Personas, and battles are turn based. Dungeons are seen from above, with sprite characters on polygonal landscapes, in place of the first person view of the earlier game. Each character has four conversation skills for talking to enemies, and pairing party members gives different results. Making an enemy happy forms a contract, which guarantees it will not hurt you. Fusion attacks combine Personas' magic. A separate Rumor system lets rumors spread around the city to change events. Rumors that change events and talks that form contracts still give each fight more than one outcome.