Tactical suits exist simply because P5 also had them, to sell more figures and so they can put them on promotional artwork replacing the "problematic" armbands. They have no soul or charm.
>replacing the "problematic" armbands.
Stupid Black folk like you are unbelieveable it's a wonder you remember to breathe. Japan still wears armbands, it's just part of their uniform design. It was changed because the remake homosexuals wanted to sell new designs.
Of all the shit to complain about you hyperfixate on MUH NATZEES like a fricking twitter addicted c**t on his fifth bottle of beanwater
>make up some bullshit narrative because noooooo muh frickin hitler the armbadns the nazis wore ambands too so they';re notallowed to weara them anymore noooooooo >I'M the fricking moron
Genuinely, honestly, legitimately, unironically, with all certainty
Fricking have a nice day
Do it in a field, in the middle of nowhere
Let your rotten carcass be of some use to the world
>Tactical suits exist simply because P5 also had them
This part is correct, and you can fully expect P6, once it comes out, for the party to have dungeon outfits. I'm hoping for sentai/toku based outfits, but that probably won't happen.
>love won
This reminds of this license plate that I walk past every day, its supposed to say "LOVE CONQUERS HATE" on it but all of the letters except "HATE" faded out
The worst is when it cuts to anime just to show girls in swimsuits.doing the dumb "kyaaaaaah" poses. It's embarrassing nobody wants to see girls posing like that.
Haven't gotten to this part of the game yet but man this pic hits hard. Remember coming over to my girlfriend home in highschool and we were cooking food together alone and washing the dishes. And her little bro popping in making sure we weren't getting too close kek. Man those were some nice times.
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There was this one time where her parents left for a bit. I was behind her and just wrapped my arms around her waist. Head on her shoulder. She was making eggs. She giggled and asked what's up. "Oh nothing " I remember just telling her I was enjoying this moment with her. Frick man teenage love was great wasn't it bros?
>heres your godamn new designs now stop crying about having to wear a red circular armband while cosplaying cuz some funny mustache man also used one 80 years ago - the cutscene
I think the new costumes are alright. Not sure if I prefer them over the original school uniforms, but the option for them still exists, along with any other costumes you get, so at least the choice is there for everyone playing it in general.
Nah, it's not your fault, it's just that our local trannies are really riled up right now due to the creator of the FeMC mod being a groomer, any thread would have failed
Finally fricking did it. Merciless Elizabeth is no more. I still can't figure out how to deal with Phase 2 itself, but my solution was to skip it entirely by nuking her Jack Frost with a fully set up Inferno once she was close to the HP threshold, and then following up with a Morning Star to force her to heal.
I dunno I just start off with a full party auto demon, debilitate him, then start cycling through attacks while Yukari occasionally mediarahans. Everything works, he's not resistant to anything.
the theurgy attack you get by having helel and satan fused one shots reaper even on merciless. I went from level 80 to 99 in probably under 30 minutes like this.
Is it just me, or did they make Yukari nicer in the remake? If you approach her without maxed charm she will say she's too preoccupied with something bothering her whereas (I'm pretty sure) in the original she just tells you to frick off because you're not swag enough.
reload is closer to the actual japanese
bitchy yukari was a localization thing
It's more that they cleaned up the localization. Yukari being a b***h was more due to the original localization and dub actor's delivery.
I know I'm probably alone on this but even though I know it's not accurate to the Japanese version, I prefer Yukari b***hy over being nice. Her being mean gave her an edge compared to all the other girls and made her more interesting. I don't hate her now or anything but really is weird to hear her say shit like how "The journey is just as fun as the destination!" while walking through Tartarus since it feels out of pocket.
Twitter says Akihiko's Theulogy is mistranslated and he actually gets a charge boost from starting his turn while being buffed and so the buff can be from anyone.
Yeah, and his buff amp applies to every buff, not just the one he casted to himself. He's actually the fastest character to charge their theurgy, because others have to do a specific action but he just need someone to apply a buff to him, which you will do anyway.
I wish Fatlus would make a game that's like Persona, but with less VNshit. Just give me a super-stylish JRPG with a normal amount of dialogue and no calendarshit.
>Just give me a super-stylish JRPG with a normal amount of dialogue and no calendarshit
I wouldn't call them "super-stylish" or anything, but you should shop around the rest of the SMT subseries and mainline
Nocturne is a great game, bear in mind its 20yrs old and the HD Remaster adds some QoL, but it has aged well and has a feel like no other, you could also try SMT IV if you have a 3DS handy, an excellent game deserving of a future port
You can also try Strange Journey, but that's pretty hardcore even by megaten standards
They wouldn't be able to summon their Personas in the real world, but if they were under some circumstance that allowed them to summon their Personas they'd be as well positioned to deal with him as any other Persona cast.
In a battle against him? Depends on how well they're willing to accept that he is part of them. The IS cast got mad as frick at Nyarly and they lost hard, but the EP crew didn't deny that humans are a fricked up species and they won. The distinction here is the EP cast are actual adults so they don't have as much trouble with this kind of stuff as angsty teenagers do.
I feel like the Persona 4 crew would have the hardest time.
Yu is too perfect of a character, Nyarly could easily mindfrick him with visions of a future where he fails and gets all his friends killed
As for Persona 5, it was pretty much a rehash of P2's main plot with the whole deal and everything, and even started including the lovecraft references in DLC, so I wouldn't be that surprised if they could do it.
>just rolled credits
I started as a 4gay but I really liked that the final fight actually had stakes and consequences that the game didn't shy away from. I don't think Atlus have gotten it quite the same after that, which is strange.
He couldn't control his persona correctly so he took suppressants to stop it from going out of control.
Though the deep lore is that Ken's mother deserved to die and his Persona was just doing the needful.
But then why does he stop taking suppressants after he joins back up then?
He's not really with us long enough to make an assessment about whether it's going to go berserk and based on his actions in battle and the effort he expends when summoning, he's going much more hardcore than the rest of the group so there's an assumption that he's just putting in infinitely more work than everyone else to make sure his team mates don't get fricked but do remember that willpower isn't infinite.
He couldn't control his persona correctly so he took suppressants to stop it from going out of control.
Though the deep lore is that Ken's mother deserved to die and his Persona was just doing the needful.
self loathing, he hated his Persona because he lost control of it, so he took them to punish himself and ensure he doesn't hurt anyone else
by the time he rejoins SEES, he knows his number is up, even if he has a better grasp of his persona at this point
Shinjiro had trouble controlling his Persona, and took them to keep it in check. Same reason the Strega members take it themselves, if I'm not mistaken.
he got too gung ho chasing a shadow outside of tartarus and accidentally killed ken's mother in the fight
he's taking the pills to try and remove his persona because he doesn't trust himself with it/ atone by dying
at least that what it was in vanilla p3, idk if they changed it in reload
you could probably replace crit boost with slash amp, and get vortex blade on him
I'm like 99% the crit rate is capped at something like 60% like it was in P5
I forgot I had Slash boost/amp instead of the standard crit boost
Either way, Siefried is nuts, I replaced him only when I fused Futsunoshi, so he gets Vorpal Blade and all of the aforementioned skills
Yeah that's very similar to what I had, except I kept Deathbound simply because he was such an effective encounter killer, even without Brave Blade/Single Boost, he was an efficient boss killer because of his absurd crit rate
I wish SMTV was this good.
I wish mainline actually got love.
I wish Persona wasn't the official flagship series. How the frick does the spinoff supercede the original in every single way?
Persona 5's success and Soul Hackers 2 flopping was the death knell for all megaten spinoffs
Mainline is still going, but its never going to get the love Persona gets which might be for the best
Link Episodes are actually really fricking great and should be the correct way to handle party members instead of individual social links going forward.
Nah, I still prefer S. Links. The Link Episodes are better than most S. Links in P3, but that's just because P3 doesn't have great S. Links. Link Episodes aren't functionally that different from S. Links aside from being much less rewarding, and if that's how they're going to be I'd rather just have it has an S. Link so I get to spend my time on an actually interesting narrative and get a meaningful change to the dungeoncrawling/combat instead of being in a position where I have to ask myself do I want to spend my time on a character and story I'm actually interested in with a Link Episode while knowing it's not an efficient use of time and will probably just give me a point in some social stat I'm long past the point of needing, or should I spend the time on an S. Link with a character I don't care about because it's more rewarding mechanically, and also a bit more interesting on its own mechanically seeing as there is the little bit you influence in it in trying to get as many points as possible with your dialogue options each rank.
I don't think there's much about the Link Episode structure that does anything good for it that couldn't be done with a S. Link. They are better than the S. Links in P3, but it has nothing to do with the structure s compared to S. Links, it's because they're about more interesting characters, which can be covered with S. Links, they're longer than the very short S. Link ranks of P3, which can be covered by S. Links, and they generally tell more interesting stories, which can be covered by S. Links. I think they're a good addition to P3R seeing as it's a way to let you spend time with party members without replacing any S. Links, but P6 isn't going to have to work around existing S. Links so I see no need for anything like Link Episodes.
The issue with party member social links has always been that they're generally irrelevant to the main story, since they have to be optional and can be done at any point. Any kind of development that happens in them generally ignores what happens in the main story and vice versa. While Link Episodes don't completely alleviate this, them being time-limited means they can easily reference events in the story and complement it. If they keep party social links, I'd hope they can at least make it similar to Link Episodes in that they complement story events instead of completely ignoring them.
That also is not something inherent to S. Links at all. Both Kasumi and Sojiro's S. Links do the same thing in P5. I do think there'd be no harm in timegating more S. Links to reference story events, but it's not something only Link Episodes can uniquely do.
People may hate to hear it, but the ideal approach to party member social links would be just throw timelocks onto them so they can reference events in the main story. They do seem to playing with the idea considering how Kasumi's stuff works in P5R with half her confidant being locked until her time in the main story.
Link Episodes are pretty much where modern Persona is with social links, which is why they are kind of jarring when you compare them to how simple the links were in P3.
It honestly kind of took P-Studio 3 full games to figure it out.
P4 was realizing "Oh yeah. We should probably give the male party members their own links, and maybe we can make it so your party members unlock abilities as you level up their link."
The fox was also a beta what would later become Confidants
P5 was them realizing "Maybe we should make it so that your non-party member links actually give you some kind of skill or ability that can be a major QoL feature for the player like Kawakami's massages or Chihaya's stuff."
I would say P5 is when they really figured it out, since I don't really think there was a bad confidant in that game. Some were definitely weaker, but I can remember more about the side cast in that game than I can from P3/P4.
I just started playing and I don't really like the new dub cast, especially Akihiko sounds way worse than in FES.
Should I grit my teeth and hope I warm up on people or go sub?
JP has all the old voices so go JP. I'm still so confused why the ENG got the recasting but not the JP version.
I find the sub funny because they brought back the original VAs even though most of them are pushing well past 40 and still voicing teenagers
Ken's 12 and he's voiced by a woman in her mid 60s
I recommend going sub. Everyone besides MItsuru and Junpei sound off compared to prior games, and those two are just imitating the previous VAs.
Shame, I like Persona dubs, but reload made the choice for me.
They dont even have Dan Worren for Igor and Ikutsuki, this shit sucks im going sub bros.
Liam and Yuri are too expensive for more then a cameo, Vic got blacklisted, Ken and Fuuka's OG voices are hated/uncredited and recasted later anyway so at that point, they figured may as well rip the band-aid off entirely.
can someone explain how P4 and P5 fit into P3 and the Dark Hour? Shadows seem like a very real thing in P3 but in the other games it comes off as the kids doing schizo larping
Shadow's don't exist in normal reality and the Dark Hour is the method they have of existing in the real world in 3 but are in their own dimension in 4/5 until end game.
>Shadow's don't exist in normal reality and the Dark Hour is the method they have of existing in the real world in 3 but are in their own dimension in 4/5 until end game.
Chidori's persona manifest outside the dark hour though, which is the weird part
It's because recasting in Japan is a serious deal. The VA has to be involved in a scandal, retired, or dead for them to recast. It doesn't matter that most of the cast is in their 40 to 60s, meanwhile people think a big reason why the dub was recast was because Atlus thought all of them were too old. Some of the old dubs VAs even voice npcs now.
I think it's cool, like a new generation of VAs. Younger voices for a teenage cast. They mostly sound similar enough to me. MC is fine, since it's similar to the JP but I do miss how Yuri screams the persona names. Only Akihiko's voice took a while to get used to. It's cool the older ones got cameos
I find the sub funny because they brought back the original VAs even though most of them are pushing well past 40 and still voicing teenagers
Ken's 12 and he's voiced by a woman in her mid 60s
Megumi ogata isn't that old. Well, she's still older than my mom though.
I think yukari, fuuka and ken mostly works. It's mitsuru who sounds older than she should've been.
I recommend going sub. Everyone besides MItsuru and Junpei sound off compared to prior games, and those two are just imitating the previous VAs.
Shame, I like Persona dubs, but reload made the choice for me.
Just go sub. They are all the same actors from the original game, and perform way better than the literal rando Atlus USA probably found on twitter or some shit
You should fricking have a nice day by pouring bleach down your eyes if you think this new neutered Yukari hold a candle to Michele Ruff
I just started playing and I don't really like the new dub cast, especially Akihiko sounds way worse than in FES.
Should I grit my teeth and hope I warm up on people or go sub?
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can someone explain how P4 and P5 fit into P3 and the Dark Hour? Shadows seem like a very real thing in P3 but in the other games it comes off as the kids doing schizo larping
>Shadows are existences of pure thought and energy and do not possess physical bodies, and thus cannot interact with normal space. They do, however, possess the ability to manipulate space-time and use this ability to create the Dark Hour, a space existing outside of normal space-time where they can move freely. "Transmogrification" is merely an identifier of someone who does not exist within the Dark Hour, and thus cannot be affected by those within it. As for those with the "Potential", who can move freely within the Dark Hour, they are people who are able to use the shadows' space-time manipulation ability for themselves.
>As for those with the "Potential", who can move freely within the Dark Hour, they are people who are able to use the shadows' space-time manipulation ability for themselves.
is that the explanation for how Strega woke a dude from his coffin to kill him and how Shinji somehow killed Ken's mom? Wish this kinda thing was brought in the game itself.
In the case of Strega, probably. Personas and Shadows are two sides of the same coin; in particular, Strega's Personas are very close to Shadows since they didn't awaken properly (hence why their Personas are trying to kill them).
However, occasionally there are people who just happen to become active during the Dark Hour despite not being able to summon Personas. These are the ones who end up getting devoured by Shadows and contracting Apathy Syndrome. Amada and his mom just happened to wake up during the Dark Hour which unfortunately coincided with Shinjiro losing control over his Persona.
I recommend going sub. Everyone besides MItsuru and Junpei sound off compared to prior games, and those two are just imitating the previous VAs.
Shame, I like Persona dubs, but reload made the choice for me.
TO MY FOES I NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHERE THAT HATRED CAME FROM
TRIED TO GET IT BUT NOW WE GOT DIFFERENT ANTHEM
COULDN'T FATHOM WHAT YOU MEAN BY JUST ABANDON
RATHER TRY TO FIX IT NO MATTER NO MATTER THE OUTCOME
I still don't get why P5 had the perfect setup to explain Igor's dead VA and they still fricked it up. They could've killed off Igor off-screen and replaced him with Elizabeth
>They could've killed off Igor off-screen and replaced him with Elizabeth
Mainline wants to remain independent from each entry, aside from minor references, as much as possible. I honestly like that factor because shit like Shadow Ops was a stupid idea in the first place, and it would completely take any tension out of the game if they just strutted in and stole the show from the new cast.
I mean the Shadow Ops is something that logically would exist after 3, they just gotta say they're always dealing with other shit.
Shadow Ops showing up in bumfrick nowhere Inaba for some reason, but ignoring Tokyo when the entire world was ending made zero sense. Just let SEES become normal adults and go on with their lives the best they can to respect Door's memory.
The entirety of the final stretch of P5 happens within the course of a few hours. Even if the Shadow Operatives had mobilized, the Phantom Thieves would have cleaned everything up long before they could.
They still did do it, I imagine they just thought it would be a bit too dark and mean-spirited to have him dead and gone forever off-screen after his VA died. I'm sure Jose will replace him in 6 anyway.
>Entire S.Link is him being wrapped up in Strega's Death Cult because he's ugly and jealous of beautiful people >Doesn't actually change at all except he sees you as a replacement for his little brother by the end
You will never be a visual novel.
You will never have a good story or even fun gameplay.
You will never be a game with good waifus that are also good characters at the same time.
Persona is for posers.
>100% compendium >Max all SLinks >Fought Elizabeth on Merciless >3 days later >Wanna start another run but with AI party to see if the Blue Envelope does anything special on NG+ Merciless
Should I do it?
>Tell Kazushi to stop b***hing and keep running, even if it means he'll never walk again >Push Kenji to go for his teacher >Tell Maiko to run away from home >Agree with Odogiri's zealousness >Feed into Suemitsu's delusions >these were all the correct ways to interact with them >they thank me for 'helping' them at the end
heh, my pleasure
This is actually something I find really funny and kind of dislike about the game- you're often rewarded for making the objectively wrong choices, solely because it gives you more points, which is why you're doing the Social Links in the first place. Kind of makes Minato seems like a sociopath, which admittedly fits his character.
>remove cool armbands for idiotic pearl-clutching reasons >the resulting design sucks donkey dick
>moron who hasn't played the game has a moronic take
If you really don't like the new outfits, you're not forced to use them. The armbands are still there on the original outfits.
it works as organic storytelling, you are just reinforcing their desired beliefs, telling them otherwise just upsets them until they realize it for themselves
still funny that you effectively act as the most toxic 'friend' imaginable and gameplaywise, its the most efficient choice
I was assuming you meant voice and wrote language by mistake, because it is baffling that you would need to change your language settings in this game, where everything is translated.
>doesn't offer his own interpretation of the MCs name >just names him whatever flavor of the month name he has at the time
whether it be minato, makoto, seta, yu, akira or ren, choosing any of them makes you an NPC who has limited imagination, you probably belong on reddit
Careful now, your newness is showing. We universally called him Minato or MC back in the day.
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> because it is baffling that you would need to change your language settings in this game, where everything is translated.
I don't need to change shit you fricking idiot. Im just pointing out the devs put the name Makoto Yuki as Door's default name.
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Okay, and? So what? They gave him his name from the films. It's not really a huge surprise.
nobody cares grandpa, take your meds, its bed time
Seems like you care quite a bit, zoomer, otherwise you wouldn't have repeated your wrong take over and over.
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nobody cares grandpa, take your meds, its bed time
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MC is fine, I am less harsh on Minato, since it was the name used in the relatively obscure manga that I'm confident very few people actually read it was okay, beginning in media res on the bridge probably wasn't the best idea
I just prefer when players name the protag on what they think he should be called, not because supplementary material named them long after the game came out
hell, people refer to the FeMC as Kotone because of a stage play no one saw or remembers
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I always liked Minako better. I wasn't even aware Kotone came from a stageplay until you just mentioned it.
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I just call him Door.
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>please sign here, don't worry, its just a contract that says that you'll take responsibility for your own actions >"Door Chad"
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The first time I played Nocturne I put "Demi Fiend" as the name.
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>hurr durr you're an NPC with no creativity >brb gonna name my char "Door Chad" str8 bussin fr fr no cap
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>this mad over an obvious joke
silly little NPC, there's no need to be upset at people having a bit of fun
4 months ago
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I will always call FeMC Hamuko after learning some japs called her that by making some bullshit pun with her placeholder name.
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It's amazing that pretty much 3 4 and 5 all have stage plays, meanwhile the only thing I know about them is this
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JP stage plays look like they would be fun as frick to see live
>doesn't offer his own interpretation of the MCs name >just names him whatever flavor of the month name he has at the time
whether it be minato, makoto, seta, yu, akira or ren, choosing any of them makes you an NPC who has limited imagination, you probably belong on reddit
Social links in P3 are basically just enabling someone until it blows up in their faces and they learn a lesson from them. Compared to 4 and 5 where it's more about helping them directly.
P3 is more realistic than the other games where you have to feed into everyone's delusions until they actually fall in love with you / consider you a close friend then you can tell them to frick off sort of like in Suemetsu's slink. In real life if you just walk up to someone and tell them >Stop smoking you're killing yourself
or something they'll just ghost you.
>Agree with Odogiri's zealousness
Not true. You're meant to disagree with the teacher's decision to expel the toilet smoker. It could've been written better but Odagiri is one example where you didn't just push him into madness all the time
to be fair, that's towards the end of his storyline, until then, you: >Agree that the petition to change uniforms is stupid >Pat him on the back for his hard work in harassing students >Agree with his assessment when he calls students who are upset with him neanderthals
he realizes his issues early than most though, I believe he's only starting to reconsider his stance around stage 8
Akechi is such a chad, seems like a fun guy to be friends with. You could have intellectual conversations while making fun of all the morons around you, also calling women prostitutes.
>idiotic pearl-clutching reasons
The reasons are very obviously to sell merchandise and because Persona 5 had special outfits separate from school uniforms for dungeoncrawling, if it had anything to do with them being concerned people would see it as Nazi imagery then the armbands wouldn't be in the game at all.
Do the kanji used for Makoto Yuki mean anything in particular? Or, at least more than Minato Arisato? It sounds like such a generic name in comparison, nevermind it meaning there's now 3 different Makotos in SMT. and only the tbh one gets pronounced right
>all this autism for a name you can pick yourself
stop obsessing over muh canon, obviously they have to give the mc a name in the adaptation but i don't think atlus themselves care
Apt Pupil doubles your crit rate, Crit Boost/Amp increase the chance by a given percentage. They stack so you should be using both for as many crits as possible.
Apt Pupil doubles your crit rate, crit boost/amp increases it by 5%/15% respectively and they stack
so does rebellion/revolution, but I'm not sure by how much
>complete reaper request >elizabeth request fight never appears
cool idc anyway it's just a puzzle fight
but why didn't it appear? Do I have to do something else besides delivering the bloody button?
Reload's level/EXP-scaling goes nuts if you kill something 10+ levels higher than you and gives you fricking quadruple EXP from the fight. And if Reload didn't change it, the Reaper is level 99 despite the final boss only being level 85.
lets be honest there was never a challenge after month 5
the only challenge is elizabeth and you have been killing everything up until now using that severe slash theurgy
I just don't understand it bros. When do I fuse my dudes? I know you get a bonus if you fuse it to a persona with your high social link. But I haven't found some of the social links in the game and it's frustrating because I want one of the fused characters but he gets no bonus exp because I never found the social link for it.
Fusing when your stock is full is a fine time to do it, obviously it's better to fuse when you're S. Link is high, but don't be too precious with it. You're not going to unlock some S. Links until way late in the game and you're not going to use every Persona you fuse anyway. You can also just by back any Persona you fuse from the compendium, so even if you fuse one you like using you can just buy it back if you want to hang on to it.
Registering to the compendium just registers the Persona in its current state, they're all automatically registered when you get them for the first time, but registering them manually overwrites the registered version so it'll have whatever level, stats and skills the version your registering has. If you mean is there no point in leveling a Persona of an Arcana you don't have the S. Link for, there's no more or less reason to do it than with any other Persona, the boost from the S. Link just makes the process of levelling them quicker because they get an experience boost when you fuse them.
This is not Pokemon, you aren't supposed to keep the same personas until they reach level 99 and evolve. You have to keep fusing in order to get stronger. Think of your persona compendium as your toolbox, if you dont fuse and get new skills your toolbox isnt ever going to grow. >But I haven't found some of the social links in the game and it's frustrating because I want one of the fused characters but he gets no bonus exp because I never found the social link for it.
Elaborate, what are you trying to fuse? What social link are you talking about? Im going to tell you straight up that you will not unlock Empress, Priestess, Sun, Lovers and Aeon right away. Judging from the screen shot you're at level 18, thats like 2 months into the game and every other social links should be available to you at this point.
It has P5 style menu and combat, some of P5 gimmicks are transferred over like technical being repurposed into mitsuru's passive and sumire's wired ambush into dash ambush.
>UI is heavily inspired by P5 >Baton Pass has been added (now known as Shift) >Finishing a battle with an all out attack ends with a splash scree, just like P5 >Tartarus exploration has been heavily reworked and is much more like Palace Infiltration >Theurgy attacks work very similarly to Showtimes >You can use network features to see how people answered questions in class, like in P5 >The Kouha and Eiga line of skills were added, base P3/Fes/Portable just had Hama/Mudo spells >Breakable objects are now in Tartarus for extra items, like in Palaces >Dash and Auto-Recover were added
There's more and many of these can be considered just standard series QoL adjustments, but its clear that P5 was the key inspiration for many aspects of the remake
I mean Persona has always been associated with being stylish, I wouldn't really consider making the UI being "like Persona 5" and more just their general design philosophy going forward.
Honestly I wouldn't classify Persona 1 through 4 to be particularly stylish in terms of the UI, it was very standard, with some nice visual touches (like the battle menu in 3 being a revolver cylinder)
Persona 5 is where they really put the effort into the UI, having Joker appearing with different animated poses in each of the different screens, or how the screen is like a sheet tearing off when you get a Once More, etc
Persona 3 borrowed heavily from this, when you open the menu, the MC falls into water and floats in the background and changes poses depending on what menu you are in and it adds some new flourishes of its own, like how when you get the flash of a characters eyes when scoring a crit/weak exploit, it shatters with the persona emerging, P3R upped the UI considerably compared to how it was originally
exploration has been heavily reworked and is much more like Palace Infiltration
lul wut
In the original game and its rereleases, you could split up your party and they would fight their own battles or try avoid them per your orders, this has been removed and now they just follow you (though you can occasionally send one to scout ahead if you get a prompt) you can also dash and break objects, you could also ask Fuuka to change the background music, but this was also removed, there is also more background chatter amongst the group
4 months ago
Anonymous
>Persona 5 is where they really put the effort into the UI
So you're saying P5 is the only game that should effort into the UI and everything else that does is ripping it off...?
4 months ago
Anonymous
P3R is very obviously influenced by P5 in its UI. It's not ripping it off, but to act like the very specific style that P5 was first to do and was popular for with having flashy menus that show the protagonist doing different things for each menu was something they decided to do for P3 completely separate of any influence from P5 is silly. It's not just vaguely falling under the same description of putting effort into its UI, it's taking a lot of specific things from how P5 did its UI and creating a new one from those things. A lot of games have good UIs, not a lot of them have good UIs in the way P5's is good, but P3R is one of them.
4 months ago
Anonymous
No, that's you being deliberately obtuse
Persona 5 is where the series really put effort into it, look at the UI in P5 compared to the original P3 (or other persona games) and its clear that P3 was emulating P5 in that respect, emulating doesn't mean bad, but it was very clearly inspired by it
What you think doesn't really matter. Atlus themselves has stated that ever since P3 style has always been an emphasis, maybe you don't think they succeeded until P5 but it's always obviously been an aspect since P3, and P5 doesn't have a monopoly on that.
this is a discussion on the UI being inspired by the standard P5 set, I never said the games lacked style in general, Persona has plenty of it, but in terms of its menus, P5 went much further beyond and I'm not the only one who thinks this, when P5 came out, the UI was given a lot of attention for how animated, sleek and striking it was, the UI in Persona before then wasn't singled out as particularly noteworthy.
The games were always praised for their style, I won't argue that and that's not the point I was making, the point is that P3R is emulating P5s UI
4 months ago
Anonymous
>by the standard
If it's the standard then it would be bad if it didn't have it, you're saying, so why whine about it?
4 months ago
Anonymous
I was never whining? Follow the reply chain, one poster said that the remake was meant for people who got into the series through 5, they asked how and I gave why
I think the remake looks pretty good, I never compared it to P5 as a negative, just that the remake took many ques from it when remaking 3, such as overhauling the UI to make it look more like P5, or all the gameplay elements that were never in the original but are now in P3R
4 months ago
Anonymous
What you think doesn't really matter. Atlus themselves has stated that ever since P3 style has always been an emphasis, maybe you don't think they succeeded until P5 but it's always obviously been an aspect since P3, and P5 doesn't have a monopoly on that.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>you can't split up or change the music >this means it has been a heavy rework to p5
4 months ago
Anonymous
am I incorrect? You hold the dash button breaking destructible objects as you go and exploration was altered so that you can't order teammates to explore on their own, the menu based combat has also been adjusted to be like P5, with X to attack, Triangle to open skills, etc
The music point was just one I thought up off the top of my head and I miss being able to put on Mayas theme but exploration feels much closer to palace/mementos exploration, even the camera is much closer to how it tracked Joker than in either P3 or P4
this isn't me ragging on the game, but P3R feels a lot more like P5 in terms of style, UI design and gameplay and less like the original P3
4 months ago
Anonymous
You have a weird fixating with thinking everything is like P5.
4 months ago
Anonymous
are you being moronic on purpose? You know comparing the newest game to the previous one is what EVERYONE does, right?
Do my observations bother you? Do you genuinely not agree that P3R took inspiration from P5?
I genuinely forgot how much this game loves to take away your free time lol
I was really hoping I'd be able to wrap up all my links by the time I hit January but I won't be able to do it
I'll just finish ranking the two I have closest to 10 and just focus on Aigis sorry fuuka and yukari
don't forget the track competition I didn't wanna do
and all you get out of it as Hayase's social link. They just added a new athletic rival to completely eclipse your old athletic rival. I don't even remember chariot boy's name
Why did Atlus have to make the worst remake they've ever done with my favorite Persona? Which of those fricking asiatics hate me THAT badly Ganker? I've never even been to 2chan or Japan.
he's an ayyy
unless you're talking about the chat with his mom
his whole social link is feels like a big soapbox from the lead writer on death, more than anything else in the game
but its still my favorite SL
>October Full Moon event
I played FES/Portable and I already know what happens but that hit hard... They have you hang out with him and learn his backstory and stuff, too. Goddamn...
i did do that but you know what's worse? i checked the fridge for my chilled taiyaki and there was a note from shinji saying he got 'this' as a gift, anyone can have it. +1 yaba chocolate
I've really been enjoying the remake despite some mostly minor complaints but nothing really wowed me until 10/4. The link episodes and dorm life content gets you so much more attached to Shinji and the small changes and additions to his last scene tie it up so well. Him dying in Aki's arms got me fricked up it's not FAIR bros
Victory Cry isn't unique. Only Orpheus Telos learns it innately, but it can be passed down to other Personas normally.
The following skills are unique and can't be passed down (doesn't include DLC): >Heaven's Blade (Uriel, Michael) >Pralaya (Shiva) >Maralagidyne (Mara) >Samsara (Daisoujou) >Die For Me! (Alice) >Black Viper (Satan)
Of the six, only Heaven's Blade is confirmed to be obtainable via mutation.
Scarlet Havoc is wild, even on Merciless, you can just chew through bosses in one go and you can get it pretty early
its even funnier that its affected by Charge/Koromaru's boost and probably crit/slash amp, though I have not tested
It does. I oneshot later bosses with it effortlessly that my siegfried ended up being lv80 at the end of the game.
Siegfried should've been a lv70++ persona
Yes, it can. If you wanna max out its damage potential, you use it with a Persona equipped with the following skills: >Slash Boost >Slash Amp >Multi-Target Boost >Crit Rate Boost >Crit Rate Amp >Apt Pupil
Also, one of the DLC Personas has Slash Driver (75%), but that's not relevant to everyone. Also it's cheesy as frick.
>Cadenza: Restores 50% HP and increases Accuracy/Evasion for all allies. >Jack Brothers: √80 power, 80% Down (AoE) >King and I: √180 power, 50% Freeze, Ignores resistances (AoE) >Best Friends: Next physical/magic attack will deal more than double damage for 1 ally. >Scarlet Havoc: √250 power, 20% crit, Ignores resistances (AoE) >Trickster: √300 power, 80% random ailment (AoE) >Armageddon: √9999 power, HP and SP reduced to 1 (AoE)
>Cyclone Arrow: √220 power, Ignores resistances (1 foe) >Tranquility: Next magic attack will deal more than double the damage for all allies.
>Hack n' Blast: √250 power, 20% crit, Ignores resistances (1 foe) >Blaze of Life: √450 power, Ignores resistances, Fully restores user's HP (1 foe)
These numbers all seem blatantly wrong. Also I'm pretty sure that Armageddon's number is literally impossible. Armageddon does flat 9999 damage no matter what. It shouldn't use square roots and it should ignore all factors including Atk, Ma, En, etc.
Those are actually the right attack values for all the Theurgy skills, but it's just putting a square root in front of them and assuming they're plugged into the same damage formula as regular skills, which you can tell just from playing the game they don't. And obviously Armageddon's attack doesn't get plugged into anything at all.
As for how Theurgy damage actually is determined, I don't know. I think character level is the largest factor.
Actually a few other skills in previous games seem to work in a similar fashion. This same site lists Pralaya's power in P4 as √220, which anyone who's used it in that game would be able to tell you isn't accurate. That would make it only slightly stronger than Vorpal Blade.
If you have a persona with torrent shot at the empress boss you’re awfully overleveled. That’s, like, a level 14 boss and the earliest persona with that skill comes at 21.
Look at this mindbroken homosexual, he spent months saying that bikini’s wouldn’t be in the game and now he has to cope with the fact that he was objectively WRONG.
Because P3 reload revived bikini in Japanese console game as we can see from Princess peach showtime's mermaid form and FF7 rebirth's Tifa in Ribbon bikini.
Many of her effects are combined. Her HP heal either removes ailments or also restores SP, which makes it a lot easier to use her as a free full SP restore.
Personabros this is my first Persona game and I have a question. I'm in June and almost all of my s links will say "I don't feel I can grow closer to [person] even if we hang out" so I've been skipping them but I'm reading in the thread you still get items/boosts from hanging out still so did I miss out on a months worth of stuff?
It's just worded oddly. It just means that they won't rank up if you hang out with them, but instead just gain points towards the next rank up. This happens for at a few points for several social links even if you have the correct Persona equipped and pick all the correct choices.
I take it back. Reload's velvet room is just as busted as P5R, only the skills you get are RNG. These mutations are stupidly OP.
It's an actual bad translation, it just means you won't get a rank up by hanging out with them. Either pull a fortune paper at the shrine on sunday or hang out with them once.
Holy shit I've been ignoring my track wife this whole time thinking we wouldn't get anywhere what the fuuuuuuck
It's just worded oddly. It just means that they won't rank up if you hang out with them, but instead just gain points towards the next rank up. This happens for at a few points for several social links even if you have the correct Persona equipped and pick all the correct choices.
I take it back. Reload's velvet room is just as busted as P5R, only the skills you get are RNG. These mutations are stupidly OP.
It's an actual bad translation, it just means you won't get a rank up by hanging out with them. Either pull a fortune paper at the shrine on sunday or hang out with them once.
Personally, I don't get why people have such strong attachment to manga names. None of the manga are even good, yet the names are that important to you?
>Currently in December and I have nothing to do on Sundays during the day >Check online stats and 80% of people are still doing Sunday SLs
Is my playthrough bricked? Did I focus too much on weekday SLs that can also be done during daylight on Sundays?
Also when is Aigis coming back? She's part of my main team and I'm waiting for her to return before I go back into Tartarus and it's almost Christmas.
You use sundays to hang out with your school SLs because sometimes they require two hang out to level up. Only sunday exclusive SLs are hermit and sun, and they only need like maybe 21 weeks to complete
>Did I focus too much on weekday SLs that can also be done during daylight on Sundays?
you should be hard focusing on school links first
Aigis isn't available for her link until January so you need to focus 10 of your 19 free January days to her
>Had to decline the Christmas Eve date event because I was afraid I might not have enough time to max out the school SL (particularly Fortune, because I'm only level 1 with him).
This better be worth it and gave me more time to max everyone out.
Lmao. You're fricked anyway. Winter vacation starts after Christmas and you can't do both Fortune and Aeon and Junpei's linked episode in the 18 school days in January. If your schedules line up perfectly you'll be 1 day short.
> surrendering to adhd completionist autism instead of just having fun
why
[...]
yeah
Maybe if Aigis or Elizabeth were available as Christmas dates I would do the event, also my 3rd choice Mitsuru wasn't available since I haven't reached rank 10 with her yet since I made her a low priority since her SL is available every day,
You can actually decline them?
Yes, when you go back to the dorm you can talk to the girls you romanced and they're disappointed and assumed you were hanging out with another girl.
Lmao. You're fricked anyway. Winter vacation starts after Christmas and you can't do both Fortune and Aeon and Junpei's linked episode in the 18 school days in January. If your schedules line up perfectly you'll be 1 day short.
There's literally still nothing else out there that blends day to day slice of life stuff and RPG dungeon diving. Especially not on a mechanical level to the point that shit you do in your day to day life impacts your dungeoning and vice versa. LITERALLY nothing else.
Perhaps because she spends the duration of the endgame and especially her social link going from stuck up to achieving a level of gap moe unique to only her character archetype.
they made this awesome song for one fricking cutscene at least give us it as a battle theme or something for frick sake no modder has done it yet either
>everyone talking about their future's >cherry blossoms flying everywhere while laying on Aigis' lap >Memories of You kicks in
I'm really feeling it now
It's 1/1
There is no way for me to max all Social Links, so I will just ignore Aigis and use Arcade on >her
This will be my final demon. Growth 3 will go away, although I don't know if it's better to have Drain Wind or Spell Master.
>better >random kid mistreating his grandma out of nowhere just for Aigis to have something to be upset at.
Honestly, I can't stand it when S.Links have a random character appear out of the blue just to accelerate the subplot. I hate Mitsuru's fiancee too. It's a truly excessive contrivance.
Okay so replaying this made me remember the question I haven't got the answer (ha) since I first played FES aeons ago.
So what is Ryoji born from? It's clear that he practically is the same as Nyx -- one half of the same coin, you might say, so he already exists as long as Nyx exists, which can be understood since forever. However when we met him at the beginning of December at the bridge, he said that he was born from the experiment ten years ago? So from when Nyx was 'born' until that point, where is Ryoji OR what form does he take? Was he implying that he's the whole shadow, and 10 years ago was just he gained his singular form (the Thanatos-looking one)?
On that note, let's assume that the experiment 10 years ago never happened. Will the Fall still happen?
Half the time I go to alt tan out of this game, it fricking freezes the computer and I have to reboot. My machine is like 2 years old and relatively high spec, what the frick. Does anyone else have this problem?
I have a 4 years old machine which paste haven't been replaced since late coof lockdown and I have no problem whatsoever. Been alttabbing the game to post here too everyday since release.
It’s so fricking weird, like half the time it’s fine and the other half it just locks everything. I’m so sick of it because I’m so used to alt tabing that I do it on reflex and have to reboot. It’s only for this game. I have tried freeing up memory and fricking with settings and having less tabs open on my browser. Didn’t do anything. Nobody else seems to have the same problem according to google.
When that happens it's usually on you, have you replaced anything in the last few months? Or it could be just windows update randomly deciding to frick you up until the next patch.
Nah I haven’t replaced anything at all, I cleaned the case/fans like 5 months ago but that’s it, haven’t touched it other than to clean the thing. But now that you mention it, I didn’t get a windows update a little while ago. I bet it’s fricking that.
Okay you nearly convinced me. One last thing, is Scarlet is just that strong that you don't need to charge it? Also I built this Futs as one of the Persona for the Liz fight, where if I understood her fight correctly, one burst damage is more valuable than chip damage.
Charge is good, since it's a 2.5x modifier. You just don't need it on the attacking Persona. Also be careful about using Personas that null anything. If Elizabeth's attacks get nullified, she'll instakill you.
>Merciless gives you a special Merciless-only collectible >Started on Hard and went through fusion autism for perfect personas in my compendium thinking that nothing could be gained from doing Merciless >Have to reset everything if I want to get everything in the game
I don't want to let go bros...
The smart thing would be to start on Merciless and at the end, make a separate save. For one save, turn the difficulty down and beat Nyx. For the other, keep the difficulty on Merciless.
>Started on Hard and went through fusion autism for perfect personas in my compendium thinking that nothing could be gained from doing Merciless
Is this your first time playing a megaten/ persona game?
I'm only a few days in but it seems a bit overwhelming that you can only do very limited things in a single day, so I feel like I'm always going to miss out on something or do the wrong thing each day.
Can I frick it up? First Persona game
don't worry about, just accept that you aren't getting 100% on your first run
and don't use guides, they only suck all the fun out
general tips:
days are for SLs only, prioritize school SLs
evenings are for social stats, SLs can wait, social stat priority is courage > charm > academics
dual stat jobs are bait, food and arcades are always better if you arent strapped for cash
Cringe
cringekino more like
>is le ironic good
kys
The fact that they are trying so earnestly to look cool in such a lame way makes it charming. Cringekino as the other anon said.
Tactical suits exist simply because P5 also had them, to sell more figures and so they can put them on promotional artwork replacing the "problematic" armbands. They have no soul or charm.
>replacing the "problematic" armbands.
Stupid Black folk like you are unbelieveable it's a wonder you remember to breathe. Japan still wears armbands, it's just part of their uniform design. It was changed because the remake homosexuals wanted to sell new designs.
Of all the shit to complain about you hyperfixate on MUH NATZEES like a fricking twitter addicted c**t on his fifth bottle of beanwater
Are you moronic or you simply don't know how to read?
Do you think that the western audience or marketers care about that?
>make up some bullshit narrative because noooooo muh frickin hitler the armbadns the nazis wore ambands too so they';re notallowed to weara them anymore noooooooo
>I'M the fricking moron
Genuinely, honestly, legitimately, unironically, with all certainty
Fricking have a nice day
Do it in a field, in the middle of nowhere
Let your rotten carcass be of some use to the world
>t. moron
But the armbands are still there
Not in the promotional material
I meant the cutscene itself. I don't really have strong opinions one way or the other on the outfits
>Tactical suits exist simply because P5 also had them
This part is correct, and you can fully expect P6, once it comes out, for the party to have dungeon outfits. I'm hoping for sentai/toku based outfits, but that probably won't happen.
P6 will reveal Featherman rangers not only really existed, but were Persona users.
Unspecified early-mid 20th century European dictator approves.
only homosexuals yell cringe at everything. that cutscene was cool af. Persona 3 reload won, love won. you lost chud.
>love won
This reminds of this license plate that I walk past every day, its supposed to say "LOVE CONQUERS HATE" on it but all of the letters except "HATE" faded out
Is there something about numbers in hindu mythology? 10 seems so oddly specific as opposed to "forever".
That cutscene was definitely not cool but it was very amusing.
It's so goofy it loops back to being good.
it's getting high off it's own farts
cringe culture is dead go back to plebbit homosexual
fpbp, remake was so proud of their lame designs they even game it a cutscene.
Worst cutscene in the game bravo atlus.
The worst is when it cuts to anime just to show girls in swimsuits.doing the dumb "kyaaaaaah" poses. It's embarrassing nobody wants to see girls posing like that.
homie you gay
But it revived bikini from Japanese console game which was banned by Kishida since Abe's death.
But it shows that bikini is revived from Japanese console game. While Ryza's swimsuit in Ryza 3 is safehorny burka, P3R has bikinis.
Sex with Yukari aaaaaaa
I love Yukari
Based and same.
>the armband stays on
Does Makoto really?
the armband says SEX
i wish i had saved that huehue screenshot with yukari cooking on sex day
found it
Why is this language just consistently hilarious?
idgi
Look at the name of the day.
oh kek
Haven't gotten to this part of the game yet but man this pic hits hard. Remember coming over to my girlfriend home in highschool and we were cooking food together alone and washing the dishes. And her little bro popping in making sure we weren't getting too close kek. Man those were some nice times.
There was this one time where her parents left for a bit. I was behind her and just wrapped my arms around her waist. Head on her shoulder. She was making eggs. She giggled and asked what's up. "Oh nothing " I remember just telling her I was enjoying this moment with her. Frick man teenage love was great wasn't it bros?
nice
i love her so much it hurts
YOU'RE MY SPECIALZ
This scene was great and anybody who hated it is just a homosexual that hates fun
>heres your godamn new designs now stop crying about having to wear a red circular armband while cosplaying cuz some funny mustache man also used one 80 years ago - the cutscene
God the new designs look so shitty
Well sorry for poisoning this thread with the OP image. I like Fuuka's outfit, it fits with her granny poncho winter outfit.
I think the new costumes are alright. Not sure if I prefer them over the original school uniforms, but the option for them still exists, along with any other costumes you get, so at least the choice is there for everyone playing it in general.
Pretty.
Nah, it's not your fault, it's just that our local trannies are really riled up right now due to the creator of the FeMC mod being a groomer, any thread would have failed
Oops
>Fricking around with skill evolutions.
>Panta Rhei evolves to bufudyne
I thought skills were supposed to only evolve UP a tier.
Finally fricking did it. Merciless Elizabeth is no more. I still can't figure out how to deal with Phase 2 itself, but my solution was to skip it entirely by nuking her Jack Frost with a fully set up Inferno once she was close to the HP threshold, and then following up with a Morning Star to force her to heal.
Best strategy for Reaper? Around level 80 right now.
Hassou Tobi
Yoshitsune isn't even in P3R.
I dunno I just start off with a full party auto demon, debilitate him, then start cycling through attacks while Yukari occasionally mediarahans. Everything works, he's not resistant to anything.
the theurgy attack you get by having helel and satan fused one shots reaper even on merciless. I went from level 80 to 99 in probably under 30 minutes like this.
you need to be 88 to fuse Helel
Shuffle Time Arcana reduces the required level by 6
Pozzed
soulless nu outfits
Persona 5 is better.
Is it just me, or did they make Yukari nicer in the remake? If you approach her without maxed charm she will say she's too preoccupied with something bothering her whereas (I'm pretty sure) in the original she just tells you to frick off because you're not swag enough.
reload is closer to the actual japanese
bitchy yukari was a localization thing
It's more that they cleaned up the localization. Yukari being a b***h was more due to the original localization and dub actor's delivery.
I know I'm probably alone on this but even though I know it's not accurate to the Japanese version, I prefer Yukari b***hy over being nice. Her being mean gave her an edge compared to all the other girls and made her more interesting. I don't hate her now or anything but really is weird to hear her say shit like how "The journey is just as fun as the destination!" while walking through Tartarus since it feels out of pocket.
you can put on your facade all you want, old localization is not coming back and good riddance
Twitter says Akihiko's Theulogy is mistranslated and he actually gets a charge boost from starting his turn while being buffed and so the buff can be from anyone.
Yeah that's exactly it
That's one hell of a mistranslation.
Yeah, and his buff amp applies to every buff, not just the one he casted to himself. He's actually the fastest character to charge their theurgy, because others have to do a specific action but he just need someone to apply a buff to him, which you will do anyway.
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What's with Atlus and RNG shit in fusion? Just why?
Hey at least we get manual inheritance now.
I got almighty amp, inferno and arms master in just 15 minutes. It's awesome.
I wish Fatlus would make a game that's like Persona, but with less VNshit. Just give me a super-stylish JRPG with a normal amount of dialogue and no calendarshit.
>Anon reverse engineers shin megami tensei
How come this is such a common phenomenon?
I tried Digital Devil Saga since apparently its a good starting point for SMT and it was pretty bland. Is SMT3 better?
I said stylish, not gay.
DDS is more story based, if you want a more gameplay focused experience I'd try SMT3 for sure.
They do.
https://www.ign.com/articles/shin-megami-tensei-5-complete-edition-rated-in-south-korea
Excellent news friend.
They do, nobody buys it though.
Why don't they make SMT as good as Persona?
Because it doesn't sell that well. P5 was only the way it was because P4 was popular and milked to death
Sorry that you're going to miss out on Metaphor.
SMT is right there
>Just give me a super-stylish JRPG with a normal amount of dialogue and no calendarshit
I wouldn't call them "super-stylish" or anything, but you should shop around the rest of the SMT subseries and mainline
Nocturne is a great game, bear in mind its 20yrs old and the HD Remaster adds some QoL, but it has aged well and has a feel like no other, you could also try SMT IV if you have a 3DS handy, an excellent game deserving of a future port
You can also try Strange Journey, but that's pretty hardcore even by megaten standards
could the P4/P5 cast handle Nyarly's bullshit
Door is strongest Persona protag and the P3 cast has newer tech to balance the lack of mass wild cards.
read Black person
of course Emo Jesus could handle it. I'm talking about Chad, Joker and their gaggles of stupid yes-men
They wouldn't be able to summon their Personas in the real world, but if they were under some circumstance that allowed them to summon their Personas they'd be as well positioned to deal with him as any other Persona cast.
In a battle against him? Depends on how well they're willing to accept that he is part of them. The IS cast got mad as frick at Nyarly and they lost hard, but the EP crew didn't deny that humans are a fricked up species and they won. The distinction here is the EP cast are actual adults so they don't have as much trouble with this kind of stuff as angsty teenagers do.
The IS cast lost because Nyarlathotep had Okamura stab Maya, not because they were in denial about him being part of the collective unconscious.
No, they're fricked.
I feel like the Persona 4 crew would have the hardest time.
Yu is too perfect of a character, Nyarly could easily mindfrick him with visions of a future where he fails and gets all his friends killed
As for Persona 5, it was pretty much a rehash of P2's main plot with the whole deal and everything, and even started including the lovecraft references in DLC, so I wouldn't be that surprised if they could do it.
Any tips on securing a spirit drain skull card? Or maybe how to shuffle without using so much sp
get lucky.
Censored woke game
Oh no, troonys were taken out, how will we survive without them
>just rolled credits
I started as a 4gay but I really liked that the final fight actually had stakes and consequences that the game didn't shy away from. I don't think Atlus have gotten it quite the same after that, which is strange.
Can someone tell me WHY Shinjiro was taking suppresants? I’ve yet to get a coherent reply.
The personas go berserk if you haven't been using them.
But then why does he stop taking suppressants after he joins back up then?
He needs his Persona to fight, obviously.
But it doesn't go berserk at all and he's able to use it normally when he's back. Doesn't that mean he never needed suppressants at all?
He's not really with us long enough to make an assessment about whether it's going to go berserk and based on his actions in battle and the effort he expends when summoning, he's going much more hardcore than the rest of the group so there's an assumption that he's just putting in infinitely more work than everyone else to make sure his team mates don't get fricked but do remember that willpower isn't infinite.
He couldn't control his persona correctly so he took suppressants to stop it from going out of control.
Though the deep lore is that Ken's mother deserved to die and his Persona was just doing the needful.
self loathing, he hated his Persona because he lost control of it, so he took them to punish himself and ensure he doesn't hurt anyone else
by the time he rejoins SEES, he knows his number is up, even if he has a better grasp of his persona at this point
Shinjiro had trouble controlling his Persona, and took them to keep it in check. Same reason the Strega members take it themselves, if I'm not mistaken.
Nice that they let her have one too.
he got too gung ho chasing a shadow outside of tartarus and accidentally killed ken's mother in the fight
he's taking the pills to try and remove his persona because he doesn't trust himself with it/ atone by dying
at least that what it was in vanilla p3, idk if they changed it in reload
>MC tuxedo is only available on the final Monad door
Boo frick you
PFFFT
Holy shit Siegfried is fricking broken.
>Deathblow
>Apt Pupil
>Crit Boost
>Crit Amp
>Auto Rebellion
>Auto Tarukaja
>Multi-Target Boost
this shit one shot 3 months worth of Tartarus
you could probably replace crit boost with slash amp, and get vortex blade on him
I'm like 99% the crit rate is capped at something like 60% like it was in P5
I forgot I had Slash boost/amp instead of the standard crit boost
Either way, Siefried is nuts, I replaced him only when I fused Futsunoshi, so he gets Vorpal Blade and all of the aforementioned skills
This is mine. I have Multi-target just for the theurgy.
Yeah that's very similar to what I had, except I kept Deathbound simply because he was such an effective encounter killer, even without Brave Blade/Single Boost, he was an efficient boss killer because of his absurd crit rate
For me, I already have an effective encounter clearer in Dakini, so I wanted Sieg to shit on single enemies for me.
My man did not disappoint.
I just replace crit boost with arms master
I wish SMTV was this good.
I wish mainline actually got love.
I wish Persona wasn't the official flagship series. How the frick does the spinoff supercede the original in every single way?
Social sim aspects make it much more popular with mainstream.
they could just add that to a DDS reboot (kek)
eat your friends
Persona 5's success and Soul Hackers 2 flopping was the death knell for all megaten spinoffs
Mainline is still going, but its never going to get the love Persona gets which might be for the best
I hate morgana so much its unreal and I'm a catgay. Koromaru is best mascot
Aigis is P3's mascot, not Koromaru.
>not just using a boosted Scarlet Havok
Where's best boy? And I'm not talking about Ken.
Link Episodes are actually really fricking great and should be the correct way to handle party members instead of individual social links going forward.
Nah, I still prefer S. Links. The Link Episodes are better than most S. Links in P3, but that's just because P3 doesn't have great S. Links. Link Episodes aren't functionally that different from S. Links aside from being much less rewarding, and if that's how they're going to be I'd rather just have it has an S. Link so I get to spend my time on an actually interesting narrative and get a meaningful change to the dungeoncrawling/combat instead of being in a position where I have to ask myself do I want to spend my time on a character and story I'm actually interested in with a Link Episode while knowing it's not an efficient use of time and will probably just give me a point in some social stat I'm long past the point of needing, or should I spend the time on an S. Link with a character I don't care about because it's more rewarding mechanically, and also a bit more interesting on its own mechanically seeing as there is the little bit you influence in it in trying to get as many points as possible with your dialogue options each rank.
I don't think there's much about the Link Episode structure that does anything good for it that couldn't be done with a S. Link. They are better than the S. Links in P3, but it has nothing to do with the structure s compared to S. Links, it's because they're about more interesting characters, which can be covered with S. Links, they're longer than the very short S. Link ranks of P3, which can be covered by S. Links, and they generally tell more interesting stories, which can be covered by S. Links. I think they're a good addition to P3R seeing as it's a way to let you spend time with party members without replacing any S. Links, but P6 isn't going to have to work around existing S. Links so I see no need for anything like Link Episodes.
The issue with party member social links has always been that they're generally irrelevant to the main story, since they have to be optional and can be done at any point. Any kind of development that happens in them generally ignores what happens in the main story and vice versa. While Link Episodes don't completely alleviate this, them being time-limited means they can easily reference events in the story and complement it. If they keep party social links, I'd hope they can at least make it similar to Link Episodes in that they complement story events instead of completely ignoring them.
That also is not something inherent to S. Links at all. Both Kasumi and Sojiro's S. Links do the same thing in P5. I do think there'd be no harm in timegating more S. Links to reference story events, but it's not something only Link Episodes can uniquely do.
People may hate to hear it, but the ideal approach to party member social links would be just throw timelocks onto them so they can reference events in the main story. They do seem to playing with the idea considering how Kasumi's stuff works in P5R with half her confidant being locked until her time in the main story.
Link Episodes are pretty much where modern Persona is with social links, which is why they are kind of jarring when you compare them to how simple the links were in P3.
It honestly kind of took P-Studio 3 full games to figure it out.
P4 was realizing "Oh yeah. We should probably give the male party members their own links, and maybe we can make it so your party members unlock abilities as you level up their link."
The fox was also a beta what would later become Confidants
P5 was them realizing "Maybe we should make it so that your non-party member links actually give you some kind of skill or ability that can be a major QoL feature for the player like Kawakami's massages or Chihaya's stuff."
I would say P5 is when they really figured it out, since I don't really think there was a bad confidant in that game. Some were definitely weaker, but I can remember more about the side cast in that game than I can from P3/P4.
I like that linked episodes are locked behind story events so they actually integrate. More social links need to pull this shit with party members.
I used the Satan+Helel theurgy on Elizabeth because it always hits for 9999.
I didn't realize she literally had twice that much health. Rip.
She heals and kills you if you get her to 1300 health so you're meant to use Armageddon to finish her off.
troony remake
since they removed the literal troony from the beach scene, wouldn't that make the game less troony?
>I am a shadow, the true self
What did Takaya mean by this?
he also has yellow eyes
He literally explains what he meant by it, maybe read the previous couple of lines of dialogue
I just started playing and I don't really like the new dub cast, especially Akihiko sounds way worse than in FES.
Should I grit my teeth and hope I warm up on people or go sub?
Akihiko remains shit but you get used to the rest, Fuuka is a huge upgrade.
They dont even have Dan Worren for Igor and Ikutsuki, this shit sucks im going sub bros.
JP has all the old voices so go JP. I'm still so confused why the ENG got the recasting but not the JP version.
Liam and Yuri are too expensive for more then a cameo, Vic got blacklisted, Ken and Fuuka's OG voices are hated/uncredited and recasted later anyway so at that point, they figured may as well rip the band-aid off entirely.
Shadow's don't exist in normal reality and the Dark Hour is the method they have of existing in the real world in 3 but are in their own dimension in 4/5 until end game.
>Shadow's don't exist in normal reality and the Dark Hour is the method they have of existing in the real world in 3 but are in their own dimension in 4/5 until end game.
Chidori's persona manifest outside the dark hour though, which is the weird part
Persona's are a part of you so they can be summoned IRL in stressful situations but are mostly only available in Shadow like realms.
It's because recasting in Japan is a serious deal. The VA has to be involved in a scandal, retired, or dead for them to recast. It doesn't matter that most of the cast is in their 40 to 60s, meanwhile people think a big reason why the dub was recast was because Atlus thought all of them were too old. Some of the old dubs VAs even voice npcs now.
I think it's cool, like a new generation of VAs. Younger voices for a teenage cast. They mostly sound similar enough to me. MC is fine, since it's similar to the JP but I do miss how Yuri screams the persona names. Only Akihiko's voice took a while to get used to. It's cool the older ones got cameos
I find the sub funny because they brought back the original VAs even though most of them are pushing well past 40 and still voicing teenagers
Ken's 12 and he's voiced by a woman in her mid 60s
Megumi ogata isn't that old. Well, she's still older than my mom though.
I think yukari, fuuka and ken mostly works. It's mitsuru who sounds older than she should've been.
I recommend going sub. Everyone besides MItsuru and Junpei sound off compared to prior games, and those two are just imitating the previous VAs.
Shame, I like Persona dubs, but reload made the choice for me.
Just go sub. They are all the same actors from the original game, and perform way better than the literal rando Atlus USA probably found on twitter or some shit
every voice is worse and the script is worse. I'd advise to just play FES again. You're not missing much
New Fuuka >>>>> Old Fuuka
New Yukari >>>>> Old Yukari
You should fricking have a nice day by pouring bleach down your eyes if you think this new neutered Yukari hold a candle to Michele Ruff
Looks more similar to herJP voice than Ruff and acts like it too so she is better in my books
Both the Jap and her new eng VA's sound like b-list anime side characters.
her jap va is revy idiot
she's shit
have a nice day, loser but before that take the nostalgia glasses out of your ass
recency bias is a sign of low IQ
The idiot has started to preach about IQ.
Seething
Well, I guess that's the end of that, then.
>Wanting something to be closer to the original is recency bias
End your pathetic life, nostalgiahomosexual
It's so funny to me to watch people defend budget voice acting just because it's what they grew up with.
ruff was always dogshit and a complete miscast for yukari
the whole localization is terrible
why are you holding to your delusions this hard?
have a nice day, the localization improved the game.
you retroactively justifying your hatred of yukari by clinging to a shit localization is pathetically transparent, i dunno why do you even bother
cry more, I'm not reading your autism
If you didn't play the dub I don't care what you have to say weaboo
Kill dubgays. Behead dubgays. Roundhouse kick a dubgay into the concrete. Slam dunk a dubgay baby into the trashcan. Crucify filthy dubgays. Defecate in a dubgays food. Launch dubgays into the sun. Stir fry dubgays in a wok. Toss dubgays into active volcanoes. Urinate into a dubgays gas tank. Judo throw dubgays into a wood chipper. Twist dubgays heads off. Karate chop dubgays in half. Curb stomp pregnant dubgay. Trap dubgays in quicksand. Crush dubgays in the trash compactor. Liquefy dubgays in a vat of acid. Eat dubgays. Dissect dubgays. Exterminate dubgays in the gas chamber. Stomp dubgay skulls with steel toed boots. Cremate dubgays in the oven. Lobotomize dubgays. Mandatory abortions for dubgays. Grind dubgays fetuses in the garbage disposal. Drown dubgays in fried chicken grease. Vaporize dubgays with a ray gun. Kick old dubgays down the stairs. Feed dubgays to alligators. Slice dubgays with a katana.
I like all Fuuka
everyone hates it but I find original dub voice cute
Old Fuuka sounded more like a robot than Aigis
can someone explain how P4 and P5 fit into P3 and the Dark Hour? Shadows seem like a very real thing in P3 but in the other games it comes off as the kids doing schizo larping
>Shadows are existences of pure thought and energy and do not possess physical bodies, and thus cannot interact with normal space. They do, however, possess the ability to manipulate space-time and use this ability to create the Dark Hour, a space existing outside of normal space-time where they can move freely. "Transmogrification" is merely an identifier of someone who does not exist within the Dark Hour, and thus cannot be affected by those within it. As for those with the "Potential", who can move freely within the Dark Hour, they are people who are able to use the shadows' space-time manipulation ability for themselves.
>As for those with the "Potential", who can move freely within the Dark Hour, they are people who are able to use the shadows' space-time manipulation ability for themselves.
is that the explanation for how Strega woke a dude from his coffin to kill him and how Shinji somehow killed Ken's mom? Wish this kinda thing was brought in the game itself.
In the case of Strega, probably. Personas and Shadows are two sides of the same coin; in particular, Strega's Personas are very close to Shadows since they didn't awaken properly (hence why their Personas are trying to kill them).
However, occasionally there are people who just happen to become active during the Dark Hour despite not being able to summon Personas. These are the ones who end up getting devoured by Shadows and contracting Apathy Syndrome. Amada and his mom just happened to wake up during the Dark Hour which unfortunately coincided with Shinjiro losing control over his Persona.
Do you get anything special for continually hanging out with Ryoji?
+1 to all stat bonuses for your personas
Also a fusion item.
Fuuka's a huge upgrade.
>Fuuka's a huge upgrade
unbelievably so, but i don't wanna sacrifice everyone else for a character i don't even like
>Also a fusion item.
Wait, we do? I didn't get one. When?
Final link episodes as with the boys.
in January all I did was raise Aigis's S-Link, take Koromaru out for walks, play-fight with Amada, and nap/go to bed early
isn't it what you wanted by following a guide
I didn't follow a guide, I just did the S-Links I wanted and didn't care about like a 3rd of them
go back to sucking dicks on reddit
TO MY FOES I NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHERE THAT HATRED CAME FROM
TRIED TO GET IT BUT NOW WE GOT DIFFERENT ANTHEM
COULDN'T FATHOM WHAT YOU MEAN BY JUST ABANDON
RATHER TRY TO FIX IT NO MATTER NO MATTER THE OUTCOME
I still don't get why P5 had the perfect setup to explain Igor's dead VA and they still fricked it up. They could've killed off Igor off-screen and replaced him with Elizabeth
>They could've killed off Igor off-screen and replaced him with Elizabeth
Mainline wants to remain independent from each entry, aside from minor references, as much as possible. I honestly like that factor because shit like Shadow Ops was a stupid idea in the first place, and it would completely take any tension out of the game if they just strutted in and stole the show from the new cast.
I mean the Shadow Ops is something that logically would exist after 3, they just gotta say they're always dealing with other shit.
Shadow Ops showing up in bumfrick nowhere Inaba for some reason, but ignoring Tokyo when the entire world was ending made zero sense. Just let SEES become normal adults and go on with their lives the best they can to respect Door's memory.
I literally cannot imagine a reality in which Mitsuru doesn't at least keep Aigis around as a continually upgraded killbot.
The entirety of the final stretch of P5 happens within the course of a few hours. Even if the Shadow Operatives had mobilized, the Phantom Thieves would have cleaned everything up long before they could.
They still did do it, I imagine they just thought it would be a bit too dark and mean-spirited to have him dead and gone forever off-screen after his VA died. I'm sure Jose will replace him in 6 anyway.
>he fuses ultimate personas with perfect skills
Embarrassing.
no bully
I basically make up with anything using skill cards now since I'm too lazy to do tons of cross fusing
>Entire S.Link is him being wrapped up in Strega's Death Cult because he's ugly and jealous of beautiful people
>Doesn't actually change at all except he sees you as a replacement for his little brother by the end
What a shit social link.
Yeah. Nozomi is girl's name. Fat girl in Love live had same name.
You will never be a visual novel.
You will never have a good story or even fun gameplay.
You will never be a game with good waifus that are also good characters at the same time.
Persona is for posers.
Die VNgay.
Anonymous Code is the worst mainstream VN I've ever read. 13 sentinel did what A;C wanted to accomplish better.
A;C was fine, it's not bad at all. Also doesn't change that S;G clears this trash JRPG.
>100% compendium
>Max all SLinks
>Fought Elizabeth on Merciless
>3 days later
>Wanna start another run but with AI party to see if the Blue Envelope does anything special on NG+ Merciless
Should I do it?
>Tell Kazushi to stop b***hing and keep running, even if it means he'll never walk again
>Push Kenji to go for his teacher
>Tell Maiko to run away from home
>Agree with Odogiri's zealousness
>Feed into Suemitsu's delusions
>these were all the correct ways to interact with them
>they thank me for 'helping' them at the end
heh, my pleasure
social interaction truly is a piece of cake
Akechi's character was much improved in Royal by giving him a bunch of smug portraits.
This is actually something I find really funny and kind of dislike about the game- you're often rewarded for making the objectively wrong choices, solely because it gives you more points, which is why you're doing the Social Links in the first place. Kind of makes Minato seems like a sociopath, which admittedly fits his character.
>moron who hasn't played the game has a moronic take
If you really don't like the new outfits, you're not forced to use them. The armbands are still there on the original outfits.
>Minato
>Persona 3: Minato
>Persona 4: Yu
>Persona 5: Akira
This is the way.
>naming them after spin-off material
literal NPC behavior
Persona 4 is Seta Souji though
>muh manga
it works as organic storytelling, you are just reinforcing their desired beliefs, telling them otherwise just upsets them until they realize it for themselves
still funny that you effectively act as the most toxic 'friend' imaginable and gameplaywise, its the most efficient choice
>Minato
lol, If you switch language mid playthrough MC's name will default to Makoto Yuki
>switching language mid playthrough
>not playing with the JP audio from the start
Although I suppose in fairness you wouldn't have any familiarity with the JP voice cast if you didn't use the undub for P3P or FES.
>giving the main characters iconic names is somehow NPC behavior
You're welcome to call your protagonist "stupid homosexual little wienersucker" if you want to, junior, but that basic shit ain't for me.
Language, idiot. Not voice.
I was assuming you meant voice and wrote language by mistake, because it is baffling that you would need to change your language settings in this game, where everything is translated.
Careful now, your newness is showing. We universally called him Minato or MC back in the day.
> because it is baffling that you would need to change your language settings in this game, where everything is translated.
I don't need to change shit you fricking idiot. Im just pointing out the devs put the name Makoto Yuki as Door's default name.
Okay, and? So what? They gave him his name from the films. It's not really a huge surprise.
Seems like you care quite a bit, zoomer, otherwise you wouldn't have repeated your wrong take over and over.
nobody cares grandpa, take your meds, its bed time
MC is fine, I am less harsh on Minato, since it was the name used in the relatively obscure manga that I'm confident very few people actually read it was okay, beginning in media res on the bridge probably wasn't the best idea
I just prefer when players name the protag on what they think he should be called, not because supplementary material named them long after the game came out
hell, people refer to the FeMC as Kotone because of a stage play no one saw or remembers
I always liked Minako better. I wasn't even aware Kotone came from a stageplay until you just mentioned it.
I just call him Door.
>please sign here, don't worry, its just a contract that says that you'll take responsibility for your own actions
>"Door Chad"
The first time I played Nocturne I put "Demi Fiend" as the name.
>hurr durr you're an NPC with no creativity
>brb gonna name my char "Door Chad" str8 bussin fr fr no cap
>this mad over an obvious joke
silly little NPC, there's no need to be upset at people having a bit of fun
I will always call FeMC Hamuko after learning some japs called her that by making some bullshit pun with her placeholder name.
It's amazing that pretty much 3 4 and 5 all have stage plays, meanwhile the only thing I know about them is this
JP stage plays look like they would be fun as frick to see live
>doesn't offer his own interpretation of the MCs name
>just names him whatever flavor of the month name he has at the time
whether it be minato, makoto, seta, yu, akira or ren, choosing any of them makes you an NPC who has limited imagination, you probably belong on reddit
Social links in P3 are basically just enabling someone until it blows up in their faces and they learn a lesson from them. Compared to 4 and 5 where it's more about helping them directly.
P3 is more realistic than the other games where you have to feed into everyone's delusions until they actually fall in love with you / consider you a close friend then you can tell them to frick off sort of like in Suemetsu's slink. In real life if you just walk up to someone and tell them
>Stop smoking you're killing yourself
or something they'll just ghost you.
There is a reason why Igor calls you out on this shit if you max everybody.
>Agree with Odogiri's zealousness
Not true. You're meant to disagree with the teacher's decision to expel the toilet smoker. It could've been written better but Odagiri is one example where you didn't just push him into madness all the time
to be fair, that's towards the end of his storyline, until then, you:
>Agree that the petition to change uniforms is stupid
>Pat him on the back for his hard work in harassing students
>Agree with his assessment when he calls students who are upset with him neanderthals
he realizes his issues early than most though, I believe he's only starting to reconsider his stance around stage 8
That's any human interaction for you
That's how you make friends, anon
Akechi is such a chad, seems like a fun guy to be friends with. You could have intellectual conversations while making fun of all the morons around you, also calling women prostitutes.
Why are bikini wearing girls irrelevalent in Persona? Akechi cannot wear a bikini for being cursed body type A, and VA being Kira Yamato.
>remove cool armbands for idiotic pearl-clutching reasons
>the resulting design sucks donkey dick
>idiotic pearl-clutching reasons
The reasons are very obviously to sell merchandise and because Persona 5 had special outfits separate from school uniforms for dungeoncrawling, if it had anything to do with them being concerned people would see it as Nazi imagery then the armbands wouldn't be in the game at all.
you frickers lied to me, it's been 3 hours and magic ability hasn't evolved frick you.
Anon you don't need that much damage. Put in single target boost and move on with your life.
suck my dick
Nothing in this game require that much of fusion autism. The people posting their persona with Magic Mastery most likely cheated it in anyways.
why did they ruin there outfits? can I go back to the originals?
Do the kanji used for Makoto Yuki mean anything in particular? Or, at least more than Minato Arisato? It sounds like such a generic name in comparison, nevermind it meaning there's now 3 different Makotos in SMT. and only the tbh one gets pronounced right
These homies really going to release the same game for the 5th time? The fifth time this exact same game with minor tweaks has been sold at full price
>use mod menu to cheat in dlc personas and skills
>they work fine
That's just not right.
Still getting used to on-disc DLC even in 2024?
I guess so, yeah. It's bizarre to me, but maybe I'm just that out of touch.
the data is included there
you bought the game
These outfits were all terrible and overdesigned. I'm glad they didn't overwrite the original defaults.
>all this autism for a name you can pick yourself
stop obsessing over muh canon, obviously they have to give the mc a name in the adaptation but i don't think atlus themselves care
Are there any functional differences between Apt Pupil and the new crit boost skills?
Multiplicative vs additive
Apt Pupil doubles your crit rate, Crit Boost/Amp increase the chance by a given percentage. They stack so you should be using both for as many crits as possible.
Apt Pupil doubles your crit rate, crit boost/amp increases it by 5%/15% respectively and they stack
so does rebellion/revolution, but I'm not sure by how much
>complete reaper request
>elizabeth request fight never appears
cool idc anyway it's just a puzzle fight
but why didn't it appear? Do I have to do something else besides delivering the bloody button?
I got it right away, but it is in the last Monad door so I assume you need to clear every other Monad Passage to get it.
I did it on the first day I could, I even went back and the door still wouldn't open (the last one after defeating the shadow abaddon)
Do the final monad door.
>Challenge the Reaper
>Prevail
>gain like 20 fricking levels
>reset so I have at least SOME challenge left before the end
Reload's level/EXP-scaling goes nuts if you kill something 10+ levels higher than you and gives you fricking quadruple EXP from the fight. And if Reload didn't change it, the Reaper is level 99 despite the final boss only being level 85.
lets be honest there was never a challenge after month 5
the only challenge is elizabeth and you have been killing everything up until now using that severe slash theurgy
does this game have the shirt of chivalry or did I somehow miss it?
No, only tuxedo
I HATE THE NEW OUTFITS
why
its not how the the old game was
It's different and I'm a sperg
because
>Old?
GOOD
>New?
BAD
The new Yukari is too cute bros. I miss the old giga stacey Yukari.
So cute.
Just got Fuuka, around lvl 18. Are there any personas like shiki-ouji from 5 that punch above their weight class?
motherfricking Siegfried my boy, though that's not til later
Mothman
it doesnt matter
why is my persona french and trying to kill me?
I just don't understand it bros. When do I fuse my dudes? I know you get a bonus if you fuse it to a persona with your high social link. But I haven't found some of the social links in the game and it's frustrating because I want one of the fused characters but he gets no bonus exp because I never found the social link for it.
Fusing when your stock is full is a fine time to do it, obviously it's better to fuse when you're S. Link is high, but don't be too precious with it. You're not going to unlock some S. Links until way late in the game and you're not going to use every Persona you fuse anyway. You can also just by back any Persona you fuse from the compendium, so even if you fuse one you like using you can just buy it back if you want to hang on to it.
Oh is that what registering my persona to the compendium does?
>You're not going to unlock some S. Links until way late in the game
What the frick. So there's no point in focusing on leveling those?
Registering to the compendium just registers the Persona in its current state, they're all automatically registered when you get them for the first time, but registering them manually overwrites the registered version so it'll have whatever level, stats and skills the version your registering has. If you mean is there no point in leveling a Persona of an Arcana you don't have the S. Link for, there's no more or less reason to do it than with any other Persona, the boost from the S. Link just makes the process of levelling them quicker because they get an experience boost when you fuse them.
Just keep fusing, keep personas near your level. Don't get too attached.
This is not Pokemon, you aren't supposed to keep the same personas until they reach level 99 and evolve. You have to keep fusing in order to get stronger. Think of your persona compendium as your toolbox, if you dont fuse and get new skills your toolbox isnt ever going to grow.
>But I haven't found some of the social links in the game and it's frustrating because I want one of the fused characters but he gets no bonus exp because I never found the social link for it.
Elaborate, what are you trying to fuse? What social link are you talking about? Im going to tell you straight up that you will not unlock Empress, Priestess, Sun, Lovers and Aeon right away. Judging from the screen shot you're at level 18, thats like 2 months into the game and every other social links should be available to you at this point.
Is this game decent if I never played the original? I did enjoy P5 if that helps.
Yes, it's meant for the people who got into the series through 5
The remake is? In what way?
It has P5 style menu and combat, some of P5 gimmicks are transferred over like technical being repurposed into mitsuru's passive and sumire's wired ambush into dash ambush.
Ah that makes sense, I started playing a bit last night and did find it a bit odd that it was so similar in some ways.
>UI is heavily inspired by P5
>Baton Pass has been added (now known as Shift)
>Finishing a battle with an all out attack ends with a splash scree, just like P5
>Tartarus exploration has been heavily reworked and is much more like Palace Infiltration
>Theurgy attacks work very similarly to Showtimes
>You can use network features to see how people answered questions in class, like in P5
>The Kouha and Eiga line of skills were added, base P3/Fes/Portable just had Hama/Mudo spells
>Breakable objects are now in Tartarus for extra items, like in Palaces
>Dash and Auto-Recover were added
There's more and many of these can be considered just standard series QoL adjustments, but its clear that P5 was the key inspiration for many aspects of the remake
I mean Persona has always been associated with being stylish, I wouldn't really consider making the UI being "like Persona 5" and more just their general design philosophy going forward.
Honestly I wouldn't classify Persona 1 through 4 to be particularly stylish in terms of the UI, it was very standard, with some nice visual touches (like the battle menu in 3 being a revolver cylinder)
Persona 5 is where they really put the effort into the UI, having Joker appearing with different animated poses in each of the different screens, or how the screen is like a sheet tearing off when you get a Once More, etc
Persona 3 borrowed heavily from this, when you open the menu, the MC falls into water and floats in the background and changes poses depending on what menu you are in and it adds some new flourishes of its own, like how when you get the flash of a characters eyes when scoring a crit/weak exploit, it shatters with the persona emerging, P3R upped the UI considerably compared to how it was originally
In the original game and its rereleases, you could split up your party and they would fight their own battles or try avoid them per your orders, this has been removed and now they just follow you (though you can occasionally send one to scout ahead if you get a prompt) you can also dash and break objects, you could also ask Fuuka to change the background music, but this was also removed, there is also more background chatter amongst the group
>Persona 5 is where they really put the effort into the UI
So you're saying P5 is the only game that should effort into the UI and everything else that does is ripping it off...?
P3R is very obviously influenced by P5 in its UI. It's not ripping it off, but to act like the very specific style that P5 was first to do and was popular for with having flashy menus that show the protagonist doing different things for each menu was something they decided to do for P3 completely separate of any influence from P5 is silly. It's not just vaguely falling under the same description of putting effort into its UI, it's taking a lot of specific things from how P5 did its UI and creating a new one from those things. A lot of games have good UIs, not a lot of them have good UIs in the way P5's is good, but P3R is one of them.
No, that's you being deliberately obtuse
Persona 5 is where the series really put effort into it, look at the UI in P5 compared to the original P3 (or other persona games) and its clear that P3 was emulating P5 in that respect, emulating doesn't mean bad, but it was very clearly inspired by it
this is a discussion on the UI being inspired by the standard P5 set, I never said the games lacked style in general, Persona has plenty of it, but in terms of its menus, P5 went much further beyond and I'm not the only one who thinks this, when P5 came out, the UI was given a lot of attention for how animated, sleek and striking it was, the UI in Persona before then wasn't singled out as particularly noteworthy.
The games were always praised for their style, I won't argue that and that's not the point I was making, the point is that P3R is emulating P5s UI
>by the standard
If it's the standard then it would be bad if it didn't have it, you're saying, so why whine about it?
I was never whining? Follow the reply chain, one poster said that the remake was meant for people who got into the series through 5, they asked how and I gave why
I think the remake looks pretty good, I never compared it to P5 as a negative, just that the remake took many ques from it when remaking 3, such as overhauling the UI to make it look more like P5, or all the gameplay elements that were never in the original but are now in P3R
What you think doesn't really matter. Atlus themselves has stated that ever since P3 style has always been an emphasis, maybe you don't think they succeeded until P5 but it's always obviously been an aspect since P3, and P5 doesn't have a monopoly on that.
>you can't split up or change the music
>this means it has been a heavy rework to p5
am I incorrect? You hold the dash button breaking destructible objects as you go and exploration was altered so that you can't order teammates to explore on their own, the menu based combat has also been adjusted to be like P5, with X to attack, Triangle to open skills, etc
The music point was just one I thought up off the top of my head and I miss being able to put on Mayas theme but exploration feels much closer to palace/mementos exploration, even the camera is much closer to how it tracked Joker than in either P3 or P4
this isn't me ragging on the game, but P3R feels a lot more like P5 in terms of style, UI design and gameplay and less like the original P3
You have a weird fixating with thinking everything is like P5.
are you being moronic on purpose? You know comparing the newest game to the previous one is what EVERYONE does, right?
Do my observations bother you? Do you genuinely not agree that P3R took inspiration from P5?
exploration has been heavily reworked and is much more like Palace Infiltration
lul wut
I think my copy of the game is broken? My Door just went to sleep in Aigis' lap instead of dying.
Inferior version in every way
best girls
I genuinely forgot how much this game loves to take away your free time lol
I was really hoping I'd be able to wrap up all my links by the time I hit January but I won't be able to do it
I'll just finish ranking the two I have closest to 10 and just focus on Aigis
sorry fuuka and yukari
>came first in the exam
>still forced into summer school
don't forget the track competition I didn't wanna do
and all you get out of it as Hayase's social link. They just added a new athletic rival to completely eclipse your old athletic rival. I don't even remember chariot boy's name
to be fair, you needed a new one after your old one fricked up his leg
we're gonna need a third one after his mom ruins his life with her japanese work autism
Don't worry, Door-kun will get one next year after they beat Nyx.
I mean Mitsuru went too and she's top of her class also.
the typhoon always pissed me off more
Why did Atlus have to make the worst remake they've ever done with my favorite Persona? Which of those fricking asiatics hate me THAT badly Ganker? I've never even been to 2chan or Japan.
it's not their fault, they did the best they could do with Unreal Engine. UE4 is soulless at its core
I maxed hermit when can I fug my teacher?
March 5th
Oh okay, I forget how long P3 lasts.
Well you play Persona, so I'd say you fricking deserve it.
did they fix the story? it was so fricking boring.
Nah it's still pretty slow and boring. I got mine refunded.
No female belly button = no buy
What Persona should I shove all my Auto-Ma skills on?
Probably one with dumpy stats.
Ones with high Agi to make sure you always go first.
>That Akinari social link ending
Wasn't expecting that.
he's an ayyy
unless you're talking about the chat with his mom
his whole social link is feels like a big soapbox from the lead writer on death, more than anything else in the game
but its still my favorite SL
>Akinari returned to his home planet.
What comes first, P6 or Silksong?
>October Full Moon event
I played FES/Portable and I already know what happens but that hit hard... They have you hang out with him and learn his backstory and stuff, too. Goddamn...
you think that's bad
if you did all of Shinji's link events, you get an extra scene if you visit his room after his demise
i did do that but you know what's worse?
i checked the fridge for my chilled taiyaki and there was a note from shinji saying he got 'this' as a gift, anyone can have it.
+1 yaba chocolate
I've really been enjoying the remake despite some mostly minor complaints but nothing really wowed me until 10/4. The link episodes and dorm life content gets you so much more attached to Shinji and the small changes and additions to his last scene tie it up so well. Him dying in Aki's arms got me fricked up it's not FAIR bros
I'm just now reading that Chidori can be revived and that its canon according to P4A
Is it possible to look into P3R's files and see what unique skills other than Heaven's Blade can be obtained via skill mutation?
I was able to get Ice Amp to mutate into Morning Star.
Morning Star can also be inherited normally.
Heaven's Blade
Magic Mastery
Almighty Amp
Victory Cry
Victory Cry isn't unique. Only Orpheus Telos learns it innately, but it can be passed down to other Personas normally.
The following skills are unique and can't be passed down (doesn't include DLC):
>Heaven's Blade (Uriel, Michael)
>Pralaya (Shiva)
>Maralagidyne (Mara)
>Samsara (Daisoujou)
>Die For Me! (Alice)
>Black Viper (Satan)
Of the six, only Heaven's Blade is confirmed to be obtainable via mutation.
Yes only Orpheus Telos learns it, but you can get it earlier than intended by mutation.
My question is whether any uninheritable skills other than Heaven's Blade can be obtained this way.
well shit maybe you should have said so then
>Scarlet Havoc's power is √250
>Vorpal Blade's power is √580
This sounds like bullshit. There's no way Vorpal Blade's base power is higher than Scarlet Havoc.
Scarlet Havoc is wild, even on Merciless, you can just chew through bosses in one go and you can get it pretty early
its even funnier that its affected by Charge/Koromaru's boost and probably crit/slash amp, though I have not tested
It is affected by slash amp
excellent, but I just realized, can it crit? I don't think I paid attention to if it ever crit
It does. I oneshot later bosses with it effortlessly that my siegfried ended up being lv80 at the end of the game.
Siegfried should've been a lv70++ persona
Yes, it can. If you wanna max out its damage potential, you use it with a Persona equipped with the following skills:
>Slash Boost
>Slash Amp
>Multi-Target Boost
>Crit Rate Boost
>Crit Rate Amp
>Apt Pupil
Also, one of the DLC Personas has Slash Driver (75%), but that's not relevant to everyone. Also it's cheesy as frick.
>mfw my Futsonushi has all of those
no wonder it dealt so much fricking damage
Crit rate skills don't stack in the original. Not sure if that transferred to the demake.
Scarlet Havoc is ridiculously OP, I regret oneshotting every floor boss with it
>Cadenza: Restores 50% HP and increases Accuracy/Evasion for all allies.
>Jack Brothers: √80 power, 80% Down (AoE)
>King and I: √180 power, 50% Freeze, Ignores resistances (AoE)
>Best Friends: Next physical/magic attack will deal more than double damage for 1 ally.
>Scarlet Havoc: √250 power, 20% crit, Ignores resistances (AoE)
>Trickster: √300 power, 80% random ailment (AoE)
>Armageddon: √9999 power, HP and SP reduced to 1 (AoE)
>Cyclone Arrow: √220 power, Ignores resistances (1 foe)
>Tranquility: Next magic attack will deal more than double the damage for all allies.
>Hack n' Blast: √250 power, 20% crit, Ignores resistances (1 foe)
>Blaze of Life: √450 power, Ignores resistances, Fully restores user's HP (1 foe)
>Lightning Spike: √100 power, 20% Shock, Ignores resistances (AoE)
>Electric Onslaught: √200 power, 80% Shock, Ignores resistances (1 foe)
>Blizzard Edge: √180 power, 80% Freeze, Ignores resistances (1 foe)
>Blade of Execution: √350 power, Decreases all stats (1 foe)
>Orgia Mode: √100 power, Ignores resistances, Ignores orders for a time (AoE)
>Maximum Firepower: √250 power, 15% crit, Ignores resistances (1 foe)
>Divine Retribution: √230 power, Ignores resistances (1 foe)
>Divine Intervention: Revives party, fully restores allies' HP, and will reflect 1 attack.
>Hound of Hades: √220 power, Ignores resistances (1 foe)
>Power Howling: Next physical attack will deal more than double the damage for all allies.
>Bleeding Fury: √280 power, 30% crit, Ignores resistances (1 foe)
These numbers all seem blatantly wrong. Also I'm pretty sure that Armageddon's number is literally impossible. Armageddon does flat 9999 damage no matter what. It shouldn't use square roots and it should ignore all factors including Atk, Ma, En, etc.
Where are you getting these numbers?
https://aqiu384.github.io/megaten-fusion-tool/p3r/skills
I think it uses a different formula for them
Those are actually the right attack values for all the Theurgy skills, but it's just putting a square root in front of them and assuming they're plugged into the same damage formula as regular skills, which you can tell just from playing the game they don't. And obviously Armageddon's attack doesn't get plugged into anything at all.
As for how Theurgy damage actually is determined, I don't know. I think character level is the largest factor.
Actually a few other skills in previous games seem to work in a similar fashion. This same site lists Pralaya's power in P4 as √220, which anyone who's used it in that game would be able to tell you isn't accurate. That would make it only slightly stronger than Vorpal Blade.
>playing a censored demake
ew
>using naga with torrent shot killed empress boss on empress in 2 turn almost 1
so much for "merciless" and for the balancing multi hit skills
No shit, empress is an analysis tutorial. It was even easier in the original.
If you have a persona with torrent shot at the empress boss you’re awfully overleveled. That’s, like, a level 14 boss and the earliest persona with that skill comes at 21.
Why did they keep Best Friends?
soul
Who should I bring to the Nyx fight?
Koromaru
he's all you need
Why does Koro mogs body type B humans in bikini by existence? Koro is cute onahole than these human girls.
Da Man
healwife
Yukari can wear a bikini while Ryza in Ryza 3 wears safehorny burka instead of bikini she worn in prequels.
Look at this mindbroken homosexual, he spent months saying that bikini’s wouldn’t be in the game and now he has to cope with the fact that he was objectively WRONG.
Because P3 reload revived bikini in Japanese console game as we can see from Princess peach showtime's mermaid form and FF7 rebirth's Tifa in Ribbon bikini.
Damn thats some cleavage. I dont believe it.
Or you were just wrong and a schizo
>Yukari's little squat after an all out attack with the swimsuit
Mario Sunshine?
>yukari's thumbs up followed by a big grin when you shift to her
>yukari's sideways glance after her first theurgy
I can only take so much.
junpei, koromaru and Ken.
Debilitate and revolution with koromaru. Keep mc and junpei fully buffed up with ken
>cast Blaze of Life for the first time
>that heal animation at the end
Damn, that got me.
>got heavens blade on oberon
based moron rng
>This bufu-less ice amp fuccboi is fricking a babe like Titania
FRICK
WHITE TIGHTS MAN
WHITE TIGHTS MAN
>wake up
>see this
>GET UP
what do?
Wait, what does Fuuka's upgraded Theurgy do? I just unlocked it and I just got the same effect as before.
Chance of casting Charge + Concentrate on the entire party. At least that's the new effect i noticed after she evolved her persona
Many of her effects are combined. Her HP heal either removes ailments or also restores SP, which makes it a lot easier to use her as a free full SP restore.
anyone have that gif of some dude with a cap sheathing a katana? reminds me of the dude in the back
Personabros this is my first Persona game and I have a question. I'm in June and almost all of my s links will say "I don't feel I can grow closer to [person] even if we hang out" so I've been skipping them but I'm reading in the thread you still get items/boosts from hanging out still so did I miss out on a months worth of stuff?
that messages just means you won't get a social link rank up for that day, the next time you hang out with them after, you will
Holy shit I've been ignoring my track wife this whole time thinking we wouldn't get anywhere what the fuuuuuuck
It's just worded oddly. It just means that they won't rank up if you hang out with them, but instead just gain points towards the next rank up. This happens for at a few points for several social links even if you have the correct Persona equipped and pick all the correct choices.
I take it back. Reload's velvet room is just as busted as P5R, only the skills you get are RNG. These mutations are stupidly OP.
It's an actual bad translation, it just means you won't get a rank up by hanging out with them. Either pull a fortune paper at the shrine on sunday or hang out with them once.
>Reach January
>Dorm colors become muted
Holy kino
Honestly wish the whole game had those muted colors. Fit the tone of the game far better
ENTER
lmao got magic mastery while trying to pass unshaken will around
It really is bullshit how it can't be inherited. What the frick is this supposed to accomplish Atlus you dumbfricks?
Also, you don't need Unshaken Will. Amritite Necklace is worth 500k.
I guess they wanted to replicate the old rng velvet room bullshit but without fricking you over too much
Lol. Lmao. And you can't even take advantage of it because there are no cards for severe skills.
Unshaken Will does not protect against freeze, shock, or poison. Insta-Heal is better and the 500k becklace is best as it nulls all ailments.
Personally, I don't get why people have such strong attachment to manga names. None of the manga are even good, yet the names are that important to you?
I named mine Mayor McCheese
is the "buy running shoes for cripple boy" still in reload?
>Currently in December and I have nothing to do on Sundays during the day
>Check online stats and 80% of people are still doing Sunday SLs
Is my playthrough bricked? Did I focus too much on weekday SLs that can also be done during daylight on Sundays?
Also when is Aigis coming back? She's part of my main team and I'm waiting for her to return before I go back into Tartarus and it's almost Christmas.
You use sundays to hang out with your school SLs because sometimes they require two hang out to level up. Only sunday exclusive SLs are hermit and sun, and they only need like maybe 21 weeks to complete
>Did I focus too much on weekday SLs that can also be done during daylight on Sundays?
you should be hard focusing on school links first
Aigis isn't available for her link until January so you need to focus 10 of your 19 free January days to her
Reloads soundtrack is growing on me, still prefer the original but it's definitely not bad at all
No. It's bad.
It's going down rules
>Had to decline the Christmas Eve date event because I was afraid I might not have enough time to max out the school SL (particularly Fortune, because I'm only level 1 with him).
This better be worth it and gave me more time to max everyone out.
>he didn't prioritize the social links whenever they were available
casual gamer
Maybe if Aigis or Elizabeth were available as Christmas dates I would do the event, also my 3rd choice Mitsuru wasn't available since I haven't reached rank 10 with her yet since I made her a low priority since her SL is available every day,
Yes, when you go back to the dorm you can talk to the girls you romanced and they're disappointed and assumed you were hanging out with another girl.
You can actually decline them?
Lmao. You're fricked anyway. Winter vacation starts after Christmas and you can't do both Fortune and Aeon and Junpei's linked episode in the 18 school days in January. If your schedules line up perfectly you'll be 1 day short.
> surrendering to adhd completionist autism instead of just having fun
why
yeah
Why play persona games when you could just watch better anime with similar concepts? There are thousands of anime revolving around high school.
>why play fighting games when there are thousands of shows about with fighting
Persona isn’t a fighter but a slow story game about high school.
Are you forgetting about the dungeon crawling and rpg mechanics?
>artificial gameplay
Just watch anime. JRPGs somehow stretch what can be told in 4 hours into 40+ hours.
gameplay
What a frickin meme lol
>ARTIFICIAL GAMEPLAY
Is this the newest moronic buzzword?
some moron has been trying to shitpost reload thread with "lmao anime game" bullshit, just ignore him
There's literally still nothing else out there that blends day to day slice of life stuff and RPG dungeon diving. Especially not on a mechanical level to the point that shit you do in your day to day life impacts your dungeoning and vice versa. LITERALLY nothing else.
You know, I don't even remember why I chose Mitsuru in the original.
She seems way too stuck up.
Perhaps because she spends the duration of the endgame and especially her social link going from stuck up to achieving a level of gap moe unique to only her character archetype.
burger cute
they made this awesome song for one fricking cutscene at least give us it as a battle theme or something for frick sake no modder has done it yet either
bruh it november and I'm tapped fr think it over bruhs shit boring
>everyone talking about their future's
>cherry blossoms flying everywhere while laying on Aigis' lap
>Memories of You kicks in
I'm really feeling it now
I always name my MC Hugh Janus because it's hilarious
how do I into locked door in the final monad?
you kill the reaper and finish the reaper assignment elizabeth gives you.
It's 1/1
There is no way for me to max all Social Links, so I will just ignore Aigis and use Arcade on
>her
This will be my final demon. Growth 3 will go away, although I don't know if it's better to have Drain Wind or Spell Master.
2/2 post
>this
b***h carried me through big big part of this game.
I'm keeping her.
at least give your waifu proper amp and boost
Organize your skills
I already organized it though, defensive -> amps
Why would you ignore Aigis, she's one of the better social links in the game
>better
>random kid mistreating his grandma out of nowhere just for Aigis to have something to be upset at.
Honestly, I can't stand it when S.Links have a random character appear out of the blue just to accelerate the subplot. I hate Mitsuru's fiancee too. It's a truly excessive contrivance.
based coomer bro disregarding mary sue robot thot
cute
>memories of the city start playing
HOLY
KINO
WHAT A GAME LADS
Yes FES is great
the new memories of the school doesn't evoke the same feelings as the old one, it comes off more whimsical or something i don't know
Someone please post the gif of Mitsuru burning money, I can’t fricking find it in my folder and it’s pissing me off
Okay so replaying this made me remember the question I haven't got the answer (ha) since I first played FES aeons ago.
So what is Ryoji born from? It's clear that he practically is the same as Nyx -- one half of the same coin, you might say, so he already exists as long as Nyx exists, which can be understood since forever. However when we met him at the beginning of December at the bridge, he said that he was born from the experiment ten years ago? So from when Nyx was 'born' until that point, where is Ryoji OR what form does he take? Was he implying that he's the whole shadow, and 10 years ago was just he gained his singular form (the Thanatos-looking one)?
On that note, let's assume that the experiment 10 years ago never happened. Will the Fall still happen?
The scientists took a frickton of Shadows from Arcanas I-XII and fused all of them into a single being.
Eventually, yes.
Erebus or the equivalent would still form and try suicide by Nyx. Tartarus became the huge antenna to send signal faster
Half the time I go to alt tan out of this game, it fricking freezes the computer and I have to reboot. My machine is like 2 years old and relatively high spec, what the frick. Does anyone else have this problem?
I have a 4 years old machine which paste haven't been replaced since late coof lockdown and I have no problem whatsoever. Been alttabbing the game to post here too everyday since release.
It’s so fricking weird, like half the time it’s fine and the other half it just locks everything. I’m so sick of it because I’m so used to alt tabing that I do it on reflex and have to reboot. It’s only for this game. I have tried freeing up memory and fricking with settings and having less tabs open on my browser. Didn’t do anything. Nobody else seems to have the same problem according to google.
Fricking. Bizarre.
When that happens it's usually on you, have you replaced anything in the last few months? Or it could be just windows update randomly deciding to frick you up until the next patch.
Nah I haven’t replaced anything at all, I cleaned the case/fans like 5 months ago but that’s it, haven’t touched it other than to clean the thing. But now that you mention it, I didn’t get a windows update a little while ago. I bet it’s fricking that.
What should I replace Multi Target Boost with.
Bloody Charge. You don't need it on Futsunushi specifically.
But it also (more than doubles) Scarlet Havoc.
Two things: It's just Charge + Revolution.
And you can give it to another Persona.
Okay you nearly convinced me. One last thing, is Scarlet is just that strong that you don't need to charge it? Also I built this Futs as one of the Persona for the Liz fight, where if I understood her fight correctly, one burst damage is more valuable than chip damage.
Charge is good, since it's a 2.5x modifier. You just don't need it on the attacking Persona. Also be careful about using Personas that null anything. If Elizabeth's attacks get nullified, she'll instakill you.
>Merciless gives you a special Merciless-only collectible
>Started on Hard and went through fusion autism for perfect personas in my compendium thinking that nothing could be gained from doing Merciless
>Have to reset everything if I want to get everything in the game
I don't want to let go bros...
seems pointless if you don't actually want to go for ng+
let it go
The smart thing would be to start on Merciless and at the end, make a separate save. For one save, turn the difficulty down and beat Nyx. For the other, keep the difficulty on Merciless.
Why though? You can carry things over from a Merciless run, just not to a Merciless run.
Blue Envelope
So why bother turning the difficulty down before beating nyx? Just finish the game on Merciless.
>Started on Hard and went through fusion autism for perfect personas in my compendium thinking that nothing could be gained from doing Merciless
Is this your first time playing a megaten/ persona game?
I repeatedly screamed "kino!" at the top of my lungs.
>mfw
>chihiro's social link can't advance while mitsuru is in a slump
holy shit frick this little 5head
How do you cope with post-game depression
How do I hack Pralaya onto things other than Shiva?
I'm only a few days in but it seems a bit overwhelming that you can only do very limited things in a single day, so I feel like I'm always going to miss out on something or do the wrong thing each day.
Can I frick it up? First Persona game
>Can I frick it up?
Yes
Basically don't hang out with people outside your school in weekdays and you'll be fine. The fatfrick doesn't count as a student for some reason.
don't worry about, just accept that you aren't getting 100% on your first run
and don't use guides, they only suck all the fun out
general tips:
days are for SLs only, prioritize school SLs
evenings are for social stats, SLs can wait, social stat priority is courage > charm > academics
dual stat jobs are bait, food and arcades are always better if you arent strapped for cash
You will get to romance junpei as femc if you let chidori die.
Yukari will get super jealous.
It's kinda pathetic that you have to go out of your way to make sticks sexy while in Ryza you need to go out of your way to not get a boner.
FES is still way better