I've never played any of these before; just getting started on this one. Music's cool, dialogue is... functionalThis thing is 80-100 hrs long?!
― Simon H., Wednesday, 20 June 2018 11:37 (five years ago) link
depends on how far down the rabbit hole you want to go (secret boss is ng+ only, for starters) but i don't think you can beat it in less than 40 or so unless you're speedrunning it.
― chihuahuau, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 11:52 (five years ago) link
I've never played any JRPG stuff before so the fun part for me is catching little bits of Japanese culture amidst the Westernized dialogue, like when a character moans about conveyor belt sushi or letting a man take up his passenger seat(!)
― Simon H., Wednesday, 20 June 2018 12:11 (five years ago) link
is P5 on sale for PS4 too?
not booted PS4 up in a while but now this and horizon are reasonable prices......
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link
You'd have to check but I assume so.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 20 June 2018 13:37 (five years ago) link
hope I get to play p4g and p5 someday but I refuse to buy a console just for one game let alone 2 consoles for 2 games. hoping sega moving in on PC and switch ports this year will filter down to atlus eventually
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link
i got involved in something else and stalled on this. it is incredibly addictive but i wound up getting impatient.. i would blitz through the combat in order to get to the story.. then blitz through the story in order to get to the combat :(
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 16:57 (five years ago) link
hoping sega moving in on PC and switch ports this year will filter down to atlus eventually
smt v is switch exclusive so far so there's that
― chihuahuau, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
smt is usually on nintendo consoles yeah but it's a p different vibe. atlus doesn't ignore Nintendo they just don't make their games for more than one platform at a time
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
not reading the thread yet because spoilers but i got Persona 5 last Tuesday and have put in 60+ hours in the last week and am now forcing myself to take breaks.
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
I quit before I even got to the second proper dungeon. The time management shit was just stressing me out.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 01:22 (five years ago) link
got a bit niggled by that at times when you go a couple of days and you have no freedom to roam but a lot of the time management is more apparent than real i think, once you work it out
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 01:59 (five years ago) link
god that was good
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 17 August 2018 16:46 (five years ago) link
Short version of why I should get P5 while it's $35?
― Gwent Stefani (Leee), Friday, 17 August 2018 20:03 (five years ago) link
epic storyline, emotional and smart; brilliant merger of Visual Novel, JRPG and life sim; complex dense combat mechanics that i felt like i was barely beginning to get good at after one play thru; it looks beautiful
main caveat would be if you don't like VNs or looooong cut scenes (depending on your point of view) this mightn't be for you. also it's just eaten 3 weeks of my (admittedly unemployed) life
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 17 August 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
The life sim aspect gives me pause...
― Gwent Stefani (Leee), Friday, 17 August 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
it's not the main game but there's an important time management element that alters your powers and relationships with other characters as well as opening a bunch of mini story-arcs
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 17 August 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
I watched some gameplay and the colors do look pretty as all get out.
― Gwent Stefani (Leee), Friday, 17 August 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link
with maybe MGS games aside it’s the most completely designed game i’ve ever played, from menus to loading to various gameplay modes. it’s a GESAMTKUNSTWERK
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 August 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
I've spent the evening trying not to just start it over again.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 17 August 2018 22:57 (five years ago) link
who did u date
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 August 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link
Makoto. I realised I could date multiple people, but I felt guilty so I stayed faithful.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 17 August 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
It's a really long game to contemplate going thru every possible storyline but what the hell
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 17 August 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
i never made it the dating stage of thisi gave a gift to the doctor but she didn’t want it :o
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 August 2018 23:07 (five years ago) link
The randomness of the gifts is a bit of a pain - there are 3 or 4 obvious ones, but most of the time you're just guessing, or looking up a guess paper on the internet. Tae was the first character I cd've dated, but I gave the wrong answer when she asked me.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 17 August 2018 23:10 (five years ago) link
atlus has only made 2 console rpgs this decade and they're both visually insane in different ways
― ciderpress, Friday, 17 August 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link
Persona 3 is on the PS Store and I'm probably getting that next but somebody upthread said the PSP/Vita version is better? Such a pain trying to track down old console games
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 17 August 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
makoto's a cop, designer drug doctor all the way
― devvvine, Friday, 17 August 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link
the thing that's stayed with me the most about this game is how beautifully the menu/ui moves
― devvvine, Friday, 17 August 2018 23:27 (five years ago) link
3 and 4 both have significantly improved versions on vita by my understanding
im probably gonna pick up a cheap pstv later this year to play 4 which has been my white whale game for a decade now
― ciderpress, Friday, 17 August 2018 23:48 (five years ago) link
if you are going back from 5 then yeh the PSP version of 3 is probably the best move with all its QOL improvements, although I'd rather play FES since it was the first Persona game I played. I kinda want to play it now dammit.haven't played the vita version of 4 cos I'd played the PS2 version twice and was burnt out on that, but heard they added a lot of contentreally hoping for a Q2 localization announcement at some point, but they only just announced the last Etrian game for the West so it may be some time yetcrazy that I'm still going to be buying new 3DS games in 2019 but then P4 came out 2 years after the PS3 did, Atlus gonna Atlus
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 17 August 2018 23:59 (five years ago) link
here's the Q2 trailer btw, love the weird Bomberman Aegis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RICSmSbPzVs
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 18 August 2018 00:07 (five years ago) link
yeah and persona 5 was their ps3 game. atlus works slowly
― ciderpress, Saturday, 18 August 2018 00:19 (five years ago) link
times like this that the difficulty of being easily able to get hold of and play all these games is agony. you rarely have this issue with books or movies.
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 18 August 2018 00:24 (five years ago) link
I started P5 last night! The most notable thing I did was to close up the shop we're I'm staying at -- I assume things will be more fun "tomorrow" when I go to school?
The game is so pretty to look at, at the very least.
― Justice Leee Unlimited (Leee), Friday, 24 August 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
It's a little slow getting in but it will open up
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 24 August 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
atlus has only made 2 console rpgs this decade
woah. wait. what?
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Friday, 24 August 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
P5 and Tokyo Mirage Sessions? Both incredible games, the latter enhanced if you like the music/get all the J-Pop references (Yatsufusa Hatanaka lol)
― Iain Mew (if), Friday, 24 August 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
yeah they've mostly been making 3ds games since the ps2 era ended
― ciderpress, Friday, 24 August 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
tokyo mirage sessions is the sort of game that 10 years later you'll describe and people will think you're bullshitting them that it exists. bonus points for being an exclusive on a console no one bought
― ciderpress, Friday, 24 August 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
> I started P5 last night! The most notable thing I did was to close up the shop we're I'm staying at -- I assume things will be more fun "tomorrow" when I go to school?
IIRC my favourite bit of the whole game happens tomorrow but it's a one off, not representative of the rest of the game or anything you'll ever do again
― chihuahuau, Friday, 24 August 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link
Finished the first palace -- it was hard! I think the biggest difficulty I had was getting used to the sneaking system and how limited the camera became when I was in cover, which resulted in me alerting guards etc.
HUEG regrets on not naming my team The Groop mere minutes after I set what I chose in stone. I would pay much Yen to change it again.
The sheer amount of stuff outside of dungeon-dives is a little overwhelming, especially with the nagging sense that I ought to min-max the stat-building stuff.
Definitely not a casual game that I can pick up on a random weeknight!
― Justice Leee Unlimited (Leee), Monday, 27 August 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
OK so I just unlocked Mementos and puttering around in a Catbus makes my life complete.
― Justice Leee Unlimited (Leee), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
I saw an article that complained about the wonky US localization, and I kind of wonder if P5's translation issues were by design to maintain the JRPG flavor?
― Justice Leee Unlimited (Leee), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
i feel like there might be some puns that aren't fully translatable, at least
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
people complain about the translation for literally every JRPG ever released in the West. the only exception i can think of is the Trails series and for those people complain about how long it takes for them to get localized instead
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
I've had the theme song stuck in my head, from what I remember the lyrics go something like this:
Who am I?Like Johnny 5,I am a-live,I am... PERSONA 5!
― Aye Begorrah, reader, I married him. -Jane Eire (Leee), Friday, 31 August 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
i googled the Japanese criminal conviction rate today and no fucken way
― fuck giving a bear beer (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 September 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
I finished the second palace yesterday, and I was surprised how much the story has grabbed and moved me! Likewise with Yusuke, the big weirdo.
One thing I wish was different is the quintessentially Japanese pervertedness, eg Morgana randomly telling Panther that she's gorgeous, and the fact that your home room teacher is a romance option.
― Uncle Dad né Corporate America (Leee), Monday, 3 September 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
Oh and the life simulator parts of the game are wonderful! I fully expected to hate it.
― Uncle Dad né Corporate America (Leee), Monday, 3 September 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link