everything rad is good for you: a persona/shin megami thread

Having maxed Ryuji and then Reaper farming to level 77, I can say now that his instakill ability is totally annoying. If I have open persona slots, then I automatically get that persona, whether or not they're in my compendium, but when I'm full up, the game just sez that I can't recruit that persona and doesn't even give me the option to choose a persona to set free.

Anyway, I fused Yoshi, and also Satan even though his elemental resistances are kind of underwhelming.

hassou tobi your way to victory

Beat it last night! Felt bad (really bad) standing up Hifumi on Valentine's, but Mako-chan seems like the game's canonical romance.

Can't wait to start NG+!

Hah and I wasn't able to level Yoshi enough to get Hassou Tobi. 😐

if they're not going to give us P5 on switch, can they at least give us P4 golden and P3 FES ?

lol the dog

I started NG+ (main goal is to max all confidants this time), but dang @ how long the game takes to let go of your hand is maddening. Otoh murdering Palace 1 enemies with Yoshi is very satisfying.

I also have been eyeing P4, $10 on PS3 seems worthwhile.

Not available in the UK :(

Only 120 hours into P3 tho so no rush

Finished the main game. Damn these people know how to push my emo buttons.

i'm finally playing persona 4

it's cool how unlike anything else this still is despite a decade of being an Influential Game

are these games a fixed length in in game days or will doing the cases sooner than i have to cause me to miss out on free time?

No, it just frees you up to work on your stats, social links etc

ok that's what i figured just wanted to make sure since my inclination is to rush the first case so i have a full party

iirc the december one should be delayed as much as possible because unlike the previous cases you do miss out on free time. for all others it's better to rush asap because s-links will refuse to hang out when close to the deadline

Ladies, if he:

-Never texts you first
-Never uses his real name
-Claims a house cat "insists" he sleep after a single task
-Hardly says two words at a time

He's not your man. He's Joker and is probs dating all your friends too and you should all attack him on Valentine's Day

— Erika Harlacher (@ErikaHarlacher) November 26, 2018

finished the first case, the boss took 3 tries bc the second time i played it perfectly until the last couple rounds where i tried to swap out to a weaker persona for one turn to use its cure spell and the MC immediately got one-shot due to the lower stats. pretty dumb

the dungeons are definitely the weakest link here, i know attritiony dungeon crawlers are atlus's thing and they need to be long enough that they become an element of the time management game rather than being clearable in a day but still. theyre real long for how featureless they are.

the soul is both infinite and monotonous

yeah at the same time i can't imagine how i'd change them in keeping with the game

i cant remember much about the P4 dungeons which sort of makes your point for you. the dungeon stuff is definitely less evocative than tartarus was in P3 but i do remember thinking some of the visual stuff was interesting. idk

the fan-made edit of P3FES posted on youtube thats just all the anime cutscenes is the best anime ever made imo

i'll play 3 at some point. my only real exposure to persona before this was watching my college roommate play 3 when it first came out, i don't really remember much about it though other than that it had roughly the same presentation as this

ok i spent an entire play session grinding last night so i think they've finally got me

i beat what seemed to be the final boss but its still going so i guess theres a postgame

postgame bonus dungeon seems obnoxious but i guess i'll do it since i've come this far

finished the game w/ the true ending. enjoyed it overall but its exhaustingly long and kinda drags in bits especially the summer months. i could imagine this being my favorite rpg if i had played it 10 years ago but today it just lands at pretty good. will def play 3 and 5 at some point but not right away

https://personacentral.com/persona-5-the-royal-revealed/

yeah it's a similar upgrade to p4 golden as expected. the additions in golden other than quality of life tweaks mostly kinda sucked though

Knew i'd have to get a PS4 eventually

Mildly annoyed that this looks like it's a separate purchase.

yeah it's a new version of the game, not an expansion. the original was a ps3 game that was released on ps4 out of necessity because it was so late, this is the ps4 "remaster"

they did a same gen update of p3 too though that was the pre-DLC era

persona 5 S turned out to be persona 5 scramble, a musou game. ps4/switch, no release date.

So i had a little disposable income for the first time in a while and i'm now the excitable owner of a Playstation TV which is downloading P4 Golden as i type. FASTER YOU FUCKER, FASTER

i finally got persona 5! about 10 hours in, about to take care of the gym coach, who will hopefully be fired and go to jail, or just die.

i have never played a persona game, and i am really loving it so far - more enthusiastic about it than any rpg i've played in years!

it's completely insane in the best way. i love the absurd leaps of dream-logic the characters make, all of which turn out to be absolutely accurate.

5 so far has managed to sidestep the thing from 4 where they ran not very funny by-the-book versions of every standard high school comedy bit

just got P5 on sale. my gosh this game is great so far.

did spend the entire evening just clicking x though.

There are sections of that in all of them but it's usually fun/bearable/worth it

Finished P4 Golden at the weekend. Feels the weakest of the last 3 to me, the balance is off and some of the just clicking x sections felt ridiculously long. Still amazing, obv. Started straight back into NG+. Think the balance issues are probly mostly to do with the added missions, haven't played the PS2 version tho.

beyond QoL improvements the added stuff is mostly just marie and her social link and postgame dungeon. plus some of the shitty 'comedy' scenes with the fat girl

i think there might be some changes to persona fusion that make the game easier too actually yeah

The fusion in 4 is great tbh, the comedy is bad, the game hangs around way too long between the original bad guy and Marie and her dungeons' SP mechanic is a pain.

Idk i feel like without Marie the game is a lot shorter and easier than 3 and 4 but maybe i missed a boss first time round or more likely i just know how to smash the dungeons now.

3 and 5 i mean

it's definitely the shortest of the three, golden or original

I'm unhealthily obsessed with the series at this point tbh :D so there is never enough of it to spend time in

yeah there's really only the 3 games with that formula, i'm sure we'll get a p6 in another 4 years or something though

The redux of P5 is gonna be the thing that makes me finally get a PS4 next year i'm sure. The thought of how far off P6 is is just depressing.

Didn't they just do a P5 redux?