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[SMT4/Persona] Teatime with Satan

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  • FrosteeyFrosteey Elaise 1521-2945-8940Registered User regular
    Listen.

    Cooking omelettes owned.

    Camping also owned except there is like 90% too much Yosuke.

  • SCREECH OF THE FARGSCREECH OF THE FARG #1 PARROTHEAD margaritavilleRegistered User regular
    Make sure you play on the hardest difficulty so you can be XxHardcorexX like me

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  • CorporateLogoCorporateLogo The toilet knows how I feelRegistered User regular
    edited November 2012
    The hardest difficulty isn't really that bad once you get past the early levels

    The hard part comes from the compendium costs increasing 4x, which just makes fusing/summoning endgame persona a mind numbing slog of grinding for cash

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    Do not have a cow, mortal.

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  • ZayZay yes i am zay Registered User regular
    Make sure you play on the hardest difficulty so you can be XxHardcorexX like me

    Are you seriously saying you're more hardcore than me, X420_We3d_An1M3_h1tL3R_69Xx

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  • cabsycabsy the fattest rainbow unicorn Registered User regular
    Yeah the compendium cost difference in p3p on normal vs fes on hard is ridiculous. Michael is like 330k for me to replace and something like 1.4million for my boyfriend to replace in FES. I also make money at about 4x the speed he does and I've capped out repeatedly and just started buying crap for fun (santa outfits for everyone? sure)

  • SCREECH OF THE FARGSCREECH OF THE FARG #1 PARROTHEAD margaritavilleRegistered User regular
    Ironically, he only ever played P2

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  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    sara play p3fes and post about it and maybe that'll kick my ass into continuing to play it

    i want to finish that game but i know im nowhere near done

  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Sara you should play P3P if you can, it's much more streamlined

    also it doesn't have The Answer

  • CorporateLogoCorporateLogo The toilet knows how I feelRegistered User regular
    It colds sucks to have to play The Answer

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  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    did the game force you to play the answer with a gun to your henevermind

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  • LockedOnTargetLockedOnTarget Registered User regular
    edited November 2012
    I wish we could get some perfect version of Persona 3.

    Something that has all the additional content of both FES and Portable, because regardless of it's quality The Answer is canon material as shown by Arena and should be in a definitive version. Im sure it could be tweaked to make it more pleasant to play through.

    Something that has the visual presentation of FES. Losing anime cutscenes is one thing. Losing all movement during any story scene and just being a visual novel sucked.

    And, of course, something with the gameplay improvements Portable brought to the table.

    It sucks that the choice is between the version with better presentation and all the canon material, and the version that has greatly improved gameplay.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    I really liked the visual novel approach

  • ZayZay yes i am zay Registered User regular
    Is the answer just like a after-the-end sort of deal?

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  • TubularLuggageTubularLuggage Registered User regular
    Shen wrote: »
    I never found Kanji ambiguous, just uniquely perceptive among the cast.
    Naoto wants to be a detective, and she thinks she won't get taken as seriously if she's a woman (correct, unfortunately). I don't agree that thinking "Man, shit would be a lot easier if I was a dude" qualifies you as transgender.
    Naoto to star in a re-make of Remington Steel confirmed.

    Shen
  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Zay wrote: »
    Is the answer just like a after-the-end sort of deal?

    yes and it's awful in so many ways

    not the least of which being that it stars aigis

  • interrobanginterrobang kawaii as  hellRegistered User regular
    i like to pretend that The Answer just does not exist

  • LockedOnTargetLockedOnTarget Registered User regular
    I honestly don't get Aigis hate.

    Thought she was perfectly fine in 3 and straight-up entertaining in Arena.

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  • Gigazombie CybermageGigazombie Cybermage Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Yeah, I mean Aigis is VERY "anime", but I actually do like her as a character. I thought FES showed a lot of character growth for her.

  • gtrmpgtrmp Registered User regular
    edited November 2012
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    IMO a lot of Kanji fans don't get the difference between gay and effeminate. He's the latter.
    He's not effeminate, though. He has stereotypically female interests, but the whole thrust of his character arc is that
    he comes to accept that those interests don't make him any less masculine and, more importantly, aren't anything to be ashamed of.

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  • CorporateLogoCorporateLogo The toilet knows how I feelRegistered User regular
    edited November 2012
    Aigis' social link had some creepy undertones towards the end

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    god dammit guys that is a pretty big part of kanji's story thing and I know it's important but it sounds like some people are playing this for the first time and I don't want the fucking robot to get you

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    Basically spoil anything past the first few hours

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  • A duck!A duck! Moderator, ClubPA mod
    I'm going to give people a chance to spoil the S Link shit, and if you don't by the time I get home Santa is going to deliver some presents.

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    Kanji's character arc is about
    Gender roles, and how shitheaded society is to people who don't fit 'em. Not how gay he is or isn't. He might still be gay! It's just not the point of his character arc.

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  • StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    MrDapper wrote: »
    Zay wrote: »
    Speaking of cooking, I am fearless but need to become a badass just to try some of Fuuka's food

    Does Japan have like, a phobia of beginner chefs?

    It's an anime thing, so kind of.

    Japanese anime and video games seem to have this obsession with the joke of "girls should be good at cooking, but this one is terrible!"

    I have seen it very often, and it wasn't funny the first time.

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited November 2012
    Aigis' social link had some creepy undertones towards the end

    Towards the end? More like the whole goddamn thing. It is some awkward weeaboo neckbeards idea of FORLORN ROMANCE SO MOVING UGUU.

    And what's worse, Aigis you suck in battle and I would have to be dumb to put you in the party.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    I agree with you on Kanji Fiaryn but


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    regardless of how you interpret it it's the crux of his whole fucking dungeon

    not just a slink thing

    which makes kanji's slinks particularly hard to talk about, probably moreso than anyone but naoto's

  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited November 2012
    Hullis wrote: »
    I agree with you on Kanji Fiaryn but


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    regardless of how you interpret it it's the crux of his whole fucking dungeon

    not just a slink thing

    which makes kanji's slinks particularly hard to talk about, probably moreso than anyone but naoto's
    His dungeon is symptomatic of what society tells him he is based on his lack of fitting neatly in traditional gender roles.

    Personally I draw no conclusions on Kanji's sexuality at all, because it's just too murky.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    you're alright, homestuck guy

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Kanji is


    vague but kinda major p4 spoilers

    A teenager! Still trying to figure shit out! While they could have gone in some better directions with his characterization, ultimately it rings true

  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited November 2012
    Hullis wrote: »
    Kanji is


    vague but kinda major p4 spoilers

    A teenager! Still trying to figure shit out! While they could have gone in some better directions with his characterization, ultimately it rings true

    On a similar note, I think people give Yosuke too much shit. He's a teenager. He believes a lot of things without really understanding how or why he believes them, cultural background is a helluva thing. Ultimately, it's his actions that matter and he sticks by his friends.

    He has some regressive ideas, but ultimately they don't control him. They're things he'll grow out of. Probably less so if he had SOCIAL JUSTICE BLOGGERS throwing a tantrum at him directly, than if he just continued to interact with people like he already is.

    Teenagers!

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  • ShenShen Registered User regular
    Kanji
    is bi at most? He shows attraction to girls throughout, getting nosebleeds over Yukiko and Chie (:rotate: ) and continues to crush on Naoto. He just responds positively to people who don't treat him like shit, unlike most of society. It's probably inaccurate to interpret relationships at that age through the lens of adults - for adults sex is a large part of it, but at fifteen you might just be looking for someone who'll accept you as you are (and smooches). His dungeon is just an exaggeration of how he feels, and how he thinks society views people like him. I mean, no one is making the argument that Chie is a dominatrix despite how her Shadow manifests.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    You're right about Yosuke but what's obnoxious is that he starts off as a really likable bro dude

    and then

    he just keeps getting worse


    bizarro Junpei

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited November 2012
    Yeah I think that's in part due to the fact that Yosuke is the starkest example of the writers keeping S-Link character growth and main story arc character growth compartmentalized.

    It's a problem for everyone, but the degree varies. Yosuke is hit hardest by it.

    Edit: It makes sense that that kind of approach would hit him hardest though. He is the Magician Arcana for a reason. Immaturity is the crux of the Magician Arcana.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Yeah exactly

    Since you get through his S. Link fast (typically, anyways), you get this nice character arc early on and then "OH NO GAYS"

  • ZayZay yes i am zay Registered User regular
    oh man

    do these questions when you're hanging out with people actually matter??? shit

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    zay....

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Oh god if Yosuke was a Social Justice Warrior

  • ZayZay yes i am zay Registered User regular
    I am now seeing why everyone says you won't max all the social links on your first playthrough, everything is stalling out with the "you feel your relationship will become closer soon" and it JUST dawned on me that it's because I am answering questions poorly

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  • SCREECH OF THE FARGSCREECH OF THE FARG #1 PARROTHEAD margaritavilleRegistered User regular
    just lean into it and play it in DickMode

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