He gets so hungry after spending all day being ONE OF THE PHANTOM THIEVES it burns a lot of energy DOING LOTS OF CRIMES FOR THE PHANTOM THIEVES OF WHICH HE IS 100% A FOUNDER MEMBER
PQ2 seems pretty tough, I'm still in the first dungeon though as I haven't had a ton of time to play
Is this a game I should expect to grind every now and then to get huge
The first boss became much more manageable after Morgana learned Media, which took a bit of grinding for me. You'll gain access to side-missions which spice things up a bit and have nice rewards. Also, good sub-persona management makes a big difference. I'm doing fairly well in the second dungeon right now, but the game will still sometimes be mean in a very Persona fashion.
PQ2 seems pretty tough, I'm still in the first dungeon though as I haven't had a ton of time to play
Is this a game I should expect to grind every now and then to get huge
The first boss became much more manageable after Morgana learned Media, which took a bit of grinding for me. You'll gain access to side-missions which spice things up a bit and have nice rewards. Also, good sub-persona management makes a big difference. I'm doing fairly well in the second dungeon right now, but the game will still sometimes be mean in a very Persona fashion.
my big "huh" moment was when it introduces you to golden enemies and I lost 3 party members
I finally broke down and ordered a copy of Q2 from France. I guess they only released a very low number of copies in the UK because I could not find it in any stores and online it sold out before release, and hasn't come back in stock.
But, the EU version is all in English anyway. Which kinda sucks for everyone in Europe that doesn't speak English! Like I'm surprised Nintendo even let them do this to be honest. Yeah English is very widespread, but not even putting in menus and subtitles in a countries native language seems super shitty.
Also, there must be £40 of DLC and it's all consumable items and OP Persona's, and there's a coin doubler AND an XP doubler and items that change your encounter rate, plus voice packs. Some of this is kinda weird for a full price game. The free music is nice though.
So they're in an altered reality and Akechi is helping Joker reassert the "main timeline"? Note that a lot of the previous character trailers have had vibes of "everyone's family members are alive/have better relationships with the main characters".
really curious at this point, they're making it sound like this is a pretty extensive overhaul, but like, even if it was just "there's two more social links and another dungeon that all feels really tacked on" they'd still be marketing it this way
i'm not buying it sight unseen but i'll be curious to hear impressions about it
I think if P5R still has the stupid lockouts on taking screenshots and video, I'll be waiting until it's heavily discounted before buying it.
Unless there's a badass special edition in which case I have no say in the matter I will have to buy it.
It's kinda dumb that this isn't all just DLC though.
Oh I got around that by playing 95% of the game using Remote Play via my PC. Can't prevent me from snapshotting my PC screen, ATLUS! Or prevent Dropbox from auto-uploading them!
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I don't know if I can give Persona 5 another chance. I recently went back to play Persona 4 on the PS2, and the difference in the cohesiveness of the plot is night and day between the two. Unfortunately, the Persona series is brutally unforgiving for new players, and that distinctly soured the experience as well. (Enjoy constantly running out of SP! Nope, we won't tell you about Invigorate or the SP accessories. You should clearly just know about those!)
Also, the big reveal where your party gets erased from reality is Corpse Party levels of stupid and overacted.
On a side note, I'm on Persona 3 FES now, and all three of these games suffer from reverse difficulty quite badly. The first month or two is absolutely brutal. Later, you accumulate items and social links to the point that you mow down the final bosses with a shrug.
I think 3 still has my favourite story out of all of the games.
Of the new games, I agree. Against 2, no chance.
The core plot of 3 is very strong, but it's basically a straightforward narrative.
2's plot(s) are full of assorted antagonists, viewpoints, perspectives, moral conflicts, it's all over the place. You have the Last Battalion, the Masquerade, Philemon and Nyarlathotep, and all the characters' insane relationships and backstories caught up in the middle.
It's a crying shame that Tadashi's been reduced to writing tripe like Caligula Effect.
I love that 3 is crazy because it's almost a militarized task force with crazy detailed knowledge of exactly what's going on and a years of scientific research behind it.
and the others are "plucky teens investigate wacky murder mysteries"
and I love every situation where the cast of 3 interacts with any other cast, because they very quickly confuse the hell out of everyone.
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the bad guys in 3 feel really all over the place to me, and i don't think they quite earn all the really dicey suicide imagery they play with
i only got to around the point that hitler shows up in 2 but i remember feeling really about the part where it turns out Joker was friends with the main kid all along. The "rumors become true" thing made it hard for me to really tell whether any given plot reveal was supposed to be a reveal in the traditional sense, or if it was just revealing that a rumor had warped reality again. buuuut again i only played through the first couple dungeons so maybe it all comes together
It's a crying shame that Tadashi's been reduced to writing tripe like Caligula Effect.
I actually found Caligula effect's quite interesting at a base level, especially once Overdose came about and you were able to explore the villains' reasons for being there. Their motivations became understandable even as you still had to oppose them. In particular Sweet-P who fled into the simulation as a young girl because people tormented and ostracized him in the real world for being an overweight older man who happened to enjoy cute things. Which I think is a particular kind of something that could have resonated with an uncomfortable number of interneters in this day and age.
Unfortunately it was the literally everything else about the game that dragged it all down.
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In 2 it’s always rumor warping reality
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the bad guys in 3 feel really all over the place to me, and i don't think they quite earn all the really dicey suicide imagery they play with
i only got to around the point that hitler shows up in 2 but i remember feeling really about the part where it turns out Joker was friends with the main kid all along. The "rumors become true" thing made it hard for me to really tell whether any given plot reveal was supposed to be a reveal in the traditional sense, or if it was just revealing that a rumor had warped reality again. buuuut again i only played through the first couple dungeons so maybe it all comes together
It all ties into the reason for the Masquerade. Joker forms the Masquerade because he associates that with when he had friends and when he 'belonged' to something, and he already feels like an outcast since he's both gay and estranged from his psychotic parents.
There's a lot of nuance and subtlety to the characters and plot in 2 that later games don't even bother with.
And the Hitler thing is just a facade, since it's only Nyarlathotep using a glamour to show how powerful rumors are.
Also, while EP still has 'rumors becoming reality' thread, it's more about letting hatred and malice drag you down. They spend all their time worrying about the new JOKER, when he's not even remotely the real threat.
Sudou is just a force of nature that wants to kick off a wave of chaos, and he sure does succeed.
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Is this a game I should expect to grind every now and then to get huge
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The first boss became much more manageable after Morgana learned Media, which took a bit of grinding for me. You'll gain access to side-missions which spice things up a bit and have nice rewards. Also, good sub-persona management makes a big difference. I'm doing fairly well in the second dungeon right now, but the game will still sometimes be mean in a very Persona fashion.
my big "huh" moment was when it introduces you to golden enemies and I lost 3 party members
But, the EU version is all in English anyway. Which kinda sucks for everyone in Europe that doesn't speak English! Like I'm surprised Nintendo even let them do this to be honest. Yeah English is very widespread, but not even putting in menus and subtitles in a countries native language seems super shitty.
Also, there must be £40 of DLC and it's all consumable items and OP Persona's, and there's a coin doubler AND an XP doubler and items that change your encounter rate, plus voice packs. Some of this is kinda weird for a full price game. The free music is nice though.
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And Akechi character trailer:
Some might consider these spoilery, especially parts of the second one:
Ug. Who do I blame for this?
Then again maybe it won't be terrible. Fingers crossed.
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i'm not buying it sight unseen but i'll be curious to hear impressions about it
http://www.audioentropy.com/
i don't care if it's a bad ending!! that jerk can eat it.
Unless there's a badass special edition in which case I have no say in the matter I will have to buy it.
It's kinda dumb that this isn't all just DLC though.
Oh I got around that by playing 95% of the game using Remote Play via my PC. Can't prevent me from snapshotting my PC screen, ATLUS! Or prevent Dropbox from auto-uploading them!
On a side note, I'm on Persona 3 FES now, and all three of these games suffer from reverse difficulty quite badly. The first month or two is absolutely brutal. Later, you accumulate items and social links to the point that you mow down the final bosses with a shrug.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Of the new games, I agree. Against 2, no chance.
The core plot of 3 is very strong, but it's basically a straightforward narrative.
2's plot(s) are full of assorted antagonists, viewpoints, perspectives, moral conflicts, it's all over the place. You have the Last Battalion, the Masquerade, Philemon and Nyarlathotep, and all the characters' insane relationships and backstories caught up in the middle.
It's a crying shame that Tadashi's been reduced to writing tripe like Caligula Effect.
and the others are "plucky teens investigate wacky murder mysteries"
and I love every situation where the cast of 3 interacts with any other cast, because they very quickly confuse the hell out of everyone.
It's a mixed bag.
P3P's female protagonist improves on it massively with her waaaay better social links thankfully.
i only got to around the point that hitler shows up in 2 but i remember feeling really
http://www.audioentropy.com/
I actually found Caligula effect's quite interesting at a base level, especially once Overdose came about and you were able to explore the villains' reasons for being there. Their motivations became understandable even as you still had to oppose them. In particular Sweet-P who fled into the simulation as a young girl because people tormented and ostracized him in the real world for being an overweight older man who happened to enjoy cute things. Which I think is a particular kind of something that could have resonated with an uncomfortable number of interneters in this day and age.
Unfortunately it was the literally everything else about the game that dragged it all down.
It all ties into the reason for the Masquerade. Joker forms the Masquerade because he associates that with when he had friends and when he 'belonged' to something, and he already feels like an outcast since he's both gay and estranged from his psychotic parents.
There's a lot of nuance and subtlety to the characters and plot in 2 that later games don't even bother with.
And the Hitler thing is just a facade, since it's only Nyarlathotep using a glamour to show how powerful rumors are.
Also, while EP still has 'rumors becoming reality' thread, it's more about letting hatred and malice drag you down. They spend all their time worrying about the new JOKER, when he's not even remotely the real threat.
Sudou is just a force of nature that wants to kick off a wave of chaos, and he sure does succeed.