Atlas Hugged posted:

Persona 5 chat:
I've got a lot of work to do on my Social Links and so far I've been able to get through every preceding dungeon in a single day, so I made it goal to do the same on the ship. Good lord was that an uphill battle. Another thing about JRPGs that I've never liked are boss rushes and technically the ship has a string of 5 encounters you can't save between (Cleaner's crew, Cleaner, Akechi's Shadows, Akechi, Loki). When Shido's Akechi showed up and I thought there was going to be another fight, my eyes nearly popped out. In any case, I'm safely back in the cafe and just need to send the calling card. I just spoiled myself and saw there was another dungeon after this one, so it looks like I need to stock up on more SP items. Hooray.

Last Celebration posted:

Yeah, even if I wasn’t spoiled, him just coming with Bless/Curse/Almighty skills and his quotes just being poo poo like “My skills exceed yours!” makes it like, really?" Kinda like Nier Automata has the most obvious twists in the world on a surface level but that just makes the endgame shitshow hit even harder.

Dragonatrix posted:

That's not really the same thing, though. P5 gives everyone a specific speciality element-wise with no overlaps. Akechi having Curse gives a direct overlap with Akira who's primary element (outside of Wild Card stuff) is Curse. On its own, it's still not a smoking gun but it's enough to warrant pointing out.

Endorph posted:

im sure a couple of 2ch weirdos got mad but ive googled up and down and cant find anything about any actual politician or even a tv personality talking about it. and i mean, why would they? they don't even mention what party shido was from before he formed his own party, but the name of shido's party and the circumstances of its formation, plus how short lived it is, make me think of the japan future party, which was a center-left group born out of the dem socialists. shido has some elements of shinzo abe, but shido's clearly modeled way more off of junichiro koizumi, a right wing politician and member of the ldp who was prime minister from 2001-2006.



Koizumi didn't always wear those sunglasses, but a couple of his most famous photos had him in those. His nickname was 'lionheart.' He was also famously lovely towards women, had a messy divorce and a son who he's never met or treated as a son, and who he even barred from attending his grandmother's funeral.

So to recap, the villain of Persona 5 is clearly referencing a right-wing politician who hasn't held power for ten years and vaguely references that politician in the context of a center-left party that existed for all of thirteen months. Imagine if I made an RPG where the villain was george w. bush, but he was a member of the 'sda' party, and i never actually said he was a republican. nobody'd get mad about that because nobody could even tell what the hell i was trying to say, and it's not like i'm referencing anyone with any actual modern political relevance.

Electric Phantasm posted:

How is the mobile game? The dope intro has got me interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb1aUJPDIlE

Tired Moritz posted:

im unironically liking the game's plot more than the recent persona games

TheFireMagi posted:

I really do have to say I'm enjoying this game. It has the right feel for a SMT based game, but enough little differences that make it its own thing. Six skill slots with a good amount of those being locked in means you can't have one omni-support demon or one demon that covers every single element plus a null skill or two. Means you have to think a bit more about team comp and weaknesses, which is nice. not that i've actually done that thinking as much as i should cause i'm lazy

Really, my only complaint is that I wish this game wasn't so killer on my phone battery. Starts to heat up pretty quickly too after awhile.

MegaZeroX posted:

To me, this might be my favorite free to play mobile game. While it is ostensibly a Gacha game, the gacha really feels like more of a way to get fusion material for your main demons rather than something requiring you whale out. The incredibly low rate for 5 stars just makes the game feel genuinely challenging. The higher levels of the aura gate and harder difficulties of the story mode feel actually challenging, and require a well thought out team to pass. All in all, it is this team crafting that makes it feel the most like a good SMT game. As far as the story goes, the characters are quirky enough to make it not feel soulless, even if the story isn't exactly the most impactful work ever.

And most of the annoyances that come with FTP mobile games feel like its been mitigated. Auto quests cut out the nuisance of grinding, and also allows a convenient way of doing something with your stamina, so that you don't feel that "I'm wasting my stamina" feeling when you aren't playing.

Terper posted:

"Man, my first demons in Dx2 were crummy, let's reroll"
"Okay wow this is taking a while to get through everything again, let's just keep whatever I get."




oh

goodness

cdyoung posted:

it's a 0.5% chance to get a 5* demon, how many re-rolls did you have to do?

THE AWESOME GHOST posted:

Is the mobile game actually any good? I was surprised at the production values, it has cutscenes and voice acting and 3d graphics. I was expecting recycled static SNES sprites

Light Gun Man posted:

Cool info, weird that they'd go after something specific but pointless like that.

HGH posted:

I only knew of Koizumi through that dumb parody manga, I figured he must have been pretty important but this is kinda surprising. Shoulda done my research.

Thuryl posted:

It plays recognizably like a MegaTen game from around the Nocturne/DDS era: the press turn system is in there and everything. The main difference is that you just pick missions off a list instead of dungeon crawling (except in one specific game mode) and so there have been some adjustments to how the MP system works to compensate for the lack of long-term attrition (you start with a small MP total that regenerates during battle), but aside from that all the stuff you'd expect from SMT is in there. Plotwise it sorta feels like it combines the grimy-80s-anime-OVA aesthetic and themes of SMT 1 and 2 with the goofy over-the-top characters of Devil Survivor 2, which is about as weird as it sounds but kinda works.

Alder posted:

Another reminder of Best Boy:



brb selling some plasma

Omi no Kami posted:

Crud, I probably won't get too far then... difficulty's one thing, but if the battles are always going to be so fast and brutal the save/loading alone is probably gonna do my enthusiasm in.

Lessail posted:

Well like I said, you get more options which helps your ability to survive. That said I do remember saving quite often so

Omi no Kami posted:

Does the difficulty in SMTIV ever ease up? I just started the game, I haven't even finished the tutorial in the first dungeon, and it's already on my last nerve; it seems like every single enemy can 1- or 2-shot me, and even when I'm using turn press to its fullest I need to save before every battle or risk negotiation RNG or bad initiative letting a level 1 demon murder my character before I can do anything.

Atlas Hugged posted:

Agreed. Slogging through a boss fight over 45 minutes isn't fun when you have kids and you never know when they're going to wake up from a nap.

Instant Grat posted:

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Dragonatrix posted:

Omi no Kami posted:

Does the difficulty in SMTIV ever ease up? I just started the game, I haven't even finished the tutorial in the first dungeon, and it's already on my last nerve; it seems like every single enemy can 1- or 2-shot me, and even when I'm using turn press to its fullest I need to save before every battle or risk negotiation RNG or bad initiative letting a level 1 demon murder my character before I can do anything.