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Jun 26, 2019 22:53
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The dumb thing about the Demifiend fight is that there's basically a turn-by-turn strategy for beating him, which isn't even 100% reliable, but that strategy is essentially the only way to beat him and it only works sometimes if you don't get unlucky
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Jun 26, 2019 23:10
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Satan in DDS2 has a similar dick move at one point but he's not remotely on the same level of "Walk in with the exact equipment and knowing exactly what you're going to do every single turn or die".
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Jun 26, 2019 23:14
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Expect My Mom posted:there hasn't been a good finished persona 2 LP on this site, right? Maybe I'll just Experience Persona 2 again rather than Play it Has anyone even finished an Innocent Sin one at all? The only one I can think of for it ended up getting abandoned super early on.
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Jun 26, 2019 23:18
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There's a full playthrough of both IS/EP on Youtube - whole game, no commentary, one singular 17-hour video for each game, if that's what you're into
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Jun 26, 2019 23:23
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17 hours? that's not nearly enough backtracking to every store in the game for the new party dialogue!
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Jun 27, 2019 04:18
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Demifiend in DDS would be fine for a bonus boss if it weren't for Gaea Rage. There's literally no way to survive that other than hope sleep lands so you can dodge it with null sleep or hope that endure procs on someone.
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Jun 27, 2019 04:45
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So basically like the Fiend fights in Vanilla SMT IV: Hope that the fiend flubs something, follow a strategy that may or may not work and-- OH GOD PLEASE LET ME GET THAT SMIRK/CRIT.
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Jun 27, 2019 05:09
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Fansubs are out for the Persona 5 Animation Valentines Day OVA. It features all the romance routes from a first person perspective, RenxRyuji, the Bad Valentines Day event, then Sae after the credits.
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Jun 27, 2019 05:45
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The... shall we say, staggered release, of the Persona 5 anime makes more sense knowing they're trying to keep people engaged so they'll pick up The Royal in October.
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Jun 27, 2019 06:30
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj2YypZFkfs Oh cool, we're getting an SMT movie! 
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Jun 27, 2019 06:51
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Don't tell anyone, but I think this guy might be a member of the Phantom Thieves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP4__qUJWfM He gets a new Persona too.
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Jun 27, 2019 11:01
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HGH posted:He gets a new Persona too. It sounds like his new Persona's name might be 'William', which is the first name of Captain Kidd. So it's possible the third Personas will be alternative takes or extensions of their first ones.
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Jun 27, 2019 11:11
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Or William Wallace, to keep the theme of martyred rogues and rebels going?
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Jun 27, 2019 14:02
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RichterIX posted:When I first played Nocturne and DDS I found them both deeply unsettling, and I actually think SMT 1 and 2 are kind of scary in their way. I hope SMT5 recaptures some of that and also ever comes out or gets mentioned again. SMT 1 really set the mood with it's opening cinematic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg4jy2RnnzY That ominous pulsing, the text crawl across the screen that eventually leads to the Barbarous names, all while flashes of people leading to a bound person. Those games were crafted with horror in mind from the art style to the scenarios as the peaceful city you live in is overrun by monsters or you roam the wastes of a ruined world. I really fell in love with the interface of those games though, there's something about staring through the window of your UI into a SNES Megaten game that is claustrophobic and I haven't found any comparison for it in the later entries as far as the first person dungeon affairs go.
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Jun 27, 2019 14:25
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SMT1 ends its early game pseudo-peaceful area by having a monster impersonate a police officer in order to kill your mother and wear her skin in an attempt to impersonate her. That's loving hardcore, and it's not even really made all that clear until later versions add extra content to make it explicit.
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Jun 27, 2019 14:49
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It's very clearly will.i.am Holy poo poo they have Miyano channeling Berg-Katze at the end there
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Jun 27, 2019 15:18
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Does DDS get way harder if you do your builds wrong like Nocturne? Or is it more about skills? I realize I know like nothing about how this game system works other than it's more traditional and there's a sphere gridDragonatrix posted:SMT1 ends its early game pseudo-peaceful area by having a monster impersonate a police officer in order to kill your mother and wear her skin in an attempt to impersonate her. thank you law hero
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Jun 27, 2019 15:39
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Expect My Mom posted:Does DDS get way harder if you do your builds wrong like Nocturne? Or is it more about skills? I realize I know like nothing about how this game system works other than it's more traditional and there's a sphere grid Physical and Magic builds are both pretty viable in DDS. Make sure you get at least the initial mantra of each character's weakness since that gives you the Void skill that will cover it. Some people recommend going all the way down the line for the eventual passive resist skill but that's a really big investment for characters like Heat who aren't going to be doing much damage with magic and the active shield skills are all you really need.
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Jun 27, 2019 18:21
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also in DDS you can't really mess up your stat spread enough to actually fail the game, and unlike Nocturne you don't permanently lose moves if you overwrite them.
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Jun 27, 2019 19:21
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DDS also has an unlimited supply of farmable stat items
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Jun 27, 2019 19:41
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I can't believe Ryuji's True Ultimate Persona is just straight up Uncle Death
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Jun 28, 2019 00:31
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Gulping Again posted:I can't believe Ryuji's True Ultimate Persona is just straight up Uncle Death Glad to see he's getting more work!
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Jun 28, 2019 01:34
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Dehry posted:Fansubs are out for the Persona 5 Animation Valentines Day OVA. It features all the romance routes from a first person perspective, RenxRyuji, the Bad Valentines Day event, then Sae after the credits. This made the anime worth it despite the lackluster season.
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Jun 28, 2019 01:59
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Uggghhh OK finally hit a point in Persona 3 where I think I need to do some grinding Stupid Sleeping Table blasts my party into the ground in two turns with Megadiola or whatever the strong attack-all Almighty spell is Have to just put a podcast on or something
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Jun 28, 2019 17:00
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Monkey Fracas posted:Uggghhh OK finally hit a point in Persona 3 where I think I need to do some grinding Oh yeah, gently caress that guy. Basically you need someone with Mediarama to keep up with his damage output.
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Jun 28, 2019 17:06
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StandardVC10 posted:Oh yeah, gently caress that guy. Basically you need someone with Mediarama to keep up with his damage output. Just haven't ran into a "you need to flat out have higher numbers" situation yet in the game so I'm a little disappointed- suppose I have breezed through the last few boss fights with element nullification/resistances though so maybe I just wasn't really keeping up the fact that everything in this block is giving me what looks like shitloads of exp should have been my clue that I was a little underleveled I guess
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Jun 28, 2019 18:17
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Monkey Fracas posted:Uggghhh OK finally hit a point in Persona 3 where I think I need to do some grinding Large portions of Tartarus were only made manageable by listening to music and podcasts when I played. I love P3 to bits, but that music makes that whole segment of the game painful to play without distractions.
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Jun 28, 2019 20:04
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thank you for the DDS tips! i'm excited to try it despite the average things I hear, I feel like I'll like it on Style alone you can change the music by talking to fuuka or otherwise i would have gone insane
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Jun 29, 2019 00:57
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I appreciate the Persona transition to jazzy fun times with accompanying music, but I kind of miss borderline-horror-game Persona 3. Tartarus music was boring, sure, but it did a lot to enhance the atmosphere of creepiness. I actually think P5 was kind of thematically torn, not just in terms of what it wanted to be about, but also had presentation working against their overall theme. They doubled down on jazz and style, but the game's oppressive atmosphere (cant go out at night, stuck in an attic, hated at school) in the early parts of the game and then later on near Okumura really sucked the life out of the more vibrant aspects of the game. P4 did an okay job of managing this but still had a lot of tonal whiplash, it's be nice to see P6 settle on just being a fun time
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Jun 29, 2019 01:09
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A fun scary time. 
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Jun 29, 2019 01:13
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Wark Say posted:A fun scary time. P6 being about a dream world of horrifying nightmare creatures and palaces based on dream archetypes would be cool as hell
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Jun 29, 2019 02:03
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Thanatos looks so cool
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Jun 29, 2019 02:04
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RazzleDazzleHour posted:I appreciate the Persona transition to jazzy fun times with accompanying music, but I kind of miss borderline-horror-game Persona 3. Tartarus music was boring, sure, but it did a lot to enhance the atmosphere of creepiness. I like how Tartarus' theme added more bits to it as time went on. The entrance theme was fantastic, too. Way better than Mementos, that's for sure.
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Jun 29, 2019 02:06
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Mementos music suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks and so did the first Palace's music, but luckily they got kind of better
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Jun 29, 2019 02:57
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RazzleDazzleHour posted:P6 being about a dream world of horrifying nightmare creatures and palaces based on dream archetypes would be cool as hell Go all in on the Lovecraft stuff, especially the Dreamlands.
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Jun 29, 2019 03:59
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I'd love Atlus to return to the horror-themed style of RPG, but it feels like that peaked in the PS2 era. For better or worse, it just doesn't seem like that's where their interests lie anymore.
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Jun 29, 2019 12:43
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I just want more Tokyo Mirage Sessions.
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Jun 29, 2019 12:46
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Kaboom Dragoon posted:I'd love Atlus to return to the horror-themed style of RPG, but it feels like that peaked in the PS2 era. For better or worse, it just doesn't seem like that's where their interests lie anymore. I think part of it is just the technology and that storytelling dovetailing really well at exactly that time. As people have said, the PS2's graphical capabilities and quirks really helped to make the whole thing feel dirty, grimy and a little weird (similarly, I don't think it's a coincidence that Silent Hill made its best games in that era), so that was what they gravitated to making. That's not really the forte of current technology, which is a lot better at bright colors and high-fidelity visuals, so you can do something as vibrant and detailed as Persona 5. Unrelated to Megaten, but that same sort of logic is why early PS3/360-era was the day of the gritty shooters; it was hard to make bright colors look good in those 'still learning HD graphics' days thanks to both knowledge limitations and hardware, but you could get a really good desaturated look going, which sat very comfortably on war stories and the like. I'd really love a good sort of 'darker' JRPG right now too, though, because as much as I love modern JRPGs being really visually spectacular, they are all very bright, optimistic and high-aiming in story. On a different direction entirely it's why I like Octopath Traveler, because rather than any real world-saving so much of its story is spent doing really small-scale stories in a setting where everything's slightly lovely.
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Cleretic posted:Unrelated to Megaten, but that same sort of logic is why early PS3/360-era was the day of the gritty shooters; it was hard to make bright colors look good in those 'still learning HD graphics' days thanks to both knowledge limitations and hardware, but you could get a really good desaturated look going, which sat very comfortably on war stories and the like.
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