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Persona 4 Golden |OT| Love is the only gold.
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Young Magus
Junior Member
I'm doing that dungeon right now and really like that theme, feels really catchy.
Auron_Kale
Member
The game has tons of great dungeon bgm, I especially like the music of
Adachi's
But hands down, nothing beats the progressive nature of Interstice of Time from P3:FES. The part that begins at 7:51 is just a masterpiece.
leatherhat
Member
Stripclub music is best music
I liked this event only for the fact that
you get to hear a Persona song sung by someone who can actually sing in English
EscapingJail
Member
I the the part where
they had already been practicing for two days and then Yukiko finally makes a note with the sax and says "Wow it actually works! I thought it was broken the whole time."
This would have been leagues better. As it is in the game, it's too kiddy for my tastes.
Nephitamine
Member
My Izanagi. I'm not sure what I should replace maragi with right now.
Edit: Got lucky on 2 skill level ups just now. Resist physical -> Null physical and Invigorate 2 -> 3
BUT OTHERWISE HOW WOULD YOU KNOW?
Amory
Member
lol pretty sure she even calls herself Princess Yukiko. At that point my dude had a pretty good idea it was Yukiko. But he wanted to check with Yosuke first to make sure.
And now we're sitting at Junes after the next person appeared on the midnight channel as an outline, saying how if we only knew who it was we could save them. And I just had a discussion about the person the day before and they've been all over the news.
ugh
rainking187
Member
Is there a complete list of all the costumes and how to get them anywhere?
I skipped the bits around the table at Junes for this playthrough. They were driving me crazy. It's even worse when you get the final character, they constantly retell the entire case.
Chuck is my real name, which is why I went with it.
Rawr Its Ry
Member
How the hell did you get maziodyne and resist phys, skill cards + level ups?
My Izanagi. I'm not sure what I should replace maragi with right now.
Edit: Got lucky on 2 skill level ups just now. Resist physical -> Null physical and Invigorate 2 -> 3
Nephitamine
Member
Yeah. I used a ziodyne card and then got a skill level up. The resist phys was directly from a card, but evade phys + skill up would get you to resist phys too.
Arcana Chance makes P4G ridiculously easy even on very hard.
edgardavids
Member
Not long, an hour or so.
ULTROS!
People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
I just beat the game and got the epilogue. Now to replay the game right away.
I love the game, and the new content was full of awesomeness. I'll never forget the new stuff like:
I love the game, and the new content was full of awesomeness. I'll never forget the new stuff like:
- Birth of Venus Kanji
- Ski trip
- Teddie and MC getting it on
- Battle against Marie (great music) ;_;
- Epilogue
- Ski trip
- Teddie and MC getting it on
- Battle against Marie (great music) ;_;
- Epilogue
ULTROS!
People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
The_Darkest_Red
Member
I got a rude awakening last night, apparently I am playing this game wrong to some extent (first time playing P4, on normal right now).
Without getting into the boring details let's just say I was way under-leveled for Kanji's dungeon. As in, I think my protagonist was level 17, Yosuke and Chie were 16, and Yukiko was something a little higher. Prior to the last few floors of that dungeon levels had never been an issue, and I'd always focused so much on social links and other non-battle stuff that I apparently didn't keep up in the leveling department.
Anyway, I beat
at those levels somehow... It wasn't pretty and it involved me wasting tons of items and only my protagonist survived but I managed to pull it off.
So now I'm wondering how I should change my play style without hurting my social stuff too much. I went back into Kanji's dungeon as soon as I had the opportunity to so that I could catch up on some levels (I got Kanji at 25 so I'm guessing that's a good spot to shoot for) but I'm not sure how long that'll take me. Maybe a day or two? Anyway, I was just wondering if it was normal to "train" in dungeons like this as opposed to just running through them once, or did I mess something up somewhere along the way?
Also, how difficult is it to max out a good portion of the social links without using a guide or worrying too much about finishing a dungeon in one day and all of that? I'm not concerned with getting all of them or anything, but at the same time I don't want to miss out on the majority of them. Just looking for some general tips, I suppose.
Without getting into the boring details let's just say I was way under-leveled for Kanji's dungeon. As in, I think my protagonist was level 17, Yosuke and Chie were 16, and Yukiko was something a little higher. Prior to the last few floors of that dungeon levels had never been an issue, and I'd always focused so much on social links and other non-battle stuff that I apparently didn't keep up in the leveling department.
Anyway, I beat
Shadow Kanji
So now I'm wondering how I should change my play style without hurting my social stuff too much. I went back into Kanji's dungeon as soon as I had the opportunity to so that I could catch up on some levels (I got Kanji at 25 so I'm guessing that's a good spot to shoot for) but I'm not sure how long that'll take me. Maybe a day or two? Anyway, I was just wondering if it was normal to "train" in dungeons like this as opposed to just running through them once, or did I mess something up somewhere along the way?
Also, how difficult is it to max out a good portion of the social links without using a guide or worrying too much about finishing a dungeon in one day and all of that? I'm not concerned with getting all of them or anything, but at the same time I don't want to miss out on the majority of them. Just looking for some general tips, I suppose.
You cannot expect these new characters to know the details of the case unless you tell them the ENTIRE story. The only true solution here is to not allow new people to join the detective crew.
First off, there isn't really a "wrong" way to play, and that's part of the beauty of this game. There are a lot of ways people tend to play it, it's pretty flexible. Your goal with your outside world time should almost always be to be advancing social links, or increasing stats that are necessary to advance one of your social links (you'll know this is the case when the game tells you something like: 'You could talk to this girl if you had enough Courage')
As long as you're doing that, you're going to get the most you can get out of one playthrough. Keep in mind that there ARE optimal routes that will get you all the social links in one playthrough, but that involves knowing a lot of stuff about what will be required ahead of time. That's also part of the fun of this game, is creating planned out guides on how to achieve that kind of thing.
Just keep doing your thing and try not to worry about it too much, just enjoy your social links and spend your time increasing them. Use Voice a lot if you can to see who is available, and if you see a name you don't recognize, feel free to ask here on how to unlock their social link.
In regards to dungeons: It's pretty normal to have to grind if you're not playing on easy/very easy. You may not have to depending on how good you are and how many consumables you've got, but I'd recommend it.
Here is my typical dungeon grinding ritual, starting after you beat the first actual dungeon:
Enter TV, clear previous dungeon (the dungeon you beat last time will now have a bonus boss at the end of it, the Castle's boss is particularly tough, so I usually skip it until the next time I enter the TV) with the party. Then go back in to the previous dungeon with JUST the protagonist (SAVE A LOT when you do this, also come with ample GoHo-M's and Vanish Balls or a persona with Traesto/Trafuri) and grind the top floor for a while. Your Protag will get a ton of EXP this way and increase the amount of Personas you can fuse.
After comfortable with MCs level, enter new dungeon with party, clear all the way to the boss (denoted by a single corridor with no minimap), GoHo-M back to the entrance, save, heal, fuse, etc. Then I go back and enter at top floor and grind on the top levels until my party is ~10 levels higher than they were the last time I fought a boss.
The last thing I'll suggest is that you try and complete the dungeon in as few days as possible. During the early game it can be very, very tough to do it in one day, but later in the game as you have more resources for restoring SP it's not that difficult. Doing this saves you time and increases the days you've got available to be earning S.Links and increasing your stats. Also, defeating the bonus bosses at the end of previously cleared dungeons will net you a gain to Courage.
Hope this helps!
edgardavids
Member
Cafe Chagall
Each Persona has its own skill card, but you don't unlock the ability to get them until you can travel to Okina.
edit:
On that note, I love how the game has added new ways to spend your time that DOESN'T involve S.Links or stats, which is particularly nice for NG+ playthroughs.
Off-screen it
The_Darkest_Red
Member
Thanks a lot man, some very useful information here. I appreciate the help!
I think I've been doing a pretty good job so far of not worrying too much about what's optimal and just enjoying myself but I just wanted to make sure taking an extra day or two to grind some levels wouldn't hurt me in the other areas of the game too significantly.
Regarding your tips for dungeons, when you say GoHo-M back to the entrance and heal are you referring to recovering SP as well? Does paying the fox accomplish this or something? Or are you just talking about HP? Right now the only thing I know to do is go home and rest and come back the next day. I think it's taken me two days to do the first two dungeons (as in, two days for each).
I killed a Wealth Hand once but they usually escape from me... I don't have any good strategies for dealing with them, haha.
we.are.the.armada
Member
That's pretty normal - as the game goes on, it might help for you to set aside a day to go back and complete the previous dungeon and its side boss; furthermore, try to complete as many "item fetch" quests given by NPCs. You'll be able to go see movies soon, that is a good way to get a level up for your party members.
It is very easy to max out almost all of the social links in one go without a guide; however, you will not get them all in a single since that requires a guide that min/maxes schedules.
You, my friend, just got SMT'd.
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
I love both but lol no.
And I love it.
buddha0991
Member
Welcome to Megaten! I hope you enjoy your stay! Look to the left, and see the easy path, known as the Raidou games, now look to your right, and you see Nocturne, with a tiny Strange Journey under it. Which ever path you choose, make sure to give it your all and hold on for dear life if its the right!
Heh. Keep going.
we.are.the.armada
Member
It's a bit inane. Maybe somebody at the review board flagged demon summoning, alcohol reference, a couple of bad words, and partial nudity. It's a mature game in some senses, but probably not a "Rated-M for Mature" game.
Ow, ok ^_^
I dunno, there are some pretty flagrant sexual themes
Bathhouse and Club dungeons, particularly, not to mention Yukiko's appearance on the midnight channel
I'd be surprised if it had anything less.