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Persona 5 |OT| Lupin The Fifth. Label spoilers properly! (see post #4621)
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General game spoilers that you might want to avoid
early game is pretty much only difficult because of SP limitations. Even without the rings you get more skills and abilities to replenish your SP on demons. I could restore 17 SP per turn on MC around 3rd or 4th palace onwards. High crit skills are also way too good, and combine that with talking your way out of battles, makes it easy to avoid any battles you don't want to fight. And you don't really lose EXP by doing that either. And then there's also the fact that a lot of the confidants have really awesome abilities... which makes the game far too flexible for you when the base difficulty isn't really increasing much.
Edit: Actually I should also say that the early game bosses were also more difficult than mid and later game bosses. And that's not because of SP. It's not curved well. I never had a game over on bosses like 4th one onwards while I spent an hour on the 2nd one. I checked the thieves guild occasionally and I'm also underleveled compared to most people.
Edit: Actually I should also say that the early game bosses were also more difficult than mid and later game bosses. And that's not because of SP. It's not curved well. I never had a game over on bosses like 4th one onwards while I spent an hour on the 2nd one. I checked the thieves guild occasionally and I'm also underleveled compared to most people.
There's a DLC that unlocks Merciless difficulty. Maybe you will like that more.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
Morgana is like ignis if he actually made u not drive at night after warning u.
There should be a night time penalty or something let me do something at my own risk and the next day I'm tired or my stats are down in dungeons something!
oh don't get me wrong, my comments are not on the quality of the english dub. It seemed fine in the quicklook.
Just beat the 2nd Palace.
Blackmailing Ann to pose nude, his English voice, outfit etc. I doubt I'll use him in battle unless I'm forced to.
OniBarubary
Banned
Uuuuuuuuugggggghhhhhh this Level 10 platonic S. Link with Ann.
She so wants the MC.
She so wants the MC.
TheMrPliskin
Member
Yup, his confidant scenes and his interactions with the other characters are some of my favourite stuff in the game.
Yeah it works really well, only thing that isn't great is dash being assigned to the rear touch but you quickly get used to it.
Trigonometrize.
Member
It's basically Atlus saying fuck you, you're missing out on the fantastic cast of the other dub no matter what you choose! Mwuhaha!
zelhawks37
Member
Just beat the second palace. Easier than the first, but from what i hear of what is coming up, im looking forward to the challenge. 
Ah I see, yeah I got the feeling that confidants gave way too much benefits, but I don't want to avoid them either.
Oh well, challenge is still decent at least. I found SMT4 painfully easy starting from a certain point but it was still enjoyable for the most part. Hell, sometimes being able to break the game as much as possible it's good fun too.
Yeah very much so.
The only annoying thing is running in dungeons because it's mapped to the rear pad, but that's not even something you're required to use, so it's fine.
Oh well, challenge is still decent at least. I found SMT4 painfully easy starting from a certain point but it was still enjoyable for the most part. Hell, sometimes being able to break the game as much as possible it's good fun too.
Yeah very much so.
The only annoying thing is running in dungeons because it's mapped to the rear pad, but that's not even something you're required to use, so it's fine.
Thanks. I'll try that.
Thanks. I'll consider this too but I'm not even sure if I even have all those skills. Need to check.
I still plan to spend a day in momentous because I can fuse a couple of level 19 persona before I go back to the palace if I get up one more level.
OniBarubary
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I never saw any of his shit as creepy because it's not like he's slobbering over her or being like 'Oh man, gonna go to her house to squeeze her booty accidentally' He has like...no ulterior motives. He's obtuse or just doesn't really care. His other interactions play into the fact that sometimes he just doesn't...realize shit because he's so focused on what's important to him to the exclusion of other stuff.
Nah, it's about the encounter design and the gameplay mechanics. Merciless probably requires more grinding to get to the same level but when you can just spend more days in the dungeon it's not doing much. Also someone argued that the extra damage done on Merciless probably benefits the player more than the enemies. I really liked the early game difficulty in P5, after a while it kinda just disappeared.
There's one moment later in the game in P5 which could reach the levels of the best encounters in 4A, but because a number of the gameplay mechanics are unlocked through confidants, they couldn't design the encounters requiring you to use those mechanics.
Level 3 or level 4? In any event, yes, it time locks around then until late August, but the game doesn't tell you this.
MaximumSpider
Banned
P3 and P4 had this all the time iirc. The game just gave it a character's voice this time
No idea. I think so but it's been a while since I played the JP version.
PixelatedBookake
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I don't think so. It didn't build up for me. Waste of time
Yup it was always "You feel exhausted from today's events and decide to go to bed early"
MisterShine
Member
It's better having this be the MCs thoughts rather than another character telling you what to do.
BassForever
Member
I dunno what makes me more annoyed
The fact the game threw a random enemy that was the same as the mini boss in the first dungeon
Or the fact when I came back to the game and cause I don't have access to internet I can't play the fudging game cause I got the free dlc
The fact the game threw a random enemy that was the same as the mini boss in the first dungeon
Or the fact when I came back to the game and cause I don't have access to internet I can't play the fudging game cause I got the free dlc
I will agree with that. Guess it's better to get mad at yourself than someone else telling you lol
MaximumSpider
Banned
I mean it's the same thing. I don't see how it's any different since they both prevent the player from doing anything thay day.
The Last Wizard
Member
It only gets worse.
Yusuke really surprised me, he looks so regular but his personality has really won me over. He's the bro for P5.
The second happened to me too. Turns out my nephew forgot to tell me he left his PS4 set as primary with my account, so I used my phone as a hotspot and set mine back as primary.
The mini-boss thing isn't as bad as it seems either. Normally the game gives their random encounter version an elemental weakness or two the boss version didn't have.
brandonh83
Banned
Yeah, the art, menu design and sounds make it "fun," don't really know how to explain it really. It's a joy to look at and go along with.
brandonh83
Banned
My only problem so far is that haze border around some of the screen during dungeons. It's hard to navigate at times IMO
MaximumSpider
Banned
She's the mvp on my team. Hoping Haru will be good.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
I refuse to get rid of high pixie ever I'll keep her forever best persona on my team
As far as party members go looking at the box art glasses girl has my attention if she is one
As far as party members go looking at the box art glasses girl has my attention if she is one
Yeah I noticed that in the first dungeon. I'm hoping it doesn't get too bad.
Edit: Morgana is already better than Teddie.
BassForever
Member
I figured, but I was in full on sprint to the end of the dungeon to clear it in one night with my limited healing/sp, got caught, got mega ganked. I also hadn't saved since before the mini boss :|
Makoto's VA is good. The talent here is actually pretty great, it's too bad most of the lines read like a college student trying to throw in some fancy sounding words into their essay.
Tangent, Battle-wise:
Ryuji
Morgana
Ann
Yusuke
Makoto
Tangent, Battle-wise:
Ryuji
Second best? Buffs damage, pretty much Kanji from P4. Zio for weaknesses, good dmg amounts for bosses especially because I don't think a boss thus far has had an elemental weakness
Best party member? Lucky Hit crits like 75% for me, healing. They're pretty fragile though
Decent for hard mode, Tarunda is a necessity for some fights. She kinda feels like a burden until you get Diarama though.
Worst? Weakness exploiter, having trouble using him for bosses
All-around good, healing, Rakukaja, good damage, and Frei
Schizoidberg
Banned
darkwing-buck
Member
This is what I see when me and the thieves do a hold up.
fuckin' hell makoto is so dooooopeeeee
they really weave her in well before she takes centre stage
they really weave her in well before she takes centre stage
I really wish you could start s-links before you finished their corresponding dungeons though... I always want to use chars the dungeon I get them in, but characters without baton pass are really disadvantaged
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