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Persona 5 |OT| Lupin The Fifth. Label spoilers properly! (see post #4621)
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KnightHart
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Amazon Canada sometimes ships on weekends but it depends on 1) Where you live 2) If there's a holiday on the Friday or Monday and 3) If you Prime shipping
I've had Amazon ship out games on Sundays and they arrive Saturday sometimes and I live in Toronto.
Gunslinger
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Here in NYC most non Gamestop video games store sell copies early.
J_ToSaveTheDay
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New Jersey based friend of mine went to a mom and pop in NYC to get his copy a few days ago.
I didn't ask him exactly where (so I don't know), but it's not the first time he's been able to pull off something like that.
cj_iwakura
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I visited the real thing. I can relate.
Date borken. I visited a game storelast week, dude said game came 4/4. Went to another mall, dude just grabbed it from shelf for me.
Yeah, I suppose the visual design and color palette has a lot to do with it. It all just feels very overly fantastical to me.
But I've heard a lot of very good things about Persona 5 so I think I'm gonna pull the trigger on it eventually. The amount of content, the game systems design, the polish, etc. all look very appealing.
Just wanted to see if anybody else had the same reservations that I did.
Haha, it's only the first few days that are like that.
ASilentProtagonist
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I'd say the last boss of Palace
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SolidChamp
Banned
Jason Schreier said he didn't have to grind during his play through so I'd like to know which difficulty level he played on.
The thing about Persona's art direction is that it's heavy on contrasting the fantastic and real. Yes, if you've seen a lot of footage of the dungeons and battles and Phantom Thieves getups, it probably seems very saturated and over-the-top.
But a huge portion of the game is spent in a much more grounded "real world", where you'll sleep in some old dude's dusty attic and wander around back alleys on a cloudy day and get lost finding your transfer route on the subway. I recommend watching Giant Bomb's Quick Look, since I think it illustrates what I mean very well:
https://www.giantbomb.com/videos/quick-look-persona-5/2300-11912/
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You don't need to grind on any difficulty other than Challenge. Safety showers you in EXP, but Easy, Normal and Hard all give the same amount and that's balanced very well.
SaiyanRaoh
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I gave it a shot, went to Walmart during a skeleton crew to get a copy that I know is residing in the back. Got the guy to grab one and made it to the register when it was flagged for street date. Fuck. I should have led the guy to a self checkout. .....I'll try another Walmart for a sucker
I gave it a shot, went to Walmart during a skeleton crew to get a copy that I know is residing in the back. Got the guy to grab one and made it to the register when it was flagged for street date. Fuck. I should have led the guy to a self checkout. .....I'll try another Walmart for a sucker
Don't think you'll have luck with Wal Mart. Even if you tried to self checkout, there system would've flagged it and a manager would have to come in and deal with it. You'd have to be very, very lucky willing to find someone to willingly bypass street dates. They're hard locked in the system.
Once you get the quirks of it, One More has always been a fairly easy battle system to exploit. Certainly easier than basic SMT Press Turn. For P3 and P4 it's all been about making sure your personas are up to date, making sure to know and weaknesses/resistances and getting your buffs and debuffs up. Once you know all the pieces, it becomes fairly easy on the JRPG difficulty scale outside of secret bosses. Not sure the extent of P5's changes, but nothing I've seen has even remotely made it look like it's gonna be a massive difficulty bump over 3 and 4.
iRAWRasaurus
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I think the clerk has to check it out themselve. They don't let you grab those items behind locked glass and roam around freely.I gave it a shot, went to Walmart during a skeleton crew to get a copy that I know is residing in the back. Got the guy to grab one and made it to the register when it was flagged for street date. Fuck. I should have led the guy to a self checkout. .....I'll try another Walmart for a sucker
EscapeArtist
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I was just thinking this myself, I'm getting the Take Your Heart edition from Amazon but if it doesn't arrive on Tuesday I'll run out to a store and pick it up. (My copy still hasn't shipped)
Marmaladefire
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IT'S HAPPENING
I'm still wondering how Anne got all those Amerika-jin genes while being but 25% but..Ok lmao
BRSxIgnition
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I already do this. Amazon's been so bad with me that I order @ EB Games and return the Amazon copy to the EB Games once it arrives.
That way I get the discount of Amazon, and the on-time-release of EB Games.
Speaking of, does anyone know if any EB Games in Vancouver, Canada will be doing a midnight launch? If not, could I pick it up before they close on the Monday night? Do they do that?
TheGeniusArcana
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Asked a few pages back, but is there a social stat that is generally the best to focus on so that you have access to more confidants sooner than later?
Gunslinger
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You will definitely need to improve on guts (bravery) to advanced one particular social link.
Nice, that's good to know. Thank you for that link. I feel like that sold me on the series more than any of the Persona media I've been exposed to over the years. Everything else felt like 90%-10% dungeons-to-real world and a mashup of random events so it all just felt so incoherent.
I'm really digging the anime cutscenes they showed.
Are you able to customize clothing for the characters in the real world?
Cheshire_Buddha
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Considering buying a digital copy just because it'll be around 4-5 PM when my steel book gets in.
The hype is just too real, guys.
The hype is just too real, guys.
I cancelled my physical order once I realized the earliest I would be playing on Tuesday would be like 8pm. Ready for that midnight launch.
Supermanisdead
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preload up on psn now. god, i wish i could just play as soon as it finishes
Supermanisdead
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so half the game isn't mind numbingly easy?
TheGamingBox
Banned
What's a good way to improve that one? I know about
the burger eating thing, but it hasn't been available when I've travelled there.
lowhighkang_LHK
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So you're saying they overall made P5 easier than P4? Damn.
Chaos2Frozen
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I feel like I need a list of the optimal ways to gain social stats.
All the +2 and +3, none of that +1 bullshit lol
All the +2 and +3, none of that +1 bullshit lol
logic
Pancake Mix
Copied someone else's pancake recipe
It's amusing that anime so often has American or Western characters as blonde with blue eyes. They made Ann only a quarter American (which can be anything) and she somehow gets that trope too, despite how recessive genes work
Just a weird anime trope and one of many, and I've played enough of Persona 4 to know it won't be the only one in this game, lol.
Just a weird anime trope and one of many, and I've played enough of Persona 4 to know it won't be the only one in this game, lol.
yeah just don't get too much drool on the controller
cj_iwakura
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Sheesh, I'm wondering if I should ramp the difficulty up, but I always start from default on a first run.
Unless you're fine with all your days being eaten from dungeoning and grinding I'd hold off on hard until around dungeon 3. I went back on NG+ and did a restricted run through the first two dungeons using only what would have been available at the time and even without having to worry about money or sp it was still pretty intense.
So far so good on hard... though I'm not in the second dungeon yet.
Gunslinger
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I am only like 13 hours in but I also found
renting horror dvd and watching it your room increases guts. You can buy a TV from the pawn shop by the cafe.Once you buy the TV the shopkeeper will throw in a DVD player for free. After that you can rent DVDs from the market district. You can also catch movies in the movie theater and based on the genre you can improve guts. From what I found so far.
By the time I finished the game last year, the music had certainly became repetitive and some were even annoying mostly the daily tracks. Shapeshifter makes me wanna kill a cat.
All your social stats will need to be maxed to finish all the Confidants. Some will require a certain stats rank to start, others need it to progress, others need it to finish. Found this out the hard way with
Yusuke at one rank needing a Proficiency rank 4
RadioJoNES64
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So if I preorder the normal version I get the Dualshock foreskin with it right?
the_sun_king
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Correct.
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