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[Holundrian]

What Ryuji thing? Is it missable?

Unless I misunderstood it's the thing you were referring to with hanging out with Ryuji?
It's missable in the sense if you never do it during your whole year there. But as long as the school year goes you should be able to open the Confidant at any time you want.

 

[Laughing Banana]

What Ryuji thing? Is it missable?

The one with him and Mashima pester you for Maid services. Yea it's technically missable, I suppose, although it's pretty hard to miss.

 

[Roussow]

Ughhh, I've started taking notes, occasionally save scumming to guarantee optimal weather for mementos, writing out a weeks activities ahead of time. I feel like the time management aspects of this game are way more tense than P4G, too be fair P4G was my first go at the series so it was a less than optimal playthrough, I didn't even see the true ending (I still haven't Youtubed it in the years after), but it felt like I had quite a few more days just to wander around there.

Also, I've worked twice with Sojiro and his link still isn't ready to increase, feels odd, I had the appropriate Persona equipped, too.

 

[Wolf Akela]

Why is the gameplay better in P3P?

Your teammates are no longer pansies who complain about fatigue and sickness.

 

[Hoo-doo]

Turns out I missed getting

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the phone number from the teacher

. (minor SL1 Temperance confidant spoiler)
And now it's summer vacation, all kinds of shit is popping off and all I want to do is call

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a damn maid

. I want to go back to school, yo.

I finished the fourth palace today. Amazing from start to finish. Now I got like 15 days of straight chillin'.
Time to get my hustle on.

 

[Jintor]

Female MC is P3P only, a what-if scenario, basically. She's not canon, and the subsequent Persona games don't even recognize her existence, haha..

she's real to me damnit!

playing as a genki girl was legit the best. She had some of the best dialogue options in persona ever, too. and her unique social links were dope.

 

[Laughing Banana]

Ughhh, I've started taking notes, occasionally save scumming to guarantee optimal weather for mementos, writing out a weeks activities ahead of time. I feel like the time management aspects of this game are way more tense than P4G, too be fair P4G was my first go at the series so it was a less than optimal playthrough, I didn't even see the true ending (I still haven't Youtubed it in the years after), but it felt like I had quite a few more days just to wander around there.

Also, I've worked twice with Sojiro and his link still isn't ready to increase, feels odd, I had the appropriate Persona equipped, too.

Sojiro's Confidant is blocked on a certain level before you get the sixth party member.

she's real to me damnit!

playing as a genki girl was legit the best. She had some of the best dialogue options in persona ever, too. and her unique social links were dope.

Well she's unique, I'd give her that

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despite the creepy romance thing going on with a kid like Ken....

Still though, first time Persona 3 player? FES >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> P3P anytime for me.

 

[Thud]

Try to make coffee yourself and then you will be getting asked if you want to use her help instead.

I still don't understand the logic behind the lockpicks and coffee. Sojiro was really clear on how to make it. Someone that probably drinks from a machine or instant is not gonna do a good job.

It does save time, but I rather like the MC do it himself because it makes good sense.

 

[Fakeknowledge]

Unless I misunderstood it's the thing you were referring to with hanging out with Ryuji?
It's missable in the sense if you never do it during your whole year there. But as long as the school year goes you should be able to open the Confidant at any time you want.

The event just happened lol. I swear whenever i ask a question on Gaf it's about 5 minutes before the game shows me anyway.

Cheers.

 

[Holundrian]

Ughhh, I've started taking notes, occasionally save scumming to guarantee optimal weather for mementos, writing out a weeks activities ahead of time. I feel like the time management aspects of this game are way more tense than P4G, too be fair P4G was my first go at the series so it was a less than optimal playthrough, I didn't even see the true ending (I still haven't Youtubed it in the years after), but it felt like I had quite a few more days just to wander around there.

Also, I've worked twice with Sojiro and his link still isn't ready to increase, feels odd, I had the appropriate Persona equipped, too.

Sojiro progresses slowly I wouldn't focus on him too much early unless there's really nothing else to do. Better to read books or what not. You want to work on him after you progress the Fortune Slink far enough which will help you out with progressing Confidants without spending time.

P5 is also actually way more lax than P4G and has a bit more time. I've heard about people finishing the game with like 2 weeks of not much to do while having everything maxed. I barely made it on the last available day but that speaks to how many mistakes I made by simply not knowing stuff.

 

[MTC100]

Female MC is P3P only, a what-if scenario, basically. She's not canon, and the subsequent Persona games don't even recognize her existence, haha.

Oh... I never played P3P as a female then, totally forgot about it... well... where is my PSP?

FES is definitely worth it, IMO, despite some weird gameplay decision that game is very rich in atmosphere and has great characters too (IMO). You can buy FES for PS3, if you have the console.

Yeah have a PS3, playing P5 on it -Sounds interesting, now the question is should I play as a female on my PSP or just play FES on my PS3...

Gotta finish P5 first either way though.

 

[Exentryk]

Is there a missables guide?

 

[Chaos17]

Also, I've worked twice with Sojiro and his link still isn't ready to increase, feels odd, I had the appropriate Persona equipped, too.

I feel He is one of the longest to upgrade.

 

[nOoblet16]

I don't think I can bring myself to do a 2nd play through in this game for the platinum trophy. Long ass games like this shouldn't make you do 2 playthroughs for platinum.

 

[MTC100]

I don't think I can bring myself to do a 2nd play through in this game for the platinum trophy. Long ass games like this shouldn't make you do 2 playthroughs for platinum.

Why exactly do you need to play it through twice to get that platinum trophy, I guess you can't max all stats and Social links in one go or is there something else?

 

[SuperBanana]

Any advice before I send the first calling card? I'm assuming this is leading into a boss battle.

 

[Salaadin]

Don't buy them at rank 5. Wait until you get the half-price discount from rank 7.

Good to know. Thanks.

 

[Laughing Banana]

I don't think I can bring myself to do a 2nd play through in this game for the platinum trophy. Long ass games like this shouldn't make you do 2 playthroughs for platinum.

The annoying thing is if you don't use books or games to raise your Social Stat, the game will force you to do so if you're chasing the Plat even if you have max Social stat in NG+.... hrmrmrmrmrmrmrmrmrmrmrh.

 

[duckroll]

she's real to me damnit!

playing as a genki girl was legit the best. She had some of the best dialogue options in persona ever, too. and her unique social links were dope.

She's as real as anyone's MC in P3, P4, or P5.　There's no "canon" because no Persona sequel will actually acknowledge the previous game's MC or use your name choices or remember you decisions to have any impact. People who want to believe their male MC playthrough is more "canon" than the female MC are just delusional.

 

[Jintor]

I don't think I can bring myself to do a 2nd play through in this game for the platinum trophy. Long ass games like this shouldn't make you do 2 playthroughs for platinum.

lol i spent 300 hours on p4g in a month

IN A MONTH

admittedly it was uni holidays but still

 

[Sgt. Kabukiman]

7/25 spoilers

Yusuke: "

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Perhaps this is that "tsundere" thing...

"
Haha. Yeah, maybe it is.

 

[Holundrian]

Why exactly do you need to play it through twice to get that platinum trophy, I guess you can't max all stats and Social links in one go or is there something else?

If you know the P4G plat the only thing that requires a second playthrough is pretty much the bonus bossfight again. Everything else is doable in one playthrough.
Edit: Oh forgot about the NG+ special fusion. So just these two trophies I think.

She's as real as anyone's MC in P3, P4, or P5.　There's no "canon" because no Persona sequel will actually acknowledge the previous game's MC or use your name choices or remember you decisions to have any impact. People who want to believe their male MC playthrough is more "canon" than the female MC are just delusional.

Not really delusional Persona Q(which doesn't have the FeMC at all), Dancing and Arena I believe were all stated as canon by the creators.
Although I personally ignore and deny that. Not saying that the sentiment doesn't become less stupid just that there's a reason why people might have that sentiment.
So not really that delusional.

 

[Laughing Banana]

She's as real as anyone's MC in P3, P4, or P5.　There's no "canon" because no Persona sequel will actually acknowledge the previous game's MC or use your name choices or remember you decisions to have any impact. People who want to believe their male MC playthrough is more "canon" than the female MC are just delusional.

Not really. Subsequent persona games like Arena and Shadow of the Laybrinth games explicitly acknowledged the existence of male P3 lead; you can't say the same about the Female MC.

 

[Ydelnae]

I don't think I can bring myself to do a 2nd play through in this game for the platinum trophy. Long ass games like this shouldn't make you do 2 playthroughs for platinum.

I think a 2nd play through would take me 25h max. You can skip scenes you don't like, there's no need to invest time in Mementos if you did it all in your first play through and the dungeons will be piss easy.

 

[InternHertz]

Why exactly do you need to play it through twice to get that platinum trophy, I guess you can't max all stats and Social links in one go or is there something else?

It's easier doing 2 of them. When I did my platinum last year, I went for Max stats on my first plus as much social links as I could.
On the second one I had all my stats at Max so I could focus on doing the SLs.
You can do it in one...if you're good.

I enjoyed my two playthroughs immensely (~188h40)

 

[Khoryos]

She's as real as anyone's MC in P3, P4, or P5.　There's no "canon" because no Persona sequel will actually acknowledge the previous game's MC or use your name choices or remember you decisions to have any impact. People who want to believe their male MC playthrough is more "canon" than the female MC are just delusional.

Umm, not according to P4A and P4A:U. Male pronouns.

 

[silva1991]

WTF? is one of the ultimate Personas really locked behind a shitty DLC or is this site missing some possible fusions?

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https://chinhodado.github.io/persona5_calculator/#/persona/Satan

 

[MTC100]

If you know the P4G plat the only thing that requires a second playthrough is pretty much the bonus bossfight again. Everything else is doable in one playthrough.

Not really delusional Persona Q(which doesn't have the FeMC at all), Dancing and Arena I believe were all stated as canon by the creators.
Although I personally ignore and deny that. Not saying that the sentiment doesn't become less stupid just that there's a reason why people might have that sentiment.
So not really that delusional.

I don't really remember but I have Platinum on P4G, yes. So the last boss fight is locked behind NG+, well gotta play through the game twice anyway then ^^

 

[Laughing Banana]

Umm, not according to P4A and P4A:U. Male pronouns.

Yeah, not to mention the 3DS games.

 

[Holundrian]

I don't really remember but I have Platinum on P4G, yes. So the last boss fight is locked behind NG+, well gotta play through the game twice anyway then ^^

Since you have the Persona 4 G plat I'll just say it but I'll just spoiler tag it for safety anyway.

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Not the last boss it's the special Velvet Room Attendant fight again as it was in the prior Persona games. It's far quicker to access though I believe you can do it as soon as you unlock Mementos instead of having to almost finish the game like in P4G where you have to finish the Nanako dungeon.

 

[Netto-kun]

WTF? is one of the ultimate Personas really locked behind a shitty DLC or is this site missing some possible fusions?

Spoiler

https://chinhodado.github.io/persona5_calculator/#/persona/Satan

Yeah, the site is missing plenty of possible fusion combinations.

 

[MTC100]

Since you have the Persona 4 G plat I'll just say it but I'll just spoiler tag it for safety anyway.

Spoiler

Not the last Boss it's the special Velvet Room Attendant fight again as it was in the prior Persona games. It's far quicker to access though I believe you can do it as soon as you unlock Mementos instead of having to almost finish the game like in P4G where you have to finish the Nanako dungeon.

Thanks, I remember now. There is no way though that I can max out everything in my first run anyway since I didn't use my time optimally.

It's easier doing 2 of them. When I did my platinum last year, I went for Max stats on my first plus as much social links as I could.
On the second one I had all my stats at Max so I could focus on doing the SLs.
You can do it in one...if you're good.

I enjoyed my two playthroughs immensely (~188h40)

I already messed up too much stuff as I wasn't playing with guides and didn't use the thieves guild too often for hints on exams and so on. I plan on maxing out my stats in this run, like you did. I shouldn't have invested so much time into knowledge though, it's almost as 5 now as you get it so often...

 

[Salaadin]

What's the deal with Sojiro? I'm currently rank 3 but it Feels like I never rank up with him. I think I made coffee with him 3 times now with a Hiero equipped but that guy just won't budge.

 

[Laughing Banana]

What's the deal with Sojiro? I'm currently rank 3 but it Feels like I never rank up with him. I think I made coffee with him 3 times now with a Hiero equipped but that guy just won't budge.

You can't progress him past 3 before Futaba joins your party.

Edit: correction: rank 4 actually, sorry.

 

[silva1991]

does snipe stack with cripple?

Yeah, the site is missing plenty of possible fusion combinations.

Thank God.

Nice avatar btw lol.

 

[Hoo-doo]

I stacked a Tarukaja on my man Fox who already had a Tarukaja active and the prompt said something like 'attack up duration extended'.

Does that mean that it just ups the Tarukaja turn-counter by 3? Or does it refresh the counter. Does it mean that whenever I hypothetically cast four Tarukaja's at once that it'll stay active for 12 turns?

 

[Laughing Banana]

I stacked a Tarukaja on my man Fox who already had a Tarukaja active and the prompt said something like 'attack up duration extended'.

Does that mean that it just ups the Tarukaja turn-counter by 3? Or does it refresh the counter. Does it mean that whenever I hypothetically cast four Tarukaja's at once that it'll stay active for 12 turns?

Yeah, just period extension, not stacked effects.

 

[Salaadin]

You can't progress him past 3 before Futaba joins your party.

Oh god lol. I guess I wasted a few nights.
I saw someone on gamefaqs say that you need to brew coffee using the pot next to him in order to advance him. Any truth to that?

 

[Holundrian]

I stacked a Tarukaja on my man Fox who already had a Tarukaja active and the prompt said something like 'attack up duration extended'.

Does that mean that it just ups the Tarukaja turn-counter by 3? Or does it refresh the counter. Does it mean that whenever I hypothetically cast four Tarukaja's at once that it'll stay active for 12 turns?

Nope pretty sure it only raises the effect. Every buff can be applied two times for the maximum effect but it doesn't extend the duration just refreshes it.

 

[Rhaknar]

Ok I got to the treasure in the first day, that second half wasnt that bad after a few reloads (from dying, not save scumming lol) and getting lucky with a couple of fights that leveled me up. Thank you for whoever said to keep going, I was going to leave and waste a day tbh.

Did have to use a full sp item on the MC char tho, oh well. Still good progress for 1 day I think.

Really like the dungeon in this, its leaps and bounds better than the random ones in 4.

 

[Khoryos]

Oh god lol. I guess I wasted a few nights.
I saw someone on gamefaqs say that you need to brew coffee using the pot next to him in order to advance him. Any truth to that?

I think I needed to have done it once to go from two to three? I've only just gotten far enough to take him past that, so I can't comment on the future.

 

[aravuus]

Oh god lol. I guess I wasted a few nights.
I saw someone on gamefaqs say that you need to brew coffee using the pot next to him in order to advance him. Any truth to that?

I don't think you have to, just that it's recommended in case the regular way won't rank the SLink up since you'll get coffee in addition to the SLink points

Good to know about the Futaba thing, though. I was wondering just how goddamn much I'd need to spend time with him, but that explains it.

 

[Chaos17]

I feel that I should have used a guide because I don't want to do a second play through too. There's some social link I want to do but I don't have the time in game ←_←

 

[Laughing Banana]

Oh god lol. I guess I wasted a few nights.
I saw someone on gamefaqs say that you need to brew coffee using the pot next to him in order to advance him. Any truth to that?

I don't think you have to, just that it's recommended in case the regular way won't rank the SLink up since you'll get coffee in addition to the SLink points

Good to know about the Futaba thing, though. I was wondering just how goddamn much I'd need to spend time with him, but that explains it.

Sorry, a mistake, not rank 3, but rank 4.

You can only get him pass 4 to 5 after 8/22.

 

[Dragner]

I feel that I should have used a guide because I don't want to do a second play through too. There's some social link I want to do but I don't have the time in game ←_←

Unless you want to platinum the game there are a couple of bad s.links that are not worth the time investment (the photographer one for example) so you shouldnt be sad about it.

 

[Rhaknar]

Wtf where did the last 2 hours go?

 

[Holundrian]

Unless you want to platinum the game there is a couple of bad s.links that are not worth the time investment (the photographer one for example) so you shouldnt be sad about it.

Why is she bad? Because of her Confidant boni?
She has a fun storyline worth doing though like almost all the Confidants.
No real total duds like Persona 4 Hermit or Persona 3 Magician(Male playthrough) that are kind of skippable.

 

[Salaadin]

Sorry, a mistake, not rank 3, but rank 4.

You can only get him pass 4 to 5 after 8/22.

Gotcha. Thanks again

 

[Dragner]

Why is she bad? Because of her Confidant boni?
She has a fun storyline worth doing though like almost all the Confidant Slinks.
No real total duds like Persona 4 Hermit or Persona 3 Magician(Male playthrough)

The bonuses are not good because are all related to dungeon navigation and alert that if you grasp the basics concepts shouldnt have problems with that. Ofc if you are interested in the story everything is ok but you can check that on a later playthrough or just youtube it.

 

[Laughing Banana]

Why is she bad? Because of her Confidant boni?
She has a fun storyline worth doing though like almost all the Confidants.
No real total duds like Persona 4 Hermit or Persona 3 Magician(Male playthrough) that are kind of skippable.

Yeah her bonus is just baaaaaaaaaaaaaad, especially in comparison to stuff like Death, Temper, Fortune, or especially Star.