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Persona 5 |OT2| Someone must have been helping you go to bed early. Talk!
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Chaos2Frozen
Member
I hope people don't think "Agi, Bufu, Garu, Zio" are the Japanese words for fire, ice, wind and electric lol
BRSxIgnition
Member
It's more about learning the naming scheme than the words themselves.
Prefixes:
Ma = All enemies/Allies.
First half:
Ta = Attack
Ra = Defense
Su = Agility/Evasion
Second half:
Runda = Down
Kaja = up
It's similar for attack spells, where suffixes progresses from ga/la to ion to dyne in order of power.
Wow.
KZXcellent
Member
I'm talking about how it's ridiculous to change the names as it takes the flair out of these moves. It would be dumb to turn stuff like Blizzaga into Ice LV3 because while it makes a lot more sense it's also boring. Same goes for this. Sure, it's more complicated but it's not hard to memorize what an ability does and it's not like you don't have a detailed description of what it does when hovering over it.
Red Blaster
Member
QUE ES FANTOM THIEF
Exentryk
Member
Yeah, I'm slowly picking these up.
NickWright
Member
Taru - Attack
Raku - Defense
Suku - Accuracy/Evasion (the navi calls it "Speed" sometimes)
Kaja - raise
-nda - decrease
Ma - multiple targets at once
And I believe that's it. The rest of magic spells are quite easy to learn (Agi for fire, Bufu for Ice, Garu for Wind, Zio for electric, Frei for Nuclear damage, Psi for Psychic, Dia for curative, Recarm for Revive, etc.)
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
What throws me off is that it's
Agi | Garu | Zio | Bufu
Agilao | Garula | Zionga | Bufula
Agidyne | Garudyne | Ziodyne | Bufudyne
Why are the level 3 spells the same if the level 2 ones aren't?
snow in jamaica
Member
The mythological side of MegaTen feels like such a bizarrely marginalized thing. The series (disappointingly) has no equal on that front.
BRSxIgnition
Member
That's it? So there's no additional scenes that dating a party member would get a player that dating a confidant would not?
Exentryk
Member
The localisation team could have changed these while still keeping the "flair". But I understand it's probably too late to do so for this series now.
KZXcellent
Member
The best part is the AOE versions of the Level 2 spells where it's Magarula, Mazionga, Mabufula, and Maragion. The fire one is different for some reason and it's something that changed from Persona 3 to Persona 4 since P3 called it Maragilao
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
Well there is (Post-End game event spoilers)
Christmas and Valentine's Day. Which you can spend with people you're dating, or Ryuji if you aren't.
Oh god, I hadn't noticed. How strange.
I seriously lost my shit when I read this one lmao.
The localization got a lot of crap (undeservedly so IMO) but goddamn, the phansite comments are just incredible. They actually sound like real stuff rather than what old people think teenagers post online.
WhiskerFrisker
Member
I had no clue persona games had mythical beings you could subdue/create.
TheGamingBox
Banned
im pretty sure its maragion in persona 3 as well
Frozenprince
Banned
What flair these are literally the spells names. It's been the names for fifteen years.
BRSxIgnition
Member
Not comfortable with clicking that, lava, but is it an additional scene for party members, or an additional scene for confidants?
Exentryk
Member
Yeah, all of these things at the same time don't really help.
KZXcellent
Member
Is it? I feel like it was Maragilao when I played P3P but I may be completely nuts. I know it was in some mid-2000s SMT game since it bothered the hell out of me.
Originally in SMT1 and 2 there were no Dyne spells. It wasn't until SMT If... where they were added.
This comment was amazing; it deserves an award tbh.
BRSxIgnition
Member
The longer the attacks name, the stronger it is or the more people it affects, that's essentially what it boils down to.
AlphaDragoon
Member
Wouldn't you have extra scenes if you were dating a party member
during the Hawaii trip or the school festival? Because the non-party confidants wouldn't be there.
I know I had scenes with
Ann for both of those incidents on top of the little reaction during the event in December.
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
Totally fair, I just couldn't figure out how to word it outside of that for the spoiler conscious.
Basically, there are
two additional one on one scenes with people you are dating, that (as far as I know) are not options if you aren't dating them. If you are dating multiple people, you have to make a choose one of them.
psynergylover
Member
the Sun and Fortune confidants just break the game money wise! kinda kicking myself starting these so late but man do they help as Palace 6 to get the best weapon/protecters/gun will cost you ~650,000 yen for all the characters!
Chaos2Frozen
Member
A quick Google tells me that majority of the spells in the franchise are basic on Sanskrit. So that's stuff like where your elemental names come from.
Exceptions are stuff like Dia, which is Greek, and Megido from Mount Megiddo. Hama and Mudo are Japanese though.
All of them have some kind of reference though, would not be wise to change them
Exceptions are stuff like Dia, which is Greek, and Megido from Mount Megiddo. Hama and Mudo are Japanese though.
All of them have some kind of reference though, would not be wise to change them
It's worth noting that a lot of the attack names have their roots in other languages or religions and aren't just gibberish.
Megido comes from Hebrew Har Megiddo, the place where the term Armageddon comes from.
A bunch are derived from Sanskrit too.
Megido comes from Hebrew Har Megiddo, the place where the term Armageddon comes from.
A bunch are derived from Sanskrit too.
Lol beat.
To answer his question, they are scenes for any confidant you are dating I'm pretty sure.
At least two non party confidants still have scenes during
hawaii
Haru
LurkerPrime
Member
I'm fine with the spell localisations--in fact, I like it--I just wish items like spell cards had descriptions for what the spell does.
Ok that isn't actually related to localisation at all, but still...
Agila
Garulao
Bufunga
Pick your poison.
Ok that isn't actually related to localisation at all, but still...
Agila
Garulao
Bufunga
Pick your poison.
Exentryk
Member
The ma- suffix at the start is probably not a good idea either. Having to scrape for Agi in the middle of the word Maragilao is a poor implementation. Keep Agi first and then add whatever else to it. Same for other stuff like mataru, maraku, etc.
But anyway, I just need to deal with it.
In terms of progress, I'm after the 2nd palace, and now waiting for the new target. Already have 4 SP+ accessories, and they made the 2nd palace a breeze. Just created Shiki-Ouji with some neat passives, and now looking forward to destroying the 3rd palace.
But anyway, I just need to deal with it.
In terms of progress, I'm after the 2nd palace, and now waiting for the new target. Already have 4 SP+ accessories, and they made the 2nd palace a breeze. Just created Shiki-Ouji with some neat passives, and now looking forward to destroying the 3rd palace.
You know, I've been playing Megaten for more than 10 years now and for some reason I never even bothered looking these up lol. That's pretty interesting, thanks for sharing.
snow in jamaica
Member
And how many games will give you this?
Many SMT demon designs are taken straight from traditional art and statues, and others are more liberal and creative takes such as Persephone based on symbolism and/or haute couture.
I've yet to see a better Odin anywhere than the one in Soul Hackers.
robotzombie
Member
is there any penalty for retrying a boss battle if you die?
Yes you just need to deal with it, especially since they even have freaking icons telling you what sort of spell it is in every menu. You do not need to go "scraping" for the word Agi in the middle of Maragion at all.
Nope.
BRSxIgnition
Member
Does Takemi also have a scene like the Party members do at that part, Ulong?
A simple yes or no would be more than enough, thanks in advance.
A simple yes or no would be more than enough, thanks in advance.
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
Tae does during the part Bright Lava was talking about, not during the part Alpha Dragon was talking about. It should be noted that you don't actually have to be dating them to get the scene during this part btw, as long as the possiblity of dating them is still there. So I was able to have the scene with Star even though we weren't romantic, but not Ann because I had already turned her down.
BRSxIgnition
Member
So there is one less scene for confidant romances then.
I'm pretty sure they changed it to Maragilao in P3P, I feel like it was Maragion in the PS2 versions.
Exentryk
Member
This is fine in the game, but when discussing these outside of the game (like in forums, guides, etc.), it makes it annoying to read and parse, and thus a poor implementation. Also, mataru and maraku stuff don't have differentiating icons, so it doesn't help there even in game.
There is also one party member who doesn't have a scene during this part despite romantic potential, it is worth noting. And as I edited above, this scene assumes you haven't actually gone romantic yet because the scene is an option as long as romance is still an option regardless of whether you are romantic. As in as long as you haven't turned them down yet, you can have the scene even if you haven't started dating.