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Persona 5 |OT2| Someone must have been helping you go to bed early. Talk!
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Ultimadrago
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lol. I just described the other one. Maybe I got my colors mixed up!
Huh, I've now hit 100 hours into the game and I still feel like I have a lot more to do. It's amazing, but I will admit my enjoyment started to wane around Palace 5 as you're already too used to the motions by then, but a few days away helped a lot and the game is picking up well anyway.
I've now maxed out the Strength arcana and uh oh I cannot help myself spending all my money on this. This led into a spiral of grinding and managing Personas and now I'm about 20 levels higher than I should be. I am hopeless!
There's also no way I'll be able to finish even half of these social links with the time I have left, but I was expecting a second play-through and a few of the characters have really lost me so it doesn't bother me—
Oh, and the hardest boss in the game so far is easily
I've now maxed out the Strength arcana and uh oh I cannot help myself spending all my money on this. This led into a spiral of grinding and managing Personas and now I'm about 20 levels higher than I should be. I am hopeless!
There's also no way I'll be able to finish even half of these social links with the time I have left, but I was expecting a second play-through and a few of the characters have really lost me so it doesn't bother me—
Ryuji and Ann especially.
Oh, and the hardest boss in the game so far is easily
the guardian fish and that Famicom fighting game that barely registered my inputs.
Aenima
Member
I dont think thats the red panel, the red one is at the entrance of that area, is easy to miss without using the vision thing
Oh my bad, yeah that one is hard to see without abusing Third Eye. Same thing happened to me.
Palace 7 Boss:
12/9:
That was quite an interesting fight with the shifts in abilities and resistances. Also super crazy that his awakened shadow first used the people...then kind of looking like the senator from Revengence.
12/9:
Flu days are broken with how easy it is to take down the Reaper. Too bad the payout isn't that great.
edit: beaten
themaskedndi
Member
Yeah, I thought Palace 5 was completely fine.
I was worried about the timers, but the game gives you a lot of extra time. Plus, the air locks were a lot of fun.
dark maze
You can raise this objection for nearly every single point after the first or second case. The fact that they never address directly communicating with the public is an issue for the majority of the game, I'm not advocating one way or the other as there's pitfalls to speaking up and staying silent, but the principals death is hardly the first time theyre "accused" by the public of something shady.
It was surprisingly rough if you weren't prepared. I got hit by the Fear + Ghastly Wail combo more times than I'd like to admit...
WhiskerFrisker
Member
Just give me confuse boost for fucks sake. Why is acquiring skill locked behind rng?
Ultimadrago
Member
Sending an official statement would likely make matters worse and would unnecessarily increase pressure on Mishima, who actually runs the site.
I agree with this. Haru doesn't really have time to gain an introduction for herself aside her father being a successful CEO and arranged marriage (with a required douche). Throughout all of this, she does somewhat gain models to rebel against, but none of the traction like Anne or Makoto or Futaba or Yusuke.
It's your way in for feeding skills rather than breeding them, which is a great improvement from Persona 4 Vanilla where you had to breed them and it was somewhat based on RNG. Here you are "rewarded" with breeding by being able to send off almost any move, where as if you simply feed via Gallows [ala. The Easy Way], it's RNG. I'm not saying it's a great thing in itself, but an improvement.
The dark maze
It was also nice to give you thief vision another use as opposed to just scoping out items or power levels.
mice sections as they are far too numerous and take up far to much time between each letter.
WhiskerFrisker
Member
I wish it was dropped from RPGs. It gets so frustrating when after the 10th time the game refuses to cycle through the list of skills and just give repeats.
Fish during torrential rain in the summer. Way easier than the Inaba Guardian.
Why would anyone believe them, though? Unless they reveal their identities and demonstrate their powers there is no way anybody would believe that they're telling the truth.
Aenima
Member
Its just a Phan-Site/ forum.
If i was being doing Phantom Thievery and had the police on my tail, i for sure would not use any site to make any public statments as it could be easely be tracked to the owner IP and everyone getting busted.
psynergylover
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Secured a treasure route in palace 6, the music and atmosphere were great but the overall palace was ass....all the
wasn't hard but was just so boring.
coin grinding was awful
The Phansite is a fansite. I doubt they would want to show they are connected to something that is so easily trackable. Especially since the site owner loves to jack off about it at nearly every opportunity.
Futaba is a world renowned hacker. There is no way she would be tracked if she put up a statement
I still don't have the fish spot unlocked despite being rank 10 with Ryuji (doesn't he take you there?).
The other thing I am seeing is that eventhiugh I am rank 10 with Ann, Istar is still not showing up in fusion list for me.
I'm about to finish the 4th palace now but I'm starting to get bored with the game (it's my first in the series). It's starting to feel repetitive after understanding how all the events are laid out. Some of the social link dialogue is terrible
. I'm this far in but even battles haven't evolved much beyond knocking everyone down and using the finisher. I'm just finding the game to not have as much depth as it first makes itself seem and the story has not gotten as interesting as I had hoped.
like Ann talking about "strengthening her heart" and shit? What.
WhiskerFrisker
Member
There are a bunch of rank 10 personas I'm not seeing.
I'll rephrase my earlier question.
Does dating more than one person drastically affects the true ending of the game?
I can deal with some deviations, or some minor changes to the outcome, but will I get a completely different outcome?
Don't get specific if there are spoilers, just tell me how big of a change it will be.
I have only recently started my second relationship and I don't mind continuing but would like to know the scale of the impact of this decision.
Does dating more than one person drastically affects the true ending of the game?
I can deal with some deviations, or some minor changes to the outcome, but will I get a completely different outcome?
Don't get specific if there are spoilers, just tell me how big of a change it will be.
I have only recently started my second relationship and I don't mind continuing but would like to know the scale of the impact of this decision.
There's also a book that unlocks the location. Ryuji invites you there
during summer break and unlocks if you accept.
Ultimadrago
Member
There is a book called "Fishspotter" you can purchase which unlocks the location, if you haven't already gone with Ryuji. Ryuji, iirc, should ask you about early July.
Edit: Beaten Boyz
Aenima
Member
She does put up a statment, but she does not use the fan site. She hacks the local tv station instead and broadcast live her message.
This is a significantly later-game spoiler than what was being discussed.
Ultimadrago
Member
Ann's social link is fucking bizarre for like, the first half of it
shadow_shogun
Member
Tell me about it, it's the very reason I went ahead and turned the difficulty to safe.
Nocturnowl
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The fourth palace constantly reminded me of the Death Chamber from Sonic Adventure 2 of all places, kept expecting some cringe lyrics to drop into the background theme
"you damn right Ryuji"
This post palace period is oddly exhausting for a social link fest, I should probably have paced my dungeon business with so much time but I can't help but be compelled to just smash them out as soon as possible.
"you damn right Ryuji"
This post palace period is oddly exhausting for a social link fest, I should probably have paced my dungeon business with so much time but I can't help but be compelled to just smash them out as soon as possible.
Ultimadrago
Member
How many rooms did you grind? You only need the initial set (that's about given to you) and the walk-out scene's extra in order to afford the Giant Slot on the other side.
Had the summer break, no invite. He came over to mine only once and wanted to play video games so I decided to ignore him. I already had him ranked up to 10 before summer break.
Guess I'll just have to read that book to unlock it.
Ultimadrago
Member
Whoops! Thanks for adding that. I learn more about the Harem Route every day~
I never made that connection! *Hums Pyramid Cave*
Well, better to be safe than sorry! After a while, all the free time from a one-day dungeon completion/checkpoint gets heavy in its own right.
There is actually no grinding, if you do everything in order you'll have enough coins for everything including the items being sold.
1. Check back after each palace is done. Last one appears in November, just get all at once then. Btw. drinks you got from dungeons don't count, you need to buy them!
2. Not annoying. Read the fishing book and try to find the guardian on rainy days, it's the golden fish.
3. I think sometimes after the 5th palace
4. You only need to do a side activity once to unlock the corresponding book, no need for a home run.
There are books for fishing, gaming, batting, movie watching and working with flowers.
chrominance
Member
About the various school/team events in the game:
I think the Persona team was intentionally trying to contrast them with the ones in Persona 4; all the events that are like "wow we'll cherish these wacky moments together forever" in P4 turn into "oh that was kind of a bummer actually" in P5. The fireworks festival is an obvious example.
About the early September event:
Hawaii in addition seems to have this theme of "it's supposed to be exotic but really it's just like Japan, what a disappointment." That might be a theme that resonates a lot more with Japanese people. I can't remember just how much of that has to do with the group being obsessed with Phantom Thieves stuff; there's that one event where the group's on the beach and trying to decide what to do, and then they all get on their phones and Ryuji's like "wait, we could be doing this in Japan, nothing's changed!" But I can't remember if they're on their phones because they're looking up news about the Phantom Thieves or if they're looking up fun things to do in Hawaii.
I agree with your assertion that
it's intentional. At that point in the story, I think the writers are trying to sow doubt about why the Phantom Thieves pick the targets they do, which comes to a head when Morgana pushes for the next attack against the judgement of some of the others.
The Xtortionist
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goddammit owl
Yes it's the only one apart from palace 2 that does that.
Yup...