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[PhantomThief]

Just over a hundred hours in.. last palace.. this game is too damn good!

 

[Thud]

Poor guy cant catch a break

I had to comment on that kek.

 

[silva1991]

The game gives you a preview of stat gains after leveling up when using the "Strengthen Persona" feature. You can manipulate a Persona's stats by repeatedly cancelling and entering. It's the best way to optimize Persona stats.

It sounds less annoying than save scumming that's for sure

 

[Rhaknar]

Haru rank 6 and shes just not showing up now... so annoying

I know it doesnt matter in the end if you get all maxed confidants (hell I dont even care about trophies) but im so close :/

 

[Zephyx]

10/27 question

Spoiler

Do i keep akechi as a fixed party member til the end of the game? Planning to invest in him quite a bit.

 

[Blackquill]

Mina-san

I love this guy so much ._.

 

[Jisgsaw]

Dear Atlus,
While I really appreciate that you proposed a japanese dub with english subs, I'll let you in in a little secret:
YOU ALSO HAVE TO SUB THE FUCKING SPEECHES FROM THE TV IF THEY ARE RELEVANT TO WHAT IS HAPPENING IN YOUR ANIME CUTSCENES.

My god, has no one playtested 11/20 or what?

 

[nOoblet16]

Dear Atlus,
While I really appreciate that you proposed a japanese dub with english subs, I'll let you in in a little secret:
YOU ALSO HAVE TO SUB THE FUCKING SPEECHES FROM THE TV IF THEY ARE RELEVANT TO WHAT IS HAPPENING IN YOUR ANIME CUTSCENES.

My god, has no one playtested 11/20 or what?

You can turn subtitles on from options.

 

[Szadek]

Haru rank 6 and shes just not showing up now... so annoying

I know it doesnt matter in the end if you get all maxed confidants (hell I dont even care about trophies) but im so close :/

You can't spent time with her own sundays and when it's raining.

 

[PhantomThief]

I swear people sometimes go on a faux outrage without checking through. You can turn subtitles on from options.

Uhh.... you know a whole lotta dialogue isnt subbed at all right? Even if you are playing with English voices.

Faux outrage? Calm down man .

 

[The God]

I'm kinda confused about the Treasure Room route for the first Palace. Is that a separate objective or will I trigger the whole thing by going there?

 

[Kevinroc]

10/27 question

Spoiler

Do i keep akechi as a fixed party member til the end of the game? Planning to invest in him quite a bit.

Spoiler

That's not a good investment.

 

[Vorheez]

Say what you want about me, but I love the pervy aspects in the game. I think it's great. Watching

Spoiler

sojiro creep on Ann

is hilarious and being able to

Spoiler

call my teacher late at night on the weekends to show up in a maid outfit and call me "master"

satisfies so many longterm fantasies I've had since adolescence that I finally understand the waifu warnings. I hope they don't get rid of it in future titles.

 

[LurkerPrime]

Dear Atlus,
While I really appreciate that you proposed a japanese dub with english subs, I'll let you in in a little secret:
YOU ALSO HAVE TO SUB THE FUCKING SPEECHES FROM THE TV IF THEY ARE RELEVANT TO WHAT IS HAPPENING IN YOUR ANIME CUTSCENES.

My god, has no one playtested 11/20 or what?

Haha yeah, 11/20 confirmed my worst fears regarding the subs. You'll see the problem in one of the earliest animated cutscenes, and it only gets worse from there. (Every movie/DVD and animated cutscene has missing subtitles. For some inexplicable reason.)

If you want to hear everything, there's no choice but to go with the English dub.

 

[Blackquill]

You can turn subtitles on from options.

Even with subtitles turned on, the TV speeches are not subbed

 

[Rhaknar]

So is the

Spoiler

memento stuff

with morgana after palace 7?

 

[Thud]

Even with subtitles turned on, the TV speeches are not subbed

Movies are also not subbed, but eh you don't miss a lot.

 

[Zephyx]

Spoiler

That's not a good investment.

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The way you phrase it makes me think he's just a temp member. That's too bad.
I like his design a bit.

 

[PhantomThief]

So is the

Spoiler

memento stuff

with morgana after palace 7?

That is correct, just got there last night myself. Very cool.

 

[Zolo]

Holy shit! The enemies in the fifth dungeon hit HARD!

 

[gun_haver]

I did it. I did the thing.

7.5/10. Probably will not play NG+. Legitimately do not understand the near-universal 10/10 praise this game gets. Not to say that it's bad by any means, but it's far from 10/10. Joker is my favorite Persona protagonist by far. Dungeons felt padded to all fuck. Game was paced like ass. Yusuke and Akechi are both bae. And yaaas @ that soundtrack.

That was my very well-articulated and lovingly crafted review of Persona 5. I hope you all enjoyed and found it informative.

I'm only about 2/3rds of the way through the game I figure (start of October, waiting on 6th dungeon) but yeah overall this game is kind of disappointing. Maybe some of it is that once I really got into it, I just wasn't as up for another 100 hours of Persona as I thougth I was, but I also think alot of the game is just kind of boring.

About 7/10 seems right. There are good moments and I'm gonna finish the game off cos I think the story will at least pick up a bit towards the end, but I'm barely even reading the dialogue anymore because all the characters sound the same and I don't really care what they have to say anymore.

Could've been a lot better, really. Looks nice, though.

 

[Quick Mustard]

New to the Persona games, having only played a few hours of 4 on the Vita.
Loving 5 so far, but one question which I'm sure is obvious but I dont know.

Why do the enemies transform when you fight them? like, from a default Knight looking character to suddenly a floating girl with wings.

Are they Personas for the enemies as well or...?

 

[Thud]

New to the Persona games, having only played a few hours of 4 on the Vita.
Loving 5 so far, but one question which I'm sure is obvious but I dont know.

Why do the enemies transform when you fight them? like, from a default Knight looking character to suddenly a floating girl with wings.

Are they Personas for the enemies as well or...?

You rip the masks of shadows, revealing their true form.

Still their cognition makes them under control of the Palace's ruler. After you convince them to join you, they become Personas. They get a will of their own so to speak.

 

[gun_haver]

New to the Persona games, having only played a few hours of 4 on the Vita.
Loving 5 so far, but one question which I'm sure is obvious but I dont know.

Why do the enemies transform when you fight them? like, from a default Knight looking character to suddenly a floating girl with wings.

Are they Personas for the enemies as well or...?

All of the enemies are obtainable Personas in this game, basically. They transform cos the dungeons have their own set of map enemy models which have slightly different behaviour (faster, slower, can see further or shorter).

It's kind of corner cutting to do this cos if I remember right Persona 4 at least had unique enemies for battle and then Personas as well which were obtained separately, but in this one it's all melded into one. You can talk to the enemies when you knock them all down and convince them to join you as a Persona - which you've probably figured out.

 

[Kevinroc]

Finally finished it just shy of 80 hours. That last dungeon and the final boss battle were something else.

Spoiler

I almost thought they were gonna pull a P4 on us and have yet another boss hidden at the end when I went around talking to everyone whose social link I maxed out.

I really enjoyed my time with this game. But I'm not feeling a NG+ playthrough at this time. The only thing I missed were a few social links that I didn't max out.

The Empress (I was already invested in a ton of other social links when this one became available, and I hadn't maxed out my proficiency until later still.)

The Hanged Man (Didn't raise my Guts to the level to start this until quite late)

The Sun (I was so close to finishing this one, too.)

Strength (I never bother with this kind of SL.)

I'm definitely curious what the seemingly inevitable P5 spin-off(s) will look like. And I'm really curious where they take this series in Persona 6.

 

[NoctisCaelum]

It is funny that I am using the money trick on a shadow that formed because of money debts

 

[Jisgsaw]

You can turn subtitles on from options.

I have them on.
The TV reporters are NOT subtitled, while the rest are.

Haha yeah, 11/20 confirmed my worst fears regarding the subs. You'll see the problem in one of the earliest animated cutscenes, and it only gets worse from there. (Every movie/DVD and animated cutscene has missing subtitles. For some inexplicable reason.)

If you want to hear everything, there's no choice but to go with the English dub.

Yeah I noticed it in one of the first cutscene, but it wasn't that dramatic there.
The whole 11/20 cutscene however relies on the news report, not subbing them makes no sense whatsoever.

 

[YuriLowell]

So what is the easiest way to raise my charm?

 

[Jintor]

man protag is so cool

 

[Quick Mustard]

You rip the masks of shadows, revealing their true form.

Still their cognition makes them under control of the Palace's ruler. After you convince them to join you, they become Personas. They get a will of their own so to speak.

All of the enemies are obtainable Personas in this game, basically. They transform cos the dungeons have their own set of map enemy models which have slightly different behaviour (faster, slower, can see further or shorter).

It's kind of corner cutting to do this cos if I remember right Persona 4 at least had unique enemies for battle and then Personas as well which were obtained separately, but in this one it's all melded into one. You can talk to the enemies when you knock them all down and convince them to join you as a Persona - which you've probably figured out.

That all makes sense! Thank you both!

 

[Thud]

man protag is so cool

I noticed this as well. The idle team animations. Makoto is studying. Ryuuji is reading mannga, Haru takes a cup of tea, Ann is watching her phone, Yusuke is eating some Pocky, Futuba is playing with Morgana and protag does his moves.

Spoiler

Akechi

is probably just standing around like billboard.

 

[Jintor]

The animation work in this game is amazingly superb. The scene in 04/10? or so (

Spoiler

the jump

) is really great, especially with Ann, but there's so much cool little animation work...

...that you can't share easily because Atlus's bullshit dumbshit restrictions

 

[LurkerPrime]

Agree about the animations. I've been noticing the different character's postures the entire time I've played--some sitting straight, others slouching in class, etc; it's all really impressive--made me realise how few games even try to capture that aspect of life.

Also everything Morgana does in cat form is gold. Everything!

 

[Jisgsaw]

So what is the easiest way to raise my charm?

Bathhouse Monday and... Wednesday I think? evening gives you +3.
Devil confident also gives you +3 (only thing this confident is good for...)
Working at Crossroads in Shinjuku on evenings can give you +2, depending on who you talk to.

 

[Jintor]

A lot of the date animations are wonderfully subtle.

 

[Dugna]

I noticed this as well. The idle team animations. Makoto is studying. Ryuuji is reading mannga, Haru takes a cup of tea, Ann is watching her phone, Yusuke is eating some Pocky, Futuba is playing with Morgana and protag does his moves.

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Akechi

is probably just standing around like billboard.

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Actually if you look at Akechi's face in the idle screen when they are having their meeting, his face is covered by the upper right timer for days left. Its kinda like hinting at his double mask...that or I'm overthinking it lol.

Spoiler

 

[Sgt. Kabukiman]

Mina-san

I love this guy so much ._.

Man... I just voted in the French election and seeing this guy is depressing as hell ; ;
No Sun Confidant running for office around here, lol.

 

[The God]

So you can use a Persona that's a higher level than you, but you can't fuse to create one that's higher level than you?

 

[Sgt. Kabukiman]

Damn, I really like Haru.
I hope I'll be able to complete her social link. I just reached rank 7 and it's 12/5. Fingers crossed.

So you can use a Persona that's a higher level than you, but you can't fuse to create one that's higher level than you?

Correct.
But you'll be able to circumvent that eventually.

 

[MTC100]

Movies, crosswords and gifts don't have a trophy attached to it. The only trophy that's a pain in the ass is the craft tools one.

Oh alright then, shouldn't be a big problem then and I can concentrate on the games and books. The crafting trophy is weird I could swear I crafted everything at least once but I didn't get it, is there something secret hidden I have to craft?

 

[Weiss]

Man, it's really over, isn't it? I beat Persona 5 after three years of waiting for it.

 

[Zolo]

I just realized I don't even know how to do crosswords...

 

[Sciel]

Oh alright then, shouldn't be a big problem then and I can concentrate on the games and books. The crafting trophy is weird I could swear I crafted everything at least once but I didn't get it, is there something secret hidden I have to craft?

You have to craft everything yourself. Anything by

Spoiler

Kawakami

doesn't count.

 

[MTC100]

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Actually if you look at Akechi's face in the idle screen when they are having their meeting, his face is covered by the upper right timer for days left. Its kinda like hinting at his double mask...that or I'm overthinking it lol.

I don't think they did it unintentionally... also the way he is standing far away from the others and also the way he is addressed in conversations give a hint or two too I think, he was never really trusted to begin with.

You have to craft everything yourself. Anything by Kawakami doesn't count.

I didn't let her craft anything, I think... oh damn wait... I think I let her make the

Spoiler

Eternal

lockpick out of curiosity if she can handle that...

-Well it doesn't really matter though, with enough profeciency you can craft everything within 2 sessions anyway I think.

 

[Papercuts]

Oh alright then, shouldn't be a big problem then and I can concentrate on the games and books. The crafting trophy is weird I could swear I crafted everything at least once but I didn't get it, is there something secret hidden I have to craft?

No but the eternal lockpick is a pain in the ass to make, and YOU have to make it. If you use the Temperance bond to make something like that it doesn't count.

 

[RalchAC]

Damn, I really like Haru.
I hope I'll be able to complete her social link. I just reached rank 7 and it's 12/5. Fingers crossed.

Correct.
But you'll be able to circumvent that eventually.

Yeah, me too. But I have to recognise that some of my best memories of youth were hanging out at a Café, whose owner was a friend of mine. The coffee he made was amazing and I used to hang out there with a friend of mine that really helped me overcome some struggles and become a more realised person. She is a person I hold really close to my heart.

The Café was always half empty and it closed after two years because the owner couldn't profit it.

So basically any Confidant

Spoiler

that is related to coffee

hits me harder than those who don't.

 

[Young Magus]

11/20 Spoilers

First Set of Events:

The Breakdown of What Happened:

Spoiler

Your maxed out Links messaging you to see if the reports were false

Spoiler

Ryujis Reaction, "We got em`" Alongside MCs smirk in the cutscene

 

[MSMrRound]

Bathhouse Monday and... Wednesday I think? evening gives you +3.
Devil confident also gives you +3 (only thing this confident is good for...)
Working at Crossroads in Shinjuku on evenings can give you +2, depending on who you talk to.

Monday and Thursday.

Other than Devil, the Sun confident can give +3 charm as well.

 

[Sgt. Kabukiman]

Yeah, me too. But I have to recognise that some of my best memories of youth were hanging out at a Café, whose owner was a friend of mine. The coffee he made was amazing and I used to hang out there with a friend of mine that really helped me overcome some struggles and become a more realised person. She is a person I hold really close to my heart.

The Café was always half empty and it closed after two years because the owner couldn't profit it.

So basically any Confidant

Spoiler

that is related to coffee

hits me harder than those who don't.

Sounds like the Sojiro and Haru Confidants were written especially for you =)

11/20 Spoilers
...

Congratulations on winning the thread.

 

[Canti]

Thought I was just going to be reading spoilers on

Spoiler

Akechi

idle animations but ended up screwing myself over on the plot after 60+ hours in the dark on mid-palace

Spoiler

6

. I know it was marked spoiler but given the context... damnit GAF! ;_;