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Persona 5 |OT2| Someone must have been helping you go to bed early. Talk!
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LurkerPrime
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Re: Palaces:
Infiltrate Palaces (as in, be ready to send the Calling Card) well before the deadline. You're free to send the calling card at your discretion between then and the deadline. Use the extra time for whatever you want, just be sure to be equipped and Persona'd out for when you send the calling card. And worry not, any remaining time will not be wasted.
And yeah, P4G and even P3P/P3FES will be well worth your time if you enjoy P5. Just note that they're quite different in terms of dungeon design and combat.
They do mention the yakuza in the game, IIRC, so I think it's meant to be a distinct group, separate from them.
It had it's annoying parts, but I didn't hate it. I actually liked the last puzzle alot.
The dungeons don't work very well with he calendar system either. They waste the first day going in and then exiting. Then some dungeons have another day wasted because you need to go in the real world to proceed. You then waste two days for the calling card and treasure. The way some of the S links work in this one is annoying too. Some have requirements like going into Mementos or working part-times jobs a number of time to proceed. It's done to put pressure on you but coupled with the days where you are too tired and cannot do anything because you've listened to your friend repeating the same thing than the day before it gets irritating.
Yeah I could see why people didn't like it, but I really didn't have any problems with it personally. A little too long, but a majority of the palaces were.
I didn't hate it either except for getting the ID cards. I thought Palace 7's gimmick was way more tedious.
Oh boy how about long hallways where we become weak mice and unlock doors!
September overall is the worst month in the game though.
Rushed Hawaii trip, bad introduction for Haru, height of insufferable "oh man the Phantom Thieves will be so famous!", and the one point in the game I hated Morgana.
What difficulty are you playing on? You'd get by if you're playing on Easy.
Normal.
No. My level was slightly lower when I fought the boss.
LurkerPrime
Member
You're fine. (11/18 spoilers)
I fought her at level 52 on Normal. Just be prepared to heal and bring some Personas with solid defensive/buff capabilities. The average level, I've noticed, is massively inflated over what you need most of the time.
I think you should still be able to squeak by.
At this point you had the flu season so of course the levels will be inflated :/
Good to hear, cheers.
LurkerPrime
Member
Oh. What does it actually do? I've seen people mention it before but never checked it out myself.
The reaper has a 20% chance of being despaired. He does nothing and commits suicide after 3 turns. So you get 72 000 XP each time.
Easy
When you encounter the Reaper in Mementos (just wait for it to appear on any floor) sometimes he'll get the Despair status effect due to the Flu Season. In a few turns of just defending he'll die from despair. Netting you over 70,000 experience
Fantastical
Death Prophet
Hm, there's an icon over Yongen-Jaya indicating I can interact with a confidant but I can't find one... it's at night. Clinic is a no-go and Sojiro doesn't have the icon over him. It's Wednesday so I can't call Kawakami. What am I missing?
Press square on the map with Yongen-jaya selected.
CrichtonKicks
Member
Really wish this game had a hide interface option like Steins;Gate just to better look at the scene composition.
So something kinda weird happened last night. While I was fighting a group of Titanias, I pressed R1 because I forgot her weakness for a second (it's psychic), and the game made Makoto point her gun at them for some reason, saying that "guns are effective", I thought maybe I had a gun with psychic damage or whatever so I played along, but they weren't weak to it.
Then I pressed R1 with Yusuke to be sure and the same happened, I double checked her element affinities and nope, only weak go psychic. Then I just attacked wigh psiodyne and surely enough that was the right weakness, but this kept happening during other encounters...
This is a very minor thing but it's so weird lol. Is the game thinking all enemies with wings are supposed to be weak to gun damage without exception or something?
Also I commented on this before but I think Ose is the only demon with alternative idle animations when you're fighting more than one if them lol.
Then I pressed R1 with Yusuke to be sure and the same happened, I double checked her element affinities and nope, only weak go psychic. Then I just attacked wigh psiodyne and surely enough that was the right weakness, but this kept happening during other encounters...
This is a very minor thing but it's so weird lol. Is the game thinking all enemies with wings are supposed to be weak to gun damage without exception or something?
Also I commented on this before but I think Ose is the only demon with alternative idle animations when you're fighting more than one if them lol.
LurkerPrime
Member
Press Square on the map and it will show you the available Confidants in that area.
oh my~
I'm not sure what causes it.
oh my~
Only R1 bug I've noticed is that it occasionally won't detect that the MC has a weakness-skill on an alternate Persona. It's annoying.
I'm not sure what causes it.
sensor
Member
Can someone help me out here?
(very minor confidant and mementos requests spoilers)
I've beaten the game and am currently blitzing through NG+ to max out all confidants and work towards the Platinum, but I've hit a roadblock with
.
I'm currently in early November in the build-up to
and everyone is at, or very close to max, yet he's nowhere to be found. It's my understanding that progressing his confidant is tied to finishing Mementos quests, and I've done every request available right now. Since I've been blasting through the game, I've missed some of his texts for earlier requests (I've missed
).
He's at rank 9 so I only need to hang out with him one more time, but I feel like I've ran out of mementos quests to make him appear, and now I'm regretting ignoring his messages. I really don't want to have to go through the game again, as I'm beginning to reach my tether with it as is. What's worse is that I've read conflicting reports saying that he
, which would mean this whole run was basically for nothing.
Can anyone confirm whether or not he appears again after
? Do the 'mandatory' end of area Mementos requests count towards his confidant progress?
(very minor confidant and mementos requests spoilers)
I've beaten the game and am currently blitzing through NG+ to max out all confidants and work towards the Platinum, but I've hit a roadblock with
Mishima
I'm currently in early November in the build-up to
Palace 6
Justice for Cats, Man of Many Faces and Debts and One Who Bullies Bullies
He's at rank 9 so I only need to hang out with him one more time, but I feel like I've ran out of mementos quests to make him appear, and now I'm regretting ignoring his messages. I really don't want to have to go through the game again, as I'm beginning to reach my tether with it as is. What's worse is that I've read conflicting reports saying that he
disappears after Palace 6
Can anyone confirm whether or not he appears again after
Palaces 6 & 7
Press square on the world map and it should tell you.
I don't know if it's a glitch or not, but sometimes Sojiro s.link time only triggers if I go out and then get back to Leblanc.
Or maybe i'm just imagining things lol.
LurkerPrime
Member
IIRC if you leave Leblanc during Afternoon and go back inside it will transition to Night, when Sojiro is available. That might be what's happening.
Persona 3 and 4 have the same weird quirk when you return to your house. I don't really understand it.
I finished his SLink in October, and I could get it to max without having done one of the quest you missed, for the same reason. Not sure if he spawns in December though.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
Wow, never knew that! Thanks!
I was about your level on normal and had no issues. I mean levels are kind of important but I have found with Persona games managing your personas and their stats and skills and those of your enemies to be so much more important. I definitely play Persona games differently and more thoughtful than average RPGs.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Yeah this stuff is driving me kinda crazy.
Mementos being separate from Palaces means having to sacrifice days between what type of grinding I want to do/progression. Then investigation story stuff just swallowing 3 days at a time.
The writing just doesn't seem there this time too. The concepts are all top notch, but whether its the translation or just total by the books tropes, I'm not getting the 'pop' to S-Links that 3 and 4 offered. I seem to give less of a shit about their stories and just want the abilities they're unlocking. There's entire stuff I just haven't really bothered with due to it absorbing too much time like watching DVD's, going to the movies, making coffee or whatever happens with the fridge. Studying on rainy days and getting that one point of guts at the Diner and doing the med baths just seem like the route until I max those.
I'm only in June, Palace unlocked and ready to go through so maybe some of the better stuff awaits. It may well still be my GOTY, but P3 and P4 would beat it. A bit like how Dark Souls 3 was a great game but just didn't have that evolution to it.
Poor GRIMES
Banned
People didn't like it? It didn't really stick out as anything different to me.
So wait, you read a book that is 1/2 done to complete it, then it's done and you load the save before it, yet the game recognizes it as finished for the trophy even though it's still only 1/2 done in the overview? -Edit: Oh I understand now, you mean to play all the games then after getting the trophy loading an earlier state, that's actually what I've done at the batting cages before. -I guess playing through all the games will take about 15 days eh?
Inquisitive_Ghost
Member
He's definitely not the only one. Pixie has different ones too. I can't remember if I saw any others at the moment.
I swear Ryuji is becoming more and more insufferable with every new event. The beach event, what a cunt. I swear if he wasn't part of the team I feel that everyone wouldn't put up with his shit.
He's now in contention to usurp that dumb bitch Yosuke as The Worst.
And I'm so sick of the guys acting like pervs around the girls that are supposed to be THEIR FRIENDS.
He's now in contention to usurp that dumb bitch Yosuke as The Worst.
And I'm so sick of the guys acting like pervs around the girls that are supposed to be THEIR FRIENDS.
Wyndstryker
Member
Finished palace 6.
Suspected akechi a bit. Didn't think he was that deep involved. Just thought he was a pawn. I already suspected getting captured was part of the plan. The whole fake death using the metaverse was a nice drop.
Maybe that's why they feel comfortable acting that way with them? Not too sure that kind of behavior is unheard of in real life, especially regarding teenagers.
Are they really? I didn't pay much attention to the beach scenes as they're mostly there for fan-service and nothing else.
YoRHa No.2 Type B
Banned
I don't know about Mementos. It seems way shorter than Tartarus.
Evil Monkey DTT
Banned
Boy you wouldn't have liked me in highschool.....
Inquisitive_Ghost
Member
Yosuke is infinitely worse on this front though. Ryuji and Ann at least have some sort of teasing relationship going on.
Oh great! I only started paying attention after seeing Ose, but a party of Barongs really stood out last night, all of them moving in sync haha.
Okay first of all I don't buy that shit. My friends didnt blatantly oogle and stare and make comments about girls that they were supposed to be friends with. And it's not like one time. The palace 4 anime scene and the beach scene both have them, especially Ryuji, blatantly obejctifying Ann.
I'm just tired of this juvenile ass shit. Make up your minds, you either have a mature game with positive themes about being yourself or whatever the fuck, or you have stupid ass animu teenage shit. Stupid ass shit like this just seems desperate and takes away from their supposed main themes.
And also I just hate Ryuji so yeah. Stop making awful characters like this idiot too while you're at it, Persona team.
Well, I made it to the end! Even if I have my problems with some things in the game, I really liked it. The last stretch
was really good, too, especially as the story up until there was a bit too predictable for my tastes.
I'll miss the Phantom Thieves.
from Palace 7's Calling Card onwards
I'll miss the Phantom Thieves.
Dougieflesh
Member
Currently getting my shit stomped in by (Late game spoilers)
Palace 7's boss.
This fight is really fun and challenging. Also the music is superb.
This fight is really fun and challenging. Also the music is superb.
In total? hard to say, haven't played P3P in a while now. It has somewhere around
60
the endgame dungeon
chrominance
Member
NG+
Busy sacrificing Futsunushis (lvl 81) into Moonman (lvl ~30), aka my "abuse the shit out of confuse trick" persona.
Caroline's only comment: "Hahaha, wow inmate! That's DARK."
Even repeated 100x in quick succession, this never gets old.
Busy sacrificing Futsunushis (lvl 81) into Moonman (lvl ~30), aka my "abuse the shit out of confuse trick" persona.
Caroline's only comment: "Hahaha, wow inmate! That's DARK."
Even repeated 100x in quick succession, this never gets old.
Inquisitive_Ghost
Member
I feel like that suits Barong though, lol.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
My friends were pretty horny teens back in the day so..that's the least of my problems with ryuji