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Persona 5 |OT2| Someone must have been helping you go to bed early. Talk!

Finally, after 129:27hrs of playtime, I'm a legendary phantom thief...

What a rollercoaster ride, my collector's edition has been redeemed.

This is my first Persona plat ever, never felt the same need to plat with P4G, guess my habit of achieving platinums for the games I have bought CE versions of, motivates me to redeem them.


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To be honest, I can't believe I'm near the end. I want to keep playing lol I gues this will be the first time in my life I actually play a NG+ in a RPG.
I feel the same. Never tried the NG+ on P3 and 4 before outside of just checking some things out, but I might seriously do a full playthrough of P5 again once I've had time to let it settle.
 
Going into Mementos with 13 missions lined up. Dang, I'll end up in there for hours. 3.8 million in the bank and 82% persona completion.

...Maybe I'll grind some more money, just in case.
 

Cess007

Member
I feel the same. Never tried the NG+ on P3 and 4 before outside of just checking some things out, but I might seriously do a full playthrough of P5 again once I've had time to let it settle.

I rarely do NG+ or 2nd playthroughs. There are a lot of games on my backlog, and my play time is limited. But this game, really deserves it.
 

Opa-Pa

Member
I just got to playing through
7th palace
. Approx time to finish? Trying to finish tonight if I could...

I'd say around 3 hours perhaps? There's a bunch of mini bosses and puzzles.

Also if you're allergic to simple mazes like 99% of the player base, you probably won't stand playing through it for more than an hour lol.
 
Took me almost exactly 1 hour, but I've finally pulled out all the stops (and consumables) to defeat the secret boss!

Only one last trophy left! That goddamn Passionate Listener trophy! I'm going to be so piss if I can't get it on the second playthrough >_<
 

Watch Da Birdie

I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
So on Palace 7...

It's the usual "beat Palace and you have plenty of free-time" deal, right? So it won't skip to the end if I beat the Palace this time around on Day 1?

Morgana made it seem like I should S-Link before doing it...
 

Guess Who

Banned
So on Palace 7...

It's the usual "beat Palace and you have plenty of free-time" deal, right? So it won't skip to the end if I beat the Palace this time around on Day 1?

Morgana made it seem like I should S-Link before doing it...

Yes, you can do it the first day and still get the rest of the remaining time. Morgana is just warning you because the deadline for this Palace is basically your last chance to do Confidants.
 

Watch Da Birdie

I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
Yes, you can do it the first day and still get the rest of the remaining time. Morgana is just warning you because the deadline for this Palace is basically your last chance to do Confidants.

Okay, just checking---gonna max out Anne's today and then head on in.

What about Mementos? I know the final dungeon is apparently the deepest part, but while doing that one can I finish exploring the rest of it?
 

Guess Who

Banned
Okay, just checking---gonna max out Anne's today and then head on in.

What about Mementos? I know the final dungeon is apparently the deepest part, but while doing that one can I finish exploring the rest of it?

(Post dungeon 7 spoiler)
If you haven't already made it to the "end" of Mementos before you have to do the Mementos Depths, you will be forced to do the rest of it before you can get there.
 
She is rank 10 now. I know they are and I selected the correct ones, I even double checked online so I'm not sure what went wrong....

Taking a break makes sense, I did that last night and jumped into some Nier: Automata and it was really refreshing. I just don't want to take a break and never come back, lol.



Dammit!! I knew I selected the right choices for Takemi....

Just wanted to follow up and let you guys know I just finished it last night :)

Overall, I really enjoyed it. I did feel that it dragged a bit, especially in some dungeons but overall I had a great time with it. Surprisingly I enjoyed the latter part of the game the most, some of the music was amazing! 107 hours to beat it.

On to Nier Automata :)
 
Can anyone shed some light on this?

So I'm currently in the middle of August and decided to jump into mementos, right now I'm the path of
Kaitul
and for some reason everytime I perform a sneak attack with the Mona-Bus the whole combat part is skipped and a Persona gets added to my inventory.

Why is this happening? I kinda feel like I'm getting robbed off with XP and money.
 

ShadyK54

Member
Can anyone shed some light on this?

So I'm currently in the middle of August and decided to jump into mementos, right now I'm the path of
Kaitul
and for some reason everytime I perform a sneak attack with the Mona-Bus the whole combat part is skipped and a Persona gets added to my inventory.

Why is this happening? I kinda feel like I'm getting robbed off with XP and money.

You might have Ryuji's insta kill ability.
 
Is that it? I have that ability, but the description said that there was a "chance" for that to happen. Is the whole rest of the game going to be like this? Or is it because my level is too high for these enemies?

I'm honestly kinda perplexed.

Yep. I threw a fit when I first went into Mementos after unlocking that ability, but it's honestly not so bad because it only triggers on weak enemies.
 

JBwB

Member
Is that it? I have that ability, but the description said that there was a "chance" for that to happen. Is the whole rest of the game going to be like this? Or is it because my level is too high for these enemies?

I'm honestly kinda perplexed.

Yeah it has a much higher chance of activating if you're overleveled.
 

broz0rs

Member
Question about Fortune's social stat and confidant boosts. Are those boosts a fixed points addition or are they a multiplier to the stat I intend to work on?
 

Mikhal

Member
Is that it? I have that ability, but the description said that there was a "chance" for that to happen. Is the whole rest of the game going to be like this? Or is it because my level is too high for these enemies?

I'm honestly kinda perplexed.

It is a bit annoying that you can't turn it off but as long as you don't ambush the enemy you'll go in to battle instead of insta-killing. It never felt random to me. It always triggers when my level is on the high end compared to the demons you're supposed to fight.

Question about Fortune's social stat and confidant boosts. Are those boosts a fixed points addition or are they a multiplier to the stat I intend to work on?

The social stat boost is a multiplier. The confidant boost add a fixed amount of points.
 

muteki

Member
Ugh, pretty sure I've missed maxing the Sun confidant by just one day. Dude needs to be available more often if he is going to have an early deadline like that.
 
It is a bit annoying that you can't turn it off but as long as you don't ambush the enemy you'll go in to battle instead of insta-killing. It never felt random to me. It always triggers when my level is on the high end compared to the demons you're supposed to fight.



The social stat boost is a multiplier. The confidant boost add a fixed amount of points.

It is somewhat random in that it starts triggering once you're a few levels higher and moves to guaranteed.

Its a pretty questionable ability generally though, considering it costs you XP/yen/items, close to disables Hifumi's One Turn Win Gold Boost and doesn't ask you to discard a mask if your stock is full. And that it's generally dangerous to not ambush because enemies seem to have artificially high agility in this. It would be majorly improved if it resolved as a proper win (XP/gold/items + random mask and did the usual ask to discard) or had an off switch.
 
only up to the part where you find out who
Alibaba
is and
morgana is seen with her

I already have guesses as to what that means, who the bad guy probably is, and how this is going to go down. Is it as obvious as it seems?
 

Opa-Pa

Member
only up to the part where you find out who
Alibaba
is and
morgana is seen with her

I already have guesses as to what that means, who the bad guy probably is, and how this is going to go down. Is it as obvious as it seems?

Kind of. I'll just say that the game purposely makes some things obvious for a reason.
 
Normal. I've no idea what the exploit is

I dunno if the exploit is considered a spoiler or no so I'll tag it.

During the flu season (11/13, 11/14,
12/8, 12/9) on those specific dates the reaper has a chance of being inflicted with despair status which makes him die automatically after 3 turns, he does nothing for those 3 turns as well. For this its better to max out Hifumi and Mishima social links as Hifumi link benefit allows you to escape a battle immediately incase the reaper isn't inflicted with the status and Mishima link benefit allows to earn tremendous XP...

I reached level 99 with MC by exploiting the reaper around 4-5 times earning around 210k XP

For normal, I guess any level above 70 should suffice as your attacks only do double digit damage...
 

Opa-Pa

Member
This is seriously upsetting

I can't believe they cut out some many Joker lines. You can tell he was supposed to audibly react to many of things in-game.

*sigh*

EDIT: Awwww come on, he even has a "LET ME EXPLAIN" line.

Uuh what the hell? Like half of them aren't in the game. Are the equivalents present in japanese at least?

This is so disappointing. I was excited to see Mobus in the cast, and what we did get gave Joker some decent amount of personality, but having all these would have been great, ugh.
 

Lakuza

Member
Finished the game last night (1st playthrough), took me 131 hours.
Loved it and never got bored of it, playing it every evening. I think the party are easily one of my favourites, just wish we could have had an extra dungeon
before the casino palace to give Haru more time to bond with the team.

Went in mostly blind but had max social stats and just over half the confidants maxed in this order:
ann(romanced), makato, hifumi, takemi, sojiro, ryuji, caroline & justine, haru, mishima and all the story related ranks.

A little annoyed I couldn't max out
Kawakami (she was on rank 9 but was on break for all of November and December T_T)
. Also
Yusuke
was rank 9 but I couldn't unlock the rank 10 event in time either :( Otherwise the others were all around rank 3-5.

I normally don't replay rpg's, especially not with ps3 / ps4 era rpgs but I'll definately be starting a second playthough. I missed quite a few mechanics on my first playthrough that I'll explore more on my 2nd run (barely used skill cards, never touched gun modding
due to having low condfidant rank on Iwai
, never tried batting or fishing and some small stuff like that).

Definately owe GAF for getting me hyped over persona. Since I haven't played the past games, seeing so many of you hyped over the initial trailers and announcements kept it on my radar (only recently joined as a member here, but have been reading neogaf for a long time).
 
Build question, how did you guys set up your Morgana and Haru skills at end game?

Mona I've pretty much settle him for Wind+Healer, just a matter of Samarecarm vs Salvation vs Mediaharan.

But holy shit with Haru... Psy build vs Gun build vs Heat Raiser vs Amrita Shower @_@
 
This is seriously upsetting

I can't believe they cut out some many Joker lines. You can tell he was supposed to audibly react to many of things in-game.

*sigh*

EDIT: Awwww come on, he even has a "LET ME EXPLAIN" line.
Yeah, I didn't really mind the whole silent protagonist angle until I heard that. Would have been awesome to hear this lines in the game.

There's always the spinoffs? (Which is a weird thing to say)
 

KorrZ

Member
Finally finished the game last night after 90 hours. Didn't quite make it through all the confidants at the end I had the Wardens, Iwai, Haru and Yoshida left at various states of completion.

Really enjoyed the ride and will miss those characters.

My only complaint is that I didn't need the Mementos Depths section at the end. It was a long slog of combat tossed in at the end when I was really just ready for a final climactic fight and to ride out the story by that point. The final boss fight was very satisfying on its own and would have been better imo if it was just the 4 angels + final boss at the end.
 

Fireblend

Banned
Anyone know if it's possible to max-rank the wardens in a single mementos run at the end of the game, maybe during the Depths of Mementos sequence, by collecting personas, going back to the Velvet Room and fusing them repeatedly? Is there a guide somewhere that I could use to figure out the path for that if possible?

I'm pretty close to finishing the game, probably less than 10 hours left, so I want to try maxing out as many ranks as possible.
 
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