I played it with JP voices, P5 is the best anime of the year.
Except the parts where they show anime cutscenes later in the game.
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I played it with JP voices, P5 is the best anime of the year.
Except the parts where they show anime cutscenes later in the game.
Pandora012
Member
You can't do any teammate Confidants once a Palace has started, until you clear it.
I've done all the first 3 Palaces early and I'm way OP. I do the Palaces in 2 runs at most, end up higher level than pretty much all the enemies, and have Persona that are higher level than me. The Palaces are actually a -block- to teammate Confidants. Why wouldn't you clear them asap?
Procrastination. I don't think they are block to teammates, as I've ranked a couple before I started the dungeons.
Augemitbutter
Member
yea, lots of people are. no ragrets.
lightning2k3
Member
Have you tried buffing your party/debuffing the enemy? It makes a huge difference.
They did explain it, just not explicitly. I figured it out once I looked at my calendar (which I'm guessing nobody did).
I've been playing in Japanese since the beginning. I feel like it helps the somewhat-stilted translation and it allows me to skip the voice clips more freely if I want to. I think the cast does a pretty good job, although I guess pretty much anything sounds more legit when spoken in another language.
SkylineRKR
Member
If you keep your buffs, and use debilitate on the boss, and always use concentrate on casters, you should be able to win before it takes off.
I had a Raphael with charge, arms master, nul phys and I think I mostly used charge + Sword dance.
Spinosaurus
Member
I actually changed the difficulty to hard mode for the endgame because Yoshitsune made it way too trivial.
IT WAS STILL EASY
IT WAS STILL EASY
Augemitbutter
Member
i'm at palace 6 now with only guts left to max. kinda regret having dead stat ups pop up all the time. hopefully i didn't screw up and there's time to finish a few more links.
Dude is the definition of day one ride or die too. Easily take him over morgana and the only thing yosuke has over him is this weird 4th wall breaking comments where he just talks about random shit.
Even then I still think Ryuji is my favorite in the group. Best and funniest personality
I like him too, I don't get all the hate.
Also he is op early on, he basically carry the entire team in the 4th palace for me, his switf strike with tarukaja/sukukaja is so good.
One of the first things I ever did in the game was look at the calender to see how many months were technically in the game
I'm sill in July at the fourth palace and kinda hating this dungeon xPStill though, the calender is very useful, I sort of wish the game forced you to look at it near the start so people knew that they could tell exactly when they had to send the calling card and avoided the whole "wtf, I lost a week of progress" soft game overs posts from earlier
"GET WRECKED!"
Spinosaurus
Member
Ryuji's VA did a damn good job of making his battle lines hype.
Well this is why debuffs and buffs exist. You can make it so that instead of the enemy attack doing extra damage, it does lower damage and then reduce the damage it does even further by increasing your party defense.
I finished it on normal as well and I killed that boss in my first try and I had like one person over 450 in my party. I survived his AoE attacks multiple times.
There's nothing bullshit about it honestly.
chrominance
Member
Finished first run, enjoyed the story a lot and wished for more.
I easily saw the
but not
. I was disappointed that
.
I really liked the
palaces for
. I also liked
.
Things I didn't like:
And, of course,
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Best girl:
Best guy:
I easily saw the
two twists regarding Akechi
why Akechi helps Shido in the first place
Morgana's dreams didn't amount to anything
I really liked the
4th, 6th, and 7th
their vertical, labyrinthine, and huge level designs, respectively. The design fit the palace image well
how Mementos became a part of the main story
Things I didn't like:
reading books, making tools, hitting a home run, raising guts, using d-pad for that one retro game!
Morgana telling me I can't go out on half of the nights
Best girl:
Kawakami, Futaba, Makoto
Best guy:
Iwai, Morgana
The amount of dialogue in this game is staggering.
It would need to be really high budget to be able to have that many dialogues be fully voice acted in two different languages. The only game that I can think of in recent memory that had this many dialogues and was fully voiced is Witcher 3 and we all know that game is a huge anomaly in everything.
I agree it was weird that section didn't have any voice acting u til the last line. It was so crucial.
PancakeBurglar
Member
I believe he said you remind him of himself when he was younger and thought it was worth giving you a chance, something like that least.
Pandora012
Member
Explained very very early in the game, he gets paid to do so. It's like a form of community service.
Shotgun Kiss
Member
Question about how Mementos works:
Is it better to wait until there are multiple targets, or can you only do one per day?
At one point, Sojiro says that
the main character reminds him of his younger self. He's also atoning for Wakaba's death by taking MC and Futaba in.
ShadowSoldier89
Member
publicpwnerer
Member
I had the wrong debuffs and buffs. Mainly attack & evasion boosts, and enemy defense down.
This was my first SMT game, apart from a couple of hours of P4G. I feel I prioritised pointless skills on my party and MC level ups. Most of the element buff passives(+25% fire etc) stuff were wasted slots. Thankfully I know better now. I also didn't level the strength confidant, as I found it tedious to do. Turns out it lets you break the game.
I really needed to play around with copying skills onto cards as well. Oh well.
Lol true. If Persona 6 comes out in the next 2 years then fully expect it to be another PS3 game ported up to PS4. If it takes longer than that and is built from the ground up for PS4 then expect it to come out when PS5 is the common around the world.
Raising the alert level of a palace increases the odds.
Also there's a thief tool you can make that when used makes them more likely to appear while you're in the palace for that session.
KillerMan91
Member
It's pretty weird how low budget the anime custscenes felt. Game has like 30 minutes of anime cutscenes and was in development for years and years. You would think that with that amount of time they would look way better.
demosthenes
Member
Multiple.
I did my first set of two after the tutorial I think after the 2nd dungeon and it was REALLY easy on normal. I don't know if I should have done them before the 2nd dungeon or if they were both available then. I just finished the 3rd dungeon and I have 3, I'm thinking of doing another run soon.
Hint for mementos if you haven't seen it.
Cast Pupipina on bosses.
Wait are you saying the passive boosts are pointless? Cause they aren't, you get like 50% boost which is a lot tbh and kind of allows you to not use attack buff all the time.
This is sort of my first SMT game as well. I never played Persona 3 and Persona 4 for more than 2 hours. Anyhow with the way that fight works it is possible to reduce enemy defense, increase your defense, raise your attack and do massive damage all within 2 turns but yes you do need to have the abilities to be able to do that.
I had the strength confidant unlocked but I didn't fuse anything higher leveled tbh because it was too expensive. I just used the high level personas I caught in my fight leading up to the boss and fused them together. I also spent some time around the 6th dungeon mark on making some 1-2 Personas that do AoE buffs and debuffs and have most of the abilities covered so that I don't have to rely on others or keep switching to different personas all the time. Basically my MAC was the shaman of the party while the damage came from other party members.
Suzushiiro
Banned
You can do as many requests in a day as you want. New floors open up after the deadline on a dungeon expires and always have the same enemies/loot that that dungeon has, so ideally you go as far down as you can before going into the next dungeon.
WhiskerFrisker
Member
Why does Atlus take so long to make another mainline Persona game?
Pandora012
Member
I have to constantly remind my self to idle on the ps4 menu or ingame menu when in mementos. Unfortunately I lost like an hour worth of work because I forgot about the punishment. Came back and ran right in to it......
If it helps, it shouldn't take too long for the next one. With Atlus you will get 2 persona games back to back then a lul. They tend to create a system(?) then use it for a bunch of games. Persona 3 and 4, Then Devil summoner 1, 2, Nocturne.
If it helps, it shouldn't take too long for the next one. With Atlus you will get 2 persona games back to back then a lul. They tend to create a system(?) then use it for a bunch of games. Persona 3 and 4, Then Devil summoner 1, 2, Nocturne.
Persona 6 on PlayStation 6
There were so many times the faces and proportions of characters ended up getting distorted in anime cutscenes whenever they moved. I am playing Persona 4 now and it actually has quite a bit higher quality anime cutscenes.
Aaronrules380
Member
In this instance we'll probably wait a while because most of the key people are going to be working on project Re fantasy after P5
From P4 to P5 they had to deal with:
1. Index corruption, leading to bankruptcy, leading to Sega acquiring Atlus.
2. Having to assume responsibility for the troubled development of P4D from Dingo (a company which is now bankrupt).
3. The development of Catherine as a breather from Persona games and a way to prepare for next generation development.
4. Developing an entirely new engine for P5, as well as making entirely new models of Megaten demons (which was extremely time consuming, according to interviews).
5. Development scope increasing from just PS3 to PS4.
6. The fact that, at the peak of Persona 5's development, there were around 77 people working on the game. A small team.
7. Profiting from the increased exposure of the Persona series by remaking all of the mainline Persona games and working on various spin-offs.
This is actually an interesting/heartwarming thing because
one night there's a report on the TV that says that probationary officers in Japan are actually voluntary and do not get paid for their work. Morgana then says that you should thank the boss for taking you in.
In Persona 5's case?
-Catherine
-HD Demons
-Switching from Index to Sega
-I believe they helped a bit with at least P4 dancing and maybe other spinoffs?
-Etc?
That said, certainly never expect anything too GRAPHICALLY impressive if only because of how much time it would take for the size of the team.