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Persona Community Thread |OT3| Your thread title sucks, Yukiko.
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Oooooh, nice.
CrazyTank940
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P4A artbook? Cards Against Humanity? Looks like a good haul to meNot going to post everything I got, but this was the best stuff:
Also EMT got me Remember Me on Steam AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH <3
*rimshot*
I hope that tip helped you out, I still gotta wait for my friend to finish it before I get my copy back to try it out myselfI managed to clear the 7th Chapter in Valkyria Chronicles on my first try
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I managed to clear the 7th Chapter in Valkyria Chronicles on my first try
@pan-hime: Thanks a million! I gotta find that video games image, its my favorite one haha.
Chapter 7 is pretty easy once you finally figure out how to really use base redeployment. Makes the game a little too easy sometimes, if you ask me.
Good stuff man! Took me like 5 tries to do it without anyone dying.I managed to clear the 7th Chapter in Valkyria Chronicles on my first try
@pan-hime: Thanks a million! I gotta find that video games image, its my favorite one haha.
Thanatos Tower in P1 are so much fun <3
Dat JoJo
Forgot to post my relevant Christmas haul:
The shirt was from my girlfriend's friend, bought the rest for myself on Christmas day in Kinokuniya since I'm visiting NYC.
Dat JoJo
Psycho_Mantis
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Hoping for P3 like OST. Still one of the greatest OST's I have ever listened too.
That battle music is hawt. It actually really reminds of Persona PSP's battle theme, my favorite battle theme in the franchise. Do want.
It did! I used the Edelweiss as a roadblock and had my units move behind it, though she quickly started running around it and actually ended up gunning down a few of my units (luckily I had an engineer tend to the wounded). If hadn't spent time individually weakening the heat sinks so I could one shot the last one, I probably would have been annihilated. My MVP was Rosie, who basically took Selveria's cavalry on her own. Shocktroopers own.
Yeah it really does make a huge difference. I had issues earlier on with moving my army, but only deploying a few units at the beginning, and then deploying the rest at a later time makes a huge difference. Reinforcement always end up saving my skin too, haha. Also, the retreat order I got early on was also pretty useful. I can I have a unit do their business, and move them out of the field in one swift motion.
buddha0991
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Poor Yosuke, lol.
Hmm, makes me think of that time Tim Schafer worked out the characterisation of half his cast for Psychonauts by making them friendster accounts. (This was back in 2005, I believe)
He deserves it for that screen name and taking in of those kinda of pics
I can indeed.
I suppose I should start by saying that, to me, the most interesting stuff in the actual plot is the symbolic and thematic stuff. The literal events are often silly and very videogamey, but they often 'mean' a lot more than what they seem if you were to take them at face value.
So, Persona 3's ending (Mega spoilers if you haven't played P3!)
basically has this moment where it becomes apparent that basically, you're fucked, everyone is going to die. The protagonist is then given an opportunity to save everyone, in the process sacrificing himself, by casting a spell (Or whatever you want to call it) called The Great Seal.
Time passes, and the school year comes to an end. The protagonist says goodbye to all his friends, and progressively gets weaker, finally going to sleep on the roof of the school, just as the members of SEES remember what happened over the last year. He dies on a sunny day with a smile on his face, surrounded by is friends, and having said goodbye to everyone he cares about. It was a wonderful ending.
Time passes, and the school year comes to an end. The protagonist says goodbye to all his friends, and progressively gets weaker, finally going to sleep on the roof of the school, just as the members of SEES remember what happened over the last year. He dies on a sunny day with a smile on his face, surrounded by is friends, and having said goodbye to everyone he cares about. It was a wonderful ending.
Cut to The Answer (More spoilers, wheee!)
Suddenly, his death wasn't wonderful or bittersweet. He's TRAPPED! In ETERNAL UNLIFE! He's a human door in the shape of Jesus! A messiah! And SEES misses him, because they all loved him so much! Oh, the tragedy!
The less obnoxious version of this is that it's basically Arena-esque fan service. Most of SEES barely even knew the protagonist so the fact that they consider rolling back time just to see him again is bizarre. And when it said "Great Seal", I doubt anybody thought "Oh, I guess this means that he's literally turning into a giant fucking door". In The Answer, they did that wonderful videogame thing where fans say "Wow, I wonder what happened here?" and so the developers replied "Don't worry, we have you covered!" and just wrote this nonsensical drivel that doesn't mesh at all with what was conveyed through The Journey's ending. It's like, was he a door before or after saying goodbye to everyone? If he's suffering so badly, why is he smiling? Was the positive note that Persona 3 ended on a misdirect? Because if it was, it really worked.
And then the explanation for Erebus is just retcon all the way. Fuuka (I think) literally has a line where she talks about how "This isn't what we thought it was in the last game, it's actually this". And then we get some really bad exposition with more videogame drivel about the hatred in people's hearts and it's just bleeeeh.
The less obnoxious version of this is that it's basically Arena-esque fan service. Most of SEES barely even knew the protagonist so the fact that they consider rolling back time just to see him again is bizarre. And when it said "Great Seal", I doubt anybody thought "Oh, I guess this means that he's literally turning into a giant fucking door". In The Answer, they did that wonderful videogame thing where fans say "Wow, I wonder what happened here?" and so the developers replied "Don't worry, we have you covered!" and just wrote this nonsensical drivel that doesn't mesh at all with what was conveyed through The Journey's ending. It's like, was he a door before or after saying goodbye to everyone? If he's suffering so badly, why is he smiling? Was the positive note that Persona 3 ended on a misdirect? Because if it was, it really worked.
And then the explanation for Erebus is just retcon all the way. Fuuka (I think) literally has a line where she talks about how "This isn't what we thought it was in the last game, it's actually this". And then we get some really bad exposition with more videogame drivel about the hatred in people's hearts and it's just bleeeeh.
SHORT VERSION: Ambiguity is good. Not everything needs to be explained. We know from interviews why Evokers look like guns. The Answer's in-universe explanation is not needed.
Also the Persona Team are shit at continuing stories from past work.
But hey, that last fight was pretty badass, huh? So that's something.
Heyo_Rockbreaker
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This is totally OT, but I knew that I new the name from somewhere! I saw someone using the handle Pyscho_Mantis on the multiplayer of Assassin's Creed yesterday!
Anyhow, that new music is pretty great.
My three most anticipated games for next year are all Persona games. Maybe I need to take a step back from Persona. Maybe just a little bit.
....nah
....nah
sackboy2197
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I agree, I thought the ending of 3 was better than what they did in The Answer. Big P3 Spoilers!
He willingly sacrificed himself to save his friends and then kept living till the last day of school, iirc because he made a promise about it. They then discover that he was still "alive" in the Answer but it seemed more like it was something they decided to add later, not like it was their original idea.
buddha0991
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happy birthday person who makes me laugh with robot voices!
Lucky!
Lord Scrambles
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Speaking of the P3 movie, any news on when the dub is coming out?
I'd just get the console version. The vita sticks aren't very friendly to fighting games.
sackboy2197
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I tried it by didn't like it that much. I started Story Mode but it didn't seem interesting to me, so I deleted it for now, maybe one day I'll give it another try
SloaneRisette
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Just listened to the Persona 3 Protagonist battle theme and woo, that is a silck theme. Really likin' that.
I think it was already on the NA plus a few months back, so most of us Vita owners with plus should have it.
Andrefpvs
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I installed it, but I'm currently playing Virtue's Last Reward, so I probably won't play a lot.
It should be a good game to fight a couple of fights every now and then.
The story mode is mega garbage if you take it seriously, haha.
I genuinely thought that it was a parody when I played through the first game.
It's weird how EU Plus is suddenly playing catchup to US.
I got it then and I'm pretty sure I moaned about it in one of the previous community threads.
Great mechanics; The presentation is all-fucking-over the place.
Speaking of fighters though, I got KOFXIII from the Steam sale yesterday (got lucky and nabbed it hours before Steam took a shit. [thanks L4D2, which I also nabbed]).
That game is fucking awesome. Love the mechanics and the art. The first thing I did was turn off the music, so I actually have no comment on that either way, but I'm on PC, so there's no reason not to listen to my own music anyway.
Mildly related: KoF is Soejima's favourite fighter.
Blazblue's presentation is no less consistent than dear old Arena's.
sackboy2197
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I love VLR, be sure to write what you think about it!
Now that I think about it my Guild Wars 2 username is a pretty big VLR spoiler. Oh well.
I think it's fantastic and it's probably the fighting game that seriously got me into the genre. The story is fine if you don't take it seriously and some of the gag endings are absolutely hilarious (Jin's and Makoto's to name a few).
The game seems to be aware of how ridiculous it is and pokes fun at itself multiple times.
Play it if you haven't, it's great fun.
buddha0991
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Blazblue is fun but its aesthetics may turn some off to the game
cj_iwakura
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The fact that it has all kinds of novels and hours of backstory should've quickly dispelled you of that notion. It isn't Shakespeare, but I enjoy it. Terumi is a Grade-A Bastard.
buddha0991
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Agreed, I actually play it for that, I don't touch the online. I own the vita one btw, bought it a long time ago.
Blazblue is to fighting games what The Expendables is to 80s ensemble action movies: Troperiffic
I quite enjoy the game's story. It's no high-class art, but for its complete insanity, I have a special place for it alongside Kingdom Hearts and MGS4.
He's grade-A badly written, that's for sure!
2Sue4U
buddha0991
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You probably didn't even see that character yet due to Calamity Trigger being the one you played
Joke's on you, he's in Calamity Trigger too.
I also played through two or three of Continuum Shift's stories.
buddha0991
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Now ya gotta play the sequel!
buddha0991
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It is mostly fine, but characters that were in P1 and show up in P2 IS and EP go by their Revelations Persona names, so look out for:
Kei = Nate
Eriko = Ellen
Maki = Mary
Reiji = Chris
Yukino = Yuki
Hidehiko = Brad
Principle Hannya = Prinicple Harding
Saeko Takami = Saeko Smith
Mikage-Cho = Lunarville
Tamaki Uchida = Tammy
Satomi Tadashi = Tad
Toro = Chunky
oh and a general change, which I like better than the PSP one
The Masked Circle = The Masquerade
I may have missed a few
Defried twinkies? I don't even want to know what arcane magic you'd need to do that.
Oh, thanks! The recording quality got a bit messed up when I uploaded it to Vocaroo and was a bit too quiet in general, but I figured out how to recreate the shadow "filter" for when those parts pop up for Scrafty's project.Holy crap that Shadow Teddie doll is terrifying.Good voice!
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Also, Levito, I wanted to learn how to use the Bezier tool in gimp, so for "fun," I decided to recreate the back of the Persona tarot cards in monochrome as a challenge.
When I was done, I was gonna just toss it, but then I wondered if I could do anything for S.Link with it and came up with this:
I'm not sure how attached you are to the current logo, but you're free to use that or the tarot design if you're interested. It's no skin off my back if you're not, because like I said, I was probably just going to delete them anyway, though they both need their own sets of tweaks. (The outermost outline for the cards is so thin it all looks like clip art.)
Although, come to think of it, what is the logo, anyway? I actually like it, but I have no idea what it's supposed to be.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems CJ is of the opinion the story is good.
I need to try the story mode in KOF.
cj_iwakura
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I am. 100%'d CT, CS, and CSE, and I will do the same for CP.
Of course Dantis hates it, he hates anime archetypes, and BB is full of them.
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