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[Acid08]

So what did you think of the game overall?

It was pretty good!

I think I made a mistake taking people advice on what Personas to use. The suggested Personas made the game really, really easy and the fights became boring, which is a problem when 95% of the game is combat. When I eventually play the SQQ I'll try to do it without any help. It was my first real experience with the talking to demons stuff and that was okay I guess? I never felt like I had a great grasp on what responses would lead to the desired result. Also the game never made it clear why sometimes negotiations didn't work. For example I'd get to the spell card stage with Elly(who's a few levels higher than the demon) but it would still say I was too weak. So I guess the average level of your party had sway over whether you get the card or not. Game never explained that though.

Presentation and stuff....pretty standard I guess? It's an old game so I'm not going to be too harsh. The portraits were pretty ugly though, did they redo them at all? I did LOVE the style the cutscenes were in. It's a shame most of them were under a minute long. Music was all great, hats off to Meguro.

Story was almost non-existent. There's more story in the P4 intro than the entirety of this game . What was there was cool though, I started off thinking Nanjo was lame but he underwent some cool story stuff and turned out pretty good. Also did his epilogue imply that he became

Spoiler

homeless???? Like, I don't know how you're gonna become the #1 Man In Japan sleeping on trains trying to be the modern Buddha

. Mark was awesome, dude kept out real constantly.

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I really like that he went to NY to become a drug addict artist

. Maki was

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obviously the focal point of the story from early on and man did she love shitting out alternate versions of herself. Girl needs to be a little less self-obsessed, just sayin'

. MC is a REAL silent protagonist. Makoto and Yu are bastions of personality in comparison. Best for last though, Elly. Thought her obsession with the occult was super cool. She would get so stoked over the weirdest shit. And the game implies

Spoiler

that the MC becomes Maki's boyfriend later on but fuck that shit, my silent protag is all about Elly. Cool how at the end you just take off with both of them though, leaving Mark and Nanjo in the dust

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Definitely think it's worth it for 3/4 fans to play this. It was cool seeing the beginning of the franchise and what concepts they carried over to the later games. I feel a little more appreciative for just how much content is in the newer games too. I definitely prefer the Persona games having a much stronger emphasis on the story.

#artdrop

Gonna wait a bit until I start P2IS. Kinda done with random battles right now and I think y'all have said it's even worse about those.

 

[Squire]

I was going for a game that was super hyped up, but ended up getting a lot of negative press in the end after the hype died down. First games that sprang to mind were Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 2. At least with Naughty Dog's hype, it usually justified after the game is finally released (even though I'm not a fan of Uncharted 3 and don't think it really deserved all the glowing reviews/GOTYs it got).

I see. There's every AAA game though. There's a praise period and then a backlash period two weeks later where suddenly the game is awful and everyone who says so has a Ph. D in criticism.

 

[buddha0991]

It was pretty good!

I think I made a mistake taking people advice on what Personas to use. The suggested Personas made the game really, really easy and the fights became boring, which is a problem when 95% of the game is combat. When I eventually play the SQQ I'll try to do it without any help. It was my first real experience with the talking to demons stuff and that was okay I guess? I never felt like I had a great grasp on what responses would lead to the desired result. Also the game never made it clear why sometimes negotiations didn't work. For example I'd get to the spell card stage with Elly(who's a few levels higher than the demon) but it would still say I was too weak. So I guess the average level of your party had sway over whether you get the card or not. Game never explained that though.

Presentation and stuff....pretty standard I guess? It's an old game so I'm not going to be too harsh. The portraits were pretty ugly though, did they redo them at all? I did LOVE the style the cutscenes were in. It's a shame most of them were under a minute long. Music was all great, hats off to Meguro.

Story was almost non-existent. There's more story in the P4 intro than the entirety of this game . What was there was cool though, I started off thinking Nanjo was lame but he underwent some cool story stuff and turned out pretty good. Also did his epilogue imply that he became

Spoiler

homeless???? Like, I don't know how you're gonna become the #1 Man In Japan sleeping on trains trying to be the modern Buddha

. Mark was awesome, dude kept out real constantly.

Spoiler

I really like that he went to NY to become a drug addict artist

. Maki was

Spoiler

obviously the focal point of the story from early on and man did she love shitting out alternate versions of herself. Girl needs to be a little less self-obsessed, just sayin'

. MC is a REAL silent protagonist. Makoto and Yu are bastions of personality in comparison. Best for last though, Elly. Thought her obsession with the occult was super cool. She would get so stoked over the weirdest shit. And the game implies

Spoiler

that the MC becomes Maki's boyfriend later on but fuck that shit, my silent protag is all about Elly. Cool how at the end you just take off with both of them though, leaving Mark and Nanjo in the dust

.

Definitely think it's worth it for 3/4 fans to play this. It was cool seeing the beginning of the franchise and what concepts they carried over to the later games. I feel a little more appreciative for just how much content is in the newer games too. I definitely prefer the Persona games having a much stronger emphasis on the story.

#artdrop



Gonna wait a bit until I start P2IS. Kinda done with random battles right now and I think y'all have said it's even worse about those.

A shame that P2IS and EP are more unwieldy these days because I think P2IS and P2EP has the best story of the entire series.

Spoiler

Nanjo is not going to be a hobo uwotm8

also your art dump isnt showing up

 

[Acid08]

A shame that P2IS and EP are more unwieldy these days because I think P2IS and P2EP has the best story of the entire series.

Spoiler

Nanjo is not going to be a hobo uwotm8

also your art dump isnt showing up

Really? It's showing up for me.

And dude they say in his epilogue

Spoiler

that he's sleeping on trains after finding out how real people live

. Sounds pretty homeless to me, mate.

 

[CorvoSol]

Yeah I can't see it either.

 

[Acid08]

Yeah I can't see it either.

Is it showing up now?

 

[CorvoSol]

Is it showing up now?

Nope.

 

[Acid08]

Guys, I did it. I dropped the art.

 

[TurnipFritters]

Hiroyuki Sawano does Shoiji Meguro better than Shoji Meguro, tbh.

 

[Lunar15]

Hiroyuki Sawano does Shoiji Meguro better than Shoji Meguro, tbh.

Can't wait to hear what he does for X.

 

[fertygo]

Hiroyuki Sawano does Shoiji Meguro better than Shoji Meguro, tbh.

Please, Sawano is the most overrated composer in anime/game industry right now.
Taku Iwasaki's tryhard.

 

[Musolf815]

I don't know where I got this idea originally, but I just couldn't stop thinking about it...

And it continues to escalate from there.

Yu dresses rather plain for a golfer, but considering what he normally wears, this is par for the course!
Haha, get it? Par for the course. ...

Next up is regrettably Yosuke.

I'd play it. The first game I played and loved was Golf for Gameboy.

So who watches Space Dandy?

LOVE Space Dandy. I don't think it's had a bad episode yet.

 

[CorvoSol]

Guys, I did it. I dropped the art.

Now I see it.

 

[PK Gaming]

Guys, I did it. I dropped the art.

Glad you enjoyed P1 man, I guess this makes you "one of us" now, huh?

 

[Gazoinks]

#artdrop

The promised art dump! Awesome! I plan on going back to P1P once I finish P4G, which should be soonish.

Also, I just started up VLR and I can't unhear the Persona voices in most of the cast. Yes yes whatever you say, Rise, Chie, and Akihiko.

 

[FluxWaveZ]

Also, I just started up VLR and I can't unhear the Persona voices in most of the cast. Yes yes whatever you say, Rise, Chie, and Akihiko.

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[PK Gaming]

EDIT: Woah, it looks like we had the exact same thought huh!

 

[Gazoinks]

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Troy Baker plays Sigma? Does he actually have voiced lines at some point?

 

[Acid08]

Glad you enjoyed P1 man, I guess this makes you "one of us" now, huh?

Woo! Part of the exclusive P1 club ;D

I'm pretty excited to play 2. I have pretty high hopes for the story from how much it's loved here. Is it more akin to 3/4 in amount of story scenes?

 

[FluxWaveZ]

Troy Baker plays Sigma? Does he actually have voiced lines at some point?

He voices Sigma in the OVA.

 

[Red The Hunter]

EDIT: Woah, it looks like we had the exact same thought huh!

I love how...

Mitsuru's and Fukka are embarrassed about their ridiculous clothes their wearing.

Chie is annoyed

Kanji being Kanji

Akihiko is pumped up

Aigis and Labrys are happy

And Theo, well I don't know what expression he would have under that mask.

 

[Jintor]

Troy Baker plays Sigma? Does he actually have voiced lines at some point?

Yeah, but not normally.

Hmm. I should probably replay VLR at some point

 

[Gazoinks]

Woo! Part of the exclusive P1 club ;D

I'm pretty excited to play 2. I have pretty high hopes for the story from how much it's loved here. Is it more akin to 3/4 in amount of story scenes?

Yeah, it's definitely much more story focused. It also has an insane amount of optional dialog. Your party members' dialog changes after every major story beat in almost every location in the city.

 

[Acid08]

Yeah, it's definitely much more story focused. It also has an insane amount of optional dialog. Your party members' dialog changes after every major story beat in almost every location in the city.

Awesome, exactly what I wanted to hear! Hopefully the gameplay isn't tooooo painful.

 

[Gazoinks]

Awesome, exactly what I wanted to hear! Hopefully the gameplay isn't tooooo painful.

It's not that bad. I got really sick of it, but that's because I played EP right after IS, which I definitely don't recommend if you find the combat tedious. Give it a bit of time so you don't get fatigued.

 

[Gazoinks]

He voices Sigma in the OVA.

Didn't know that was a thing, cool.

e: Gah, sorry, accidental double post.

 

[snow in jamaica]

SMT Kart plz.

so many demons would work in a megaten racing game. most importantly mara and turbo granny. even throw in nanjo, tatsuya, and mitsuru on their bikes.

featuring dante and his bike from the devil may cry series.

 

[Rhapsody]

All that P1 art makes me want to play it again and complete it for reals this time.

The salt I had from getting the bad/premature ending is pretty much gone now, so I'll replay it.

 

[CorvoSol]

K is Theo?

Hmmmmmmm

 

[Xenoflare]

EDIT: Woah, it looks like we had the exact same thought huh!

That Akihiko looks really good, somehow it reminds me of Akihiko (HA!) Yoshida's drawings.

 

[Jintor]

Aigis Phi and Labrys Rabbit are grand

 

[Banzai]

P3P: jotun of grief...how? Got him kinda low with ice break-> mind charge-> bufudyne but then he spammed mind charged megidolaons...

 

[Lemstar]

It doesn't absorb pierce.

 

[Banzai]

...I did not know that.

 

[Jintor]

Just wrapped case 1 of dangan ronpa.

mah head asplode. Can't wait to see what this game has in store for me, though i don't know if my heart can take it

 

[Dantis]

I'll probably like it, but not as much as DKC.

That soundtrack. Gonna be so sad if Nintendo don't release it.

>goty discussions in february

This is pretty much the point. That's how much I liked Donkey Kong. It's that good.

I don't know where I got this idea originally, but I just couldn't stop thinking about it...

And it continues to escalate from there.

Yu dresses rather plain for a golfer, but considering what he normally wears, this is par for the course!
Haha, get it? Par for the course. ...

Next up is regrettably Yosuke.

LOL.

Amazing!

Just wrapped case 1 of dangan ronpa.

mah head asplode. Can't wait to see what this game has in store for me, though i don't know if my heart can take it

Is it as good as you expected?

 

[Jintor]

You can't really tell from one case. So far it fits pretty squarely as to where I expected it to be, but the presentation is way slicker than i thought.

 

[Dantis]

You can't really tell from one case. So far it fits pretty squarely as to where I expected it to be, but the presentation is way slicker than i thought.

That's good to hear.

I'm still almost tempted to just buy it instead of renting, but I think renting is wiser in the long run.

Hiroyuki Sawano does Shoiji Meguro better than Shoji Meguro, tbh.

This is a pretty decent song, but it sounds absolutely nothing like Meguro.

 

[Jintor]

I buy story games under the assumption I'll want to replay them in about five years or so.

Some bits are kind of weird though... have to think about how I feel about the game after I play more.

 

[Dantis]

I don't really replay games. There's too much that I haven't played yet that I'd rather play instead.

 

[Jintor]

Well, I could say the same thing about books, but I still re-read them given enough time. Sometimes you just like to stick to what you know works, especially with games where you need to constantly relearn how to operate in new system environments.

 

[Dantis]

I don't re-read books either.

 

[Swedesu]

So I finished the Danganronpa and the final stretch is soooo looong, but soooo good. The twist is fantastic and totally believable. Antagonist is probably one of my new favorites.

Overall, it's not as life changing as the Zero Escape series, but it's not far behind. And to be topical, yes so far DR is my goty.

Edit* Guess this should do it, sorry about that. Not that I really spoiled anything, but still I totally get the sentiment

 

[Dantis]

Please don't mention DanganRonpa spoilers in this thread.

 

[sackboy2197]

Overall, it's not as life changing as the Zero Escape series, but it's not far behind. And to be topical, yes so far DR is my goty.

Well, I love both but I kinda preferred that DR was more "realistic" (kinda) than ZE.
But I love them both, can't wait for the sequels to come out.
Till we see more I'm way more excited for SDR2 than P5 to be honest.

 

[MSMrRound]

Please don't mention DanganRonpa spoilers in this thread.

Esp when there's already a Dangan spoiler thread in General...looking to pick this up tomorrow once I'm done with Bravely Default (currently in Chapter 8) and I'm always wary of being spoiled by a random post in PersonaGAF >.>

 

[Dantis]

Esp when there's already a Dangan spoiler thread in General...looking to pick this up tomorrow once I'm done with Bravely Default (currently in Chapter 8) and I'm always wary of being spoiled by a random post in PersonaGAF >.>

Yup. I've PM'd him asking to remove it, but I think he's gone. I'll ask Sackboy to edit the quote from his post too.

 

[sackboy2197]

Yup. I've PM'd him asking to remove it, but I think he's gone. I'll ask Sackboy to edit the quote from his post too.

Is it okay like this? I wouldn't say he spoiled anything though, that was mostly his opinions.

 

[Dantis]

Is it okay like this? I wouldn't say he spoiled anything though, that was mostly his opinions.

Yep, cheers!

I didn't click the black bar, so I wouldn't know what he actually posted, but there really shouldn't be anything that could be considered a spoiler in here. A lot of people are playing through it right now, and I haven't even started the game.

 

[sackboy2197]

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I was wondering why I didn't recognize anyone of the VA, then I realized that the EU version only had the Japanese Dub. That would explain it.
If I had the choice I would still have probably played with the original one.