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Persona Community Thread |OT4| The Golden Number
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snow in jamaica
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junpei likes video games close enough
What the heck is Mitsuru his gramma or something?
"Junpei deary I know you like those computer things. Well the one that watches everybody here in the prison-er, dorm while they sleep is on the fritz. Be a dear and clean its rams, won't you?"
buddha0991
Member
It was a silly dumb way to introduce a new feature in P3FES/P
oh my
What's your opinion on Strega so far?
What is Strega?
It's just some dumb side thing. You don't need to think about it.
CrazyTank940
Member
do I laugh at buying schools or laugh at the three times part...
I'm sorry, but you can rest assured that it's not a spoiler since it's just a name for something.
Yep, so no need to worry.
Say what? Equipment is always brand spanking new.
Not if it is the same pair of battle panties I just removed from a different party member.
EDIT: That doesn't sound right.
buddha0991
Member
I wonder why they changed the name from High Cut Armor to Battle Panties in P3P. Was High Cut Armor a tiny tiny bit too dignified or something?
Red The Hunter
Member
Aw Nanako, and Yu I think he would make an awesome drummer if he were in a band.
Green Mamba
Member
I really don't care for Strega at all. They completely clash with like every attempt the game makes at making its world convincing looking. They're like a bunch of regular RPG rejects.
I laughed way too hard at that. Just pretend that Makoto actually washes his clothes rather than running around in the same uniform all year long and that he slipped the battle panties into the wash at some point.
Adachi plz.
They're...alright. Takaya is cool because he looks like Jesus and Chidori's relationship with Junpei was good. But that's about it. Never cared much for Jin.
Oh. Is Strega
the revenge people who have Shadow Jesus Totally-Not-Ikutsuki on their team?
Right, but the problem is basically Makoto stole these panties from Clara (not hard to see, Makoto is definitely the kind of guy who would do panty raids), washed them, and then, rather than hording them like I guess people do after a panty raid, he somehow sneaks them into Mitsuru's clothing so that she can wear them.
Like I've been privy to some dorm antics but this one is a new kind of weird.
snow in jamaica
Member
revolver jesus owns
Yes, that's them.
Green Mamba
Member
They just visually clash so strongly with the established world. But it's okay, they aren't alone in this, because Aigis cleans up the rest of the game's attempts at making the world seem convincing pretty resoundingly. She comes from an angle of sci-fi world building that I'm glad Persona 4 dropped (spinoffs be damned)--I think it works much better when the "real world" is portrayed as convincingly realistic as possible. Absurdly humanoid androids living among you kind of crawls into my realm of "haha, no."
snow in jamaica
Member
the androids actually came about through a sumaru city rumor
Lemme just say from the beginning Strega rubbed me the wrong way. Just went against the so-called premise of the game.
"Oh, Persona 3 is so dark and realistic and depressing and mat00r and Persona 4 is too non-serious."
Yeah, well just point them to Strega. Complete counter-thesis.
"Oh, Persona 3 is so dark and realistic and depressing and mat00r and Persona 4 is too non-serious."
Yeah, well just point them to Strega. Complete counter-thesis.
hipsterpants
Member
I think they fit in pretty well with theme of P3. Their outfits are a bit lol though.
This fucking guy. Jin always annoyed me more though.
That smirk
Absurd looks is the theme of P3.
This moment was awesome. And so far, damn, people give Makoto shit for being gloomy but Tatsuya is like Linkin Park incarnate so far.
cj_iwakura
Member
At least Tatsuya has a reason.
AquaWateria
Member
It's themes are the best part especially memento mori which makes the atmosphere more effective, which is why I like it more than Persona 4
hipsterpants
Member
What. Shit if I was Makoto I would be depressed too. And technically he's not actually gloomy, just the fan interpretation of it
AquaWateria
Member
And so does Makoto's more so
Persona 4's atmosphere is just as effective, it's just not dark.
They nail precisely what they were going for, and I think that is a huge reason it's so popular.
Green Mamba
Member
"Get your hands out of your pockets" is a thing I say to the screen when I'm playing P3FES a lot. Because who seriously runs with their hands in their pockets.
I don't have a problem with the themes, but the execution of the themes was terrible in my opinion.
It started going downhill for me when Ryoji was introduced and all of a sudden, your blank-slate protagonist has a larger-than-life backstory.
I could not agree more. For games that are so similar to one another, something had to go wrong for me to not appreciate Persona 3 nearly as much as Persona 4. That spoilered comment that I had was when the flaws started to show.