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Persona Community Thread |OT4| The Golden Number
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:O Amazing. If they ever rerelease P4 again, this needs to be the opening.
Lollipop Dave
Member
The Super Inaba Bros: Yu, Yosuke, Kanji, and Teddie.
Edit: The Super Inaba Sisters:
This is superb, I love it.
muh loins
Phantasmal Repose
Member
How fabulous.
animaSerah
Member
That's just fantastic; I would be all for them using this in a future P4 product ... P4D perhaps?
No WHOOP-ASS TIME?
snow in jamaica
Member
what about heads or tails
Makoto Yuki
Banned
I feel you buddy. Call me odd, but part of the reason I enjoy watching E3 coverage and EVO, is for the crowd reaction. Be it the audible moans and cheers from the video game press during E3 conferences, or the palpable hype of the EVO crowd.
I don't know what I just witnessed...
Is there a female version of the second video? One with Naoto, Yukiko, Chie, and Rise.
SloaneRisette
Member
Space Channel 5 Ulala vs P2 Ulala all stars fighting game.
Oh, so Elizabeth Banks could do voice work for P5? ImOkayWithThis.png
Chet Rippo
Member
That's gonna be beautiful in color. A good Sailor Mercury came across my twitter feed a minute ago, too. Is there an event going on?
buddha0991
Member
I like Labrys enough that I almost want to buy this even though I never buy figures ever
Chet Rippo
Member
Yep, WonFes 2014 is going on.
Ah, of course . Awesome. Always good stuff at WonFes. Should be more Persona stuff on show, too.
Winter Wonfest 2014. Lots of good shit if your into figurines.
Apologies for another late-ish response. Been running around getting stuff taken care of for my Japanese interview next week and only now finally have some down time. What sort of editing are we talking about here and for what medium, though? Like just visual editing of digital images? Pretty much everything I know in that area is self-taught through a lot of trial and error and the final results definitely aren't as smooth as someone with proper artistic chops.
Localized game lines can obviously vary pretty wildly depending on a bunch of different technical factors, although for a game like Dangan Ronpa, there tends to be a lot of empty space left over in the data image file that, when hacked correctly, can be tapped into to overcome a lot of space issues. That almost certainly had to happen with the Zetsubou Translation. Usually when I'm working in mediums with space constraints like manga, I'll draft up a translation with no length constrictions just so I can give myself a general idea of what I want the final product to look like and then hash out the finalized line once I can actually see what the text looks like in the physical space of where the dialog itself is. So the lengthiness of a lot of what I wrote is less because that would be what I'd definitely want to go with so much as I prefer to trim down too much material rather than build up from too little when I'm drafting.
Anyway, feedback time. This would be a solid way and would probably plausibly fit more easily within the dialog box than my original line. The one issue I really have with it is that the Japanese line emphasizes getting closer to the other characters, specifically referring to it as getting more intimate, so I would still attempt to maintain that aspect in a finalized line. Otherwise your version is nice and concise while still maintain the uppity tone.
This does an impressive job of actually maintaining the joke. I'd have to go back through that opening part of the game to make sure there's not some greater context to how Monokuma's line originally is, but I like this a lot more than my other one. Very nice!
I like both of these, especially the second one. Realistically speaking, as much as I wish I could maintain the original structure of that joke, I'd also be very happy with something like this in the end if I were working on the game.
This would potentially work, but the context of the line is that they specifically find themselves waking up in the same bed together in the morning. The originally Japanese is kind of tricky to work with in general because the joke itself is straightforward, but the phrase itself she uses doesn't really translate, so it would maybe be one of those cases where the surrounding conversation leading up to that line would have to be massaged anyway to make the game work. Hard to say. I wish best of luck to whoever does end up working on Super Dangan Ronpa 2 because it's even more of a beast to localize than the first game in a lot of respects, ahaha.
Anyway, yeah, I like your style. As much as I often tend to but heads with them, editors aren't a bad thing to have around, so I'd say you'd do pretty well for yourself if you ever took up that sort of mantle. You definitely get what I'm going for without being able to read the original Japanese at least.
I haven't looked too closely at how each of the translations has handled the graphic design edits since that's not really my field --I keep waiting for someone to tell me off for my font choices with those magazine scans-- but I've definitely had nitpicky issues with different parts of each one. I think NISA in particular has made some potentially unideal decisions with the typeface in terms of how the debate and... I'm not sure what the official language is in English, but that showdown moment where you've pinned down the culprit and have to break down their resolve, I think they went with a pretty aesthetically poor font in addition to one that has a lot of the other issues you've pointed out.
...I would argue that it's almost worth dealing with those issues in NISA's version just so nobody has to read titles with "Super Duper" anymore because I think that was an especially poor part of the Zetsubou translation, but I guess people find it charming in a hokey way, ahaha.
SolidChamp
Banned
Okay PersonaGAF, questions from a total newb (Persona 4 on Vita HAS ME):
When tackling a dungeon in the TV world
, is it wise to break things up by completing a couple of floors and then returning to the real world when you need to rest up and resupply?
On that same note, would leaving the TV world to rest up in the real world cause me to lose my progress in the dungeon or can I start back on the same floor that I left?
Another question I have is about fusing personas. I notice that I'll pick up a persona card more than once (for example, the pixie), so is it good to experiment with fusing personas or is it better to hold on to them for specific combinations?
Is there a way to grind to boost social links or is it part of the ebb & flow of the game and story where there's a natural development of character and things move at a certain pace?
When tackling a dungeon in the TV world
(in this case, the rescue mission to save Yukiko in her castle)
On that same note, would leaving the TV world to rest up in the real world cause me to lose my progress in the dungeon or can I start back on the same floor that I left?
Another question I have is about fusing personas. I notice that I'll pick up a persona card more than once (for example, the pixie), so is it good to experiment with fusing personas or is it better to hold on to them for specific combinations?
Is there a way to grind to boost social links or is it part of the ebb & flow of the game and story where there's a natural development of character and things move at a certain pace?
1) Early on, there's nothing wrong with leaving and coming back later when your SP is low. Your last floor is saved. Later on, it shouldn't be quite as necessary.
2) It's saved
3) Always be fusing. ALWAYS. BE. FUSING. The stats and levels are much higher that way.
4. No way to really "grind" a social link, just gotta spend the time with 'em!
Having a persona in your roster of the same arcana as social link you're focusing on, complimenting characters during story events, and having lunch are all ways to help boost your social linkin'.
Listen to this man, for he sprouts the wisdom of MegaTen. Those who fear fusion shall be struck down by YHWH himself.
When I was playing Persona 3 FES years and years ago, it was my first Atlus RPG (I had played Trauma Center: Second Opinion on the Wii a while before that as my first Atlus game in general) and somehow I managed to bring a level 50 Jack Frost to the final boss battle. Pretty sure he was still regularly used in that fight despite still only having lowly old Bufu in his repertoire.
I was young and stupid. But not enough to be done in by that boss somehow. Now I'm slightly less young, probably still dumb about some things, and now just thank the gods that the square button function exists in modern day Atlus games for those times I don't feel like memorizing Sanskrit phonics.
SolidChamp
Banned
Thanks guys. Fusing is a really dynamic and addicting feature of the game play.
So do different characters focus on a different arcana? I noticed I can't change the personas of the other characters (that I know of).
So do different characters focus on a different arcana? I noticed I can't change the personas of the other characters (that I know of).
For what its worth, Jack Frost is pretty powerful in Persona 3, and lots of the enemies in the game are weak to Bufu. Given that case, and it's absurdly high magic stat + the fact that it gets Ice Boost, it's not unreasonable to hang onto it. Or that it would still be useful endgame.
Only the main character can change Personas, everyone else is stuck with the Persona they got. To balance this out, they get skills all the way to the end game and eventually get some unique skills the protagonist can't get. The arcana doesn't really mean anything in their case, but each has their own specialty (Chie is physical, Yosuke is the jack of all trades, Yukiko is a mage with a focus on healing, etc, etc...)
Only the Main Character can change Personas.
Other characters are locked to a single Persona.
Arcana can mean different things, but it's mainly to show the different characteristics of people that you are going to encounter. (E.g there's different Arcanas for you to max their social links, and in turn, it gives a exp boost when you fuse Personas of that particular Arcana.) E.g Personas of the Chariot Arcana are usually physical-based attackers.
Other characters are locked to a single Persona.
Arcana can mean different things, but it's mainly to show the different characteristics of people that you are going to encounter. (E.g there's different Arcanas for you to max their social links, and in turn, it gives a exp boost when you fuse Personas of that particular Arcana.) E.g Personas of the Chariot Arcana are usually physical-based attackers.
5. Coffee's for closers only.
Nice, but when is the Unit #24 figure? If we get that I can plop down whatever cash they need!
Tap tap tap tap tap.
Where is Yukari
And the movement in P1P....gonna take some getting used to.
I love how fast it is, though. I'm actually surprised by how quick P1P feels in general, even with the high encounter rate.
Be afraid
What a cruel, cruel world I live in.
There literally about five or six references of her drawn by Soejima all of which that arent super consistent on her design. Even some of the nendoroids of her design isnt great.
I can't handle this