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Persona Community Thread |OT5| Pull up a chair! [NO PQ OR P4U SPOILERS!]
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You don't want playable Adachi?
Ready:
Wait, I though Buddha was him being playable. Nevermind then, I hope he loses.
They're grabbing the bull by the horns wrt one of the most popular characters in the series. I see your point, but if there's one thing this isn't it's a wasted opportunity.
They're making her a fighter. You obviously disagree with how they're going about that so far, but I think it's fair to mention that we still haven't seen her in action, so it's pretty early to judge. Feel free to disagree with their aesthetic choices, but the jury's out on the gameplay, which is of course the thing they have to nail here moreso than any other.
Green Mamba
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I'm sure she'll be fine, gameplay wise, I haven't really had a problem with any Arena character there (save for Junpei's overdone baseball theme seeping into there). But as a crossover fighter I think getting the characters right visually is pretty important, and I think they've already made a pretty major misstep there.
The original post you replied to was this one:
You said that comparison of Rise and Yukiko doesn't work, and I think it does and basically echoed what Levito originally said.
I did NOT see this follow up post until now which explained your point in more detail:
But I was never responding to that post and it seems somewhat unrelated to what Levito originally said, which seems to me to be about whether or not Rise should know how to fight.
EDIT: Also, hi P-Gaf. I've been lurking for a bit, I think these are my first few posts here. Off to a good start.
This is a series where people say a game where a doggie and a robot maid girl joining your party is grimdark. On that same note, Koromaru knows how to wield a gosh darn dagger. If a dog can learn how to do that, Rise can sure as heck have figured out a thing or two from watching the IT do all its fighting.
It's a shame telescope solarsystem head won't be her person for these fights, though.
TurnipFritters
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Koromaru isn't a playable character in Arena because dog-tier characters are way too unfair. See also: Iggy in the Stardust Crusaders fighter.
People's issues with the art are well-documented. I kinda feel like they were destined to lose on that front. Same goes for Ken.
SloaneRisette
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Because everyone worries about Amaterasu.
They could potentially balance him out if they took like a Shadow Labrys approach and had his Persona out most of the time. Make him have like really low HP, lots of Persona cards, and make him reliant on Persona for almost everything but auto combo.
Koromaru grew up on the streets in a bad area.
TurnipFritters
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tbh I just wanted to use the term "dog-tier"
RedGraveXIII
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I think they sure just pair him with Ken as one character.
Green Mamba
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Is there any stated reason why the P4 characters don't have their upgraded Personas in Arena?
The real reason was that the original forms were more iconic, but I believe the justification in the story was that lack of using them caused them to regress.
The only problem is that Teddie's link is mandatory, though.
I don't think that was ever said in the story.
Yeah, that justification doesn't make sense for his, so I can only assume it would have felt incongruent to have Teddie be the only character fighting with the evolved version of their Persona.
He learned how to make and fight with shivs when he was in canine juvie.
I appreciate the dedication to the pun, sir.
P4A
Finished Naoto, Yosuke and Chie modes. While the whole Yosuke x Labrys ship that's come out of this is sort of okay, Chie's newfound crush on
"Master" Akihiko
Still have Kanji, Teddie, Akihiko, Yu and Elizabeth to do. I'm saving Yu and E. for last, but I'm most looking forward to Kanji's ending, actually. Teddie's chapter was unconventional, but I don't expect it to end any differently from the rest of the IT, nor do I expect Akihiko's ending to feel much different from Mitsuru or Aigis' endings.
Kanji's chapter ended at a completely different point from every other character, and Kanji hadn't really forged the same kind of relationship with Labrys that the rest of the cast did, so I look forward to seeing how the rest of his bit plays out.
Kanji's chapter ended at a completely different point from every other character, and Kanji hadn't really forged the same kind of relationship with Labrys that the rest of the cast did, so I look forward to seeing how the rest of his bit plays out.
So Yu didn't max any of the investigation teams social links = canon?
Doesn't he max teddies no matter what?
Green Mamba
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...but Teddie's Persona evolving is directly linked to story progression.
From what I've played of Arena's story all of the Social Links seem to have played out.
Then I must be misremembering something. It's been a while since I've touched Arena.
I don't think they care for that kind of minutia in regards to canon. Those Personas are more recognizable, hence they're there. It's probably close to the same reason the game's called "Persona 4" Arena, when it was released at a time when media exposure for the P4 brand was at an all-time high.
SloaneRisette
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That's no dog
Well after that investigation I think we can say that Wada is a liar. HIS PANTS ARE ON FIRE. detectiveGAF gonna detect.
Green Mamba
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That's probably the main reason why. Maybe Golden being in development at the same time had something to do with it to, as it has those tier 3 Personas that they didn't want to spoil like that maybe. I don't know.
SloaneRisette
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Considering Rise is going to make her Persona evolve sideways maybe P4 Persona are like Digimon in that respect while P3 are like the poggeymans.
And here I thought you were buying it to put your waifu in a swimsuit.
To be fair, Wada neither wrote nor directed Persona 4, soooooo...
Don't tempt fate.
TurnipFritters
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Maybe the developers just forgot how Personas evolve.
I don't think this is the right figure of speech for this context.
Think of it more like "freak".
Persona 3 Portable.
Reanimatoin
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After watching Samurai Flamenco, the word hentai was spoken everytime the word Freak came up on the subtitles.
I reckon it'll be re-translated for the US release anyway.
Also, isnt P2 IS back on the store?
I reckon it'll be re-translated for the US release anyway.
Also, isnt P2 IS back on the store?
Vita means you have access to the whole franchise, actually. Persona 3 Portable is closest to what you just played, where as Persona 1 and the two halves of Persona 2 are more oldschool. Take your pick.
PGAF has warped my mind. I somehow read "swim" as "cat." I won't speak anything more of it, especially now that I've seen the other things it's wrought.
LOL.
Huh I had no idea. The Vita is such a great handheld. Looks like the other Persona games don't have Chie in them so extra bonus!
Vox Chaotica
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I mean, what could possibly go wrong with you're waifu in a catsuit?
You keep saying 'you're' instead of 'your' and it's driving me crazy. Your is possessive, you're is abbreviated from you are.
ScraftyDevil
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Technically so does pervert. We tend to use it to mean some kind of sexual deviant, but to pervert something only means to distort, deviate or misdirect it, really.
Reminds me of this:
I hate correcting people on stuff like that, but he said it like four times yesterday.
TurnipFritters
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Rise's storyline involves tying of chickens, for some reason.
(Marukyu has been retconned to be a store that sells eggs)
(Marukyu has been retconned to be a store that sells eggs)
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