I think they've already more or less confirmed its not going to be straightforward in quite that way.
http://gematsu.com/2015/02/persona-5-director-discusses-characters-themes-development
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Persona Community Thread |OT7| P5 is nyaow. (Mark all PQ and P4U spoilers!)
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I think they've already more or less confirmed its not going to be straightforward in quite that way.
http://gematsu.com/2015/02/persona-5-director-discusses-characters-themes-development
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Cipher Cat
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Guys, don't be depressed if someone gets banned.
Wait what?
Oh yeah, in the end it might not be as straightforward. But it might start out as seemingly straightforward and then lead to a twist, quite like P3.
Heck, even P4 essentially has the same thing happen. At first they're just trying to stop people from getting murdred, but then they slowly realize that they're being used in a way.
I just hope we don't get the standard trope "you were unknowingly helping some evil guy, now you need to stop him because it's your fault if he's actually a threat"
I hate it too. I had to stop playing the game for a little bit. It's so nerve-wracking.
A Dead Diehard
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Nothing explicit, but it fits within the timeline of the other games.
PQ/ULTIMAX SPOILERS:
Yosuke mentions the seven wonders after Yasogami High is transformed. Aigis and Teddie continue their conversation from PQ, despite having lost their memories of the original. And if you believe Rei/Niko = Labrys's mother, then the P3 epilogue has a scene involving her as well.
Wow, that's pretty cool.
There may or may not have been something else, my memory of Ultimax is fuzzy. But yeah that's the jist of it. Ultimax has a lot of references to other installments in general.
That's what I'm thinking, yeah. Your theory about the hearts isn't bad.
I imagine that's what it is. But that that's familliar isn't bad. What matters are the specifics of it and how it's going to affect each of the characters.
TheMrPliskin
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I'm hoping that P5 has a villain who is introduced early and remains a persistent threat throughout the game. Strega felt like the closest thing to a persistent villain in P3 but they were kind of lame, they just felt like walking plot points and never felt like an actual threat. The killer in P4 certainly felt like a threat however you never really get any interaction with them,
admittedly the limited interactions that you do have are fantastic.
Hopefully P5 is able to deliver a strong villain as I do love me a great antagonist.
The "thematic subversion" only worked because there wasn't much to speculate on anyhow. For the longest time we only had chairs, many chairs, chair on chair action, chairs summoning Personas, chairs summoning chairs as Personas, and more chairs.
The pre-TGS 2014 trailer was the first time we really got a proper look at the game. They did a pretty good job there, but even then there wasn't TOO much in that trailer either.
I'm impressed by the nature of the bait in switch regarding the main character, but I'm not so impressed to think we can't speculate where the game will go.
I'm impressed by the nature of the bait in switch regarding the main character, but I'm not so impressed to think we can't speculate where the game will go.
Nah, I'm not saying people can't speculate. I'm just saying that I feel like they'll have more than a few tricks up their sleeve, concerning Persona 5's story, which will take most of us off-guard.
I didn't mean it in the sense of an authoritative standpoint. I meant the switch wasn't so impressive that we're beyond being able to.
And yeah, they'll probably have some aspect we can't anticipate, especially because they're not revealing all their story details in a long 17 minute trailer this time. The final acts of Atlus games tend to be a total mystery.
Definitely. I remember seeing speculation on GameFAQs back when P3 was first announced in Famitsu Wave.
Hopefully we get some truly based Meguro in P5.
Wow. Talk about overthinking things. XD
TheMrPliskin
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Atlus is definitely keeping a bunch of story info close to chest, even the basic stuff. We don't even know if there will be a dark hour or TV world equivalent, we still don't even have a concrete idea how persona's work. On top of that we also don't know why time stopped in in that initial trailer as that didn't show up again in the gameplay reveal, Atlus is clearly drip feeding info in a way that encourages rampant speculation while actually showing next to nothing.
Rewatching the anime trailer again, and I noticed that right before it transitions to the Jason Statham looking shopkeeper, we get a brief anime clip of the heroes running away inside a building with debris falling around them. Given the design, I'm pretty sure it's the building that we saw the Phantom jumping around it (and perhaps even the Casino from the first part of the opening), but what's most noticeable is that the three humans are in costume but have their masks off, while Morgana is in the form of a regular cat. Any ideas?
Took less than 5 minutes of scanning that thread until I came across someone wanting the game to be set in college, lol
Maybe Morgana can just transform at will and the cat form has more versatility for that sort of thing than the anthro form.
This is so interesting seeing everyone's opinions.
Also I have to admit that I really don't like Kaneko's design for human characters. Some are straight up ugly, it works for demons but not humans.
The Aigis and Teddie convo is the most important one to me.
I really like that angle, the way Q and Ultimax's versions of it differ based on where Aigis is at in her life, and I like to sit and muse as to what causes the shining that they see.
Ganzlinger
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women mustaches
A Dead Diehard
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That's just wrong.
Now that was great! It really made me laugh out loud here
Ganzlinger
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LOL
A Dead Diehard
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Not enough moss.
Red The Hunter
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Not enough whale feathers
A Dead Diehard
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Chrono Helix
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_deities
Benzaiten (弁才天 or 弁財天
There you go.
Funky Student's true form finally revealed.
Cipher Cat
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I made this.
ShmeebAlina
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Reworked a painting I did a while back:
and Margaret for Michelle Ann Dunphy's charity raffle:
and Margaret for Michelle Ann Dunphy's charity raffle:
Ganzlinger
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Amazing job!
Reanimatoin
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Now that's one I havent seen before, looks awesome Shmeeb!
The other one, well.....
Yeah, I kinda love that picture XD
So, without any spoilers. I am currently at the last boss of Persona Q now and I got my ass handed to me by
The Clockwork God because he is using that damn skill where he gives everyone a timer. I just gave every party member Recarm, though and I am trying to grind some levels.
I am level 68 with P3 Protag, P4 Protag, Kanji, Yukari and Aigis. Where is the fastest area to grind? I tried redoing the the latest extra boss in the Inaba Pride dungeon, but it takes way to long for the XP I get.
I am level 68 with P3 Protag, P4 Protag, Kanji, Yukari and Aigis. Where is the fastest area to grind? I tried redoing the the latest extra boss in the Inaba Pride dungeon, but it takes way to long for the XP I get.
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