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Persona Community Thread |OT9| SPOILER TAGS OR DIE
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The scarves in the PQ concept art are interesting because they're essentially stylized chains. Soejima wanted to physically chain Rei and Zen together, and breaking out of the metaphoric chains of society is a huge point of P5, so I guess I can see where he's coming from and why they're included in the P5 concept art as well.
Soejima's comment that he wanted to be more overt than usual with the symbolism also explains why they were dropped for the masks.
CrimsonFist
Member
There's one rough draft that actually reminds me of Rei and Zen quite a bit.
And the scarf design, or at least the most finished looking one, has both the scarf and the mask, although no other thief getup. Also seems like the colour for the game at that point was blue rather than red.
Scarf design features in quite a bit of the other concept art as well, I feel like it was likely fixed for quite a while.
Wonder if "she" ends up been a main character in the game later.
Like Yukari in some of the concept art looks similar to P3 Female MC and was planned as protagonist at some point.
Plus that design of the "Female" Joker can be used in the future too....
Speaking of which it seems Atlus is gonna announce Persona games in the next year.
Is really impossible they announce Persona 6 next year ( i mean P3 and P4 are too close each other) or they are chance there.
Anyway i got my money in either Persona 5 Arena or some Persona 5 spinoff in some genre Atlus dont use before (racing , shooter , cards , idk something new).
Mobile Suit Gooch
Grundle: The Awakening
bruh...I'm still salty that they didn't go a femc this time around. After seeing that drawing, if they added her later it wouldn't matter since she won't be canon.
If they announce something it'll probably be P5 Arena or PQ2, though I'd like to see some new spin-offs like an action title. Atlus All Star Racing
featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series
I'm personally holding out for a SMT V announcement. But it hasn't been a decade since the last entry so I don't know...
They already gives us "Persona" Miku ... matter of time we see a Knuckles Persona style at some point.
Make it Happen Atlus.
(And Persona 3 Dancing All Night too.... )
A Dead Diehard
Member
What if they repurposed her in an expansion?
I wouldn't count on it.
If Atlus wants to make Goro X Female Joker a canon thing they can do it.... in that already weird canon they got.
Specially since Goro is like the most popular P5 character right now , they gonna give us so much Goro like they did with Marie.... wait for it.
Mobile Suit Gooch
Grundle: The Awakening
CrimsonFist
Member
They do keep talking about how it's the anniversary year and they have various plans for it. V wouldn't be too outlandish at least.
Wow. I'm sure it would have been fine, but I'm really glad they didn't stick with it, it would have been a real shame to not have the phantom thief designs.
SolidChamp
Banned
I'm level 33. Yosuke 33, Yukiko 34, Kanji 35.
You are significantly underleveled. Are you running from fights or deliberately skipping all fights on a floor on the way up? I'm guessing you're not rotating party members either, because it's kind of surprising to see party members ahead of the protagonist.
For reference, Shadow Mituso is level 45, and you usually want to be within five levels of the boss (39-45)
I'm not sure I have any good suggestion for you beyond perhaps simply trying to farm gold hands or something? The saving grace is the enemies in the dungeon should give you surpluses of XP if you're that low.
I also hope you've been ranking up your social links too, so you can get that delicious bonus XP from fusing stuff. Should be able to make something a few levels over your level now if you have the link for it.
SolidChamp
Banned
Well shit. This sort of takes the wind out of my sails a bit.
Very annoying that I've hit such a snag. I don't run from all of the fights. I only start skipping enemies if I am low on SP. I ten to fight 80-90% of the enemies on a given floor. But now, I've not been rotating party members as I've found that the aforementioned combination of characters to be my favorite.
I guess I'll grind occasionally when I feel like it and eventually find my way out of this rut. But I don't feel as compelled to play as I did before.
For what it's worth, I usually have to grind for Shadow Mituso (only mandatory fight in P4 that really requires it, in theory) but it is odd that you're so underleveled if you've been fighting normally. I've heard of people being like 38-39, but not usually 33.
However do take advantage of the fact that all the enemies in the later floors of the dungeon are level 40+
Weird, I never grinded at all for Shadow Mitsuo. I don't remember at which level I beat him but I definitely didn't grind.
Then again I did revisit every single dungeon after completing them in order to fight the bonus bosses. That may have kept me at a reasonable level. Are you skipping those?
Then again I did revisit every single dungeon after completing them in order to fight the bonus bosses. That may have kept me at a reasonable level. Are you skipping those?
SolidChamp
Banned
Sorry, I got it now.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Oh no I think I bungled it, I only got my SLink with Marie to rank 8 before the Jan 1st.
No bonus dungeon for me I guess ;__;
No bonus dungeon for me I guess ;__;
A Dead Diehard
Member
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Welp!
Just another reason to do NG+!
haha yeah I guess so, I actually managed to get a lot of slinks to 10 surprisingly, i'm still half way through jan and I figure I'm basically at the end of the game? What a wild ride this game has been for a first play through. Once I see the credits roll I'm gonna have to write an LTTP for it.
Also for serious the winter theme music is fucking amazing, like easily one of the best tracks tonally.
EDIT: Oh my god March
THIS GAME REFUSES TO END! IM SO HYPE FOR THIS...but i'll have to wait for tomorrow
Gonna happen the same day Aniplex decide to dub the P3 movies and overcharge it for it... wait for it.
Take a sit and wait for never happening
And thats a shame ... but anyway.
Mediking
Member
I hope Daybreakers does get a English dub because that would be great advertising. If I was on Atlus advertising, I would call up huge anime sites like Funimation and pretty much plaster Persona 5 there like crazy. If you can't get the stubborn dudebros or people who think anime is too weird or cringy to be interested in your product then shoot for the people who actually MIGHT be interested in your product. Funimation is great at hype stuff. Same goes for Toonami in America. Do a promotion with Toonami. Alotta young adults (younger than me, lol I'm 22) love Toonami and could end up buying Persona 5 if they saw a Persona 5 promotion there.
TV spots should really consist of Joker smiling like a madman and All-Out Attacks. Persona 5 is stylish. Anything small would look amazing in a promotion.
Its not under Atlus' control at all and FUNimation won't handle it.
Aniplex handles it (it was their studio that made it, A-1 Pictures). And Aniplex...well good luck there. They have done work with Toonami in the past, admittedly (SAO, Blue Exorcist, among others) so that isn't out of the question but they didn't even bother to dub the Persona 3 movies so I doubt they'd dub this.
Mediking
Member
Hmmmm...... hopefully Atlus can contact Aniplex's western department or something. I dunno. Just don't waste huge advertising material.
CrimsonFist
Member
I like that Atlus messed up Daybreakers having a simultaneous release with the game with their delay.
A Dead Diehard
Member
Minor P5 spoilers ahead:
I'm not exactly torn up if Daybreakers never gets here, considering its events are still a Mementos mission in the actual game.
Fucking christ man, this isn't a minor spoiler at all
I'm legitimately upset right now since I spent all this time dodging spoilers
Fuck
D
Deleted member 518609
Unconfirmed Member
Uh, that's an incredibly minor spoiler.
It's a side mission that lasts all of 5 minutes and happens very early on.
Did you watch Daybreakers?
I...absolutely love the concept art of Ann's hair down (that should be of her, right?)
Why did she have to get pigtails :'(
Why did she have to get pigtails :'(
D
Deleted member 518609
Unconfirmed Member
Soejima's comment there actually mentions that they wanted to have at least one scene where Anne had her hair down, and that's why he drew this, but after seeing it they decided against it because they thought it didn't suit her.
Also that side profile of Anne with her mask on looks just like Yusuke lol.
A Dead Diehard
Member
StarSketch
Banned
Well this thread is titled "SPOILER TAGS OR DIE"
(Speaking of, that was stolen from the Trails commu thread, right? Can someone explain that to me?)
(Speaking of, that was stolen from the Trails commu thread, right? Can someone explain that to me?)
A Dead Diehard
Member
No idea. All I remember is some folks being sick of spoiler tags on certain P4 spoilers. Temp bans ensued.
My copy of the P5 art book arrived yesterday. Or should have, but nobody was in.
According to the DHL tracker my art book arrived yesterday but I never got it. There was no letter of notice in my mail box and none of my neighbors got it either.
Now I hope the customer service can get a clear answer from the mailman on where the fuck my art book is.
Uh. No? I have no interaction with the Trails thread. I wouldn't have known it existed to steal.
Mine has allegedly arrived, but I'm at work, so can't confirm.According to the DHL tracker my art book arrived yesterday but I never got it. There was no letter of notice in my mail box and none of my neighbors got it either.
Now I hope the customer service can get a clear answer from the mailman on where the fuck my art book is.
TurnipFritters
Member
because rise was popular
StarSketch
Banned
A Dead Diehard
Member
Clearly the answer is for her to put her hair up in thief mode
That certainly would help with the disguise.
Think about it: Same voice, same hairstyle and colour... a mask alone isn't that good at hiding identity.
TurnipFritters
Member
It works for the Sailor Scouts
TurnipFritters
Member
We can always pretend it's like the live action show where even when they have same hair style their thief mode is a goofy looking wig
Got the art book. Super interesting. Easily the best of the Persona art books. SO MUCH SOEJIMA.
I've posted some pictures on my Twitter (that I can't really link here due to the scanning policy), but basically there's loads of concept stuff. Some of it looks worse than the final game, some is better.
Also Makoto's braid is a headband. RIP.
A few interesting things:
Thief outfits were once militaristic and sinister looking. Ann is in all black with combat trousers and boots and a gas mask. It actually looks really cool.
There's a picture of Haru with her hair up and looking more elegant.
Futaba used to have black hair.
Some of the unused characters have really great designs.
I've posted some pictures on my Twitter (that I can't really link here due to the scanning policy), but basically there's loads of concept stuff. Some of it looks worse than the final game, some is better.
Also Makoto's braid is a headband. RIP.
A few interesting things:
Thief outfits were once militaristic and sinister looking. Ann is in all black with combat trousers and boots and a gas mask. It actually looks really cool.
There's a picture of Haru with her hair up and looking more elegant.
Futaba used to have black hair.
Some of the unused characters have really great designs.
Makes sense. Someone doing their hair up like that would take HOURS each day. x.x