ScraftyDevil
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He was also Two-Face and sounded exactly the gorram same as the BTAS voice actor.
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Persona Community Thread: The Butterfly Effect
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It's Yu's head.
Is that true? Holy crap.
Tales of Vesperia, another of the backlogs I have to get through someday. Blargh.
"So, I took Yukikio's pretty little head."
Thanks for nearly making me choke on a sip of water. ;p
Well that was hilarious. I was in a dungeon in P3 and decided to take a break to make some food. I hit the start button to pause out of instinct and nothing happens, so whatever no big deal, I'll just leave it sitting since I'm right at the start of the floor. Monsters won't roam to the entryway so I'll be fine, right? Right? I come back to find myself engaged in a fight with the Grim Reaper of all people, who has killed all of my party members and is now politely waiting for my turn. I escape from the battle and res all my bros, and as I'm running for the return beacon Death decides to troll me a little more and chases me down, picking off Mitsuru before I am able to escape to safety.
I guess he spawns after you're on the same floor for too long? I know better now.
By the way, can you grind the dungeons indefinitely so long as you periodically return to the first floor before anyone gets tired? Or will they still get tired eventually? I'd go back to get HP and SP back and it seemed like going back might have also refreshed everyone's status.
I guess he spawns after you're on the same floor for too long? I know better now.
By the way, can you grind the dungeons indefinitely so long as you periodically return to the first floor before anyone gets tired? Or will they still get tired eventually? I'd go back to get HP and SP back and it seemed like going back might have also refreshed everyone's status.
No, returning to the first floor doesn't refresh everyone's status. Eventually they'll all get tired. It's based upon the amount of battles you fight.
I see, thanks. I must have discovered the HP/SP thing around the same time that they got a boost in combat time.
As you go further in the story, your party members can stay in Tartarus longer. I think it taps out right about the time you get Ken/Koromaru/Shiniro?
buddha0991
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Murder. She Wrote
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Ok so I'm about to start my foray into P3 but I have to ask the question you all know is coming: FES or P3P?
I remember reading that one or two people really hating P3P but I don't remember why. How well done is the femMC?
I remember reading that one or two people really hating P3P but I don't remember why. How well done is the femMC?
buddha0991
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Do you care more about more fleshed out game mechanics, or better presentation, cutscenes, and the full story?
FES has the superior presentation and story and non-compromised graphics. You also get The Answer.
Persona 3 Portable has all the improvements done to vanilla Persona 4, including direct party control and a much better UI. You also get the awesome Female Protagonist.
Pick your poison.
Silly or not, I defy you to say that you didn't think the chia pet song in your head along with the image! Mwuhahahahaha!
Fes is best for your first foray into the world of Persona 3. You lose a lot of the impact of some of the story scenes because of the visual novel format. They....didn't do a good job with that in portable...
Thankfully, portable is different enough that you can probably easily go from one to the other and still not be bored. Well, maybe, Tartarus at the end still wore on me...
Personally, I see the concessions in presentation and overall story made in P3P as a more than acceptable trade-off for the FeMC. To answer your question, FeMC is remarkably well done. A lot is done to make her feel distinct from the original main character even going down to her weapon. She has her own unique Social Links (and can start one with all of the members of SEES, unlike the male protagonist), her own music (which is outstanding), and her own dialogue choices that make her personality feel that much more different from the male protagonist. And besides all that, her character design counts as one of Soejima's best.
That all said, I would suggest that you play FES first, because there are unquestionably a few moments in P3P that lose out in impact because of the visual novel-esque format of presentation in P3P. But I really would not ask that you avoid it.
FeMC is more emotive IMO than P3MC and Yu. I'd say both are worth a playthrough.
Of course I did. ;p
buddha0991
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My advice is to play the game with the male first and do female for bonus playthroughs, but thats just me
Murder. She Wrote
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I guess I'll go with FES. Chances are I won't play P3P (I rarely, if ever, replay a story based game even if it's slightly different).
Shame, after Yu I was curious to try a female protagonist...and hit on all the boys ;D
Shame, after Yu I was curious to try a female protagonist...and hit on all the boys ;D
That is the best part of FemC
Believe me. Female MC is different enough that it's worth a playthrough. She gives a completely new perspective to the game's story.
If by portable being slightly different you mean every social link being different, sure. 
Portable is the superior character and links, but it just goes to show how poorly they did with the story scenes that I cannot in good conscious recommend that as your first foray into the story. And that's a sad thing.
Played Fes when it first came out, then played portable when that first came out, so it seemed fine. Then I went back to playing Fes again about a month ago. The format of portable is rage inducing.
I'd probably say play through Fes, play another game or two, then come back to portable after, since you may OD on Tartarus otherwise.
Portable is the superior character and links, but it just goes to show how poorly they did with the story scenes that I cannot in good conscious recommend that as your first foray into the story. And that's a sad thing.
Played Fes when it first came out, then played portable when that first came out, so it seemed fine. Then I went back to playing Fes again about a month ago. The format of portable is rage inducing.
I'd probably say play through Fes, play another game or two, then come back to portable after, since you may OD on Tartarus otherwise.
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what...?!? I think I just lost massive respect for Minako. No Junpei or Akihiko social link... are you freaking kidding me? Hell, where's the Ken & Koromaru SL? And who the hell is Nozomi or Mamoru? Ugh I wish FeMC existed on consoles too, its going to be hard playing throug P3:FES without maxing out the social link of all of my party members?
This isn't funny
Supermanisdead
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Kenji & Nozomi are the best social links.
buddha0991
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"Maya Amano" was the greatest social link
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what...?!? I think I just lost massive respect for Minako. No Junpei or Akihiko social link... are you freaking kidding me? Hell, where's the Ken & Koromaru SL? And who the hell is Nozomi or Mamoru? Ugh I wish FeMC existed on consoles too, its going to be hard playing throug P3:FES without maxing out the social link of all of my party members?
This isn't funny
And now you know why many of us want a persona 3 vita release with the femc stuff added to a full game.
Who is that? Is she from a drama CD?
LOL
buddha0991
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BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
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Damn
we.are.the.armada
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Well done sir.
Have a steak.
That number twenty-nine thing blew my mind.
Man, I loved that stupid game show. Yosuke calling out Teddie for only having like 5 bear puns was pretty good.
cj_iwakura
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This fine lady.
I'm not saying it's Mayans, but...
Ice cold, huh?
I still don't know what jacket they were supposedly talking about.
buddha0991
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Young Magus
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This fine lady.
I don't think I have ever hated any video game character more then conspiracy bitch.
This had me dying when I first saw it.
cj_iwakura
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I have a hard time disagreeing. She's pretty much despicable the moment she shows her true colors.
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