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Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth |OT| -- No Dating, Just Dungeons
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Has this been mentioned? Persona Q will have a manga adaptation for both P3 and P4 side. Interesting.
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/01/11/persona-q-is-getting-two-manga-one-for-p3-and-one-for-p4/
Just buy the Winged Sandals (?) item on the shop. Pretty cheap and lets you avoid those trap floors for a good amount of steps.
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/01/11/persona-q-is-getting-two-manga-one-for-p3-and-one-for-p4/
Just buy the Winged Sandals (?) item on the shop. Pretty cheap and lets you avoid those trap floors for a good amount of steps.
You misunderstand. I'm not running on traps (outside of mapping them and so far they're only on the first floor of the second dungeon). I'm running out of SP from normal battles. Like 3-5 battles of Ken/Koromaru wiping the floor with Medium instant-death spells and they're out. I can't fuse higher level Personae beyond 26 because LOL LEVEL LIMITS LOL and the Personaes I have don't seem to give a massive jump in MP bonuses. I just want my fucking Victory Cry back. ATLUS Y U NO VICTORY CRY.
Oh sorry
There's still Victory Cry in this game. Sadly, it does not work the same way the OP Victory Cry works lol. If you can beat an FOE at this time you might stack up some higher-leveled Personae that can give a good amount of HP and SP bonuses.
Splash Wave
Member
What the fuck is P4MC/Yu good at? He's ~level 29, and he's the only character of mine without any clear function. I can't decide on a good sub-Persona for him.
He's the only character that has balanced stats throughout the game, though he inclines slightly more on the physical offense and defense side. I usually give him a sub-Persona with good physical movesets except for link skills because he's a little slow, and place him on front.
Stop being bad and finally use "Boost". Just attack till you crit them and then go broke. Use their weakness to get another free use and so on. I rarely had to go out of a dungeon for SP... this system is even too easy. Also Zen and Rei have SP recovery from the beginning (just for them) but they can also kick ass.
Finished the P4 main game with every request, 100% map floors, every chest and the optional boss fight at 48h 32min. Game was good, but Mudoo and Hama are too good for this game.
Imp the Dimp
Member
Lol, you weren't kidding. 2 biggest floors in the fucking game. Gladly, I'm really digging their visual and mechanical design. This game has fantastic dungeons. No way I'd spend 70 hours on a dungeon crawler else.
What random said, plus the fact that he is not automatically killed by Dark if targeted, unlike Makoto. He is well-rounded, and thus makes a great third slotter for the 1st row.
Have Kanji do Dragon Cry, then have Yu attack. Kanji should have Triple and Golden Link. Though it does not hurt for Yu to have links as well. I went through the middle of the game with them both having a couple of elemental links plus Double. At the very least, Aegis would go after Yu, and proc a link. If I didn't want to wait a full round to Dragon [Cry] Install buff Kanji, he'd go after Yu, as well, netting both link attacks. Also, needless to say, if Yu hits an elemental weakness without getting hit the round prior, the back row can run links off of him too, since he'll go first next time.
He's a physical attacker with good agility/luck and a very large SP pool.
Just place him in the front row and give him a physical oriented sub Persona. Due to his high SP, he can also make use out of costly SP skills. In my game, I set him up as a physical attacker / support.
Approaching the 30 hour mark and wearing out. It's the stupid FOEs that I have to slog through on some floors. I just don't see a way to avoid them, so I just attack and kill them, but it takes a while. Poison helps, but still takes a while.
Well the purpose is really to avoid them. Yeah kill them if it's manageable, but the puzzles in thr game are to basically avoid them and progress through the floors faster without getting caught. But if you're beating those FOEs right now the latter part of the game becomes a breeze.
Splash Wave
Member
Thanks, y'all. I think my problem is that I'm focusing too strongly in having all of my elemental bases covered, which doesn't actually seem that useful. Having to maintain this balance is limiting what I can choose for Yu, and that's holding him back. Aside from Hama/Mudo, physical attacks seem infinitely better than magic.
Thank you!
WHOOSH goes the point over your head.
And how do you get that BOOST? Oh, by spending SP on the weaknesses of which I'm burning the SP bonus the Personae's equipped give you and don't recharge back up at the end of the battle to where you can continue to Medium Mudo/Hama people to death.
HENCE THE PROBLEM. I run out of SP constantly "exploiting the boost system" as you're telling me to do because the boosts don't kick in over battles to where I'm using SP to end battles quickly and before the boost benefits kick in.
HENCE THE ISSUE.
avengers23
Banned
Link attacks have elemental affinity, and they only cost health. Health is significantly easier and cheaper to recover than health. The game's systems direct players to exploring the link attacks.
MiguelMexMIstery
Member
Unless there's a physical insta-kill attack that doesn't help for the second dungeon since I'm exploiting Hama/Mudo and despite having a level 20-27 Persona equipped to said Hama/Mudo users, they run out of SP within one-two battles. :| It's frustrating as hell to go "what the fuck" at the SP bonus system not even giving enough of a bonus to where your Hama/Mudo to start the boost rolling of free instant-death doesn't happen.
Slap Impure Reach on Naoto and go to town. It won't be SP cost effective for you to use mudo/hamon abilities until you gain the area wide version...unless you can exploit some shadow weaknesses of dark/light. I don't know what you're doing, but I bet you use hamon/mudo on shadows that don't have a weakness to them.
Chill and use boost.
deafmedal
Member
Hello GAF, my daughter pointed this game out to me at Target yesterday and asked if she could get it. She is 11, will be 12 in a couple of months. She is rather mature for her age but still, I feel some things she is just not ready for (TLOU, GTAV etc.,). We have not been shy about talking with her about sex and such so I was curious what you lot would say about her playing this or perhaps earlier entries in the series (she loves the art style heh).
JRPGs aren't my thing really, and I see that the game is supposed to be difficult and I will tell her as such but if it isn't too adult-y I reckon she could get it...
Any thoughts?!
JRPGs aren't my thing really, and I see that the game is supposed to be difficult and I will tell her as such but if it isn't too adult-y I reckon she could get it...
Any thoughts?!
CrimsonFist
Member
I'm not sure how suitable Personas 3 and 4 would be for a 12 year old. There's nothing overly graphic or explicit, but I feel like some aspects would go over their head and I'm not sure how much she would appreciate it. I wouldn't get her this simply because it assumes you've already played at least either 3 or 4, but you could look into Etrian Odyssey 4 or Untold, since those are similar in style. EO IV has a fairly minimalistic story whereas Untold has a more fleshed out story mode if that's a factor. Neither should have anything inappropriate for a 12 year old.
Huge thanks for these again. Finally made it to the end. Now I just need to prepare for the final boss.
Keep the 2 FOEs busy by washing the paint of the red roses. That will keep them stuck in one place so you can make the rabbit go to the painting.
Well, leveled up and somehow the SP problem for the Persona boost suddenly went away despite having near the same level Persona for the Ken/Koromaru. Okay...?
At least now I can nuke Boost without worrying about running out of SP to do said Nuke boosting.
Now to worry about the request of
and possibly the boss next floor. Oh boy.
At least now I can nuke Boost without worrying about running out of SP to do said Nuke boosting.
Now to worry about the request of
battling Elizabeth
Well the game has a very very scary dungeon (Evil Spirit Club) where I almost shit my pants, but after that it's good. Game is not that bad for children (and it's for kids 12 upwards here in Germany). There is a Persona whose name is Mara which is a penis, but she won't notice at all (or even fuse it lol). Get it for her, the story is good and the game is fun and very long
Also everyone:
Use boost!!! Just crit the enemies with your physical skills (Tempest Slash is almost any time a critical hit). Use Mudoo/Hama only when you get the area wide skills for them (with impure reach).
Dragon1893
Member
Still on the first floor of the second dungeon. Loving the game, cleared the first dungeon on hard but I'm switching to normal. I'll do it on hard on my second playthrough.
Can't really recomend it to be honest. Same for the other Persona games. Might be better to wait a couple of years at least.
Can't really recomend it to be honest. Same for the other Persona games. Might be better to wait a couple of years at least.
She should be absoluely fine, there is nothing bad in Persona and the "Mature" rating is a joke when you compare it to the likes of TLOU or GTAV. In Europe it got the way more appropriate USK/PEGI 12 rating.
Imp the Dimp
Member
Okay, 100% on all floors and 100% request completion on Risky. Now on to the last boss. Game took me overwhelming 70h to get this farm.
Game is rated for kids in Germany (for 12 year olds) - why shouldn't he buy it for her?
There is nothing bad in this game and it even has a chibi style to it.Dragon1893
Member
Game is rated for kids in Germany (for 12 year olds) - why shouldn't he buy it for her?
It's not because of offensive content. Would a 12 year old really enjoy a dungeon crawler? The art style might be deceiving her as to what type of game this is. I don't know how it is on easy but on normal it's still a challenging game. Besides, this is a fanservice game for P3&4 fans, most of what is said in it will fly completely over her head. I dunno, with so many games to choose from this seems like a strange one to recomend.
CrimsonFist
Member
I don't think the genre is much of a problem. My sister is a similar age, and I could see her enjoying a game like this.
I think the best thing to do would be to download either the Etrian Odyssey 4 or Untold demo from the eshop and see if she likes those.
Imp the Dimp
Member
So the last boss
just keeps growing new legs before I can finish off all four. What exactly am I supposed to do?
Do you have aoe spells or skills? Use them. Or try to
get them low and then kill them all in the same turn.
It turned out to be a battle of attrition for me. Just keep nailing the legs with elemental weaknesses, don't forget to buff, etc. Thankfully my party was incredibly hp/sp efficient with link usage so it wasn't THAT bad.
Use skills that target all enemies. Gain Boost then cast it for free spells or physical attacks. Skills like Deathbound, Megidolaon, Hassou Tobi, Morning Star, and Ma___dyne skills do the job well.
Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
Member
Is there an online collection of every characters PQ situational dialogue? Hearing so many funny lines when people are hit with status effects and stuff.
Imp the Dimp
Member
Another last boss question:
edit: nvm
edit: Allright, Kanji just crit him for 6k dmg lmao
edit: okay, I lost with him being two hits from dying. Never gonna play this game again. Had fun while it lasted, though.
What exactly do I do about "Gears of Time" on my MC? I'm mid-fight now and my MC's counter is down to 2 and I don't know how to get it off. If it weren't for that shit, I'd win this fight handily. But no way I'm forcing myself through that easy but insanely long and tedious Spider fight once again. I had to change my settings to "very fast combat" to fucking endure it. Playing on Risky, so just reviving the MC ain't gonna happen. plz halp
edit: nvm
edit: Allright, Kanji just crit him for 6k dmg lmao
edit: okay, I lost with him being two hits from dying. Never gonna play this game again. Had fun while it lasted, though.
Another last boss question:
What exactly do I do about "Gears of Time" on my MC? I'm mid-fight now and my MC's counter is down to 2 and I don't know how to get it off. If it weren't for that shit, I'd win this fight handily. But no way I'm forcing myself through that easy but insanely long and tedious Spider fight once again. I had to change my settings to "very fast combat" to fucking endure it. Playing on Risky, so just reviving the MC ain't gonna happen. plz halp
edit: nvm
edit: Allright, Kanji just crit him for 6k dmg lmao
edit: okay, I lost with him being two hits from dying. Never gonna play this game again. Had fun while it lasted, though.
If you want to be cheap about it, it's actually possible to
keep that boss incapacitated the whole fight and avoid letting him do any time manipulation. The answer is panic status. The second attempt I made at this fight, I got panic to stick on my first move (two party members with panic skill + impure reach). He never even had a chance to apply the countdown at all. It was insanely easy to deal with his dinky physical attacks
use a revival bead or revive skill on party members before they die to increase how many turns they have left by 1.
Incandenza
Banned
Finished up dungeon 2 today.
I got Teddie for soul mate. Dear god. It's my own damn fault for saying I liked bear puns.
SixStringPsycho
Member
bought it today to hold me over new 3ds and majoras mask. fucking loving this game