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Shin Megami Tensei IV |OT| The Dark Souls of Persona
- Thread starter Volcynika
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I know that feeling. I thought I was doing a good job balancing law versus chaos, but a quick check of the Japanese route guide shows that I have a LOT more Law points than Chaos points, rather than the slight Law bias I thought I had. Going to try and reverse course by siding with Chaos during the initial route split, but if I wind up following Law instead of Neutral then oh well. I hear Chaos has some NG+ exclusive demons, so I might go L-->C-->N.
If you don't want to go Law, why not trigger the early bad end?
After Ikebukuro. Go to a Hunter's Association and talk to the Cynical Man. Polite=law, hot-blooded=chaos, hard-to-read=neutral.
CornBurrito
Member
When do I unlock alignment check?
lol @ polite = law. Unless this SMT is different, law makes you such an asshole.
lol @ polite = law. Unless this SMT is different, law makes you such an asshole.
CornBurrito
Member
Electricity and guns are sooooooo magical.
Xenoflare
Member
Yes, save before the route split. I did that and I got my neutral, was dead locked to law
mugurumakensei
Member
Just built myself a beastly Taotie.
QuiteWhittle
Member
Zayin and SMTI Law Hero were all fairly nice chaps until they went off the deep end.
Managed to get in some good playtime today, got just a liiiiitttle bit past the point where you get a gun. Now that I've really sunk my teeth into everything I'm really loving it, props to everyone who convinced me to grab this. I think I've been building my character wrong though, I've been going for a PHYS build but my MC's skills are almost all MAG. That being said, all the enemies I've faced up until now needed to have that elemental abuse so I'm not super worried.
Should I be condensing my demons as often as I can? I keep four or five around for as long as they work but whenever I get some extra that have useful skills and are fusable with my main demons, I throw them together and inherit all the useful skills.
Edit:
Where can I find a guide that can tell me if I'm going towards Law or Chaos?
Should I be condensing my demons as often as I can? I keep four or five around for as long as they work but whenever I get some extra that have useful skills and are fusable with my main demons, I throw them together and inherit all the useful skills.
Edit:
Where can I find a guide that can tell me if I'm going towards Law or Chaos?
CornBurrito
Member
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CornBurrito
Member
Just to clarify, those dumb questions you get asked by bosses dont affect alignment right? They just give you or the opponent bonuses?
Xenoflare
Member
Sorry, I should have clarified that I have the XL.
CornBurrito
Member
Who?
What the-- that wasn't a spoiler! Anyone who looks at the box could see it. If you wanted me to add spoiler tags then do it yourself or message me. Christ.
No, those count. Generally it's only small +1 or -1 shifts, so they shouldn't have much effect on your alignment. A few of the main quests give much larger shifts towards Law, so try hewing a bit closer to Chaos than you might otherwise.
QuiteWhittle
Member
Oops, sorry. It was mostly an assumption on my part.
toadsworth
Banned
Finally got the MP recovery app, are the upgrades to it as ridiculously expensive? 4 levels was kind of absurd for it. Now my MC is way behind on skill upgrades.
Yeah, the next level is also 40. One of the higher levels of the app restores the entire party's MP, that one costs 70. First level should do for you until you get tier 3 spells; the low item capacity exists to encourage you to use healing items. Do so.
Also, wow. My King Frost's High Ice Pleroma just turned into Trisagion, and I just got my first demon with AGIDYNE. A bit sad to lose the ice booster, but I can't say no to Trisagion. I'll spend some points on reducing compendium costs and buy King Frost back, I don't save demons after they've learned all their skills.
I forget how much the second tier costs, but the final tier (which restores MP to your entire party as you walk) is 70 app points.
Not everyone wants to know there's an
ethics test later on,
And look, at least I didn't delete your account.
I have the XL and it's better than the regular 3ds, but I know what you mean. I bought the Dreamgear grips from Amazon, but I found that the added weight actually made it worse. I'm resigned to always playing it with my hands resting on a small pillow - as long as I don't hold it up by itself my hands are ok.
Hecatonchires Custom
Member
Right when you enter Shibuya, on the left, it's surrounded by hedges.
mugurumakensei
Member
So I've died 3 times so far, but every time I elected to not pay for revival. Do those deaths not count towards the 2 easy mode deaths that I need? Because I can't seem to figure out where to switch to easy mode (lay off, it's my first SMT game).
They do not count.
Ah, bummer. Thanks for the quick reply.
CornBurrito
Member
I'm having trouble with a certain boss surrounded by statues.
Anyone mind helping me out? I fused a demon with Zan, but its my only user and I basically lose the whole battle if the boss gets a critical hit, which seems to be often.
Anyone mind helping me out? I fused a demon with Zan, but its my only user and I basically lose the whole battle if the boss gets a critical hit, which seems to be often.
MarcoZombieCannon
Member
Me too, I was pretty surprised. Doing Chaos dialog choices 80% of the time, Cynical man said I was polite, and suddenly neutral path. ^_^
If it was the regular I'd have brought up the Hori wheel as that's supposed to be good, but XL... Yeah, I'm curious too, the later PSP revisions and Vita are way more comfortable to hold for prolonged periods and now I'm starting to want a grip for the XL, and I usually don't care for that sort of stuff.
Transform a Gremlin. Also, try to level up that Zan user, teach Zan to your MC. After that abuse whatever buffs/debuffs you have on hand.
That debuted in Strange Journey.
Coldnoodle
Member
So I hit level 30 and got a new app that
makes skills mutate. What does that mean?
Thats kinda disheartening, about the ice breath anyway. Breath used to be great in III. Especially on single enemies.
Sseklebeast
Member
I just got an ending, spoilers obviously:
I chose to create a world of stillness which deteriorated everything in the universe to nothing. My bad I guess.
CornBurrito
Member
Gremlin?
Quick question about Shinjuku:
*edit* also, about that paid DLC, do the exp items you get only work on the MC, or on demons too?
Regarding the boss demon in the government office building...well I said I wouldn't kill it and got to battle a Harpy army instead. Does this affect my alignment/the story in any way? XD
*edit* also, about that paid DLC, do the exp items you get only work on the MC, or on demons too?
Nope, you are right on track. There should be a place you missed around that poisonous swamp area that will take you to Shinjuku, where the story continues.
You know how randomly a demon will ask to change a skill? This increases how often they do that, and put down a "floor" so that they don't ask to make a Mazanma spell into, say, Zio.
Random encounter in the scaffolded section of Naraku, around where the Sky Terminal is. Maybe on the causeway down as well, I forget.
Alignment yes, story no. It's one point to Law if you take the other option, five to Chaos for what you did.
Just reached the
Reverse Hills
Oh okay. I just wrapped around and entered Shinkjuku. I was confused because my map was showing that place (I was at the Shrine right above it), but I wasn't actually there. So I walked around and made my way there.
I was just confused, because all the domain's along the way were insanely high levels.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
Basic thoughts seem to be:
Go all out in either physical or magic; don't try to distribute evenly
Ignore strength if going for physical and focus on Dex
Luck is useful
CornBurrito
Member
How long do they take to transform? I am level 13 or 12 right now I think. I don't want to overlevel.