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Persona 5 |OT| Lupin The Fifth. Label spoilers properly! (see post #4621)

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Kalentan

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God, the haters are being ridiculous.

Play in Japanese for authenticity if you want, but this dub freaking rocks. I'm only four hours in or so but the main cast so far is stellar. (Especially Ryuji, that actor is fantastic.)

Yeah, Ryujji's VA is fantastic in the dub.
 
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Has Persona gone too far? I've bought the game twice cause i had the opportunity to snag it early, but I decided to keep my TYH edition too.

I didn't expect to spend this much on Persona 5

(also bought a PS4)
 

FluxWaveZ

Member
God, the haters are being ridiculous.

Play in Japanese for authenticity if you want, but this dub freaking rocks. I'm only four hours in or so but the main cast so far is stellar. (Especially Ryuji, that actor is fantastic.)

The dub is fantastic, and so is most of the localization. Can't say the font bothers me any, either.

It's just that, prior to release, the English audience had been waiting for the game for several years, and had to handle several delays while knowing that Japanese players had gotten the game for months. Easy to laser focus on certain elements that might seem off from limited amounts of media released in those circumstances, especially when there's another version of the game to compare it to.
 

Cyanity

Banned
Yo, just dropping in to warn people in here that there's a bot on twitter posting Persona spoilers. Its username is a spoiler, as well as its profile description and tweets, so if you want to block it, just be careful. The account is @Sargon_of_ABDL
 

BashNasty

Member
About an hour and a half in, first Persona game. So far I'm pretty bored, but I understand that these games take a bit to get going, so I'm looking forward to pressing on.
 
About an hour and a half in, first Persona game. So far I'm pretty bored, but I understand that these games take a bit to get going, so I'm looking forward to pressing on.

Bummer, because it's gonna be slow for at least another 6-8 hours maybe. Hope you do find some enjoyment out of it. Wish someone warned you about the really slow start, if that really ruffles your feathers. It does open more, but yeah, it's gonna take a while.
 

artsi

Member
So long as you don't look at any signs...

Playing since JP release and I don't get it how that happens.
One of the most polished games ever and they leave textures worse than PS2 in some key locations? What?

Not even hyperbole, Persona 4 on PCSX2 has sharper textures than those certain garbage ones you see around the city.
 

MSMrRound

Member
Made it to the
treasure
for the first dungeon using only 1 single trip in-game. Feels good when you see all those checkpoints piling up on top of one another after you leave the dungeon.

Came dangerously close to running out of SP...and the final part of the dungeon was super tense with all those
red-highlighted enemies that can potentially one shot my entire party

Sneaking around for the win! (
 

Shouta

Member
I'm watching a friend's stream because I don't have my PS4 right now but all the voices they have so far are hands down equal to the JP version.
 

mike6467

Member
Bummer, because it's gonna be slow for at least another 6-8 hours maybe. Hope you do find some enjoyment out of it. Wish someone warned you about the really slow start, if that really ruffles your feathers. It does open more, but yeah, it's gonna take a while.

I'm almost 4 hours in now, and this really bums me out. I'm loving it so far, but it seems like the hand holding should be phasing itself out by now. The fact that I'm looking at another 3-6 hours kind of blows my mind. FF XIII did this to a degree and it drove me nuts, I know the payoff will be there, and it's still Persona so I'm absolutely loving the style and story, just wanting all the mechanics already.
 

haolee

Neo Member
Holy crap, they butchered
Futaba
's English VA so bad. It totally changes the character into just another generic
teenage girl
. This almost single-handedly ruined what's been a really good dub so far. Ugh.
 

Kalentan

Member
Playing since JP release and I don't get it how that happens.
One of the most polished games ever and they leave textures worse than PS2 in some key locations? What?

Yeah. It's kind of bad cause you need to look at the signs to find the correct train station at the start and so it only draws further attention to itself.
 
I've just started, but this game already feels so much bigger than P3. It's so strange to see a Persona game that's not blocky models, although yeah some of the textures do look pretty low-res. Everything just oozes style though. So far I'm kinda meh on the English VA. It's serviceable, but I might switch to the JP audio. Just feels weird to have everyone speaking English in Tokyo.

Only real negative thing so far (other than this overscan issue) is coming off of Yakuza 0 the Persona overhead map is kinda bad. Why is everything so small!
 

ryechu

Member
The dub is fantastic thus far. I saw the few first persona awakening in JP with english subs, and the scenes are doing more for me the second time around in english. I'd recommend everyone to stick with english if its their native language at least until the end of the first dungeon before making a final decision.
 

mike6467

Member
Has Persona gone too far? I've bought the game twice cause i had the opportunity to snag it early, but I decided to keep my TYH edition too.

I didn't expect to spend this much on Persona 5

(also bought a PS4)

I'm looking to do this as well. Amazon had some serious issues with my TYH edition, so around 6PM today I called my local non-chain gaming store, they were selling it already (with the caveat that they said you couldn't get online until 10PM because Sony would brick your system...wat?) So I ran over there and got a steelbook edition. I told myself I would sell it when my TYH edition finally gets here, but it's a pretty sweet package as it is...

Funny thing is I double dipped on Tokyo Mirage Sessions as well. I only got one copy of Catherine though. Seeing this art style makes me want to go back through that game on very easy just for the story/ambiance, I absolutely loved that game, all while really disliking the main gameplay mechanic (the puzzles).

Edit:
Yeah, Ryujji's VA is fantastic in the dub.

Yeah, I lost it when (like three hours in) he's
talking to Morgana, gasps and says "does that mean you've got a phone!?!"
It was great delivery, the game is really clicking with me story wise, can't wait for it to open up.
 

Shahadan

Member
I keep listening to Rivers in the Desert on youtube and have to remember to never scroll down even by accident. #DangerousLife

At least the only comment I've seen was kind enough to put a spoiler warning.
 

Nemesis_

Member
Are the confidants all unmissable? I've not found many (although I haven't cleared the first dungeon) but I would hate to leave something behjnd.
 

Drkirby

Corporate Apologist
A bit worried about my LE preorder from Amazon still hasn't shipped. I'm looking forward to playing it tomorrow.
 

Caim

Member
So apparently there is this free DLC that lets you play some kind of super hard mode? Is it not recommended for a first run through, or is it more designed for NG+?

Merciless? Yeah, but it's still doable on a first run with some grinding.

I started on it with this version and it's been pretty brutal so far.

No regrets.
 

Rocwell

Member
Named my character Yata Garasu.

I'm like 15 minutes in and it's already blowing my mind how fucking well designed everything in this game is.

I love that you can replay voice samples from the text log.

The sound design is just orgasmic even simple sounds like menu clicks are so satisfying to listen to. And of course the soundtrack itself is fucking amazing.

I kind of can't believe that I'm 95% sure this going to be my GotY when so many fantastic games have come out already this year. I'm not even a half hour into it and it might even be GOAT status.

Mad Respect to everyone who worked on this game. You've stolen my heart.
 

MTC100

Banned
I'd say 30 hours ish
in the 3rd dungeon.
Should've bought the sp regen item but was strapped for cash :(

I always stack SP items as you can heal yourself up with spells anyway plus you can play forever this way(only downside is their price or availability most of the time), unless there is some kind of Fatique mechanic at work, is there in P5?

The sound design is just orgasmic even simple sounds like menu clicks are so satisfying to listen to. And of course the soundtrack itself is fucking amazing.

They really should create a custom Android OS with those sounds and slick design, I bet it would sell like crazy, hope sony is listening, might get them out of the dumpster in the smartphone department.
 
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