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Persona 5 Social-Link/Confidant discussion |OT| Laughing Banana is Makoto's husbando

Ann is best as fuck. Sorry Morgana, I snatched her up the moment the game gave me the opportunity and I don't even feel bad about it.

Futaba is pretty adorable too, reminds me of Kirie from UQ Holder. She'll be a great psuedo-sister for my MC who already kinda has Soujiro as a dad.
 

PixelatedBookake

Junior Member
Futaba's great but she's too "young-ish" for me. I committed to Makoto today and completed her social link. Ann is fun, but she's better as a friend of the protagonist. Maybe her and Ryuji?
 

Sayad

Member
I'm at the part where (Sadayo Kawakami)
confess that she was lying about her little sister being sick, the only reason I got that fer into her plot line was because I thought her little sister is the one Tae Takemi is trying to help?! Fuck, end of the line, you lying bitch!...


Was she really lying? :(
 

Thud

Member
I'm at the part where (Sadayo Kawakami)
confess that she was lying about her little sister being sick, the only reason I got that fer into her plot line was because I thought her little sister is the one Tae Takemi is trying to help?! Fuck, end of the line, you lying bitch!...


Was she really lying? :(

Pay more to find out.
 
I'm at the part where (Sadayo Kawakami)
confess that she was lying about her little sister being sick, the only reason I got that fer into her plot line was because I thought her little sister is the one Tae Takemi is trying to help?! Fuck, end of the line, you lying bitch!...


Was she really lying? :(

It gets even better IMO. Shes currently my favorite s-link (yes I'm still going to call it that XD)
 

cj_iwakura

Member
Tell me this isn't OTP.

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Like milk and honey.
 

Gestahl

Member
I'm at the part where (Sadayo Kawakami)
confess that she was lying about her little sister being sick, the only reason I got that fer into her plot line was because I thought her little sister is the one Tae Takemi is trying to help?! Fuck, end of the line, you lying bitch!...


Was she really lying? :(

How do you actually fall for that shit lol
 

LousyTactician

Neo Member
Daaaaaaaamn

I just got to the point where Makoto got her Persona. I'm pretty sure I'm going with her.


People I wanted to like: Mishima
People I ended hating: Mishima


I'm impressed at Atlus at making such a hateable character. I'm pretty sure that's like half the point but goddamn.

I'm only at rank 3 or so with his confidant, but I think he's fine so far. I feel like he might be the one who sells you out though (that's all speculation on my part, so no spoilers).
 

nOoblet16

Member
So is it possible to max out confidant with a potential romance option and not romance them?

I know you can romance them and then reject them later but I don't want to do that. I'd rather max out confidant and stay friends if possible.
 
So is it possible to max out confidant with a potential romance option and not romance them?

I know you can romance them and then reject them later but I don't want to do that. I'd rather max out confidant and stay friends if possible.
Yes
In fact you can't actually break up once you enter romance route
 
Why can't you break up?

Is it Morgana who stops you?

"No PC, you're too tired to go out shopping because you talked w/ your friends for two minutes about a mission, and, also, it's not cool to break up w/ your girlfriend and go w/ someone else. Now go to bed."

>:-(
 
I'm probably playing the game completely wrong, but the first goddamn frickin' dungeon feels harder than any Souls game I've ever played.

I've reached the tower parts, and any red enemy that spawns those horse knights utterly destroy me. I don't have any healing items to speak of, and the cover system is so finicky I also have a hard time getting past most enemies.

if I lower the difficulty to Easy, do I miss out on any trophies? Not finding too much enjoyment when I get ruined around every corner.

There's no difficulty trophy, so go ahead.
 
Yeah I went for Ann, seems like it'd be the most natural for the game. First girl you meet, had the whole cutscene where you first meet her, and she's in your same class. It's not some fetish like a doctor or a teacher either. And she's part of the main group vs a random person you go out of your way to interact with.

I guess my only complaint is that Atlus is so far behind on multiple instance writing. They absolutely can't wrap their heads around adding a line or two of dialogue, which btw would be fucking TEXT BASED, to acknowledge you are already involved with a girl when that type of conversation is being had.

Instead it's (beach spoilers)
'Oh boy these guys may be good with being thieves, but they can't attract women'. What the fuck Ann

and (hawaii spoilers)
'hey bros since we're all single let's go search for women' but my character isn't single. Jesus game, it wouldn't be hard to change the text to say something else

And I fail to realize why the game seems to give the excuse you have to keep the relationship secret? Nobody would care (well except Morgana on my end, but I don't care about that cat you had a fucking crush get over it).

The more I see it the more I just think they're outright lazy writers at points.
 

Qurupeke

Member
After the 4th Palace spoilers
scene on Futaba's house
how can someone not pick Makoto?

Also, I think I must have spent around 100K for Becky. No wonder I'm always underprepared for dungeons. lol
 
Because it's more like a fun thing you can do and less of a mechanic that can significantly alter the story.

But it's not a mechanic that fucking changes the algorithm and it outright ruins any immersion and reminds you it's a game when the specific topic is being discussed. I'm not saying they need to add a mention of it every scene, but if you're going to have scenes where the friends are discussing this topic you should at least put some effort and write a few instances where the text speech or the dialogue says something else instead of generic reply. If it was an issue of having to do many different dialogue scenes with voice acting then I'd give them a pass, but so much of the game is just reading the text box with grunts/small phrases from the character they could have put a bit more effort.
 
The "secret" escuse for relationship is just ..an escuse.

It's convenient for the planner and that's it.

They can do whatever event in whatever order because of them ( the main cast ) not knowing.

The same way you can do the game without any relationship , the same reason you can do them all in 1 run if you choose.

Convenience .. Not lazyness, imo.

P5 has alreaady quite a bit of moving parts , so i'm not schoked that they went for the easy route
 

Totakeke

Member
Considering you have so many relationship options and that you can start them almost anytime in the game, I'm sure you're underestimating the amount of branching text that needs to be included if they start acknowledging it. Plus in settings where teenagers are the focus, being in a relationship is a big deal. It would be weirder if people knew and just brushed it off like it's nothing.
 

Tohsaka

Member
I assume it's okay to stop carrying a persona of the matching arcana for someone once you hit max rank with them? There are some I don't really use in battle but I've just been carrying with me for the bonus relationship points when spending time with them.
 

Totakeke

Member
I assume it's okay to stop carrying a persona of the matching arcana for someone once you hit max rank with them? There are some I don't really use in battle but I've just been carrying with me for the bonus relationship points when spending time with them.

Yes. Technically you can already stop carrying the matching persona at rank 9 if the next event is a rank up.
 

Envelope

sealed with a kiss
Still sad school journalist girl isn't a social link

Also just beat second dungeon how long until best girl makoto joins?
 
So correct me if I'm wrong, if you're a cheating sack then on vday
you pick a girl, the others beat the crap out of you for being a two timer, then the game proceeds like it never happened and the finale every girl has romantic dialogue
 
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