Ultimadrago
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One of the best boss tracks in Persona without a doubt.
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One of the best boss tracks in Persona without a doubt.
well everything about this is great
Kain-Nosgoth
Member
okay, this is pretty simple and dumb, but i can't stop laughing at this video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VLNOXkc7nk
Poor Persona 1, but so true
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VLNOXkc7nk
Poor Persona 1, but so true
but there's so much more game to go.
Thank you for the replies, they're much appreciated. I'm not really concerned with "doing everything", this is my first Persona game so I went in expecting to miss some stuff, but what I am worried about is missing too much & ending up underleveled by the end.
I'm still VERY early in the game, so hopefully with time the social/"real world" part of Persona will become second nature.
ASilentProtagonist
Member
Very curious to see the sales numbers for this one. Some of the OST tracks have hit 1 million views.
Really crazy to see this surge in popularity for this series.
Really crazy to see this surge in popularity for this series.
Blackquill
Member
Ok seems like I'm the only one to love Palace 1 that much
But Yusuke is bae right ?
But Yusuke is bae right ?
Palace 4 looks really cool. Too bad as usual before I can explore it I get thrown out for story reasons. I would say that the game's pacing isn't terrible but rather the pre-Palace stuff every single time is just draining in a way that makes you feel powerless. The game is great when you're either dungeon crawling or feeling the pressure of having too many social options every day and picking your poison. But once it hits the "story point" every month or two, usually a couple of weeks before the new Palace appears, you get sucked into this vortex where on one hand you don't know what's going to happen next, on the other hand you are fed bite-sized plot scenes every day while not being able to actually do any game stuff. You lose day after day after day while the story inches towards a new dungeon and the feeling really sucks.
Halfway through the 6th palace.
One of the things bugging me is that it all seems so obvious how this is going to play out right now. I hope there are some big twists coming, because right now it seems like: (guesses, but huge spoilers up to palace 6)
I'd love to be wrong, but that's how it looks from here, whereas in Persona 4 I was thrown for a loop multiple times. I found the murder mystery aspect of P4 far more engaging. In P5 the plot is struggling to motivate me right now. The only thing that I really, really want to find out is
One of the things bugging me is that it all seems so obvious how this is going to play out right now. I hope there are some big twists coming, because right now it seems like: (guesses, but huge spoilers up to palace 6)
Goro is the only possible culprit, he has blackmailed his way into the group to take care of Sae and the Thieves in the metaverse at the same time, and he's working on Shido's orders. Goro gets the praise for defeating the thieves, Shido fulfils his election promise and becomes PM. That's their plan. So the final palace will be either Goro or Shido. And knowing Persona / SMT, some devious god/demon will be the one manipulating Shido behind the scenes for one final battle post-palace 7.
I'd love to be wrong, but that's how it looks from here, whereas in Persona 4 I was thrown for a loop multiple times. I found the murder mystery aspect of P4 far more engaging. In P5 the plot is struggling to motivate me right now. The only thing that I really, really want to find out is
Who/what is Morgana and what awaits at the bottom of Mementos.
ShadowSoldier89
Member
tehres a point in the game where they dont even try to make an excuse to why they are throwing you out instead of letting you get moving...At least early on they made an excuse. Fortunately by then I had already accepted that their design strategy meant that the discovery day for the palace would never let you actually progress it that day.
It didn't bother me much. Cuz by the time each dungeon ended, I've had more than enough of them.
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
Keep playing. Just...keep playing.
Yes.
For the record I thought palace 1 was wonderful, it's just that 4 and 6 are 10/10.
That's what I want to hear! Please let me be wrong!
You are (vague, non-specific response to concerns)
half-right, and half-wrong in some major ways that change the importance or significance of the things you are right about.
Sumio Mondo
Member
As long as it isn't fighting multiple copies of
Level 99 Metatron
That dungeon destroyed me.
But that doesn't change the structure though? I'm not saying I don't have time to do anything I want, I'm just commenting on how it makes me feel when I hit the point where the story wants to "move forward" again. You can play for a 1-2 hour session a day for 3 days or so, and have basically really limited options for social events, and zero battles or dungeon crawling at all. That's what makes it feel like the progression is sloooooooow.
Oh man you are at that point in the game.Really?
Oh neat this totally explains whythere were shadows in the intro bit, and also why we were in our phantom costume too
Oh, yea, they like to tease and then take it away. I can feel the unpleasantness of the pacing in NG+ even more.
You've forced me to consider another possibility, then...
Maybe (PALACE 6 SPOILERS)
Goro is working on his own, and just really hates injustice and bad guys, therefore killing them? And he sees both Sae and the Thieves as corrupt or unjust, therefore as targets. Maybe Shido is Goro's ultimate target?
That doesn't make sense, though, as it's clear that the SIU director (under orders from Shido) has control over the murderer. I have to believe that the culprit (surely Goro - he knew who the Thieves were LONG before palace 5) is working with him.
That doesn't make sense, though, as it's clear that the SIU director (under orders from Shido) has control over the murderer. I have to believe that the culprit (surely Goro - he knew who the Thieves were LONG before palace 5) is working with him.
Oh well, these posts have been 110% worthwhile because all of a sudden I'm enthused to find out what happens again. Thanks guys.
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
Blackquill
Member
Fusing one of your persona with someone's else persona. You can do that only once per week and you don't gain social link exp bonus with this method.
Ultimadrago
Member
Let's not do that today, or tomorrow, or the day after or the day after that.
I'll just say keep playing.
I feel like you hit the nail in regards to dungeons. It's not like in Persona 4 where clearing a dungeon in one sitting was super trivial if you have the right set up. Progressing through dungeons is mentally taxing, even if you have infinite SP, because you aren't just walking up stairs. Puzzles, exploration, story-related scenes, finding treasure... there's a lot to do this time around, and it's easy to get burnt out if you do it all in one gay. This is the reason why I haven't cleared a single dungeon in a single day. I don't mind wasting 3 days if it means going at a good pace.
BRSxIgnition
Member
So... following up on my Confidant Max posts from last night, I've played a bit with that game plan and I'm currently at 11/18 - the evening after
.
For the confidants I'm looking to complete by the end of the game, the ranks are as follows:
As usual, please use as few details/spoilers as possible in your answers - thanks in advance.
sending the calling card to Sae Niijima
For the confidants I'm looking to complete by the end of the game, the ranks are as follows:
- Makoto - Rank 8
- Haru - Rank 8
- Yusuke - Rank 8
- Ann - Rank 7
- Ryuji - Rank 7
- Futaba - Rank 8
- Twins - Rank 2 (Can be completed all at once if needed, correct?)
- Sojiro - Rank MAX
- Takemi - Rank 8
- Hifumi - Rank 8
- Kawakami - Rank MAX
- Mishima - Rank MAX
- Chihaya - Rank 6
As usual, please use as few details/spoilers as possible in your answers - thanks in advance.
I won't say you lose days, those were days you were never going to get full control of anyways. If the game gave you full control of time like it does during palace phase you would wrap everything up so quickly that you wouldn't have anything left to do other than doing palaces for half of the game.
Out of palace phase you usually get one time slot per day on days you get control, and on other days it can skip days for story reasons. What it should have done is that for those days when it skips days for story reasons it should skip to them directly instead of letting you walk around in your room and not be able to do anything but save and sleep.
Yup.
Thanks! sounds pretty neat but not really necessary.
franklyshankly
Member
So against my better judgment I bought P5 today (I played P4G a bit but didn't finish). The idea of actually finishing a 100+ hour game seems crazy to me these days, but I am in the mood for a good turn based JRPG so here I am.
That said, would you guys recommend I look at a guide for this? Or should I just play casually and see how it goes. I'm not really interested in trying to do every possible thing, but I don't want to miss anything important.
That said, would you guys recommend I look at a guide for this? Or should I just play casually and see how it goes. I'm not really interested in trying to do every possible thing, but I don't want to miss anything important.
Oh... interesting theory.
I wouldn't follow a guide.
I've been saying this over and over again. The dungeons are only dragging out if you do it in one sitting. The game is absolutely not designed with that plays type as the primary playstyle in mind.
And no you are not suppose to micromanage every single day to save time to do everything because you can't do everything in first run in the first place !! Making your completionist run redundant and in turn affecting your experience of the game. Play easy and relaxed the first time, and you'll have more than enough time to do a completionist run in NG+ (I am in October in NG+ and close to having read all books, and maxing out all confidants and halfway through all games and I didn't even have to try)
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
Just play how you would play.
Using a guide for first playthroughs always seems dumb to me. Theres so many activities and people to spend time with that you should be spending time how you want.
If you want to min/max stuff, do it on the second playthrough.
No guide, just take general advices from this thread regarding confidants and gameplay stuff. Don't try to do everything or even think about it. Just be relaxed and take it easy.
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
I feel like if you have your stats right, and make use of Chihaya's skills, you can probably make it. And Yes, you can do all the twin stuff at once, as long as you have enough money.
Yes.
And I'm just gonna wait for a while, hang around here to see your posts.
It's like the people start believing in the Phantom Thieves. It also might help a lot that MC is having them on the new and notable tab on their main page for quite a while now, the score is very close to Zelda too.
franklyshankly
Member
A good few hours
TheGamingBox
Banned
It's like the people start believing in the Phantom Thieves. It also might help a lot that MC is having them on the new and notable tab on their main page for quite a while now, the score is very close to Zelda too.
so its now back to 94 after dropping to 93 for no reason
I'd say you have about the average length of an average AAA-Single Player game left
It's the best feeling you can get for beating the game ^^
I guess it's somewhere between 93,50 and 94,00 at the moment, it's possible it will drop back to 93 again, time will tell.