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Persona Q : new details from Famitsu, party members can use alternate Personas
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Astral/H3X
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Honestly, I think I'll enjoy this more than actual Persona. Going off of 4, it has WAY too much "non RPG" for me, and I don't like the randomly generated dungeons. I liked Etrian Odyssey though, so as long as the dungeons are designed and non-random, I should enjoy at least this spin-spin-off.
falconxcrunner09
Member
Has this been confirmed for release outside of Japan?
buddha0991
Member
This game is almost like the second coming of Persona 1/2 (more so 1) from a gameplay standpoint
5 man parties
Everyone can go into the velvet room
First person dungeons
Everyone can switch Personas, not just the MC
Formation management (not as in depth as 1 though)
There may be more but I'm blanking atm
5 man parties
Everyone can go into the velvet room
First person dungeons
Everyone can switch Personas, not just the MC
Formation management (not as in depth as 1 though)
There may be more but I'm blanking atm
Not yet, but it's obviously coming.
Alternate dimension shenanigans could be a small one, from a story perspective.
What is non rpg?
we.are.the.armada
Member
This is a great addition in that we won't have to worry about player weaknesses and so forth!
This game is going to be badass
This game is going to be badass
mrmickfran
Member
The thought of Kanji using Himiko or Yukiko using Take-Mikazuchi seems rather odd...
Magicpaint
Member
I see no reason to think the dungeons would be randomly generated. I think they'll be like EO's which would be awesome. I mean all the life simulation elements of mainline Persona (well, 3 & 4 anyway) aren't going to be here so they have to more resources to focus on the dungeon crawling aspect like EO.
That's...what I'm thinking. Still, the battle system is sounding more Persona than I expected. I really would have preferred this spin-off to take a break from the "attack-attack weakness" hook but I do like the sound of that boost mechanic. Was wondering what kind of form the burst gauge meter from EOIV would take here but we're still a little hazy on the specifics.
I am ready.
I really Miss everyone being able to enter the velvet room and use whichever persona.
kunonabi
Member
That's probably why I'm more excited for this anything else Persona related. I despise the singular persona approach for party members.
If only they acknowledged the characters of P1 and P2
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
Mechanics sound promising to me, if the level design is more like Etrian Odyssey than Persona, I'm pretty much already sold.
Hope it returns in Persona 5. Obviously they'll need to make the battles harder to reflect that. Tactics would be massively important due to this, the thought of it reminds me of the paradigms in FFXIII.
I'd say high.
Immaculate
Banned
whoa whoa whoa we don't know this for sure yet
oh god social links still be present
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
Great news, EO is not fun without at least some customization.
The only reason the whole "Fool is the only one that can switch persona" thing exists anyway isn't because of story reasons, but gameplay ones. The "1 More!" system is easy enough to exploit with one character being able to swap weaknesses and stuff on the fly, imagine if everyone could? Any game that has a massive bonus for hitting a weakness or penalty for being hit by a weakness logistically has to lock stuff like that down.
I mean, I CAN imagine them altering this in future Persona games with a similar battle system, but it would require a lot of thought. Maybe keep the affinity idea from the earlier persona games(where characters are better with specific arcana) since most strengths/weaknesses are based on arcana anyway(Fortune excelling at Wind for example).
For PQ, I think Personas are just going to be tied to the game's class systems, since the name "sub-persona" is similar enough to a "sub-class" of EO fame.
I mean, I CAN imagine them altering this in future Persona games with a similar battle system, but it would require a lot of thought. Maybe keep the affinity idea from the earlier persona games(where characters are better with specific arcana) since most strengths/weaknesses are based on arcana anyway(Fortune excelling at Wind for example).
For PQ, I think Personas are just going to be tied to the game's class systems, since the name "sub-persona" is similar enough to a "sub-class" of EO fame.
I tried EO3 as my first, but couldn't really get into it.
I tried EO4 and can't put the damn thing down. There's still a demo out on the e-shop for it, and the data from it carries over to the main game if you decide you like it, so why not give it a shot?
And it's not much off-topic. The only reason why I seriously tried EO4 is the existence of this game, which is probably the main mission to begin with.
Magicpaint
Member
I could be wrong because, yeah we don't know much about the structure. Still I don't know how the premise would allow for proper social links. Maybe a stripped down version?
Yep! As someone said, why not try out the demo and see if it's to your liking? Though if you're in the EU then beware that the demo only has 3 tries, which is just ludicrous for the type of game EO is. Not sure what NISA was thinking there.
SatelliteOfLove
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As long as it ain't like Xenosaga 1 *shudder*
I like the single person approach, gives the MC a special ability and it also makes you form parties based on strengths and minimizing weaknesses during boss fights. It forces you to use the entire party. If every character can switch personas, what differences is there going to be between the party members? Too homogeneous!
Nice, thanksI tried EO3 as my first, but couldn't really get into it.
I tried EO4 and can't put the damn thing down. There's still a demo out on the e-shop for it, and the data from it carries over to the main game if you decide you like it, so why not give it a shot?
And it's not much off-topic. The only reason why I seriously tried EO4 is the existence of this game, which is probably the main mission to begin with.
chrominance
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At first I was all, there's no way this is canon, right? Because how on earth do you reconcile that with the rest of the franchise? But then someone else reminded me:
Oh yeah. Still, though, in the canon of P3/P4 specifically, hard to explain, isn't it?
P2:IS (and probably EP, haven't played it yet) handled this fine by having different characters have different tarot group (or whatever they're called) affinities. So you COULD equip a character with any persona, but only certain ones made sense.
Oh yeah. Still, though, in the canon of P3/P4 specifically, hard to explain, isn't it?
in b4 "THIS is your complaint about canon?"
P2:IS (and probably EP, haven't played it yet) handled this fine by having different characters have different tarot group (or whatever they're called) affinities. So you COULD equip a character with any persona, but only certain ones made sense.
Velcro Fly
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A simple solution would be to have the MC have good/great affinity with any arcana but have your party members vary wildly like they do in Persona 1 and 2. That way you don't run into situations where you fuse something really good but your entire party has shit affinity towards that arcana and then whoops you have to go out and get more materials to fuse with.
This game takes place during the events of Persona 3 and Persona 4... so I don't think thinking about canon is worth it much with this particular game.
We know it's a story involving time travel in some respects since the P3 crew gets taken from their time during their September, so maybe the meddling of that(and everyone being in the Velvet Room in the first place, the place in the series you could only get new personas to begin with in early games) could alter things somewhat.
The real question is what's the note this ends on. Obviously everyone will forget, well, maybe...
If it has enough of EO's gameplay, and it definitely has enough of the Persona character charm(which is probably why they're showing character trailers to begin with, Junpei's was brilliant), so I'm not worried.
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Deleted member 13876
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Seems they're pushing out details for this one fairly liberally. Hope Persona 5 starts getting some marketing soon. We still know next to nothing about it.
Don't become a core SMT fan. You might actually understand how meaningful the news in this topic is.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
yes, 4 is perfect for newcomers.