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Persona Community Thread |OT8| Coming Winter 2014
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Although it's not like they are necessarily in the right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorro#Copyright_and_trademark_disputes
Heck, during the first Playstation Experience Adam Boyes already name dropped Persona 5 along with the now distant "2015".
Sure hope we will get something from this year's edition of the PSX, other than the obvious "Gio Corsi saves Yakuza" segment, of course.
StarSketch
Banned
Tales generally doesn't hire 1 artist to do multiple vocal songs in a game like Persona does.
The Tales game OPs are more like theme songs in anime, where it's an otherwise unrelated artist doing the OP/ED and that's it. The fact that Tales also doesn't stick to one record company for the artists they pick probably doesn't help.
Time to mail your entire portfolio to Atlus for him to see?
*Cracks knuckles*
I wouldn't be surprised if he saw at least your long-haired Aigis picture that you modified to look like a P5 teaser for TGS 2014.
I've been combing that recent E3 video for some details, and there's just so many elements to the UI that add up to a coherent experience.
Hopping into battle, for instance, the individual character health bars at the bottom actually jump and hop into their larger, more prominently displayed battle health bars, as if to say that the character portraits themselves are leaping from the shadows and into the spotlight of battle. It's an entirely seamless transition.
It's insane how much detail there is.
Also, in the part where the MC is walking in the underground to the flower shop, I noticed there's black paw prints along his path. I don't see this anywhere else in the game, but it made me wonder if that's just a world detail, or if Morgana can show you the way to something if you don't remember where it is.
Hopping into battle, for instance, the individual character health bars at the bottom actually jump and hop into their larger, more prominently displayed battle health bars, as if to say that the character portraits themselves are leaping from the shadows and into the spotlight of battle. It's an entirely seamless transition.
It's insane how much detail there is.
Also, in the part where the MC is walking in the underground to the flower shop, I noticed there's black paw prints along his path. I don't see this anywhere else in the game, but it made me wonder if that's just a world detail, or if Morgana can show you the way to something if you don't remember where it is.
Still amazed for the part where you are in the classroom , and a "mission start" gets writed in the classroom board and gets erased like was really written there.
Plus when you get a one more attack or get a critical hit , the screen rips out like a paper or something .... just great.
Little details people would dont see or dont give a second look, but makes the game stylish as hell.
Yeah, I saw that and really loved it.
Reanimatoin
Member
Maybe! I dunno how much it spread around tbh.
Yeah, he's really into SNK fighters as I recall.
Considering Anne's thief outfit, I was just ahead of the curve, really.
Andrefpvs
Member
I'd argue that using a guide would actually ruin the game for you. It's impossible to see everything on a first playthrough anyway. Spend your days with the people you like, doing whatever you feel like doing. The game rarely punishes you for your personal choices.
All you need to know is:
- The game has multiple endings, and later in the game you should make a backup save when the game warns you to do so. Reloading this save (never overwrite it!) will allow you to retry in case you get a bad ending. If you need help at this point, just come ask us.
- There's a character named Marie that you should reach Social Link Rank 10 with before December.
Just keep these two things in mind, and enjoy the game however you want! It's your stay in Inaba, don't let anyone tell you how to spend it
All you need to know is:
- The game has multiple endings, and later in the game you should make a backup save when the game warns you to do so. Reloading this save (never overwrite it!) will allow you to retry in case you get a bad ending. If you need help at this point, just come ask us.
- There's a character named Marie that you should reach Social Link Rank 10 with before December.
Just keep these two things in mind, and enjoy the game however you want! It's your stay in Inaba, don't let anyone tell you how to spend it
Pretty much what he said. As long as you don't overwrite your save with a Game Clear file, you'll be fine. Enjoy it!
Reanimatoin
Member
Touché
I dunno what I'd contribute, but if you ever need someone to look it over before you post it, I'd be glad to. Good luck with it!
StarSketch
Banned
debating importing, since I'm likely to double dip once I get a PS4, but the JP PS3 version is twice as much as the NA one
Ludger Kresnik
Member
I'm importing, but mostly for the LE extras and the cred. There's no way I'm playing a whole RPG in Japanese, but I may at least test it out of curiosity.
A Dead Diehard
Member
No import for me. Ignoring the fact that my written Japanese is nonexistent, the NA release date has it release during my last semester of college. (as far as I know)
That's far too thematic an opportunity to just throw away.
That's far too thematic an opportunity to just throw away.
With 5 months of dodging bullets and expectation, importing seems very tempting, I might do it just to scratch an itch, but I wouldn't be able to play it properly.
On the other hand there are some good games coming out and I will be working and working on my graduation paper, so the wait might not be long.
On the other hand there are some good games coming out and I will be working and working on my graduation paper, so the wait might not be long.
Cannon_Fodder
Member
No import for me. I like the localizations of these games as much as anything else, so the wait will be worth it.
A Dead Diehard
Member
They're like shipwrecked men turning to seawater, from uncontrollable thirst.
The Language Barrier would kill it for me; I don't like wading through menus if they're in a language I don't understand.
cj_iwakura
Member
Imagine how baffled I was during Catherine's final plot twist.
Catherine's plot is baffling even if you understand it perfectly tho
StarSketch
Banned
By the time September rolls around, I should be able to at least read Katakana, so persona names and some attacks should be doable for me....everything else is going to be incomprehensible.
I can think of a few reasons to play the Japanese version
For starters, the gameplay looks really, really fun
Might buy the Japanese version and play around for a bit. Not sure though.
EDIT: I really love how every time you end your turn in P5, there's a page flip effect
EDIT 2: Anne says "HEY, HOLD UP!" Omg I need this game yesterday
For starters, the gameplay looks really, really fun
Might buy the Japanese version and play around for a bit. Not sure though.
EDIT: I really love how every time you end your turn in P5, there's a page flip effect
EDIT 2: Anne says "HEY, HOLD UP!" Omg I need this game yesterday
And when you get a 1 More it rips the page!
sackboy2197
Member
I think I'll end up importing the PS3 version and then getting the PS4 version somewhere down the line (I don't even own a PS4 as of yet).
My Japanese reading is decent-ish (at least as far as understanding the gist of the sentence, but unfortunately I haven't studied nor practised much recently), but my actual hope is that this will motivate me enough to double down on my studying. We'll see if it will work.
My Japanese reading is decent-ish (at least as far as understanding the gist of the sentence, but unfortunately I haven't studied nor practised much recently), but my actual hope is that this will motivate me enough to double down on my studying. We'll see if it will work.
I just noticed that when you get a "1 more", the page is ripped out instead of flipping over like with a normal turn.
Dragon1893
Member
P5 certainly makes me wish I knew Japanese.
It could be worse though, if I hadn't learned English I wouldn't be able to play it at all lol (along with a ton of other games).
It could be worse though, if I hadn't learned English I wouldn't be able to play it at all lol (along with a ton of other games).
???
You can learn hiragana and katakana in under a week, easy.
I just realized I have four days off from teaching when Persona comes out this September. Lucky me
i was always intimidated because in beginning high school they take basically a semester to do hirigana/katakana because yo you're doing like 10 other subjects and you're an easily distracted high schooler. japanese 101 in uni though is like "here's hirigana and katakana, learn in a week or you're gonna fail everything else in the course. bye!"
cj_iwakura
Member
SMT spells are fairly easy to learn and read. I used to have some resources I made just for getting through Soul Hackers, like the -kaja spells and the elementals.
Knowing hiragana and katakana was actually a requirement to enter the most basic Japanese course in my uni.
Gonna say it again I LOVE how so much of Persona 5 is inspired by manga. It's influence is fucking everwhere. From the splash page calendar, all out attack inserts, to the papery spell effects, to the party turn animations, to the ripped out of the page profile portraits, down to the very UI and world overlays.
But I am wondering. Are they gonna translate the sound effect pop ups for the western release? I've seen a lot of people who say they're not really into anime stuff but are still interested in P5. I doubt they'll know katakana or hiragana and will wonder what stuff like ニャ~、ガタン、オヤ、ガヤ, ヤ~ popping up everywhere means. Japanese onomatopoeia seems to be a very big part of the games visual idenity.
But I am wondering. Are they gonna translate the sound effect pop ups for the western release? I've seen a lot of people who say they're not really into anime stuff but are still interested in P5. I doubt they'll know katakana or hiragana and will wonder what stuff like ニャ~、ガタン、オヤ、ガヤ, ヤ~ popping up everywhere means. Japanese onomatopoeia seems to be a very big part of the games visual idenity.
They usually have English equivalents to the sound effect pop ups, as well as translating things like signs
One good example a lot of people don't realize: The sign above Hagakure's entrance in Persona 3 is translated from the original Japanese.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
i think on balance they'd leave it be. american comic book sound effects would definitely have a very different implication/atmosphere imho. and why do extra work when you can get away with not doing it and preserving the original identity more faithfully?
i think on balance they'd leave it be. american comic book sound effects would definitely have a very different implication/atmosphere imho. and why do extra work when you can get away with not doing it and preserving the original identity more faithfully?