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A.J.

Banned
The P4D costumes look amazing.

The P4A set are the Shadow Operatives uniforms. It's curious because we've never actually seen how the outfits look like before, with the exception of Mitsuru's P4A design hinting at it.

I guess I was expecting a more minor and sportier alteration for the P5 cast's dancing costumes like what the P4 cast got. It looks like a thrift shop vomited on the P5 characters which I guess is fun for a dancing theme, but it feels a bit weird when you compare it to the minimalism is design change the P4 cast received.
 

Opa-Pa

Member
I guess I was expecting a more minor and sportier alteration for the P5 cast's dancing costumes like what the P4 cast got. It looks like a thrift shop vomited on the P5 characters which I guess is fun for a dancing theme, but it feels a bit weird when you compare it to the minimalism is design change the P4 cast received.

They look like characters from Kids Next Door lol.
 

OmegaDL50

Member
Beat the game at just over 100 hours.

I think the social links in Persona 4 were a bit stronger, although I think
Masayoshi Shido
made a somewhat interesting villain, although at times comes off a bit cartoonish. Although I suppose it's likely they would beat
Adachi in a straight up fight in terms of power. I think Adachi
was the more interesting character in Persona 4 though.

A shame they basically erased Akechi out of the story though, Out of all of the villains, he's the one that doesn't get to have a redemption or heart change and is instead killed off screen.

I will probably wait a few days before I start new game plus and complete the entire compendium and whatever other optional diversions I didn't get to do during my first run through the game.
 

Guess Who

Banned
Beat the game at just over 100 hours.

I think the social links in Persona 4 were a bit stronger, although I think
Masayoshi Shido
made for the villain.

A shame they basically erased Akechi out of the story though, Out of all of the villains, he's the one that doesn't get to have a redemption or heart change and is instead killed off screen.

(End of palace 7 spoilers)
Getting killed off-screen is his change of heart and redemption.
 

Thud

Member
Someone should have probably questioned why they were actually going after someone who cheats at video games; would have at least made for an interesting conversation. Or maybe a situation where the democratic process to go after targets was actually put in effect.

It's funny because later on you get a book with game cheats. So you're cheating while playing a game in a game where you changed the heart of a cheater.

I guess cheating in a popular game is the difference as it breaks a balance. It hurts the other players and the company.
 

Hybris

Member
Just secured Palace 7 treasure route.
That was unnecessarily long, but the awesome music made it enjoyable nonetheless.
 
finished the 7th palace. fun dungeon, great length and good boss. all i wanted. but they
overused the mice gimmick. should have cut the last stretch and turn the same area into a proper maze instead or something else.
 

Aki-at

Member
Beat the game at just over 100 hours.

I think the social links in Persona 4 were a bit stronger, although I think
Masayoshi Shido
made a somewhat interesting villain, although at times comes off a bit cartoonish. Although I suppose it's likely they would beat
Adachi in a straight up fight in terms of power. I think Adachi
was the more interesting character in Persona 4 though.

Yeah this was my biggest let down with this game. The baddies just all came up as straight cartoony megalomaniacs compared to
Adachi and I think it helps how his story is a lot more low key, no world ending affair, just a guy who is a scumbag using his powers for his own twisted enjoyment. Whilst Shindo doesn't really have a moment to shine or show off how bad he is. Though in general, I don't quite enjoy the grandiose gods and demons moment these games tend to have either :p

Also liked the s links better in P4 for the main characters, though I enjoyed the side characters in P5 more than those in P4.
 
Playing in NG+, I definitely have to agree that adding more "group hangout" events would be great, if only to make up for (post palace 4)
the beach and Hawaii. The beach should have been like beach volleyball or some shit, not the girls fucking off to do their own and then getting saved or something (?) buy the guys. Hawaii doesn't need to be explained really, but it's baffling everyone didn't get together to hang out on the last day. Like seriously what are Yusuke, Makoto, and Ann doing other than hanging out with the people they risk their life with constantly?

Unfortunately I fear that it'll pull from the "friends (guys/girls) are dicks to each other" well for laughs like P4 in the inevitable rerelease. I expect at least one expanded "the guys try really hard to pick up girls and fail" scene because those are just hilarious in the main game
/s
. Christ just thinking about some of the stuff from P4 makes me mad.
 

FluxWaveZ

Member
Hashino on the 2016 election:
Question 3: What were the topics that were the most interesting to you in 2016, and why?

Mr. Trump being elected. I have been paying attention to populism for a long time and dealing with “Persona 5,” so Mr Trump’s election made me think “As I expected.” It was an impressive event that represents the turning point of the world.
 

Strimei

Member
You know, as I get further (slowly) into the game, the thing that's sticking with me the most is probably how absolutely amazing everyone's awakening is.

I mean, I'm still a fan of the Evokers from 3 in terms of presentation (of summoning, I mean), but as I recall you don't even see anyone awaken besides yourself (and to be fair, P3 spoilers,
having Thanatos come splitting out of Orpheus' head is pretty damn cool
).

And I do like 4's whole "I am the shadow, the true self", but this, this, this is terrific.
 

Aki-at

Member
people saying (big bad spoilers)
--Shido--
is cartoonishly evil, like, folks, have you seen the world we live in today

Sure but compared to the game I just came off (Yakuza 0) he/she is pretty much just that though. We aren't shown he/she showing off their ingenuity or for the most part the philosophy behind the decisions, how they arranged themselves to be on top of the food chain. Like I can't call her/him a very memoriable baddie, I've already forgotten their scenes... Other then wanting to take
over Japan.

I'll admit compared to Persona 4, Persona 5's endgame
villain does a lot more than whatever we got in P4 and feels like a threat, but I prefer human drama to supernatural elements taking the key story beats.
 
So why do people hate Dungeon 5 so much? I though it was quite good. Really awesome evironment, better variety than most of the early dungeons and didn't seem particularly long either. First one that I did in a single day. Combat was a nice balance where it was enough to keep my on toes but never frustrating. If I were to rank the dungeons to this point it would be 2>5=4>3>1
 
So why do people hate Dungeon 5 so much? I though it was quite good. Really awesome evironment, better variety than most of the early dungeons and didn't seem particularly long either. First one that I did in a single day. Combat was a nice balance where it was enough to keep my on toes but never frustrating. If I were to rank the dungeons to this point it would be 2>5=4>3>1

Dungeon 5 wasn't bad. The music wasn't great, but yeah, the environment was pretty neat. I think most people hate it because of the first part, which is a slog, especially if you're a nerd like me and choose to fight everything.

Dungeon 7 is the drizzling shits.
 

Opa-Pa

Member
I refuse to buy a PS4 theme that doesn't play Life Will Change.

I felt the same way but the protagonist's (and most of them really) is one of the nicest looking console themes I've ever seen, and Beneath The Mask instrumental is definitely a nice choice still.

They're pretty nice deals too, you get an awesome theme and three avatars.
 
Dungeon 5 wasn't bad. The music wasn't great, but yeah, the environment was pretty neat. I think most people hate it because of the first part, which is a slog, especially if you're a nerd like me and choose to fight everything.

Dungeon 7 is the drizzling shits.

Definitely agree that the first section was the worst. I expected it to repeat based on the various screams in this thread but the 2nd and 3rd sections changed things up nicely.
 

Dad

Member
Is the reason the average player level skyrockets around mid/late November the
Reaper
exploit? I've been pretty consistent with the average and then suddenly dropped almost 10 levels lower nearly overnight
 

BrightLightLava

Unconfirmed Member
Grabbed the art book off of Amazon Japan, and it's pretty damn awesome. My favorites are the really really early sketches including:
punk rock Goemon, a much much better Prometheus than the one we got and one that has MC in the skull mask and Ryuji in a clown mask.
 

Ponn

Banned
Do I still have some time to do some Slinks after palace 7? In particular Fortune, I'm about 2 ranks away from max but only have 6 days left to deadline.

I got some curry to make.
 

FluxWaveZ

Member
Post palace 4 spoilers
The writing for Futaba is pretty good. Seems very in character for a shut in geek... Very awkward.

Prior to the game's release, I was afraid she would be a very pandering character aimed at Persona 5's core demographic, akin to Chiaki Nanami from Danganronpa 2. Thankfully, they did a good job with her characterization.
 

Dany

Banned
IS there a way to auto-advance dialouge manually. Sometimes i'd wish it would go without me pressing a button, but then other times i like to be in control. It's a really small complaint but pressing the d-pad should toggle auto-advance or something.

I love the Palace 5 music. I don't care what anyone else says.

Anyone who hates palace 5 music is a monster.
 
Just got spoiled unfortunately on something. In the fucking tags of a meme video on YouTube of all places lol. Idk when the spoiler happens so I'll just tag as ending spoilers for now just in case.

ENDING SPOILERS DON'T READ UNLESS YOU BEAT THE GAME:
I got spoiled who the traitor was. The tag on a video was "Goro is the fucking traitor" haha. Admittedly I'm not even bummed about knowing this since it seems super obvious that it's going to be him, I'm in palace 6 and I already know from screenshots of stuff late game that he leaves the party. I'm guessing there are still other twists and moments ahead besides finding this out, right?
 
Blew out all my money, then spent the last bit of money taking the train to meet Hifumi only to realize I need more Knowledge...

Morgana pays for my trip back home lol.
 

Aki-at

Member
Just got spoiled unfortunately on something. In the fucking tags of a meme video on YouTube of all places lol. Idk when the spoiler happens so I'll just tag as ending spoilers for now just in case.

ENDING SPOILERS DON'T READ UNLESS YOU BEAT THE GAME:
I got spoiled who the traitor was. The tag on a video was "Goro is the fucking traitor" haha. Admittedly I'm not even bummed about knowing this since it seems super obvious that it's going to be him, I'm in palace 6 and I already know from screenshots of stuff late game that he leaves the party. I'm guessing there are still other twists and moments ahead besides finding this out, right?

Don't worry, there's a couple more twists. Just don't read a some random fanart image description like I did and get spoiled :,(
 

FluxWaveZ

Member
Just got spoiled unfortunately on something. In the fucking tags of a meme video on YouTube of all places lol. Idk when the spoiler happens so I'll just tag as ending spoilers for now just in case.

ENDING SPOILERS DON'T READ UNLESS YOU BEAT THE GAME:
I got spoiled who the traitor was. The tag on a video was "Goro is the fucking traitor" haha. Admittedly I'm not even bummed about knowing this since it seems super obvious that it's going to be him, I'm in palace 6 and I already know from screenshots of stuff late game that he leaves the party. I'm guessing there are still other twists and moments ahead besides finding this out, right?

Weak and predictable twist. It could have been A LOT worse. Careful.
 

F0rneus

Tears in the rain
Just got spoiled unfortunately on something. In the fucking tags of a meme video on YouTube of all places lol. Idk when the spoiler happens so I'll just tag as ending spoilers for now just in case.

ENDING SPOILERS DON'T READ UNLESS YOU BEAT THE GAME:
I got spoiled who the traitor was. The tag on a video was "Goro is the fucking traitor" haha. Admittedly I'm not even bummed about knowing this since it seems super obvious that it's going to be him, I'm in palace 6 and I already know from screenshots of stuff late game that he leaves the party. I'm guessing there are still other twists and moments ahead besides finding this out, right?

It's not a twist. The game wants you to guess that. You`ll see why.
 
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Deleted member 518609

Unconfirmed Member
Anyone else heard Morgana's brainwashed voice in battle in Japanese? it's hilarious. I want a youtube video of it.

All of Morgana's Japanese battle dialogue is amazing. His hungry one is probably my favorite.
 
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