Persona 3

The FMC has those links replaced with party member slinks most of which can get the romance on if ya want to.

IE: Junpei takes the place of Kenji

Kenji does show up in other slinks and we do get more backstory into his slink problem (Minor spoilers: namely we see who he is lusting after and adds facts that the new chariot S-Link girl is after him.

edited 20th Jan '12 9:06:40 PM by Raso

Just to clarify - Junpei as the new Magician link is not a romance option, although the new Fortune link is.

edited 21st Jan '12 4:59:34 AM by JoieDeCombat

I had to restart my playthrough of Persona 3 Portable because despite having my difficulty level set to Beginner, I still kept dying. I think it's because I was underleveled but I can't be completely sure.

edited 21st Jan '12 6:54:19 AM by Chariot

I will say this about P3P, it's the only Persona game where you can have two Social Links with a single character.

I won't say anything else for spoiler reasons, and as to not ruin the joke.

Man, I've been plowing through this game. I'll probably finish it during this weekend.

One more question: How do you start Aigis's social link? Is there a plot event, or is there a Guide Dang It! type thing?

There aren't any special flags or events, don't worry. You can start the link simply by talking to Aigis after class in the month of January, after school resumes following winter break.

(No actual spoilers in the spoilered-out text above, unless you don't want to be told in advance which month the link opens up in.)

It's only available during the last month.

Edit: Ninja'd.

edited 21st Jan '12 11:50:12 AM by BetaRay

Alright, thanks!

@Chariot I mean no disrespect, but I completely fail to see how anyone could even go below 50% HP on Beginner.

Hey, I'm curious, what parties do you guys usually go with?

For me, it was Junpei, Yukari, and Akihiko, with Junpei being replaced by Koromaru as soon as he joined.

In my first run it was Yukari, Aigis & Koromaru, while in my second it's currently just Yukari (with Aigis & Koromaru joining when I get to that part of the game)

For the Journey, it was MC, Yukari, Aigis, and Mitsuru/Akihiko (depending on what the enemies were weak to/which was at a higher level) For the Answer, it was Aigis, Metis, Yukari, and Mitsuru.

Oh right, the answer.

Aigis, Yukari, Koromaru & Metis. Didn't have quite the same feel as my party during The Journey.

Speaking of The Answer, is it good enough to justify buying a copy of FES? I've heard that it's long, Nintendo Hard, and devoid of social links...

Not really. The Answer is just really a glorified dungeon crawler. It was pretty bullshit really. (Oh, and the difficulty is stuck on hard for the answer.) And plotwise, it seemed kind of unnecessary. And that's not getting into the stupid plot stuff in that mode.

Don't listen to that guy. The plot stuff in The Answer helps explains some of the glossed over plot and backstory bits for the Journey, explains the ending and why it was important. And even the most stupid of the plot is a.relatively brief, and b.sits better with me than some of the stuff P3P did.

As for the dungeon crawling, yeah. It's dungeon crawling. If you like dungeons, then you'd like playing the Answer. I can't see how one would hate The Answer's gameplay if they managed to make it through the Journey. Despite it defaulting on hard, I didn't have much trouble outside of a few bosses, and even that is more due to the fact that 80% of the non-storyline bosses have "Avoid Weakness". The truly hard bosses didn't really appear until the last couple of dungeons.

EDIT: HOWEVER, if you already own a different copy of P3, such as P3P, I wouldn't recommend FES. (The same way if you already have FES, I wouldn't recommend P3P) I don't believe in really buying the same game multiple times.

edited 21st Jan '12 8:23:15 PM by Otherarrow

I switch my party around a lot because (aside from Ken, who I mostly can't be bothered to use) I like keeping everyone at more or less comparable levels, so I try to use everyone. Akihiko is a mainstay, though, and my most commonly-used combinations are probably Akihiko, Yukari, and Junpei, or Akihiko, Yukari, and Mitsuru.

I don't really recommend FES if you already have P3P. The Answer is the only thing the former has that the latter doesn't, and it doesn't add that much in terms of story aside from some clarification to the ending of The Journey. If you really like Aigis, maybe.

edited 21st Jan '12 8:44:53 PM by JoieDeCombat

The main problems that I had with The Answer, is that it was a huge grindfest, and that the gameplay got really tedious at times. Personae (or Personas, whichever you prefer) were a huge pain to level up as well. (Never will I take Social Link exp bonuses for granted again.) With The Journey, the pace was broken up so I didn't have to do Tartarus runs all the time, as much as I like doing those. Doing nothing but dungeon crawling made the gameplay quite stale.

If you only have the vanilla version of Persona 3, by all means get FES if you want. If you have the PSP version, I don't recommend getting FES, since the PSP version has most of the additions from FES aside from The Answer. (Unless you really hate the visual novel asthetic or something like that)

edited 21st Jan '12 8:50:41 PM by Marioguy128

Yeah, I think I'll just watch an LP of The Answer. Thanks for the, well, answers. :P

I don't really mind the visual novel aspect (indeed, I love visual novels in general) but occasionally it's kinda hard to tell what's going on.

@Risetteer

I think I was underleveled because I kept dying. The first sixteen floors were a breeze but I started getting absolutely murdered after I got past them.

7 times outa 10, it's not that you're under leveled, it's that you need to fuse some new personas.

I did that too. Are you sure I wasn't underleveled? My character was only around level 7 or 8 by the time I got to Floor 22ish.

...Definitely underleveled. Try beating at least most of the enemies on a floor before moving on.

...yeah, that is most very certainly and definitely underleveled.

Incidentally, my party of choice is Yukari, Mitsuru and Akihiko, as I have said many times before. I've gotten through the entire game with those three.

The Answer would not have been nearly as hard if it wasn't for the fact of no persona compendium.... seriously that is the real killer.

If you can make it to where you can shop and grind though it gets pretty manageable till the very end.