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I went with Visible Silence.
IRL, I'm a Chivalrous Pervert, and I tend to make my dialogue choices reflect what I would do in real life (unless the game tells me I have not enough minerals courage to pick a choice).
edited 5th Apr '10 7:08:36 PM by TsundeRay
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(unless the game tells me I have not enough courage to pick a choice) Oh, god, fuck that so much.
I had to download a FAQ just to figure out how to get around that bullshit.
...douchebag.
edited 5th Apr '10 7:14:45 PM by AkasoRekaso
Got sick of my old avatar. But I still can't resist one last Jiiiii~
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Decided to ask out Ai for the hell of it. I was surprised that she didn't go "LOLOL WHEN PIGS FLY OUT OF MY ASS" on me.
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This bacon is awesome
Keep at that link, as intolerable as she can be for the first half of the link.
Torment liveblog is still hiatusing. You can vandalize my contributor page if you want something to do.
Always figured Yosuke's douchebaggery was Values Dissonance at work. Nothing he said offended me; I'd seen enough anime.
edited 6th Apr '10 8:08:23 PM by Zephid
I wrote about a fish turning into the moon.
Rune Knight
Ai's Character Development was one of my favourite Social Links to watch, avoiding bad choices notwithstanding.
I personally have Souji start the initiation for Lovers path as being a pretend boyfriend doesn't suit well for me but gently rejects her. Ai's reactions show me how much she had grown.
Otherwise, one time, when I was fusing Sandalphon via Triangle Fusion, with careful skill resetting...only for it have a Fusion Accident ('NOOOOOOOOOO') and gave me Metatron instead ('OOOO-Yay?').
Much better than giving me Legion or Shiki-Touji the other times.
Lux-Pain Lulzblog
Fusion accidents can be awesome starting out. I remember that my first accident got me a legion. Legion is level 20 something and I was level 13 give or take. It was pretty sweet.
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Just got past the second wave of exams with flying colors.
I'm stuck on deciding who I should hook up when Christmas comes around: Ai, Yukiko, or Rise.
Also I kinda don't get how Ms. Kashiwagi is ugly or manages to still incur dislike from her students about 5 sentences in. She's over 40, yes, but my thoughts on that? Whatever.
edited 10th Apr '10 10:28:10 PM by TsundeRay
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If you've ever seen Dear S, they have the same sort of teacher along with the same general reaction. It has something to do with impropriety.
I wrote about a fish turning into the moon.
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I'd expect the male students to be distracted to some degree. I guess Inaba's male population has developed some chivalry since the game started.
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Not Actually Indie
I think it's that she's trying to set herself up as competition for the attention of teenagers with another teenager. It creeps her students out.
...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.
Rune Knight
As for who you want to hook up, for the corniest reason, go with your heart.
Or if you're concern with your girlfriend's Christmas gift's gameplay affect. But that can take a bit of fun out of receiving an heartfelt gift.
Hm...in my New Game Plus, I wonder which girl, beside Yukiko (who I end up with in my first game), should I go for this time...
Lux-Pain Lulzblog
I always liked Rise. She was the only one who mentioned how the protagonist says what people want to hear.
I wrote about a fish turning into the moon.
One Winged Egret
The idea that your character is constantly switching his Persona around, and that you get bonuses for interacting with specific people with the correct Persona, is fairly creepy overall.
Chie is the only right answer to the Christmas question.
Also, I actually find the fact that the protagonist is effectively changing his personality to best suit the person he is speaking with to be quite amusing.
Rune Knight
I prefer thinking that the Personae help the MC get into the mindset, while also giving him advice.
Which beg the question, what kind of advice would the Jacks gave him?
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Also, I actually find the fact that the protagonist is effectively changing his personality to best suit the person he is speaking with to be quite amusing.
Well...yeah I guess, but...they aren't heroic mimes with demon tarot cards floating around in their heads, so shut up!
^^ Indeed. And isn't the whole game about the masks that we wear when around other people? Wasn't that the point of the Shadows?
Holy shit, the protagonist spits in the face of the game's message.
edited 11th Apr '10 8:42:50 AM by LizardBite
It sees you.
The game's not saying those masks are bad, though - Personas are the masks we wear, not the Shadows. The Shadows were born of people's negative reactions to their own self-image. They're the things we're afraid we might be. If anything, Persona 4 is about coming to terms with the fact that we *are* wearing masks, and accepting them as parts of ourselves.
But somehow,◊
I personally dated all the girls I could in one playthrough. Because I was a jerk like that.
Got a really amusing scene in one of the dungeons with Chie and Yukiko both figuring it out.
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So when do I get to interact with the cat (beyond getting him to go "meow meow") on the Samegawa riverbank?
edited 11th Apr '10 7:34:08 PM by TsundeRay
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Squad Leader
Hello old thread. I come bringing something I felt like posting on my blog, wondering what other people thought of it.
So, it's rainy tonight and kind of misty. Combine that with listening to the soundtracks for 3 and 4 on my way home, and you could say that I'm in a bit of a Persona mood. Incidentally, Feinne, a Let's Player, has taken up Schildtroke (or however the crap you spell his name)'s mantle and is LP'ing Persona 4 over on Something Awful. Check it out.
So! This has given me a bit of an idea for a sort of fanfic based off of the idea I posted earlier. Here's my intro for Persona 5:
The train pulls into the station, and you hear the familiar jingle as the doors open- or you would, if you didn't have your headphones on, the music blasting. It's been about a week since you moved into the dormitory at the bottom of the hill. Since then you've gotten used to the route home. The ramen stand bustling with customers, and wafting out a scent that makes your mouth water. Unfortunately, you're on a budget and all you've got is the cheap instant shit at home. That one big house that would be sizeable even in America- here, it is monstrous. Another train, laden with weary commuters, roars by, the rattling shaking your teeth. It's cold, and your jacket is pulled around you as the rain drips past your face. You should have packed that heavier jacket, but you weren't supposed to need it and you needed the space in your suitcase. So you hurry through the rain, looking forward to your warm room and hot dinner.
An overpass spans the path, creating a narrow tunnel you must walk down. Bikes and scooters carrying tired commuters home pass you by, indifferent to one more hooded figure, moving too fast to even tell that you're a gaijin. Unlike the rest of this whole town, the lights here are in poor condition- they're dim and flickering. You're looking down at the pavement, music still blaring in your ears, trying to ignore the water still falling in front of you.
Out of the corner of your eye, you see a shape. It's not even remotely human- long, spindly arms reaching out to grasp at you, a slavering mouth gaping. You turn suddenly, and it's gone. All you see is the dirty graffiti on the wall, and all you hear is the thumping bass and screeching guitars that your headphones continue to pour into your ears. You shrug, and turn back to your walk home. Probably just a shadow on the wall caused by a passing biker.
The wind picks up as you exit the tunnel, blowing the rain horizontally in your face. This is miserable. As you walk down the street towards your dorm, you have to squeeze to the side of the road to prevent yourself from being run over by the drivers who take these narrow streets at ludicrous speeds. They splash your legs as they drive through the puddles.
As the music on your headphones fades out, the guiter making one last, haunting note, you swear you hear a faint voice emenating from them: I am thou. Thou art I.
It is just on the edge of hearing, and quickly dismissed as the warm light of the dorm washes over you.
Your friend Brian- he's in your History of Tokyo class- comes up as you take your shoes off.
"How's it been? Cold as hell, isn't it?"
You mumble a response and head for your room, desperate to change into some dry, warm clothes.
After you've changed and eaten, the trash still sitting on your desk because it's too damn cold out to go to the trash can, you pull out your Japanese book and try to study. The teacher's got a bad habit of giving quizzes every single day, and you have several vocab words and a couple pages of kanji to memorize.
Something seems to be wrong with the light in your room. It's flickered twice now, and both times, something outside your window throws up a weird shadow on your wall. It almost looks like a gnarled, twisted tree, reaching out for your throat. But it's nothing, right?
Suddenly, from outside your window, a light flares up. It's coming from the shrine up on the hill, the one you explored over the weekend. You know, back when the weather was nice. The light doesn't seem to be dying down, and it's too steady to be from a fire.
You exit into the hall to see if anyone else has noticed, but there's no one around. Shrugging, you decide to go and investigate alone. You're not tired, even though it's kind of late, and for some reason, you're now afire with curiosity.
It's stopped raining. The stars are even out, though this close to the city, you can't see many of them. The moon doesn't hang in the sky, and you seem to recall that it's a new moon tonight. You walk up the street to the shrine, where you can still faintly see the light. It's pale and soft, not quite like anything you've ever seen before. It seems to be coming from one of the tori, the gates that overlook the entrance to this little wooded area that houses the shrine.
As you stand in front of it, you wonder why there isn't anyone else around. The light is nearly blinding here, and it's taking up the whole archway. This...isn't natural, to say the least. Is it some kind of trick the locals do? You haven't heard about anything like this, and there's no one else around. What is this?
Suddenly, a dark shape springs from the light at you. You see the glint of razor-sharp claws and talons before time seems to slow and a voice rings in your head.
I am Thou. Thou art I. The time has come. Open thine eyes and call forth what is within!
"Per...so...na!"
Cue kickin' guitar. Yeah, that last bit is shamelessly ripped off from the Persona-Get! scene in Persona 4. Also, aside from a few minor details, what I described is very similar to how I'm actually living here.
I don't know if I'd want to take this further. I don't have any sort of overarcing plot laid out, nor do I have any idea for characters. In fact, this whole thing is written in the second person to avoid characterization. Based on what little fiction I've written, I have a horrible habit of turning basically every main or viewpoint character into myself, as I find it really hard to come up with scenarios that don't directly involve myself. I don't want to just be mindlessly parroting my own method of thinking into text, so I deliberately went for a style that avoids getting into my protagonist's head. I don't know, I'll see what my brain comes up with.
edited 20th Apr '10 8:58:57 AM by Rogue7
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Not Actually Indie
Got a really amusing scene in one of the dungeons with Chie and Yukiko both figuring it out. How do they respond? Do they get angry?
I didn't know on my first playthrough that the whole "You have forged a bond that cannot be broken" thing was a holdover from the previous game where social links could deteriorate. I thought maybe there were things you could do to make the links degrade, but once you maxed them out, you could get away with anything and they'd automatically forgive you. Or maybe even that it wasn't a gameplay element, but a reassurance that "This relationship is supernaturally reinforced and cannot possibly go sour no matter how much you screw around."
Which would be a bit creepy, honestly.
...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.
^Well, you're not going to like the rest of the game then. Atlus more-or-less assumed that everyone playing the game would be a pervert of the highest order. So basically, if you thought this scene was bad, it actually manages to get worse.
This spoiler isn't related to the murders or anything actually important, so if you want to prepare yourself for a scene that's far, FAR worse than that, go ahead and highlight it: You, Yosuke, and Kanji accidentally walk in on the girls in the hot spring, and (again) your options pretty much lump you in with everyone else, netting you a basket in the face for your troubles. Which is strange, because you've probably maxed out at least one of their s-links at that point. And then you find out that it actually was your turn to go into the springs, everyone just lost track of time. And then they stay in there all night. And then you start up a romantic s-link with some other girl who's not a party member, because FUCK.
Also, if you didn't say Chie looked cute, you're a douchebag.
I'm kidding.
Maybe.
edited 5th Apr '10 6:56:39 PM by AkasoRekaso
Got sick of my old avatar. But I still can't resist one last Jiiiii~