Persona series

Oh, yeah, she's stupidly overpowered compared to Vanilla. She's one of the two big reasons why they needed to add in a new difficulty level in Golden. She can restore your entire party's SP or HP, give everyone Mind/Power Charge, give any all party buff, block an all party attack that would kill anyone and I think she can revive the protagonist once. Her scanning abilities were also greatly improved. At rank ten? she identifies one enemy weakness and at rank 11 she shows you the entire enemy resistance/weakness list immediately. That doesn't sound like much, especially since rank 11 isn't accessible until January, but before she was terrible at her job.

And she does this all very frequently.

edited 5th Oct '15 10:34:23 AM by Arha

Hell, at Rank 2 she at least gets her horrible pun hints- That used to be her Rank 9. It's no stretch to say Rise went from the least helpful party member in P4 to the very best in the whole series in Golden.

edited 5th Oct '15 10:53:48 AM by Pulse

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Okay thanks to some comics ala Hiimdaisy I now want to either play or watch Persona 3.

I think I'm the only one playing P4 Vanilla.

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.

I was too before I kinda stopped.

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I played 4 vanilla! Granted, I never had a Vita, so I never actually could play Golden in the first place. Bleh.

edited 5th Oct '15 4:28:43 PM by kkhohoho

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I'm also currently playing Persona 4 Vanilla.

Many of my friends played in that way too. Basically...all of them.

Also...you gonna play other games of the franchise?. Like the two Devil Survivor, the Main Line or the three first persona games (P2 is a duology, remember) or another SMT.

Also to all the people in the thread: Is curious (and a bit pathetic) who the events and enemies in P2 and P3 (Nyarlatothep and Moon!Nyx) make who the cast of P1 and P4 look like wimps in comparation.

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edited 5th Oct '15 5:40:59 PM by KazuyaProta

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Well, Tatsuya and Minato were pretty stronk.

I like each Persona having their own unique scenario even if the endgame is still preventing the destruction of humanity (wow, Kandori is really hammy, dude is loving his life right now).

It's cool seeing Persona's roots.

Probably not. I like Persona 3 and 4 because of the plot and the characters, and basically tolerate the dungeoncrawling because it lets me get to more plot and more characters. My impression of the rest of the franchise is that it's more dungeoning for less plottening.

I may pick up some of the side games like Arena/Ultimax and DAN, though.

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.

I mean, speaking as someone who doesn't play a lot of rhythm games, Dancing All Night is really, really fun, and it manages to capture the spirit of the cast incredibly well through the almost obsessively-detailed choreography, on top of having a pretty solid plot, even if it's another VN-presented thing like the Arena games.

I sure said that!

Just look this masterpiece [1].

...Like a Persona 1 and Persona 2 fan i have a natural impulse to say "Just play it" but...nah, i kinda understand you. Even if Persona 1 is my favorite for now (yes, i think who P1 is better than P2. Is just preference actually)

Play Devil Survivor, is the best game about choices and has good characters. One De Su Character is my favorite of the entire franchise...the other is Maki from Persona.

SMT...is not so good about morallity and choices like the fans say. Law is basically "If Darkseid rule Zeon". With Bernie and Garma like Law Hero. We mean: A Nice Guy who has the bad luck to support a dictatorship.

edited 5th Oct '15 8:23:33 PM by KazuyaProta

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Ah, as an aside, didya guys know that, unlike the P4 stage adaptation, Persona 3 The Weird Masquerade was a musical?

With a heartfelt, quasi-romantic ballad duet between Aigis and the lead?

That's almost exactly the same for both leads?

'Cause I only found out today in a bizarre bout of tumblr freefall.

I sure said that!

Yes. I know

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"If Darkseid ruled Zeon"... ahahahaha.

You're definitely not alone in liking Persona 1 over 2. I certainly prefer it over either part of the duology. Heck, it's one of my favorite games in the series just for being the only game in the series to actually approach anything Jung philosophized about.

And for being pretty fun to play.

To be fair, the games after P1 were certainly, at least, NEO-Jungian.

It's a lot more compelling in gameplay terms than the P2 duology, too- As much as I love the plot there, the gameplay was just kinda tedious instead of the cleaned-up, streamlined games after it or the batshit crazy complications of the first entry.

I sure said that!

... I've been in the opening school in P2 for over a year.

Can't be arsed to continue. Can't find the last seal. Gameplay isn't compelling enough to make me want to bother.

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That sounds.... entirely appropriate, actually.

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.

I mean, Kimi No Kioku was blatantly sung from Aigis' perspective. Was it the ending theme for the FEMC route?

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I killed the Contrarian King on Expert difficulty with a level 20 MC, level 19 Yosuke and Chie, and a level 18 Yukiko. Having a Jack Frost with Resist Phys, Mabufu, and Ice Boost helped a lot.

I went back and tried him again at level 21. He still kicked my ass.

Stupid multi-hit Rampage.

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.

Yeah, Rampage will kill you if it hits no questions asked. That's what Resist Phys was supposed to help with.

Really, he can kill you through Resist Phys as well. You can only hope he doesn't use it on you at all.

Worth it though. Yukiko now has 252 SP total from his boss item.

Facing Shadow Yukiko, first day i can. Whole team is level 9.

I also have almost no items.

This is hell. I've got her down to half health and I'm on the ropes. I'll probably lose.

"There's not a girl alive who wouldn't be happy being called cute." ~Tamamo-no-Mae

Level 9? That's extreme considering the boss is level 15. Then again Shadow Yukiko has an Ice weakness in Persona 4 Golden so being doable at that level doesn't surprise me.

I can assure you that this is not doable.. Well it would be, but I have like no items.

If I do manage this somehow, I'll let you know. But I'm no where near finished with her and my team is running low.

I might go back and grind, but that could mean that I wouldn't be able to save Yukiko day one, which I want to do.

"There's not a girl alive who wouldn't be happy being called cute." ~Tamamo-no-Mae