Live Blogs Persona 4: Self Challenge Expert Run!

Pulse2012-08-22 10:58:55

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, one and all!

This is a liveblog detailing a simple self-imposed challenge in Persona 4. Having completed the game on Normal difficulty, I felt the need to tackle Expert!

However, there's always baggage when it comes to challenging oneself on a New Game+, as I am doing, mostly to access the extra bosses on this route. As a result I've opted to make use of a simple solution to this problem:

I will not abuse the Persona Compendium. I may only summon Personas that I have already obtained through Shuffle Time! or Fusion.

I will, admittedly, be taking advantage of my maxed Social Stats (Expression, Understanding, Knowledge, Courage, and Diligence) and a fairly large yen purse from my last playthrough, but I feel that it will not degrade the challenge TOO much.

So without further ado, we shall now dive into one year in the life of Yu Narukami, and the strange journey he will have, finding that an innocent sin could lead to the world's eternal punishment...

Comments

Otherarrow Since: Dec, 1969

Aug 17th 2012 at 3:33:27 PM

Hmm. The writing seems to cut bits out, and it might not make as much sense to people who haven't played the game. For example, we don't see Chie help out Narukami at the beginning, we just hear about it later.

I know this beginning part is long and not a lot happens though.

Pulse Since: Dec, 1969

Aug 17th 2012 at 3:58:06 PM

Yeah, I'm thinking I'll go in and edit it a little here and there.

Sorry, I'm just trying to avoid excess trimming while also not spending too much time on the extended intro.

Otherarrow Since: Dec, 1969

Aug 17th 2012 at 6:12:49 PM

I understand. Personally, I'd rather have abridged versions of events than just noting later that "btw this part happened before". But I do think this will mostly be a problem on this long ass intro.

You are doing a good job so far I think.

Pulse Since: Dec, 1969

Aug 17th 2012 at 9:06:47 PM

Aww, thanks!

I've never really been any good at abridging, but hey. I'll at least try to make it a little different from the game.