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

Pulse Since: Dec, 1969

Aug 17th 2012 at 9:03:00 PM

I just had to pick the game with the longest frikkin' introduction ever to start my "you got your fanfic in my Let's Play" style, didn't I?

I felt like I couldn't really drop most of this, as it's the first day Yosuke actually talks to you and the day that introduces Saki and the Midnight Channel.

Otherarrow Since: Dec, 1969

Aug 17th 2012 at 9:31:29 PM

I am not sure why, but I was expecting a Persona 2 reference during the talk about the Midnight Channel rumor. I am not sure how this would make any sense though, as Narukami would be very young back in '99 and probably not in Sumaru.

How are you going to do the actual gameplay, battles and such, anyway?

Pulse Since: Dec, 1969

Aug 17th 2012 at 9:42:12 PM

Probably abridged, maybe point out some of my harder battles and notable fusions I've made. Like I said, I felt like I couldn't really shorten these particular events, since they establish so much.