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 24th 2012 at 8:59:03 PM

The very first day you get to do whatever you like, and you can't actually do anything besides shop and dungeon crawl. I'm stunned that I managed to do this in a day on Expert, given my troubles with doing so on Normal.

Otherarrow Since: Dec, 1969

Aug 24th 2012 at 10:25:52 PM

Are you doing a New Game Plus by any chance? I think you can't run into the Reaper on a first run through. I guess it doesn't matter, due to the levels not carrying over like in P3.

Also, I am amused at how Narukami is reacting to Adachi.

Pulse Since: Dec, 1969

Aug 24th 2012 at 10:49:49 PM

Yeah, it's a NG+. It's how I got so much money on me, and why my Social Stats are maxed. The challenge is as simple as me not summoning something awesome right away, and working my way up from scratch as far as Personas go.

Otherarrow Since: Dec, 1969

Aug 25th 2012 at 1:37:31 PM

I notice now that you justified the money as Narukami's parents being rich and giving him a fat allowance. Nice way to work that in.