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

Sep 6th 2012 at 1:42:11 PM

Wait, wasn't the Witch Detective comic one of the things you can read at night? (If I recall, the dub used it to jab at Twilight, though I've heard the original Japanese was equally insulting with it) Wait, did Narukami just give Nanako the equivalent of Twilight?

Also, I have always wondered if Shu Nakajima's last name was a coincidence or a intentional shout out to Digital Devil Story, considering how important the Izanagi myth is to this game.

Pulse Since: Dec, 1969

Sep 6th 2012 at 2:03:13 PM

I'll admit, I kiiiinda consider Episode 13 of the anime semi-demi-hemi-canon... -ish. Like, the general principle of it, anyway.

As for Shu... No kidding. It's impossible to know for sure, but considering how fond the whole SMT series is of Shown Their Work...

phoenixdaughterAM Since: Dec, 1969

Sep 7th 2012 at 10:44:52 AM

Well, considering that that book started the series...

...which suddenly makes me want to try to bring Loki to the true final boss fight and see if there is any Easter Egg there.

Otherarrow Since: Dec, 1969

Sep 8th 2012 at 7:30:26 AM

There isn't, I checked. (Not intentionally though; Loki is just a good Persona to bring to that fight) Of course, I don't think there is any "Persona talk" events like there is in Persona 2.

Pulse Since: Dec, 1969

Sep 8th 2012 at 12:24:55 PM

Well, in this case, it'd be weird to have your Persona talk to someone besides yourself. "Thou art I, I am thou" is in much stronger effect from P3 onwards.