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Post by Gopher Mod on Feb 21, 2010 14:55:54 GMT -5
As I said before, the Contrarian King is easily one of the toughest bosses in-game. Without Yukiko knowing Media (which she did in my first battle; the same goes for one of my personas back then), the fight is impossible. Heck, even with it being on easy, the fight is still extremely tough. I've only attempted it on that difficulty, and I lost one of my Moon Tsubukame's against him. So far, I've lost 3: 1 to the Contrarian King, 1 to bad luck, and 1 to repeated weakness hits in my party.
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Post by shiranui on Feb 21, 2010 15:13:46 GMT -5
Without Yukiko knowing Media (which she did in my first battle; the same goes for one of my personas back then), the fight is impossible. And as I demonstrated, it is just about impossible even if she does have Media. The spell doesn't heal enough HP to really be effective so you basically need at least two people casting it. That's not really a problem unless someone in the party gets killed by Rampage. Oh well, I will destroy that guy when I go inside the TV the next time. Just have to mess around with boosts and debuffs and we might have a fighting chance, especially if I can buy some better healing items before that.
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Post by shiranui on Feb 21, 2010 16:32:42 GMT -5
Entry 33: GET BENT--- Friday, May 13 (continued)Damn those Lost. Yeah, that Billy is a violent sociopath. Should be put back in jail. Hey, that's not Billy. That's some kid wearing a Yasogami High uniform. Seems to be a first-year, judging from the "I" on his jacket collar. "...it's Toji Suzuhara from Neon Genesis Evangelion! Wait, no, it's Schneizel el Britannia from Code Geass!" (yeah, his Japanese voice actor is Tomokazu Seki who did Toji's voice in NGE, and his English VA is Troy Baker who, obviously, played Schneizel in Code Geass)"Um, sir, we have cameras and a filming permit, so this... well, is a show! Never mind, getting bent!" Dojima remarks that this guy still appears to be "up to the same old tricks". Nanako asks if Dojima knows him. "Through work", apparently. No offense, but those biker gangs sound like wimps. Getting their asses handed to them by one guy who's 15 or 16 at most? Maybe "Beating up biker gangs 101" is an optional subject you can choose at Yasogami High? It's almost as effective as the way they tried to hide Harley Race's identity in "The Greatest Secrets of Pro Wrestling Exposed". Textile shop, eh? How did that make Kanji into this badass who destroys entire biker gangs with his bare hands? Oh. Well, he sounds like a jam up guy. Right. I wonder if we'll see something on the Midnight Channel again. --- Saturday, May 14Sure enough, the heavens have opened, and this rain will last until tomorrow. If we do see someone and they get kidnapped, all we need to do is to jump in the TV and save them. Right? Hmm... that looks interesting. I don't know what it is, but looks interesting. Maybe I won't eat it this time. Even I have standards. Right, let's watch some Midnight Channel. That... looks like Kanji Tatsumi. It really looks like Kanji Tatsumi. WHAT THE HELL? IT LOOKS JUST LIKE KANJI TATSUMI! ...whatever. Let's call Yosuke and check if he recognized Kanji Tats... err, I mean, the person on the screen. If not, it was a really manly-looking girl who resembled Kanji Tatsumi a lot. He looked like... ah, f*** it. Let's just talk about this tomorrow. Maybe it wasn't Kanji Tatsumi after all and I was just seeing things. --- Sunday, May 15Wow, Yosuke. You spent the whole night practicing that, didn't you? lay low lay high lay low lay high take a deep breath deep breath (deep breath deep breath)Sounds pretty cool to me. Okay, did anyone recognize the person on the Midnight Channel last night? Well, this sucks. I saw someone who looked like Kanji Tatsumi.No, you didn't look like Kanji Tatsumi. Looks like we can throw that theory out of the window for now. "And it was awesome! You should dress like a princess more often!" Yosuke: "Come to think of it, maybe Teddie was right... Maybe we were seeing the other Yukiko from that world."A fair point. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that the person we saw hasn't been kidnapped yet. Hell yes. We'll catch that bastard right in the act. It's... ah, never mind. Let's just watch the Midnight Channel again tonight and see if we learn anything new. Oh, hey, Chie has something she wants to share with us. Huh? This sounds familiar... ...she wasn't listening to the word we were saying, was she? Note to self: check every once in a while if Chie is paying attention to anything. Well. Here we go again. My God, woman! Get a hold of yourself! And did she just say "funny bone"? No one says that, do they? *sigh* Not me. GEE, I WONDER WHY THAT IS. It's not like we saw a guy who looked exactly like the one on the Midnight Channel on TV the night before or anything! Meanwhile, Yukiko is still laughing. No, it wasn't. Ah, I can't take this any more, let's go home. The Midnight Channel is there again, and so is the person on screen. Now it REALLY looks like Kanji Tatsumi. Finally, Seta says what he should have said the night before. I thought I'd be a douche and say "LOLWUT I DUNNO WHO THAT IS, I HAS THE DUMB" but decided to throw Yosuke a frickin' bone here. "Get bent" is the worst thing a person could possibly say on TV. Shoot. ......Honestly? Yukiko by a country mile. However, I have to channel my inner Tommy Dreamer (because he's fat) in this case. I'll take them both, I'm hardcore! I didn't say that, I said I'd take them both because I'm hardcore! Being hardcore raises Understanding, apparently. You have seen nothing yet, brother. Yeah, I'm not so sure about that. --- Next time on LPP4: Tactical Espionage Action (not)
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Post by shiranui on Feb 21, 2010 20:22:52 GMT -5
Entry 34: If it exists, there is... wait a second, that's not right. Entry 34: Tactical Espionage Fail--- Monday, May 16Oh, come on, he looked like such a nice guy on TV! What would possibly be scary about a guy who single-handedly crushes biker gangs? Oh yeah, the way he said "GET BENT!" ...you KNOW him? Ah, all right. Yukiko mentions she talks to Kanji's mother on occasion. So, what are we waiting for? Let's go to the Tatsumi place and see what's up! Maybe we'll even meet Kanji himself! Sure, I think me and Yosuke can handle a guy who has... you know, beaten the hell out of entire biker gangs. I'm not entirely sure, but I don't think we can summon Personas in the real world. When we get to Tatsumi Textiles, Mrs. Tatsumi is talking to some guy who is dressed up like Raidou Kuzunoha the XIV. This person, whoever he is, talks in a very official and reserved tone of voice (and, for some reason, sounds a bit like Edward Elric... maybe I'm imagining things again) and appears to be looking for information. What's the deal with him? Is he also asking about Kanji? The slender young man gives us a little nod and walks off. Certainly seems like an odd character. There have been some of those around this town lately. I can agree with that. According to Mrs. Tatsumi, Yukiko's mother was also quite a looker when younger. As Yukiko talks to Mrs. Tatsumi and tries to explain what we're doing here, our attention turns to the scarf on display nearby. A scarf that looks very familiar for some reason. Where did we... -------------- -------------- Oh yeah, that's it. That was where Ms. Yamano... well... yeah. We ask Mrs. Tatsumi if Ms. Yamano had a scarf like this. Chie is right. It's not a very strong connection, but a connection nonetheless. Mrs. Tatsumi goes to get the delivery, so we thank her for her time and leave the shop after discussing our latest discovery with Yosuke and Chie. True, there has to be more to it than that. s***! Best idea you've had in a while, Yosuke. Yosuke... is this your idea of hiding? This is worse than what we saw in that one Let's Play video of Metal Gear Solid that was mocked by Retsupurae (language warning), you know. But let's shut up for now, we have a private conversation to eavesdrop on. This sounds slightly awkward. With that, the slender young man leaves. Wait a minute... I don't think this is really any of our business. We should probably... S***. Yosuke, we TOLD you this was a bad idea! Guys, I suggest evasive action. Run away! RUN AWAY! To be honest, we *were* listening in on his private conversation with that guy. No wonder he got angry. Eh, I still think Kanji is the target because he was shown on the Midnight Channel. Exactly. A lot of this whole thing does not make any sense. How about we just wait and see what happens? If we find out what the deal with the culprit is, good. If not, making up silly theories will not really help anything. Yes, the textile shop has a secret passage that leads to a hall where the local cult conducts ceremonies trying to bring their "God" to life. Or was that the antique store? Am I even in the right country? "LOST?!" Good idea, I'm really looking forward to having my head smashed in and my spine ripped out by the guy. Sort of, I guess. Trying certainly won't hurt. Unless Kanji gets his hands on us. Ooh, a stakeout! I love a stakeout! Ah. I see Yosuke has something up his sleeve. I kinda hope this doesn't have anything to do with our discussion last night. Wouldn't it go in the "A" section? ...Whatever. Burn! Yosuke, my man. I knew you were a bit of a jerkass every now and then, but that is just low. Ladies, allow me to express my disgust over the actions of this person. She's totally going to slap Yosuke in the face. Oh, I guess she wasn't listening. Good for her... and good for Yosuke, I suppose. All righty then. Let's go back home. Fascinating. This stuff did not give me any stat bonuses. We've been at this for 13 hours and 13 minutes. Good time as any for a cutoff point. --- Next time on LPP4: Stakeout and maybe some potentially embarrassing situations.
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Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by Oak: Certified Jade Hater on Feb 22, 2010 15:26:16 GMT -5
I'm really loving this game.
Just thought I should tell you that.
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Post by shiranui on Feb 22, 2010 15:40:09 GMT -5
I'm really loving this game. Just thought I should tell you that. Awesome. ;D The next update might take at least a little while as I haven't had time to continue the game in the last few days, but it's coming.
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Post by shiranui on Feb 23, 2010 18:20:21 GMT -5
Entry 35: I've got a plan in mind for you / I'm waiting till the time is right / I know that you'll like what I do / no need to put up a fight[/u][/url][/size] Yeah, as the Freezepop song I linked there kind of suggests, today we are going on a stakeout. Maybe one that's slightly different than the one described in the song, but a stakeout nonetheless. --- Tuesday, May 17Yosuke is obviously taking this stuff seriously. That's good, of course, but I think he just might be slightly overdoing it. Yeah, looks like there is something there... if you know what I mean. How the hell do they not SEE us? I suppose Kanji is so nervous there that he's not paying much attention to his surroundings, and the other guy has only seen us briefly on one occasion so maybe he doesn't find us suspicious. Anyway, off they go. Yosuke expresses some confusion over what we just witnessed, but never mind that -- we have a job to do. Let's split up. There is no other way. (actually, there really is no other way, the game will pair you with Yukiko no matter what you pick)Great idea, Yosuke, that will totally work. Chie doesn't seem to share Yosuke's enthusiasm. I have my doubts. Awkward? Awkward. Let's move out. Soon after, at the shopping district... Nothing out of the ordinary seems to be happening at the shop, and Yukiko wonders if the culprit will show up. Hell, even if he does, I'll... ...oh, for the love of... I really should spend more time reading A Great Man, my Courage needs a boost. So yeah, I end up saying that I'm sure the culprit will come. I appreciate it. Hey, no worries, you're probably the best healer and black mage of the group. There's no need to be nervous around me. "At least when she's not kicking them in the gonads, that is." Yeah, seems that way. We're just so cool and awesome. Or something. AWWW Excellent. I'm not even going to try to ask straight out. We exchange cell numbers and, since there's nothing happening at the shop, talk about all kinds of stuff. Meanwhile, at the Samegawa Flood Plain... Nicely done, guys, that's not conspicuous at all. Yosuke: "Yeah... We definitely stand out." Chie: "No, I mean THEM! I get this weird feeling about them..."Yosuke really is clueless. Which, incidentally, is exactly what I am doing. Yosuke, what happened to "this is between you and me"? Oh well, not that it would matter that much. Kanji comes and interrupts the conversation. Chie: "Whaddaya mean bird!?" Yosuke: "Play along, birdbrain!"Seriously... Why am I surrounded by frickin' idiots? Kanji remembers seeing them yesterday, and of course Yosuke and Chie try to convince him that all of this is just a funny little coincidence and that they should really be going and... Exactly, now just back off slowly and... ...the hell is up with this guy? Kanji proceeds to chase them, while screaming that things are not what they look like. Umm, yeah. I know. You're fired. Kanji comes and notices the two "lovebirds" he just saw (with Chie pointing out that her and Yosuke MOST CERTAINLY are NOT a couple). He looks like he's getting angry here. What is not our fault? What is going on here? Honestly, we don't care if you... you know... Good, Yosuke, you managed to ask him the question we came to ask. Maybe this operation isn't such an epic failure after all... ...then again, Yosuke had to say the word that apparently causes Kanji to fly off the handle. Run away! RUN AWAY!One... err, strategic withdrawal later... Yeah, none of us got killed so I guess it didn't go that badly. Still, we must check out the Midnight Channel in case something happens. We also promise to go check up on Kanji tomorrow... but for now, let's go home. It starts raining on the way to Dojima Residence. I wonder if something will appear on the Midnight Channel tonight. Hey, no problem. What's up? Well, shit. Apparently, Yukiko had some calls to make for the inn so she called the textile shop as well, and Mrs. Tatsumi told her Kanji had left the house and not come back. This sounds pretty bad, yeah. It's still raining, so we decide to check the Midnight Channel tonight. ... Oh, hey, something appeared. That looks like a... what I... err... What?............ ...what in the bluest of blue hells did I just watch? --- Next time on LPP4: Searching for information.
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Post by shiranui on Feb 23, 2010 21:13:25 GMT -5
Entry 36: Running around and talking to people, part 58[/size] --- Wednesday, May 18Yosuke called me right after the, ahem, interesting Midnight Channel broadcast we saw last night. His reaction was... well, let's just say that he was too flustered to get his point across. Also, somehow he had no idea what the place shown on TV was. Since Japanese Gay Stereotype Kanji (aka Shadow Kanji) welcomed us to "Bad, Bad Bathhouse" and what was shown on screen looked like, well, a bathhouse, I thought it was rather obvious, but Yosuke was still clueless. We meet at school in the morning and discuss what happened. We also wonder what the deal with Midnight Channel is. Honestly, it's a pretty crappy rumor because anyone can easily verify that the Midnight Channel is real. Whatever... That would make sense, I suppose. Well, I gotta say the shows we've seen so far have been a lot more entertaining than the usual reality TV fare and only slightly weirder than the average Japanese game show, so yeah, he is probably enjoying the hell out of it. Laughing his ass off or... or... ugh, I really don't want to think about it. Thanks a bunch for that, Yosuke. That was a very convincing impression of a total pervert. Chie is appropriately disgusted, not only because of the creepy voice Yosuke just did but because her thoughts might have been broadcast for everyone to see. Sounds like a plan. We're now even more motivated than before. Which results in this... ...and Yukiko goes into another one of her laughing fits. You know, it's actually kind of cute when she does that. After school we go to the TV world to see if Teddie has found Kanji. Teddie, however, seems to be having some problems with his nose and can't tell where the smell comes from. This just keeps getting better and better. Well, the last time we did that we DID find the place where Ms. Yamano was apparently killed, so why not try again? Then again, I guess that would be more effective. Yukiko and Yosuke go to the shopping district to ask people there about Kanji, and Chie goes to Samegawa Flood Plain. I might as well ask the people at school if they know anything. Ms. Sofue doesn't know about Kanji, but she asks me to help her find rare materials for her so she can make a new dowsing rod. She promises to give me a good reward from her personal collection of artifacts. "Is that a Suspicious Pole in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?" ...eh, I don't think she meant anything like that. Lame jokes aside, where can I find a Suspicious Pole? Right, looks like we're going to the castle once more. By the way, is it just me or is Ms. Sofue kinda hot in some weird way? I wish she were a Social Link in this game...Since we're here, might as well give this guy the Demon Statue he wanted. Yes, charming. I'm glad you're satisfied. Now, about my reward... That's it? Eh, I suppose it's better than nothing. (Dokudami Tea cures Poison status) These people don't know anything about Kanji. If I were a total douche I'd try to give her a Demon Statue (I have a spare one with me), but fortunately I'm a nice guy. She gives me three Chest Keys, which is pretty cool. Again, nothing that would help our investigation. So, I just tell him what the girl on the rooftop said and he gives me a Goho-M. Thanks a bunch. Still nothing. I give this guy his Ritz Wire and get some Olympic Tape in return. (Olympic Tape raises the party's Hit/Evasion) Nope, nothing useful. This girl wants me to find a Fitting Board, so she can fix her desk after her Dad spilled some glue over it when building a model. Oh well, why not? Let's just go to the shopping district, no one here knows anything. I buy Off Today from the bookstore and talk to people, but it's the same old story. Yukiko hasn't had much luck either, but... hmm, the last person who saw Kanji? That might be it. Shiroku Store received some new merchandise, I buy some Medical Kits and spend 27,000 yen doing it. Oh well, it's worth it. "When"? This game is clearly mocking me now.Well, that's true, I suppose. But it doesn't help me find Kanji. Oh yeah, him. Maybe we should look for him instead. Shopping, eh? That probably means he could be found at Junes. That would have been too easy. I'll return tomorrow. Now, off to Samegawa Flood Plain to do some things. Such as checking what the old man will trade for fish this month. The Titanium Club sounds pretty good, and I only need to catch two Inaba Trout for that. This guy pays me 4,000 yen for the Mori Ranmaru. Fair enough. I decide to pay a visit to the fox at the Tatsuhime Shrine. It gives me an ema which appears to be written in a young girl's handwriting. I go back to school because I have nothing better to do than soccer practice right now. When I enter, some girl is stuffing something inside my shoe box and runs off when I inform her that it is, in fact, my shoe box. What she put there is a love note which, unfortunately enough, is addressed to someone else. She is probably the one who wrote the request on the ema, so I'll seek her out later. For now, though, let's play soccer and raise Diligence while doing it! Sure. And you can go f*** yourself. Daisuke and Kou come and help me practice. Kou seems to like talking about balls an awful lot, last time he wouldn't shut up about polishing them. At least the Social Link goes up. As we're starting, this girl comes and asks Daisuke if he wants to... do something, I guess. Daisuke basically tells her to scram. Dude! Don't say that! Damn, Daisuke, you're one smooth operator. Hey, don't mind me. We can always practice some other time and... What a dumbass. Kou tries to save the situation, but the girls leave looking disappointed. We practice for a while, clean up the field and head home. Time to read some manly literature again. My Courage finally goes up, so maybe now I can say something to people.--- Next time on Let's Play Persona 4: "And then, drama got really awkward."
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Post by shiranui on Feb 24, 2010 17:46:02 GMT -5
Entry 37: How not to be successful with women--- Thursday, May 19May 19th, eh? I hope Kane doesn't come and kill us. So we'll take our time and won't finish the next dungeon in one sitting? Sure thing. The results for the midterms are posted on the bulletin board. Because I'm awesome, I'm in the top 10. (and become slightly closer to my Social Link friends) No, f*** them. Daisuke says the guys in the team have seemed restless lately, but honestly, I don't care. I find the girl who put that love note in my shoe locker the previous day and tell her that I read her note. Of course, she gets angry. Well, what could I have done? If you leave an unsealed note (a love note, no less) in my locker, I just MIGHT read it. Using some infallible logic, she comes to the conclusion that since a totally random person now knows her secret (not that it would matter because she didn't even sign the damn note, and thus I don't know -- nor do I care -- who the hell she even is), she might as well drop the whole "being secretive" crap and confess to the guy she likes. Hey, good luck with that, let me know how it went. Ms. Sofue compliments me on my test scores and gives me three Chest Keys as a reward. So, now that we got that out of the way, time to head to Junes to see if that Raidou Kuzunoha -looking guy is there. We ask him if he noticed anything weird about Kanji. He says that Kanji behaved somewhat awkwardly and unnaturally around him, and when he told Kanji that he seemed like an odd person Kanji's expression would suddenly change. This is probably enough for Teddie to go on, so let's roll. Then again, we're in no hurry, so SOCIAL LINK GO! I'm gonna become one smooth bastard. Yumi has the lead role and wants me to help with her part later. Sure, I'd be happy to... eh? Oh crap. I tell Yumi to hurry and go see her. I could have asked if she wanted me to come with her, but that might not have been such a good idea because I don't really know her that well and I can always ask her about it later. Everyone is too worried to continue practicing, so we decide to call it a day and go home. (The f*** are you doing, Seta? I said "go home"! You can talk to her later!)(Why on earth would you go there?!)(That's right, Seta, stand RIGHT THERE and listen to the conversation she's having with her mother. What the s*** is wrong with you?)(Long story short, Yumi's mother is fine and it's her father who is in the hospital, apparently dying. Yumi doesn't want anything to do with her father because he abandoned them years ago, but his last request was to see her. She's not having any of it, though. NOT THAT THIS IS ANY OF OUR F***ING BUSINESS BUT STILL! SETA, WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH YOU?!)(You know, Seta, it's still not too late to leave without her noticing you. Nothing good will happen if she sees you standing there, I can assure you)(Seta, you f***ing idiot. I would expect Yosuke to pull this kind of s***, but I thought you were above it. Look at this guy just standing there all smug. What an absolute jerkass. Seta "Jerkass" Sôji has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? How about "Jerky McJerkass"?)(At least I can convince him to be honest about it, she would probably notice if he was lying. After all, HE WAS STANDING RIGHT THERE THE WHOLE TIME. Jerkass)(I agree! I have no idea what he was thinking! I tried to tell him he can talk to you later, but he wouldn't listen! I'm so sorry, really!)(Wait, wait, wait, why are you telling him this?)(F***, I probably should have told him to stay quiet. Then again, he has screwed up so badly thus far that I don't think it will matter what I tell him to do, Yumi will probably never talk to him again anyway... and he deserves it, I might add)(Don't be)(That's what I've been trying to ask him for the past ten minutes, but he can't come up with a satisfying answer. Don't expect him to give you a decent answer either)(More like sad, really, with Seta being such a grade-A Jerkass.)(I... err... umm.. what... oh god, please don't tell me...)( ) (IT WORKED!??!?! )
(Guys, I would like to remind you that this approach will NOT WORK in real life. I repeat: this WILL NOT WORK IN REAL LIFE)...Well, that was interesting to say the least, glad I could help Yumi. I wonder what that voice in my head was, I wish I remembered what it was saying to me while I was at the hospital. I think it was calling me a jerkass at some point. I guess I'll go fishing to clear my thoughts a bit. (Fishing basically consists of tapping O when you get a bite and occasionally hitting another button shown on screen)I wish the voices in my head didn't talk when I'm trying to reel in a fish. I hope it's an Inaba Trout, I really want that Titanium Club. No Inaba Trout, but these will probably be useful later. I'll store them in the freezer. --- Next time on LPP4, we finally go to Teddie with the information we gathered.
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Oak: Certified Jade Hater
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by Oak: Certified Jade Hater on Feb 24, 2010 18:39:48 GMT -5
Developing storylines? Social links go up? Yumi?
Awesome.
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Post by shiranui on Feb 24, 2010 20:19:16 GMT -5
Just to remind you, these are our Social Links so far:
Fool - Investigation Team (levels up automatically at certain points) Magician - Yosuke Hanamura Chariot - Chie Satonaka Priestess - Yukiko Amagi Justice - Nanako Dojima Hierophant - Ryotaro Dojima Strength - Daisuke & Kou Sun - Yumi Ozawa Hermit - Fox
Next update coming soon enough.
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Post by shiranui on Feb 24, 2010 21:53:00 GMT -5
Entry 38: Blue Velvet--- Friday, May 20I run into the love note sender again. Her confession worked and now she is happy, and it's all because of how she accidentally put the love note in my shoe locker. She also promises to go to the Tatsuhime Shrine to give thanks for granting her wish. "I'll sacrifice a goat! ^_^" When I get to the shrine, I tell the fox that the wish has been granted. It checks the offertory box and sees the money the girl put there. The Hermit Arcana's Social Link levels up to 2. More importantly, the fox will give me a discount for its services meaning that I no longer have to spend as much money for SP refills. I go home and decide to go fishing again. Still no Inaba Trout. --- Saturday, May 21Ah yes, gotta check out the Tanaka show tomorrow. He might be selling some cool stuff. I visit the shrine again to accept another request. This one is written in a thin, lady-like handwriting, looks like some woman wants to lay off snacks altogether. Right. I go to the bulletin board to accept the assistant daycare caretaker's job. I'm not sure why because I can't stand kids, but I guess I can go there at least a couple of times to earn some extra cash. I seem to have lost the screenshots for that part, but there wasn't much to see anyway. I meet the woman who seems to be the one who wrote the ema request. She's wondering if there are any bad-tasting snacks, or at least some that taste odd. Hmm... girl with a different essence, eh? I know one who fits that description extremely well. Chie is nowhere to be found today, though, so that'll have to wait. Now, we will go and save Kanji! Teddie moans that the info we got him isn't much to go by, but he sniffs extra hard and eventually pinpoints Kanji's location. He then leads us there. It's a bathhouse all right. Err... ....umm... Great, now I'm having flashbacks of the "&$#% Room" in the Honeybee Inn in Final Fantasy VII. Chie seems to have her doubts about this place. O....kay then. Shut up, Yosuke, we're going there in a minute. We have found where Kanji is holed up, now we just need to rescue him. But first... ...we go to the castle and beat up these morons to get the Suspicious Pole and the Fitting Board. (Meanwhile, the Contrarian King is still broken)After rushing my way through the castle the final time, I go to the Velvet Room for some potential Persona fusion. However, Igor is nowhere to be seen and only Margaret is there to welcome me. At first she suggests I come back later, but... This is getting promising. Margaret officially welcomes me to the Velvet Room and introduces herself formally. (The predecessor she refers to is, naturally, Elizabeth from Persona 3)Hey, not bad. Does that mean I'm special? (She also gives us an explanation as to why the Velvet Room looks completely different in every game and why Belladonna and the rest of the old Velvet Room residents are nowhere to be found in P3 and P4)Oh yeah. So, how you doin'? Whoa, I never expected her to show any emotion whatsoever, but there we go. This just might be the beginning of something... (I kinda spoiled this in the previous post by accident... I don't know what I was thinking. Well, at least it wasn't a big spoiler and I don't think many people saw it anyway.)Is she coming on to me? She's totally coming on to me. However, before I get to know her better, I must show her my rare Persona ability. And how do I do that? Well, I'll let her explain: Well. As you can see, my Ippon-Datara knows a lot of things, but he doesn't know Sukukaja. Thus, we're going to have to mess around with the fusions just a bit. For that, I need to leave the Velvet Room and re-enter in order to get Igor to return. Can't do much of a fusion without Igor, you know. First of all, I need to get rid of my current Ippon-Datara in order to be able to fuse another one. I notice that fusing Jack Frost with Ippon-Datara will give me a hot half-naked demoness, so let's do that right now. (for your information, I decided to do a bit of censorship despite the fact that the Persona 4 portrait of Yaksini does not have visible nipples unlike her P3 FES incarnation. The 3D model has her hair covering up the important bits at all times, so I hopefully won't need to censor that)There we go. The fusion I used was Angel x Sylph. I also fuse Xiezhai because I need a better Persona with Hama skills. Angel just doesn't cut it any more. Well, there's your Ippon-Datara, now with special evasion boost action! She's actually talking about the Persona here. I think. This is definitely getting interesting. Social Link up, and there's her next request. That's going to be a bit harder than the first one. We'll check that out later, now it's time to go save Kanji. I really don't think it's that hard to get the "subtle" hints... Let's rock. --- Next time on LPP4: The manliest video game level this side of the Cho Aniki series!
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Post by shiranui on Feb 26, 2010 1:27:17 GMT -5
Entry 39: IWA Japan/Big Japan Pro Wrestling Present: Bathhouse DeathmatchThis time, we shall enter the Steamy Bathhouse dungeon! What kind of evils will be waiting for us inside?
--- Saturday, May 21 (continued)Teddie's not sure where Kanji is, so it seems the only way to find out is to proceed forward. What seems to be the problem, officer? Besides that giant hole in your gut, that is? The Bribed Fuzz can hurt you pretty bad with their guns, but they go down easy enough. We get Eligor from the card shuffle. This enemy is the Autonomic Basalt. These guys are weak to Garu, as Yosuke happily demonstrates here. Coming next, the most awesome follow-up attack ever. Yeah, Chie simply kicks the f*** out of an enemy so hard that it flies right out of the battle. No matter what its stats or resistances are or how big it is, as long as it's a common enemy it will blast off at the speed of light. This pretty much makes Galactic Punt the most useful follow-up attack in the entire game. All-Out Attack is not effective against these giant lumps of rock, so I just let Yosuke murder them with Magaru. I hate this dungeon so much. Lots of narrow hallways and doors, and often it's really hard to get the jump on enemies. MOVE ALONG, THERE'S NOTHING TO SEE HEYEaaaaarrrgghhhh. The Bribed Fuzz are weak against Mudo, so let's have Ippon-Datara thin out their numbers. F*** THIS DUNGEON. The doors open in such a way that often when you're trying to enter a hallway, you can't see shit because the opened door is in the way and screws up the camera angle. Good luck trying to see if the Shadow there has its back turned, in these cases you pretty much have to rely on the radar. Woo Woo Woo! In case how you were wondering how I'm getting all the Personas from the card shuffles despite the max number of them at once being 6 thus far, I've just been releasing the less useful Personas as I get new ones. The Personas received from Shuffle Time are not as strong as those you fuse in the Velvet Room, so I mostly get them to fill out the Compendium and for fusion fodder. Yay. Let's try it out, shall we? Screw this. Actually, when it does hit properly it can kill several enemies instantly (much like the Contrarian King can kill us), it just misses quite often. This accessory makes fire spells 20% stronger. It's pretty obvious who gets that. Does no one in my group realize what's going on with this place? On the third floor we're attacked by GAY ROBOT HULK HOGANS. One of them attempts to hit me with the Axe Bomber but misses and falls on his ass. They're also weak to wind. After dispatching the Gay Robot Hulk Hogans, we come across a door. Behind it is... well... Yeah, that's Kanji all right, or his Shadow to be more exact. If this guy were any more of a Japanese gay stereotype, he'd be dressed like Rob Halford and shouting "HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" while pelvic-thrusting to Ricky Martin songs. He kinda sways from side to side while he's standing, which is actually quite funny to watch. This fall on VH1! What? The guy can't look for love in an evil alternate dimension inside the TV? Well, yeah, this is quite a bit... um, gayer. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. We hear what sounds like a crowd cheering. We heard that when we met Shadow Yukiko for the first time as well, but here the voices are much louder. Yosuke and Chie theorize that they might belong to the people watching the show in the real world. Well, it sure gives an all new meaning to "Get bent!" ...okay, that was terrible. Sorry. Of course, it's actually Kanji's Shadow saying these things, but the people outside probably can't tell the difference. This also happened when we met Shadow Yukiko for the first time. I don't know what the deal behind it is. We only met a bunch of fat policemen, huge piles of rock and gay robot Hulk Hogans so far, but maybe you'll have better luck. He briefly goes back to the Badass Kanji voice here. With that, he runs off to look for that elusive thing, I guess. *GROAN* Teddie really, really needs to be PUN-ished for that stuff. Oh crap, here it comes. Bless you, Yukiko. "I am a complete failure." (yeah, he actually falls down on his face there after no one laughs at his terrible joke) --- Next time on LPP4: WHAT'CHA GONNA DO WHEN DARINGGIGAMANIA RUNS WILD ON YOU?!
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Post by MikeyMania on Feb 26, 2010 13:08:41 GMT -5
Sorry for lack of comments on my part. Still an excellent read but there's something about Kanji I don't like.
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Post by shiranui on Feb 26, 2010 20:54:53 GMT -5
Entry 40: BROTHER? BROTHER![/size] --- Saturday, May 21 (still continued)I still hate this dungeon. Here we see another trick it likes to pull (and which we'll see in some later dungeons as well) -- a corridor that forks to the left and right and both sides have a monster (and usually a chest). It's extremely hard to get the jump on the Shadows in places like this, because there is not much space and one of them is likely to see you if you take too much time and then you'll risk being ambushed. You do not want to be ambushed by an enemy in a Shin Megami Tensei game. Ever. Unless you're the Demi-Fiend and have Masakados, then it's not so bad. Of course, since the enemies here are so close to each other, we're in for two battles in a row. Let's do this. Meet the Nizam Beast. He does not have weaknesses, hits quite hard, and is pretty agile too as demonstrated here. However, these beasts seem to be quite susceptible to Confusion attacks. Skull Crackers all around! By the way, I love these little details such as the Nizam Beast's ball and chain floating in the air like a balloon whenever the creature is confused. Reinforcements have arrived. Another new enemy (well, palette swap, but still) is the Pursuing Pesce, and these guys are dicks. They attempt to cast Fear status on your party members and when they succeed, they summon a Phantom Master to hit a spell that presumably kills whoever is afflicted with Fear. They are weak to Hama, though. What makes them annoying is that they seem to have some sort of a pre-emptive strike ability -- if you don't ambush them they ALWAYS get the first strike, and that can be enough to f*** you up pretty bad. Once we've killed all the enemies in this corridor, we check the contents of the rare chest nearby. That is some very good armor for a female party member, I give it to Yukiko because I can. You might have noticed that I rarely, if ever, buy armor or weapons. That's because we can get just about everything we need from these treasure chests. A locked door? Where can we get the key for that? Goddamn Pursuing Pesce. Fear, as you might expect, can make one of your party members run from the battle. The glowing yellow Shadows are rare monsters. They're not very dangerous but can take quite a lot of damage and tend to hightail it if you take too long to kill them. The Wealth Hand is weak to Zio, at least. Beating a rare monster gives you a decent cash reward and a Chest Key. The Pursuing Pisces attempt to kill us again. I've been holding back on the instant death spells because they require quite a lot of SP, but now I've about had it with these guys. RGUAAH! DIE, YOU f***ERS, YOU BELONG ON A GODDAMN SANDWICH, FEEL THE HOLY WRATH OF MY CHINESE RAM UNICORN CREATURE THING OF DOOM Whee, more fusion fodder in the form of Saki Mitama. I also try my luck at Arcana Chance again, drawing the upright Lovers which removes all powerful Shadows from the area. This apparently means the ones with the pink glow, and we haven't seen any of those here anyway. Still, the upright Lovers effect is better than the opposite which would replace ALL enemies in the area with the powerful ones. I suppose that would be cool for power-leveling, though. I think we've seen enough, I'm not sure if we could handle any more manliness. Personas! Obariyon and Mokoi are a bit useless at this point, but let's get them anyway. Teddie can't sense anything, with all this steam and all. Retire from being a guide, eh? Hmm... could that mean we're getting a new, hopefully less annoying, support character in the near future? Confuse status is awesome. These Nizam Beasts are beating the hell out of each other and throwing money around. Level 2 fire spells, anyone? Hell yeah. Yaksini in action. Arm Chopper is an excellent attack when it hits and can kill an enemy instantly with some luck. Here it's not very effective, though. Sorry, man, I'm here to rescue you. Strictly business. Err... no. Sorry again. Anyhow, he promises to "prepare something spectacular" for us. I can hardly wait. Oh, come on, what could he possibly have come up with? We get Anzu and replace the Lovers Arcana effect with that of the Sun Arcana. This causes most of the cards in Shuffle Time to be replaced with Persona cards. I guess the opposite would be Persona cards disappearing completely or seeing more of the red penalty cards. Whatever, I hardly ever bother with Shuffle Time anyway because you no longer get money, weapons or extra EXP from the cards like in Persona 3. Another new/palette-swapped enemy. It dies quickly. Yay, Berith, the duke of Hell himself. Even more fusion fodder. More new enemies, here's the Tranquil Idol. One gets killed instantly with a Mudo spell, and the other one gets what looks like a SHORYUKEN. Somehow, the Titans looked slightly more impressive in God of War. He does know Dekunda, though, making him quite useful in fusions. Not going in there just yet, first I'll see how much it costs to refill my SP and if I can create any decent Personas in the Velvet Room. Goho-M time. With all due respect, Fox, go f*** yourself. Remember, that is the DISCOUNT price. I need to work on the Hermit Social Link a lot more to get the prices onto a level that is somewhat acceptable. I actually looked at the Fusion Forecast beforehand, and it said that creating a Persona of the Priestess Arcana would give said Persona some bonus EXP and the Resist Dizzy skill. So, here's Sarasvati. With some very nice skills, I might add. The skills inherited by a fused Persona is basically luck-based, although there are also limitations on what kind of skills certain Personas can inherit. You can cancel out of the fusion screen and go back as many times as you want in order to get the skills you want, and at worst this can take the better part of an hour to get right. Since we're here, might as well fuse Principality... ...and Phoenix. I also notice that I'm an idiot, because Phoenix would learn Growth 1 by itself without inheriting it and I spent some time trying to get that and Dekunda for the damn bird, but... well, at least it now has the skill earlier than usual. With my work in the Velvet Room done and no money for the SP refill, I go back to the dungeon to kill some more monsters and maybe enter the door on the fifth floor. Well. This is good. Now I'm certainly going to enter the door, there is a massive EXP reward to be gained. Is that... holy crap, it is! A GIANT GAY ROBOT HULK HOGAN. "WELL LEMME TELL YA SOMETHING, MEAN GENE! Brother, all my Hulkamaniacs know who will be standing tall at the end, brother! This vanilla midget Sôji couldn't draw men at a gay bathhouse, brother! The Hulkster, brother, is something else, brother! I will slam all of these guys so hard they'll crash through the Earth's crust and die three days later, just like what happened when I slammed that nasty 900-pound giant through the ring at Wrestlemania III in Madison Square Garden, in front of 500,000 people, brother! Now I'm cybernetically enhanced, better, faster and stronger than ever, brother, even though I'm 167 years old, and I now also have the power of the GAY COMMUNITY on my side so the Hulkster can't lose, brother! Ohh, brother! BROTHER!" "All right, brother, there is just one more question left: What'cha gonna do, brother? What'cha gonna do when GAY ROBOT HULKAMANIA runs wild on you?! And this time, dude, you should know that the Hulkster really means to 'run wild on you', brother!" --- Next time on LPP4: Hulkamania runs wild on us
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Post by MikeyMania on Feb 28, 2010 14:50:13 GMT -5
Waits for next update while being amused by giant gay Hulk Hogan.
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Post by shiranui on Mar 1, 2010 8:51:55 GMT -5
Entry 41: BAH GAWD WHAT A SLOBBERKNOCKER Last time on LPP4, we met Giant Gay Robot Hulk Hogan who now intends to run wild on us... unless we can somehow convince him to job.--- Saturday, May 21 (still continued)Yes, Gay Robot Hulk Hogan actually does the "YOU!" finger pointing when they charge up or boost their attack (Hulk up, if you will). The Hulkster's strategy in this fight is Power Charge -> Tarukaja -> Rebellion (critical rate up) -> Axe Bomber, always in that order. This is where Dekaja comes in quite handy, it brings his attack stat down somewhat. He still has Power Charge active, but Dekaja cancels the effect of Tarukaja. Rakunda, of course, is always useful. Anything that stops the Hulkster from no-selling everything is good. Of course, when he's ready to unleash the Axe Bomber, we guard. If he hits the move after Hulking Up and we're not guarding, it hurts a LOT. Yukiko, who already has the accessory that makes her fire spells 20% stronger, receives some extra boost to her attack from Chie. The Hulkster's defense has been weakened, and that means Yukiko's boosted Agilao spell hurts him quite severely. If she also had Mind Charge, that spell would be even more powerful. Where are your 24 inch pythons now? He tries to cast Rebellion on the next turn as usual, but uh oh! The Hulkster's SP has run out! Yes, that CAN happen to bosses too in this game. That also means Hulk is pretty much screwed now. "BAH GAWD ALMIGHTY, HOGAN DOESN'T KNOW WHERE HE IS! (or he's having a heart attack, hard to tell) YUKIKO IS LOOKING TO FINISH HIM OFF HERE! WILL SHE PULL OFF THE UPSET OF THE CENTURY?!" "THE AGILAO SPELL CONNECTS! HULK HOGAN GOES DOWN! HOGAN HAS BEEN DEFEATED!" And here's our handsome EXP reward, courtesy of the upright Moon Arcana effect. Seta Sôji will lay down to NOBODY. Honestly though, I hope we won't run into Gay Robot Nasty Boys or anything like that... We also get the key that I assume will let us proceed to the top, as well as open any locked doors there might be on the lower floors. Those are usually just shortcuts to the staircase, though. "Life is complicated. I've killed people, smuggled people, sold people. Maybe here things will be different." Well, yeah, I suppose. More new enemies, here is the Egotistical King. He is weak to wind, so we make short work of him. A very, very useful spell. Tentarafoo casts Confuse status on all enemies, and while it doesn't do damage it can be a lifesaver. We run into some Wondrous Magus. These guys are quite annoying, they have no weaknesses and possess quite an arsenal of elemental spells. There's also a Grave Beetle accompanying them, it doesn't have weaknesses either. Bastards. Killer Twins. While their name sounds like a bad indie rock band or an 80's slasher flick, they actually live up to it and are very dangerous especially if they ambush you. Their main attack is called Brain Shake, which is a physical attack that can kill one of your party members if it connects fully. They are weak to fire, though, so unless they ambush you they should pose no problem. Teddie gets his s*** together and manages to sense Kanji's location. Our SP is really low at this point, but there's not a long way to go so we'll probably make it. I give Yukiko a Snuff Soul just in case. Jack Frost learns Bufula, the level 2 single-target ice spell. He forgets Ice Break (removes an enemy's resistance to ice) in the process, but that's really not too useful anyway. Yaksini's Swift Strike attack is awesome. If it hits properly, it can kill an entire group of enemies. Comes in handy especially now that we're almost out of SP. Aaaaannnnd we've reached the top. Shadow Kanji is waiting right behind that door. The Contrarian King is so going to get his ass kicked now. I hope. Rakshasa is strong against physical attacks and his endurance is quite high, so Rampage probably won't kill us as quickly as before. That's it for today. --- Next time on LPP4, we may or may not beat the boss and save Kanji.
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Post by shiranui on Mar 3, 2010 2:05:12 GMT -5
Steamy Bathhouse dungeon music:
I don't have the next batch of updates ready yet for various reasons. Getting back to it soon enough.
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Post by Ash Kingston on Mar 3, 2010 4:12:17 GMT -5
Is it safe to assume one of those reasons involves the end of the world as PS3 owners knew it?
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Post by shiranui on Mar 3, 2010 4:36:02 GMT -5
Is it safe to assume one of those reasons involves the end of the world as PS3 owners knew it? No, that didn't affect this LP in any way. The actual main reason is that I simply haven't had time to play the game in the past few days, with the so-called real life sort of getting in the way. But yeah, looks like we're almost to the next page again, so let's wrap this one up with some more concept art. The early concept drawings of Kanji are quite interesting, he looks like Johnny Cash there.
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