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Post by Duke Cameron on Jul 25, 2020 16:05:48 GMT -5
Was never interested in shipping other characters. It’s always been the main character and the chosen love interest and that’s all I ship.
That being said,
Makoto/Mitsuru in Persona 3, Yu/Naoto in Persona 4 and Joker/Ann in Persona 5.
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Post by Cyno on Jul 25, 2020 20:41:48 GMT -5
I keep forgetting that one of P3 Male Protag's "canon" names is Makoto now, too. I'm used to calling him Minato.
That said, after seeing some stuff from the P4 fighting game spinoffs, I began shipping Mitsuru and Yukari big time.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jul 25, 2020 20:48:32 GMT -5
I really should get this while it is like $40 on PSN
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Post by eJm on Jul 27, 2020 8:18:40 GMT -5
WILL YOU PEOPLE JUST ANNOUNCE IT ALREADY?! I SHOULDN'T NEED THIS INFORMATION FROM FINANCIALS!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2020 16:49:53 GMT -5
I'm in the midst of wrapping up Royal at the moment and on the new main villain, I've gotta say... {Spoiler}I f***ing love Maruki. He's so damn good. I love that you genuinely can see where he's coming from while at the same time still finding him in the wrong, and honestly Royal makes it so easy to end up completely overpowered that making it more of a story fight than a gameplay one was a great idea. As much as there are hiccups along the way with how some of the new stuff is integrated into the original plot, once the ball gets rolling on the new semester it knocks it out of the park.
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Post by eJm on Jul 27, 2020 17:02:20 GMT -5
I'm in the midst of wrapping up Royal at the moment and on the new main villain, I've gotta say... {Spoiler}{Spoiler}I f***ing love Maruki. He's so damn good. I love that you genuinely can see where he's coming from while at the same time still finding him in the wrong, and honestly Royal makes it so easy to end up completely overpowered that making it more of a story fight than a gameplay one was a great idea. As much as there are hiccups along the way with how some of the new stuff is integrated into the original plot, once the ball gets rolling on the new semester it knocks it out of the park. {Spoiler}Maruki is a pretty damn good addition to things and it sounds silly, but I really didn’t see it coming when he was the final boss. Like, I thought his arc was done with the research but then it made sense that he would be and yeah, dude has some fair points and can see where he’s coming from. Also, I did like the challenge of his boss fight even if I died at points that got me raging a couple of times.
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Post by Cyno on Jul 27, 2020 17:08:06 GMT -5
{Spoiler}After how completely rotten and scummy Persona 5's cast of villains is, it's nice having Maruki as a contrast to that. His intentions are actually good or at least sympathetic and Maruki himself is not an evil person IMO. He just wants to help people and this is his way of doing that. But ultimately he's still in the wrong and we gotta course correct.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2020 0:38:11 GMT -5
I really have to commend Royal on how much more it made me like Akechi. He was possibly my least favorite character in the base game (it was between him and Mishima) while for Royal he's helped a lot by his expanded confidants making him a way more interesting, understandable character. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}And helped all the more by how in the new semester he's f***ing hilarious as your cackling supervillain teammate.
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Post by Duke Cameron on Aug 2, 2020 0:55:40 GMT -5
Nothing changed for me. I couldn’t stand Akechi in the base game and I couldn’t stand him in Royal.
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Aug 2, 2020 1:32:39 GMT -5
I really have to commend Royal on how much more it made me like Akechi. He was possibly my least favorite character in the base game (it was between him and Mishima) while for Royal he's helped a lot by his expanded confidants making him a way more interesting, understandable character. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}And helped all the more by how in the new semester he's f***ing hilarious as your cackling supervillain teammate. I loved his stuff in Royal, doesn't drastically change his base character but he feels a lot more fleshed out. Really enjoyed how the rivalry was expanded upon big time.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Aug 2, 2020 1:55:19 GMT -5
So, whatz the difference between this and P5?
P5 was one of my fav games, but I dont wanna shill out if its basically the same.
Is there much different, or is it a glorified DLC going for full price?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2020 2:38:51 GMT -5
So, whatz the difference between this and P5? P5 was one of my fav games, but I dont wanna shill out if its basically the same. Is there much different, or is it a glorified DLC going for full price? The base story is largely the same, but the key differences are... - There are a lot of gameplay refinements. Probably the most noteworthy are that Technical moves have been greatly expanded to not only be much more versatile but to be able to be leveled up to unlock additional perks from doing them. It results in pretty much everyone in the party being much more versatile than in the original game, especially as there are now items that can give them access to spells not of their usual type and there's a new Jazz Club area where they can learn moves they otherwise wouldn't. - Baton Pass has been completely reworked. Now everyone can do it automatically, passing to all four members of the party will give the fourth person to move an attack that besides being very powered up also doesn't have the usual SP or HP cost, and there are multiple levels of proficiency in it you can raise to get additional perks like healing. - Personas now have inherent traits that give them special abilities, which make tons of Personas more valuable than they otherwise would have been and add much more in the way of potential crazy builds. Combined with this there are a lot of refinements to fusions and itemizations, with itemizations now being able to be done as many times as you want, fusions occasionally being powered up when a siren is going off in the Velvet Room, much more freedom in regards to controlling the stat spread, and a lot of rebalancing weaknesses. - There's a new semester that continues after the end of the original game with a new palace that's the longest and most elaborate one in the game, along with a new section of Mementos. - There are two new confidants, Kasumi and Dr. Maruki, with Kasumi being a new party member. - Akechi is expanded to being a full confidant with his own events rather than simply being tied to the story. He's also made a permanent party member. - Mementos has been heavily spiced up, with adding stamps to collect hidden throughout it to increase the rate you gain experience, money, and items at, various potential gimmick floors, and a lot of refinement to the insta-kill ability you get from Ryuji's confidant to make it vastly more useful and yet more of an opt-in than it is in the base game. Another new character, Jose, appears throughout as a merchant selling rare items and has a bonus boss fight. - There's a new section of the city that's the largest one in the game and adds a lot of new areas. Besides being the location for a lot of the stuff I mentioned before there are also a lot of useful extra vendors, a guy you can routinely trade stuff to to get very useful new items, and more. - Social stats are a lot easier to grind and the game is vastly more generous when it comes to crafting. - All of the palaces have been reworked somewhat. The boss fights are changed to varying degrees and all palaces have areas where you can find items called Will Seeds to heal some SP and unlock very useful accessories, plus there are other tweaks in places. - All of the base game DLC is free for Royal, at least in the west. - There's a new side mode called the Thieves Den that you can unlock a ton of art in along with all of the game's cutscenes (and some extra videos) and music, it has a minigame you can play, and you can collect models to decorate it, with your confidants hanging around in it and having conversations about what you have on display. - You have vastly more freedom at night. Morgana usually doesn't keep you from going out and even when he does, most of the time you're allowed to find other things to do around Leblanc rather than just being forced to go to bed. All in all the game probably adds about 20 to 30 hours of new content along with retooling a lot of what's already there. It is largely the same game, but I do think it adds enough new stuff and freshens it up enough that it's well worth double-dipping on.
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Post by Cyno on Aug 2, 2020 13:37:52 GMT -5
Royal also adds new supermoves called Showtime that unlock at X date between certain characters and you can use them during certain circumstances in battle. They're all pretty amusing. {Spoiler}Everytime I used Akechi in Third Term, it's like "Dude, you need way more chill," especially during his and Joker's Showtime where he's just laughing maniacally.
A little bit of meta-humor I enjoyed: Bryce Papenbrook voices Morgana's short-lived human form, which means he voices not just a black cat themed-superhero but an actual black cat-like creature. His Human Morgana even sounds a lot like his out-of-costume Adrien Agreste voice.
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Post by eJm on Aug 2, 2020 14:10:33 GMT -5
I really have to commend Royal on how much more it made me like Akechi. He was possibly my least favorite character in the base game (it was between him and Mishima) while for Royal he's helped a lot by his expanded confidants making him a way more interesting, understandable character. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}And helped all the more by how in the new semester he's f***ing hilarious as your cackling supervillain teammate. {Spoiler} I love the fact that the story dialogue is him being like “Hey, I don’t like this as much as you do but it has to be done” and then in battles he’s like “TIME TO KILL, EVERYBODY DIES MOTHER F***ERS!”
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Post by Cyno on Aug 8, 2020 20:24:18 GMT -5
Got the true ending last night and I have to say this is legitimately one of the best games I ever played. The Valentine's and White Day sequences with Ren and Makoto were way too adorable. I somehow hope that any sort of clear data can function with Scramble PS4 because I want those two dorks to continue their relationship from there. The whole ending sequence and the epilogue was really well done, too.
Now I'm doing a replay (on a harder difficulty of course, though I'm aiming to clean up the trophies I haven't done yet for Platinum). Just have to decide if I want to do a relationship with Ann, Yoshizawa, or Hifumi this go around.
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Post by Cyno on Aug 18, 2020 15:59:39 GMT -5
"Throw Away Your Mask" is such a great tune. All the soundtrack additions to Royal like "No More What Ifs" and "I Believe" are great, too, but "Throw Away Your Mask" is such an emotional one. {Spoiler}The lyrics especially for the song resonate so well with Maruki, his motives, and his feelings towards Ren and the others.
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Post by eJm on Aug 19, 2020 15:54:28 GMT -5
So the Persona 5 anime is up on Funimation, fully English voice acted (so no need for the $200 foolishness), and because Ryuji’s voice actor shared it, now I must too.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2020 18:10:40 GMT -5
Sidenote, this game is really easy to platinum. I've never been an achievements guy (the only games I'd 100%ed before this one were the Nonary Games and Steins;Gate Elite) and yet I ended up finishing this one because toward the end of the game I realized I'd done practically everything except meditate at the temple so I went and did that.
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Post by Duke Cameron on Aug 19, 2020 18:29:44 GMT -5
I wonder if I’ll ever bother finishing Royal. I pretty much burnt myself out on the regular Persona 5 to the point that I haven’t had the motivation to continue Royal in months. Last thing I did was getting set to send the calling card to Kaneshiro and that was back in May or June.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2020 18:31:10 GMT -5
I wonder if I’ll ever bother finishing Royal. I pretty much burnt myself on the regular Persona 5 to the point that I haven’t had the motivation to continue Royal in months. Last thing I did was get preparing to send the calling card for the bank. What happened with me was I hit burnout on Royal after finishing the fourth palace and let the game sit for a few months, then my brother got back to playing it and that motivated me to do the same and I rushed through it from there.
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