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Persona 5 |OT| Lupin The Fifth. Label spoilers properly! (see post #4621)
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I don't know..
I'm coming up to what I assume to be the last stretch of the game, gathering my thoughts a bit since I'm away from my ps4 at the moment.
Love the game, its potentially my GOTY. But I would say I enjoyed P4 more, which is kind of baffling to me since P5 is undeniably more ambitious and the better overall game. It's something I've been struggling to come to terms with as I was playing through P5.
If I had to pin down a reason, it would be because the weaknesses of the Persona team's writing is a lot more noticible in 5 than 4. Both games have their fair share of questionable writing but since P4's tone is rather light it's easy to ignore and even derive enjoyment from some of it's dumber moments. P5 on the otherhand is far more heavy, which in turn makes it's dumb moments 10 times more aggravating and at times insulting. Now I'm not saying it's wrong for P5 to have its silly moments, I expected it to be silly at times due to its campy presentation and was perfectly on board for that. However there's a fine line between being campy and being stupid; and I feel like P5 was on the wrong side far too often for my liking.
Love the game, its potentially my GOTY. But I would say I enjoyed P4 more, which is kind of baffling to me since P5 is undeniably more ambitious and the better overall game. It's something I've been struggling to come to terms with as I was playing through P5.
If I had to pin down a reason, it would be because the weaknesses of the Persona team's writing is a lot more noticible in 5 than 4. Both games have their fair share of questionable writing but since P4's tone is rather light it's easy to ignore and even derive enjoyment from some of it's dumber moments. P5 on the otherhand is far more heavy, which in turn makes it's dumb moments 10 times more aggravating and at times insulting. Now I'm not saying it's wrong for P5 to have its silly moments, I expected it to be silly at times due to its campy presentation and was perfectly on board for that. However there's a fine line between being campy and being stupid; and I feel like P5 was on the wrong side far too often for my liking.
Dangansona
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Probably character building for Shinjuku
Augemitbutter
Member
another day of persona 5. nothing will stop me.
Blackquill
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Palace 6
I got the 50 000 coins but Akechi adviced me to play again, will it be useful ?
The main part of that situation that was odd to me was MC letting
them kidnap poor Ryugi and just strolling away like it was perfectly normal.
This game is pretty often gross. I am not thrilled about it.
Auto_aim1
MeisaMcCaffrey
Flower shop everyday after school for kindness and for proficiency make tools and read books.
I didn't, and didn't see anything I would have missed if I had more coins.
Proficiency gets levelled well if you make tools.
Kindness if you take a job at the florist, eat the meal at the diner when you study, certain movies, books, etc...
Not sure about the absolute best ways for each though.
Thanks for the tips everyone, much appreciated.
Do they automatically get downed when you hit them with an attach they are weak to, or is there something else to downing enemies?
Do they automatically get downed when you hit them with an attach they are weak to, or is there something else to downing enemies?
Auto_aim1
MeisaMcCaffrey
Yeah, use an attack they are weak too.
Question to someone that completed the game or knows already: That Scumbag
is the one with the black mask, triggering the
and also the mastermind the
-right?
I feel that way from the first hours of the game, I wonder why it's so clear who the baddy is this time around, in P4 it was much more of a surprise back then...
Shido
mental shutdowns
SIU Director is always talking to on the phone
I feel that way from the first hours of the game, I wonder why it's so clear who the baddy is this time around, in P4 it was much more of a surprise back then...
Hit with what they're weak to and they go down.
For enemies that have no weakness use status spells like sleep or forget etc... Making a powerful enemy with no weakness forget is a really good way to mitigate damage and deal more to the enemy.
This is also why upgrading your guns is mostly pointless as any enemy that's weak to them will almost always go down in one shot.
MetalGearOnlineK
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Omg whenever I get a text message in game I ALWAYS immediately press Square and it brings up the Log.
Just keep playing.
Yes. The scene with the maid and the one mentioned above are both incredibly backwards and quite gross.
It's weird, because the game seems to go out of its way to be progressive at other times.
If you know that much then you probably know how the net is cast and which characters play what roles.
To introduce the duo for another awkward scene later of course!
psynergylover
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got to the infamous 9/9 date
Yusuke da GOAT!!!
Yusuke da GOAT!!!
it's possible to be progressive on some issues and regressive on others... not to mention the cultural creative aspects of it.
I'm still surprised the translation department rolled with it. I wonder if there was any drama internally about them - there's no way a competent team could have been ignorant of how it would be received...
Judging a book by its cover is a fools play
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Heh, pretty much.
Yusuke was one of my favourite characters by the end of it. I loved his eccentricity.
This! He is my bro in this game.
Sun and Tower are two of the most worth it ones to level up.
texhnolyze
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Yeah, the writing is just incostincense in some areas.
It's like the script is written by more than one person.
I didn't like him at first either but is really hard to hate him once you get to know him.
Ignore devil and hanged man, but do complete sun. His perk is superb.
For palace 6, the game
won't let you send the calling card until the last possible day
It will have you wait to deliver the calling card.
buy teh haloz
Banned
Just finishing up palce 6 and I think it might be my favorite one.
Of course, and I understand the culture difference, it's just a /very/ jarring thing to go from a game that seems to be very progressive 90% of the time to this weird, slightly disgusting scene where the characters seem to forget their character.
That maid scene in particular was really weird. I hated the way the MC responded to Mishima's immaturity.
Can the translation team change things like this? Do they tend to have a say when it come to localisation issues that might arise?
Atlus seems to be quite sensitive to how their game will be seen by the west with their slightly bizzare insistence to force VA to pronounce certain surnames (didn't they do this to appeal more to the west somehow?), so if the team did bring this up I'd imagine they would have been receptive right?
I feel you and totally agree, that's why I strongly recommend you doing Sojiro and Futaba S-link because they're done well like Nanako and her father.
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