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No. 299952
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>>299949I love Megaten but man I wish I had more free time to play these games. I'm playing P5R, I started SMT3 in HD as soon as it got released and put it aside because I wanted to play other games a bit more, and I still haven't played Devil Survivor 1 and 2 despite having them on the 3DS.
No. 299953
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>stoic
>will cook 4 u
>will defend u
No. 299954
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>>299952me too. i am actually playing p5r after playing p5 twice years ago. it is a shame the story sucks. i only have devil survivor because the asshole who took my v-card gave it to me, and i never gave it back.
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No. 299960
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>>299953His only flaw is
dying No. 299962
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why couldn't she have picked ME
No. 299963
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>>1594606Here, have a Jonathan.
>>299954>it is a shame the story sucks.I agree and disagree at the same time. The story is often very interesting or has interesting concepts and then the next scene is so retarded it cancels the positive aspects of the story. Rinse and repeat. I'm not even trying to start the dungeon where Haru joins the part yet because I'm fucking sick of Morgana and wants to punt him into the sun. I'm sick of shitty mascots, it worked well with Teddie because everything about him makes sense in the context of P4 but Morgana seems to only exist because Teddie is kind of a popular character.
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No. 299965
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>>299963the later persona games did a really good job at having useless characters. i don't mind morgana's personality but the whole game i was wondering why the fuck he is there and the explanation makes no sense imo. i really, REALLY hate makoto though. she is so boring and i have no fucking clue why she appeals to moids so much. all the obsessive sexualization of her just made me somehow hate her more because i don't see the appeal at all. i wish hifumi was in her place.
No. 299966
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Used to be obsessed with SMT but memory holed most of that phase after how much I hated much of 4, all of 4A, 5, and what little I saw of SH2 (thank god it flopped)
Even my view of raidou got all the way fucked up after finding out there were actual nationalist faggots working on it, sad. Still love aleph and demifiend gay sex with dante
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>>299970i have a hard time shipping the persona protags in general, they don't often have much chemistry with anyone. i guess akira would be cute with haru imo. and narukami and yosuke are gay (not a fujo this is my only gay ship). minato i guess is cute with mitsuru. idk
No. 299977
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persona 2 best btw
No. 299981
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>fixes etrian odyssey's only two flaws: generic silent party members and generic fantasy backgrounds with a few standouts
>extremely fun and satisfying puzzles, as expected of an EO game
>qol boosted fun DIY mapping on top of automapping for lazies
>best execution of persona fusion, sub persona system was reminiscent of p1 and p2 but with more polish and QR code hax
>alice in wonderland level
>10000000 instances of fujobait
>yosuke omorashi scene
>theodore forced to wear frilly apron
>ken and kanji's cute and pure scenes together
>tragic shojo bullshit couple plot, it was great do not argue about it
>the plot twist wasn't obvious either because i didn't clock it and i'm smarter than all of you
>great replay value because you straight up start with p3 team OR p4 team and there are tons of differences between which you pick, 2 play throughs are a must
>no moid pandering??? game was women's business cover to cover???
persona q was not only peak EO and peak persona but it was one of the best games in the 3ds library. i'll have to never play q2 if it's shit, don't want its good name tarnished.
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>>299981forgot to add, the corndog rei was eating all the time looked tasty
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+ you can marry all the guys in the group date cafe level but everyone who knows anything about the game knows that by now
No. 299985
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da best
No. 299987
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>>299981maybe i should pick it back up again.
No. 299989
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>>299987pls do there's a scene where him and shinji are smugly begging eachother to take their clothes off
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No. 300014
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>>299998Why is Katsuya so perfect?
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>>300015He's my favorite character of persona 2 tbh. Very underrated character
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>>300074yea! mechanically pq is an eo game with a persona skin, but like i said eo doesn't have as much fluff as pq, that's the persona element. they're still lovely games that get better with each entry, so if you want to play them i'd recommend starting the 3ds titles in order of release. it doesn't matter for the plot or anything just the qol updates between games can be so huge and it may feel jarring to play older games once you get comfy with newer ones. some of the girl party member designs can be a little coomer but thankfully every class has different design options, 2 boys and 2 girls to choose from + 1 pallette swap for each, and the boy options aren't ugly cretins either they're just as cute.
love lolita granny rover option from eo5 a lot. this is turning into a fatlus general.
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>>299966>spoilerWait what, I've been out of the loop for a long time
No. 300140
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The last Megaten game I played was SMT IV. I absolutely HATED the start until the major plot kicked in, and then for a while it was awesome SMT apocalyptic goodness. But after you have to choose between Jonathan and Walter, I got stuck with Lucifer and my interest completely dropped. I stopped playing shortly after the confrontation with Isabeau.
I never played Apocalypse because it looked too anime/moe even compared to IV. But I was pleasantly surprised that IV still felt like a SMT game, even looking at the designs now some of them had that Kazuma Kaneko vibe.
No. 300143
>>300140I hate how difficult it can get in SMT4 if you want the neutral route. I just
didn't want to kill Isabeau. I liked SMT4A a lot, I liked the story and characters and feel like it's good that the atmosphere isn't the exact same as 4 or I would have found it too repetitive. I'm just mad that Nozomi has a shitty grandma sounding voice actress in English in 4A despite her sounding like a normal young woman in 4.
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Happy Birthday Goro!!!
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adacher.
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Hopefully this doesn't mean anything, I think they have milked P5 enough already.
It's a huge stretch, but if it ends up being real I hope it's a code for P5 theatre or something. They have just finished the P5 stage play, so they may move on with Strikers now. At least the stageplays are fun and they don't slow down the actual games development.
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Please, just stop with these games. I get it, they're cute but who fucking needs this? Who buys this? They already made Q and Q2 as spin-offs. Why won't they focus on good regular games.
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>>301752There are lots of people into SRPGs, but I can't keep laughing at how Atlus overshadowed their own announcement by showing P5T alongside P3RE kek How did they think it was good marketing?
I have seen a total of 4 people talking about it. I loved the PQ art, but this one looks kinda ugly imo because of the exaggerated limbs.
I’m very excited for P3RE though, it needs some polishing (hopefully they will fix that in the 6-8 months it has left to come out) and I dislike the clash between the P3-style models and P5-style portraits, but I’m pretty content with the bit we have seen. Really digging the whole water/drowning theme it has going on.
The change to pre-rendered cutscenes gives me hope that FeMC will be on it as well since replacing models and changing it a bit is way easier than animating another character.
No. 301769
>>301762Leak, it will be officially announced later today. But it’s just a teaser, my bets are that they will show a full MC-only trailer during Atlus' expo in July, and then in October they will give FeMC her own trailer.
Would be weird to not include her after all the pushing they have given her, and even though it would be on brand for Atlus to ignore half of the game, I prefer to stay positive.
No. 301770
>>301758>I loved the PQ art, but this one looks kinda ugly imo because of the exaggerated limbsExactly! They could have just used the PQ style but with higher quality, but then they decided to teak it into those things and it's kinda ruined. I still think we didn't need a SRPG with P5 style and the same exact story as P5 and Strikers (and the gacha shit).
P3RE looks good to me, I don't think the portraits clash that much honestly. The theme looks very cool as you said.
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Yukari looks so pretty in her new key art.
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Lmao turns out there are anime cutscenes, you beat me nona. Will still buy day 1, but FeMC and her gay links is y favorite way to play P3. A shame she won't be in, P3 really needed a complete edition.
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>>301787big downgrade from the old art, sad. p3 didn't need a "modern" remake idc what anyone says. maybe it just didn't click that hard with me but i can't see how someone would want to play it more than twice (fes and girl in portable). it's a loooooong 6.8/10. the answer was gay.
>>301790>anime cutscenesrip femc copers
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Reload is a fucking vanilla remake, I cant believe this. I'm still excited for the new content/scenes, but if they dare to remove Aigis' social link I'm not giving them a single penny.
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>>301752wtf is this ahaha? i knew back when p5 came out it was going to be milked a hundred times worse than p4, but it still annoys me.
>>301758ahh actually looking forward to that, p3 was my first persona/smt game. but i still worry there's gonna be SOME shitty letdown because that's just the state of the gaming industry for years now
No. 301810
here's the reveal trailer. i hope any new content is fun/interesting, it is a bit weird seeing p3 so… polished? like it is almost too polished looking in the trailer to me. don't really like the blue UI but whatever, didnt really like p4 or p5 UI either honestly. not a big fan of some of the newer portraits but yukari's is extremely cute. kenji still ugly af of course.
>>301785yeah it kind of took away what made p3 stand on its own.
>>301790i also don't get why no FES or P3P content - to get the release out sooner? still looks cool, i will definitely still play it to see what's new and i've already played FES and P3P multiple times now
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>>301815♥ P1 and P2. i've seen several times though that one of the creators (sorry forgot his name) left Atlus or passed away and Atlus doesn't want to touch the early games out of respect or something. Kind of sucks. I just really fucking wish that P2 anime teaser was actually a promo for a real anime instead of another way to advertise the game.
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Does Resident evil have a good lore or should i give silent hill franchise a try?
No. 301871
>>301864Just came here to see if anyone's talking about it, I'll post the trailer.
It looks really good technically (menus are cool and the animations seem very original, although very clearly inspired by P5's style) but it's seems awfully derivative. The fairy mascot reminds me of Berserk, SOME characters you see look kinda cool but the ones who seem to be playable are so ugly and all over the place. The gameplay also looks like the average Persona game. And everything looks so.. brown and dull.
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>>301962Official website
https://metaphor.atlus.com/ for the game only displays the xbox and windows logos. It’s just strange, Atlus games and sony consoles are like bread and butter, they just go together. Plus I can’t imagine that there are many jrpg fans that exclusively use xbox.
No. 302018
>>302005Sony has died and is no longer Japanese, so I'm not surprised.
It'll probably come out on sony consoles though.
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I hate that everyone keeps saying that Meguro's best OST is the one for Persona 5. He peaked at DDS1 and 2. It's a masterpiece, no matter what newfags think about it.
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nooooo
No. 302227
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>>302166I only heard the ENG dub the 1st time I played P3 (I sticked to JP for the rest of times I played a game with the P3 cast because I love MC & Aigis' JP voices too much) so I'm barely used to the ENG VAs, but I will miss Yukari's. It's very different from her JP VA, but it fitted her very well hahah.
It surprised me they’re changing ALL the VAs though, Junpei’s was going away for sure due to being a sexual harasser, but I thought the rest would stay. I listened to bits from the new VAs and they seem fitting for the most part, the only one I got my doubts on is Akihiko.
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>>302227akihiko is my p3 husbando so i'm sad liam o'brien isn't voicing him this time around. and i loved michelle ruff as yukari as well.
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my FUCKIGN queen.
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>>302336when i first played p3 FES, i had a crush on junpei and hated yukari. i have no idea why but i was 16 and literally retarded. i think i changed my mind when i was 18. yukari is super cute and i like her attitude and backstory. i love her design too. junpei is just a retarded coombrained moid. there's absolutely no fucking way the dude's hard drive isn't full of the most depraved shit known to man. what was i tinking.
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Mitsuru deserved better than this… Why did they even felt the need to replace the whole cast, specially when Tara did such a good job as Mitsuru and Elizabeth? I don't even believe she's gay, with that ~queer~ on her bio she's most likely a spicy straight TRA.
>>302337Glad you saw the light haha Yukari is one of the best P3 characters. I specially loved her S-Link with FeMC, I just know she would browse LC. I don't get how people can like Junpei, he was kinda ok during the Chidori arc and a bit on his S-link, but everything before and after that is unbearable.
No. 302382
>>302381love chidori, she deserved better than junpei. and yes yukari definitely seems like the type to be a farmer, she would fit right in.
as for mitsuru's VA…
i won't lie, i don't think it's cool to insult a woman for looking manly by saying i genuinely thought this was a TIM because it feeds the TRA bullshit, but i really did think this was a dude.
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>>302381ahhh! the fucking cringe
No. 302525
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I haven’t played a Persona game since the ps2 era, the models are too uncanny for me
No. 302527
>>302525the ps2 models are more charming, kind of like how 07expansion's original portraits are compared to the newer ones.
would like to see a remake of the p2 duology where it's like p3 or p4 visually but everything else is kept the same. strolling through a 3D sumaru city sounds relaxing.
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'ate junpei
'ated crying over shinjiro
love me a clueless bf
simple as
No. 302533
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>>302528aki is clueless in a cute way too but theo i guess is different since he's clueless in an otherworldly kind of way
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>>302551fatlus better not fucking mess with him. he's cool, sweet, and innocent without even trying. a tranny in his presence would disturb and confuse him.
No. 302567
>>302552they will make bebe nonbinary, cap this.
i remember the hotel scene with akihiko…………….. i never want to leave that hotel. i want to marry him so much aaah I WISH HE WAS REAL.
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>>302533he's also cute but I don't know how to feel about his p4au looks.
plus, part of theo's appeal for me are the silly bellboy suit and the gloves he wears.
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>>302599i MUCH prefer aki his in school uniform, he just looks so sweet. i don't like the whole muscleman thing but also a friend in high school (who is now a TIF) once sent me fanart of him, unprompted, of P4A aki literally sucking a cock and i was pissed at her bc it was disgusting, so that probably also makes me not like it as much either.
No. 302607
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Kanji is one of the two male characters I like from any of the new Persona games. Sometimes when I'm sad I think about sewing with him in order to feel better…
>>302228Same nonna, I loved both Yukari and Akihiko's English VAs. Some moid I watch reacted to the news and said he was glad they replaced Yukari's original VA because she sounded like a bitch?! Male Personafags don't deserve rights.
>>302525New Persona models (and new Persona games in general) are so soulless.
>>301810It's so bright and saturated… I loved the dingy vibes of Persona 3, but ofc they're trying to morph it into P5. Ugh. And no femc alone makes me not want to play this - along with the fact that Kenji as a character hasn't been erased from this game entirely kek
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I was looking up Aigis cosplayers and sometimes I forget that 2007 was 15 years ago. Something about 144p photos of cosplayers goofing around really warms my heart, specially the LJ comments under them, they all seem so genuine.
I seem to have lost it, but I remember not long ago I found a SMT/P1+2 geocities with cosplay pics too.
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>>302607i agree, kanji is one of my fav p4 characters. and he's hilarious and super loveable in the p4 anime.
yukari was kind of supposed to be somewhat "bitchy" though… she had no idea what really happened to cause her dad's death and her mom and her had a strained relationship. she literally doesn't trust mitsuru from the get-go due to her father owning the company her dad worked at so she has her defenses up, it's completely understandable. when she gets her ultimate persona it's because she reaches out to have a real friendship with mitsuru, she softens up and becomes kinder it's literally her character arc. coomers just self-insert into junpei when literally any self-respecting woman would be a bitch to him. moids don't fucking understand or appreciate well written female characters. that's why makotoad was such a hit for p5 faggots, she's got the personality of a string bean and seems easily manipulated because she kinda fucking is.
i miss the soul of the earlier persona games, especially the 2 duology.
and same, i thought the kitchen scene with yukari looks cute but it's kinda odd seeing everything so clean looking and HD. to be fair i'm extremely biased in general to older graphics and retro style games anyway. if they ever touch p1 or p2 again i'd hope it'd be as close to the originals as possible and nothing fancy and shiny like this. then again i don't really like how zoomers have gotten into p2 the past years but it's because i'm selfish and dun wanna share my special niche weeb game with them.
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BABY BOY, BABY BOY.
my sad lil baby boy.
i wont ever let nobody hurt u.
its not yur falt nobody understands u.
i hope tatsuya can fix ur hart, boo.
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fukcing ugly. SO UGY!!!!
No. 302688
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wish I lived in Sumaru city, looks so comfy.
No. 302703
>>302702duuude what
im playing p5r atm and you're telling me you get to go to sumaru? and they botched it miserably?
No. 302782
>>302703You don't go there, I think she's refering to another thing.
(Kind of unrelated and my memory of it is kinda fuzzy, but I couldn't stop laughing back when I reached the final boss of the og P5, they really did a Nyarly 2, uh… Now that I think about it, P5 copy-pasted a bunch of things from P2IS and made them worse kek)
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>>302782They didn't even try to be subtle, I remember when P5 wasn't even released yet and the very first trailer where we saw Yusuke for half a second everyone was shitting themselves and spamming "OMG OMG JUN??? JUN??? OMG HE LOOKS LIKE JUN!!!" on tumblr. But Yusuke only looks like Jun, Akechi's role is more similar to Jun's. Then there's Ann being Lisa 2.0 and her most direct and personal antagonist also being a deranged pedo who targeted her friend, Makoto and Sae being Tatsuya 2.0 and Katsuya 2.0 but way more boring. Honestly I think it's stupid to claim Atlus is pretending that they forgot about P1 and P2 when P5 is so inspired by P2 and P3 is basically a Snow Queen Quest sequel.
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>>302821>>302782all of this is true. the newer persona games are too mainstream and pandering to ever be able to capture what the older ones did right.
on a side note, i love using the p2 DLC costumes in p5 and p5r and how akechi's is jun's kasugayama uniform.
No. 302924
>>302832I almost always use the P2 and SMT if… costumes just because I'm getting sick of the horrible P5R battle theme. The original battle theme in P5 is so much better but there's no way to exclusively hear it unfortunately. And the Seven Sisters' uniform look great on top of that.
>how akechi's is jun's kasugayama uniform.It's funny how Atlus gave no fuck when it comes to hiding Akechi's real identity as one of the main antagonists, even before the game got released.
No. 302926
>>302924i have akira wear the P1 uniform because i fucking love lone prayer but the rest i have wear seven sisters uniforms. oh and morgana wears the catherine costume because i luv sheep.
i honestly don't like any of the p5 battle music, not even last surprise. no hate on the singer, i just don't like the style of music idk.
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sharing this here bc i forgot i had it and it's cute
No. 302929
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chikarin, my underrated queen.
No. 302930
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>>302928that was why we got no raidou costumes on the switch? i was so confused to not see them there. i also noticed they removed the rising sun logo on ryuji's shoes.
do you use japanese or english voices? my first playthrough i had english on and the battles became so fucking annoying so the 2nd time i played p5 and now with p5r i have had japanese on simply because its less annoying when i don't understand what they're saying lol.
No. 302939
>>302930>that was why we got no raidou costumes on the switch?I think so. iirc the Korean version of the SMT3 remaster doesn't have Raidou at all either which is really weird because I'm sure Dante is still an optional DLC for them so it's not like Dante replaces Raidou entirely in that case.
>do you use japanese or english voices?I started playing P5 vanilla at a guy's place (a friend of a friend) and he was retarded so he didn't believe me when I said he could download a patch for free to get the Japanese voice acting until I was 20h into the game. He accidentally deleted my save file so I beat Madarame and did some stuff after that almost only in English and it sounded so fucking bad. Thank god I didn't reach the arc where Futaba is introduced because her American voice actress said she made her sound like she's autistic on purpose because that's her headcanon iirc. The same voice actress who made Asahi in SMT4A sound way too fucking annoying despite Asahi being a great character imo.
I'm in the middle of P5R right now and I'm playing it with a French translation and with the Japanese voice acting and it's so much better. Ryuji sounded stupid and childish in English, and now in Japanese and French he actually sounds like a troublemaker who ACTUALLY swears every five seconds. Even Morgana swears once or twice to insult him which is funny as fuck. It's insane how obsessed with censorship and making games family friendly American localizers are. Hearing Ryuji saying "effing" out loud instead of "fuck" and "fucking" all the time in a game where the first story is explicitly about a pedophile assaulting his teenage students was super weird like. What a strange sense of priority. It's not exactly a family friendly game and late teenagers, who are parts of the target demographic, swear way more than that irl.
No. 302947
>>302939>and now in Japanese and French Ryuji actually sounds like a troublemaker who ACTUALLY swears every five secondsNTA but I'm glad to hear he swears like a sailor in French too, I'm playing P5R in Spanish and they translated him the same way. I dunno if the EU localization is better or worse than the US one since my JP level is akin to a preschooler, but at least I’m glad that for P5R they didn’t fully follow the English one and actually made the characters talk normally. I’m enjoying the game much more thanks to the new translation, ENG was so stale.
In the other hand, the EU translations for P3P, P4G and P4U suck so much because they made a direct translation from ENG and called it a day (they didn’t even bother to check the JP scrip, the ENG P4U translation is butchered and the same mistakes are present in the EU one). Also in ESP, for the female route in P3P they didn’t even change the male gendered adjectives/nouns towards her most of the time lmao.
No. 302959
>>302947I played P3P and P5G in English in their original consoles so I didn't know that. That sucks, especially because they were translated in other languages after P5R iirc.
>Also in ESP, for the female route in P3P they didn’t even change the male gendered adjectives/nouns towards her most of the time lmao.The definition of not giving a fuck kek. They have no excuse here because the English script and dub is slightly different and you clearly read and hear the characters saying "she" and "her" when you play as the FEMC.
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ADACHER.
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where's my fellow akihiko loving anon?
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I just saw P2:IS fanart on Twitter that had over 1k likes… I miss when I was 13 and it was a game that only autists on /v/ knew about. Now the fandom has more of a female fanbase which would be amazing if most of them weren't gendies and/or fujoshis. I was talking on Twitter with another woman who's into the series and she said the only reason she played it was because you could romance Jun and she loves kweer representation.
I feel like a lot of modern P2 fans are like that, as well as forcing gendie shit onto random characters whilst ignoring 99% of their actual characterization (as well as the plot). Sorry for my autistic ranting nonnas… I think I need to just stick to mainline SMT.
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>>304854why must they ruin my baby boy???
yes they're obsessed with characters so they can project shit onto them instead of recognizing their importance in the story.
No. 304890
>>304854I'm friend with this one girl who is super sweet and makes nice art but she keeps using she/her on Jun and it makes me crawl on my skin lmao
>>304857Yeah in Japan the female part of the fanbase is big and they're mostly the ones who make art/content for it, but from what I can see the western side is mostly male dominated unfortunately. I befriended some women into megaten but most of them are some flavour of nb/trans men sadly.
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>>304948i love how the gendies have come full circle
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>>304948Kek yeah, but she's pretty much just projecting because she's one of these "men can be soft" aidens. Doesn't make it much better though.
>>304952I remembered the megaten web search the other day and I'm glad it's saved on Wayback Machine. I have to keep pocking around, but sadly the great majoroty of the sites listed are long gone, with no wayback saves (and/or with broken images for the ones saved there).
I miss the energy of these sites honestly, I even started to google/deepl translate the fics I found on the websites that survived lmao.
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just met him in p5 last night and i hate the clumsiness and glasses but he kinda cute.
also googling pics of him gave me spoilers, FUCK me man
No. 305138
>>299949The biggest P2 websites I remember browsing were called Allegory of Whatever (IS) and Crime and Punishment (EP). It had a huge amount of info about Innocent Sin before the fan translation was completed.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080409220130/http://www.chthonian.net/persona/tsumi/characters/https://web.archive.org/web/20080222023624/http://www.chthonian.net/persona/batsu/I got into Persona when P3 came out while I was in highschool, but two of my friends were older and happened to have played P1 and P2. It was kind of funny because P3 was so different in style it seemed like it barely had anything to connect with the other games.
No. 305146
>>305138love these links, thanks for sharing.
i enjoyed p3 as i played FES first, but i really fell in love with the p2 duology when i played both of them, even if most people consider the gameplay dated.
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>>305186luv dds as well, gale is a cutie
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>>305138I skimmed your links and they seem interesting, I need to sit down to read them more thoroughly. Something about these kinds of sites warm my heart.
I found about this P2 site a while ago and I liked it (I found it cute how it was IS only in 1999 and then in 200 it turned into IS+EP). The little drawings are adorable and it has info I haven't seen anywhere else, like translations of parts of the P2 fanbook.
https://web.archive.org/web/20000914083730/http://www.geocities.com:80/Tokyo/3857/gamep2.html>>305140First the novels of another game I like and now the P2 anthologies, I shouldn't have skipped my french classes kek
Over here they barely licence any manga even if its source is popular (the P5 one got licensed 4 months ago for example).
I'm curious though, is the french edition the same size as the japanese one? I imported some anthologies from japan and it surprised me they're a chunk bigger than your usual manga.
No. 305346
>>305321When I was trying to remember the old sites a couple things bummed me out:
1. Everything now is stuck on fandom/wiki sites instead of having unique html designs like fan sites
2. It’s actually kind of hard to find the old site names / links on Google because the search engine’s so fucking bad
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I’m finishing P5R right now (just started the 3rd semester) and ugh, I don’t even know if I want P6 anymore. I played this series in release order since the PSP versions of P1-3 are awfully easy to pirate, I loved P1-2, P3 is the weird middle child (but I ended up loving it thanks to all its supplementary media), but P4-5 were unbearable for me.
Specially P5, it just drags itself for 130 hours with content that barely has substance, the characters lose all their personality and just become a static anime trope after their arcs that last like 5 minutes, and the game itself seems like it’s too scared to actually make any social commentary in case it offends anyone. I just hope this very last arc is at least mildly interesting. And P4 wasn't much better, but at least the story was a bit more entertaining
until they blamed it all on a godFrom what I know, the head writer for Persona changed (he was the one who wrote the 3rd semester and P5S, I think? But since I haven’t played these yet I can’t comment on the quality) so that gives me a bit of hope, but if P6 decides to follow P5’s footsteps and ends up being another +100h game with a stale story I’m calling it a day and just stick to P1-3.
>>305346Yeah, all Google pulls up nowadays are AI-generated articles made to rank high on SEO unfortunately . I usually use these search engines if I want to find old/obscure pages
https://www.oldavista.com/ - Where I found that P2 site, it searchs for archives of defunct websites.
https://www.marginalia.nu/ - It searches for sites that are still up but badly optimised for current-day web standards, personal sites, and similar.
https://wiby.me/ - I don't use this one much, but it exists as well.
Neither of them are fully optimized, so they miss lots of potential results and such, but they can be a good start
No. 305565
>>305554Totally agree. I played P5 when I was a teenager and didn't really like anyone, now that I'm playing Royal as an adult for whatever reason I started liking Ryuji, Ann and Yusuke a lot more. Especially Ann. Still dislike Makoto though. She really does ruin the dynamic, I hate how she's written. It's a shame because I think she had the potential to be a better character. I think her feelings of uselessness, how she feels pressured by and like a leech on her sister but there's only so much she can do as a student, how she impulsively tries to prove that she's not useless etc are very fitting of a character her age, but she turns into a complete Mary Sue after that. Feels very forced. She makes me think of a worse
Twilight Sparkle kek.
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>>305566>>305567Team Hifumi ♥
i would bet that's where her out of nowhere "omg im so useless (sad face)" comes from, leftovers from Hifumi's character arc. Like, Makoto is student council president and does very well academically and the fatty principal fat fat literally asks her to stalk akira, ryuji, and ann for no apparent reason imo. she's a complete mary sue and useless in battle, moids just like her stupid ass coom costume (fwiw i don't like ann's costume either, it's creepy to see high schoolers in latex). Hifumi is a badass shogi player, elegant, beautiful, and well-read. Makoto is just one of those idiots who has no interests and can regurgitate information robotically on an exam.
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if only. so much cooler than whatever the fuck makoto's AOA pic was, not even memorable
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>>305553I'm not from the US, but yeah it may be a regional thing, now that you mention it when I see manga shelves from the US the sizing seems to be pretty inconsistent. The only manga I have bought from Japan are anthologies and all of them are bigger than our usual manga size, so I assumed it had to do with the kind of comic. Unfortunately P2 is the only Persona entry who doesn't have a manga adaptation of its story, all its comics are anthologies so that's why I asked.
(The novels I mentioned are Kirby ones. Yeah it has novels kek)
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>>305737Thanks for replying, I'm glad they're keeping the original size then, they're a joy to read. Doujin/zines and anthologies kind of spoiled me and now I hate reading on the usual A5 size, I feel like a grandma with poor eyesight kek
I remember reading a fan translation some time ago, but it was only one of the volumes if I recall correctly. Both the story and some of the artists’ styles were super cute, I should track them again. I have also seen screenshots of the EP gang, so I’m guessing they made anthologies for that game too, but maybe they’re stuck in Japan.
No. 305925
>>305911Thanks you in advance!
Yeah that's why it surprised me to read the P2IS ones got published in France, you guys got lucky! I mainly collect the P3 ones and just for that game alone there are +40 (and another new one in the works) so I don’t expect them to bring them all outside Japan especially considering anthologies are often 4komas, but it’s cool to see a few officially translated.
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I finally started playing Devil Survivor and I gotta say that Atsuro is a real one. I wasn't expecting to like him so much. I don't want to go too into spoilers but he stays with the protagonist throughout all the endings (unlike other characters)
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>>310307Is DeSu any good? It has been on my radar for quite some time after stumbling upon a fan translation to my native language, but the battle system seem a bit Fire Emblem-esque from what I have seen & it's a gameplay I find very hard to get into.
I dig its… early 2000s yaoi doujin artstyle (I don't know how else describe it kek). The protagonists look made on the same factory as the P3 MC, I want them on a jar.
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>>310425Yeah it was drawn by the P3-4 mangaka during the 25th anniversary. I'm pretty sure there is artwork of the protagonists wearing each other's uniform except for P1
(can't blame them, as much as I love P1 the uniform is kinda ugly kek) >>310440I love VNs, maybe I can endure the battle system then, I will try playing it when I finish with my small backlog. Maybe it's just because I'm aware of its existence now, but I have seen lots of people getting into and/or mentioning DeSu lately on social media, I found it curious seeing it over here as well.
No. 311135
>>302782P5R third semester is basically Maki's story from the SEBEC route. Except this time the Kandori (Maruki) is a nice person and instead of Nyarlathotep, it's Azathoth, Nyarly's father.
P5 in general is essentially a mix of both IS and EP.
>>302821 And
nonnie here is right that P3 is basically an SQQ sequel.
>>302703Sumaru is based on Yokohama, but thanks to hidden files in P5R and that Strikers game, Sumaru City basically doesn't exist anymore and now it's only Yokohama. IIRC P3's Iwatodai was based on Kobe but changed it to be Tokyo which makes the lore even weirder considering how so much crap is left unnoticed since it's in Tokyo now.
No. 311143
>>311139>Karukozaka highkind of weird but cute
>St. Hermelinits okay imo
>Seven Sister's highda bes
>Kasugayama highits neat but maybe im biased because i love jun
>Gekkoukan highbretty cute
>Yasogami highits shit and ugly
>Shujin academyat first i thought it was hot but now it just looks stupid to me.
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>>311139Lmao what I like about the P5 uniforms are the pants/skirts.
My favorite one overall is Sevens', though I really like the P3 uniform for the girls, the crop-top cut for the blazer is cute (ziper sleeve is dumb though)
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what are your favorite demon designs anons? and don't say mothman. I love any bishie setanta and cu chulainn iteration, also loved oberon, mithras, metatron, and fenrir
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>>311188samefag, forgot male amaterasu from 3
now that i think about it all my smt playthroughs turn into gay husbando harem training games somewhere down the line
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>>311188(old) Lilim, Pixie, Angel, Mermaid, Hua Po, Throne, Nekomata, Narcissus, Atropos, Clotho, Lachesis, Fortuna, Norn, Attis, Mot, Trumpeter, White Rider, Scathach to name a few. i like the feminine demons and some of the creepy ones too.
doesn't really count but i love yukari's persona Io and Ulala's Callisto.
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>>311188Pegasus from devil children. He's just so derpy. I love most of the cutesy designs from the devil children/demikids games.
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>>311222Honestly there are so many good designs
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>>311188Smt v was meh but i do love fionn
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P3 Thanatos because he's hot, but I wish Caladrius appeared in more games, they're super cute.
IV was my intro to SMT as a whole and my favorite thing about it was how varied the demon designs were, ranging from cute pets to hyper-designed monsters, there's pretty much a demon for everyone. It surprised me that it seems to be a part on the fandom who pretty much dogpiles everyone who isn't Kaneko, I though the variety of artists/designs was one of the games' strong points.
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>>311275the guest artists were hated cuz they were shitting out designs like this. range is cool, but it's something most smt games have. variety is also cool but what's cooler is quality, and the demon design quality took a nosedive after kaneko left (he designed none of the new demons from 4 on) not just cuz of the bad guest designs but doi. doi isn't a bad artist but he's a terrible demon designer. when he spontaneously got thrown the reins more fgocore coomer demons like mermaid and fertile child demeter started popping up and lots of ugly masks to save him from having to give the demons real expressions. i don't think it's a coincidence the mask face demons look like personas either, their cash cow. 4 was the beginning of smt's identity crisis spiral.
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>>311328God, Mermaid infuriates me so much, specially as someone who loves mermaids, her concept art shows more mature designs but of course they had to pick the one that looks like a half-naked child. I don't mind coomer designs, but I wish they at least didn't look like kids.
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There's an artist I follow on twitter who does gorgeous SMT fanart. She mostly focuses on SMT2, and likes to draw yaoi stuff of Aleph and other characters.
https://twitter.com/o__cx No. 311356
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I love her so much and the remake is going to ignore her… she made P3 so much fun for me… Atlus, you've spurned me yet again…
No. 311362
>>311356Same
nonnie, feel like they cut her out cos you can romance the men for once but you didn't get many good options.
rip shinjiro No. 311371
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>>311350She's awesome, thanks for the rec anon. Most of the SMT artists I follow focus on SMT3, nice to see some 2 appreciation.
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I miss memessa, her art was gorgrous. SMT fujos are built different.
https://www.pixiv.net/users/407256 No. 311375
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>>311374And raidou will always be cucked
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found this, wanted to share. bao is a qt
No. 311433
>>311362If anything they cut her off because there's one (two if you count Elizabeth) same-sex romance route if you play as FeMC, I don't think dating men as a woman is a problem to them.
Though the most likely reason they're remaking just the main male route its because RE is just a test on how to use UE on Persona games, they said RE is here to mark a new era for the series, so they just want to get out there the bare minimum to make P-studio get used to the engine and the new director/composer. I wouldn't be surprised if later they release a complete remake edition with FeMC and/or The Answer.
That said I wish they could cater to the female fans more, specially when the majority of the fandom and the ones who do the most fanwork/free advertising are female in Japan.
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We got a few Atlus announcements at WonFes: Qset+ of P3-5 and 13 Sentinels, along with the prototype of the Joker Nendoll.
No idea of what's Qset+, but from what I saw the normal Qset are just 7-9cm tall chibi figures in the 2-3k yen range. I wonder if the + ones will have extra accessories or faceplates. Not too impressive but they’re cute, I wish they had included FeMC though…