: It’s time to go to the Thieves Den for the first time. You might notice that the menu tells us we’re John Persona now. This is part of the reason I’m glad I didn’t name the character John Persona.
: Meet Jose. We don’t know his name yet, but we will soon enough. Jose is new to Royal, and adds a whole bunch of features to this game’s equivalent of the Abandoned Factory or Mikage Ruins/Devil’s Peak.
: My first guess on seeing him was that he’s a piece of Philemon the way Marie was a piece of Izanami in P4 Golden, if not Philemon himself (even though we know that Philemon likes to pull the “I’m you in a mask” thing).
: P Medals are currency you can use to buy stuff to decorate with. You get them for doing certain achievements, and getting all the achievements gives you a thing that makes it so security level never goes up and allows you to summon any Persona for free from the compendium. This requires a minimum of two complete playthroughs and requires killing four optional super-bosses which I am not going to do. Maybe if it had allowed me to import my save data from the base game.
: You can spend the medals at the Palace Maker machine, which pretty much directly confirms that this is Joker’s Palace. The stuff in “Confidants” only unlocks when you max a confidant, and the stuff in Daily Life requires doing a whole bunch of stuff we have no reason to do.
: As an example, we can buy a statue of Kamoshida’s demon form. I don’t know why we’d want that. The “enemy” category is pretty much entirely statues of the major bosses, including a few you can only actually see on New Game + because they’re of the final bosses.
: The “Metaverse” category has items from the various dungeons. We could buy the big statue of Kamoshida from the church if we wanted. I don’t know why we’d want to do that either.
: We can also buy statues of all of the starter Personas for each character. Unfortunately, there’s no statues of the upgraded Personas or the new Ultimate Personas as far as I know.
: This wall will fill in with pictures as we accomplish stuff. Many of these we won’t even be touching - there’s one for using the laundromat ten times and fuck that.
: There’s also one for seeing both the Rank 10 cutscenes on the Romance route for all 10 female confidants. This means that yes, we can date Doctor Femdom if we want. She’s a very popular choice, but she’s not the best girl. We can do this without permafucking because the game saves system data every time you save, and the achievements are based off your system data. At some point, probably once we reach June or July, I’ll put up a poll for who we want to go for, if anyone.
: Tycoon is another way to get P Medals. I’ve heard it’s bullshit hard, but I only actually played on the easiest difficulty because I had no idea how it works. Playing cards in your brain with clones of your friends is a perfectly normal activity.
: The idea is that one player each round is the dealer, and they put down a card. It then cycles.. I think left to right.. and each player has the opportunity to play a card, so long as the value of the card is higher than the last one put down. Jokers can, of course, be any card you want.
: I started off with a real dumb move. Playing four of a kind gets you a “Revolution”, which reverses card values (so now a 2 is the highest card and an ace the lowest).
: I came in second the first two rounds. The highest-ranking player is the Tycoon, and the lowest is the Beggar. Second place is Rich, third place is Poor. At the end of the round, the Tycoon has to give a card to the Beggar and the Rich has to give a card to the Poor.
: In the last round, I figure out how the fuck the game works and come off with a win. Basically, you want to play your lowest-value cards first and then your highest-value ones. From what I’ve heard, on harder difficulties the AI basically plays like it knows which cards you have. Naturally, there are achievements for winning on the hardest difficulty.
: I also win the game because if you’re the Tycoon and lose, you automatically come in dead last and get no points. If people really want to see how this works, I can stream it a little when I do the P5D stream.
: One of these characters will be joining us in the next dungeon. The character on the far left (underneath the shot of Ryuji and Morgana) is the Anonymous character I mentioned in the last update.
