Shin Megami Tensei // World Is A Fuck, Kill Em All

A Bicorn just one-shot the MC and I love this game!

I know the stylishness of everything in Persona 5 has been beaten to death as a topic by now, but damn the demons look gorgeous with their new high-def facelift. Iā€™ve even started seeing features I never noticed in the Kaneko artwork for them in spite of having seen those sprites across the litany of handheld games, like the hearts pattern on Incubusā€™s massive codpiece.

I kind of hope they donā€™t just restrict themselves to these demon models when they finish SMT Switch, though (I know they showed Apocalypse Odin with the teaser, but one demon does not a compendium make). There are some really nice designs from Strange Journey and beyond, like the improved slime, while Persona 5 seems to have had Nocturne as the cutoff for demon designs it utilized. That and plenty of unused demons from various earlier titles.

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Justā€¦ everything aesthetic about Persona 5 is just so perfect, I think. And Iā€™m so glad they included some of the fusion mechanics from SMTIVA, like choosing inherited skills and letting you search by result. I also love the Baton Pass move in combat, and Iā€™m grateful for having hints on how to negotiate effectively (even though I suppose itā€™s not TRUE negotiation from other SMT games). I even love how non-combat Social Links come with more concrete benefits. Iā€™m not sure thereā€™s a thing they didnā€™t improve on when it comes to actually playing the game.

Also, this is more personal, but itā€™s pretty liberating to play without following a One-Round Max Social Link guide. I honestly canā€™t remember the last time I played without oneā€¦ probably the first time I played P4.

Negotiation finally just works for an SMT game.

Hard mode is actually okay so far, one thing that really helps in that mode is negotiation. So for example I canā€™t take down Berith in one all-out-attack and if he gets a turn and targets the MC heā€™s gonna one shot him.

Instead I hold him up and request money, ending the battle and still earning a little xp and sometimes getting a ton of money, latest run through the castle I ended it with 15,000 yen from negotiation (Not including all the treasures Iā€™ve yet to sell).

Okay minor complaint so far: Please help my cat is controlling my sleeping patterns and forcing me to events.

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My free time right now is divided between playing Persona 5, thinking about how good Persona 5 is, and watching this Persona 5 meme.

Okay no seriously game stop forcing me to go to bed. Like it would really be nice to break up some of these really long stretches of cutscene days if I could just do some extra nighttime activities.

Dungeon 1 is down I sorta had to grind a little cause I couldnā€™t outheal Kamo in the last phase and Ann &
Mona were one level away from Tarunda & Media. Otherwise hard mode Kamo is fine.

Dungeon 2 I feel weirdly overpowered so far thanks to some really good treasure I got in the Mementos which made me feel like I wasted money on the airsoft shop. Also I have 50,000 yen (Not including sellable treasures) and havenā€™t had the chance to shop in a while.

Also Gem tip: Rebellion & Lucky Punch is a surefire way to get em.

E: Please tell me that after the second dungeon they Stop putting Ann in kinda creepy scenarios.

Yeah I just got persona 5 and well its actually my very first persona game! iā€™m having fun though i hate how few things you can do in a day.
For example on my first sunday when i got some free roam I decided to start the day by making some lock picks, well guess what?? that fucking ended the game all the way to evening, like you spent 5 hours making lockpicks what the actual fuck! same thing happens if you go eat like how long does your guy eat for???

other then that your friends? real clingy like i wanna boost some of my stats up! i need more guts man! but the bonuses for the bond things are sooo good so like I have to do it! heck i cant even find one of my buddies to hang out with which is too bad iā€™d love to get her bond thingy up.

Hey guys it almost seems impossible to grind my stats to max and get all those bonds up I dont really want spoilers but in SMT thier was a kind of new game plus system is thier something like that here?

Morganaā€™s strict curfew is cruel and unrelenting. He is the bane of my social life.

E: Ended up having to take a break from the fourth dungeon just before the boss last night because it did one of those things I end up getting really annoyed at in games. Namely, the whole ā€œenemy gauntlet between the save point and the bossā€ thing. I get that Futaba is extremely protective of her heart, but damnit donā€™t make me fight even more Anubises and Thoths on my way to actually beat this dungeon.

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I havenā€™t actually looked into it, but I assume there must be New Game Plus. P3 and P4 both had it, and your social stats would carry over (among other things).

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I got flattened three times on the second dungeon boss and then just floored him on the fourth attempt.

Rampage on Ryuji & the MC just let me destroy the top three paintings very quickly and the mouth either wasted turns reviving a painting I could kill easily or doing almost no damage.

Now Iā€™ve got over 2 weeks of time to kill in game.

I finished Persona 5 just a little while ago! Final in-game time was 98:30. Since I didnā€™t use a guide for the Confidants, I didnā€™t max them allā€¦

ā€¦which means I have the perfect excuse to start NG+!

ā€¦Iā€™m only kidding. Sorta. After spending nearly 100 hours on this game over two weeks, Iā€™m practically obligated to move on to something else.

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Iā€™m still around 65 hours in and just finished the beach day in August and WOW these devs are either ignorant as hell or actively malicious. Even Yosuke in P4 wasnā€™t as bad as that scene. And whatā€™s worse is that is the second one in the game. This is the first time a game Iā€™ve played has been so grossly offensive that itā€™s angered me. Like? Did nobody say anything about Yosuke in Persona 4 in the last ~8 years? Did they not hear it? Were they actively spiteful and doubled down?

Like I know I cant expect most developers(especially japanese) to be as progressive Yoko Taro, but jesus christ.

I was willing to ignore the previous scene and was having a blast, too. This and Ryujiā€™s constant hardon for the girl thieves are really my only complaints but god theyā€™re enough to drag the game down for me.

You know what was a breath of fresh air after the scenes talking about Ann doing nude modeling for yusuke?

Having Ryuji & Mishima push me into calling a maid escort who turns out to be my teacher.

Mishimaā€™s an ass by the way.

Temperance is so creepy.

[spoiler]Remember: A male teacher blackmailing female students is bad and requires a change of heart

A male student blackmailing a female teacher makes that teacher your waifu[/spoiler]

Welp that dinner scene before the 3rd dungeon was a thing:

Saying: ā€œYour useless to me! You do nothing but eat away at my life!ā€ to your sisterā€™s face is not excused by being tired.

Also thanks Atlus for the stereotypical gay dudes coming onto one of your male party members. Always a treat.

Yeah, that dinner scene was full of yikes. I think that was the first time I felt like yelling at the TV, ā€œget bent!ā€

Which, coincidentally, is how my sister decided to sign the confession at the beginning of the game:

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Thatā€™s not really how it ends up playing out, or at least it wasnā€™t how I played it. [spoiler]Itā€™s not that Jokerā€™s like ā€œbe my maid or Iā€™ll tell.ā€ The way you start her confidant is by covering for her when another teacherā€™s sniffing around, and then she actually asks you to request her (because she badly needs the money, specifically).

I mean, she is still being blackmailed, just not by the player.[/spoiler]

Honestly, Temperance was my favorite confidant in the game by the end, or at least the friendship route ended up really nice.

I liked Temperance too.

Besides, if thereā€™s any blackmail between you and the teacher, it goes both ways. She doesnā€™t want anyone to know sheā€™s a sex worker, and you donā€™t want anyone to know that you, the 17-year-old on probation, tried to hire a sex worker.