Sin is In - Persona 2: Innocent Sin

[Timrod]

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: This update’s going to be on the short side, but rest assured it took me like two hours and multiple re-records to try and get all the dialog. By the end I was ready to do just about anything else but start Xibalba.

: Since I had to do Taurus Temple again, I figured I’d show off Maya’s apartment. This is where you can use the CDs you buy from Giga Macho.

: Maya’s apartment is an ungodly ruin that makes my room look clean by comparison.

: Spoilers, she’ll never clean her apartment.

: Back in Taurus Temple, we now have the fourth skull and have re-acquired the power of Gay. Trust me when I say being gay is going to be very important.

: “Hello, Maya speaking.”

: “Wh-whoa! What’s wrong, Tamaki-san? Calm down and…”

: “WHAT!? Prince Taurus took Ms. Ideal!?”

: God dammit, Tamaki. You should fucking know better.

: I should mention that while working from home last week, Youtube recommended me this video from the History Channel titled “America Unearthed: Ancient Mayans in Georgia”, starring a bunch of people willing to say that they honestly thought the Mayans built a city in Georgia before returning to South America because they needed clay or something.

: “That perv’s still alive!? What’s he want a middle-aged lady like her for !?”

: I actually laughed while watching it because it sounded like they were LARPing Innocent Sin.

: “Their destination is no doubt Xibalba. We should be able to follow them through Heaven’s Gate at Sevens… the Narurato Stone.”

: “Aiyah! That’s the secret of the Narurato Stone!?”

: I stopped by Hiiragi Psychotherapy to heal quick before making a trip to the Velvet Room. Maki’s not there. I wonder why?

: So, here’s the thing about the Abandoned Factory. Unfortunately, the part I wanted to be level 50 for (so I could abuse Estoma) doesn’t open until after you’ve gone all the way down to the bottom of Xibalba. By the time you’ve done that, the 1% encounter rate demons are horribly out of date.

: I replace Jun’s Persona with Isis. Her stats are pretty good, but more importantly this gives us a third person in the party who reflects magic. With Tatsuya being a magic tank, this means that most bosses are going to be dead easy.

New Persona: Isis

Origin: Egypt

First Appearance: Majin Tensei II (SNES)

: There’s three reasons I want Isis. First off, Cu Chulainn (which I had equipped to Jun) sucks. Second, at Rank 8 Isis learns Megidola which means we can pull off both Meltdown and God Hand in one turn. Third, look at that mutation list. Anyone who has played SMT 4 Apocalypse will know why I’d want Dagda. The mutation is apparently very rare but I’m hoping to get it.

New Persona: Mucalinda

Origin: India (Buddhism)

First Appearance: Persona 1

: In Persona 1, Mucalinda was a level 76 Persona who was absolute and utter trash. In this game, it’s slightly better in that it has at least some resistance to magic and takes 1.5x from physical as opposed to the 2x it took in Persona 1. More importantly, it has access to Megidola. I’m still going to ditch it ASAP.

: Remember way back at the start of the game when we said Principal Hanya died? This is where that choice comes into play. We don’t actually need to go through here at all and it’s not quite as great as I had hoped, but I did anyway. There’s three classrooms, one on each floor, where we can see the Persona 1 cast back in action.

: Brown takes out a pair of nazis without even trying, which is kind of incredible given that he still had Lilim equipped at the end of Snow Queen.

: See this textbox here? It’s glitched. This took me three attempts to capture properly, because it auto-advances and goes by extremely fast compared to the rest of the text in this game.

: You might ask what happens here if we said that Hanya lived. What happens is that instead of the Persona 1 characters, there’s a scene where Principal Hanya shows up and drives off the Last Battalion. It’s incredibly dumb.

: Elly takes out five nazis, which is in keeping with the fact that she had the best ultimate Persona in the first game and the only one worth using.

: No, GOLD was that gym that blew up even though the party defused all the bombs.

: Getting all these optional scenes sucks because the hallways are full of Last Battalion who like using instakills.

: Why they didn’t put Yukino here, I don’t know. It would’ve been nice to see her and Ms. Saeko again. At least we know what Yukino and Anna are doing right now (just look up above this update if you haven’t yet).

: You’ll notice that two of the remaining Persona 1 cast haven’t shown up here, those being Reiji and Nanjo. The wiki insists they’re here somewhere but I did a complete search of the building and did not find them.

: Oh, right! I found out that Xibalba is an actual thing in Mayan folklore - it’s the underworld that serves as the land of the dead. Supposedly, there’s a cave that goes there in.. I think Colombia.

: “He said that underneath Sevens is the Silver River after it breaks off from Tanabata River.. and that the Heaven’s Gate that led to the underground Silver River.. it was supposed to be this Narurato Stone.”

: Just like the end of Snow Queen, we take a pillar of light to the final dungeon.

: “The walls are shining… the Silver River is a pretty appropriate name for it.”

: “If we go down this river, we should come out at the entrance to Xibalba.”

: “One of their boats is over here. Question is, who’s going to pilot it?”

: Starring Danny DeVito as Eikichi “Michel” Mishina.

: Have I mentioned that in Eternal Punishment, it’s revealed that Maya has totalled like three cars?

: Maya manages to hit every single rock in the river while doing donuts.

: I thought Kasugayama High was the worst dungeon. I was wrong. This is.

: Silver River is an autoscrolling stage that lasts anywhere from about thirty minutes to the better part of an hour.

: There are encounters every two seconds, but in a lot of cases the enemies are worth negotiating with.

: Vucub-Caquix is definitely worth making a pact with. They give out the smallest number of cards (less than any of the demons in the Zodiac temples) but give you a Garudyne Card if you negotiate with them and ask for an item.

: Manbannannan gives out 50 free cards per negotiation, and is definitely worth making a pact with once you’ve gotten a few Garudyne cards.

: The correct answer is go straight, because it puts us on the shortest path. I hit “go right” because I’m a dumbass and thought I might grind for some more cards.

: Hunab Ku is another demon definitely worth making a pact with because it gives out Magnadyne Cards.

: Succubus is one of the reasons I regret going through the longer route. They’re highly resistant to magic and just generally suck to deal with, plus their negotiations are not consistent.

: Lucifuge, however, is the reason you do not want to be in this garbage dungeon for even a second. He’s going to be in pretty much every encounter and is completely immune to magic. There’s only one thing that can make him fuck off.. the power of Gay.

: Pucel just kind of exists and gets mowed down by Meltdown.

: Yet another reason not to stick around is Seker (the birds in the back behind Yaksa). Seker likes to use instakill spells and tends to go before the party does. Basically, Silver River sucks and you want to spend as little time as possible in it.

: Unfortunately, this section also has auto-scrolling text. The line before this is Lisa going “Aiyaahhh, I’m bored, can’t we be done with this already?” If this dungeon wasn’t a giant piece of shit I’d re-record it.

: Next time, we go into Xibalba. Now would also be a good time to mention that the Tatsuya/Jun commission is officially underway and should be done for the end of the LP. If you haven’t seen the Anna/Yukino one, it’s above this post.