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: Welcome back to Giga Macho, where my PSP died halfway through because of my idiot dog pulling the plug on it. : Giga Macho is very big and for the most part very empty. There’s a guy near the front who will sell us CDs that we can listen to at Maya’s apartment, but there’s not really much of a point in that since this is a screenshot LP. : Giga Macho is largely populated by the same enemies that were in Mu, only we run into them more frequently. Cockatrice is an annoying piece of shit. It barely gives you cards: most enemies around this point in the game are giving you somewhere around 20 cards and another 15-20 free cards if you have a pact. Cockatrice gives you 9 world cards and 6 free cards. You want a pact with it mostly because they spam poison to no end. : Lisa’s accessory alerts us to two new fusion spells we can do with our new Personas. : Maxi Tempest is one of them and I didn’t find the other one before my PSP died. It’s the inverse of Mega Blaze - where Mega Blaze is Fire → Wind → Fire, Maxi Tempest is Wind → Fire → Wind. : I took the liberty of grinding a bit and found our first Demon Rumor. Demon Rumors are a bit weird. You get them by making a pact with a demon, making that demon Happy again, and then asking for information. : You then need to talk to two different demon types to get the second half, which is either “Jack Frost knows Atomic Bufula and it’s strong” or “Jack Frost knows Atomic Bufula and it’s weak.” : The tradeoff is that if you say it’s strong, you can fuse Jack Frost and he’ll have the spell and benefit from that, but so will the enemy Jack Frosts. : Here’s the thing about Giga Macho. As it turns out, there’s an elevator on the first floor that goes up to the end of the dungeon. You can skip probably 80% of the dungeon. The reason we don’t want to is because there’s a couple of unique demons and because we need the EXP and cards. : Here, we encounter our first new demon: Wraith. I never really bothered to fight one because the EXP from killing one isn’t really worth it and the 20 Devil cards it gives are a better option. : There’s a couple of chewing souls in a box on this floor somewhere, but this box is trapped, because this isn’t enough of a filler dungeon. : The third floor has the stairs pretty much right next to where you enter it, but instead we want to go down here. At some point, Lisa got possessed by a Moh Shuvuu, which is basically a confusion effect. : Lich is a unique demon, but isn’t really worth a whole lot. It has a couple of physical attacks that target the entire party, but I didn’t see much beyond that because a single Blazing Burst/Pegasus Strike combo killed it in one turn. : Honestly, unless you’re looking for the unique demons for some reason, there’s no reason not to just take the elevator to the fourth floor. Most of the demons we’ve run into are repeats that aren’t worth fighting. : I didn’t bother getting the Atomic Bufula, but here’s Jack Frost. This is where my PSP died. What sucked is that it went to sleep and had the game still running so I could’ve recovered, but the dock is really fucky and wouldn’t recognize the video output. When that happens, you have to power cycle it. Innocent Sin also doesn’t have the “suspend save” feature that Persona 1 did as far as I know, so I couldn’t have saved it that way. : Second run through, I find Kinnara in the first encounter. If you’ll remember, we have him as a Persona. He’s not a bad pact option because like Nekomata, he gives 15 free cards on negotiation. He also has an instant death spell. : This time, I find the chewing souls on the second floor. That other sparkle on the map is the trapped box. : On the third floor, we run into Tengu. Tengu is a great pact choice, as he gives 17 free cards (the second-highest of all the demons in Giga Macho) and is very easy to negotiate with. : After like an hour, I made it back to roughly where the PSP’s battery died last time. : There’s a Trish’s Spring by the elevator, but she now charges 15,000 yen for healing. : What we actually want to do though is jump back in the elevator and go to the fifth floor. The reason is that the place the elevator takes you to there is cut off from the rest of the floor, but has a new weapon for Yukino in it. That green puddle is a damage floor that damages SP. : Back on the fourth floor, there’s a box kind of near the stairs going up. This is another unique demon encounter. : Rasputin is a gimmick miniboss who is completely immune to magic of all types but is very weak to physical attacks. : There’s a Strength Incense in the same room. : Other than Rasputin, there’s not much of interest on the upper floors. The guide recommended I grind to 18, so I did. : Our destination is right here, at the FM Viewing Studio on the fifth floor. Before we go in though, we want to do one thing. : Normally, you’d want to equip Lisa with her starter Persona, but we already cashed that in, so I gave her the Pixie instead. This is important because as soon as we enter the next room, we get locked out of using whatever Persona she has equipped for a while. The game will remember which one she has as well, so we can’t use that to fuse another one. : This guy reminds me a lot of Geoff Keighley. It seems weird to me that they’d have a recording booth in a CD store as a permanent fixture like this. : This guy totally isn’t a member of the Masked Circle. : I apologize for the text being somewhat cut off. For all the stuff Affinity Photo advertises about non-destructive workflow, it sure had no problem overwriting my original shots with the cropped ones.
: “Oh, geez! What should I do, Tatsuya!? Kaumena! Help me!”
: “I don’t think you have a choice! Time to bite the bullet and go do this! Try and pry out as much information as you can!”
: “Hey, Tatsuya-kun. Do you detect a faint Persona resonance in that Sasaki guy? I wonder if he’s one of the Masked Circle… if he is, Lisa’s in trouble.”
: “But if we go along with the plan, we might get some juicy details on the Masked Circle. Well, it’s all up to Lisa now.”
: “Ng Hai! There is a certain gentleman! Actually, he’s here today!”
: “Awww, you should’ve said so before… baby be mine! I’m gonna give you a whole lotta love!”
: “My Chinyan isn’t a twisted narcissist like him!”
: "I knew it!’
