Summary
: I had to go back through the Aerospace Museum anyway, so here’s a quick addendum to the last update.
: On the second attempt, I fused new Personas for everyone but Baofu. While we don’t really need them, they’re good for one reason: we can use them to gain stat points.
New Persona: Phaleg
Origin: 16th Century Swiss LARPers
First Appearance: Persona 1
Supposed Olympian spirit from a book called the Arbatel of Magick, which was published in 1575 by Swiss LARPers.
: Phaleg is given to Maya, specifically because he boosts Dexterity at level-up. By the time I finished fighting Sudou again, Maya was nearly halfway to maxing out Dexterity.. at level 14.
: We fused Surya in Innocent Sin, but he was re-designed for Eternal Punishment. In Innocent Sin, he was a robot-looking thing with wheels instead of legs.
: Surya boosts Agility at level-up, and as such he goes to Katsuya. Baofu is now our slowest party member, but we have no easy way of fixing him right now.
: I also return all of the starter Personas except Helios, who isn’t maxed yet. The Agility incenses go to Katsuya, and I dump the Vitality incence on Maya to make her slightly less fragile.
: This time, I just have everyone defend while Tatsuya dumps Agidynes. I did find out one unfortunate quirk of Eternal Punishment’s battle system that I don’t think existed in Innocent Sin.
: While I was running through the museum, I ranked Surya up and got Maragi. I tried to have Katsuya use it early on, because no one had hit Sudou yet - meaning he can’t heal off it.
: Unfortunately, it doesn’t quite work that way. Even though the Shax and Minotaurs are weak to fire, because Sudou absorbs it the Maragi immediately ends when it hits him.
: I also figured out the trick to surviving Old Maid. Notice how everyone but Tatsuya is defending.
: As soon as the attack went off, Ulala switched from defend to a physical attack. This is how you know Old Maid has hit you. I don’t believe the game will switch spells to physical attacks, though.
: Maya gains two levels, and now has more than double the magic attack of anyone else in the party.
: “…!? Tatsuya..!? Has anyone seen Tatsuya!?”
: I had an idea for a Salty Vanilla pic where Baofu points at the ocean and there’s a snorkel sticking out of the waves, and it’s Tatsuya waiting for the party to leave.
: “Calm down.. he’s been through a lot more than you… he probably avoided us and went ashore somewhere else…”
: My screenshot tool fucked up massively on this one conversation and I have no idea why, so pardon the weird resolution. I’m also using the dialog from the PS1 LP because yeah, not doing this again.
: “I don’t know… I just feel I know him from long ago.. just a feeling he was someone important…”
: I like to think that Tatsuya is just off screen holding up a sign reading “Jun’s my boyfriend” and Maya and Baofu can see it but Katsuya is totally oblivious.
: “But the Joker is dead now, right?! It’s over… I’m so relieved. I can finally get on with my miserable life!”
: “Moron… nothing is over yet. We still don’t know what Tatsuzou intends to do.”
: “For once, he’s actually right… we haven’t learned anything about the Sudou family, Joker, or Tatsuya… it’s unfortunate that the suspect is dead. I should let HQ know.”
: “Haven’t you learned anything, Suou? You can’t depend on the police…”
: “Say that again…”
: “You’re not only hard-headed, but hard of hearing too? Or is it that you can’t do anything without your badge? Hmph! That’s what I thought. Do you really think you can catch Tatsuzou by yourself? Good luck…”
: Katsuya does, admittedly, kinda suck.
: “Say what you will. Just stay out of my way, or you’ll find yourself in the slammer with Tatsuzou.”
: “I don’t know about you, but I’m quitting while I’m ahead. Ma-ya, don’t get involved.. I don’t think I could handle it if you got hurt..”
: “Cowards! What are you afraid of!? It’s the truth that matters! Don’t tell me you’re quitting too?”
: You can’t see it, but he’s looking at Maya when he asks that. She shakes her head.
: “Heh… good for you. I’m gonna head back to my place to see if I can get a bead on Tatsuzou. See if any of your friends at Kismet know anything. I’ll swing by and pick you up later.”
: Our party is gone, and we need to go get them back. The only place we can really go right now (apart from the shops and the Velvet Room) is to Kismet.
: I’m not sure why they bother introducing Chizuru here, because she’s a character who only appears on Elly’s route.
: “You my dear, have a peculiar aura about you. You must let me read your fortune… you.. you are feeling that you are not yourself? You are worrying about a younger man…”
: “Tell me, do you enjoy life? Are you glad you came into this world?”
: I mean, it could be better.
: You might be asking if she’s Nyarlathotep in disguise again, and the answer is surprisingly no.
: “Where were you before… in your past life? Another country? Or maybe… another world… Humans are connected. Not only to the past, but to themselves in another world… you will change.. along with this world..”
: Chizuru clearly forgot that they got rid of that for Ni no Kuni 2, though I think we all know that Maya’s isekai realm counterpart is some kind of gremlin.
: “Please excuse me, but I must be going.”
: When we leave the editor’s room, Chizuru leaves the building.
: Wait a second, this is just scientology.
: “Joka is a dragon, filled with Kegare. The Guardian Dragons will absorb bad luck during this cycle… it is a much more powerful negative trend than that of ‘Tenchusatsu’ or ‘Ankensatsu’.”
: Gesundheit.
: “Kegare calls forth further Kegare, and Joka causes sin to increase… the more people sin, the greater Kegare’s power becomes.”
: “It is cause and effect.. you must not let jealousy and petty grudges consume you! You must not perform the JOKER curse!”
: You know, I wonder if dialing your own number to get your voicemail counts for that, because that was a super common method of getting to your voicemail in the pre-smartphone era.
: I mean, no, that’s how the entire stupid plot to fool Akechi into thinking he’d killed Joker worked. Also, his real name is John Persona.
: Chief Togashi is in Innocent Sin, but unless you’re one of those people who runs around to every location to check on every NPC, you’ll probably never know he’s there.
: “Sir! Then, what about that blimp!? Something that wasn’t supposed to fly was flying!”
: “What fire…!? What are you talking about? I was just there!”
: “That can’t be…”
: “It’s a waste of time to keep investigating! We should be tracking down Tatsuzou!”
: It’s blurry because of the PSP resolution, but there’s something here you might recognize from the sanitarium - and it kind of makes no sense that Katsuya doesn’t.
: The phone records have a thousand calls from someone named Yusuke, and then a handful listed internally as “HORNY (DO NOT PICK UP)”.
: I’m also pretty sure that phone records don’t work that way. Even if the shadowy conspiracy asked for the records of anyone who called their own number, how could they know it’s for the Joker?
: When I said that Hashino stole the entire plot for Persona 5 from this game, this is what I meant.
: Here’s what I don’t get about that, by the way. You see Chizuru leave the Kismet building - did she have a TV crew waiting outside?
: What Baofu doesn’t realize is that Maya did the Joker curse, except she called Persona 5 Joker and now she’s getting sudden urges to clean her room and eat something that isn’t canned crab.
: “It’s Tatsuzou… that bastard torched the sanitarium to destroy the evidence. Even on the blimp, he must have had someone watching over his son… that bastard has got his hands everywhere.”
: “I tapped his home telephone, and they were talking about plans to finish someone off. I couldn’t tell who the ‘mark’ was though. So what do we do now?”
: We all know what Maya really wants to say is “Let’s go get French takeout”.
: “I’m not too hip about it, but there seems to be no other way.. he’s the only way we can get information from the cops. If that woman’s fortune telling airs, the whole city could be in danger. Damn.. what a pain…”
: Didn’t it already air? Wasn’t that why it was on TV? Our next destination is the police station to go pick up Katsuya.
: “I figured.. the fortune telling went on TV and became a rumor, causing everyone who used the curse to become a Joker..”
: One of the rejected ideas I had for a Salty Vanilla image was the Persona 5 party all dressed like Joker after calling him.
: "It pains me to say this, but we can’t rely on my colleagues. They’re only making things worse…’
: “Hehheh… a little bitter, aren’t we…? Just leave this to us…”
: “I can’t do that… I would rather turn in my badge than just turn my head. I’m going with you.”
: “Do whatever you want…”
: I bet we’re going to walk into Gold and find Ulala dressed in checkered pants and a black jacket with a dumbass mascot shadow hanging off her shoulder.
: “What…? Don’t tell me.. was she using the Joker curse as well?”
: “If that’s true, Serizawa-kun is going to become a murderer.. who would she curse!? Amano-kun, you must know someone who Serizawa-kun didn’t get along with…”
: “Anything is helpful. Try to remember…”
: In case you don’t remember this guy, his name was Makimura. He was.. honestly just kinda there when we did GOLD as a dungeon in Innocent Sin.
: I have absolutely no idea how this doesn’t count as remembering that Innocent Sin happened.
: Ever since I played No More Heroes 3, I associate the phrase “Hey, what’s wrong?” with Travis Touchdown cutting shit in half.
: “Huh…? Are you saying you’ve never met this guy, but you recognize his face?”
: “What do you mean…?”
: “That ‘deja vu’ stuff again.. anyway, let’s apprehend that con-artist. We can’t let Serizawa-kun commit a crime.”
: “I don’t understand, but you can tell by looking at his face, right? What do you wanna do, just look around? Wait.. let’s drop by Hirasaka first.”
: “Rumor says the head of an Izakaya bar has services for locating people… there may be clues.”
: This is most of what we’re going to do this update, because the next dungeon is another copy-paste from Innocent Sin and requires a significant amount of grinding.
: There’s actually a second dungeon we could do here - that being Kasugayama High. Remember the bomb shelter? That is this game’s Abandoned Factory. We won’t be bothering with it just yet.
: Shiraishi Ramen has been turned into an izakaya.
: In Innocent Sin, we turned this lady into a Russian spy who also had a legendary guitar gun. In Eternal Punishment, she’s a sidequest instead.
: And now we’re off to Parabellum.
: “I see… we have reason to believe a woman who was swindled used the Joker curse for revenge. We were sent to protect him… but.. if you aren’t the man we’re looking for…”
: “That’s all we need, another dead body… poor bastard… it’s probably too late.”
: “Gotcha… hey nee-san, next time learn to be a better judge of character..”
: “Amano-kun, where would Serizawa-kun be?”
: GOLD sucks ass and we’re kinda underleveled, so let’s do something else.
: Now that we’ve unlocked GOLD, we have access to Peace Diner and another rumormonger.
: We need that first rumor because it’s one of the best ways to make money in this game… if you’re using savestates or save-reloading.
: For purposes of this LP, casino savestating will be legal as a means of skipping money grind. All PSP custom firmwares have native access to savestates, and this hack is only playable on CFW.
: Toku was a rumormonger in Innocent Sin who lived in the park in Rengedai. In Eternal Punishment, he now stays at Shiraishi.
: We can get this rumor after visiting Parabellum, and we want to use it because it gives us access to some very easy money.
: I’m not sure if this is better or worse than the blackjack rumor, but I went with it anyway.
: I went to go spread some rumors, and remembered that there’s a reference to Devil Summoner in Todoroki’s office.
: If you check this bookshelf behind Todoroki, it opens up and gives you a magazine. This allows you to buy a soundtrack CD to play on Maya’s stereo.
: Man-Searcher is an extremely easy sidequest if you’re using a guide. You pay a small fee up front, and then collect ten times that fee as reward money when you find the target.
: This guy is our first target. he’s in the back of Time Castle, behind Nyarlathotep.
: You have to guess their names, because apparently hunting people down for money follows the Rumplestiltskin rule.
: I forgot to take a shot of the name entry screen, but all you have to do is enter the name as it appears on the request and you get paid. This is from the second target, who is in Kismet’s editorial room.
: By the time I get the last available one done, we’ve made over 60,000 yen. We’re going to need this money to take advantage of a little exploit for stat-maxing.
: Also, let me explain why we’re not doing GOLD this update. It’s because I made a horrible mistake. GOLD is an exact replica of the Innocent Sin version.
: It has a bullshit high encounter rate, including the return of Faust from Innocent Sin. Faust can cast Gry and hit the entire party (Maya included) for half their maximum HP or more.
: I got Baofu a new Persona that increases his Dexterity. This is still good because it boosts his pathetically low magic stats, even if it’s not Agility. Then I made a mistake.
: Early on in GOLD, you can find a Rainbow Light in one of the dressing rooms. This allows us to fuse Iris - which at the time I thought “Sure, why not, it has a heal and I need a heal”. This was a mistake.
: Iris is only compatible with Maya. She’s weak to wind, which almost everything in GOLD uses. She also broke my one fusion spell because she lacks Aqua. But that’s not the worst part.
: You see the “Agility +1” level-up bonus? That’s bad. To understand why, we need to remember how fusion spells work in Innocent Sin - and this is something I forgot.
: Fusion spells are boosted by the Dexterity of the last person in the casting order. This means that you want the person with the highest Dexterity to also be the slowest person in the party.
: I uh.. kinda forgot about that when I did the Innocent Sin LP, because Tatsuya had 99 Dexterity and 99 Agility.
: I’m going to re-record most of this and not fuck up again for the next update.