Damn man I thought you where talkin about gameplay, shiet.
Social Links only started with Persona 3.
And getting extra attacks when exploiting enemy weaknesses only started with Nocturne, but are you going to argue that that mechanic isn’t a definitive feature of battles in MegaTen just because it wasn’t there for the first installment?
Plenty of games have their most well-known and defining mechanics and features originate from later installments in the series.
Shin Megami Tensei IV Final/Apocalypse is the greatest Atlus game
since SMT Nocturne, SMT Strange Journey, SMTIV, SMT Imagine, SMT If, and Persona 3 Portable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWJQE6WpWcw
new art
Atlus is spoiling a lot of the story on the site and other places, so be careful, might wanna avoid any sites and gameplay trailers they show.
However, it’s nice they actually made a graphic chart that confirms SMTIVA is sequel to SMTIV and compare their starting point and climax point.
and it has over 60 hours of gameplay content there.
Just found this thread, and I’ve got to say, I always felt the Yukari hate in The Answer a bit unwarranted. Not to mention, I didn’t even know about the other character until playing through it after FES since well, pretty much NOBODY in the fanbase even mentions them.
As well, finding out that most people were in the 80s when they beat Nyx made me go “oh shit”, since when I beat it, I was at like…77 I think with my team of Makoto/Yukari/Akihiko/Mitsuru and Night Queen or whatever it was called kept fucking me up.
And…I’m probably the only Persona fan that doesn’t like the Persona 2 games and actually really really dislikes Eternal Punishment. I mean, I could deal with a bunch of things from it, but the ending just pissed me off so much for (to me) ultimately being a “well what the hell was even the point of everything?” ending that came across almost as pointless and as making me feel like my time was wasted to where it was like Corpse Party ending levels.
In terms of
I felt the hate for Yuarki in the Answer was completely justified. Trying to revive the P3 protagonist would have completely undone everything their group did to stop Nyx and render his sacrifice vain. Reviving would also doom the world on top of that. She was being a selfish bitch.
I got Innocent Sin on hold Im gonna try to get back to it after TMS. Also still havent gotten to The Answer yet…and I beat P3 like 3 years ago I think lol
I read that it was really easy to reverse Yukari’s Social Link because of some decision where it’s generally more acceptable to choose one option in the West, but in Japan, you would be expected to choose the other option. But I never noticed this scenario and I maxed her Social Link without any problems. Nothing I read ever goes into detail about what or when exactly that moment where you can mess up the Link was supposed to be, so does anyone know what they were talking about?
I remember fucking up that social link. It’s been a while long time since I touched P3 so I don’t remember which choice pissed her off.
I believe the choice in question involves jumping in to help her with something in a confrontation, but doing that gets her upset because she interprets it as you thinking that she’s unable to handle it herself, when she wants to show that she’s strong enough to be able to.
Finished Tokyo Mirage Sessions…super fun game. Been a while since I knocked out a solid length rpg in 2 weeks.
Later on in the game it becomes more “Fire Emblem-ish” due to the plot. But yeah really enjoyed it
I’m playing through TMS myself, over 20 hours in. Battles are no joke…the enemy (especially bosses) can end you in seconds if you’re not careful.
Persona 5 fishing gameplay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK020llU6iI
Summoning
if thats the battle theme I can jig with that.
a little disappointed they didn’t do the hold up mechanic. thats probably my favorite new addition in the entire game. after dealing with SMT games for so long i can’t imagine how good it must feel to just pull out your guns and say “give me this or die” also since it doesn’t take the spot of an attack like negotiation does you can use it without the risk of wiping out your party it seems.
one thing im concerned by though is doesn’t this mean all enemies will have a weakness? otherwise you wouldn’t be able to hold them up and start negotiations.
You can always just knock people down with crits instead.
so i finally got around picking up SMT4 again. After the headache of fighting the Minotaur i was in no patience to be fighting another boss right after so when i got to Medusa i put down the game for quite awhile.
Im glad i picked it back up because ive finally made it to Tokyo and man everything about this is so much more interesting than ultra sterile Mikado. originally wasn’t even going to get SMT4 till i started hearing about Final and began realizing that the game must still be in recent modern times Mikado was just an odd slice of world not the whole dam game. i mean when you go outside of it its actually super fucking interesting as to what the hell happened to make a country like that i just don’t like actually being there.
now that im here though i have a lot of shit to do it seems. Im mostly im going to looking to get some good guns and ammo since thats a mechanic i never really got to play with in the other games i played.
Every once in awhile someone does a playthrough for a gsme I really enjoyed. When this happens and I know it’s a difficult game I prepare the lube because I wanna get off to some salty nigga. What I day was so amazing I dediced I didn’t even care if I got flack for posting his video.
[details=Spoiler]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9ualsT20rek
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kx1Gbo4nMkM[/details]
Obviously spoilers for the final boss of P3. Anyway with that in mind anyone who played P3 probably knows all too well whats gonna happen.
DSP ragequit 
that was the same team I used
Apparently DSP screwed over people who paid for him to finish P3? That would explain all the dislikes on the vids.