toxicitizen Posted February 18, 2015 Report Share Posted February 18, 2015 I'm glad that's not a US sale, because I'd be pissed I hadn't waited for the digital version. Hate to break it to you but it basically goes on sale (almost) literally every other week. At least, it did last year. Atlus put their games on sale very often on PSN, especially the Persona series. It's become a bit of a running joke in the Vita/Persona community. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted February 18, 2015 Report Share Posted February 18, 2015 I don't care if it goes on sale in a few weeks, I was just going to be mad if it did it less than a week after I bought mine. Although I've since realized that the Vita TV doesn't have enough internal storage to hold the digital version anyway, so it wouldn't actually have been any more convenient (I would just have to be swapping memory cards instead of game carts, so it'd be a wash). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted February 18, 2015 Report Share Posted February 18, 2015 My rule for sales bothering me is if I actually get around to playing it before the drop I don't mind. In theory. I don't tend to look at game prices after I've bought one though so it has to jump out at me. Big purchases though I actually scour the internet for cheaper prices after I've bought it, and I can't think what that will do other than annoy me. I am a bit better at not doing that now but it's still a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomTervo Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 I can't imagine how it's going to work as one academic year, but fair enough. Like, I'm at month 6/12, I'm level 18, and I have 12% of all possible personas discovered. How the heck does that work? Am I doing something wrong? Or will I gain 70+ levels in 6 months and discover hundreds of personas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 You're up to September at level 18?! You should be in the 40s by now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomTervo Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 Aha derp! I assumed we were on the American January-December academic year. But it's actually an (even less sensical) April-March academic year? That explains it all. I thought i was six months in, in june. Turns out I'm only TWO months in, in june. Hurr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 The American academic year is from ~September-May. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 Persona follows the Japanese school year, which is like April-December. It felt all kinds of weird to have only a month or so of summer break and come back and be in the same grade/class. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 (edited) Japanese school runs year round. They have about a week-long "Spring Break" between the end of one school year and the start of the next, at the end of March. *Edit* - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_term#Japan Edited February 19, 2015 by TheMightyEthan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 Japanese schools have summer break, it just lasts for about a month less than it does in the states. They also get a week off in the spring and another in the winter. This is not including the occasional holiday break outside of Golden Week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 Yeah, I didn't mean to imply they don't get any other breaks. According to what I've read Japanese schools tend to have about 30 more days per year than US schools, but going to school on Saturdays easily makes up that difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 Oh, yes, although apparently Saturday school isn't a universal thing over there. It depends on the school. Teachers are generally strongly opposed to it for obvious reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pojodin Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 (edited) Samurai Mister Jack! I just beat Persona Q last night. It took roughly 70 hours for me to do an everything run. I just need to gain a few more levels so I can fuse the remaining personas and complete the compendium. Content wise, the story is pretty good. You select either the Persona 3 or Persona 4 path. I’ve only done the P3 path, but it seems the big differences are the beginning and the ending. A few conversations and decisions playing out slightly differently and there is a shift in character interaction emphasis, but it doesn’t sound like there is too much of a difference between the two paths other than a bit of story. Otherwise, it pulls in aspects from the previous games but tells its own story. The characters fit together well, though it’s something that can only be fully appreciated if you’ve played the previous Persona games. The combat and map traversal is Etrian Odyssey: traversing mazes with puzzles, gadgets, and switches as you make your way up or down toward a floor with a boss. You can draw and make notes on the map to denote traps, power spots (locations that have materials that can be sold to make items and equipment but have a chance to trigger a random encounter), events, FOE’s (mini-boss-esque monsters that a physically manifested on the map and not just a random encounter after a number of steps), doors, shortcuts, etc. The music will be familiar to players who have played the previous games, with a few returning songs and the other music fitting in stylistically with the previous Persona OST’s. Combat specifics play out slightly differently from previous Persona games. Characters are assigned to either the front or back row for combat with the usual implications for benefits/limits of ranged vs melee. All characters have their primary persona and can equip a secondary one for added abilities, etc. Exploiting an enemy’s weakness won’t necessarily knock the opponent over, but it will boost your character. And all-out attacks tend to be based on the number of people who have exploited an enemy’s weakness adding to said likelihood. You still have physical attacks and persona abilities that use either HP or SP to execute. If you are boosted, the HP or SP cost to use a persona ability in the next round is eliminated. The rest is pretty much like Persona, including item usage, etc. You can pick either Rise or Fuuka to be your navigator. You can assign an additional persona to them as well which can give them additional navigation abilities. There are specific navigation abilities marked as [NAVI] that can either be used during battle or are passive (like pointing out things on the map, restoring health at the end of battle, increasing the safety of checking power spots or upping their likelihood to have better items, etc. The combat abilities are based on a meter on the side that fills with every action you take and can be used by the party leader during their turn in battle. Outside of the dungeons, there is the hospital room where you can heal up and accept/turn in requests. There is the velvet room where you can fuse personas and access the persona compendium as well as access the DLC stuff. There’s the shop where you can buy items and equipment. Then there’s a stroll option that allows you to see some events and interactions between the characters. All-in-all it’s a pretty solid game. It is extremely Etrian Odyssey based, so if you like Etrian Odyssey I’d suggest checking it out. If you haven’t played Etrian Odyssey, I would only recommend it if you’ve played at least one of the two games (Persona 3 or 4) if not both. While the story does get good as you get further in, the big pull for this is that it is a game that involves the P3 and P4 cast interacting. It can feel a bit grindy and long at times, and there are some battles that are quite difficult or annoying (instant kill moves that wipe out your whole party, etc.) but the difficulty adjustment really helps to make things bearable. Safety difficulty essentially makes it so you can’t lose, so you don’t have to worry about difficulty and game overs being an issue. Edited February 26, 2015 by Pojodin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 I'm actually working my way through Q right now. It's pretty good, although I hit kind of a lull because of that god damn Inaba Pride exhibit. Man I hate that dungeon so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pojodin Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 Yeah, that one took forever. Between lighting the torches and then doing the other torches in the right order, it was ridiculous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted March 6, 2015 Report Share Posted March 6, 2015 So, uh... I don't even... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted March 14, 2015 Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 I got to the part where that annoying girl and that annoying guy and I, all fell through a TV screen and then we talked to a bear. It's good to hear I'm not the only one who finds Chie annoying. The Persona fan base is kinda retarded with all that "best girl" crap to begin with but one thing I seriously do not get is the obsession with her. Her voice and personality just annoyed the shit out of me throughout the entire game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted March 14, 2015 Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 I got to the part where that annoying girl and that annoying guy and I, all fell through a TV screen and then we talked to a bear. It's good to hear I'm not the only one who finds Chie annoying. The Persona fan base is kinda retarded with all that "best girl" crap to begin with but one thing I seriously do not get is the obsession with her. Her voice and personality just annoyed the shit out of me throughout the entire game. Chie has two voices. Which one are you talking about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted March 14, 2015 Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 Two voices? Do you mean the Japanese audio? I'm playing in English. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted March 14, 2015 Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 Chie had two different English voice actresses: one for the original and one for the remake. You're hearing the new voice in the vita version but I don't know which one FLD played. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted March 14, 2015 Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 I played P4G. It's been a while so I forgot which one of the two is generally viewed as the superior one but I remember watching a comparison video and thinking the old one sounded less annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted March 14, 2015 Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 (edited) Original Chie sounds older and monotonous. Maybe thats the one you were thinking of. Also, Chie is the best character in the game. Especially P4G Chie. Edited March 14, 2015 by Strangelove 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted March 14, 2015 Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 I thought Chie was annoying at the beginning, but she kind of grew on me. Obviously Rise is Best Girl though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted March 14, 2015 Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 Jesus, Ethan. I know you're new to Persona but Rise? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted March 14, 2015 Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 It's good to see at least Ethan's not completely fucking insane. If we're gonna do this, then it goes Rise/Naoto > the others >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Chie. Seriously, if it wasn't for Ken from P3 then Chie would be my overall least favorite character out of the entire series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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