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Persona 5 Royal |OT| Welcome Back! ♡ Master
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I went through the game without a guide, I had prior Persona experience, but this was the easiest one by far to max all links in 1 play through. For perspective, I had everyone maxed with a month left in the game. If you do follow a guide, you should have more than enough leeway to max everyone out even if you mess something up.
How the hell did you design this OP it looks official straight out of Atlus as if they made this high quality OP
Fake. Joker would never actually talk in cutscenes and have lines.
Heh, it's admittedly not much so I don't blame you for forgetting.
Part of me still wants to, even thought that's the only person I've romanced in P5 since I only played it once. But she's just that good... man, choices.
Wondering if I should use a 100% guide or not. I usually do on first playthroughs, and save the freestyle approach for NG+ when I don't have to worry about social stats at the very least.
Maybe I could compromise and only follow the guide when it comes to leveling social stats. Everything else--confidants, palace raids, mementos--I will do when I want to do them.
Maybe I could compromise and only follow the guide when it comes to leveling social stats. Everything else--confidants, palace raids, mementos--I will do when I want to do them.
Same here.
Ryuji is the best waifu and if I can't romance him, I'm not romancing anyone else LOL.
There's so many confidants and jobs that raises your socials that I think you'll have to either 100% follow it or not. The only time you really need to do stat specific activities are in the early game or on rainy days, those are the days where nothing else is available.
Sojiro: "I see you don't have a date for Valentines Day"
Ren:" I'm meeting up with Ryuji."
Personally I always feel you should freestyle on the first playthrough. The vanilla experience for P3/4/5 had never been about seeing everything, but working with the time you have to do the things you want. Just like real life! Following a 100% guide sucks all the joy out of experiencing the game, not to mention will probably drive you insane to complete the requisite minmax steps. The expanded rereleases typically are more generous with free time, but every game was never designed to let you "complete everything" on the first run.
I would never use a 100% guide on a first play through (or ever) but I understand there's people who are only going to play it once and want to see as much as they can.
Though I wonder if having to follow a guide so closely contributes to the feeling of the game feeling too long/ too tiring/ like a chore, etc. To me it's just a fun time, no stress involved. Going through this game with a spreadsheet open just sounds iffy.
Though I wonder if having to follow a guide so closely contributes to the feeling of the game feeling too long/ too tiring/ like a chore, etc. To me it's just a fun time, no stress involved. Going through this game with a spreadsheet open just sounds iffy.
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Was going to start my first playthrough with Merciless difficulty after seeing the changes they made in Royal. However, after reading some of your comments I'm not so sure anymore. I want it to be a challenge but I don't want to be wiped out in a battle just because of a lucky enemy cast or something like that which may annoy me enough to just abandon the game.
I also don't know if after losing a battle you can retry it or if you have to load a save losing you progress made in the last X amount of time.
What would you recommend?
I also don't know if after losing a battle you can retry it or if you have to load a save losing you progress made in the last X amount of time.
What would you recommend?
I recommend good ol' hard mode :)
Amusingly, with the change to exp Merciless is now easier than hard lol. I think it's ok for NG+ though, but yeah it's a bit of a bloodbath and Joker doesn't like 1 hit kills. No battle retries so progress loss is a thing, but not that frequent tbh you can dish it out a lot more than the AI.
What confuses me here is: if Merciless differences with Hard is that Damage is dealt at a 0.65% ratio but you get more exp and money, wouldn't it be a better idea to start with Merciless? This way you avoid some of the grind to overcome this harder difficulty, don't you? Or does Merciless also mean that there is a higher change of a lucky enemy cast to appear or things like that which kills you in 1 hit?
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Told myself I wasnt buying this as being a poor college student who already platinumed persona 5 I could wait till it got cheaper I had a job in the summer.
I caved lol, still probably wont play it till the end of april though
I caved lol, still probably wont play it till the end of april though
Hmm no I don't think there's a higher chance just the usual, the thing is anyone who gets hit by their weakness dies pretty much every time, or who gets critted or tech'd, I doubt that damage reduction will change much in that regard. So it's kind of easier in that way? lol it's definitely fun for a while if rather volatile.
If you wanna try it I say go for it, edit: you can drop down to the other difficulties so might as well check it out?
Oh and I distinctly remember having trouble recruiting new personas cause everything just died so I could never negotiate or get all out attacks.
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Got mine 2 days ago. Was going to skip it but then someone cancelled their collectors edition pre-order and they shipped it a week early. Really want to experience this game when Idont have to work from home the whole day. Thankfully it's almost weekend
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Combined quality assets from the Western and Japanese websites. Persona 5's visual style is so clearly defined that I barely had to do anything, I just opened up PS and arranged everything in a way that made sense to me.
Will be waiting on a sale for this one. Just too many games on the go right now with RE Resistance, Panzer Dragoon Remake and my backlog of games (Radiant Historia on 3DS and replaying Shadow Hearts 1) and RE3 next week and FF7 Remake & Disaster Report 4 soon after that. Can't hold all these games!
This seems really cool but I just can't pay the $80CAD for the upgrade! Maybe I'll finally replay the base game, and finish this time.
Just saw someone posted a Target add cover for B2G1 next week and this was on the cover. Think I'll get this and Doom and something else..... (persona and doom; very similar games you know)
They unlock at midnight EST and preload starts exactly 48 hours before that.
Side Note: I really like Akechi's change in this part of the story, he is not hiding behind a mask and he's such an ass
I know you spoilered that but I kind of regret seeing the thumbnail
Nice. 60fps would of been better but I'll live.
Should look pretty damn sharp on my 1080p monitor.
Lol typical. I cancelled my ShopTo order and switched to digital just to be safe. Ah well, I'll survive.