Persona 5 | Official Thread

[Jinx]

Haru is still tame in Mementos. I actually remembered you mentioning it last time I played it, Canoe, and I looked out for it, but literally didn't see anything of what you meant.

[Jinx]

Futaba is honestly my least favorite girl of the bunch. I just look at her and just see a character the devs tried too hard to make as fetishistic as possible for the demograph. Underage, sister-like personality, gamer, nerd, socially awkward, moe, glasses, short skirt/pants with long socks, red head, and acts really childish; she's like every awful sexual anime trope rolled into one character and it made every scene with her awkward for me. I grew to like her eventually, but I actually find her Confidant cringy so I never finished it. Even Kawakimi doesn't hit as many tropes and she's the freaking forbidden teacher romance and maid fetish character.

Now that you mention it, she does look the type that could make a living selling her bath water

Nah, she's too ugly for that. Seriously, Futaba has a buttface. No one would want to fuck her because she's attractive, just because she's easy prey.

Also, re: romance

I actually think Yusuke has the best fitting and natural romance out of any of the characters, and I also ship Ryuji x Ann, but Ann had the most natural romance of the women. And she's actually not dumb...but I love that she's never mean or cruel, like she just sees people being mean to her as them expressing weakness, and not necessarily being evil (Kamoshida aside). Makoto is best girl, but she's too serious for Joker. And Haru is alright, but she's completely underdeveloped (although her voice actress is abysmal). I hope she's expanded on in Royal.

I'm not even going to comment on the adult romances, because they're all nasty. And Hifumi is utterly forgettable.

[Depression Moon]

What, Hifumi is fine as fuck. When I ran into her I was like damn, maybe she should be the one, but I was like nah, Ann is the ride or die chick and yeah, she ain't dumb.

[Wolf Kanno]

I didn't pick up on any of that. Y'all must watch wayyyyy more anime than me.

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Haru is still tame in Mementos. I actually remembered you mentioning it last time I played it, Canoe, and I looked out for it, but literally didn't see anything of what you meant.

It's there, but since dialogue is randomized in Mementos, you have to play around there awhile to hear all of it or just get really lucky. She talks about how much she enjoys listening to the shadows beg for their lives, comments to Anne that she would love to use her whip sometime, and talks about how thrilling it is to cut down her enemies which has Makoto asking her not to make such statements while brandishing her axe. When she gives you her chocolates in the cheating scenario, she calmly tells you to take her chocolates before she crushes them. Her mini-psycho personality is there. ;)

[Jinx]

What, Hifumi is fine as smurf. When I ran into her I was like damn, maybe she should be the one, but I was like nah, Ann is the ride or die chick and yeah, she ain't dumb.

Just because she's hot doesn't mean she's not completely forgettable. She has no personality.

[Depression Moon]

I sort of feel like doing another playthrough, but The Royal is supposed to be coming out early next year right? But my save progress won't carry over so I would still be getting a different experience and will have to start at square 1 anyway, sooo I don't know. This game also took up a lot of my time, but I feel a need to play it again.

[Jinx]

Your social ranks won't care over, but your stats will, which makes it so much easier.

ETA: in NG+. Royal won't carry over.

[Jessweeee♪]

Yeah I agree it feels most natural to go with Ann. But my boy Morgana likes her a lot so she's off limits.

[Depression Moon]

Yeah I agree it feels most natural to go with Ann. But my boy Morgana likes her a lot so she's off limits.

Morgana's a damn cat, so fuck his feelings. His ass is also the one always forcing me to go to sleep too so fuck him.

[Slothy]

If you're gonna be badmouthing cats we may need to throw down. :colbert:

[Jinx]

cats suck thems the rules

[Slothy]

Oh you better believe there's gonna be a tussle!

[Wolf Kanno]

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[Fynn]

Both are valid and important and deserving of love.



Cats are still objectively superior, though

[Jinx]

nah cats just suck

the internet has ruined them

[Slothy]

Impossible.

[Psychotic]

nah cats just suck

the internet has ruined themthis is why you're still single

[Depression Moon]

I've decided to go ahead and replay this. Although Mishima is worst boy I still think some of the dialogue choices in this game is just mean and I felt bad in my last playthrough when I turned down Mishima's offer to go to someplace he had tickets for because the text he sent back was "But I already bought two tickets. Well I guess I'll just go twice by myself"

[Wolf Kanno]

To be fair, the Moon Arcana is always a shit show in every social link game. Of anything, Mishima is probably the most normal considering the guy from P3 was involved in a cult that exploited people for money, and the girl from P4 is materialistic and superficial who threatens to kill herself if she doesn't get what she wants. So yeah, Mishima is just kind of pathetic by comparison. I feel it says something that all three SL eventually involve you treating them like shit in order for them to finally get their heads straight. The Tower Arcana is similar, though in there case, they just seem to be masochistic and enjoy being verbally abused.

[Depression Moon]

Hey, I haven't played any of those games yet! I want to go in blind.

[Wolf Kanno]

Sorry ^^;

[Depression Moon]

Decided to try and download some costumes for this game, but whenever I try to on the PSN store the page just refreshes. It won't let me download any of the free packs. Not sure if PSN is acting weird or not.

[Lord Golbez]

Moon arcana is also a bit of a shitshow with respect to the actual Personas too. At least I don't tend to use them very often.

[Jessweeee♪]

Shinjiro is best moon because he does nothing but give us food

[Wolf Kanno]

Few more details released (https://www.siliconera.com/2019/10/30/persona-5-royal-will-let-you-give-gifts-to-male-confidants-loosens-streaming-restrictions/) despite the Japanese version being out tomorrow.


Game started development before the Dancing spinoff.
Some of the strategies from the originally will not be feasible anymore, so veteran players will have to stay on their toes.
Confidants have been retooled to make it more challenging. Devs advise players not to ignore phone calls too much in this one.
Some of the Confidant Co-ops will not be possible to complete once you hit the new third semester arc. The game gives you warnings on which ones they'll be, but the devs are warning that the new semester will mark a point of no return for some elements of the game.
You can now give gifts to the male Confidants. No word if this means they now have a romance option, but it's interesting this has been added since traditionally gifts were only for dating.
Cover mechanics are more generous now to help players. In addition, some of the new mechanics in the game will help streamline leveling and traversing dungeons, so despite the new features, the devs believe the game should be the same length as the original.
Sadly for streamers, Atlus is still going to be restrictive about streaming story elements in the game and will make streaming stuff happening within December of the game restricted. So Let's Play streamers are going to still be bitching about this game.

[Jessweeee♪]

Oof, does that mean the return of reverse links from P3? It was a cool feature but wow did it make maxing them all out challenging.

[Depression Moon]

On my second playthrough now. It's still enjoyable, but not as much as the first time around. After the second palace I have no reason to do activities that raise my social stats. All of mine were maxed out by then so I've been feeling there isn't as much to do anymore after school or on break when I have free time. Doing confidants back to back is just a little bit old, but now I'm progressing in them sooner because in my first playthrough I only had Ann and Takemi maxed out by the end of the game for the optional ones. Now I already had Ryuji maxed out before I saved Futaba and Takemi is close behind.

About the hiding in shadows thing for The Royal I thought it was mostly fine, but there were times were the controls responded weird and when I wanted to hide get out of hiding my character would move the other side of the hiding spot. I think the controls for it could be tweaked a lil bit.

[Depression Moon]

I really hope in Royal they can expand the school trip. I want to be able to walk around and buy the souvenirs for Morgana and Futaba. I was so hyped, but was let down when it was all cutscenes.

[Wolf Kanno]

I really hope in Royal they can expand the school trip. I want to be able to walk around and buy the souvenirs for Morgana and Futaba. I was so hyped, but was let down when it was all cutscenes.

What's amusing here is that the school trip is actually the only remaining part of the game's oriingal idea for the Phantom Thieves to be an international thief group. In the early concept, the group were meant to be international students who traveled the world so they would have been stealing hearts all over the place.

[Vincent, Thunder God]

When they did the survey for suggestions of characters whose hearts fans would want stolen i wanted to say an evil psychiatrist. I feel like it would have been perfect for the tone of the game.