Yeah, unlike my roommates, I've never been bothered by our internet being down cause it meant I actually got stuff done. The information age is a bit too addictive.
I'll give them a look once I have Internet at home! Though to be fair, with no Internet at home aside from my wife's phone, I've found that I'm actually spending more time doing things that I like, instead of just wasting my time away on facebook and youtube. I still need to get Persona 2 out of my system so that I can actually spend all that free time writing instead of just consuming media!
You should watch his other videos as well, the Silent Hill ones are pretty good, including a really thought provoking one about SH4's design. I'm sure there are quite a few cameos from the staff in the game,but I don't know all of them sadly.
Oh yeah, btw, watched that Botchling video you sent me a while back. Liked it a lot! The Witcher does that a lot, actually, putting monsters from folklore from all around Europe into a new context to deconstruct the human factor that made it. Fun stuff.
I mean, yeah, I wouldn't mind something new in, say, P6, but overall I still enjoy the standard MegaTen fusion system more than what we have in 1 and 2. I'm open to new things, and I like how experimental the earlier Persona games are and I genuinely love them and think the various parts really come together well - so I don't really wish it had the SMT fusion systems, it's just that I find it more satisfying in general. It would be total overkill to combine that system with everyone being able to change personas though. I'll still think about which character to pick, but I'm definitely looking forward to EP. I hope the translation and old voices don't scare me off too much. I can handle a clunkier UI, but I'm mostly worried about that, since I know they kept parts of the old Revelations names for the P1 characters. Btw, I just noticed that Garcon Soejima from Clair de Lune is actually a caricature of Shigenori Soejima (drawn by Soejima himself, btw!). I mean, how could I have not noticed it before? He has the name, AND the face! Are all the shop clerks references to the staff and I'm just missing them? I know about Satomi Tadashi and the Demon Painter being Kaneko, but that's all I do know.
If you want a story more focused on P1, then go with Nanjou as his plot deals with another returning character from that game. Elly's plot gives some info on Jun's mom and you'll get some interesting backstory on Elly as well. Technically, to unlock the EX Dungeon for the chance to fight Philemon. Yeah, P4 borrowed heavily from P2 in terms of themes and archetypes, oddly enough, I'd say P5 borrows more from EP while P4 borrows from IS. As for fusion, I didn't mind P2's version since there is a bit more you can do with it, and technically P1's is much deeper than it appears on the surface since making fusions during certain moon phases affects certain elements of the persona. Honestly, I kind of wish Persona would shake it up more and do something different from the main series. It always kind of bothered me knowing that P3 was basically a watered down Nocturne and while P4 and 5 have brought their own quirks, there is a part of me that wouldn't mind seeing something radically different.
So am I! So far, I am enjoying Innocent Sin even more than the last time, which is really saying something! I really like the cameos from the P1 cast, although that bob really doesn't look good on Elly. Maki's pixie cut is just amazing, though. And then Brown has some... interesting sideburns. Still, it's really nice to see how much they've all changed and grown. Speaking of, I know that in EP at some point you have to decide whether Elly or Nanjo joins you. Any recommendations for a first run? I feel more attached to Nanjo, personally, although I do really like Elly, but I guess it all comes down to what the routes tell you when it comes to the story, so which do you think has the more crucial info in it? Noticed an intersting thing, btw. As much as the later Persona games drift away from the SMT mainline, there's one thing that P3 brought back that's more inline with traditional SMT than what we had with Persona is fusion. While 2 handles it better than 1, I still miss the more traditional fusion mechanic. It felt much more flexible. Also, knowing all of the twists from this game and having a vague idea of what Eternal Punishment is about, I find it amusing how 2 is pretty much a deconstruction of 4 before 4 happened. Sure, friendship is an important thing and bonds can help you out a lot, but not only do people unlock the true potential of their Personas by dealing with their problems on their own (which feels more in line with mainline SMT's generally anti-collectivist message, tbh), but it seems clinging to the idea that you have friends to fall back on and that as long as you're remembered you'll be okay, is kind of dangerous and is, in the end, what ends the world. Nyarlathotep took advantage of the gaping holes in the reliance of the power of friendship and pretty much won because of it. It almost feels like 2 should have been made after 4, if you know what I mean. Maya is also great. Found her pretty grating for the first time, but it's interesting to see what she actually means by that positive thinking - for one, it's not about being midlessly optimistic, but of making the best of life even when things go bad, so maybe you can make things better. And it's also a coping mechanism for all the pain she's gone through (and perhaps still going through). Also, I noticed that I may have accidentally made one of my main characters from my novel a gender-swapped version of Maya
Groovy, I'm glad you'll finally get a chance to play it.
So guess what! I've decided to use the fact that my brother is in Oregon now to my advantage. So I bought Eternal Punishment!
Yeah the interconnected world element was super cool in the early Persona games, it's a shame they started to get only self referential with the newer installments. P5 has only a few nods to P4 and maybe one for P3, but it seems obvious to me that the team wants to treat the social link titles as a separate universe now. Yeah, I love P2s story and it just gets more twisted as you jump into EP. I let Tatsuya go with Jun in my playthrough for mainly the same reasons you mentioned and because in EP, Katsuya is an option for her to romance.
