Um, during the Sun link, you awarded a point to both sides.

However, new challenge:

Female MC's Social Links compared to those of P4.

I think it will flip your totals quite a bit. First, a number of the Social Links get swapped to your other SEES members.

Magician goes from Kanji to Junpei Iori
Justice goes from Chihiro to Ken Amada
Star goes from Mamoru to Akihiko Sanada
Strength goes from Yuko to Koromaru
Moon goes from Nozomi to Shinjiro Aragaki

However, there are far more changes than that.

Hermit goes from Ms. Toriumi to Saori
Chariot goes from Kazushi to Rio
Fortune goes from Keiske to Death Ryoji Mochizuki



Those are some big changes. Nearly every link you point out as weak or bland gets redone, with good reason and an excellent handling. Furthermore, nearly every Social Link is revamped due to the differing sexuality of the main character.

Basically, they took everything they'd learned from P3's and P4's Social Links, and worked on them to make the Female MC's. They had an opportunity to rebuild them, and they did.

Fuuka's, Yukari's, and Mitsuru's are no longer romances, so the interactions have a distinct change. Rather than Fuuka trying to win you as a paramour as she learns her cooking, she's working together with a classmate to explore and improve herself, leading to a very different feel. And Yukari's is also an excellent exploration of female bonding, rather than dating. Mitsuru's probably stays the closest to what it was, but during Rank 7, I think it is, when she starts to confront the issues of being bound by her sex, she gets to unload on you quite a bit because you're a female character.

The other members of SEES also have really solid Social Links. The guys, with the exception of Junpei (due to his relationship with Chidori), are romanceable, but the romances are optional, similar to P4's, as opposed to the male MC's "I can't be friends with a girl without sleeping with her" approach. And the Links are solid and well done on both paths. Most notable is Shinji's, which is easily one of the best in the entire game.


Check them online, or play through P3P with a female protagonist, but I think you'll find your numbers changing a bit.

Also, when P4Golden comes out, I'll expect another point added to the list, as we compare Aigis's to Maria's (yeah, Aigis wins. Unfair to call it? Perhaps, but Aigis's Social Link was frelling awesome).