Starting the Persona Series

[Fynn]

Pumpkin played it as her first P4, and now so is my wife, and I really don't see there being a reason other than if you really hate Erin Fitzgerald's performance and want them to know the "true" P4 voice cast

Don't get me wrong, great way to play the game. Just has one thing that bothers me about it that makes the PS2 version better for you first play through. (This does not apply on subsequent play throughs however. )

(SPOILER)The fact that the opening video spoils the entire playable cast?

(SPOILER)But so does the original.

[Minato Arisato]

No starting off with the male MC? I am disappoint.

[NeoCracker]

I need to finally play P3P so I can see the female route.

[Formalhaut]

No starting off with the male MC? I am disappoint.

I'll play his route next!

Which leads me to a question, actually. So I'm aware that there's something called a 'new cycle' (New Game Plus, basically). Am I able to 'switch gender' as it were with this new cycle, or is it only a new cycle for the female protagonist?

[Fynn]

You can switch, no problem. It's essentially New Game + - you get to keep your compendium.

[Skyblade]

No starting off with the male MC? I am disappoint.

I'll play his route next!

Which leads me to a question, actually. So I'm aware that there's something called a 'new cycle' (New Game Plus, basically). Am I able to 'switch gender' as it were with this new cycle, or is it only a new cycle for the female protagonist?

You can. Keep in mind, however, that the male protagonist wields Short Swords, so he can't use any of the Naginatas that you have been collecting. This doesn't matter on the highest difficulty, since nothing transfers anyways, but it does affect the other difficulty settings. Also, you have to unlock the Compendium to get your Personas back.

[Formalhaut]

No starting off with the male MC? I am disappoint.

I'll play his route next!

Which leads me to a question, actually. So I'm aware that there's something called a 'new cycle' (New Game Plus, basically). Am I able to 'switch gender' as it were with this new cycle, or is it only a new cycle for the female protagonist?

You can. Keep in mind, however, that the male protagonist wields Short Swords, so he can't use any of the Naginatas that you have been collecting. This doesn't matter on the highest difficulty, since nothing transfers anyways, but it does affect the other difficulty settings. Also, you have to unlock the Compendium to get your Personas back.

Oh well, I can just sell the naginatas. I'll be playing through the male story-line primarily for the story as opposed to the combat; I do intend to start Persona 4 sooner than later.

I heard in the previous versions of this game, you could swap out weapons. Why did they change it so that you stuck to one weapon type?

[Fynn]

I honestly don't know. Probably to streamline things, I guess.

[Formalhaut]

Not that I terribly mind. In fact it helps to differentiate your MC from your other characters. It makes you depend on your allies who may have different ways of attacking.

[Bright Shield]

Pumpkin played it as her first P4, and now so is my wife, and I really don't see there being a reason other than if you really hate Erin Fitzgerald's performance and want them to know the "true" P4 voice cast

Don't get me wrong, great way to play the game. Just has one thing that bothers me about it that makes the PS2 version better for you first play through. (This does not apply on subsequent play throughs however. )

I'm curious about what you are referring to. Just use a spoiler tag.

[NeoCracker]

I just PM'd it so he's not tempted to read the spoiler.

[Formalhaut]

So, massive revelations in the final Full Moon event.

Story Spoilers To be honest, I kinda sussed that Ikutsuki was a bad one. I always got a 'knew more than he was letting on' vibe from him. Not to mention that we're only in November and so there was obviously going to be a twist. I'm not convinced that Jin and Takaya are dead, to be honest.

In other news, I'm maxing out a whole heap of social links. I was doing Ken's social link and I felt fairly queasy that there's an option to romance him. In this play-through, I'm romancing Akihiko, because who wouldn't?

[Fynn]

I romanced both Shinjiro and Akihiko I mean, Shinji was in a coma anyway, so who cares?

Also, yeah, that twist was nasty, but I'm still gonna tell you what I told fat-moogle.



And yeah, you can kinda romance Ken, but nothing inappropriate happens. It's more like, he vows to protect you and wants you to wait for him until he grows up, so it's kinda cute, though I imagine it could have been much creepier in the Japanese version, for obvious reasons Apparently, something interesting happens in Tartarus if you romance both Akihiko and Ken and then have them both in your party.

Also, I'm really sad there wasn't a Junpei romance. I mean, on one hand, the reason is obvious, and I think it's great that him and the female character got such a deep loving relationship developed, and yet it's purely platonic, but Junpei's just this sweet cinnamon roll, too good for this world, too pure, and I would love that romance to be there

[Formalhaut]

Oh, okay, I suppose the Ken romance doesn't seem 'so' inappropriate. Still, I'm not doing it though

In terms of Tartarus, I think I'm just about beginning to loathe it. Which is impressive, given that I'm at the 5th block. I find myself not using Aigis that much. She's not terribly strong, and she only makes up for it with a good endurance. She doesn't even possess any elemental skills.

[Fynn]

She'll get some healing abilities soon.

Good news is, you're almost done with Tartarus! I'm impressed you're only now getting tired of it