I just got to this point, you only have to go a bit further. Morgana warned the checkpoints could get locked again later though.
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Welp, just had a crash as soon as I set out for the third city, guess that's a sign that 8 hours is enough for a single day lol. Only the 2nd time something like this has happened so it's not a huge issue yet, hopefully it never happens after a boss fight or not having saved for a while though...
I even struggled with Alice on Hard, but I like how the balance of this game is tbh. You have to pay attention to attack patterns.
Palace 3 has been awful. So many ice and bless characters swarm the screen and the furthest I got was with another ice character to drain some health back for mine. But then here comes the bless character to knock me away from their ice attack so I can't actually drain. It's stupid. Doesn't help that they don't fucking flinch either while my whole party does, barring Ryuji. Who couldn't do shit because they never got afflicted with shock anytime I used it. Bye bye technicals. Rest of my party kept getting rushed down and abused. Went through every single one to see who could stick it to their ice/bless comps. Nothing.
And to add even more insult to injury the recipe ingredients in Sopporo have been mostly for HP items and not SP items. Should've farmed more recipes in Palace 2.
In other words, I'm not having fun right now. Went back to normal and it was a curb stomp. Like why is the balance all over? Lol smh.
They do but slowly. The people I don't use as much are almost 5 levels below my mains.
That sucks, I'm trying to use all of them but that means Joker is gonna get super overleveled.
Loading times are a little rough on PC even with it on a speedy m.2 drive, but other than that it's running great and looking great.
For what it's worth, I frequently switched party members to use everyone and never had this issue. I don't know if it's because Joker earns less EXP or requires more to level up but he was never more than
Edit: Actually, checking my save it was more like three or four, but I still never felt overleveled. It's probably because Persona level plays a big part and Joker's level is the upper limit on what you can fuse or spend persona points to level up to.
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I actually have it. On Berith. Who is weak to ice. Lol. It was clutch until now. Wish I could just buy cards from Sophie's. It'll make it easier to come up with a good counter. Trying to have these party members be buffers/debuffers and no luck yet.
I absolutely love the way they implemented a lot of SMT and Persona mechanics in the combat. Rage making you just swing blindly with your weak attack, Drain is actually a thing! I utilized it on that first miniboss fight against a Lamia where I switched to the high level Jack O'Lantern I got from a fusion accident when she was using Maragion and would just absorb it. The mechanic about Rakukaja making you resistant to hitstun is a really good idea.
In case anyone still believes this is a musou game: I can definitively say it NOT a musou game. This is an action RPG, using the framework of musou combat. In musou games there's a lot of the "small fry" enemies, and this game technically has those, but they're few and far between the actual shadows, which there are usually a ton of. Your spells hit areas, and it's best to try to get all the shadows weak to your spell caught in it to go for an All-Out Attack.
The only disappointing factor is the lower number of Personas in the game, but I totally get why they did this as that would be a lot more animations for enemies. However, it's still important to do fusion, just you aren't throwing away Personas as useless. I'm on the second dungeon and actually still sometimes have use for Arsene. Having the right skills and resistances are extremely vital in this game, especially if you're playing on Hard mode.
This game also makes me want an SMT musou, as a war in an SMT setting makes total sense. I would like to see more games do action combat like this. Definitely not replacing Persona mainline's combat, but as spinoffs it's really cool. I need to play the Raidou games, but for those that have played them, how would you compare the combat to Strikers?
In case anyone still believes this is a musou game: I can definitively say it NOT a musou game. This is an action RPG, using the framework of musou combat. In musou games there's a lot of the "small fry" enemies, and this game technically has those, but they're few and far between the actual shadows, which there are usually a ton of. Your spells hit areas, and it's best to try to get all the shadows weak to your spell caught in it to go for an All-Out Attack.
The only disappointing factor is the lower number of Personas in the game, but I totally get why they did this as that would be a lot more animations for enemies. However, it's still important to do fusion, just you aren't throwing away Personas as useless. I'm on the second dungeon and actually still sometimes have use for Arsene. Having the right skills and resistances are extremely vital in this game, especially if you're playing on Hard mode.
This game also makes me want an SMT musou, as a war in an SMT setting makes total sense. I would like to see more games do action combat like this. Definitely not replacing Persona mainline's combat, but as spinoffs it's really cool. I need to play the Raidou games, but for those that have played them, how would you compare the combat to Strikers?
Just got home from work, ate some chicken and turned the game on! I was itching to get back to this game all day lol Man, I love Persona
It's nigh impossible to hear some of the dialogue during the battles. Especially when it's a small chat bubble at the top right and you're too busy analyzing the field and fighting.
Sorry Futaba. The soundtrack blaring in my ears is drowning you out.
Oh. Trust me. I did. It's fine. Like I said, I stomped through the jail as soon as I switched to normal. I'd rather progress the story than keep getting frustrated haha. I'll probably grind a little more too then come back to hard.
Sorry Futaba. The soundtrack blaring in my ears is drowning you out.
Oh. Trust me. I did. It's fine. Like I said, I stomped through the jail as soon as I switched to normal. I'd rather progress the story than keep getting frustrated haha. I'll probably grind a little more too then come back to hard.
Damn, this really sells me on the game. I'm still playing Royal though, only 30 hours in.
Getting the game last Tuesday would have been a godsend in the Texas hellscape we were living in. I still had power but no water.
Wanted this for years. Could be so good.
I have yet to play Strikers (gotta finish PQ2 first), so I can't give any real comparison yet, but I'm guessing the combat in this is probably way better, at least based on my experience with both Hyrule Warriors games. The thing about the Raidou games is... the combat works, it's enjoyable enough, and it's incredibly obvious it was made by a studio that specializes in turn-based combat and has zero action combat experience. It's sufficient, but an extremely far cry from the best action combat out there.
I was going to get the PS4 version, but after watching a 4K video of the game on PS4 Pro, I decided to get it on Steam instead. It just looked extremely aliased on PS4 Pro, especially compared to Persona 5 Royal.
I've only played a couple hours so far, but it looks and plays great! I have an RTX 2070, and so far it runs at a solid 60 FPS on high settings at 4K (with Render Scale at 1.0). In case anyone else was trying to decide which version to get, I made a comparison between PC and PS4 Pro at 4K:
PC Version
PS4 Pro Version
And here's an animation comparing a portion of the screen with two characters:
Besides running at 1440p rather than 4K, it seems the PS4 version doesn't have any anti-aliasing at all, not even on on the UI. The only downside to PC for me so far is that the loading times are definitely longer (even on an SSD), at least compared to the game running on PS5.
I've only played a couple hours so far, but it looks and plays great! I have an RTX 2070, and so far it runs at a solid 60 FPS on high settings at 4K (with Render Scale at 1.0). In case anyone else was trying to decide which version to get, I made a comparison between PC and PS4 Pro at 4K:
PC Version
PS4 Pro Version
And here's an animation comparing a portion of the screen with two characters:
Besides running at 1440p rather than 4K, it seems the PS4 version doesn't have any anti-aliasing at all, not even on on the UI. The only downside to PC for me so far is that the loading times are definitely longer (even on an SSD), at least compared to the game running on PS5.
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Almost cried when I saw a Checkpoint. I clearly did not buy enough items or enough good gear 😅 I was barely surviving lol
I assume we aren't considering the original Persona 5 spoilers since this game is a sequel, but why does Morgana continue on with the "not a cat" thing? He learned what he really was at the end of Persona 5 and that he was not a human, despite talking about how to one day turn into a human. He has yet to mention that whole thing about turning into a human.
It's just a gag for him
He probably sees himself as superior to regular cats, which is quite foolish
OK so one REALLY smart thing this game does is the "Persona Points" system. It eliminates the dilemma of having to choose between equipping a Persona that needs levels and equipping a Persona that is actually useful. This is something that should be in every Persona game going forward.
Persona 5 already had the gallows though, which let you execute one Persona to give a large experience boost to another. I used it many times throughout my Royal run to keep certain Personas viable that I didn't want to give up yet.
That's not really the same thing. That's a big sacrifice to make to power up one Persona. With Persona points, you never have to equip any useless Persona just for the sake of leveling up. You can always equip the right Persona for the situation without having to worry about not giving your other Personas who are useless now, but might be useful later, especially if they level up, any experience.
In general, I'm a big fan of user allocated experience instead of the traditional "whoever is used gets the points" kind of system. If I was designing an RPG, you would be able to allocate all experience points gained to any party member you want, regardless of how much they are used (This is different from a "everyone gets everything" system, because you still have a finite amount of points to allocate and you could overlevel some party members at the expense of others, even ones that are used more.) This way, there is still an element of decision making, but you are also free to strategize in terms of "who is more useful", as opposed to having to consider "who needs experience"
I've noticed that there's a bit of level gap between the characters. Do I need to swap them out to keep the evenly levelled? I'm a the second city only.
On normal it'll likely be fine.
On hard you can get chunked real fast by attacks and with how busy the action is, I wouldnt wanna play it streaming.
Having not touched Ryoji at all since the moment the party opened up, it seems he just sorta levels up automatically at the end of each jail? Like everyone is level 27 and he's level 18 for some reason. So that's nice.
Yeah I just sorta rotate them in and out whenever someone gets low on SP, saves me having to constantly go in and out of the jail.
Yeah I just sorta rotate them in and out whenever someone gets low on SP, saves me having to constantly go in and out of the jail.
I read a review that said that the gameplay was really easy to cheese because you could just spam abilities that target weaknesses since MP recovery is so easy to come by. Is this true on the highest difficulty?
Here's a video using Philips Hue lighting on PC at 4k. Works great for this game with all its primary colors. Really adds to the experience
It's possible to cheese it but it's a serious hassle that requires 2 loading screens.
If people can't resist the urge to do it, sure, but like others talked about, I just switch my party members out instead.
You won't have enough MP to do that against bosses at the very least.
In the tutorial about Fusion Tips Part 1 they say the inmate registry would keep track of Personas that have been repeatedly used in fusion. But I don't see any indicator, so how does it look like in the registry?
Also where is the showtime gauge they keep mentioning? Apart from some forced tutorial sections I could never do Showtime.
Also where is the showtime gauge they keep mentioning? Apart from some forced tutorial sections I could never do Showtime.
Finished the first jail and really enjoying the game, so great to see all these characters again
Also, having the battle music from all the previous Persona games alone makes the deluxe edition worth it
Also, having the battle music from all the previous Persona games alone makes the deluxe edition worth it
I noticed that each jail is meant for one side character so that's the one I always rotate in. Even if they start out under leveled by the end of the jail they always end up on par with the rest. So my team is always Joker, Mona, Sophie & obvious jail choice.
I realized it more by the 3rd jail that's how the game wants us to play I suppose. Coz conveniently that character's element will be very beneficial for the enemies you encounter and the monarch. For example first jail Ann, second Yusuke, and third Haru.
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It's a blue gauge on the left of the character portrait. If a character you're not currently controlling has a full showtime gauge, their portrait will have blue flames coming off of it.
