Why are so many people here getting rekt in this game? Have you kids never played a Persona game?

Why are so many people here getting rekt in this game? Have you kids never played a Persona game?

>less than 6/10 people have the trophy for obtaining the first fucking Persona in the game

How is this even possible? So....THIS........is the....power..........................of Persona 4............................fans.......

Where's that one samefag that made multiple threads about how bullshit it was he died and didn't save in hours?

This is my first Persona, I'm playing on normal and I've been doing very well so far. Pretty much I keep to my strategy and save every chance I can.

The fuck is with this?

Perform 50 all out attacks 15.8%

Exploit enemy weakness 100 times 35.2%

Perform a Guillotine execution 34.4%

Am I missing something here?

Maybe they just dropped the game because of how boring it actually is.

its like this with every game, and i have no real idea why, I guess a good amount of people buy it and put it on the back log or something

But wouldn't they have to at least download it or put the disc onto their system to register them as a player? So someone puts a game in their system or has it downloaded and doesn't even get to a point about a hour into the game? Wow

To be fair, you getting a game over if the MC dies and the whole hostage thing are bullshit.

>less than 100% of GG Xrd players have the achievement for installing GG Xrd

If this were a mainline game, the Tomb would be the worst fucking thing ever. Pitfall traps, endless mirror puzzles, the works.

Holy fuck you are shit. Both of those add so much different strategies during battle.

Oh, sure, like the strategy of getting completely fucked if the MC gets criticaled. Or the strategy of fuck you and your mate dies if you don't have the item the demon is demanding from you, or one of those internet freebies, since there's no negotiation whatsoever.

i don't understand why the party members can't just revive the MC

>initiate fight with demons haven't seen before
>try to hit their weakness but don't find it on the first turn
>all 4 enemies target the MC and kill him
>party members don't use any healing items because???????

>get crit in bank twice and lose an hour of progress
>make a persona immune to physical damage
NO ONE CAN STOP ME NOW

I've played Nocturne, SJ, SMTIV/A, P3FES and P4 on hardest difficulty available on my first play-through with little to no problem and I can safely say that merciless difficulty is the hardest of them all. I've lost count on how many times I've died in Komashida palace, mostly because I got ambushed or miss an attack. I cleared the first dungeon on level 7 and I reckon it will get harder from here on due to the reduced experience and money.

At the very least you should wake up at the last safe room, but without losing progress, and only get a game over if your whole party gets killed.

Yeah, it's not like if demons could use magic too or anything. Oh wait.

>ann and cat ded
>ryuji and mc nearly ded
>attack once before i die because fuck you demon
>doesn't crit, prepare for death
>mfw 'Step back and let me handle this'
>win the fight

Yes, this is my first persona game, what should i expect?

Its one weakness is light and magic doesn't crit. UNSTOPPABLE

merciless just seems flat out not fun due to completely neutering your exp gain, meaning you don't get to play with new demons for fucking years

>Had to use Arsene for the fusion tut

Will I ever need to pull him from the compendium again or don't bother?

This is my first Persona. I ran out of SP thinking there was a way to regain it. I fucked up

This game gives you so much shit to prepare and manage so you don't get destroyed and it's like people neglect it completely. By the third dungeon you can even Jail your personas ala Daycare pokemon style to give them resistances, on top of being able to increase the level of other personas through sacrifice fusion if you rank up Caroline and Justine's arcana. There's also the other shit ton of bonuses given if you do your confidants properly where you should have no problem if you manage.

Everyone who is having issue is either lazy or incredibly retarded, take your pick.

Is there any penalty for going to Hard when you're playing on Merciless? I'm running out of time for Kamoshida and I'm stuck at the heavenly guardian guy.

>tutorial tells me to block for strong attacks
>guard
>get one shotted anyway

lmao

There are no trophies for difficulty. There's no penalty!

I touched the game regret ever spending $20 on it. My dick thought the game was good while it wasn't all.

>this is SMT now

Wrong timeline....

>miss attack or ambush

Yeah. That was Nocturne too.

I'm playing on hard and set my party members to have free will.

The absolute madman

Think about how many people get their asses rekt by Yukiko's shadow in Persona 4. This is no different. People don't learn the basic fucking mechanics, then get shat on. At least P5 doesn't let you get in the habit of kludging your way through by upgrading your starting persona. They even make fusing him away a forced event just so you get the fucking idea.

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>struggling against kamoshida boss and have to constantly heal with dia
>after barely winning the boss battle morgana learns media
Thanks for that purseowner

the only part i got "rekt" on was getting the 2 eyes for the statue in the castle, but if anything it was just annoying.

If you hold on to him until you get to the end of the Casino dungeon then you get a special cutscene.

The game came out a few days ago. Calm your tits

>finish downloading it (canuck)
>download jap audio dlc (UP2611-NPUB31848_00-ADDCONTENT000022_bg_1_86e2d616beb06303cf790b0a82bbe0e30ce40124)
>load up game
>can't find option to change language anywhere

Did I download the wrong dlc pack or something?
>inb4 'play it in english'

>get shown that optical illusion from policenauts
>guess correctly
>"holy shit what a smart guy"

wat

>tfw get one of the true sayuri paintings wrong
>no time to react
>ambushed by 4 jack frost
>mabufu
>velvet room theme plays
why the fuck do i have ann in the party when morgana has media

YOU'LL NEVER SEE IT COMMMMMMMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Does anyone else think the vocals are kind of shit and ruin the OST?

>Yeah, it's not like if demons could use magic too or anything. Oh wait.

>i keep taking damage from monsters when they hit me :(

If you're doing it on a game you've already started, it's on the load game screen.

Some people don't even have the trophy in RE7 for watching the opening cutscene.

It was fucking perfect when that part came the exact moment the enemy did Self Destruct

The TRUE SMT Series:
SMT1
SMT2

SMTif...
Megami Ibunroku Persona

Devil Summoner
Soul Hackers

But they're still making real SMT. In fact, now that modern models of all the demons exist a new SMT on a home console is more likely than before P5.

I'm playing hard mode but I kind of regret it.

You get sapped of SP really fast, it's not like 3 or 4 where you can just clear a dungeon in one night, like you actually need 3 or so days like you're supposed to but holy fuck.

Not switching though, but fuck.

Also is it just like the other games where you do s-links first and you don't even bother with your social stats because the game will just throw things that level them up for you.

Am I supposed to stealth and avoid the stronger enemies?

I've been playing for a while now and when did this 'cuck Ryuuji by romancing Anne' thing start? He seems to have zero interest in her besides the occasional look.

Does anyone else think that everyone is talking too much?

like I figured it would teeter off a bit but they just always talk.

If you shake an enemy down for money, then all-out-attack him right after, do you keep the shakedown money? (It's worth noting that you can only do this once you get the "shake down again" ability)

AND YOU'LL KNOW WE WERE OUT THERE
SWATTED LIES IN THE MAKING
YOUR EMPIRE FOR THE TAKING

I've only put maybe 15 hours in so far but it feels like social stats are going to take a lot more work than they did in P4. We're also back to some social links being gated by them.
You're supposed to pick your battles. That's why the safe rooms exist as checkpoints. Low on SP? Maybe dodge a few of them. Stocked and ready to go? Take them on for the xp.

thanks bro. much appreciated!!

>You're supposed to pick your battles. That's why the safe rooms exist as checkpoints. Low on SP? Maybe dodge a few of them. Stocked and ready to go? Take them on for the xp.

yeah but they don't refresh like the earlier games.

Because you're meant to take the dungeons in bites. They basically force you to do it over several days this time.

the money from shake down goes straight to you, like it wouldn't make sense otherwise because you don't get those items in the result screen.

It's easy to get lost and have a sence of helplessness if it's your first Persona. Even I felt a slight pressure during the first palace where healing options are limited.

>tfw stealing treasure for the first time and the music kicks in.

>It's easy to get lost

The city is like a fucking maze.

Futaba is fucking adorable.

Having been to Tokyo, it's fucking spot on. They even replicated a train station I've been to.

It's kinda bad when you first begin and the game's like "Okay find Wakisabika Junction to get to school," but later on you get fast travel for pretty much everything.

lots of richfags buy games they will never have the time to play. It's called being an adult with a job and a family

>but later on you get fast travel for pretty much everything.
first day basically.

in fact I kind of dislike it because I haven't figured out how to get through the city yet.

QUESTION: I need 100k for the fortune arcana and I have only 4k (fuck). I'm about to head into the third dungeon and I've done the sun arcana up to the point where I'm supposed to be able to negotiate for more money. If I ask for money every battle will I have 100k by the time I get to the treasure?

It's almost like they want you to feel lost, confused and a little out of place.

>QUESTION
You gotta go back pal

you should be able to sell a lot of shit like items and whatnot, if you don't have a lot go do more mementos

What kind of question is that? Just grind man. At the second dungeon you are already able to grind to the point that you feel sick. I got 300k that way spamming physical moves.

>That art cunt's boss fight
Jesus fuck how is this even fair
>Black paint attack makes them weak to literally everything, guaranteeing extra hits
>Can't fucking just use multiple enemy attacks because one of them absorbs it
>Regenerates parts that I just knocked down
The entire fucking design of "have a party member leave to do a scripted story attack" was a fucking horrid mistake

YOU'LL NEVER SEE IT COMIIIIIN

Honestly the difficulties are fucked up.
I was at 3rd palace, was playing on hard up until then.
Encountered oni, physical resistance and no weakness, before I could do anything 2 of them just used rampage and I was being instantly killed. Switched to normal after 5 deaths defeated them without ANY trouble.

It's still a whole lot easier than 3 and that's easier than most SMTs

I don't remember what spells I did but they were able to kill everything but the mouth, then I just brought that down itself. I think I overleveled though while trying to farm money.

Because people like to parrot the cuck meme

Are people playing hardmode from the get go? If so I can understand, but Normal is pretty forgiving, atleast the first 2 dungeons were pretty easy and the bosses even easier.

I see you miss p3....

That would be the "med physical damage to all enemies" attacks, I used that but it still took 2-3 uses plus having to use everyone else attacking the mouth
Died fucking twice because the black paint attack basically insta-fucks your party members, and I didn't bring revival items to the fight

what difficulty are you on?
im on normal and i just focused the pieces down, if they regenerated they only came back with ~75 so a single good phys hit would take it back down again, and then they waste a turn regenerating again

I've found effects like charm and sleep are WAY more efficient in this game than the previous Personas, like 70-80% chance instead of hovering around 20%. That helped a lot on the third dungeon.

I was on normal but I ran straight through the dungeon ASAP and only came back an extra night to grab the locked chests

I'M A SHAPE SHIFTER

For that fight you you literally have everyone spam aoe physical attacks in that fight and ignore the mouth until it's the last thing left.

Well, the turning point for me were the onis really, I had a persona that could deal a heavy physical so If I were to combine that with ryuji damage and ann damage debuff I would be able to defeat them but making personas with resistances and no fucking weaknesses was a joke. Especially that it was physical resistance and not wind or holy.

nigga just have ryuji rampage.

Does it need to be the original?
Or can you summon him again and still get the cutscene

>Need 5 Charm to continue Makoto

ATLASSSSS FUCKKK I'VE BEEN BATHING SO MUCH I AM CLEAN FOREVER.

>Can't fucking just use multiple enemy attacks because one of them absorbs it
>>Regenerates parts that I just knocked down
only one piece can regenerate at once
just keep spamming three down with physical then take the mouth down with magic

but I agree that boss fight was definitely one of the weakest in Persona history

ugly over-simplified design
super fucking easy

Yeah the first boss was great, I was hoping it would be just as epic.

At least the third and fourth ones are good. That's as far as I've gotten so far.

Did that fight even have the option of sending someone to do something? I beat him after I destroyed the paintings the second time.

Shit combat with some rare battles in which pure rng not your actions decide if you get through it. persona fags thing this is good gameplay or difficult design lol this is also shows the ceiling of turn based game and is a reason why people that want actually demanding gameplay in which your actions decide the outcome want a more life action combat than. Menu based commands and rng.

Yep, it seems like the game bugs out if a character is paralyzed at the wrong moment, the first all out attack didn't trigger because Protag recovered when art dude went human form

do i have plenty of time to get both good social stats and max out the social links i want without being autistic about it

I don't give a fuck about certain social links either, Ann and cat can fuck off but i want maxed doctor, ryuji, coffee man, etc.

There's no way it can be worse than Shadow Teddie.

>watch stream someone playing the first 5h
>does bullshit every day like roaming, spending tine with takemi or go to libary
>goes to the dungeon 2days before deadline
>uses up all his sp for one floor
>needs to leave dungeon cause party can't heal up anymore
>is sitting on the first floor with one day to the deadline

It was game over for him. It's funny because he fucked up 5h of progress saving on one slot right before he went to the dungeon

AIGHT, HERE WE GO, YA PIECES OF SHIT

not knowing that you need to have completed the dungeon by the third day otherwise game over is pretty fucking gay though

>should've just done it early lmao

the cat knew exactly what had to be done once the treasure was found he could've fucking said you need to have found the treasure 3 days in advance to prepare

>I didn't check the calender
It actually tells you the last day to finish the dungeon, and then the last day to enact the plan.