[PS2] SMT: Persona 3 (The RPG to keep talking about, since :awesome:) Now with more PEZ.

Just had to post here quickly to say: FUCKING INSTANT DEATH SPELLS!

It's seriously driving me crazy. I mean sure they don't work most of the time, and when they do it's usually 1 or 2 that die, BUT this game uses the same gay system as Radiata Stories, where if the character you control dies it's game over...WHY? It doesn't help that about half the enemies in Tartarus use them too. I really hope they stop with this crap, I had several frustrating moments in Radiata Stories as well because of it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Well, equiping a persona that resists them is a solution, but meh, I don't think that would work for me, chances are very slim they would have the right spell that breaks them, so I would end up not using them. Escaping won't always be a option either, sometimes you just have to fight them, in this case it was a mob that I needed to kill to complete a Elizabeth request.

The complaint is more aimed towards the main character dies -> game over part. It's just annoying. It always seems to happen too, when you are just too slow to prevent a ambush.

How ya doing, buddy?

I used Lillith a lot, she was basically my main persona, since she had mabufudyne, magurudyne and maziodyne, (man I miss the old Ice 3 days =x ) and also that allmighty damage one, who's name I can't remember. I believe she was also resistant to both light and dark, so I liked that one. I didn't really bother making overpowered personas that much.

Finally beat the game yesterday. My party may have been a bit underleveled. Main character was 71, and the others around 68. I really wouldn't call the final boss "fun" like the others. Moonless Gown just drove me insane. I was lucky to get 1 attack in before it went up again. Heh...I think the whole fight took like 45 minutes to beat, if not longer.

Overal pleased with the game, but there were a few minor things that annoyed me, the AI was one thing that annoyed me. I wanted to have Yukari as main healer, but I usually had to do it, since she really couldn't make good decisions when it came to healing. Like, the whole group was on 30% and she ended up healing just herself, instead of using media type spells.

I wasn't able to finish all the social links, but I think its safe to say hardly anyone does, unless you follow a guide or something. Just too bad I wasn't able to get Yukari's done. I was at level 9, just 1 day short.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Charm gets even worse when it's Yukari that gets charmed and uses Diarahan on a boss, fully healing it. It scared the crap out of me when that happend at the last boss, but thank god she didn't do it that time.

Didn't really have problems with any of the Tartarus bosses, except for the very last one, and then only becauce pierce was the only way to go, I for one didn't bother using Aigis or ken, so I couldn't use any other pierce characters other then Yukari, and she was maining just healing, so I ended up just using a persona that had fire break, so main character and Junpei could use Agidyne on him.

How ya doing, buddy?

Lol, only 4? Is that including the 3 that are automatically maxed?

Out of the 20 I was able to max 14, Lovers (Yukari) was at 9/10. The others I never really bothered with. Priestess 1/10(Fuuka), Justice 6/10(chihori), Moon 5/10(Nozomi), Fortune 2/10(Keisuke) and Temperance 0/10 (some french guy)

I was curious so I checked on GameFAQs, and it is apparently possible to max all of them on your first run, but it literally means you have make 0 mistakes on the responses, and have to accept certain invites on sundays, make sure you always do a kareoke/cafe at evenings to max charm/courage, and time everything so you don't end up having nobody to do events with on vacations. Even if you do all this you will max the last one on the very last day, so that shows how close it is.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I declined 90% of the sunday invites, it's not that, it's only bad when you make a appointment with someone, and then later cancel that to make a appointment with someone else, they'll get all pissed off about that.

I had 3 reverses happen, 1 one because I dated 2 girls at the same time, and the other 2 were just because I ignored them for over 2 months.

I think my biggest mistake was spending too much time with non-school friends the first few months. I honestly didn't expect the game to have 4 exams and shitloads of vacations where I couldn't visit any of my school friends. I must have wasted at least 30 days in the last few months just skipping the entire day, because all the non-school friends were maxed, and there was no school on those days, so nothing else to do.

If I ever do play it again, i'll be sure to go with school friends first, since the non ones you can pretty much talk to whenever you want anyway, I don't even think most of them have days where they are not there, except maybe sunday.

I never actually bothered trying to get a reverse err reversed. How long does it take for them to not be pissed off anymore?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I don't think there is one. Those are fuckers are pretty much immune to all magic right? on top of that they do tetrakarn to make them even cheaper. It's at these fights that shows again how bad they AI is, Akikiko, Mitsuru and Yukari when set on full assault will do the AOE magics even if it only does 11 damage. /sigh.

FELIPE NO

So FES is just the original game, with added scenes and changes to gameplay? exactly how much extra is there? because honestly that doesn't look very appealing on first sight.

And if this is indeed the case, I don't get why they didn't just release FES right away. I'm sure it must have already been out when they did P3.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?