Falstaff
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Metaphor: ReFantazio (From the Persona team)
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Falstaff
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Honestly you’re right I was pretty overleveled for that dungeon I should have just fought it. But this game fucks with my brain man. I never know what the “right” thing to do is. Maybe my party would have called me a bitch for not being able to sneak past it, or vice versa!
TJT
Mr. Poopybutthole
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Overall this game has a lot better story. Much more epic and interesting. The game mechanics are essentially Persona but simplified via Archetypes rather than Pokemon Personas capturing.
It does very much lack the "cozyness" of the Persona games though. UI is also a step back and very messy with too much going on. Overly flashy and everything throbbing or moving is not something I think enhances the game. It's just annoying.
It does very much lack the "cozyness" of the Persona games though. UI is also a step back and very messy with too much going on. Overly flashy and everything throbbing or moving is not something I think enhances the game. It's just annoying.
CaughtCross
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I feel the same way. Persona music is really catchy and interesting to listen to and hear over and over for such long games. This music in this is pretty meh by comparison. But agree with the plot and drive to see the story play out is much stronger in Metaphor.
TJT
Mr. Poopybutthole
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About 20 hours into this now. Music is definitely way worse than P5.
Overall, I am kind of meh on the archetypes. Switching them out is annoying because you have to do it so often and you also have to level up archetypes even if you don't want to use them. Which is a step back in terms of QOL compared to Persona.
Overall, I am kind of meh on the archetypes. Switching them out is annoying because you have to do it so often and you also have to level up archetypes even if you don't want to use them. Which is a step back in terms of QOL compared to Persona.
Falstaff
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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I played the shit out of this for two weeks then stopped for no real reason. Need to pick it back up. Made it to the 5th area, have 10 days before next big boss fight. Not sure if this is the end or what, I thought I read somewhere that towards the end of the game you have no restriction on time.
Kaines
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I didn't like the main menu music or the battle music, but I really like the Grand Trad music and the ... inception-esque imperial theme of Louis.
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Karen
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I finished this a bit ago, great game possibly GOTY. Though I will say I overall enjoyed this a bit less than base P5, quite a bit less than P5R which is still my favorite JRPG of all time. Good game, great writing, just wasn't quite as tight an experience as P5.
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Vorph
Silver Baronet of the Realm
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You can just stick with one archetype and stockpile Hero's Leaves to use to rank up everything else. I was constantly leveling up stuff that I never used and didn't even need as a pre-req for something else, simply because I would hit the 99x storage cap otherwise.
The only thing that really bugged me from a QOL perspective was that I felt like I had to use only the new characters as they joined, because the old ones were already ranked up and had the full-XP perks unlocked. Especially since the new characters were way behind in level too.
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Just use your favourite Archetype and over-xp will turn into items you can use to level other stuff at a 1:1 rate. No need to swap em around.
Yep agreed, I felt like I had to use the new characters until they were ranked up, then I went back to my favourites. I think it's a smart way to get people to not just keep using the same characters the entire game and figure out if you like another more. I do wish they started at the same level as your MC though.
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Intrinsic
Person of Whiteness
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Definitely false, however, I'm at the end and think I have like ~15 days to play with? My 5 virtues are maxed and most of my companions are maxed (I think Junah is not? Can't remember). And there's a few things I still need to do that will take time. Anyways, point being, I don't feel pressured to wrap up stuff because of the time limit going in to the final battle.
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What are you guys' party members set up as?
I'm nearing the end and I'm using main character as a wizard, Junah as a wizard, Strohl as a samurai, and Eufa as summoner.
Wizards instead of elemental masters so they don't use as much MP.
I kinda wanted to replace strohl with Baz, but he has so many archetypes maxed out it feels like way too much to catch Baz up.
I have everyone with Revitalize 3 and shield blessing with the gloves that buff ATK to sustain MP.
Hulkenberg and Heismay are permanently benched, because their stats specialize in unimportant things.
I'm nearing the end and I'm using main character as a wizard, Junah as a wizard, Strohl as a samurai, and Eufa as summoner.
Wizards instead of elemental masters so they don't use as much MP.
I kinda wanted to replace strohl with Baz, but he has so many archetypes maxed out it feels like way too much to catch Baz up.
I have everyone with Revitalize 3 and shield blessing with the gloves that buff ATK to sustain MP.
Hulkenberg and Heismay are permanently benched, because their stats specialize in unimportant things.
Intrinsic
Person of Whiteness
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I run MC as Elemental Master or whatever, Strohl as Samurai, usually have Heismay in as Royal Assassin just b/c I'm OCD about making sure I Steal from every encounter. Guess it would be easy enough to put that on anyone else. I've been using Eufa more and more though. Royal Assassin is game breaking though with the evade makes mob lose all turns. Eufa also has my Cleric abilities.
Falstaff
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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So I had every intention of finishing this over the weekend after not touching it for 2 months. I was pissed back then because I had 9 days before "The Final Battle" and no way to finish everything I wanted to.
Powered through some things, went to do that quest... it's not actually the final battle and now I have 30 days before the FINAL battle. So back to the grind we go...
Powered through some things, went to do that quest... it's not actually the final battle and now I have 30 days before the FINAL battle. So back to the grind we go...
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Intrinsic
Person of Whiteness
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I had every intention of going back and platinuming the game. Think after the 1st play though I was only missing like 1 or 2 trophies. But then realized you couldn’t just mass skip all the dialogue and cutscenes and got tired of mashing the button. It was fun and I think they did the “time as a resource” here as well as it could be. Felt WAY more forgiving than Persona and not nearly as anxiety inducing.