Metaphor: ReFantazio thread

God I want Louis to rape me

cool thread op
you meant that metaphorically tho right?

The game needed more moments like this

I like long rpgs but the barren, ps3-era looking environments of this game are a huge turn off. Really ugly looking game.

This

It'd be nice if trannies and/or false-flagging jrpg haters didn't keep making these flaming OPs

I checked the fairies in the Sanctum and wtf... our fairy, Gallica is the only one that dresses like a slut.

She hang out with people alot

I didn't mind that moment on its own, but I feel like it would come across too silly if shit like that was happening constantly.

Am I just going to be using weaker skills with prince as a magfag late game, or skipping the whole thing entirely for an actual magic-focused archetype?

play for 45 hours

have fun

take a break from the game for 2 days

suddenly I can't be bothered to finish it anymore

I can't play long games anymore. It's over.

I built into Magic and still used Prince for the final boss at least. Resist All is kind of hard to say no to and the way it works with Synthesis skills is a big help too. I just inherited Exorcist Light and Hyper onto Prince and that worked well enough, Prince also comes with Radiant Light which is a decent AoE.

I'm the same way.
I've started blitzing the last quarter of games, skipping any and all side content to get to the end before I can throw it into the backlog forever.

The cast is all adults, this isn't persona

Wish he was a female character t b h

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What for, perfect female furry candidate already exists.

Just build for Synergy spells, then Royal Sword with Strohl/Bas to feed off their STR. I spent all my points in Mag and Prince still hits the hardest

Adults can act that way too

The protagonist is underage, he can't drink yet. Strohl might be an adult, but maybe not, hard to say.

It's baffling that she's the one who getting a figure

Junah is more popular than Eupha in Japan. They really don't like shitskin waifus.

shes a persona character u see

She's the most popular.

The protagonist is 18

They really don't like shitskin waifus

false

Marketing team was pushing Junah as the main girl that players would fall for, not Brigitta, Galica or Eupha.

fuck blonde midget

So... I get that Sanctists can continue coping about God since you mostly prove their faithful are corrupt, but not much else.
But.
What even is the "faith" of the Mustari that they wish to bring to the mainland by the epilogue?
You both find and tell them their dragon is just a magla monster people used to fuck each other up after managing to seal it in a weapon.
And that's all that dragons are.
So what are they even preaching?

handholding = SEX

She's hot and cool. What's the problem?

DUDE BEER LAMO

Literally what happened to me with Persona 5.
I think I'll get back to it, but it's been so long ( like 6 months) that I don't even know how to play it anymore . I might as well watch the rest on YouTube.

No, seriously, he has a point.
send blacks to africa
send asians to asia
send jews to furnace

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I'm seriously considering just using cheatengine if that final month isn't enough to maxed out all virtues and followers.
No way I'd NG+ a 80 hours game just for completion.
I do wonder if we're getting any DLC that just resumes our savefile.

wins election

instantly puts all his friends into key positions of power

How is this legal?

This is how it works in every modern country as well.

Gallica will get to watch...

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Was it autism?

Tell that to Trump

What happened in there that they didn't want him to see?

racetribe is the most hated

racetribe is actually one of the closest to real humanity

Metaphor indeed

Griffith is so fucking cool

You're a king. That's how it goes because you have final say.

That's every politician ever

At least you get called out by Milo but I understand that is a completely different topic than the idealism message Hashino was trying to convey.

Called out by the guy who wants to exterminate poor people

Not exactly a great endorsement.

The most popular candidate was a guy who murdered his way to the throne, I don't think the people care too much about the fairness of court logistics.

Strohl is your right hand man and nobility
Both Heismay and Hulk were veteran knights
Junah is already a richfag celebrity
Eupha is basically a princess
Bas is a bit of a stretch but he was already well respected amongst Louis' command
All of them are archetype users

He hates the uggos

So Louis is Metaphor's version of Lucifer, right?

And Gallica?

Royal onahole

Honestly surprised and happy Louis remains the antagonist throughout.

t. Baki

Pink paripus sex

WATCH OUT

Why are the animations for character models so stiff? Shit looks awful. Even Ys X has better animations.

That's Hulkenberg

So are they going to do a post game expansion? It's set up for more adventures and they've said they don't want to do re releases anymore after SMTVV, which is why The Answer for Reload was a normal DLC.

Is bat dad going to call Basillio a slur at some point

Complete Anglo death.

Im convinced people are just memeing. Im about to set off for the island and he hasnt been racist yet. At all.

Yes, it's not very subtle about it.

Are the elves just Germans
Are Elda the nippons and Clemar whitey
Dogs are obviously niggers

He says like two racist things and people blow it out of proportion.

Hes lucifer
Hes dio
Hes griffither token
He sure doesnt want to hurt no onee

Honestly Strohl should have done some racist shit, if only unintentionally, like being patronising and shit.

More is DIO, not Louis.

Just like real life fr fr

maxxed out all bonds and did all optional bosses and dungeons and still got 8 days left. is arena the only thing i can do cause that shit is boring

Call me when they make a figure of her true form.

Someone says something insulting to Will

Strohl steps in saying "hey, that's my fucking Eigger you're talking to"

How do you respond?"

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Who is going stop us? We can use a ton of different magic without needing anything

The Rhoad are semites/boomers

You do get a achievement for clearing gold 30 but there is a fucking horrible mob in there that I fucking HATE do be careful and have light damage

He's Reinhard von Lohengramm

The church is bad

No the church is actually good

wat

It's church (the institution) is bad but religion is not bad.

Wait does synthesis actually scale on both people? I thought it was just the one who initiates it.

Finish game in 70 hours

Uh... Wasn't the game supposed to be 150 or something? With over 100 Persona- archetypes?
Did Hashino lie?

its funny watching chuds latch onto the one character they can relate with and completely ignore how his entire character arc is becoming not racist

His character arc is about his son. If his character arc were about his racism it wouldn't only come up like two times, it's just a minor detail of his character, not his main thrust.

the church isn't inherently good or bad

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If you go for Regicide on NG+ you can get to 100h total

Fucking retard

So let me get this straight

louis “NOT LUCIFER” created the metaphor world after gaining power from the TDE in nocturne

you defeat him using the ATLUS sword

Amazing game chuddies

You got it all gay sorry

How does this even work? This town is pretty cool looking. I really want to explore the giant sand worm husk or the area around it, such a shame that it's just a background, something about seeing the giant thing under a beautiful blue sky and acres of sand, just looks super kino to me. Liking the game so far, but I'm genuinely tired of the Persona formula after tasted the SMT apple this year. No matter how hard I try, doing the life/dating sim shit just bores the ever living shit out of me. Also, Brigitta is cute. CUTE! Oh btw, are the "humans" thing a substitute for the demons in SMT/Persona? Since the game since to suggest our world being the fictionalized utopia, mirroring our view on heaven/hell. Cute little twist.

Most schizo post of the day award

Not my fault that the jannies made me wait 10 minutes before posting. I just added more and more question whilst waiting.

inb4 verify email

already did, but something fucked up my browser, everytime I shut down my pc, the login data or something, just resets. I have to relogin youtube and everything, fuck even Anon Babble setting resets. Probably have to format my pc, but I'm too lazy to do it.

Also, Brigitta is cute. CUTE!

Good boy.

The thing with Joanna was what missing in both Tales of Arise and FFXVI. I don't know why writers just love to infantilize the oppressed as if they aren't capable of doing evil shit. Anyways, super pissed that I almost burned my entire MP trying to beat the baby while she's still in stalking/chase mode. Only for it to not matter. I always forget JRPGs can be pretty fucking shit when it comes to player agency. Had to switch to mage and farm at the dog spawn to recoup my MP.

THIS GAME IS FUCKING EPIC

Yeah, I beat up the baby when I first encountered it and I was kind of hoping it would give me a special reward or whatever.

trying to beat the baby while she's still in stalking/chase mode

Such a dumb thing to include after introducing optional hard fights with big rewards like the dragon. They even use similar wording so of course you are tempted to try.

I really like the wizard's design

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Yeah? I dont.

Shame it's useless outside of mana collecting in early game

Same.

korean

Anon is it true you guys have tiny dicks

Yeah.

I thought beating it would at least end the hide and seek section. But nope.
Oh yeah, the fire dragon. Is there any other dungeon that have optional and rewarding shit like that? I'm not that far into the game yet, probably halfway through Brilehaven arc, but I genuinely can't remember the last time optional shit was even present in the game since the fire dragon fight.
Is Mage/Wizard not good in the game? I'm building my MC to be one since the other party members that I have right now isn't that well suited for the role.

It's funny how the gang is easily willing to forgive a lady who sacrificed hundreds to the baby mutant just cause she was sad and are cool with the Aztecs sorry I mean Mustari sacrifice people to a dragon god all in the name of diversity and acceptance

forgiveness and empathy aren't quite the same thing anon

same but with p3

They don't forgive Joanna and were against Eupha sacrificing herself though.

I've played through the entire game on hard and cleared it with MC in mage lineage. I can't find anything that hits harder than lightning weakness dance/the lightning synthesis move. You guys are saying prince is better than elemental master but im struggling to see how.

I thought the Mage line was fine. I built into Magic and got good use out of it.

Went MAG/VIT for the entire game. Prince is still good as a magic class when you use equipment and passives to buff your STR. By the end of the game I was basically a tank that could deal both magic and physical damage. All Prince has for STR skills are two uniques, one of which deals almighty damage. Don't worry if you went full MAG for most of the game.

Being empathetic to Joanna's past is not the same as forgiving her for what she did.

they didn't forgive anything you retard

Atlus has a clear favorite and unfortunately Atlus has shit taste as always.

it's good in the midgame before you can unlock the broken royal archetypes
sadly suffers from the social link being timegated

jew standin race are the most human

(((merchant))) class breaks the game

huge happening in game occurs on 9/11

What did Atlus mean by this?

what's the deal with the game being full of teeth?

Wisdom teeth
They have advice

No I'm pretty sure if she smiled a little more then they would have forgiven her

Making a second trip through the Cathedral because because my MP regen isn't quite there yet(MC was fine with Mage and sifting through weak shitters, but the rest of my party ran empty and don't want to waste too many MP restores yet). Do some enemies not respawn in dungeons? Noticed none of those egg cunts seem to be there.

Probably some of the most forgettable dungeons in the persona smt verse.
Even p3 Tartarus is better than most of MR dungeons

The side dungeons maybe, but the main dungeons are good. The issue is just there isn't enough of them, there's only 4 dungeons that feel like proper dungeons on the scale you'd expect.

The Cathedral and tower Shinjuku were the only okay ones, it's like they put the most work into the cathedral and gave up on the rest. Everything else is laughably dull especially Louis' ship "dungeon"

The castle and Skybound Avatar are good too, but other than that it's just Louis' ship, which barely even qualifies as a dungeon, the Opera House, which you could say the same of, and Tyrant's Star, which just feels like two rooms for you to farm in.

Paladin or Dark Knight?

Idk man probably not

Holy Knight Proclamation carried me through the end game

That story was such a huge point of me not giving a fuck about the retarded narrative anymore

oh poor woman you see she was a mother and it's totally understandable that a mother in sorrow will FEED LIVING KIDS TO A MONSTER WTF HOW THE FUCK ARE THESE COMPLETE RETARDS

And reminder this is the same pack of retards that killed Louis without the slightest proof that he was the one that had killed the prince.

his boss form is literally a three-faced demon with no lower body that chews on people like in the divine comedy

Paladin was very strong for me

anon the retarded one is you here

no, Wizard is outclassed by Commander and General mid game, who somehow have better spells than the designated spellcaster

You're gonna want both eventually for Royal Knight

Or you can plug those spells onto Wizard who has a higher MAG stat

New atlus mascot

Those small stat differences barely matter at all.
Like legitimately, even 50 into a main stat isn't anything to write home about.
What DOES matter is Synergies. The Wizard line has some very easy to do AoE Synergies early game when you can't otherwise AoE well yet, it's pretty useful for that.

I mean I don't know much about Lucifer outside of MegaTen, so those references (?) went over my dumb head. I just saw the first form of the final boss and it reminded me of how Lucifer was sometimes portrayed in Persona. Then I remembered Louise from Strange Journey and was convinced.

NTA but child murderers deserve zero empathy or compassion
If you disagree you're a woke retard.

got a buddy that said he was 'softlocked' at first zorba fight, is bro just game journalist bad or what

Louis did nothing wrong and the church is a nigger. It's really stupid that they literally just assume he's the one the cursed the prince with literally nothing to confirm it.

The fact that they tried to emphasize with someone that feeds living children to a monster is beyond reason. This is the same pack of retards that once again killed Louis in cold blood for an assumed far lesser crime.

Why do you retards who keep harping on this keep leaving out that the plan, literally the entire time was to bring her to be publicly executed? They also sympathise with Louis in the exact same way. Fucking moron.

It was to get her to realize what she's doing with her "child".

Level both and put the good skills from one on the other.

That shit was pretty funny, and it served as a good "twist" for my dumb ass because I only stopped to think "Wait we have literally zero proof that this nigga did this" AFTER we impaled him

I like that he was like "the fuck did I even do to you?" after you stab him

You won, therefore you were correct and the facts are irrelevant. Louis would approve.

Ideal metaphor.

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It is, easily
I didn't play without a guide or anything and had like 10 days left over without anything to do, completed all conversations, maxed out virtues, all sidequests/dungeons
And I didn't do it perfectly either, just finish the main dungeons in two days at most, prioritize increasing virtues over useless shit like +5 MP to some party member, and do bondmates whenever possible so you know when their next level requires a dungeon or higher virtue level etc.

Louis represents total freedom that's why the games heavy themes are on equity good and Louis bad
It's the classic law vs chaos except you're actually doing Law work

Nah they literally let her go and hoping she would show up on her own good will.

Damage boost skills stack like in other SMT games, right?

Yeah exactly that, they also didn't really know she would actually be executed, that was just a realistic possibility.

Yeah.

She was literally under Bardon's custody

SeeAlso they absolutely knew she was going to be executed. They literally even say that the death penalty is the only thing she'd get.

Nah they bet on her willingly placing herself under Bardon's custody. They just let her go with Heismay saying

you know I'm somewhat of a parent myself and we can trust her

Also the entire plan bet on Joanna admitting she was the child murderer. If she had just denied the whole thing in Brilehaven, their whole plan would have crashed.

And? Her whole motivation was feeding her surrogate child human who you literally fucking kill. There was no reason to not believe her. The fuck is she going to do find another human baby monster thing?

This is why they "let her go" in the first place, because the point was to get her to admit it at Brilehaven
Delivering the dead Sanctoress's head by itself would not only be extremely shocking but also have way less of an effect, even if they had Bardon come forth and say "they're right you know".

He actually does it twice lmao, both times towards the Ishkia.

psychotic deranged mother has to be a totally logical person, right?!?

Yeah they could've killed her and had Bardon testify for her crimes. That would have made far more sense than risking letting her have the podium and basically bet it all on her getting herself killed.

This game has ASS WRITING

elda kid brings the head of a high ranking member of the church into the show

there'd unironically be no way of explaining that for the team

Anon, I'm sure you can think of a reason not to believe her if you just try. There's a pretty obvious one.
She might have lied to avoid punishment.

Man, I loved this game, and now I'm playing Red Dead for the first time and I love that game too.
I'm experiencing a stretch of really great fucking games.

She clearly has nothing left to live for and her entire actions since he child's death have been nothing but self destructive "fuck everything" kind of actions. Believing she'd act out of self preservation would be even more retarded. She was always prepared to die. Even if you didn't bring her to be executed she'd have probably killed herself anyway.

They could have Bardon do all the talking and explaining. Also Hulkenberg and Strohl are both of nobility class and have clout. There were so many better options than just letting her go and hoping she would just kill herself for their sake.

Bardon who clearly was a very eloquent and reliable man as illustrated by his early social link
It doesn't matter what you say when the kneejerk reaction would be so massive it's lucky he doesn't get executed himself on the spot

Sure, she's essentially just lost her child a second time, but expecting her to willingly throw her life away is still pretty risky. Especially considering how crazy she went after losing it the first time and what that led her to do.
Your party rightfully treats trusting her as a pretty big gamble, since she could just deny it and everyone would have trusted her over you.

Bro just admit letting a fucking psychotic child murderer walk away free and place all hope on her being a reasonable person is fucking retarded writing and something only a deluded Jap or Bioware employee would write.

Bardon does not have enough authority that his word would justify killing a noble neither do Hulkenberg or Strohl. You keep saying "hur there are better options" and every one you've said is wrong. What they did was better. Now if you want the actual best option it would have been to just deny her request and forcefully take her but even then not allowing her that final request could pointlessly antagonize her into doing something untold. Generally when criminals are perfectly willing to cooporate you generally cut them some slack and give them a bit more benefit of the doubt.

Do you not think about how her human child could have just as easily killed her at any moment too? It was pure fucking luck she even survived being near it. It's not like it had any affection for her. Yes the party does treat it like a gamble and it is but the circumstances dictate and they really were lacking in options and allowing her some leeway was not that big of a deal as previously stated Bardon was there to make sure she doesn't just dip. This really isn't the plot hole you're making it out to be.

It was a gamble they took, especially when other alternatives weren't nearly as good.

Anon, I'm not the guy you were arguing with about whether it makes sense or not. My first response to you was this one: I'm only pointing out that there was ample reason to be worried about her not holding up her end of her bargain, since she could have gotten away with it if she wanted to. As you've already agreed with, it was a (necessary) gamble.

The entire thing was a gamble from the start the second Strohl decided they'd twist the words of the task from literal monster to "piece of shit person doing horrible things."

And I don't disagree with that. Nobody ever claimed it was an easy sure fire solution. They had to gamble on something and I don't see why people seem to always take issue with them empathising with a person under circumstances that are something worth empathizing with. Like her being a victim who was wronged and being a piece of shit who killed a lot of innocent people aren't mutually exclusive.

Pretty much everything the cast does at nearly every single point of the game is a gamble and believe you me if you've beaten the game you'd know that that one isn't even close to being the most stupid and risky. It gets way worse.

Prince was having his own fanfic about being a travelling hero. Now he fused and became his self insert OC. Metaphor ReFantazio.

pic related is the best buff in the game by far, nothing else compares

it's a synthesis skill so you can't inherit it on another job

the job is weak to Strike, aka just double the push turns of 90% of the enemies in the game :)

honestly a pretty good way to balance buffing

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Strike isn't used by very many enemies.
By the time you get Warlord you can easily get armor/accessories that resist Strike to overwrite that Weakness as well.

holy shit why does junah's character art look so offputting? like a shoujo character or something it looks bizarre to me and doesn't mesh with everyone else's

Her race looks like that.
You aren't asking why the batpeople look like batpeople either.

America is a nation built by immigrants

She's a nidder

Have you looked at the other Nidia?
She looks VERY normal human compared to the rest of them.

*white european immigrants

why is bird Cid not a party member

Strike isn't used by very many enemies.

I think nearly every strong enemy I can remember has an aoe tail swipe or aoe wide swing attack that is strike

By the time you get Warlord you can easily get armor/accessories that resist Strike to overwrite that Weakness as well.

I think this is also not true, you get a million piece of equipment with slash or pierce resist, but this is the only gear I found with strike resist and I stole it off of an enemy in the final dungeon (also it is heavy armor which you can't use with commander line). You do get a lot of strike evade though which you could gamble with

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I always thought "bally" was pronounced "baw-lee" and him saying it all the time made me feel silly.

All the dragons have a Strike AoE.
You can buy an accessory with Resist Strike in Grand Trad after the events of the Opera House, but that means you won't be able to use the Synths Press Turn Cost -1 accessory.

The Strike Weakness alone is nowhere near enough to balance Warlord though in my opinion, that class is ridiculously busted. It could be weak to every physical damage type and people would still use it.

Another trek

Learn Frigid Fortress Tactic from Level 20 General. It's a heavy ice damage spell that inflicts weakness to ice, having multiple people with it results in insane amounts of damage and free press turns since everyone's doing that 50% extra damage from weakness hits, and it reapplies with each hit it does. An entire team with it and maybe one ice-weakness dance is the best team in the game as far as ease goes, you do not need to think once.

Emerald Vortex from Soul Hacker is also great for random encounters.

But yeah stay prince for sure.

I just wiped shit with Radiance alone

Might be one of the most 7/10 jrpgs in existence.
It's enjoyable.
It's unironically admirable how they used lots of common fantasy tropes with no subversions.
These two were pretty great.

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get tired of hp bloat regular enemies only solvable by chewing through large quantities of mp so I have nothing for bosses.

lower difficulty to easy

game is fun again.

Synths Press Turn Cost -1 accessory.

I didn't use that either to be honest.
My Warlord had Third Eye from Ninja and the accessory that ends enemies' turn when you dodge something. That's so fucking broken everyone but your big dick damage dealer should have it.

There's no need to justify yourself bro.
Just play whatever difficulty you want

I just want a tryhard to get upset.

On the Tyrant's star

Doing a bit of grinding out of the archetypes for MC

Get him to 100%

Start doing the mini bosses and move on the the next area

Two spawn flowers with the teeth that give you like 25 archetype XP items in one battle

I think I've broken the game by 100% 4 of my party members

Dental crowns, like kings.

sorry, only EtrianCHADS get the full experience from playing this game, everyone else just doesn't get it

This is unironically true. I can't imagine having that entire segment completely lost on you.

Probably the coolest moment I've experienced from a video game, and the whole time I was thinking "anyone who hasn't played through EO1 is going to hate this lmao these devs are crazy"

Junah only acts like the thirsty Rise proxy for a couple hours where with Eupha she is very consistent with liking the MC so its weird they go all in with Junah

democracy stops being a factor once the new King is selected

the only dungeon i ran out of mp items on was the first one, i just abused the monk line's hp attacks and bought a fuck ton of healing items for the rest of the game, also made mp items with speed cooking. i had so many mp items stocked up i didn't even run out in the etrian dungeon, i one day'd them all too.

You can literally use mage to grind mp back out of respawns then continue the dungeon at your leisure. I have no idea how people are getting fucking filtered by mp. Anon Babble has absolutely dogshit “gamers” that are likely just normalfags that title has no meaning anymore

Games with menu combat are never hard or interesting.

Then why are you getting filtered by mp? I played this game from start to finish on hard and had 0 issues with mp because of mage, mp literally stopped being an issue the moment i did abandoned tomb because of the two crescent medals you get if you do it with a thief

grind mp from spawns

At the cost of your soul

F I L T E R E D actionslop enjoyer

I mean, it's the last dungeon but the archetype levels carry over to NG+
you still have to unlock them again

Lol these games are piss easy, you're having trouble?

F-FILTERED

The answer is always in your menu. You should never lose a single battle without being massively underleveled. Go watch anime.

The one problem is that if you hug a corner the ear humans won't make contact with you due to their hitbox, so it's super cheeseable

why

Their race are all uncanny valley kawaii uguu people because their true form are tiny chibi gnomes, and the one thing they can't change is their eyes

This game convinced me to go vote early.

People need to make up theit mind about who is louis. Griffith lucifer dio sephirot

He's senator armstrong actually

He's this bad boy.

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based

who did you vote for and what state

Just arrived at the Mustari Village
This whole "we gotta be buddies with Louis to save the prince" is starting to feel utterly retarded
Like I don't see a valid reason for them to keep this charade up

One of your friends literally is one of the most accomplish guards of the country

Other friend is noble with some family connection

Other is a songstress who is the darling of the public

Other friend is an experienced veteran who demands respect

Idk you tell me

Kamala Harris and Virginia.

I like that Louis is never like angry with anything you do. He's super based and was a much more likable villain than I was expecting.

Kamala Harris

I see the message of the game flew right over your head

do you think they'd have an easier time being an open enemy of a guy with an army, they can't exactly say "i quit"

He's mad when Basilio calls him a hypocrite.

Please explain to me how this game’s message supports Trump.

Un. Stinking. Believable.

i liked him bursting out in laughter when you claim you're the prince, made him feel more NINGEN instead of a calculating str autist

It proposes that you should support those born into the greatest position of privilege by way of your quest to reinforce the royal lineage over the self-made man, so you should follow suit and vote for Trump who was born into greater wealth than Harris.

You stupid liberal fucking faggot tranime nigger retard

the MC was born and instantly got semi-assassinated and turned into an OC that the world hated

The game is peak adventurism
You're a royal who goes around showing the other tribes they're ignorant, retarded and only your way is the correct way while smacking their gods on their asses

And he still won in the end because the circumstances of his birth mattered more than any of that, so you should vote Trump.

I don't have an answer to this, I only made that post in the hopes it would sow discord and uncertainty, which you will then overcome and find the answers for yourselves (this is the true message of the game)

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actually he won in the end because I grinded MAG and made friends

Yeah he was way too chill on this gay ass party that kept killing him with no proof to back it up.

He won because of your involvement and you got involved because of the king's royal magic which commoners would not have available to them, so he won because of the circumstances of his birth.

Nah her character is just immensely boring. Shes the "isolated princess" trope with weirdo religion/culture and a third eye. Wow.

dumb nyagger

The whole point was that his birth didn’t matter. Unlike other monarchs, he chose to walk the path of the prince, making him fit to be a true king. Also, the illegitimate son of a weak and dead king, who’s perceived as the antichrist by 95% of people doesn’t exactly scream social status or privilege

If I could marry Eupha I would have 24/7 babymaking mating press sex and I would help her raise our three eyes babies and have a happy family

The most popular candidate was a guy who murdered his way to the throne

Thats what it should be though

Instead they are fetching his mcguffin to make him more dangerous and a bigger problem
They had plenty of opportunities already to just dip out without saying anything

she's so cute it's almost unfair

i honestly don’t see how you could be a trump supporter and enjoy this game without ignoring literally everything the game is trying to tell you

Dark knight is ass

same but with Gallica instead, I mean he already sleeps with her on the same bed

Jésus...

you're one of the top candidates at that point, how are you gonna silently dip out and still get close to louis

Sephiroth is just a mommas boy, so not him. Dio only cares about himself, louis genuinely wants to better the world and doesnt give a shit about his well being and also doesnt fear death. Griffith comes closest and lucifer well, obviously.

They don't need to get close to him anymore. They already got what they needed him for in the first place
The whole curse plot point seemed farfetched from the start with a whole bunch of baseless assumptions (Caster's identity, Louis conveniently having a formula around, etc)

He is nothing like DIO beyond being blonde and villainous.

Isn't he also mad when your party claimed that Louis gave up on the world and that he already lost his hope long ago?

baseless assumptions

to be fair Forden did intentionally pin it on Louis and Louis straight up admitting to regicide publically did not do anything to shake those rumors
what is weird is that you can ask him if he killed the Prince and King and he'll just say he killed the King and ignore that you asked about the Prince, but no one notices it

sexo fairy

How can you die during the Virga Island arc when you are in the top 20 ranking?
The King's Magic should make you invincible while you save Eupha.

Anything to focus on as preperation before fighting Louis in October?

It doesn't protect you from dying to monsters

Nothing in particular comes to mind.
If you just do what seems logical to you - S. Links, bounties, etc - you're probably golden. Maybe keep an extra save handy in case you somehow screw up royally, but I don't think it'll be necessary.

lol it needs more silly quirky moments xD!

Fuck off you useless millenial disney adult cringelord

I hate leftist freaks like you. You can’t just let media be apolitical. This is literally just a story of a band of heroes killing the big bad and you try to make it about modern day politics. You have a brain disease. Consider suicide quickly.

During the entire Virga island arc you only fight monsters, when you get the opera house later on the enemies deliberately ignore the MC due to the magic.

its really clever how they balance out getting infinite mp items by making it so you have to press the button many, many times to get all the rockbeans necessary

Elda the nippons

I thought they were mostly an amalgam of muslim races with the whole religious angle

The game has infinite mp built in from the start, just make the protagonist a mage

yeah man I know, but Id rather cook the food that restores 100 to the entire party than kill fodder for 1mp each

and dreammoth spawns for the good all party MP dish

Can't you buy the bugs from the grand trad herb store at some point

Yes, when you return after the Opera House fiasco, you can just buy as many of 'em as you want.

aw fuck don't do this to me

The game had just the right amount of this I think. The party acts like kids just enough that you can buy hulkenberg being depressed and living on her own for 10 years for instance

they're created by anxiety, and teeth falling out is like the OG anxiety nightmare

The entire Opera section was a lot of fun, the assassination scene was pretty great
youtu.be/xIfGMdeo8D8

I got tired of this after 10minutes, so I just cheat engined MP items.
I dont mind games playing the resource management thing but when the goto strategy is a mindnumbing autistic grind I just couldnt do it.

resource management thing but when the goto strategy is a mindnumbing autistic grind I just couldnt do it.

The real strategy is to not grind dungeons infinitely, just go through them, get to the boss, beat him, leave. Maybe go scrape for treasure but I don't really think they intended for players to keep respawning high-level monsters to farm exp

you know you can go back to town and heal

Are either of the accessories in the Gloamhall shop worth it? (Praetorian Cloth and Phantasmal Doll). They seem fairly niche.

denuvo

I shan't

should I do the big dungeon in 2-3 sessions?

no, I'll do it in one sitting despite having a ton of time just because

Anon, Atlus fucked up again and the game's been pirateable for almost a week now.

to be fair, you don't know how much time you'll have at the end if you do dungeons in more than one session.
I ended up with spare time to do the arena but i had no idea how strict this game expected you to be with time management

Even persona games give you a week or so of free time by the end if you just rush the dungeons.

Is the game even good? Can the sex goddess fairy carry the game by herself?

I've only just finished the first major dungeon, I'm enjoying it enough so far at least. But I also pirated it so it's easy for me to say it's worth the price.

MC ends up with the ugliest girl of the cast

How is this fair?

He's not with Junah

MC ends up with the second ugliest girl of the cast

the ugliest girl of the cast

He ends up banging Joanna?

Didnt know your mother belonged to the cast

I hated it, purely because if you cut out the recall function of the lance it stops any of the plot bullshit that happens immediately after. It felt like they went through massive hoops to have a "a HA!" moment that just added so much fuel to the potential fire that immediately they get rid of the rule about protecting candidates anyways so they don't need to worry about the problems the lance brought

But Gallica is the cutest?

He didn't end with the shitskin Eupha

Holding hands with Eupha!

This game has ASS WRITING

This is my conclusion about 5 hours into the game. It bothered me so much how everyone, just naively followed Grius without much evidence. Not one bothered to ask, was Grius right in his assumption. Their entire journey begun based on a flimsy, baseless accusation. That they themselves never bothered to correct.

I kinda emphatized with her ngl, I mean her child was literally killed because the entire town believed in some retarded superstition. Where was her justice for all those years. Even her fucking family was unironically happy that her son was fucking killed. The entire town needed to be nuked off the map to be honest.

How is Joanna the biggest filter in the game?

Players should forget the eyes and focus entirely on the baby.

Is that? I've seen more people complain about the Ice Dragon. Of the Trial dragons I found this one easy anyway, the one that does 9999 damage was more of a challenge.

For that one, just make sure that whoever goes first on the turn it uses the charm can clear the debuff from the party, then set up a magic barrier. Once you know how the pattern goes, you just gotta keep track of the turns and you're golden.

That's what I did, but that was still more of a challenge and required more preparation than the one that reflects all damage. You just need to apply weaknesses with Dancer, which I was already doing against most enemies anyway.

is Louis the best Hashino villain?
his September 10-12 part was pretty kino

How do I get my PS4 controller to work with the game?

it literally just works, even with the pirate version

I fucking hate soul scream. What is the best tactic to kill last phase of Louis? Reflect and dodge?

Just pay him back with a Hero's Cry.

Yes, just cheese with Royal Knight and Royal Thief, but sometimes you're just gonna get fucked by RNG and no counter or dodge will happen. I'm not a fan of the endgame on higher difficulties

He is good, and it goes a long way that he has a consistent sense of presence, though that is done in such a way where I think you fight him too many times as a result, but I still think I prefer Adachi. There's a lot of good things about Louis, but just on a level of entertainment I don't think he matches Adachi. He doesn't have the crazy-face portraits, he doesn't have the shamelessly base motivation, when you see him acting evil it doesn't have the entertainment value of Adachi immediately jumping to Mayumi being a whore when she turns down his advances and so on.

Louis is a more competently done villain in many ways, but there are a couple of points about him that feel a bit lacking. His motivations aren't very interesting, which is a shame because I feel like he could have had a more interesting motivation if they leaned more on him being interested in the utopia of the novel but they lean more into what happened at the Eldan sanctum which I think was not as interesting, you fight him too many times and he's too easy and despite him having a good sense of presence, he does just end up being a might makes right kind of villain that you've probably seen many times before, which is a bit disappointing. I still think he's a very good villain in a lot of ways, but I think I prefer Adachi and Maruki, though the latter isn't really a Hashino villain.

dragon unscathed baybee

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The sky turned red I'm ending this game TODAY

I wish Strohl was the MC instead of this faggot twink with a Fairy mouthpiece.

I don't mind bosses that use soul scream, but those skelly monks who use soul scream to summon a bunch of adds unless you one-round their asses are complete cancer.

THIRTY DAYS of free time before the final mission

holy shit they made it so easy

Heismay with Royal Thief dodges everything and is free to wear another accessory

Assuming Louis was behind the curse was logical. There were exactly two people in the kingdom who met the description of the caster and any doubt that it might not be Louis went out the window when he blatantly murdered the king.

Grius was positive it was Louis because he knew Louis already
Grius being an idiot causing so much of the plot to happen is just as stupid as he is

characters being wrong about something is bad writting

go to sleep Susie, you are embarrassing yourself

Assassination plot was stupid because it is the world with magic and no one knew what kind of magic Louis was wielding, surely it was smart to rush at him with just a sword.

The assassination arc was good and only crybabies disagree.

The assassination arc was bad and only crybabies disagree.

cute alcoholic

It's outright stated multiple times that the reason the previous king couldn't do anything is because he had no one in his court he could actually trust. Of course your character would avoid making that same mistake.

faith good, idolization of pedo priest bad

The big mouth homo that all the teeth spawn from will be a boss in the DLCrerelease

This game can be so cringe sometimes.

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That's how it works IRL as well. I've yet seen a democratically elected leader who'd pick their cabinet members solely on merit. It's almost always members of their party, which are basically their friends.

How so?

god the animation looks so bad

She hang out with people alot

She talks like "those people"

You are the ocean's gray waves

I've never heard a song that starts with both vocal and instrument at the same time. Shit was so abrupt that I just laughed instead.

uguu moeblob idol singing a bunch of cringy lyrics during a time of civil unrest

Not to mention this whole "Tournament for the Throne" shit, good lord. The writing is so childish.

Only when Junah is on screen

Character starts to sing

every sing time

Midge lover!!

Who did the anime scenes, they looks like dogshit

He's literally Reinhard from LoGH, down to the same stupid costume

Which studio is always responsible for these shitty anime cutscenes in JRPGs? Feels like they always hire the same studdio considering how consistently shit they are.

The writing is so childish

Ah yes, better trash writing like Sephiroth talking about darkness and light or the typical Falcom slop. Or even better the Xeno cringe shit with giant robot maids and one eyed monster. Certainly they are less juvenile than political drama.

Don't give a shit about either of those faggot games.

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I'd crush these niggas like you wouldnt believe

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Huh? KH is consistently criticized for its writing. Why can't you Personababs accept that your games have flaws in its writing? Also, considering how much the story tried to make you think its this serious, political drama, having such a flimsy, childish writing, just made it worse.

The early anime cutscene where the king's face first shows up and the election starts was so janky I could barely process what was happening.

Their AGI is too high you wouldn't be able to hit them

I'm not talking about KH, I'm talking about the demakes. Let's not even talk about the convoluted mess is the ending, literally wrote by two chuuni hacks.

t. Brigitta

>uguu moeblob idol

That has nothing to do with the writing

singing a bunch of cringy lyrics

Subjective. I didn't find it cringy.

during a time of civil unrest

Thats the beat time for music, gets the people together and reminds of better times.

Soul status verdict: soulless

Whats with the weird blue outliner on the left one

Reviews always praise anime cutscenes in vidya but to be honest I'm over them. I feel like cell shading has grown to a point where it can look as good as most anime except it can run 60 fps. But then a drawn cutscene starts and it's a fucking 5 fps slideshow

Shartlus cant do animation well. I dont like their anime cutscenes very much. Don't look fluid and the characters look kinda off. I preferred the in-game cutscenes.

Anon, the most popular candidate was a mass-murdering monster who planned to turn everyone into eldritch horrors out of pure seething spite who STILL has supporters in the epilogue despite this. They're lucky that Will is just putting his friends (who were the only ones to support him for being Elda) in key positions instead of putting them all to death.

So, I'm going to ask it.
What the actual fuck was with Alonzo's story?

All lies :^)

Elda bringing the head of a high-ranking noble front-and-center to the crowd

You do realize this would lead to Will and his allies bring murdered and Louis flawlessly winning and dooming the continent, right?

the doomers are trying to put another "bad written game" seal on a new Hashino game

Your psyop won't work this time.

cute girls

nice combat, if a bit easy

cool world to explore

cute girls

interesting story

amazing OST

hee hos

cute girls

the videogame is good

Shes the hottest girl in the cast i do not get why you faggots keep going for the sticc elf.
But i agree Eupha would be second.

finally a game without minors

no romance

I don't want to hear shit about girls.

anime we are the world bullshit

well written

ever

The elf has much more backstory and personality.

no romance

bro did you not hold hands with Eupha and got scolded by his bro?

The anime cutscenes are nothing to write home about but the one where the gauntlet runner takes flight for the first time is probably my favorite moments ever in a jrpg now and cemented Neuras as my favorite character in the game.

That's right. No romance.

So Heismay can be racist towards Paripus for killing his son......

but when I'm racist towards black people ooooohhhhh everyone just throws a fit!

is Heismay's disdain for bugs a racist joke against the china men?

And? Does that detract from the fact that the writing in Metaphor is sloppy? They're both slop that, for some weird reason gets a pass from weebs and 10/10s too. "Well written" my arse. Some of the "debates" are fucking laughable too. This is suppose to be a serious political drama, why is this faggot even in contention of being a king when his policy is about beauty and nothing else.

the charges, officer?

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t. bald and fat and ugly

can't discern parodies and caricatures

Gotta be honest, this game made me a bit less of a racist. Still hate jews and gypsies, but the rest are fine.

I think literally everyone hates gypsies.

holy fuck Heismay is painful to look at, what were they thinking

what's wrong with heismay??

i-it's p-parody!

almost every candidate is hilariously racist, evil or stupid and incompetent except the MC

I haven't even mention the candidate that wants to give everyone a gaunlet runner. Like nigga, are you serious, where to even park that shit? The really only other candidate that is functional is Louis. But then the story wants to paint him as this evil overlord and wants us to assasinate him based on the word of an old knight with little to no evidence.

mascot characters have this habit of making people hate them because they either look too stupid or act too stupid. i've never really been bothered by them for one reason or another. but this bat fuck evokes such fucking revulsion in me. that image you just posted? i felt some sort of primal instict kick in. like caveman style "me see bad me fucking grab a rock and bash bad thing's head in in panicked frenzy until completely liquid." revulsion. like when looking in that picture i instinctually starting making my hands move into like a grip-like strangle motion before i caught myself. like whatever the fuck the villain in this game is planning if it means ending this ugly some of a bitch, i'm all for it. no wonder people are bigots in this game, or at least from what i can tell. because motherfuckers like heismay are allowed to exist. hashino if i knew you personally i'd make a B-line right to you and slap the non-existent taste out of your mouth for thinking this ugly fuck is okay. or was it soejima? garcon soejima i'm about to complain to the manager because you just served me some kind of personalized brain poison i didn't know even existed. like damn, i'm not one to deny trying a game out just because of one thing but the idea that i know i'm gonna having to be looking at this dude for probably 90% of the game fills me with an emotion i can't quite pin down but it's a mix of disgust, hatred, and just "get the guy away from me". GODDAMN this dude UGLY.

go to sleep Zorba

It literally takes 10 minutes

Which job should I prioritize? Is there a way to re-spec my stats? I focused a bit too much on MAG, but since you guys say magic is a bit shit in this game, I wanna change my focus to something else. But which?

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The Phantasmal Doll is useful for killing the elementals before they can escape if you don't want to swap everyone's classes around

Is this Edelgard but twink? Louis transforms into Hegemony freak.

the IRA are elves

Cromwell did nothing wrong

Then go watch a let's play you fucking retard. You get called out on sucking at the easiest game in the entire Atlas sphere and your response is "actually the game just sucks that's why I'm bad."

you could have chosen a pic where he has Louis' hair
but yes he is literally just Reinhardt

Its actually better to raise magic and phys equally as one isn’t better than the other and the protagonists special archetype is more supportive than offensive.

you can hit the damage cap with 52 strength anon, endgame phys vs magic build doesn't really matter just use what you find fun unironically

You should just go all in on STR or MAG there's no reason to dip into anything else except MAYBE manipulating your turn order with agility. The guy saying split is the best is trolling you or he has no clue how to play turn based rpgs.

Honestly I'd just stick to MAG because STR is so braindead. It's always going to be weaker than STR (that's normal atlas balancing) but it's better than just buff buff buff... nuke which is STR endgame. Your MP economy will be improved once you unlock wizard. Shield blessing or whatever it is called regens 10 a turn as long as you're buffed, which you can grab gear that autobuffs you at the start of the fight. There's an ogre in one of those giant towers, that drops gloves that can be purified into auto-tarukaja guaranteeing at least 10mp a turn. Masked Dancer unlocks another source of regen for single archetype parties. Faker roguery can be spread to everyone for boss fights to extend the turn as long as possible, so with guaranteed weaknesses exploiting, that's already 7 turns of damage and then whatever faker's gives you (since you can reroll). Once you unlock tier 7 commander, your escape chance is guaranteed so that becomes an easy way to farm MP.

Work towards faker's roguery, frigid fortress tactics, shield blessing on all your mages. Farm the tarukaja gloves and that pretty much solves the game without needing to "optimize."

The one that lets you go twice is best in slot for the MC until you get the final casino bonuses on a strength build. Your MC should be minmaxed because the other stats barely do anything like I saw +30 points of endurance only dropping damage by 6 so you want him to hit more and the way the party is setup, you almost always have at least one person whose stats fucking suck at damage (heims, hulk).

Stop eating meat

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louis before culling the younglings

For me it's this one.

I can fix her

And then the rabbit bat tries to justify her feelings after she massacred many many children. wtf atlus?

it's to get her to understand

Operation: Get behind the darkies.

That's literally democracy.
Or any form of -cracy really, though democracy does it through elections.

monarchy

communism

autocracy

theocracy

technocracy

stacy('s mum)

I also thought Brig was best jewess.
Even if they made her relationship moments real fucking boring.

Merchant type is completely broken. Makes the game so easy I stopped using it.

Also if you think on Heismay's life until that point, I doubt he would've given too many fucks about what's right or wrong in that situation. I bet he would've done the same before, were it possible to bring his son back. That's why he sympathizes with her (and in general losing one's child is one of the worst things that can happen to someone)

zesty

Satan from Devilman x Lucifer x Griffith x Char x x Niccolò Machiavelli x Caesar

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I think what I like about Louis is that he's not an Adachi or an Akechi, but more of a blitzkrieg of Machiavelli while still being completely evil somehow.
Ironically something near Hitler or Caesar.

As soon as I saw this line I knew exactly where things were going.

It comes off as ... retarded.

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Heismay's still not even fully cleared at this point, so there's no knowing if he'll head back to living as a hermit in a cave
There's no motivation for him to act as some moral hero of justice anyway

Gallica(if I caught her)

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I hope you never will.

The really try to make you feel bad about a child murderer.

Why does Louis surround himself with nothing but adrogynously gothic and evil femboys? Kinda strange.
Zorba is sexo.

Not enough.
I'm saying it almost sounded like they wanted you to sympathise (and only sympathise) with her for a while there.
When really, she just did to many what the state essentially did to her and her child.
She's a monster.
Almost as bad as anon.

Is Mage/Wizard not good in the game?

Built my MC pure magic, and he's been the main damage of the party for most of the game so far.
I think the biggest damage boost I got so far was cleaning out the abandoned tomb and purifying the sage's staff.

Lion in Mt Vulkano was giving 675 A-EXP normal squad kill, 1015 A-EXP unscathed (+Foul Weather + AEXP ring)

Level up, it turns green

Overworld kill is 333 AEXP

Squad kill is 475 AEXP

Haven't tried doing unscathed yet but ow, the DR is real.

try hard mode

it's just normal only the enemies cheat and get an extra turn

Why would you play this mode?

"democratic" election

wins the son of the previous ruler

"your fate shouldn't be decided by birth"

unless you're the kid of the super magic king and the duper awesome magic queen

You can still squad them

Alright, serious question. I waited a while to really ask, because I really mean it. Is the game woke garbage or not? Does it try and push some gay globohomo agenda, or is it just shitposting? Is it worth getting? I like the Persona games, they're a guilty pleasure of mine.

They literally make this obvious to you in the game many many times though. Did you not read what characters say to you about this?
I also dislike this mechanic though.
Though if you play Merchant this isn't a problem for you. You can just pay to win.

Unlike real life where this gets you trapped in blackmail rings and debt/liquidity spirals.
I bet this won't be addressed in the game... sigh.
Sega wouldn't allow discussion of such things. amirite?

I mean for most of the game you are just the Prince's OC running around the county. It's only for the final stretch that the MC becomes the returning Prince.

It initially would seem it, but it's clearly foreshadowed to be something a long the lines of challenging both agendas.
You see people push both sides and they're just causing massacres.

Just like real life:

pol pot

stalin

hitler

globohomo pharma pushing technocracy aka zionists

All killed millions for their blind goals.
It's mostly about this though:
youtube.com/watch?v=1uYWYWPc9HU

i.e. the hanged man.
But what I like is that Louis knows this.

Thank you very much for your sincere answer, that doesn't sound as cringe as I thought it would be. I might give it a shot.

still reduced from 675 to 475 aexp for a normal kill, and it's a bit painful without ambush chopping off 80% of their health.

Misquote? When do the characters talking about autistic AEXP farming?

Everyone is homo. It does have the Persona calendar mechanic and S-Links but also a lot of elements taken from other Atlus games, including Etrian Odyssey.

They try to toe the line too hard between "The characters are heroes and don't take pleasure in the death of anyone who genuinely wants to do good." and "This bitch fucked up royally and death is the only justified consequence of her actions."
They get so worried about the protags coming off as cold that they don't even try to show the subtle nuance in emotion of seeing a serial killer publicly executed despite knowing that she sincerely regretted her actions and would never do it again if she had the chance.
Instead, they just react like they watched an innocent be put to the sword.
It was barely a step below their reaction to Grius getting a tracheostomy.

I haven't finished but I'm hoping the MC/prince is the one behind all of this shit and it's a form of self test.
Like he realises he killed his father or something to prove a point.
That would be KINO.
Oh and his friends obviously betray such a mad king, who now just became Louis but worse.

It's not that is it... sigh. FFS atlus...

This bitch had to be a cut character or something.
Is there a special game over for losing to her?

I haven't finished it yet.
If the ending is woke and positive, I might get mad.
I feel like it might be, because most other SMT games are very very negative on this other than maybe Persona 4. Even P5 had a moment of realisation when they realised they were potentially becoming villains (though it never went fully down that path).

They always knew she was going to get executed, it's just the suddenness of it (plus that it turned into a part of their trophy hunting show, when it could've been handled elsewhere in private instead)

They should have been mad despite her personal circumstances.
Or at least so unsettled and disturbed that they couldn't move or something.
Like I'd be in a state of shell shock. To see the horror develop to such a point from such a dumb trivial thing.
At that point you're seeing monsters, but then also the people that failed to prevent the monster from manifesting.

It's like watching a real genocide unfold.
Or covid (what's the diff?).

Think more along the lines of "The Horror, The Horror" here. That's where we're at with her. It's beyond a point of stoic reaction and that's why I found the Bunny/Bat's monologue so fucking grossly out of place. It just doesn't feel right. Even in that character's circs, which are NOTHING like that woman's.
He didn't lose himself and then kill a village of children. He too should be utterly horrified, but instead he just monologues and plays the hero. It's almost surreal how bad and out of place that part is. You've just witnessed Kronus murder his sons in madness.

The game is great, until after the sanctum, then it's fine. A lot of archetypes are shit.

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All of them are shit after you discover merchants and crits.

how do the Human designs compare to other SMT/Persona demon designs? Seemed super creative to me

when did you figure out that More was your dad ? Once I saw the dude in the "Unity" mural in the Sanctum everything started to click

They come across as SMT in uncanny valley.

the issue is that none of the cast feels like friends, everyone just kind of comes off as strangers which makes it hard to give a shit about the cast as a whole

b-but thats the point cause muh adults!!

shut up.

Ah fuck.
Why did I come to this thread?

I thought it was going to be Louis potentially because he doesn't seem that shocked of the protag when you meet him after you get your runner, like he was hiding what he knows about the protag.

They're just fuckers on a mission for a few months. Post-timeskip it's more "friendly" as it should

Academia's track is severely underrated

reading spoiler text

c'mon anon, you had to expect this

he doesn't seem that shocked of the protag when you meet him after you get your runner

the reason he's not shocked is because Zorba survived your encounter with him at the grand cathedral and informed Louis of your crew beforehand. He knew you were all "traitors" from the beginning, he was just intrigued how you planned to undermine him

You know that early P5 road trip concept that was sorta used for Strikers? It's in this game, kinda.

What surprises me is that I finally like a main girl in an SMT/Persona game.
And I thought I'd hate her, but she grows and grows on me more and more.

I think she outdoes Brig, Zorba and Louis somehow now.
And this is from a guy who HATES Anne/Makoto and Yukiko/Chie.

I had contemplated that one already, because Zorba clearly wouldn't die from that. It hadn't connected that he'd informed Louis though... don't know why that didn't click till now.

And yet there's no opportunity to ruin the party by romancing a specific person and rejecting another's advance...
Wtf atlus, that would have been fun.

Race mixing is a step too far for your party.

I want to nibble her ears like a puppy on a child's hand.

Wasn't it implied that blanda-up-ing would cause literal disaster because of magla shit?
I mean, that's not as bad as real life where heterosis causes genetic defects like it did with my heart valves.

Typoon's golden soldier ult

holy based

sucking on hulkenberg's ear
ear blowjob
YUM

I can't stop looking at her ass everytime she bends down in the rest/save room.

Is there any on-model fan art of any characters in this game?

No one gave this guy any (you)s?

Why would I (you) plebbit copypasta?
Then again, I am in a fatlus thread and tolerate both their bullshit DRM shit and gookmoots 900 sec timer to please the sponsors.

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he's so hot
and his lips are really cute

and yet he will get no art

Hate this piece a shit character

Hate(fuck) this piece of shit character.

His dumb obedience makes it somehow lewder.
ywn have a harem of obedient femboys at your command.

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it's over... it doesn't work for me

I'm at Brilehaven and I'm trying to do the deeds mission, but I can't find the tower. Gallica tells me that the informant might have the info, but he isn't selling anything related to the tower.

There are other quest giver gave you that quest

Prince Will OC

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Found him, thanks.

This is probably my favorite cast out of any SMT-type game. I think it beats DDS1 for me. The summoner is boring and they really were lazy not making the third eye blink on their character model. The english voice acting is really good too.

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Help I'm being genocided

Do i really only have 10 days to finish all my social links and side quests before the final battle?

So does this game actually push "all cultures are equal" shit or it just nomral "racism is bad"?

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No, it talks specifically how some cultures will always dominate due to sheer numbers or wealth or influence.

Well for one she's an adult and a veteran soldier

I'm more asking about how all cultures are morally equal

Lol no. The islanders and eugiefs being backwards retards is a major plot point

Checkmate king. Only the prince is my true rivalry.

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And do they actually say they're like this because of their culture? because for example leftist hate almost everything about islamic culture but will never actually say that it's inferior or bad they will just say retarded shit like

it's the west fault

they don't know any better

it's actually good (but will never go live there)

absolutely not. who the fuck is that ugly mongrel with that weird ass clothing

Why did you post a picture of Soma Cruz from Castlevania Aria of Sorrow?

wdym, that's clearly a picture of Reinhardt from Legend of the Galactic Heroes

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was there really no way to fix him?

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This game has some really fun JRPG party reunions when it comes ot the Japanese voice cast. Louis is voiced by Han Joongi from Yakuza 7, and Heysmay is voiced by Adachi from the same game. Junah is voiced by FFXIV's Krile and Louis is (also) Thancred. I'm actually really glad they got Yoshino Nanjo to voice Junah, she gets too few roles and she's actually a really good singer, having been a vocalist for bands aside from a voice actress, really good fit for the role. Another fun reunion is Hulkenberg and Strohl being voiced by Yor and her brother from Spy x Family.

Sep 26.
No worries you still have 30 days left until you put an end to the kingdom madness.

jap voices

I would give that a try, but then I wouldn't be able to hear

OHHHHHH POWER OF KINGS

and that isn't a tradeoff I'm willing to make.

unironically if he had even one asshole to share the Utopia book with he'd probably have been fine. MC sharing the story with everyone from all those different backstories gives him a lot of different points of view. All Louis had was the book interpreted by his sorrow and anger.

Gravity is fucked up there mostly in relation to water. Do you not see the giant floating balls of water or see what happened to the big airship?

its kinda fucked up how he made the only elda living in public society seem like a human monstrosity even though he himself is one, fucking hypocrite.

Yeah, it also has to do their physiology but both those tribes are generally isolated from the cities and the game does go into why their cultures don't mesh with that of the cities.

So I'm curious about regicide, on paper it looks barely harder than hard mode except you can't rewind turns so it means there's bigger chance of enemies going on a weak/crit spree and obliterating your ass.
BUT, otherwise I assume Regicide is piss easy and you will be in overworld combat for 95% of it until late game?

I just got up to the dead baby dungeon, it's much easier because you have access to your gear from your previous playthroughs but you can still get one shot/close to death if your weakness is hit.

I did attempt to go through it using shittier gear at the start but everytime you change your archetype it auto equips your BIS and I couldn't be assed you manage my equipment every time.

are bosses levels adjusted? Don't you get massive def/atk bonuses against lower level bosses?

Bosses hit slightly harder and weakness/critical damage is tripled on you only.