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LeonhartFour posted...

For what it's worth, the first two dungeons are the hardest and longest, for whatever the reason. The game gets pretty manageable after this.

I didn't really mind the length, though the second dungeon did cost me all but three of my SP sodas.

- Defeated the boss at the top of Yukiko's Castle. I did really well, but Yukiko fell unconscious one turn before I beat him, so I guess she doesn't get that tasty experience. I think I just got lucky, though, he only used rampage once.
- Defeated Shadow Kanji by having Yosuke constantly unbuff him, which forced Nice Guy into constantly wasting turns rebuffing him, while everyone else very slowly burned him down. After he was dead, Shadow Kanji was less dangerous, though he still nearly wiped me twice, so I guess that tells you how skilled I actually am at these games.
- I feel like I should be fair and TRY to ignore the whole homophobia element here and just analyze the boss' design on its own, and actually it is appropriate. Giant buff guy surrounded by roses, I mean, you could do way worse.
- I just realized Chie's defensive stance is standing on one foot. You're lucky that shadow realm stuff justifies that kind of thing, Chie! In basically any other RPG I could make fun of that.
- Afterwards, Kanji still rejects his shadow because "there are too many witnesses." Kanji then claims that "it ain't a matter of guys or chicks, I'm just scared ****less of being rejected." I find that incredibly difficult to believe, Kanji, but it seems to satisfy his shadow. Can I just say, by the way, that having played 3 and 5, the big trauma other characters had to accept is like "my mom was killed and I could nothing" or "I was framed for assault and had my life destroyed" or "I hate how my life was planned out before I was born" and this game apparently equates being gay with that?
- I will say this, though: I really like the idea of your inner psyche taking the form of a doppelganger who openly talks about your hidden feelings inside of a warped location that relates to your repressed emotions. That's absolute genius, it's so much better than Tartarus in P3. I can obviously see how P5 refined that.
- I like how Dojima is clever enough to tell that I'm doing something I shouldn't be, but doesn't know what, and so just tells me to be careful... Yet can't tell that his partner is obviously evil.
- Dojima gives me 20000 yen for doing well on my test. Well, thanks for the 181.72 dollars, I guess!
- Heeyyyyyy, it's the guy from P3, the evil salesman, now hawking his wares on TV.
- I like how, by chance, I did Yosuke's rank 9 social link shortly after rescuing Kanji. In the space of a few days, Yosuke goes from horrified at the idea of being attractive to a gay to saying "you're special to me" to Greg. Way to go, Yosuke, I'm glad you could get over that flaw.
- Yosuke's social link: beated. I like how this resolves with a completely pointless fistfight, that might be the most realistic portrayal of a teenage boy friendship in any medium. It is a bit weird that Yosuke tells Saki that he's going to go on living when he knows she didn't even like him. Yosuke's persona turns into Susano-o, one of the like five Shinto gods I remember. He's the one who murders another goddess for disgusting him, right?
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Started: July 6, 2005