Board 8 > Rock starts Persona 5 with no promises of finishing it *SPOILERS*

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Makoto needs your HALP!
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bump
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Stop.

Picking.

On.

Makoto.
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Oh man, our first use of the word "fuck."

You get that MA rating, Persona 5!
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SHE BECOMES GHOST RIDER!

Makoto's the best.
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The very best.

Well, I like Mitsuru more, but Makoto is easily second.
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Makoto is discount Mitsuru.

I mean, Mitsuru's amazing, but still.
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I dunno, I like Makoto more. Like I said, I really liked the character design, and Mitsuru's look was just a little too "femme fatale" for a high schooler.
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Comparing Makoto to Mitsuru is an insult to Makoto.

she is leagues better
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I married Mitsuru in Persona Q.
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Hey hey hey both Makoto and Mitsuru are top tier girls, let's not fight
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Maksuru.
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Mikoto

Wait...that was the name of a late game FFIX character...
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Strife2 posted...

Mikoto

Biri-Biri's not in this game.
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swirIdude posted...

Strife2 posted...

Mikoto

Biri-Biri's not in this game.

Biribiri voices Makoto in Japanese, though.
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How come I'm getting less XP than what's shown on the screen?
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XP scales with level, but Persona lies to you about that.
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Is it related to buying Thanatos at all since he's level 65?
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I don't think so. I always thought the EXP modification was based on character level not Persona but I never explored it too in-depth so it's possible.
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Well for funsies I'm sacrificing both of them to level up some weaker personas I like.

Then I'll head back into the Palace and see if that changes anything. I feel like having level 60 personas is a bit TOO overpowered at this juncture.
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It's both, but character EXP and Persona EXP are independent.
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TheRock1525 posted...

Well for funsies I'm sacrificing both of them to level up some weaker personas I like.

Then I'll head back into the Palace and see if that changes anything. I feel like having level 60 personas is a bit TOO overpowered at this juncture.

Nooooooo...REALLY!?

Then again, on any NG+, I either full null everything or Hassau Tobi the pants off of shit, so I'm not one to talk.
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So yeah it didn't seem to have any effect, I'm still getting like... a third of what it says I'm getting.
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You're probably overleveled on your character then.
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Bump
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So how do I get growth 3 on other personas?
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Also, where's the best place to get SP restoring items?
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Takemi
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At some point you should be able to make skill cards out of the personas you have. I think one of the DLC personas lets you get Growth 3 from that.
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If you level up Death she'll eventually sell accessories that restore SP every turn (I think you need level 7 for the best one?)

Get one of those for each of your party members and you'll never have to worry about SP again
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yeah Death 7 is the SP breakpoint. They may or may not be affordable depending on how hard you rush it, but the lower level ones aren't really that worth IMO
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I'm level 29.

Average level is 23.

Yeah I'm a bit overleveled.
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So I can safely say that this is the strongest Persona cast of the four games I've played.

Ryuji is easily the best of "first male party member." He's actually pretty endearing because there's a solid sense of wanting justice for those around him. He's obviously loud and obnoxious but it's done in a way where it's easy to support and understand his feelings.

Ann is a solid female character who obviously falls a little too hard on the stereotypes but never veering full "ditzy female character" like some jRPGs would go. She, too, seems to have solid feelings, emotions, and motivations during the events of the game. Nothing about her is terribly remarkable (and her battle animation is stupid awful) but at the same time I never feel annoyed with her.

Morgana is... kinda annoying. I don't like how she treats herself so importantly but then again that's pretty much standard for "mascot" character in various jRPGs. The mystery behind her is supposed to be important but I can't help but not care, to be honest. And the fact that she's a cat in the real world makes me think there really is nothing to her and that she's not really a human. Maybe she's just another shadow? I dunno, I took her out of the party as soon as I could, I'm not a fan of the design either.

Man, Yusuke made such a bad first impression I thought I was gonna hate him but his kinda sheltered life explains away a lot of his idiosyncrasies that it makes him a really great character. He's not oblivious, but at the same time he's not great at social norms. He's well-spoken without feeling like he's superior to everyone, which is probably what I was afraid he would end up being.

And my love for Makota is pretty obvious, but really she's a great addition because she's the one that seems to be pressured the most by all the people around her, most of the time rather unfairly. And it's tough to watch early on when the Phantom Thieves chew her ass out and attack her before she joins them. I like her matter-of-factly approach to characterization while at the same time not being afraid to reveal her inner weaknesses, and it makes her more interesting than Ann to this point. Ann's development seems to have stunted since Kamoshida and I'm waiting for it to kick up again either via more palaces or confidant discussions, and I expect Makoto's to stall a little bit post-Kaneshiro palace, but I think Makoto's started from a much more interesting place.
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I expect Makoto's to stall a little bit post-Kaneshiro palace

Luckily not nearly as much as Ann does.
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Yusuke is wonderful and will only get better
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Morgana is a guy btw
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Reg posted...

Morgana is a guy btw

Yeah but it's clearly voiced by a woman doing a woman's voice so I think they're were too wussy to put in a lesbian.
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Wait...what?
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Not sure what's confusing:

Female voice actress
Does female type voice (same as Edea Lee from Bravely Default)
Female name
Has crush on other female character

She's a lesbian. Altus just wussed out and said "uh um its actually a boy!"
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But...it's a cat. And he's hitting on a human woman. That's all sorts of wrong in many ways, and wondering if it's a homosexual is the least of my worries.
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That's, uh, one way to look at it.
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Strife2 posted...

But...it's a cat. And he's hitting on a human woman. That's all sorts of wrong in many ways, and wondering if it's a homosexual is the least of my worries.

It's a cat that think it's human.
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Basically it's not "I'm a cat that wants to fuck a human."

It's "I'm a human but I'm stuck in this cat form, I need to figure out how to turn into a human so I can fuck this girl."
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But he doesn't have a girl voice. He has a cat voice.
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TheRock1525 posted...

Reg posted...

Morgana is a guy btw

Yeah but it's clearly voiced by a woman doing a woman's voice so I think they're were too wussy to put in a lesbian.

Well that's certainly a take.
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mnkboy907 posted...

But he doesn't have a girl voice. He has a cat voice.

No, he has a woman's voice. A cat voice would literally be a cat mewing and purring into a microphone.

Does Teddie have a bear voice? No. Because you can't voice record a bear.
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Rock you are approaching Corrik levels of being deliberately dense.
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trdl23 posted...

Rock you are approaching Corrik levels of being deliberately dense.

Deliberately dense about fucking what? That I think a character with a female voice actress, performing a female voice (and not a deliberate child-like voice like, say, Tails from Sonic the Hedgehog), with a female name (and female codename) was intended to be female?
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Morgana says he's a guy so he's a guy

This is not the first time an extremely girly character in media has been male, and Morgana is a cat so being voiced by a girl (which fits because when's the last time you heard a cat with a low-pitched voice) means even less

Also the name Morgana, while not used often as a guy name, still can be
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Also all the DLC puts it in women's clothes.
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