Board 8 > Playing Persona 3 for the first time (Reload)

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MZero
02/03/24 5:32:55 AM
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Anyone interested in a playthrough topic?

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LightningStrikes
02/03/24 6:00:59 AM
#2:


Me

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Raka_Putra
02/03/24 6:04:00 AM
#3:


I am very interested.

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Raka_Putra
02/03/24 6:04:15 AM
#4:


Also have you played any of the other Persona games before?

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MZero
02/03/24 7:15:40 AM
#5:


Raka_Putra posted...
Also have you played any of the other Persona games before?

I've played 4 Golden, 5, and 5 Royal.

I played 5 first and it's one of my top 2 games of all time. I enjoyed 4G but it felt a little lacking compared to 5

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colliding
02/03/24 9:55:11 PM
#6:


play through it up

I'm surprised there wasn't a review zone topic

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Thorn
02/03/24 10:27:20 PM
#7:


o ya go my persona 3

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MZero
02/03/24 10:45:35 PM
#8:


The game starts kind of abruptly as we're just immediately thrown into the otherworldly phenomena, but the main character seems oddly unfazed by the coffins and pools of blood everywhere. We don't get any background on where he's from, why he's moving here, or how much he knew about this stuff before, but maybe that'll come later. We get to the dorm and there's a creepy looking kid in prisoner clothes who asks us to sign something, which I do with zero hesitation. I name him Makoto Yuki, as that is his canon name as I understand.

Next we meet some of our friends, Yukari and Mitsuru, for the first time. Mitsuru is mature and reliable, but kind of cold, while Yukari is more friendly and helpful. It seems like they don't know about the kid I saw earlier, so I assume that's connected to the Velvet Room and such based on the other games in the series I've played. Yukari shows me to my room, asks if I have any questions, and then tells me to go to bed.

The next day is the first day of school, and to no one's surprise, Yukari and I are in the same class. I meet our teacher, who kindly informs me that my parents are ded. Rumors have spread that because we walked to school together one time, Yukari and I are totally banging. Oh high school, a simpler time. There's also a guy named Junpei in our class, who's very friendly and full of energy. He decides we should leave together, although we barely get off the premises before going our separate ways. I do some exploring and find a really sketchy looking place but there's not much to do, so I head home. Side note: Morgana telling you to go to bed in Persona 5 became a meme, but it happens quite a bit in this game too.

Some time later I meet the school Director back at the dorm, and he talk about some stuff I frankly don't really remember. The next thing I remember is him and the two girls watching me sleep, which is kind of creepy. Oh yeah, there's also a guy named Akihiko who showed up for a second and likes fighting Shadows and stuff. Anyway, this feels like a major invasion of my privacy.

Speaking of Akihiko, he got himself into a bad spot and some Shadows follow him back to the dorm. Yukari can't handle the pressure and I have to step up to the plate and seem to have very little hesitation shooting myself in the head. After defeating the Shadow, I pass out and am in a coma for a few days (I think? I didn't really pay attention to how long it was)

After I wake up the Director decides to let me in on what's going on. There's a secret period of time between each day called the Dark Hour, and we're part of a group that investigates it and beats up Shadows with our Personas. Normal people aren't aware of this and are sleeping inside of coffins during it, and Shadows attack them and leave them in a catatonic state. Later, Junpei moves into the dorm, because of course he's a Persona-user as well. Couldn't have seen that coming! Now we have enough manpower to investigate Tartarus, which may hold the key to erasing the Dark Hour entirely.

Other random thoughts:
The kid in the prison garb kind of looks like the main character as a kid
Mitsuru looks like 25 how is she in high school
Junpei is packing a very large... sword

Also I had ramen with Kenji and joined the track club

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UshiromiyaEva
02/03/24 10:52:06 PM
#9:


Minato Arisato for life.

The manga names are always better for every single Persona protag.

This is a tag excuse.

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Thorn
02/03/24 11:06:47 PM
#10:


MZero posted...
I name him Makoto Yuki, as that is his canon name as I understand.
missed opportunity

https://twitter.com/CrossingGenesis/status/1753298440996454851

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MZero
02/03/24 11:22:04 PM
#11:


Oh yeah also character ranking 1.0

Yukari > Junpei > Akihiko > Mitsuru

Thorn posted...
missed opportunity

technically not possible because you're only allowed 3 characters each for first and last name in the Japanese version!

I lol'd though

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Bitto
02/03/24 11:44:01 PM
#12:


I assume this is your first time playing any Persona game?

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MZero
02/03/24 11:50:35 PM
#13:


Bitto posted...
I assume this is your first time playing any Persona game?

See post #5 :)

I just entered Tartarus for the second time and I somehow left Junpei behind on accident

edit: Also I forgot to mention this but I'm playing on Hard

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MZero
02/04/24 8:09:11 AM
#14:


I was just introduced to the Switch mechanic, which is similar to the Baton Pass from Persona 5. This wasn't in the original, right?

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Leonhart4
02/04/24 10:26:23 AM
#15:


If it's convenient or helpful, it probably wasn't in the original P3.

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TomNook7
02/04/24 10:34:48 AM
#16:


The school music in this game is so nostalgic

https://youtu.be/3-g01No_u1g?feature=shared

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MZero
02/04/24 11:59:15 AM
#17:


Leonhart4 posted...
If it's convenient or helpful, it probably wasn't in the original P3.

Makes sense! I'm all for QoL improvements

TomNook7 posted...
The school music in this game is so nostalgic

I have no nostalgia for anything in this game but this song bops

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Zigzagoon
02/04/24 12:19:38 PM
#18:


I might be playing too much.

I'm at 23 hours in and the game came out a day and a half ago.

:x

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pyresword
02/04/24 12:37:14 PM
#19:


Tag. I really love this game. (Well the original/P3FES. I haven't done anything with the remake yet, but I assume it's also great.)

I am incredibly nostalgic for this game in particular, but I definitely think it's good even outside of that, especially with the remake presumably changing some QoL aspects of the original that I think aren't well liked.

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TomNook7
02/04/24 12:48:52 PM
#20:


Zigzagoon posted...
I might be playing too much.

I'm at 23 hours in and the game came out a day and a half ago.

:x

persona be like that


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catesdb
02/04/24 7:21:07 PM
#21:


tag except i also am playing this for the first time so i'll only read if i keep apace (currently in May)

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Raka_Putra
02/04/24 9:41:41 PM
#22:


I'm glad this remake is introducing more people to P3. I love even the vanilla version, but there are some good QoL improvements they made in P4 and P5.

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TomNook7
02/04/24 10:31:57 PM
#23:


Screw it, i went ahead and bought it even though i wont have time to actually play it. It deserves money

Hopefully infinite wealth and ff7 wont leech off its sales too hard. Infinite wealths already sold 1 million, which im pretty sure is the fastest any yakuza has ever sold

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MZero
02/05/24 7:06:19 AM
#24:


I'm in early May but not much has happened lately. Mostly working on my community links and social stats. I also spent enough time in Tartarus to get to level 10 so I could fuse a Strength Persona for the manager.

On cue the creepy kid shows up and says there will be some kind of test or something on the full moon

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catesdb
02/05/24 9:08:28 AM
#25:


MZero posted...
I'm in early May but not much has happened lately.
yeah upvote, but i'm just assuming i don't need to be worried since everyone loves this game

also why is the magician social link with tomochika, if junpei's persona is magician...

how am i expected to connect with my party members in this environment??

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MZero
02/05/24 9:42:42 AM
#26:


I'm enjoying myself, there's just not a ton to comment on right now. Kenji wants to bang a teacher. Miyamoto is supposed to be the star of the track team and I'm already dusting him. Yuko is getting bullied by some girl because a basketball player played them both. This girl I play online with is an adult and worried about getting married (does she know I'm 16?). Little girl at the shrine made me fetch takoyaki and a beverage and didn't even have the courtesy to give me a social link level!

Oh yeah, I got my courage and charm up to level 2!

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Leonhart4
02/05/24 10:10:14 AM
#27:


Heck yeah Maya

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catesdb
02/05/24 10:15:42 AM
#28:


guess i should stop working at the movie theater and play more MMORPG

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Thorn
02/05/24 10:36:49 AM
#29:


catesdb posted...
also why is the magician social link with tomochika, if junpei's persona is magician...

how am i expected to connect with my party members in this environment??
welcome to the era where your male party members did not have social links

Though apparently Reload adds stuff for them somewhere along the line. (In Portable, if you played as FeMC they got links while keeping the girls' links too)

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MacArrowny
02/05/24 3:19:41 PM
#30:


MZero posted...
Mitsuru looks like 25 how is she in high school
Here's 20 year old Mitsuru from Persona 4 Arena:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a2be575a.jpg

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catesdb
02/05/24 8:37:12 PM
#31:


midterms beated

well probably not really

only had academics 2

even though I gave the shrine 10k

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MZero
02/06/24 11:43:26 AM
#32:


Something happened, another big bad Shadow showed up, this time hijacking a train. Junpei is all butt hurt no one will let him be leader and decides to run off on his own like a dope. It's a shame because I liked him so far but I have to dock him some points for that one.

I had like 15 seconds left when I beat the boss, close call!

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catesdb
02/08/24 9:47:15 AM
#33:


i'm on june 2 and want to put up my social stats and social links in spoilers, because i think i've accidentally overindexed on social stats that are doing nothing for me yet

charm 3
courage 4
academics 3
magician 4
emperor 2
hierophant 5
chariot 4
justice 1
hermit 3
strength 2
hanged 4
temperance 1
moon 1

maybe they just think i should be going to tartarus more often. also why do i get the impression people don't like tartarus? tartarus is chill

akihiko > junpei

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Thorn
02/08/24 11:43:41 AM
#34:


Provided they haven't changed the S. Link requirements, the order you probably want to focus on/max the social stats is: Courage first, then Charm, Academics last. Also absent any changes in Reload it's easiest to max them in that order as well because the social stats listed later require more points to actually max.

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MZero
02/09/24 10:55:30 PM
#35:


This guy hanging out with Maiko is creepy af

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MZero
02/10/24 6:22:57 AM
#36:


I've made it to June 2nd. Junpei's story time was funny. The creepy kid shows up and tells me there will be another trial in a week, seems to happen every full moon. I guess I'll do my statz since I'm caught up to cates

Charm 3
Courage 3
Academics 2
Magician 3
Emperor 2
Hierophant 4
Chariot 4
Justice 2
Hermit 5
Strength 3
Hanged Man 5
Temperance 1
Moon 1

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catesdb
02/10/24 7:55:02 AM
#37:


okay nice those statz are reassuring

and if I dont max them all out in one run, its fine

MZero posted...
This guy hanging out with Maiko is creepy af
yes also maiko said he comes to the shrine on Sunday but Ive been checking and it sure doesnt seem that way

links Im vibing with: maiko, maya, the old people, the team manager girl

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MZero
02/10/24 9:10:52 AM
#38:


catesdb posted...
yes also maiko said he comes to the shrine on Sunday but Ive been checking and it sure doesnt seem that way

links Im vibing with: maiko, maya, the old people, the team manager girl

oh yeah I've been checking every Sunday as well but haven't seen him

6/8, everyone suddenly changed into their winter uniforms at night

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Zigzagoon
02/10/24 12:47:25 PM
#39:


I haven't been playing AS much as I did the first weekend, but I'm getting close to mid October right now. Finished about 4 social links and just have to max out Academics. I haven't been AS efficient as I was in the first few months since I've been making multiple trips to Tartarus in between each Full Moon, but the combat is just too fun in this game so I can't help myself lol

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catesdb
02/10/24 9:37:31 PM
#40:


tomochika beated, what a ride?

on the other hand I just unlocked devil and REALLY want this to be good

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hombad46
02/10/24 9:38:26 PM
#41:


MZero posted...
oh yeah I've been checking every Sunday as well but haven't seen him

6/8, everyone suddenly changed into their winter uniforms at night

I think he's a social link, but I haven't seen him listed when I check the stats for what people are doing, so I guess he's just not around for a while? I don't know why you're told Sundays so early though.

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catesdb
02/11/24 4:24:20 PM
#42:


I feel like I havent taken this seriously yet

but I think theres a guy at this high school teaching magic class

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hombad46
02/11/24 5:01:26 PM
#43:


That's the school nurse. I think he just subs in sometimes and does whatever he wants, which is teach magic

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catesdb
02/11/24 8:17:54 PM
#44:


I am in July and thoroughly enjoying the game

stuff is happening

some of the social links are good (i am enjoying justice and emperor actually)

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pyresword
02/11/24 8:49:59 PM
#45:


Persona 3 is weird because imo individually it has the best social links but also by far the worst. Probably averages out to be about even with the other games on that front but idk

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BK_Sheikah00
02/12/24 10:04:05 AM
#46:


I'm in August and I've only liked Justice and Hermit.

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catesdb
02/12/24 11:27:01 AM
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i guess i should wait until they're all done to judge, but i've seen enough of hanged, chariot, hierophant, strength, and devil to be optimistic about them

i could do without moon

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hombad46
02/12/24 11:30:13 AM
#48:


I could do without Magician

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Hades
02/12/24 11:35:52 AM
#49:


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UshiromiyaEva
02/12/24 11:36:36 AM
#50:


Just for out that all the boss enemy weaknesses and resistances can be found in the PS5 Tip Cards, lol.

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