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What's the appeal of Persona?

the music

>>720289336
But only 3 has good music

>>720289283 (OP)
Sex with high school girls

>>720289283 (OP)
Yu is truly the best protagonist.

>>720289397
Yu has negative personality

>>720289437
Yu is a stoic, confident man that was supported by his true friends all in all.

>>720289660
Also a massive siscon

>>720289283 (OP)
It's a high school friend simulator for people that never had friends in high school.

>>720289283 (OP)
4 and 5 are friend simulators.

>>720289817
You are just giving him another good attribute.

Makoto = INT
Yu = STR
Ren = DEX

>>720289283 (OP)
experiencing a social lifestyle

>>720289283 (OP)
they stopped making tokimemo games, so it filled the vacuum

>>720289951
5 has shitty friends

I want to say it's the Jung meets Japan Urban Fantasy stuff but really it's just a high school waifu simulator
>>720290135
PQ2 actually makes this canon, assuming you make Joker take the DEX route halfway through the third dungeon
>Yu does the STR challenge
>Kotone (since you don't get Makoto just yet) does the INT challenge

>>720289951
I'm really glad there's a growing trend of people posting this Naoto image
Really needs to be more art of Persona girls drinking (my) cum

It's like being in high school again except this time I'm cool and bang a harem of many different flavours of waifus instead being a greasy goth who has to settle for a fat scene girl.

>>720290843
You settled with a girl...?

I had a total of one group meetup with friends in college and it felt exactly like Persona but in real life. Too bad it only happened once.

>>720289283 (OP)
Pretending you have a girlfriend.

>>720289283 (OP)
It’s a very good game!
I was very lonely because I have no friends in real-life, but Persona 4 has finally allowed me to live in a world of my own kawaii Japanese high-school and reach out to the truth!
I'd also like to state that Chee is objectively the best girl! And I’ll feed her many steaks with love if she was real.
On the other hand I must sadly say that people who like Risette have absolutely poor taste in women!
I play Persona 4 for the visual novel elements.
I really want to feel good with virtual friends in a comfortable atmosphere.
Shin Megami Tensei and Persona… 1-2, are unappealing to me, as they are too hardcore with their RPG dungeon-crawling. Plus, my beloved waifu Chee only exists in the Persona universe.
You're free to enjoy SMT, but I think I’ll stick to Persona.

>>720292285
I miss Rog so much

>>720292347
Hopefully God didn't mind him attempting to claim the world in lucifer's own glory.

>>720289283 (OP)
I liked it when I was a fellow teenager as it made me feel like I had friends
I have long since grown out of it but I still don't have friends

>>720289283 (OP)
If you just want to pretend to have friends and date cute girls then play Majikoi.

>Never played Persona before
>Bought P4G yesterday
>Believed it could be a bit easy so I set the difficulty to Hard
>The shadows at Yukiko's dungeon proceed to kick my butt
>The knight forced me to use my best items
I'm gonna suffer a lot, aren't I?

>>720294382
You're playing on the castrated version of it thats made for women, 4 is only engaging until like Kanji.

>>720294382
Yep, also you should have waited for the P4 remake

>>720289283 (OP)
The robo slut is pretty hot.

>>720294582
Nah, I'm good. I bought it for ten bucks on Switch, and while I could've pirated the PC version, it's great to have something I can play from the comfort of my bed for a long time

>>720294382
Are you taking advantage of juggling different personas, using utility skills that panic/silence enemies, and taking advantages of weaknesses? Knights from what I remember are weak to light skills (Hama).
Yukiko's dungeon is the hardest, because you have the least to work with. Use Goho-M to leave dungeons (you can go back to the same floor) to save and fuse new persona.
It's generally worth it to always directly control your party members too, that way they'll never do retarded shit, which was commonplace in Persona 3.

>>720294885
My Personas almost exclusively have magic and buff/debuff skills, but I don't really bother using the latter with normal enemies. The knight made me realize physical skills aren't a waste. I should probably try experimenting with fusions, but I *really* wish to grind and get a bigger variety of skills

Finally being able to play a datesim without being called by the average normalfag a fucking loser.

>>720295370
Physical skills scale really well, and they can crit and down the enemies. Also treasure hands are usually only susceptible to physical skills.
Not to say magic damage or utility doesn't have it's place. They do. It's a competently designed game.
It's pretty much always worth it to do fusions early. That way you can get personas, which correspond to social links and get bonus points to friendship meter.

>>720289283 (OP)
pretending to have friends

Which Persona should I play? I am not playing 1 and 2, because Atlus fucking hates those games

>>720289283 (OP)
the whores

>>720298279
>tfw im below pathetic

>>720294382
Hard is only hard in the first dungeon, maybe the second one, after that it's mostly smooth sailing

>>720292285
Tyrone, you are but casual scum. Why don't you play a real Shin Megoomi Tensay game like Nocturne or Strange Journey? Persona 4 is a casualized dating sim that panders to lonely waifufags.

Visuals novels a shit. I’ll be here fighting angels in the name of Chaos while you cling to Chee. Can you even take on the armies of YHVH, and fight in the name of Chaos? I bet you dream of holding Chee's hand instead of claiming the world in Lucifer's own glory. Do you even dungeon crawling? Try not to feel too bad, but the objective best waifu in the entire series is actually Louisa Ferre from Strange Journey, and Chee is but a baker, an unpure girl compared to her.

This is Rog signing out, and remember: Let's positive thinking.

Easy RPG + Social power fantasy.
It's why the fan base ignores most Atlus games and the newer Atlus games chasing that fan base (Soul Hackers 2, Raidou Remake, SMT V) have completely braindead writing.

>>720289283 (OP)
hot girls

>>720289283 (OP)
You and your friends from school go on secret adventures

>>720293624
Why not both?

>>720289283 (OP)
The tomboys though...

>>720289283 (OP)
Fusing niggas is fun, there aren't that many games with that feature
Persona in particular had the genius idea of tying the social part of the game to the gameplay by giving you extra mechanics and powerups

>>720289283 (OP)
all of the games hit really REALLY hard if you played them in your teens.
it also hits really hard in a different way if you missed out in your teenage years or teenage love.

All of them are chad simulator in some way but more specifically
>P3
introspection about death, how teens deal with it and make use of the time we have, also you can larp as a girl in p3p
>P4
Friend simulator of what is like not being depressed and having a close group of friends in a rural small town, a relic of a time where the internet wans't so dominant and it was still normal to hang out irl everyday, also Scooby doo, this is the most chad simulator out of all of them.
>P5
Teenager power fantasy of battling corruption, seeking justice on your own means and being able to change the world, also besides your teammates you can date your teacher, your goth nurse and other hags

>>720304090
And also all 3 games have good soundtrack and p5 is eye candy

>>720289283 (OP)
Getting to date/fuck pretty girls and have a social life in high school

I still want to fuck/date/kiss/marry rise

>>720302551
What about them?
>>720304090
P4 is cool, because the story is very low stakes and self-contained. There is no impending doom, just a case to solve.
Also anime was godly.

>>720305583
>There is no impending doom, just a case to solve
Isn't there a goddess that threatens the entirety of humanity with the fog?

>>720300221
God I wish the Raidou remake wasn't so ass.

>>720290378
Yeah but they constantly jerk the player off.

>>720305583
>There is no impending doom, just a case to solve.

>>720294382
First two dungeons were always way harder than the rest of the game.

>>720306034
The useless girl keeps looking down on you for not being a nerd like her

>>720289283 (OP)
It's just a waifu simulator anyone saying otherwise is lying to themselves

>>720289283 (OP)
good music, comfy vibes, and friend/waifu simulation

>>720289817
She's not even his sister.

>>720305583
>There is no impending doom
Uhh... maybe you should go play the game again.

>>720306305
its more than that, there is a lot of waifus simulators
persona is more a popular in highschool simulator/friend simulator.
and a good one at that, one in 4 feels overdone a little, its usually organic, or at least more organic than things like isekai harem slop

>>720305794
>>720306138
>>720306561
1. You don't know that until the very end.
2. She actually just wants to test humanity's resolve to reach out to the truth.

>>720294382
>shadow Yukiko
>the knight
Congrats bro you just passed the casual filter

>>720289924
The games try to encourage people to make friends by showing them how friendships are a rewarding source of strength and support

>>720306495
cousincon doesn't have the same ring to it.

>>720306638
You don't know it until the end but that doesn't change that the threat exists. The scale of the threat in P5 bumps up a lot at the end too, but that doesn't change that the stakes are very high in it. Izanami's intentions also don't change what she was going to do and how high the stakes were, P3 and 5 don't have malicious final bosses either, the whole 'giving the masses what they want is bad' is just a running theme with the godlike entities in Persona because they're appeasing the desires they get from humanity's subconscious.

>>720294382
GIT GUD, THIS ISNT EVEN A REAL SHEEN MEGUMIN TENSAY GAME

Ok but for real, start to prepare more with equipment and items, specially ones that target weakness, have fun

>>720306159
Except for THAT dungeon
Fuck that dungeon, worst addition from Golden

>>720306590
for example most of the times you end up as leader because the other usually two party members dont want to step up or in Junpei's case because you are just more qualified than him, and by the time an arguably more qualified person arrives to the party like Naoto or Makoto they either just roll with it since you have been leader for a while already and things are going fine or they become your second in comand like Makoto did

>>720306874
You are right of course, when it comes to P5. Nyx however is not a god made out of desires and beliefs of humanity. He is an alien deity, and he's there to eat the world, and his fucking with human psychosphere is what results in the nihilism that's radiating on human beings you see in game.
So yes, stakes are indeed higher in P3 than in P4 or 5.

>>720307073
Also by the time Mitsuru wasn't forced to navigate, Makoto had made WAY better progress through Tartarus and beating shadows than when she was the leader.

I like crawling through dungeons
>>720294382
The 3rd dungeon might kick ur ass, so try to level up a bit

I think Yu would get along with Tatsuya

>>720307067
The worst dungeon in P4 is Naoto's and it's not even close.
Nothing added in Golden is bad. It's a objective improvement on the original game in every single damn way and you're a retard if you don't think so.

Buy Marie's remake.

>>720307279
I know Nyx is an alien, I just mean the same idea of there being some mass desire in people that is granted by some entity that isn't malicious but has an alien thought process is present in all three, even if with Nyx the entity itself and its thinking is more literally alien.

>>720289283 (OP)
There is no appeal. Persona is all garbage.

>>720289283 (OP)
Friendless incel power fantasy, speaking as someone who was once a friendless incel who was obsessed with P3 and 4 but once my frontal lobe developed by the time P5 came out I was completely bored out of my mind.

>>720289283 (OP)
Yu CHAD ZIODYNECOCK Narukami

>>720289283 (OP)
it's a visual novel for people that can't admit they like visual novels

>>720307585
Yu's the sanguinic one (yellow). He'd get along with anyone.
>>720307662
>no sex
>>720307772
Yeah, but in case of P4, you see in neutral ending, that Izanami just kinda chills out, once Ameno-Sagiri (who's a part of her) gets his shit pushed in. And in case of untrue ending, you see that the world hasn't indeed came to an end, despite the fog, so you can assume there are other powers at work (and I mean Filet Mignion), and the Shadow World won't merge with material world anytime soon.
In P3, if Nyx wasn't sealed off - the world would end.
As for P5 - it's hard to gauge, looking how they managed to imprison Philemon, but I also heard it's not him, and it's been 6 years since I've last played it.
>>720308243
I think Atlus really did a good job, if a "silent" protagonist is my favorite character in the game.

>>720308420
Philemon isn't in P5. Yalddy imprisons Igor and then splits Lavenza in two, but her spirit takes the form of a blue butterfly. For all we know Philemon saw what happened and just went:
lol
lmao

>>720289283 (OP)
"people" play these games for the girls/dating sim and the engrish catchy music and you know it

>>720308826
"Romance" takes up like 0,1% of the games' runtime, so not really. It's just what people talk about online.

>>720308785
how very like him...

>>720289283 (OP)
I want a fem mc for p6 that is sexually harassed by the team
I want the other girl to check out her tits in bathing scenes
I want the boys accidently getting an upskirt in dungeons
i want it so bad

>>720294382
Be happy you are playing golden. Shadow Yukiko filtered thousands in original. Its honestly the hardest boss. Only one that is hard after that is way later in the 8-bit world. I fucking still hate that asshole

>>720309518
was shadow yukiko really that hard?
doesnt original p4 allow stacking buffs?
I cant remember
i do remember using buffs

>>720310457
Yosuke or Chie is weak to fire and she has pretty fucking high magic damage. The moment she gets that burning desire off and has that knight fucking about it turns into a survival especially on hard. She has insane one shot potential thanks to that. I mean there are low lvl personas that can just null fire but you wont know that when you go in blind

for me its the SMT gameplay without the weird demon alien story.
the worst part is the highschool setting and the linear progression of time.
can't we just have a regular open world RPG with SMT gameplay and systems?

>>720310609
yeah im vaguely remembering most having chie in guard while yosuke healed and mc attacked

>>720289283 (OP)
Why do trannies force femc into literally every piece of fanart?

>>720310751
Its a pain in the ass boss. I remember wiping to her the first time thanks to that burning desire. I think she doesnt even have a weakness in the original that you can abuse but i might be wrong. Yeah, checked it, she has no weaknesses in the original

>>720306874
Persona is a game about the collective unconscious after all. Every main antagonist is going to be centered around the individual vs the masses.

>>720310701
>open world
Kill yourself, revive 3 days later and then kill yourself again.

It's this rusty clanker's birthday! Did you remember to wish her a happy birthday today?
>>720310457
Chie is weak to fire, and shadow Yukiko had no weaknesses in the original P4. Couple that with a smaller party and being the first boss, and there you have it.

>>720311071
My favorite toaster. May she burn her bread forever

>>720311035
>implying I meant a ubisoft open world
no nigger, I mean an open world like classic zelda 1, walk any direction, if you find a dungeon you can enter, you can clear it. add story and NPCs to add some narrative context to it, and its good.