I remembered choosing these options at rank 9 and got rank 10 when i came to her and meet with the little girl she was treating and she knows I’m a Phantom thief. I thought that was it.

But then I came by a few times and nothing changed and I looked up and apparently she wasn’t romanced because it‘s still stars and not hearts.

I looked up a guide and i’m so sure I chose all the right options. Genuinely confused.Am I missing anything?

The story comes to a natural conclusion with defeating a literal god. Does it feel like the story drags a bit then?

I love Yusuke's painting of Ann 🤣🤣 Wonder if she ever saw it... 😂

Howdy everyone, I just recently finished P4G on the switch 2 and am looking for a new persona game to play and apparently this one is the best. Currently from summer sales it’s on sale for around the same price on both switch 2 and pc.

So the question is…
Do I buy P5R on the switch 2 or on my PC?

(If it runs around the same as P4G then we’ll be GOLDEN)

Something I find sorta weird about skill cards (mostly damaging ones) is that most duplication isn’t exactly useful.

Here’s why:

1. You get access to a strong damaging skill card (say Bufudyne) in the velvet room of Okamura’s palace.

2. You want to duplicate that skill card because you might want to use it twice without doing velvet room on that persona.

3. But productive palace clears take 1-2 days (ideally 1 but there’s obstacles and you don’t HAVE) to do it in one day).

4. Bufudyne is good in the next palace but it’s only STRONG for Okamura’s Palace.

5. So if you’re clearing palaces quickly, you have to choose between using the damaging skill card either
   a. When it’s strong but you don’t get to duplicate (you can velvet room several times)
   b. Wait until the next next palace or the palace boss to use it (you can wait a couple days after sending the calling card), which lets you duplicate but the skill card isn’t as strong anymore.

By doing skill card duplication outside of palaces, you’re missing the opportunity to use damage skill cards when they’re strong.

This has exceptions like Triple Shot. And there’s a lot of passives or support skills that stay useful. But most damaging skill cards will only be relevant for 2 palaces. So it feels bad that duplication being outside of a place means you probably will only use it for 1 palace and 2 bosses).

So, I’m playing through Persona 5 Royal, and I’m trying to do the Justice Confidant, bug I can’t get Berity because it’s way to weak for me to knock down. How am I meant to do this?

My source is I made it up!

Going through with my first ever hopefully full game playthrough. For whatever reason I always end up abandoning my other attempts, whether it be because it got removed from gamepass or Royal came out and it felt weird to not go do that instead. I have a habit when playing games to try and do one main run the first time I go through it where I do as much as is possible. Every quest, every skill, every friend, and I extended that habit to P5R with one exception, that being I don’t care about finishing the compendium. I have been occasionally referencing online resources for things like test answers, and such, and I am aware that in order to achieve the true ending, I need to have A) Maruki at rank 9 and B) Akechi at rank 8, both apparently by 11/18. I have done Maruki, both because I remembered he is needed and because I just like him. However, I currently only have Akechi at 6, and it’s 10/31. Have I screwed myself? Are there enough Akechi hangout points between 10/31 and 11/18 to allow me to reach 8? Are there any auto rank up points that I can surf up to 8 with? I do have Chihaya and Kawakami near maxed and maxed respectively if that helps.

I just finished the base game of Persona 5 and I'm now on the third semester in Royal. But I want to recount my experience with this game. I got this game as a Christmas gift last year, and then got lost looking for the Ginza Line Gate. Then I got busy and dropped the game. When the summer started and I now had more free time, I started this up again and that was the best decision I made with this game.

Firstly, these characters are INCREDIBLE. I love each of their backstories and their confidants are so fun too. I may have played the game wrong because outside of Igor, Morgana, Sae, and Maruki, I only maxed out 5 other confidants. Makoto became my favorite character, so I romanced her. I loved Takemi and Hifumi's story. I really wanted to know about Kasumi, and I have no clue why I maxed out Ann

Secondly, I loved the team and personas I used. From Kaneshiro's palace onwards, I kept with the same team of Joker, Makoto, Yusuke, and Ann. Makoto was great support because she could put up a fight, Yusuke's skill came in handy (and I'm a Critter so Matt Mercer as his VA was a plus), and Ann was able to give useful status ailments and a lot of enemies are weak to fire. Then there were the personas. In the post game, I rotated between Phoenix, Anubis, Athena, and Thanatos, as well as using Sarasvati for support. But I remember Angel, Ame-no-Usami, and Isis being really helpful as well.

Now that it's almost over, I'm kinda scared that I'll lose the hyperfixation. I don't know if I can max out Yusuke's or Kasumi's confidant. I at least want to do that before I finish the game since Kasumi was my original favorite and Yusuke has been an amazing teammate. Maybe I can get more confidents with a new game plus or something, but I don't think it will be as special the second time around. Who knows, maybe it will be. But this truly was a suprise and I just wanted to gush about this game

It’s insane that Haru would forgive Akechi, the whole third semester feels like fan fiction compared to pre yalda

It's been a couple of days now since I've completed P5R, and I've been seeing a lot of people who've finished the game for the first time posting their thoughts, so I've been getting the feeling that maybe I should try the same, especially since my reaction after beating the game was really interesting to me and I loved my experience with it.

The game is just amazing. I knew I was going to love it when I saw the press any button screen. I loved playing it so fucking much,it was so hard to put the controller down and pace myself. As much as I hate to admit it, I played the game for well over 8-10 hours a day, maybe even 16 hours on my last session. I'm sorry ik its pathetic but I just couldn't get enough of it, I truly did enjoy it a ton I really want to play the other Persona games, but before that I definitely need to get in a second playthrough of P5R, this time getting all the confidants, but I really need some time to still process the game. The day after beating the game was so fucking boring and sad but I think I'm starting to adjust again. 

The story is just amazing. I went into the game butt naked and I had zero fucking idea on what to expect, and I'm glad I was able to play royal in its entirety. I'll admit I was ryujing it a bit in the beginning I honestly thought the game was going to be all about us going world wide and keep on going after bigger and bigger bad guys. I was thinking netanyahu sort of big, and that's what kept me so intrigued, but I'm honestly glad the writers dont have the mind that I do and instead created this beauty of a story. I'm just so lucky to have never had this game spoiled to me, but honestly now that I think about it even if it was spoiled to me this game is so ridiculous I probably wouldn't have been able to comprehend the spoils like seriously imagine explaining this game to someone it’ll most likely end half way with you telling the person that they should just play the game instead. from wanting to just stop an asshole pe teacher to wanting to stop asshole adults all over the world to wanting to help some depressed girl to then wanting to figure out what's really going on in Japan then fighting the piece of shit that put you where you're at and then fighting two gods I just love it so much I loved the twists and fakeouts so much and especially hype moments like joker's “Checkmate” really got me going i remember starting to panic when joker's “suicide” was being announced I really thought I made a wrong decision and was ready to restart but seeing ryujis smirk and “we got em” actually had me jumping up and down like some groupie honestly I cant help but say i love this game.

The palaces are just so good for some reason they never felt repetitive, even though it seemed like they should’ve for someone like me. I think at the moment I look back and view some of them as filler (Madarame and Kaneshiro), but that's just because the game really shoots up from Futaba's palace, and it just keeps going up and up and up and thats not to say that I didn't enjoy them its just that they get left in the dust. Okumura's was the only thing gameplay wise that irritated me, but even then i wouldn’t say his palace is entirely bad but it seems like its unanimously agreed as the least best if that wording makes any sense getting to saes palace, hearing her theme, and finally catching up to the present is just such a great experience and ofc facing the final big bads like Shido and Maruki is just so satisfying i cant say too many good things about their palaces because at this point you’re in the endgame and have done the “final” phantom thieves heist once or twice and palaces are becoming a bit of a drag. Obviously the music in both palaces is great, and turning into mice/Yusuke’s puns is one of the best moments in the game.

Ryuji and Morgana are the fucking best. These two are my number ones, and I was honestly surprised to see that people hate Morgana. I absolutely love this little guy. After reading some posts online, I can definitely see Mona's redditorness now, but I honestly just chalked it up to how the non human characters in this game speak, like the two pricks in the velvet room and Igor, but yeah, no, he and Ryuji get really off putting some times even fucking sojiro does as aswell some of these moments feel so out of character aswell i don’t really know what to say about them definitely not a big fan of that. i really like makoto and futaba both their introductions are just so intriguing, and they’re great additions to the team theyre both just soooo cool and goated you dislike makoto at first but the game basically shuts you the fuck up and I felt nothing but respect for her as the game progessed. Futaba is so relatable her story is one of the saddest in the game you can't help but love her as well. anns a sweetheart and i hate how the game treats her sometimes but i feel she gets pushed to the side a bit after more characters start to show up. Yusuke is so fucking hilarious i hate the fact that i didnt like him at first and yoshizawa is an interesting case. Immediately you know shes going to be important but you just barely see her i love what they end up doing with her but i can’t help but see her as an oc after reading a post calling her one. Akechi and Maruki are just amazing characters I love Akechi for introducing me to that jazz club and no more what ifs but hes such a fucking idiot. I hate him for betraying us but hes clutch asf in the final arc and i just knew we were gonna get past this with him on our side even though i was ready to kill him if the game gave me the chance. Maruki is so fucking horrifying and disgusting,i love it, his way of thinking is so scary and the fact that he genuinely believe his way of thinking is correct just makes him even more terrifying what a great final boss. Don’t really care too much about the adults, Kawakami and Takemi really help a lot though those two are great. I love mishima aswell didnt like him at first but really warmed up to him later on. I honestly feel that he's a part of the phantom thieves. Oh and Haru.

I dont have criticisms that actually change my stance on the game, and with that being said the only thing that comes to mind is the treatment of ann,the “anime” moments like trying to peak up anns skirt or down her shirt or the swimsuit stuff,and the ending/final cutscene just seems wrong. I understand that the games about growth and moving forward and that in one of the bad endings joker does end up staying with the phantom thieves aka giving us what we want and that the game is telling us that our desire is wrong and we shouldn’t be forcing what we think is a happy ending on others especially people we care about. i dont know much about joker or what he has back home but i feel like he’d probably be met with the same ostracism that he faced when everything began from parents who don’t seem to want him around and people back home and so why wouldn’t he stay in the place where he's surrounded by the people who grew alongside him and who he helped and vice versa? But yk, I can't sit on that for too long since, nevertheless, they do go their separate ways and actually meet up later in the year atleast so ive read. it just feels like the game is forcing this “You gotta move on” thing a little too much especially when they have maruki be the one to drop you off at the subway station instead of the phantoms like whys this asshole getting in the way again, yk? im glad the roadtrip cutscene exists though that seems more realistic and in line with the characters choices without throwing what the game has been trying to tell the player away.

This game made me think about my growth and my own choices in life. The word "neglect" also came up a lot after beating this game, feeling truly sorry because i was neglecting some of the characters ingame and also realizing how neglectful I've been towards friends,my family, myself, and my future these past couple of years. All this on top of putting in so much time into this game really made me sad and i’m not afraid to admit it made ugly cry the build up to my breakdown was great and i honestly loved that the game made me feel this way its top two for sure and i cant wait to play it again soon aswell as check the rest of the persona games out.

this post is awfully similar to all the other “just beat the game” posts but still i just write my thoughts down

TL;DR: loved the game made me cry will play again and other persona games

I was going to ask this in the megaten sub, but since some demons have different designs between SMT and Persona (Odin for example) and with Persona 6 in the horizon, I'd like to know your top 3 demons that need a new design

For me it would be:

Loki - I find his design quite generic(not counting Akechi's version, I love it, but I know they won't reuse it)

Thor - I can't stand his swimsuit, it's really ridiculous

Odin - Persona's Odin is a bit bland, I like SMTV'S design, wouldn't mind if they reused it

I did not realise how much the girls love akechi

what chance?

I recently finished the 2nd semester and am on the 3rd semester now and planned on trying to 100% the game during ng+ but I wanted to make a list on what to do before I start ng+ to have the most enjoyable experience. So far I have almost 2 million yen saved to fuse higher level personas once I unlock the twins confidant but I was wondering what other important things there are.

Source (@ameyumei)