Persona 5

so does the game open up later? i always heard how the game was a lot like a social life simulator and you have to manage your time well, anytime I want to go out at night etc it tells me I should just go to sleep and seems like it's keeping me focused in one direction, I imagine that's because I'm still in the early parts of the game where it's giving me tutorials, I should finish the first Palace tonight I imagine. Been playing like 6 hrs tho.

When the game is dumping plot you basically get locked into several days of going to bed early. But once the Palace raids start (when you get a deadline) you get x amount of days to balance social life with dungeon crawling.

Firenze wrote:so does the game open up later? i always heard how the game was a lot like a social life simulator and you have to manage your time well, anytime I want to go out at night etc it tells me I should just go to sleep and seems like it's keeping me focused in one direction, I imagine that's because I'm still in the early parts of the game where it's giving me tutorials, I should finish the first Palace tonight I imagine. Been playing like 6 hrs tho.

Going to Mementos, palaces and completing certain events leaves you tired during the evening and prevents you from doing anything at night. It won't change until you max out your social stat with the teacher.

yeah basically the start of the next session it gave me a bunch of free time to plan for the first palace, did a few social things and got a part time job but decided to jump into the first palace fast, inb4 i get wrecked. also fused my two persona's and now i have 1 persona that looks like complete fodder ffs

I did the same lol.

You get some beast ones later on though.

You guys know about the Reaper trick?

If you go into any floor in Mementos during flu season and stand still for 2-5 mins, you can fight the Reaper while he's inflicted with despair (it's a 40% chance). It'll do nothing and die in three turns, giving you a crap ton of XP (and a trophy).

You can't beat it otherwise. I'm playing on Safety just to mop up all the trophies and got 250,000 XP for doing nothing .

And you do this however many times you want, too.

idek what mementos or flu season are but will keep that in mind, plan to platinum the game second playthrough. Saw a trophy about reaper.

Firenze wrote:idek what mementos or flu season are but will keep that in mind, plan to platinum the game second playthrough. Saw a trophy about reaper.

You intend to platinum Persona 5? I hope we can make a full GL team for CoD WW2. You better be done with OW and everything else you're juggling, by the time that game is released

OW is still GOAT man, dunno why you got bored of it. I'm only getting COD if they don't have all the shitty features and money grabbing practices implemented in the last few with their unlock system.

not that I know where yet but is it safe to sell old equipment/loot I find in palaces or is it worth holding onto them for anything

game is addictive AF ffs

Yeah, the game is super addictive You can sell pretty much all of your old equipment, but you might want to keep the ones that say "can be used for transmutation" - you'll need those in order to create items from Personas later on.

With that being said, I haven't used any of the transmutation items because figuring out which Personas are necessary to create weapons and equipment that are actually useful, is a pain in the arse. Not to mention, that the majority of the store-bought items are almost as good as, and in some cases even better than the ones you can "itemize" later in the game.

By the way, you should up your relationship with the "Death" doctor as soon as possible. You'll be able to purchase equipment that grant automatic SP to your members on every turn, which is probably the most useful equipment in the game, including the relatively OP, DLC equipment.

nice, SP regen is something that I'm having issues with but I already got that death doctor's level up once, will visit her again asap, I underestimated how long this first palace is, Morgana is telling me I'm 50% through ffs, have 7 days. Imagine I will need to leave the palace at least once more.

One of the Momento's

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Firenze wrote:any of the DLC worth getting? looks mostly cosmetic

You get one really good equipment for every DLC that includes a Persona from past games. Off the top of my head, double XP, double cash, higher crit rate, higher all-out-attack damage, + to all stats etc. The double XP/Cash ones only need to be equipped to one character to apply to the whole team.

did you guys juggle different part time jobs? I got one at the supermarket but then I'm also working at the coffee shop too, I imagine there are benefits to doing them all but ain't nobody got time fo dat, too overwhelemed atm with the options to spend your free time

Firenze wrote:did you guys juggle different part time jobs? I got one at the supermarket but then I'm also working at the coffee shop too, I imagine there are benefits to doing them all but ain't nobody got time fo dat, too overwhelemed atm with the options to spend your free time

You get different social stats from different jobs. I get the majority of my cash from farming in mementos and palaces, so working hasn't been necessary since early game. They are, however, useful when you need to work in a particular job in order to gather information on requests for Mementos.

I barely went to jobs lol, just forgot about it.

gonna plat it second playthrough hopefully so the first imma just do w/e i want and look at 0 guides besides the exam answers

anything really useful in the first palace i should keep my eyes out for? gonna fuse some of the persona's i've gotten later and get that dope looking knight on a horse ffs, need 1 more lvl first

I don't think there's anything major, at least i didn't remember anything which is missable.

Although i was searching every area imaginable.

I messed up and need to do a third playthrough to get the plat Focused so much on getting all the confidants finished that I forgot to read all the books and finish all the games. Just ran out of time in the end.

Btw, the secret boss is by far and away the hardest boss in the game, possibly in the series:

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Hold on you have completed it twice lol?

I'm about to.

Just can't put it down.

so when I fuse persona, what difference does fuse by result or normal fusion have? is normal fusion randomized?

doesn't seem like it, don't get the diff

One lists all possible persona results and the other you have to do it manually.

Doesn't make a lot of difference either way tbh.

It's just a different way or sorting iirc. The result is the same either way.