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foolm0r0n posted...

Wow that sucks

Indeed, would totally lose interest in the game if that's real.

Can we remaster Echoes then instead please? Give that game a chance to reach a market, instead of one of the worst FE games?

Also the full final Acheron Kit leaked (well, final as in going into the beta, could still see changes there).

With 2 other Nihility units, her damage gets a full 60% increase at all time lol. 15% with one other Nihility unit.

That E2 bringing that requirement down to 1 is gonna be prime swipe bait.

Text based leaks are flooding today so just check out the leak Reddit if you want that, too much to post it all here. Video leaks will hit tomorrow.

That's not same element on the second one, it's same path.

Seems like the Planar to get for Acheron since she always wants at least one other Nihility unit.

Very interesting Planars.

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plasmabeam posted...

Fire Emblem Awakening Remastered releases Summer 2025

Fuck no please

The development of this game was very likely scam, and it's not impossible that Ubisoft may end up getting sued by the Singaporean government.

Yes, experience is fully spread. I THINK it's actually 6 ways by the time you get Fuuka: 3 party member, MC, MC's persona, and Fuuka. MIGHT just be 5, never did the exact math.

The leveling speed difference between grinding solo with the MC versus as a group is insane.

pyresword posted...

Junpei is a top 2 character in the series for me and it frustrates me that he doesn't seem to be popular. (He's probably #2 behind Futaba but they are very close)

This is I think multiple issues.

A lot of Persona fans haven't played P3 (before now).

The most annoying one, which is that even some P3 fans haven't actually played P3 (I assure you this is much more common than you'd think)

Junpei relies on a full game arc from start to finish in a way that most Persona characters don't.

Most Persona characters, even the good ones, are pretty stagnant. Even P4, a game that is partially ABOUT changing how you present and perceive yourself, doesn't see much character evolution. When characters so change through the narrative, it's typically more jarring too. A prime example is Yusuke, a character who sucks as before joining and then just suddenly doesn't afterwards. As much as I like the idea of Persona's changing at max rank, P3 made much better use of having the characters reach a point in the narrative where the Persona's evolving make sense.

Junpei embodies this perfectly in a way that I don't think would work if he was in a different Persona game.

And, lastly, the one that got me for years....is that visually he's a pretty bland looking guy, lol.

It's not as frightening as it seems. Just make sure you can buff your defense and most importantly debuff it's attack, and that the MC's persona doesn't have one of the 4 elemental weaknesses.

Prioritize both of those rather than evasion buffing/debuffing, best to just assume it's going to get those 1 More's.

You have to play Uncharted 2 for the full lore.

There's about 2 weeks of pure free time in this version if fully optimized, including unlocking every Theurgy bonus. Closer to a month if you don't care about those.

But playing like that is just for crazy people like me.

I think FE6/7/8 should just get the 2DHD treatment. Again, Star Ocean 2 R really set a new standard to strive for there.

FE4 should get the full mainline modern treatment though. I want that game to turn heads.

I don't know WHAT to do about Thracia, lol.

https://youtu.be/gwx0yugaAGw?si=vVb8MuyR0T-8eEDD

Geneology Remake announcement this year, book it.

Brings a tear to my eye.

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The Switch 2 is going to absolutely shred the market, but it won't be because of potential vaporware Prime 4 lol.

Sure, I have no doubt it would do crazy better than last games in the series just like Pikmin 4 did, and it's one of the few first party Nintendo games that I'm still excited for, but there's a reason they don't make many Metroid games anymore.

Legendarily well performing series Metroid, right.

I think about 3 weeks overall. Plenty of free time, but enough stuff starts late enough that has to be done im uncertain window that you can't fuxk around too much.

Oh, maybe I'm just gaslighting myself here, but P5 had full compedium Fusion, right? Like, you could do normal fusions from the compedium, not just special ones. That's not here, was it never there in recent releases and I'm just remembering wrong?

Oh, one thing to note: I think the anime cutscenes are a lot worse. Just like the new portraits, yes they're technically high or even higher quality, but the original cutscenes had an aesthetic to them that I think is lost with the new ones, in a way that the new portraits still pull off for the most part.

A lot of the in-engine cutscenes we get here are better than what the original had, but not all. The original Thanatos ripping out of Orpheus cutscenes is still not topped. It was a disturbing, strong moment on the PS2, that was neutered to trash in P3P, and is good here but is not conveying any dread, instead coming off a a "cool" moment like a P5 scene.

There was a moment in here where I got one step behind on Fuuka's schedule because I didn't have a Priestess Persona while gardening with her, and if it weren't for the new rewind feature I would have reloaded a 3 hour save.

I'm not really good at breaking down my thoughts for stuff like this since a lot of it is just internal vibes, but I'll try.

Most noteable examples.

For the most recent one, Junpei. This one was definitely tainted by so many failed playthroughs over the years, since Junpei is, intentionally as part of the narrative, kind of unbearable for the first half of the game. However, back when it came out, I was a bit blinded by my lack of interest in the archetype. Now, man, does he ever land in the back half of this game. I think a lot of P3 characters suffer from kind of just being there for a lot of the game narratively (this is a bit of an issue for some characters in all 3 games, but usually it's made up for with fucking around filler moments I enjoy throughout), but Junpei has something active going on from the front to the back of the game. I REALLY like the Chidori stuff, I kind of wish there was a lot more of it? Time outside of the hospital before she leaves to Tartarus.

The rest for P3 is a bit superficial. Fuuka is way better now but that's just because of the voice actress, I never even tried to like her the first time because the VA work just didn't work for me (I also think the process of recruiting Fuuka is the only time in the game where it really feels like they even attempt to make someone joining the team matter). Shinji is still cool, but the extremely low amount of join time feels like a mistake (the major lack of any narrative within Tartarus itself definitely makes this worse....taking it the hangouts added in Reload away, he's barely even in the game after he joins).

P4, there's not really anyone I like less than I used to. There was a time BETWEEN playthroughs where I thought I like Yosuke more than I did, but both while playing and replaying In felt the same, lol. It's more who I didn't like before, which where Yukiko and Rise, two characters I didn't care about at all the first time through. In replay, they ended up being my favorite 2 girls in the game (Kanji is #1) and I have to attribute that to just being too tomboy focused at the time lol (which, you know, still a fan but my horizons have opened). Maybe my irrational, obsessive hate of Mendez' Chie hurt me there...Naoto I had a lot of confirmation bias for when I first played P4. I DECIDED Naoto was my favorite character before playing the game, and my main drive was to get to Naoto. When they shove you in the crappy video game dungeon between Rise and Naoto, I dropped the game for like a month out of frustration. When I played it again all those years later, I still really like Naoto, but her self appointed #1 spot didn't hold up.

P5 is the biggest, and it's noteable since that was only a 2 year gap between vanilla and Royal. The first chunk of characters, nothing there, but I didn't give a fuck about Yusuke when I played P5. P5R, and Yusuke is the fucking BEST. He sucks ass before her joins, but once he does he's nothing but absolute gold. Almost everything that comes out of his mouth is amazing. Meanwhile, I got swept up in the Makoto zeitgeist on P5's launch, but on playing Royal she was.....fine? The game treats her like she's the main character sometimes, everyone loves her, it gets kind of annoying. I like her design a lot but she's pretty mid. Haru, however, grew on me a ton on that second playthrough. Even with her minimal screen presence by comparison, she's just a pleasant character to have on screen, I became genuinely invested in interacting with her. She really deserved to have more content in the game.

I do want to add a note here though that I think every character here is good in P5 Strikers. I'm still super impressed at how much fun that game was, considering I am personally of the opinion that Persona characters get worse in every spinoff they're in (P4 characters suffer the most, as they devolve into charicatures of themselves more with every release). Now that I'm done with Reload I'm going to be playing Tactica, though, so time to see what that does with the characters. Don't have high expectations.

WW2 was earnest in a way this doesn't seem to be. With that it feels like they thought they had a good movie. With this it seems they knew the movie sucked.

Anagram posted...

What happens when you reject Haru? I dont remember at all.

She gets extremely upset about it, like, devestated IIRC. It stands out because none of the other rejections in the game are like that.

I ended up romancing her in Royal so it's not super fresh in my mind (every time I play a Persona game with multiple years between playthroughs, I'm always amazed by how much my character opinions shift almost universally).

One anti-vote for War on Geminar.

colliding posted...

I thought you were super against this due to no FeMC/Answer stuff

maybe I'm mistaking you for someone else

Yep, that was me.

I am still pissed about the no FeMC stuff. I do hope The Answer comes as DLC as rumored, but what caused me to concede at the last minute was them saying there would be no rerelease like Golden or Royal, which was always my biggest issue with the exclusion of that content (assuming they would make you buy the game again and start from scratch for new content 2 years from now).

I like Royal, but it's still bullshit that it exists, can't stand when games put stuff like that out (had the same problem with DQXI S).

Could relicense and dub the movies after all this time, lol.

Yep, but all those lovers flags are rank 8 or 9 so it's only crumbs.

I feel like even those crumbs though are still better than the lovers route endings, though, since I did all or them but Aegis'. I wonder if Atlus took to heart how upset people got about how rejecting Haru went down, lol.

Oh, I meantioned it in another topic so I forgot to do it here, but the new VA work is excellent across the board. Most of the VA work was solid in the original, but the misses that were there have all been cleaned up (Fuuka). Akihiko is the most obviously different, but still good. Junpei is a huge improvement, not just saying that because Vic stuff since I think regardless Vic did a great job back then. He sounds almost the same most of the time, but when he gets loud and upset Zeno Robinson (this guys really coming up nowadays, so good as Folgado) absolutely destroys it.

Speaking of Junpei, man, playing through the back half of this game for the first time in forever absolutely opened my eyes because he is so far and away the best starter bro character of the bunch. He's like a reverse Yosuke, with Yosuke starting strong but getting worse and worse, while Junpei starts lame but gets better and better.

Also there's an anime cutscene at the end where he has hit hat off for like half a second, and hatless Junpei is horrifying.

You shouldn't judge that based on the trailer, because for some reason that's an extremely common issue in trailers for animated series in general that doesn't always reflect the full product. I'm not sure what the specific cause of it is other than possibly sloppy editing, but it happens so much so consistently with Western cartoon trailers that there must be a root cause.

SHINE_GET_64 posted...

Everyone always insulting me I didn't even do anything

Put on some pants.

LiquidOshawott posted...

I thought you can romance everyone without any consequences in 3, did that change?

You can but I don't want to do that.

Raka_Putra posted...

Did you use a guide to max out all Social Links?

Yes, that's how I have to play these games, personal issue. If I got to the end and didn't have that all maxed I would feel like I wasted my time.

MacArrowny posted...

Didn't they add friendship s links for the girls in Reload? Are those not higher quality?

They did not, just the regular S Links like they had before. There's other new short mini social things for everyone based around random activities, but the hangouts are just the guys.

You may be thinking about how they got rid of reversals so you have alternate dialogue now for near the end if you go that route, and that's definitely a welcome change for the end of the links, but it's still the same overall S Link.

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1758301015630073987?t=OqOxzr0EfQqAEjYhUc9-tg&s=19

WOOOOOOOOOF

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The first time I've managed to get through the game all the way to it's completion since the first time I did when the game initially came out, despite many attempts. Purchased blind on the recommendation of this very board! Such a long time ago.

Gotta say, they did a great job. Obviously I'm upset some stuff isn't here, but the quality of life and visual/audio glowup is pretty intense.

Theurgys are pretty busted. Trivialized a lot of the content.

New scenes were cool. The wierd thing is, since the male party hangouts are new hotness and the girl party member links are still the old meh for the most part, there's a huge quality disparity between them.

In the end, I don't think it actually changes my opinion; pretty easily the weakest of the 3 modern games for me, but it's very easy to understand why it's a lot of people's favorite. Just doesn't excel in the places that matter more to me that the other 2 do, mainly in party interaction and scene variety overall.

That last month is still a fucking mood, though. Absolutely no doubt that ending blows the other 2 out of the water.

Ken still sucks ass.

Obviously romanced Aegis.

Sun is still the best social link in the game.

Also the new VAs in P3R are absolutely killing it. Most of them just sound almost the same except with better direction, then you get Fuuka's new VA who is, you know, not completely terrible like original Fuuka. Akihiko is the only one that's note of a sidegrade and sounds pretty different, but Liam O'Brien is a steep hill to climb.

Hbthebattle posted...

Erin Fitzgerald WAS the replacement Chie VA, they're not doing it again, especially as none of the current P4 VAs have any Vic Mignogna-tier misdeeds.

They replaced everybody in P3R even though all the originals besides Vic are still active, and are even in the game voicing other characters.

I didn't watch the stream, but most of what I'm seeing checking in hours later is people clowning on Phil for being pissed that Helldivers II isn't on Xbox.

Nothing yet.

I need to see more of RaFantzio for sure. I think everything about the presentation is beyond incredible, but the game needs to be good too. SMTV was solid but did not live up to it's potential (and not just because it was being choked to death by the Switch).

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

I mean I think they revealed themselves to be full of shit when they announced The Answer DLC before the game even launched. There is no "vision" here.

Technically this has not actually been announced.

It's a reliable leaker but it's still a rumor.

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

Truly, honestly, the best case scenario you are asking for here with a P3R style remake is that you get an initial overhaul that has some basic, non-Golden QoL features, and then have to shell out more money later for the bulk of the Golden additions (including Marie).

I hated literally all the non-gameplay related additions to Golden so this is easy for me to just not buy in this scenario lol.

Current rumor is Acheron+FX for phase 1, Aventurine+Topaz for phase 2.

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

I'm not convincing anyone of anything. But what you are actually asking for when you say you want a Persona 4 remake is additional Marie content. Them's the breaks.

Also I don't actually think this is the case. With P3R their reasoning (so they say) for not including content was they wanted to recreate the original vision of the game as it was. I imagine the same would fit for P4.

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

Also don't let ATLUS bully you. If all you truly want is HD Persona 4, boot up a PS2 emulator and upscale that shit. It'll look crisp as hell.

I want baton pass, voiced social links, and auto target

Marie ain't real and you'll never convince me otherwise.

https://youtu.be/CT7fXD-Kp7M?si=kA09-YSgu3XBsV-m

Also, more important than anything, if P3R is anything to go by they'll change all the VAs, too.

Please let me be blessed with no more Erin Fitzgerald Chie.

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

I truly don't know what the point of this would be since Golden exists and they just ported it to PC.

P3P exists and it just got rereleased a year ago too!

Also I would like to play an HD P4 without Marie in it.

MacArrowny posted...

Will it be announced before Persona 6 comes out in 2026?

Persona 5 missed it's announced date by 2 years.

Shoulda included a fastball special instead.

I have absolutely zero doubt that we will get a P4 remake, using the exact same engine as P3R.

Honestly it may not even have much of a turnaround time. I'm going to double down and say we will have a trailer for P4R (it'll be R, not sure what word) within the next 2 years.

My only question is what it will include. I'm in the awkward situation now where I bitched about them not including stuff from P and FES in P3R, but now my desire for P4R is to not include anything from Golden, lol.

It could also be that I have absolutely zero attachment to that era of X-Men as a brand. My X-Men starts at Morrison, I've never read a single issue of Claremont. Maybe I should change that.