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Anagram
12/30/18 12:34:38 PM
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Last time on Anagram plays Persona 3:
- I killed Fortune and Strength
- Lots bombs dropped about Shinjiro, Ken, and Akihiko
- Jesus killed Shinjiro
- Ken ran away, then came back
- I realized I'd done social links in a bad order, and that I might have empty days once I finish with Mamoru
- The antagonists' goal appears to just be wanting to keep the Dark Hour in existence because it makes them feel special?

It's now 10/6, and I'm not really sure how much more game I have.
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Panthera
12/30/18 12:51:31 PM
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You have less game left than you used to, but more than you'll have left in the future
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Peace___Frog
12/30/18 1:11:56 PM
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That's a remarkably appropriate segment to change to a new topic for.
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Anagram
12/30/18 1:58:45 PM
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Panthera posted...
You have less game left than you used to, but more than you'll have left in the future

Thank you, Bilbo Baggins.

Peace___Frog posted...
That's a remarkably appropriate segment to change to a new topic for.

I was thinking that myself.
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LeonhartFour
12/30/18 3:35:44 PM
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Yeah, that Full Moon is the big turning point of the game.
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Anagram
12/30/18 6:26:09 PM
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Man, Ken is not shy about spamming hama.
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xp1337
12/30/18 6:51:49 PM
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Adding to the choir that the October 4th Full Moon is the turning point in the game in a lot of ways. (really this is just a tag)
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LordoftheMorons
12/30/18 6:55:56 PM
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tag
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Raka_Putra
12/30/18 6:59:05 PM
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Did you start Tower and Devil yet?
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Anagram
12/30/18 7:25:43 PM
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Raka_Putra posted...
Did you start Tower and Devil yet?

I've finished both of them.
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Raka_Putra
12/30/18 7:36:20 PM
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Oh! Cool.
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12/30/18 7:38:19 PM
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Defeated the Hell Knights, but in fairness, I basically cheated. I looked up their resistances, and the second result was a GameFAQs topic that basically just said to charm them.

The one time Mitsuru's AI would have been useful, and they use fire spells.
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Anagram
12/30/18 7:39:57 PM
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Will I regret not leveling up everyone?
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LordoftheMorons
12/30/18 7:47:25 PM
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Anagram posted...
Will I regret not leveling up everyone?

no
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12/30/18 8:50:54 PM
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Reached Mythical Gigas, lost, will continue later. It killed Mitsuru with an AoE physical attack, though.
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Anagram
12/30/18 8:58:16 PM
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I like how Fuuka has this big emotional moment where she grows as a person, then her friends show up and have no idea what's happening.
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Sceptilesolar
12/30/18 9:28:01 PM
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Anagram posted...
Reached Mythical Gigas, lost will, continue later.


how i initially read this comment, but it would not have been out of place
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12/30/18 10:19:12 PM
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Mythical Gigas beaten with a team of Frank/Junpei/Ken/Akihiko

Didn't realize he absorbs fire, so Junpei did nothing the whole battle except cast defense buffs.
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12/31/18 12:33:47 AM
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- Dark Hour, 11/3
- We fight two boss battles: one against Jesus and Smart-Looking Guy, the second against the Shadow boss that looks so bizarre I won't even try to explain it.
- I usually love video game "rivals who have the same powers as you" fights, but this one was lame. The Shadow battle was actually very fun and strategies, though. Jesus and Smart-Looking Guy jump off a bridge, so I'm sure they're dead for real.
- Pharos shows up and says goodbye. I'll be honest, I still don't know what his deal is.
- Everyone celebrates the end of the Dark Hour with a giant feast of sushi. Aigis and Ikutski disappear for a "tune-up," so I'm sure that won't lead to him secretly being evil all along.
- Mitsuru's father shows up and disbands the club. The SEES social link reaches level 7, so probably this means the game is over for real, and all of this is just a very strange ending.
- The clock strikes midnight, and the dark hour starts again, oh my goddddd. Everyone is so surprised that only Junpei stands up from the couch. Well, I suppose they did just stuff themselves on sushi.
- A bell starts to ring, and based on basically no information, Mitsuru declares that we must go to Tartarus. There we find Ikutski and Aigis. He admits that he knew the Dark Hour wouldn't disappear if they destroyed all twelve shadows, and everyone acts very offended, but I mean... So what? I guess he has an evil plan he's going to reveal now, but you would have had to destroy those shadows anyway.
- Anyway, he reveals his evil plan: reunite all twelve shadows into Death to end the world so that it can be restarted. This was also the plan of Mitsuru's grandfather, but not Yukari's father.
- Aigis then attacks us so efficiently that we instantly turn into an anime cutscene and are crucified Jesus-style. That's a pretty powerful attack, I fully expect to have access to it once I get Aigis back in my party. And I'm only partly joking, because everyone awakens apparently unaware that they'd been crucified.
- Ikutski kills Mitsuru's father, Mitsuru's father wounds him, he orders Aigis to kill everyone, but looking at Frank's emotionless anime face snaps her out of it. Then the dog steals Ikutski's remote control for her (apparently everyone just forgot about him, but in fairness, so did I), and Ikutski dies.
- After this, everyone shrugs and goes back to the dorm. So did they drag Mitsuru's dad's body back, or leave it there, or what? But the most important part is going to school the next morning, because little known fact: sick days aren't a thing in Japan.

Alright, so it's time to ask the most important question of all: did literally anyone not see Ikutski being evil coming?
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LeonhartFour
12/31/18 12:38:50 AM
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this is why they had to include Koromaru in the party

crucifying a dog is very difficult
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Anagram
12/31/18 12:46:40 AM
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I also like how afterwards, everyone is like "what do we do now? Now we don't know what's happening," when that was basically already the case. When I finish the game, I'll do a write-up comparing it to P5, but things are so vague in this game, it creates a completely different atmosphere.
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KamikazePotato
12/31/18 1:21:01 AM
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Yeah the P3 crew is largely winging it. There's no Morgana who automatically knows everything.
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12/31/18 10:51:12 AM
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Apparently I was supposed to keep a random joke weapon in order to finish a later Elizabeth request. I did not.
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Peace___Frog
12/31/18 10:53:39 AM
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That'll teach you to not be a hoarder
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12/31/18 11:02:42 AM
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Elizabeth is growing on me.
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Anagram
12/31/18 11:19:15 AM
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New character introduced named Ryoji. The most important thing about him is that whoever drew his scarf clearly did after drawing the rest of his body, because the scarf's line thickness is like five times as thick as the rest of his body, it's really weird.
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Anagram
12/31/18 12:18:14 PM
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Reached Judgement Sword boss, had some trouble, stopped for now. Advice on beating them seems to be making nihil weapons for Yukari and Aigis, but I don't have nihil bows or guns, so meh.
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xp1337
12/31/18 1:36:00 PM
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Anagram posted...
Will I regret not leveling up everyone?

Re-iterating the no, but just because it's kind of tangential and I forgot to mention it in my earlier post, but the game takes some effort to sell Shinjiro as a long term party member. His skill list extends into giving him skills into his 70s, or wherever it ends for the other characters.

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- After this, everyone shrugs and goes back to the dorm. So did they drag Mitsuru's dad's body back, or leave it there, or what?

I think they took it with them? Totally not sure because lmao at remembering random NPC chatter from around 6+ years or whenever my last playthrough was, but I think someone mentions Ikutsuki being found at the school's "observatory" (which seems only to come up as code for "wherever weird tartarus stuff happens") and if Mitsuru's dad was left behind presumably he'd be near the same spot and I don't recall them saying two people were found. But who knows.

Anagram posted...
I also like how afterwards, everyone is like "what do we do now? Now we don't know what's happening," when that was basically already the case.

Like KP said, the P3 team is largely winging it, and the one lead they were basically following was just revealed to be a doctored video made to have them do the opposite of what they wanted.

Anagram posted...
The most important thing about him is that whoever drew his scarf clearly did after drawing the rest of his body, because the scarf's line thickness is like five times as thick as the rest of his body, it's really weird.

it's a cool scarf

Anagram posted...
Reached Judgement Sword boss, had some trouble, stopped for now. Advice on beating them seems to be making nihil weapons for Yukari and Aigis, but I don't have nihil bows or guns, so meh.

Hrm. How did you beat Hell Knight (Tartarus boss a short while ago, probably your trip before the most recent Full Moon)? Their skillsets re: Lightning seems very similar so in theory I'd expect the fights to be a bit similar.

Nihil Forging should not be necessary (though it would help because eliminating weaknesses, especially on your party is always great in all cases.) The guide I've mostly been using as a reference for looking up movesets and such suggests a Yukari/Akihiro/Junpei team all on support. Says Junpei will reset your defense by boosting it when they lower it, and Akihiro will lower their attack, while Yukari heals. They have the party members having the all-target version of those spells though, not sure if yours do yet.

From there, you're probably looking for a persona with resistance (ideally nulls, but dunno if you have it) to lightning, and also ideally Masukukaja to boost party evasion. The damage types they don't resist are Ice and Wind so you also probably would like one of those, but if all this becomes too much of a pain to get in one place, you could just normal attack or use Fire though it'll be slower going.

If Yukari's weakness proves to be too much of a hinderance you could sub her out for someone I suppose. Mitsuru or Koro or whoever.
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12/31/18 2:33:18 PM
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xp1337 posted...
Hrm. How did you beat Hell Knight (Tartarus boss a short while ago, probably your trip before the most recent Full Moon)? Their skillsets re: Lightning seems very similar so in theory I'd expect the fights to be a bit similar.

They're charmable, so I used sexy dance a lot.
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xp1337
12/31/18 2:35:38 PM
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Oh, right. Hrm. I think Ken might have a niche role here subbing for Yukari with lightning resistance and some utility healing. That said, if that would require substantial leveling to make him useful, I wouldn't bother.
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