Current Events > So, I made it to the ''ark'' Palace in Persona 5... *Spoilers up until then*

(+) Yeah! (+)

Anyway, what is Shido's Palace like? I have to meet with five people in there to move to where the treasure is.

Sucks you missed out on not maxing out the politician bro's confidant/the sun.....his stops early since he is campaigning in the last gameplay month, so you won't be able to see him at all doing shido's palace. Ms. kawakami's/the temperance also stops early at the same time as the sun's, so you won't be able to max her's either.

...Okay, fuck this mouse stuff.

I assume you're not playing Royal; why not? It has so many QOL improvements, including making the mouse sections of the dungeon less tedious.

r u playing royal if not y not

Also, Akechi is better in Royal, and he's not in Strikers at all; not even mentioned by name as far as I remember.

Also, Akechi is better in Royal, and he's not in Strikers at all; not even mentioned by name as far as I remember.

*Spoilers for Persona 5 and Persona 5 Royal*

Akechi likely dies near the end of Shido's dungeon. The Royal version of Akechi is very likely a cognitive being created by Maruki when he gains partial control of the Metaverse after Yaldabaoth dies.

guys op isnt there yet stop spoiling in this topic

guys op isnt there yet stop spoiling in this topic

I don't have a PS4 or PS5.

*Spoilers for Persona 5 and Persona 5 Royal*

Akechi likely dies near the end of Shido's dungeon. The Royal version of Akechi after he dies is very likely a cognitive being created by Maruki when he gains partial control of the Metaverse after Yaldabaoth dies.

Ah, well, the extra semester added in Royal is okay but honestly feels kinda fanfictiony. It also doesn't get mentioned at all in the sequel which kinda calls into question if it's even canon.

Anyway, I'm wondering if I should send the Calling Card right away, or wait until the last moment.

Well, I managed to secure the route to the Treasure in one go, thanks to all the SP items I had on-hand, including the battle-only Mystery Stew. Glad I'm done with it; it really was an endurance between the enemies, the mouse parts, and the boss rush at the end.

It's crazy how the game just sics the Cleaner, Akechi's minions, Akechi himself, and then Loki!Akechi on you all in row with no opportunity to save or--in the case with the Akechi battles--heal inbetween. If you don't have ways to deal with SP, you'd really be in a bind. However, Girimekhala--a demon/Persona that I was never fond of in past SMT games--really came in clutch here, as he pretty much blocked just about everything Loki!Akechi threw at Joker, except of course for Megidolaon.

Kind of a shame what happened to him, but I find it morbidly amusing that Akechi's Confidant maxes out right before he gets shot to death. Then again, the way his Confidant was increasing towards the end was rather weird anyway; he says that he's going to shoot you in the head as he's pointing a gun at you, and somehow that means that your bond with him is getting deeper.

Anyway, I'm wondering if I should send the Calling Card right away, or wait until the last moment.

Good job doing it in one sitting. Shido's Palace isn't that hard but it's a different story if you're doing it all in one day.

Akechi's confidant stuff could've been done better for sure. They tried to make him ***P4 spoilers*** Adachi 2.0 and what we got was more like a diet version of him. Royal remedied this a bit though.

It doesn't really matter as long as it is in time. The election is on a set day so you don't get any weird story shenanigans like Futaba sleeping for 28 days in a row if you clear her palace right away.

However, you may want to send it earlier because I think party members eventually refuse to hang out for social link rank ups if it isn't sent yet.

Good job doing it in one sitting. Shido's Palace isn't that hard but it's a different story if you're doing it all in one day.

*Persona 4 spoilers*
I don't think Akechi ever came off as an Adachi wannabe to me. Adachi was essentially "doing it for the lulz" and was content to sit back and watch crazy shit happen. Akechi takes things into his own hands and is trying to get back at the world.

I was so hyped to finally hear I Believe, and then you find out it only plays for like 20 seconds before you reach the final battle unless you literally just stand there and let the song play.

It also plays for a bit during the final boss fight.

Does it? As far as I remember, the first part of the fight is an instrumental version of Throw Away Your Mask, and the second part (which is mostly scripted) plays the vocal version of that song. I don't remember I Believe playing at any point.

I really was tempted to leave because due to how SP items are in general, I was concerned about using them, but since I don't think I have much of the game left, I didn't see much point in hanging onto them for this long.

Of course, I didn't go too crazy on them.

Well, I managed to secure the route to the Treasure in one go, thanks to all the SP items I had on-hand, including the battle-only Mystery Stew. Glad I'm done with it; it really was an endurance between the enemies, the mouse parts, and the boss rush at the end.

It's crazy how the game just sics the Cleaner, Akechi's minions, Akechi himself, and then Loki!Akechi on you all in row with no opportunity to save or--in the case with the Akechi battles--heal inbetween. If you don't have ways to deal with SP, you'd really be in a bind. However, Girimekhala--a demon/Persona that I was never fond of in past SMT games--really came in clutch here, as he pretty much blocked just about everything Loki!Akechi threw at Joker, except of course for Megidolaon.

Kind of a shame what happened to him, but I find it morbidly amusing that Akechi's Confidant maxes out right before he gets shot to death. Then again, the way his Confidant was increasing towards the end was rather weird anyway; he says that he's going to shoot you in the head as he's pointing a gun at you, and somehow that means that your bond with him is getting deeper.

Anyway, I'm wondering if I should send the Calling Card right away, or wait until the last moment.

Well, I managed to secure the route to the Treasure in one go, thanks to all the SP items I had on-hand, including the battle-only Mystery Stew. Glad I'm done with it; it really was an endurance between the enemies, the mouse parts, and the boss rush at the end.

It's crazy how the game just sics the Cleaner, Akechi's minions, Akechi himself, and then Loki!Akechi on you all in row with no opportunity to save or--in the case with the Akechi battles--heal inbetween. If you don't have ways to deal with SP, you'd really be in a bind. However, Girimekhala--a demon/Persona that I was never fond of in past SMT games--really came in clutch here, as he pretty much blocked just about everything Loki!Akechi threw at Joker, except of course for Megidolaon.

Kind of a shame what happened to him, but I find it morbidly amusing that Akechi's Confidant maxes out right before he gets shot to death. Then again, the way his Confidant was increasing towards the end was rather weird anyway; he says that he's going to shoot you in the head as he's pointing a gun at you, and somehow that means that your bond with him is getting deeper.

Anyway, I'm wondering if I should send the Calling Card right away, or wait until the last moment.

It has so many QOL improvements, including making the mouse sections of the dungeon less tedious.

Try to get some of those SP restoring accessories from the doctor if you ever decided to play base persona 5 again. These are usually how you can sort of have a easy time doing any palace in 1 run pretty comfortable. (palace 1 being the exception since you are understandably broke as fuck at the beginning of the game, lol. One daying it was pretty damn rough. On my first time playing persona 5 I managed it but I did some crazy crap like intentiolly letting my characters fall asleep to the one demon, might have been the succubus lol).

Even if you only buy like 3 of them they are still mad useful since you just pass them around as the characters need SP.

I say base persona 5 because in royal they actually give you a lot of options for easy SP. That, and money gains from regular battles is way, way higher that you would be able to buy 99 SP restoring drinks out vending machines and whatever else mad fast.

Way worse ending though.

Way worse ending though.

the entire add-on semester in Royal is really weak and felt like it had none of the effort or care the content in the base game has

...Also, something I was wondering, but what happens to Akechi's body? Does it disappear with the Palace, get sent somewhere in Mementos, float around in a void, or get spat back out to Reality somewhere? I wonder if the game will address that? (Especially since people will notice that a popular TV personality has suddenly disappeared without a trace.)

It's very awkward having Morgana talk to the group about Mementos and their big plan for it, when Sojiro and Sae are also looking at Morgana but can only hear a long string of meows. Yeah, they both know that the Thieves can hear Morgana's speech, but I can only imagine what was going through their heads seeing this cat give this explanation of their plans but only hear it as cat sounds.