Persona 5

Playing it on PC now. Can actually run it on a 1080gtx at 4k with 60fps. Granted it's more style than actual "gfx", but looks good and is fluid. Excellent port, but while it doesn't apply to me, it doesn't support ultrawide. The flawless widescreen people are working on it, and you can get it at ultrawide with small black bars top and bottom, but removed they still stretch the UI.

Other than that, highly recommend. Royal adds a lot of stuff.

PS: There is a lot of accessories given in this since they add 40 dlc items. 10 of many of them. So rushing towards the Doctor unlocks for the SP regen items isn't something you need to worry that much about. You get 10x of the camera strap accessory which gives 10 sp and 5% hp regen per turn when ambushing. So I easily completed the first dungeon from start to treasure room in one go without worrying about SP.

Yeah, that DLC stuff is ridiculously broken. I remember having to farm Agathions for a long time to get enough Soul Drops to make it through the palace in one day back in vanilla P5. Don't even remember how I managed it when I played Royal on PS4, since they removed Soul Drops from them. Only DLC I own on PS is the legacy and battle bundles so definitely didn't have Camera Straps.

DLC personas are actually a bit of a double edged sword. They're pretty broken overall but if you're trying not to cheat too much it's sort of irritating because they get jammed into the fusion results and you may find that base game personas you want to use are more difficult to fuse than they should be.

For anyone looking to run through the game completing everything without having to agonize over the day-to-day schedule this is probably the best walkthrough now:
Persona 5 Royal Walkthrough (use the Battle Route options always)

Also, that's the same site that has the best fusion calc for P5 and every other SMT game.

I haven't been playing shit for the last couple of months with any enthusiasm, but started this yesterday on Gamepass and have close to 20 hours into it already. It's the first Persona game I've played and I am not spoiling or using guides so it's been entertaining trying to figure everything out. The constant forced pacing is kind of annoying, but I suppose it's a must for a 100+ hour game just to do main quest. Very cool game and a good change of pace from typical JRPGs so far.

Chimney said:

I haven't been playing shit for the last couple of months with any enthusiasm, but started this yesterday on Gamepass and have close to 20 hours into it already. It's the first Persona game I've played and I am not spoiling or using guides so it's been entertaining trying to figure everything out. The constant forced pacing is kind of annoying, but I suppose it's a must for a 100+ hour game just to do main quest. Very cool game and a good change of pace from typical JRPGs so far.

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Use the non spoiler guides. It is possible to miss out on the "Royal" content part of the game if you do not. It is not super detailed. Mostly just having to get relationships with certain ranks before a certain date.

TJT said:

However one of the girlfriends gives you way more benefits if min maxing is your thing.

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Which are you referring to? Only difference I remember there being between them is you get a gift that very slightly speeds up confidant point gain in NG+. Not even sure it lets you rank up early, it might just let you skip bringing a persona of the right arcana along. Other than that you get the same max rank benefits whether you choose the romance dialogues at rank 9 or not.

since its free on gamepass decided to start it up and play a few hours a week for a couple months, i plat'd P5 long, long ago but don't remember too much. I forgot how banging the music is, really catchy shit.

you guys playing with English or Jap VA? I started with japanese but think i'll switch to english, its easy to tune out and read something else while characters are talking but can't do that without english and the english VAs seem fine so far.

English, always.

I'll never understand why Atlus JP insisted they pronounce most of the names incorrectly though.

Vorph said:

Which are you referring to? Only difference I remember there being between them is you get a gift that very slightly speeds up confidant point gain in NG+. Not even sure it lets you rank up early, it might just let you skip bringing a persona of the right arcana along. Other than that you get the same max rank benefits whether you choose the romance dialogues at rank 9 or not.

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unless the VA is star ocean levels of bad i'll always opt for the language i can understand, weeb faggotry is never the answer

Needless said:

unless the VA is star ocean levels of bad i'll always opt for the language i can understand, weeb faggotry is never the answer

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Rezz said:

Spoiler

the nurse has accessories that regen sp each round of combat as you increase rank. Makes it trivial to clear up to the treasure room or whatever forced story dungeon exit in one go and you don't need to be super conservative with blowing shit up.

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I was assuming he meant the actual girlfriend status as opposed to friend zoning them at rank 9.

Death only needs rank 5 for the accessories and generally you'll have that done by mid-June, maybe early July if you delay it a bit and just use the cheater DLC for a while longer.

Janx said:

The Maid service has me rolling on the floor. Can that be a love interest?

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Bonus points if you love interest all of them.