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megaten·Megami TenseibyjoestaenBot

Questions & Recommendations - June 13, 2023

A space for simple questions and recommendations that don't deserve their own thread.

Please avoid joke questions, and keep joke replies to a minimum. Please use the Low Effort thread posted on Sundays for that kind of submission. Also consider making a separate topic for anything which you feel might generate interesting discussion.

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megaten·Megami TenseibyjoestaenBot

Cathedral of Shadows - Monthly Discussion - June 13, 2023

Do you want to talk about something not related to MegaTen? Do you want to just shitpost? Or maybe you just want to have a little chat with other members of the subreddit. This is the right place for you. You can talk about anything and everything here.

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megaten·Megami TenseibyShane_McGoomy

I've played about 5 minutes of P3 Reload and I kinda hate it already

I know this is premature, but I'm kinda worried about this game already.

I think the prologue video stinks. In the OG, we have all these interesting cuts and shots, the moon turns into a pixel for a large screen, the MC is often partially obscured, there are a bunch of extreme closeups of hands and eyes, that wacky lady with the dogs. The cuts are disorienting, the faucet is abrasive. We get these uncomfortable scenes with Yukari, dutch angles, the music gets louder, late afternoon sun the only light in her room, sweat on her chin, shaking hands, she whimpers and drops the gun, fish-eye perspective from the outside of her apartment.

In Reload, we get these super bland establishing shots, all these scenes feel empty, and then we see a generic long shot of Yukari. We get a closeup on her mouth, there's no sweat. There's no loud music, but no deafening silence either. We barely see her tremble. She gives up, and falls to her knees, but not before saying:

"tHeRe's nO wAy, I cAn'T"

I'm not a screenwriter, I'm not a film critic, I don't like Nicolas Winding Refn movies, but what the fuck is this? It's not like they didn't have the reference to work with when this was made. Look at the comparison shot of the train scene. In game the difference is even bigger, because in the original the movement of the other train cars creates this vertigo effect, it's barely noticeable in Reload.

This feels like a big downgrade artistically, it just feels so bland. Maybe I'm just too old for this shit.

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megaten·Megami TenseibyKaisaan

List of all translated (and untranslated) Megaten stuff I could find

Here's the link

Posting it here because the only other public place I have this spreadsheet posted is currently not available.

Please let me know where else I can share this so that more people can find this (though I'm not sure how useful my list is to others I just made this for personal preference at first).

Commenting is enabled for any suggestions/corrections. I tried to add as many stuff as I could find, and I try to update this as often as I can.

Let me know if I'm missing anything please. Feel free to ask me about any questions you have as well.

There is a lot of (unofficial?) Persona comic anthologies.

I'm not sure what else to say here, check the sheet for extra notes. Thank you for supporting my sheet.

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megaten·Megami TenseibyDutczar

How to go about Devil Survivor endings? [Death spoilers]

I'm replaying DeSu, doing the other routes one by one, and I've been wondering about how things play out if you let everyone die. Primarily how the Belial fight gets skipped (or so I heard), does the death clock, just, disappear before the fight?

Anyways, my idea was:

-quickly pick Yuzu route and 8th day on a "good" playthrough for another route, just to see how it looks when everyone lives, including the "protect Tokyo" sidequest

-reload save, do whatever other route I was doing

-as my final route, if I still feel like it, do a "jerkass route" where I let everyone die and do Yuzu ending

However, I know that you need Gin to do that sidequest. I guess I'll see the details once I do it on a "good" Yuzu route, but, if I want 100% completion on a single save, then I'll need to keep him alive? Or would I also need Haru alive, in case Gin gets sad and won't help? Or, most likely, I guess I'll just say "screw it" and resist the urge to see a 100% number on a save, if I did all I needed to over multiple saves. (Lucifer can't be that bad, right? Right?)

Also, right now I'm doing Atsuro's, I am way past the choice of letting Haru die, and will need to keep her alive for Amane and Gin's routes. So, Yuzu is the only I could let her die in now.

Alternatively, if there's a let's play, walkthrough or video that could satisfy my deranged needs to see these characters suffer, that would solve this problem easily. Or if someone tells me if Gin dying actually has any impact on the characters for more than 1 day. If not and it's just like two lines in the evening, I'll keep him alive on the "jerkass" run too.

Edit: Oh shit, I only now realised there's a message skip option, why didn't I see this? This should make replays faster, I haven't played in a while so this time I'm listening to dialogue tho

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megaten·Megami TenseibyDutczar

How much of the series are you planning to play, and how is it going?

I've made it through the whole modern Persona series (besides dancing games) and the whole 3DS library. Also Nocturne and SH2.

I don't play to play the really obscure games like Majin Tensei or Demikids, but something like SMT1,2 or Devil Summoner (is that one translated?) sounds like something I'd still play. So, I'm barely halfway there, and these games were my main focus for a few years now.

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megaten·Megami Tenseibymoffatt

am i softlocked? SMT4

so im outside the battle for the minotaur and i dont have the mp to beat him and i legit cant get back up to leave. the ladders are to far away from the ground so the game does not allow me to climb them. how tf do i get out of here? im stuck between the last area of the 4th stratum and the beginning of the 5th where the minotaur is and i cant leave

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