Persona 3: FES

[cxt217]

So Persona 3: FES was released on Tuesday, and hit the stores today. People have no doubt many anticipations for it, but there really is only only question about...

...Will this scene be fully voiced in the English dub?

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-01-77-8-49-en-85-1-70-2lxt.html

C.T.

[AbeChinchilla]

I had this picked up for my today (sprained my ankle, or maybe even broke it), so I couldn't walk into the GameStop myself (especially with it being inside a mall).

I love it so far.

LOVE IT.

[Magic_Knight]

I picked up my copy from Gamestop today as well. I never played the first release, so getting the full version plus all the bonus stuff for $30 is a steal. I'm also very impressed with what I've played so far. A little different than what I thought it would be like, but it's stylish and very cool. The game looks like it will become very addicting. I just completed the first dungeon.

[SpiritualRemains]

I picked up the original right after it came out and only got around to making a big push towards the end (I stopped in early October of game time). So far, that save file has about 80 hours on it and is right before the final boss. I made one attempt at the boss and got killed with about a quarter of its final form's life left.

I was able to do most of the non-girl social links except for Temperance. The only girls' social links I was able to do were Chihiro and Yuko (which I started first, but forgot until I realized I put her into reverse by dating Chihiro :eek:). Of course, it doesn't make it any easier to do school social links with all that time out of school (the last out of school link I finished was Star, which was done back in December, which gave me plenty of time to just keep run out of the dorm and run back in to sleep).

I pre-ordered FES from Amazon one day when it appeared in my Gold Box Quick Picks. I was really happy to see a shipment notification in my e-mail yesterday as opposed to my Arcana Heart pre-order, which didn't ship until the 12th.

Now to finish the final boss and resist the temptation to go into the Monad to make the final boss easy as heck.

[HitokiriShadow]

I picked up my copy yesterday. I'm hoping to get around to playing it sometime this year, but we'll have to see how long it takes me to get through Mana Khemia and Suikoden III.

[beatmania]

Fun game but I hate the music.

[SpiritualRemains]

Fun game but I hate the music.

:eek:

I thought the music was great in this!

In other news, I was able to beat the final boss on P3. Got damn lucky too. The boss took out Mitsuru and Yukari, who I was using as healers, so I had to switch from my rather loaded Vishnu that hadn't learned Salvation, to a different one that had Salvation, but didn't have null charm. I got lucky a couple times after that and didn't get charmed, but then I got charmed. Fortunately, Junpei killed the boss before the main character did something stupid.

Now I'm just waiting for P3Fes to get here.

[Senku]

Got a question here...

Is there any reason to play the Orginial PS3 before jumping into FES? Like, major data transfer or something like that?

[Chacranajxy]

Got a question here...

Is there any reason to play the Orginial PS3 before jumping into FES? Like, major data transfer or something like that?

There is absolutely no reason to play the original.

[Super Saiyajin Joshua]

I had it preordered through Amazon.com and mine still hasn't even shipped yet. Anyone else get it through amazon and not get it yet?

[SpiritualRemains]

I had it preordered through Amazon.com and mine still hasn't even shipped yet. Anyone else get it through amazon and not get it yet?

Ordered on the 16th with a Gold Box Quick Pick discount. Shipped on Wednesday. Should be here tomorrow with some luck.

[Fieri]

So I should have picked this up yesterday while it was in my hands and only 24.99?

[ADC]

So I should have picked this up yesterday while it was in my hands and only 24.99?
You should have.

[Stormfalcon]

So I should have picked this up yesterday while it was in my hands and only 24.99?

Most definitely. Let me put it to you this way...where I work, we got it in yesterday, but it was my day off. When I came in today, I was lucky to get the last one there, and it was only there because some goofball put it in with the PS3 games instead of the PS2 ones (probably because of the P3 abbreviation) so most folks missed it.

[Soulblazer]

The original quest in this game is even better than the old version of the game because of all the additions. However, I must admit, I am not too fond of the "2nd episode". You do not get to do many of the things that you did in the original game. The 2nd episode is just a dungeon crawler where you have to do an insane amount of grinding with minimal story.

[Danj]

My copy of this shipped on release day and I received it today. Been playing it already and it's great. Also I note that Gamasutra is reporting that it topped this week's all formats chart in the USA, with The World Ends With You topping the DS chart? When did we get to a bizarro world where good games actually sell?! :laugh:

Anyway, this is an Atlus game so you know it'll go out of print really fast. Pick it up, $29.99 is an incredible bargain given the amount of content. Some review sites are even giving it a higher grade than the original. Even if you hate the game, you know it'll double its value on ebay within months.

[cxt217]

I actually have to restart playing the upgrade verison of the original Persona 3. I would love to see the English version of the Hermit Social Link ending.

C.T.

[ADC]

My copy of this shipped on release day and I received it today. Been playing it already and it's great. Also I note that Gamasutra is reporting that it topped this week's all formats chart in the USA, with The World Ends With You topping the DS chart? When did we get to a bizarro world where good games actually sell?! :laugh:
Slow week, I guess. ;) I've got Wonderful World on the way — can't wait!

[GHardin]

I bought the original version, but traded it in to preorder this....of course, I kept everything that kept with the original version (the box, the artbook, the CD), so I don't feel as cheated.... :P

[Ryos]

I actually have to restart playing the upgrade verison of the original Persona 3. I would love to see the English version of the Hermit Social Link ending.

C.T.

Just one of the reasons I started with original rather than the epilogue even though I finished the original version. Although there aren't a whole lot of changes early on, I have to say hard mode is a heck of a lot harder than I expected it to be. Getting destroyed almost every surprise attack (even when farming easy enemies) is different. Seeing as how the epilogue's supposed to be about as difficult as the hard difficulty, I am intrigued.

[Super Saiyajin Joshua]

Yay my copy finally shipped. I can't wait to play this game. I've heard so much good things about it.

[porkchopexpress]

I can't wait to play this game. I've heard so much good things about it.

Same here. Though I've never played a megaten game before, in fact I haven't played an rpg since Phantasy Star 3 for the genesis. I definitely like the art style and I'm a big fan of many of the VAs from the English dialog track (can you chose one or the other?) and the premise sounds very cool so I hope I will enjoy it. I just need to beat Odin Sphere before I get started.

I seem to be having a sort of PS2 renaissance lately.

[Danj]

I got my copy Saturday and have been playing it a shedload. Already finished up to and including the first Full Moon event.

[pathos]

Played a good bit this weekend. Got back up to where Fuuka joins the party as backup, and Mitsuru joins as melee.

The new content is throwing me off a good bit. I think I know what I'm doing, then suddenly I get a new quest from fes, and I suddenly have to turn my brain back on.

[Danj]

Had to put this game on hold for a bit as I have an exam today, so I've been studying a bunch over the past few days.

[dunno001]

Had to put this game on hold for a bit as I have an exam today, so I've been studying a bunch over the past few days.
Tell me about it. Exams delayed one of my planned trips to Tartarus by a fair amount. I'm hoping to get to the top of block 2 by 6/6, but I'm not so sure now... (I just missed the block 1 deadline...)

[Johnny]

Anyway, this is an Atlus game so you know it'll go out of print really fast. Pick it up, $29.99 is an incredible bargain given the amount of content. Some review sites are even giving it a higher grade than the original. Even if you hate the game, you know it'll double its value on ebay within months.

Good point. It's only £17 or so at VG+ so may as well buy this and make it 21 games I've put on hold or have yet to start due to GTA :sweat:

[AbeChinchilla]

Man, this game is addictive.

I've come to my conclusion that it's basically a turn-based version of the original .hack series (and it's also just as addicting).
- Randomized dungeons
- Interactions with various NPCs
- Having to wait until a specified date or event for any real story progress
- Limited control of party members (.hack had the "Assign/Command" option too)

Of course, this is just how I see it anyway.

I'm at 6/10. Having a hard time avoiding Yuko. I like her, but I really want to have a "stronger" relationship with Chihiro... I am considering being a two-timer, but I'd feel bad to put Yuko in that position again... and I don't want to make Chihiro go lesbo.

Really enjoyed Misturu in High-cut Armor (I loved her blushing reaction when you equip it on her), but she's tired now. So I'm just training with everyone else now (trying to get one more item for a request).

I just wish after school activities wouldn't take so much time.

Student Council or Kendo Practice lasts until evening (dark out)? Man... it'd be easier if they added like "Sunset" to the day, that way you can still have some time to do something else. And going to the mall at Evening and staying out 'til Midnight to check out the arcade? Man... Just doesn't make too much sense to me.

Same goes for Sunday. Okay, so I'm going to meet someone, but it's still EARLY MORNING, can't I watch Tanaka's show? I probably don't need to meet so and so until like the Afternoon anyway... Too many gaps.

I don't like how playing the MMORPG takes up the ENTIRE day.

These are my only real problems with the game. Other than that... it's great. :)

[Ryos]

I just wish after school activities wouldn't take so much time.

I don't like how playing the MMORPG takes up the ENTIRE day.

Yeah, you're pulled in so many directions that it's next to impossible to complete everything in one play through the game.

As far as the latter's concerned, I can tell you as an avid MMOer that that's disturbingly accurate, assuming the game's interesting enough. o_O

IIRC there wasn't a usable arcade in the original Persona 3; I think they threw it in because you run out of stuff to do at night. Sometimes you have to throw out logic where the game's concerned, especially Bebe.

[Jumbo]

IIRC there wasn't a usable arcade in the original Persona 3; I think they threw it in because you run out of stuff to do at night.

Yeah, considering there's only two commu/s. links in the evening you can do there really was a lack of evening things to do in the original game. Having Koromaru's dog walking option and the ability to do some leveling up on your persona were welcome features after I'd finished the Tower and Devil and had nights I didn't want to go to Tartaros for various reasons.

[TheStrongMan]

Well...I tried. But after dealing with two register monkeys...one who told me the game didn't exist, and the other who told me he couldn't sell it to me because I did not preorder it...I gave up and ordered from Amazon.

I have to travel next week to a training class, but when I return home, a copy of Persona 3 FES shall be waiting for me. I just hope my PS2 still works after all the months of neglect :sweat1:

[porkchopexpress]

What effect do the moon phases have on the game play? I'm only a couple of hours in and I've bever played a Persona game before.

[Leeway]

On the night before a Full Moon, you could grind in Tartarus without anyone getting fatigued. However, this was in the original P3, I had heard somewhere that they changed that in FES. Haven't even opened up the game yet, so I can't confirm whether or not they changed this.

[SpiritualRemains]

What effect do the moon phases have on the game play? I'm only a couple of hours in and I've bever played a Persona game before.

There's a couple skills that are affected by the moon phases (Zan-ei and Getsu-ei, unless they've added more in FES)

[Jumbo]

On the night before a Full Moon, you could grind in Tartarus without anyone getting fatigued. However, this was in the original P3, I had heard somewhere that they changed that in FES.

Nope, no more level grinding on the night before the full moon. This was changed in FES. The night before would be better spent going to bed early to help insure you have your best condition for the day of the full moon. If Koromaru is up for a walk, take him the night before,.(That is unless you have evening commu/s.links you can spend time with.)

Also, the closer you are to the full/new moon the higher your chances are of fusing a Persona that will have the heart item next to their name. These persona once fully leveled (as in they learn all the spells that they can learn) will sometimes give you a rare item or items that you can only get by this special circumstance. If you ever get a heart persona make sure to level them all the way up to get the item before fusing them into something else.

(Or right before they learn their last skill to gain that level, record that persona in your log with Elizabeth, that way if they don't give you the item or if you want to get another one you can do so without having to level them up all the way again, you just have to buy them from the log.)

[martod]

I've been trying to use the faq on Gamefaqs to get max social links, but it's hard, at least at the beginning. I can't raise my personality traits a lot because I have to go to Tartarus almst every other night to raise my characters levels high enough to get the necessary personas, and , more imortantly, raise money. Money is looking to be a major problem so far. I can only find 3000-5000 yen in the two or three levels I can go up before getting tired, which which can be burned through very quickly with a couple trips to the arcade and the karaoke bar, and that's not leaving anything to be spent on weapons and armor.

[Ryos]

I've been trying to use the faq on Gamefaqs to get max social links, but it's hard, at least at the beginning. I can't raise my personality traits a lot because I have to go to Tartarus almst every other night to raise my characters levels high enough to get the necessary personas, and , more imortantly, raise money. Money is looking to be a major problem so far. I can only find 3000-5000 yen in the two or three levels I can go up before getting tired, which which can be burned through very quickly with a couple trips to the arcade and the karaoke bar, and that's not leaving anything to be spent on weapons and armor.

I'd highly suggest not going for all the max social links on your first playthrough, just because it takes a lot of fun out of the simulation aspect. I know it's possible, but you won't really get to enjoy the scenes as much if you're following the guide, imho. As far as money, you'll have plenty eventually - also, grabbing the cash bonus on fights helps out a lot early on.

[Jumbo]

As far as money, you'll have plenty eventually.

Especially toward the end. Don't grab the briefcase at the top of Monado unless you're flat out broke. Spend all your money first, then grab that briefcase.

I also concur about maxing s. links on your first time through. Following a faq for that aspect of the game, while giving you all the commu/s. links, takes a whole lot of fun out of the game and really limits your opportunities to do what ~you~ want to do while you play, which is the most important part right?

[dunno001]

I've been trying to use the faq on Gamefaqs to get max social links, but it's hard, at least at the beginning. I can't raise my personality traits a lot because I have to go to Tartarus almst every other night to raise my characters levels high enough to get the necessary personas, and , more imortantly, raise money. Money is looking to be a major problem so far. I can only find 3000-5000 yen in the two or three levels I can go up before getting tired, which which can be burned through very quickly with a couple trips to the arcade and the karaoke bar, and that's not leaving anything to be spent on weapons and armor.

I'd highly suggest not going for all the max social links on your first playthrough, just because it takes a lot of fun out of the simulation aspect. I know it's possible, but you won't really get to enjoy the scenes as much if you're following the guide, imho. As far as money, you'll have plenty eventually - also, grabbing the cash bonus on fights helps out a lot early on.

I'm also going to agree with not bothering with the FAQs, and this is my first time through the game. I'm on 6/6, having reached floor 40 the prior night (thus getting the old document 2 in time for the request), and I finally got a couple of social links to level 4 (I've a fair number at 3), and my academics just hit above average in the beginning of the month. (Both the others are low 2nd blocks.) And going completely freeform, I'm having a blast! (It's actually why I'm checking in so late...)

[mike.motaku]

I've been trying to use the faq on Gamefaqs to get max social links, but it's hard, at least at the beginning. I can't raise my personality traits a lot because I have to go to Tartarus almost every other night to raise my characters levels high enough to get the necessary personas, and , more importantly, raise money. Money is looking to be a major problem so far. I can only find 3000-5000 yen in the two or three levels I can go up before getting tired, which which can be burned through very quickly with a couple trips to the arcade and the karaoke bar, and that's not leaving anything to be spent on weapons and armor.

You can also raise money by selling off the extra weapons you get with the sword cards. Go see the police officer at the mall during the day for that. I got about 12,000 yen just dumping extra practice bows and imitation katanas.

[mike.motaku]

I've been trying to use the faq on Gamefaqs to get max social links, but it's hard, at least at the beginning. I can't raise my personality traits a lot because I have to go to Tartarus almst every other night to raise my characters levels high enough to get the necessary personas, and , more imortantly, raise money. Money is looking to be a major problem so far. I can only find 3000-5000 yen in the two or three levels I can go up before getting tired, which which can be burned through very quickly with a couple trips to the arcade and the karaoke bar, and that's not leaving anything to be spent on weapons and armor.

I'd highly suggest not going for all the max social links on your first playthrough, just because it takes a lot of fun out of the simulation aspect. I know it's possible, but you won't really get to enjoy the scenes as much if you're following the guide, imho. As far as money, you'll have plenty eventually - also, grabbing the cash bonus on fights helps out a lot early on.

I'm also going to agree with not bothering with the FAQs, and this is my first time through the game. I'm on 6/6, having reached floor 40 the prior night (thus getting the old document 2 in time for the request), and I finally got a couple of social links to level 4 (I've a fair number at 3), and my academics just hit above average in the beginning of the month. (Both the others are low 2nd blocks.) And going completely freeform, I'm having a blast! (It's actually why I'm checking in so late...)

Yeah, I'm not much for faqs and I am completely screwing up missing deadlines, but I am developing social links at my pace and my personas seem to be leveling nicely.

[porkchopexpress]

Are your social links negatively affected if you don't meet with them after you say you will? For example that one kid in my class always wants to talk to me after school, and I'm afraid to say no in case the opportunity doesn't come up again, or he gets mad or something (does that happen?), but I end up hanging out with that little girl at the shrine or whatever instead. I've also had two people come up to me during lunchtime and ask to see me after school. I said yes to both. Should I concentrate on just a few social links and not get to spread out?

[Chacranajxy]

Are your social links negatively affected if you don't meet with them after you say you will? For example that one kid in my class always wants to talk to me after school, and I'm afraid to say no in case the opportunity doesn't come up again, or he gets mad or something (does that happen?), but I end up hanging out with that little girl at the shrine or whatever instead. I've also had two people come up to me during lunchtime and ask to see me after school. I said yes to both. Should I concentrate on just a few social links and not get to spread out?

There's like 8 questions in there, so I'll address part of that...

Basically, you've got... I think it's 60 days to meet with a friend before your relationship is gone, and 45 days to meet with a ho. So just don't put things off too long. I think the only way that the relationship gets worse is if you agree to hang out with someone on Sunday, but then hang out with someone else and cancel on them. Coz that's just mean. If two people come up to you at lunch and wanna do shit after school though, it doesn't matter if you don't actually hang out with them.

[pathos]

Hrm, to expand on it a bit.

When you are school, and your friends come and bug you at lunch, the answer you give them doesnt affect anything. You can actually go visit them, or not, but saying you'll go and then not going doesnt hurt you in any way. Usually you get this only when you'll get a level raise next time you hang out with them, i believe.

If they call you at night, and ask to hang out with them on sunday, and then you don't, this DOES affect your standing with them. of course, the only way you you won't automatically hang out with them after saying yes, is if someone else calls and asks you out, and you say yes to them also. The one time I did that, I was immediately on the phone with the first date person, who yelled a bit, and the social link went into reverse.

And yes, if you start a social link, and then don't do anything with it for a certain amount of time, it will go into reverse on its own. I was thinking it was 30 days, but it might have been 60.

If a social link goes into reverse, you can still make persona from that link, and they still get the xp bonus from your slink level, you just can no longer raise that social link level. To get the link out of reverse, you have to track down that person from the link, wherever they are hiding (usually not where they usually hang out), bug em till they agree to do something with you (took me like 2 or 3 visits), and then answer some questions by them correctly. The slink goes back into normal status.

I read somewhere if you screw up the answers to the questions, you can actually break the social link for good, but I havent done it.

[Ryos]

I read somewhere if you screw up the answers to the questions, you can actually break the social link for good, but I havent done it.

Don't think that's possible, but as long as you respond correctly for the social link person, you really don't have to worry about something like that as long as you don't try to derail the relationship intentionally, especially with bringing a persona along with that social link.

[Jumbo]

Reverse:

Normal commu/s. link = 90 days
Love Relationship commu/s. link = 60 days

If you go to try and talk to a reverse commu/s. link you have a chance of being ignored or turned down before they'll allow you to try and set things right.

I read somewhere if you screw up the answers to the questions, you can actually break the social link for good, but I havent done it.

Don't think that's possible, but as long as you respond correctly for the social link person, you really don't have to worry about something like that as long as you don't try to derail the relationship intentionally, especially with bringing a persona along with that social link.

If you answer the questions wrong when trying to fix a reverse or further ignore them, the condition can get even worse and it will go into a new phase called "broken."

This condition wastes even more time trying to set it straight but fortunately (?) can only happen with the love interest characters. If you answer any of the questions wrong when trying to fix a broken situation, the character will stay broken and you have to rinse and repeat, hopefully answering correctly the next chance you get.

The problem is all the time you waste trying to patch things up if you let characters go this route but each time you hang out with them (even if you don't level) the counter resets.

As Ryos mentioned you should always try to meet a commu/s. link with a persona from the same arcana in your possession. (For example, bring a "Lovers" persona along when you spend time with Takeba Yukari, the persona's level itself doesn't seem to matter) this doubles your points, something important for the love interest commu/s. links because they take twice as much to level up.

[wanfu2k1]

I got it last week. But I'm still in the middle of Lost odessy so it might take a little while before I can get to is.

[hub]

Anyone else playing the Journey on hard? This is technically my third play through of the main game (beat the original release 1.5 times), but I'm just taking a real beating w/ some of the bosses in Tartarus. Currently I'm stuck on the boss of floor 135, b/c it keeps throwing out huge spells (agi skills, which I can null, but megidola and hama skills, which I can't). In fact, his megidola skill along can smack my part for ~350 HP each, meaning that whoever it doesn't kill out right will being hanging on by just a thread.

Ack, don't know how I'm going to get past this one...

[Ryos]

Anyone else playing the Journey on hard?

Yeah, hard's a lot harder than I figured it would be. Most of the time it's easy, just some of those bosses are downright insane. I'm not quite as far as you are though. I've cheesed the last couple of bosses, not sure how I'm going to make it through the hard parts of the game. Heh...

[pathos]

I've actually set the game aside for a bit, although I think I'm going to play some more today. this is my 3rd playthrough, but still I'm only playing the journey on normal. I figure the answer on hard would be enough to make me cry, most likely

I'm actually trying to maximize as many social links as possible this time around. Only probably is, since its been a couple weeks, I don't remember who I was focusing on now :P

[Jumbo]

I'm actually trying to maximize as many social links as possible this time around. Only probably is, since its been a couple weeks, I don't remember who I was focusing on now :P

I have had this problem before too. I usually would end up looking at which Persona I had for which Arcana and figure it out from there. (Especially if I'd just bought a cheap low level one from Elizabeth to keep the points coming.) ^^;

"What did I have this lv. 3 Justice Persona for???" "Oh, that's right!"

I'm still on my first run through but am in the last month and have made it to the top of Monado with two weeks left until the end of the month. The only problem I have now is that I've been neglecting my Persona Compendium, (82%) so trying to make some of the later high level persona I've unlocked has become a bit of a chore, since there is always at least ~one~ persona I am missing from my fusion list... Going back and mixing lower level persona to unlock the other mid-range persona I need for the fusions has really started to drag things out for me.

Sadly I think this is probably the games one weak point for me. While it is fun to an extent, I'm having a hard time motivating myself to turn on the PS2 so I can simply sit there and fuse persona for 30 minutes or so. -_-;

Not sure I'm looking forward to P4's "Over 200 different Persona!"

[SpiritualRemains]

Not sure I'm looking forward to P4's "Over 200 different Persona!"

I personally read that as "Over 200 hours of your life spent trying to get the perfect fusions!"

[dunno001]

Not sure I'm looking forward to P4's "Over 200 different Persona!"

I personally read that as "Over 200 hours of your life spent trying to get the perfect fusions!"
Then... how many are in FES? I know I've been watching my percentage of registered going up not much faster than 1% for every 2 new ones... I'd estimate the FES number around 180, so over 200 wouldn't be that many more. (Of course, I can already see myself trying to get those last few...)

[SpiritualRemains]

Not sure I'm looking forward to P4's "Over 200 different Persona!"

I personally read that as "Over 200 hours of your life spent trying to get the perfect fusions!"
Then... how many are in FES? I know I've been watching my percentage of registered going up not much faster than 1% for every 2 new ones... I'd estimate the FES number around 180, so over 200 wouldn't be that many more. (Of course, I can already see myself trying to get those last few...)

I believe the number is 170, as that's the number Igor mentions at the start of both stories in FES.

[Jumbo]

Not sure I'm looking forward to P4's "Over 200 different Persona!"

I personally read that as "Over 200 hours of your life spent trying to get the perfect fusions!"
Then... how many are in FES? I know I've been watching my percentage of registered going up not much faster than 1% for every 2 new ones... I'd estimate the FES number around 180, so over 200 wouldn't be that many more. (Of course, I can already see myself trying to get those last few...)

I believe the number is 170, as that's the number Igor mentions at the start of both stories in FES.

145 in the original, 170 in FES. There's a new community in FES that adds another 4~5 or so and the rest are scattered throughout the other previous commu/s. links.

[TheStrongMan]

I got to play this for the first time today...this is my first time playing a Persona game period, but still, I have heard nothing but good things about Persona (other than it can be insanely difficult at times)

I have to say, the game just oozes style, I almost want to say that it tries too hard, but damn, that battle music is just too damn catchy. I'm sure it'll be annoying in a few days, but right now...oh yeah! I am most certainly lovin' it.

I'm torn on whether or not I want to use a FAQ for these S-links. It just feels like time is so precious in terms of what you can do in a day. I don't mind all the exploration, but on the other hand I'm worried that I'm going to miss a S-link and then, somewhere do the road I'll end up screwing myself because my S-link won't be high enough. Generally, I like to go it alone the first time through a game, and then use a guide the second...but I dunno, it's been much harder to play games a second time through lately...especially for games that don't have acheivements! :sweat1:

[ADC]

I started playing it today as well, but I only got 48 minutes in before real life demanded that I do something else. In that span, I did get to feed that Junpei dude some bad info in class, which, it turns out, is a really bad idea — but Jesus please us, the guy was asking for it! I like the look and feel of the game so far, but I've just barely started.

And when time let me go, I was closer to the DS and put some time into It's a Wonderful World. (If it's demanded of me, I'll call this topic's game Shin Megami Tensei Persona 3 FES like it says on the box, but I won't offer that other game the same consideration because the proper name is so much cooler.)