Shut up and take my money!
Associate
The DLCs are all optional. Admittedly some are better in early game (but are not as useful later on) and some give you some powerful stuff exclusive to the DLC (e.g. skill cards exclusive to DLC). The DLC Personas all tend to have a unique move, some are good and some aren't. The only gamebreaking thing is that you can get these DLC Personas at any time after the game opens up and the first time you get them for free. Considering the variety of levels of DLC Persona, you can have a late-game Persona early in the game.
I ended buying only a couple (there's a debate other which ones are 'good' and worth buying) of them when I was in the latter half of the game, but you can buy the whole lot for about £15.
The game is pretty great. It has me in knee-deep. Over 100 hours so far and I'm in November. I've also managed to get most of the trophies, this may just be the first game I Platinum trophy. I also learnt that the universe is shared a bit with the Shin Megami Tensei series. I watched the trailer for the SMT Switch game and recognised the crowd of monsters as the same ones in this game. Has me excited for that game now too.
Caporegime
Thanks, but can you explain the fusion persona thing to me? At the moment I hardly ever use Personas in fights apart for healing. Their attacks don't seem to be any stronger than weapons and I need as much healing as i can get !
There is also only 10 slots, how do you know what ones to delete to make room?
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Most foes have a weakness to a specific attack type - gun, melee or one of the various elemental powers of Persona. If you hit them with that an attack that matches their weakness, you can stun them, which opens up options to do multiple attacks or to negotiate. On the other hand, some are resistant or invulnerable to certain attacks. You can see these on your Personas under their name on the details screen - there is a long list of icons that show them - Nul means they take no damage from that attack, Str means they're resistant, Wk means they're vulnerable. When you unlock the ability to scan, you can see these on enemies too, until then it fills as you use different attacks. Life gets much easier when you can knock down 5 enemies with an single ice attack because they're all weak to ice
These relate to you as well, so if your equipped Persona is weak to fire, you're weak to fire as well. You can often use their resistances to your advantage.
When you fuse them, you combine 2 persona into a new one, but you get to retain certain powers from each - how many/which powers depends on the level of the new monster. As you go further through the game, you will find you can start to tailor Persona to specific powersets - so I had one that soaked up physical damage (can't recommend him enough - if I could remember the name/power it would be more useful...), one that had passive abilities for regen of HP/SP, one that had healing, one for status effects and recovery, one for physical/gun attacks and a few that had all the elemental powers between them.
Each of the NPCs that have a relationship level are assigned to a Persona type, so the better the relationship the better the fusion - you'll get bonus powers too. That gets more important around the mid game.
As you fuse them, the level of the new Persona goes up, which unlocks new powers - often new versions of the existing powers. Typically it's spells that hit multiple enemies, then a more powerful single attack, then a more powerful multiple, etc. The only downside is that the SP cost goes up. Your active Persona will also level as you fight - later on, there's a skill that let's the passive Persona get XP as well.
As for deleting them, you should be recycling them by fusing enough that it doesn't matter. After a while you'll delete them because you've already fused them with everything you can and they're just weak and pointless. Once they've been captured, they're in your Persona database (in the Velvet Room) and if you want one for fusing, you can buy them back out of it.
Soldato
The persona's DLS is only 9.50 just now.
Soldato
Everyone is going gaga because, in my case, it's the best game since The Last of Us. I only completed one game last year(Dark Souls 3 for the 2nd or 3rd time) despite buying dozens of mediocre games, all the so called triple A games.
All I can say is buy this game, even if turn based combat isn't usually your bag.
Amazing game 10/10.
All I can say is buy this game, even if turn based combat isn't usually your bag.
Amazing game 10/10.
I'm actually waiting to grab it at some point, preferably at a nice price. I've wanted to try it since release but kinda slept on it. I like turn-based combat and the concept seems great, looking forward to playing it once I get through my backlog.
Soldato
It's the time constraints i really struggle with in persona games
Is it beter than 4?
I really found 3 slow as hell and way too repetitive.
4 was just BORING. the social links were interesting, the animations were rubbish and slow... the dungeons were.. well boring and repetitive. the combat felt lack lustered and not all that complicated. just buff buf buff for bosses and for enemies, exploit elemental weakness and rush them.
fusing was cool tho.
I really found 3 slow as hell and way too repetitive.
4 was just BORING. the social links were interesting, the animations were rubbish and slow... the dungeons were.. well boring and repetitive. the combat felt lack lustered and not all that complicated. just buff buf buff for bosses and for enemies, exploit elemental weakness and rush them.
fusing was cool tho.
Soldato
I doubt you'll like P5 then.
Soldato
I'm just getting into the swing of this now after completing Wolfenstein on hard and getting bored of aiming to platinum that. I can see how the story line is going to carry this whole game. I like the style and mood of it and there is just the right dose of Japanese lunacy.
Soldato
Just picked this, I love the graphics and style of the game but I'm about 3 hours in and it's a bit of a slog. It's so scripted (so far) it's tiny little snippets then another loading screen all the time and it's been all story and teeny bits of (admittedly fun) combat. Does it pick up at any point? I like it but I'm struggling to stick with it right now.
The other thing which randomly irritated the kids out of me in this game is either a graphical glitch or just some weird art style but every character, including the women, look although they have a five o clock shadow and it really niggles me
The other thing which randomly irritated the kids out of me in this game is either a graphical glitch or just some weird art style but every character, including the women, look although they have a five o clock shadow and it really niggles me
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It's basically a long tutorial, there's a lot of mechanics to explain
- once you've finished the first palace things will open up
Soldato
How do your skills to level? I've been training knowledge since the game started (not far from hitting the Madarame stuff) and it keeps saying it is improving but it never gets better than one 
Soldato
It will bump up, just keep at it.How do your skills to level? I've been training knowledge since the game started (not far from hitting the Madarame stuff) and it keeps saying it is improving but it never gets better than one
Soldato
Cool. I like the game but it can be painfully slow at times getting info across!
Soldato
Just passed 30 hours now and on the treasure run for Kaneshiros Palace, I would put this down as one of the best games I have played in years. Absolutely blinking love it! Not sure if 30 hours on Kaneshiros is par for course but irrespective I'm really enjoying it after the slow start in Kamoshidas palace.